Develop Bugs

[Q] Blocking / Redirecting Particular Calls

Is there or anyone know of any apps to block/redirect particular calls?
i.e. if phone number 07123456789 calls then it will automatically send to voicemail / another number or even just disconnect?
and/or if it worked for unknown numbers even better...
Keep getting nuisance calls, I've changed my number once and don't really want to do it again as I've only just got used to this one - I read that o2 will just suggest to change number
Thanks

In your dialer's call log, long press the number, then select the option to add to blacklist It should instant redirect it to voicemail.

long press the number and i get 'view detailed call history' 'edit number before calling' ('view contact' or 'save to people') 'send text message' 'delete from call history'
no blacklisting?

however, if i go into the contacts and i can select the 'send to voicemail' feature and turn it on
thanks!

[Q] Dialing conference call numbers

Does anyone know of a way to dial into a conference call from the calendar entry? I need to be able to tap on a number in the calendar entry and have it dial the number, wait, then dial a passcode and # to enter the conference call. It's something the Blackberry does very well. I know you can store a number in contacts with a pause or wait in it but I get a lot of conference call invites and they all have different passcodes so it would be impossible to store the number ahead of time. I've tried every combination of putting p, w, ";" or "," in the number in both the location line and in the body of the calendar event. I can always select the first number to dial it but it won't dial the passcode. I have to back out of the dial and look at the calendar again and try to memorize it and then go back into the dialer and manually enter the passcode. I'm using the email client on Blazer 4.0 to access my Exchange server calendar. Anyone found a way to do this? Trying to ditch the Blackberry completely but Android does lack some basic productivity functionality. Thanks.

I have same issue. Can't believe there's been no reply to this issue.
I have found a 'kind-of' work around.
1) Installed CopyNPaste
2) installed Go Contacts EX
THEN, when COPYING the 'number...ext' into the copy buffer,
Then using CopyNPaste to dial, and having the default app being the Go Contact EX app,
THIS WORKs and dials the phone number, then (with,,,,, pauses between the phone number and the extension) waits, then dials the bridge extension.
But when attempting to simply select the 'number....ext' from the calendar appt, Android defaults to using the default 'phone' app and only uses the beginning 'phone#' part of the 'phone#,,,,ext' that is displayed\selected in the calendar appt. Tried clearing all defaults against the 'phone' app. still uses the stock phone app to dial a number in a calendar.
This shouldn't be THAT big of a problem. But apparently is.

Outgoing calls failing (+) plus sign added to incoming numbers in call log

Hello All,
I am having an issue returning calls from my call log. For some reason a (+) sign is being added to all incoming calls. This is causing outgoing calls to fail with the error "Your international call cannot be completed as dialed". I am running the latest Task650 4.2.1 Custom JB ROM. I have tried a clean re-flash with the same issue (Clean, no apps or system data restored). Everything else seems to work fine.
I am located in the US and all these numbers are local and in my same area code. I am not sure if this is an issue with the carrier (att) or a setting in the new ROM. I have searched and poked around but i cant seem to figure out why all incoming calls are being tagged with the (+) sign in front of the number. If i dial the same person from my contact list it works fine as the number in the contact list does not have the (+) sign in front of the number.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

are u using google voice to make phone calls? is the problem with every number or only facebook users? i havent tried that rom, so not sure if this setting is there, go to Phone Dialer screen > options > Smart Dialing, and remove the +1 from the Country code, Set your OWN country code there with a + in front of it.
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u are a US user on att network, correct? what is ur baseband version? its under setting- about phone

I can confirm that I too am experiencing this issue as well, same ROM. I came from CM10.1 nightly, so my guess is this is a ROM problem, not something else.

Since the update on 1/1, I have not been having that issue. Seems it was fixed in that release.

Thats been reported several times on task 4.2.1 thread. Probably he's working on a fix or maybe not. Who knows.
Try edit number before calling and erase the +. Hope that helps. :good:

Having the same problem but only seeing this on certain ROMS. Can't believe no one knows a fix. I've reached for awhile and can't find anything.

same problem
I am experiencing this problem as well on my SynergyROM AT&T S3.

same problem here
Hi, I'm having the same problem. Incoming calls from unknown numbers have a "+" added in front of them, when I try to return the calls, my carrier thinks it's an international call. If the contact is known, however, i don't have this problem, it simply displays the contact and I can return the call. Carrier: AT&T, ROM: DMod v4 Custom JB. There is no option in my setup for "international dialing" or parsing of the incoming phone number. Any help???

I'm having this issue on a ported sprint ROM. Any known fixes?

