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Q: Is there call answering machine software? A: Nope.

Many would really welcome a local answering machine on their Pocket PC’s to, for example, avoid the (often costly) need to call in remote voicemail boxes and/or to keep / archive the recordings of their, say, girlfriend.
Unfortunately, I have bad news for all these people: there is NO way one can implement such software on the current (mostly HTC-manufactured) crop of Pocket PC Phone Edition devices because of the hardware limitations I’ve explained in my article on recording conversations. That is, it’s pretty futile to look for any answering machine software for your Pocket PC phone – unless you have the GIGABYTE G-Smart (see below).
Note that
there are SMS notifiers (Aali Alikoski’s free SMS Notifier and BOO! Interactive’s commercial SMS Answering Machine) but they only answer with an SMS message and aren’t able to directly record the speech (the message) of the caller
other smart phone platforms (see for example Smart Answer on the Nokia S60 platform) do have call recorders. They, however, have hardware that does allow recording calls. (HTC, hear this?! It has been stated many times and we’ll tell you many MORE times that you SHOULD produce phone models that are able to record phone calls because that feature would also make it possible to use the phone as an answering machine!)
there is only one Pocket PC Phone Edition model, GIGABYTE’s excellent G-Smart, which contains built-in software to do this. The software, however, can NOT be “hacked” to other devices – this GIGABYTE PDA has special hardware that, unlike HTC models, does allow for recording the voice of the other party (incidentally, this is why it also contains a call recorder software, not just a call answering machine.)
Some related threads:
Answering machine
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DAMMIT

The Answerphone is great on the g-Smart... but not perfect....
To get it working better you need to get rid of your service providers answering service, otherwise that one will occasionally take the call, as the time that you set the answerphone on the g-Smart, isn't always accurate. I.E. set it to a 20 sec delay, and because of the lag for the phone to ring, the lag for the software to activate etc etc.... the SP answering service grabs it first...
Once you've disabled the SP service, it's great... when you have signal... otherwise you'll miss everything, won't get any indicators and all the caller gets is the DO-DO-DO-DO-DO of the engaged/not available.
Upside though... cheaper... messages available locally... and you can screen the calls...

Why Call history is limited to <300 calls??

Dear all, I have noticed that on my himalaya WM2005 even if the call history duration is increased to "never" the history retains the maximum call log of upto 300 calls only . changing the registry value of HKCU\ControlPanel\Phone\CallHistoryMax to any value (from 000000FF to FFFFFFFF) no improvement is noticed.
Is there any way to increase the call log memory allocation size?????

69 views and no replies?????????????
Come on genius on the forum...pl..

wanna WM 6 like WM 2003 ~
coz WM 2003 is no limit for all call history [email protected][email protected]

i think you shouldn't also forget to set log clean period to "never".
can anyone confirm this?
sh#t. feel like a graverobber...

c_shekhar said:
Dear all, I have noticed that on my himalaya WM2005 even if the call history duration is increased to "never" the history retains the maximum call log of upto 300 calls only . changing the registry value of HKCU\ControlPanel\Phone\CallHistoryMax to any value (from 000000FF to FFFFFFFF) no improvement is noticed.
Is there any way to increase the call log memory allocation size?????
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you can Set the Folder variable in the Node macros so that calls will get filed into specific folders. This will expedite locating specific types of calls.
Keep the Call History tidy: delete calls that are no longer needed. If you are using the default Call History, use the Compact Call History File option in the Tools menu to reduce the size of the database. If you are using a custom Call History, use your own database tools to maintain the Call History. An excessively large Call History will slow down Active Call Center, so keep the Call History as small as possible.
-If the Call History gets corrupted or there is a need to start with a blank Call History, copy the file named "Blank Phone Call Log.mdb" to "Phone Call Log.mdb" in the Active Call Center program folder. The "Phone Call Log.mdb" file is the Call History used by Active Call Center; the blank log is a blank template provided to accommodate these situations.
-If you have Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual Basic, or some other means to read Microsoft Access 2000 databases, you can access the default Call History directly and manipulate it. The default Call History is saved in the file "Phone Call Log.mdb" in the Active Call Center program folder. Do not change the format of the existing Call History database tables. More details on using the Call History for advanced applications is provided in the next section.
-For applications that do not require use of the Call History, Call History features can be selectively disabled. For example, they may be limited to saving only time and CallID numbers by changing the settings under Tools ... Voice Telephony Settings to not save data to the Call History. Call History features can also be disabled completely by unchecking the Use Call History to generate a sequential Call ID option. This can significantly improve application performance where detailed logging is not required or wher logging is managed within the scripts.

