For those that use Google Voice as their primary number and one of the 3rd party apps for calls (Groove IP, Spare Phone, Talkatone, etc.) how do you get alerts for incoming calls on your watch? Specifically I've got an SW2 and use Spare Phone.
There seem to be plenty of apps that provide notifications for incoming calls to the dialer, but Spare Phone only provides a notification when a call is missed. I'd like to get the alert while the call is still ringing so that I can answer it. I'm assuming I may have to find some way to use Tasker to force a notification that will pop up on my watch, but I'm hoping there is already something out there.
TIA
ElQuixote said:
For those that use Google Voice as their primary number and one of the 3rd party apps for calls (Groove IP, Spare Phone, Talkatone, etc.) how do you get alerts for incoming calls on your watch? Specifically I've got an SW2 and use Spare Phone.
There seem to be plenty of apps that provide notifications for incoming calls to the dialer, but Spare Phone only provides a notification when a call is missed. I'd like to get the alert while the call is still ringing so that I can answer it. I'm assuming I may have to find some way to use Tasker to force a notification that will pop up on my watch, but I'm hoping there is already something out there.
TIA
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With the recent integration of Google Voice into Hangouts the notification I was seeking is no longer needed as Hangouts sends a notification during incoming call.
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I tried a few apps on the market but when I ring my Hero from a number which is not in my contact list it still rings. I can set any contact to go straight to voice mail so it seems logical that an app could be developed to do the same for any numbers not on contact list.
Anyone knows of such app which actually does it for our hero?
Anyone? There has to be some one who knows
I use CallFilter. It works pretty well, sometimes it'll ring one time real fast, then go to VM. Only probably I've found is that if I'm on the phone already, it cuts off my call.
Yeah, I tried it but unfortunately it still rings for calls which show a number. It only works if the call has no name in contacts or unpublished number.
So the idea is really to just send anyone to voice mail if they are not in your contacts. I figured that if they want to contact me they'll leave a message and if I like to talk to them next time I'll add their number to my contacts.
What ROM are you using? If it's AOSP you can long press the number in your call log and in the menu that pulls up you'll see an option to add it to blacklist but that requires missing/receiving a call from it first otherwise I've used call filter from the market in the past which seemed to work well
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App
if you want the specifics, i am not the man that would be able to tell you. but i would think this is something tasker is capable of handling.
I'm using stock 2.1 with root and some mods.
Actually, the stock 2.1 comes with an option to send to voice mail for any contact. So what you can do is make a group and put all the numbers which annoy you with this option.
The problem with ALL apps which block is that they still either ring once or somehow silence and ignore the call. Either way the call still seems to come in on display. I'm not just talking about the notification but the front display. So it seems like all these apps deal with this in one way; they simply intercept it.
However, the feature which comes with stock 2.1 does this properly and only displays a missed call. The phone does not ring and the caller gets the voice mail immediately. So Sprint or Google did something else in how they handle this. It seems like there should be an option to just let it go straight to voice mail for any numbers not in the contact list or just let the damn thing ring
Still not able to find anything working properly for hero
Basically, I want to block calls, texts, etc from certain numbers but I'd like to be able to have the phone pick up for these numbers and play a pre-recorded message or audio file.
Basically I want to have it say the number is no longer in service etc.
I've seen some call blocking apps like this but I can't remember what they are called. Can someone point me to a good one?
If you're running sense, you can actually already blacklist numbers and have them sent straight to voicemail. For more control (or on non-HTC phones) check out mr. number. You can choose to pick up and hang up, send to voicemail, clear notifications for blocked numbers, etc.
As far as playing different messages goes, I would recommend setting up google voice and using it as your voicemail service. You can create groups and assign different messages to different groups or route spam callers to a "this number has been disconnected" message.
The Google voice thing though. DO you have to call in to hear your messages?
The thing I like about Sprint is there Visual Voicemail app, so I don't have to listen to EACH one, and I can see the name of the person it's from and delete or listen to as needed.
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The Google voice thing though. DO you have to call in to hear your messages?
The thing I like about Sprint is there Visual Voicemail app, so I don't have to listen to EACH one, and I can see the name of the person it's from and delete or listen to as needed.
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With Google Voice you have many options on how you want to hear your messages.
1. Listen in as they leave it.
2. Call in to your Google number to listen to them.
3. Use the Google App to view and /or listen to your messages
4. Go to google.com/voice to view/listen to your messages.
I have been searching all morning and can not find an app to do this.
I want my phone to effectively hit the ignore button after a user defined amount of rings. (I realize this would be rings on the recieving end and the caller would likely hear more or less rings)
The reason i want this is I ported my # to Google voice and want to use the customized smart greetings feature of Youmail on my google voice #.
When someone calls me - If I hit ignore before about 3 rings....it goes to youmail voicemail. (what I want all calls to do after three rings)
If I do nothing after recieving a call google voice grabs it before sprint sends it to youmail.
If this app already exists i appologize...I just can not seem to find it.
I wish I could use my google voice # to just forward to my cell but NOT use google voice voicemail.
No one?
Maybe its time for me to start learning to write apps
For almost a year I never had a problem but yesterday i don't what happened. I use GrooVeIP as my primary way to make phone calls. I do not have cell phone service. Most of the time I'm on a WiFi network. Since yesterday GrooVeIP will let me make phone calls but i cant receive them it will go straight to voice mail without a single ring. All voice mails go into the spam folder in Google voice even though i have no filters set up. All calls are check marked to be forwarded to Google chat. There is no call screening in place. Do not disturb is set to off. Global Spam Filtering is off. On GrooVeIP settings on the app i have tried, Partial wake lock and High pref WiFi lock but has no effect. I have tried most settings but with no resolve. Wondering if other people are having this problem or somebody has a fix? Please feel free to ask any questions...Thanks!!
After playing around with google voice i found that it was marking everything as spam. I have to go threw all contacts and mark them as not spam and it seems to be working.
I'm trying to figure out a simple way to block calls on the Z5. It looks like there's a workaround to blocking calls by adding the call to your contacts, and then letting that contact's calls go straight to voicemail, but I'd rather block the call altogether without adding it as a contact.
I just use a third party app like "Whitepages Caller ID & Block". It can send directly to voice mail or just disconnect the call without them going to voice mail.
jet1000 said:
I just use a third party app like "Whitepages Caller ID & Block". It can send directly to voice mail or just disconnect the call without them going to voice mail.
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Ok, I'll check it out. Thanks.
I use truecaller
Tjoohej said:
I use truecaller
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Yep, that's the one I ended up installing. Works pretty good. Wish these features were already baked into the operating system.