I'm curious - does this only happen with European ROMS being used on American carriers?
I've tried all the published fixes, such as disconnecting the sync'd contacts accounts, etc. Also trying an app called "Prefixer", but so far, haven't had any luck removing the added "+" sign.
This gives me a sad.

dsundin said:
I'm curious - does this only happen with European ROMS being used on American carriers?
I've tried all the published fixes, such as disconnecting the sync'd contacts accounts, etc. Also trying an app called "Prefixer", but so far, haven't had any luck removing the added "+" sign.
This gives me a sad.
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Prefixer worked great for me. I set it to take any call in my log that starts with a + and drop the + when outgoing.

Thank you very much! that was a very annoying problem. Prefixer is working great for me.
Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk 2

After I set it up correctly, Prefixer is doing the job for me, too. User error....

Same problem
So I did a google search and came across this thread,
technically I shouldn't be posting it here but being that I had the same issue I figured I'll go ahead and share with the community,
I have a Verizon Galaxy s4 rooted running a custom ROM 4.2.2 "hyperdrive" I recently switched to net10 cellular service using the AT&T SIM card Enclosed in the kit.
ever since the service has been connected I've noticed the + symbol on my incoming calls and was not able to call from my recent calls menu like everyone else.
I played around with the assisted dialing or "international calling" options to no avail.
and someone in this thread mentioned an app called prefixer which upon correct set up worked flawlessly Thanks

Preixer works
Once I got it set up right, Prefixer fixed the problem for me.

Samstealth7 said:
I have a Verizon Galaxy s4 .................... using the AT&T SIM card Enclosed in the kit.
ever since the service has been connected I've noticed the + symbol on my incoming calls and was not able to call from my recent calls menu like everyone else.
I played around with the assisted dialing or "international calling" options to no avail.
and someone in this thread mentioned an app called prefixer which upon correct set up worked flawlessly Thanks
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I'm on Straight Talk using their AT&T SIM card and have the same problem. I've tried to get Prefixer to work but I am not well versed in these matters. What exactly should be done (entered, typed, etc.) to get this to work.
Thanks

here's what worked for me
downtheroad said:
I'm on Straight Talk using their AT&T SIM card and have the same problem. I've tried to get Prefixer to work but I am not well versed in these matters. What exactly should be done (entered, typed, etc.) to get this to work.
Thanks
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Here's the Prefixer settings that worked for me:
Open Prefixer
Hit the check mark to turn Prefixer "on" - to make it active
Add a rule - choose "Manual Add"
Choose for "Outgoing Calls"
Rule Enabled: Check
Title: "Take Out the plus sign"
When the number matches: .* (that means every call)
During Days: Mon-Sun
From Time: 00:00
To Time: 23:59 (yours may be a bit different; I have my phone set for 24 hour time)
Actions: Remove Characters: \+
That's all. Make sure that the rule is enabled, and that Prefixer is enabled. This will remove the + sign from any phone number that has one, and my calls go through without any problem. Note that you'll have to disable Prefixer if you ever need to enter a configuration code via the keypad if it has a plus sign in it

dsundin said:
Here's the Prefixer settings that worked for me:
Open Prefixer
Hit the check mark to turn Prefixer "on" - to make it active
Add a rule - choose "Manual Add"
Choose for "Outgoing Calls"
Rule Enabled: Check
Title: "Take Out the plus sign"
When the number matches: .* (that means every call)
During Days: Mon-Sun
From Time: 00:00
To Time: 23:59 (yours may be a bit different; I have my phone set for 24 hour time)
Actions: Remove Characters: \+
That's all. Make sure that the rule is enabled, and that Prefixer is enabled. This will remove the + sign from any phone number that has one, and my calls go through without any problem. Note that you'll have to disable Prefixer if you ever need to enter a configuration code via the keypad if it has a plus sign in it
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I was definitely over-complicating my previous attempts, Thanks for clarifying the process.

dsundin said:
Open Prefixer
Hit the check mark to turn Prefixer "on" - to make it active
Add a rule - choose "Manual Add"
Choose for "Outgoing Calls"
Rule Enabled: Check
Title: "Take Out the plus sign"
When the number matches: .* (that means every call)
During Days: Mon-Sun
From Time: 00:00
To Time: 23:59 (yours may be a bit different; I have my phone set for 24 hour time)
Actions: Remove Characters: \+
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The input for When the number matches: .* didn't work for me. After trying different things, this is the input that finally did the trick:
.* was changed to \+[0-9]+

prefixer worked great for me too
prefixer worked great for me too
Russ77 said:
Prefixer worked great for me. I set it to take any call in my log that starts with a + and drop the + when outgoing.
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[Q] Setting up google voice?