Same problem with HTC Pro2 win 6.5 - registry key is not working.
So, I installed software festinger.net
freeware
and in settings of this soft - menu - there is option to set log file length to 10000 calls - so I did it and now log started growth ... please try
Oh yes but actual WM6.5 log is not growing - same 300 records only. 10000 calls are collecting in another file by Software.
Problem was partially solved - I can keep call log in another software,
but to overcome limit of calls log in 300 records in WM 6????

New GSM-AUTO SYSTEM for controlling preheaters via a Mobile or Cell Phone!

I have recently seem a new site GSM-AUTO and they have developed a system of controlling pre heaters for aircraft,trucks and vertually anything that requires remote activation.
I thought the gsm-auto wuld be restricted to maybe the high tech phones but the system will operate with any cell phone.
The amazing thing about the gsm-auo is that the user never pays for the call as the system has a unique caller ID function that can read an incomming telephone number in milli-seconds and reject the call.
I wondered what other applications the gsm-auto system would have as it cannot be restricted to just aircraft preheaters,

[Q] How do you know if an app is infected spyware?

OK, so sometimes I download apps that are cracked from various websites online.
Recently I have just installed ROM Toolbox Pro and I was going through all the various options.
One option is "Auto Start Manager", which tells you which broadcast receivers are enabled etc.
1) What is a broadcast receiver and how is it related to Permissions that the app requires you to accept at installation?
2) I found one broadcast receiver that was called [APP NAME].spy.SMSReceiver that was "enabled by default"
I didnt understand why the heck that app would have anything to do with SMS
and why was the broadcast receiver called "spy"?
*is it really a piece of spyware and the hacker was being stupid or having a laugh thinking noone would ever see it?
*is it that an Android developer at Google has a twisted sense of humour and wants to include the word "spy" deep in the system workings to spook anyone coming across it?
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Thanks

A broadcast receiver is a component that responds to system-wide broadcast announcements. Many broadcasts originate from the system—for example, a broadcast announcing that the screen has turned off, the battery is low, or a picture was captured. Applications can also initiate broadcasts—for example, to let other applications know that some data has been downloaded to the device and is available for them to use. Although broadcast receivers don't display a user interface, they may create a status bar notification to alert the user when a broadcast event occurs. More commonly, though, a broadcast receiver is just a "gateway" to other components and is intended to do a very minimal amount of work. For instance, it might initiate a service to perform some work based on the event.
A broadcast receiver is implemented as a subclass of BroadcastReceiver and each broadcast is delivered as an Intent object.
Spy SMS software is the next generation of smartphone spy software. It allows you to monitor sms activities of a particular target cell phone. If installed on the target mobile phone, it will automatically copy all text messages (sms) sent and received by the target mobile phone and silently forward these copied messages to your own mobile phone in real-time, all the time without the target user knowing it.

No ringtone for caller when calling Android phone using custom ringtone

Over the last 6 months or so I have had a few people state that when calling me they dont hear a calling tone at their end. All they get is no sound, so they just assume the call has not connected however my phone does ring. I've been able to do some basic troubleshooting and have found the following:
1/ This occurred on a pixel 3 xl and pixel using a custom ringtone ie. a clip from youtube or similar converted to an mp3
2/ in the instances I know of an Iphone was used - but newer type - not sure which model, however on an older iphone or IOS the user can hear the calling tone
3/ no issues when using at least 3 other android phones calling my phone
Now here is the weird thing
4/ when switching to a ringtone which comes with Android eg. anything under the grouping of "Pixel Sounds" the iphone users can hear the calling tone
So the question is,
a/ is it the model of iphone or IOS ?
b/ is it the way the ring tone was created at my end ?
c/ is it a bug with Android ??
The simple fix is to simply use an out of box ringtone which comes with Android but would love to hear any thoughts on this.