Im just running the stock gs3 rom from tmo.
No luck yet with google voice... the phone keeps reverting back to the default voicemail system.
Seems like tmobile is trying to force me to use their app?
Sent from SCH-T999

GV
leoilios said:
Im just running the stock gs3 rom from tmo.
No luck yet with google voice... the phone keeps reverting back to the default voicemail system.
Seems like tmobile is trying to force me to use their app?
Sent from SCH-T999
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there is an issue w/ the stock rom and GV
you can still get by it, just 'skip' the step to set it up as your provider, complete the rest of the setup, then go into your call settings on your S3 and change the settings accordingly.
step by step instructions:
- pull up the 'phone' app
- hit the menu button in the bottom left
- hit the menu button in the bottom left
- click 'call settings'
- scroll down to and select 'call forwarding'
- click 'voice call'
- then change the three settings 'forward when busy' / 'forward when unanswered' / 'forward when unreachable' all to your GV number (add a +1 before your 10 digit GV number)
fyi: google voice call log will still not show correctly on the stock rom in the phone log. when dialing out it will show the phone number it connected to at google voice.
hope this helps! please hit thanks if it helped!

ucanthvit said:
there is an issue w/ the stock rom and GV
you can still get by it, just 'skip' the step to set it up as your provider, complete the rest of the setup, then go into your call settings on your S3 and change the settings accordingly.
step by step instructions:
- pull up the 'phone' app
- hit the menu button in the bottom left
- hit the menu button in the bottom left
- click 'call settings'
- scroll down to and select 'call forwarding'
- click 'voice call'
- then change the three settings 'forward when busy' / 'forward when unanswered' / 'forward when unreachable' all to your GV number (add a +1 before your 10 digit GV number)
fyi: google voice call log will still not show correctly on the stock rom in the phone log. when dialing out it will show the phone number it connected to at google voice.
hope this helps! please hit thanks if it helped!
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Your step by step did not help me.
Im not trying to use google voice to make calls, but just change my voicemail provider.
When I did not answer my old phone it would say: this google voice subscriber is not available, etc.
And I would be able to view a voice-to-text version of my voicemails through the google voice app, as well as play them from the app.
Currently im forced to call my voicemail in order to listen to / delete my voicemails...
Sent from SCH-T999

Log into google voice on your computer.
Go to settings >> phones
Find your phone. Click on the activate link if there is one. If there isn't click deactivate and then reactivate it.
I just went through the same thing the other day and I had to reactivate my phone for google voice. It involves dialing some crazy number from your phone, and basically thats it.

ucanthvit said:
there is an issue w/ the stock rom and GV
fyi: google voice call log will still not show correctly on the stock rom in the phone log. when dialing out it will show the phone number it connected to at google voice.
hope this helps! please hit thanks if it helped!
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Is there anyway to make it show the number you are actually dialing instead of that stupid access number? That has been driving me crazy since release! There was some $2.00 app in the marketplace that was suppose to fix that,but it didn't and I had my money refunded immediately.

[Q] Dialing By Name Problems (Update: Google Sync Problem)

Hi all, just a strange issue I am having I hope you can help me. I noticed when dialing by name when new, this phone kept wanting to bring up the home number when I want to dial the mobile by default. So, I headed into the contacts and discovered I could set the "default" number by either long pressing the desired number and selecting "set default" which then puts a blue check mark next to it, or I could be in the contact, press menu, then "mark as default" which opens a window where I can select the default email, phone number, etc which also will put a blue check next to the number.
Now then, all my contacts are stored on Google, nothing on the phone or SIM itself. For some reason, the default number for one of the most frequently called people in my address book will not "stick". I mark it as default, I can dial by name and it shows up correctly, but then the next time I go to do it (sometimes even 5 minutes later), it will be back to having no default number set and gives me the home number instead of mobile.
Oddly enough, the three other numbers I marked with a default number never do this to me and work every time, only the one contact entry doesn't work. I can't think of any other reasons why this is happening. My ONLY thought was that for some reason when syncing, Google keeps over-riding the marked default number. But why would it do it for JUST this one contact and not the other 3?!
Any ideas? Looking forward to thoughts. Kind of an embarrassing problem since it's so simple, but I can't figure it out...

www.google.com/contacts

Do you have more specific of a suggestion than simply giving me the site which I have already been to a couple times? The Google contacts interface doesn't seem to support "default numbers" and there is no way I could find to set a default number via the web interface. I believe the default number is an "on phone" setting. Thus, I am confused why it works on some contacts and not all.
Update: I noticed this same contact also won't upload changes to phone numbers, addresses, etc made on the phone for some reason, so this could be more of a Google sync problem. Again, it's only this one contact.
If I make changes to other contacts, they are reflected on Google's servers correctly. If I make a change to the phone number of this specific contact, after a few minutes, it goes back to what it previously was. It seems it's always pulling down from Google's servers and replacing the changes I made on my phone. It's like somehow only this contact was set to only pull down information, not upload it also. I also could not find any settings for changing the location of the "master" when there are changes or conflicts or anything like that on Google's website.
Anyone else have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Bump to the top, still have this issue.

Not much help here, as I'd love to know how to do this at a higher 'Google' level than just on my phone too. Are you syncing contacts with any other applications? For example, Facebook?

No, it's a stock Galaxy S4. Although you bring up another question I have had. When I have my contacts on Facebook synced "only with existing contacts", friends on Facebook still show up when I try to dial by name even though they do NOT show up in my address book. What's up with that? Is that the fault of Facebook? I seem to remember my HTC phone doing this as well, so I disabled syncing with Facebook contacts completely.
Today I tried removing the Google account, clearing the data and cache for contacts and contact storage, then adding the Google account again and letting contacts sync. I then set default numbers for 5 phone numbers. 10 minutes later, all but the one contact I have had problems with still had the default number set. The one contact cleared the default number - again. I just don't get it...

02CWRX said:
Hi all, just a strange issue I am having I hope you can help me. I noticed when dialing by name when new, this phone kept wanting to bring up the home number when I want to dial the mobile by default. So, I headed into the contacts and discovered I could set the "default" number by either long pressing the desired number and selecting "set default" which then puts a blue check mark next to it, or I could be in the contact, press menu, then "mark as default" which opens a window where I can select the default email, phone number, etc which also will put a blue check next to the number.
Now then, all my contacts are stored on Google, nothing on the phone or SIM itself. For some reason, the default number for one of the most frequently called people in my address book will not "stick". I mark it as default, I can dial by name and it shows up correctly, but then the next time I go to do it (sometimes even 5 minutes later), it will be back to having no default number set and gives me the home number instead of mobile.
Oddly enough, the three other numbers I marked with a default number never do this to me and work every time, only the one contact entry doesn't work. I can't think of any other reasons why this is happening. My ONLY thought was that for some reason when syncing, Google keeps over-riding the marked default number. But why would it do it for JUST this one contact and not the other 3?!
Any ideas? Looking forward to thoughts. Kind of an embarrassing problem since it's so simple, but I can't figure it out...
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I have the same issue and it ticks me off every time, and it happens with any contact that has multiple numbers. There doesn't seem to be any way to choose the alternate numbers when you do search by name from the dialpad. you have to do it from the favorites or the contacts tab instead.

Does yours clear the default from EVERY contact that has multiple numbers? Mine only clears the set default number from ONE SPECIFIC contact, and I can't figure out what the difference between that contact and any other contact is. Or, if you are saying you can't figure out how to set the default numbers at all, I gave instructions on how to do it two different ways in the post you quoted.
As for selecting an alternate number from the dial pad, I figured that out too. So, let's say you want to call Mike. Dial 6453 (MIKE) and you should see the name pop up. To the right of the name is a down arrow with a number above it. The number is telling you how many contacts what you have dialed matches. Tap the down arrow and you will see a list of people and their numbers under them (or just the one person if that's all that matches). If you tap again on the name, you will in fact be given a choice on which number to dial (assuming the contact has more than one number saved for them).
So basically, it's a long annoying process that shouldn't have to happen, but it is possible to do it. You have to start dialing by name, then make a screen selection, then another selection, then another, then finally the dial pad is pre-filled with the number, but then you have to remember to hit the actual call button at the end of all that crap. I find it's easier to find a text from the person and swipe the screen to dial them that way sometimes (or from within the text tap the call icon), or from the call history tap the call icon. Or of course as you said, favorites or contacts.
My HTC used to just let you dial by name, tap the number you wanted, then it would start calling. Easy peasy.

Bump to the top again... Still trying to figure this out. So annoying.

Bump. I dial this number every day...

Some stupid questions: 1. Do you have more than one contact details of the same person? 2. Did you delete and re-add the contact. Also delete from all other syncs?
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The contact is only listed as a Google contact, and has no other links or connections from other sources. Facebook is not synced, nor is anything else. It's only Google contacts. I haven't tried deleting and re adding yet. I guess that's a simple thing to try, its just that there is a lot of info in there, haha.

Ok, via web browser on the PC I exported the contact, deleted it, and synced my phone. Contact was gone. I then added a contact via web browser, typed in all the same info, synced the phone, and the contact is back. I then selected the mobile number, marked it as default, synced the contacts again, and there was no longer a default check mark next to the mobile number.
I have at least 3 other contacts where I don't have this problem at all. They are all stored on Google, they are all friends on Facebook (even though they aren't linked to FB in the contacts because of the above listed problem where everyone on FB shows up when dialing by name), they are all in circles on Google Plus. I can't figure this out at all. What the heck...