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I know that there are some ROMs that this software is included.
In my ROM this software is not included.
Where can I find this software?
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I know that there are some ROMs that this software is included.
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I believe HTC is the only company where this is not possible
If you found a software or ROM i would be appreciate if you post the software here.
The only way you can record a call on the HD is if you use the speaker and some third party software such as Isecretary or Resco Audio Recorder.
I don't have the software, but I have read in one of the forums that this software exists in some of the HD ROMs.
i think that this forum is exactly the one for this purpose.
There are a lot of members form a lot of places, and we will find the member that has this software.
From what I've heard, ICR (In Call Recording) was included in preproduction ROMs only. It would be good to know that somebody got it, at least to check if it's worth anything. Anyway, I wonder why HTC decided to exclude this soft from production ROM...
Works fine
I use Resco Audio recorder. Works fine
zSpinner said:
I use Resco Audio recorder. Works fine
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Are you saying that you can record the income voice as well as your out going voice on a call and then play it back.
As I known, the ICR application is only valid in CHS ROM or with CHS pim.vol.
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Are you saying that you can record the income voice as well as your out going voice on a call and then play it back.
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From Resco Website:
"Record and organize every incoming or outgoing call."
Program startup and recording of whole phone call. Store to a special subfolder and name the recorded file with caller/callee's name.
(Both sides recording is hardware dependent. If your recording contains voice of one side only, it is not due to the program's failure.)
huanggx said:
As I known, the ICR application is only valid in CHS ROM or with CHS pim.vol.
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So you can verify it exists? Is the ROM out there?
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surur said:
So you can verify it exists? Is the ROM out there?
Surur
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Sure, it exists. The official ROM is not released yet.
If someone has the non official ROM that includes this software we can extract it form there.
Yes, please! If somebody would be able to get the original ICR software from HTC, this would be really great! The hardware obviously supports recording both parties (or HTC wouldn't have included the SW in the first ROMs) and with the currently available 3rd party apps, you either have to turn the speakerphone on to hear the other person, or he's way to slient to understand properly. With HTC's software, both callers should be audible perfectly.
Regards!
I would have thought that if the HTC software was "market ready" they would have put it in the 1.14 rom. As they have not I can only think that it will generate more support calls than anything else.
My thoughts anyway nothing confirmed
MDAIIIUser said:
I would have thought that if the HTC software was "market ready" they would have put it in the 1.14 rom. As they have not I can only think that it will generate more support calls than anything else.
My thoughts anyway nothing confirmed
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It may be more to do with the law than technology.
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tkalli said:
From Resco Website:
"Record and organize every incoming or outgoing call."
Program startup and recording of whole phone call. Store to a special subfolder and name the recorded file with caller/callee's name.
(Both sides recording is hardware dependent. If your recording contains voice of one side only, it is not due to the program's failure.)
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If I understand correct, it is a cooced ROM, wich is able to record both party by a phone calling - with 3rd party program: resco audio recorder.
I used the original 1.14.401 ROM with this program, and i could hear only my voice. With an other PDA - Samsung Omnia - i recorded both party with succes.
The program Audio Notes Touch is able to record both party, but the voice of caller is very quiet.
Well I have downloaded the resco version 4.51 and you can hardly hear the incoming side on my HD.
Well I think by the law, its not legal to record any phone conversation without the permission of the persons involved.
However the development of such a program may be easy, releasing it to public has to asure legal purposes.
So therefore, I don't think any of that HTC releasing or some ROM having it is true.
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Well I have downloaded the resco version 4.51 and you can hardly hear the incoming side on my HD.
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What is your ROM version?
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Well I think by the law, its not legal to record any phone conversation without the permission of the persons involved.
However the development of such a program may be easy, releasing it to public has to asure legal purposes.
So therefore, I don't think any of that HTC releasing or some ROM having it is true.
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I don't think it is so. By other producers - like f.e. Samsung - it makes no problem. So I think the reason should be something else.
Hello,
I develop one program for call with the video.
It's possible to invoke by program a phone call via an intent :
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CALL, Uri.parse(url));
where the url contents the phone number.
How to specify that we want to make a video Call on 3G-UMTS and not a vocal call.
Assuming that we have the right phone, the right OS version, the right operator.
I don't think there is a public API (read: a generic action *) for that yet. Very strange but true. Video calling on mobile phones has been possible for more than 10 years, but Android doesn't support this generically yet.
edit: There is an issue open on this on AOSP. All we can do is chime in and ask for vendors and Google to make this public.
*: Using an explicit intent (with full component class) may be seen as code hijacking, some developers / companies don't take kindly to that, so be careful!
damn I need this function bec I am deaf. I need damn it..
Yes therefore made for the time Android is the manufacturers who have developed this module, so you do not know how they can proceed to make a video call.
And excuse me for my English, I'm French and I do not speak it very well
kkm883 said:
damn I need this function bec I am deaf. I need damn it..
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Well, stupid question maybe, but why not just use the stock dialer?
Or doen't video call work while on 3G? In that case there's very little you can do about it, because your mobile operator has to support video calling (some don't). If anything, keep trying new Fring & Sipdroid versions until there is one that works on the SGS...
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Well, stupid question maybe, but why not just use the stock dialer?
Or doen't video call work while on 3G? In that case there's very little you can do about it, because your mobile operator has to support video calling (some don't). If anything, keep trying new Fring & Sipdroid versions until there is one that works on the SGS...
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Fring now works on the SGS, they fixed it. Get the latest version from the market.
Hi,
We make Contactive(it's an app)(just to make sure we're on the same page here). It's guaranteed to (insert sips ref here) rustle your jimmies.
We've received some great feedback lately and we're hungry like a wolf for moar. That's where you come in:fingers-crossed:. Fill our suggestion box full of stuff. Types of feedback that we like to munch on:
- all positive comments
- A bunch of five stars pls
- words that want to make us cry
- And I'm legally binded to ask for some constructive criticism. Not too much though. Our dev's get angry pretty easily(please do not tweet to contactive that i said that).
Also too our lead dev is single(lololololol) he like's to go on very brief walks on the beach, he gets tired very easily, and his fave movie is the about the ring.
I guess I should say something about the app now. Um, well it makes your phone ring, or vibrate, when you get a call. It tells you if a celebrity is calling you like Dr. Dre or if its your mailman, or if its just your mum.
But wait there's more:highfive:, if your mom's on twitter, and let's face it there's like a 99% chance she is, it will show you her latest tweet before you pick up her call... you'll be prepared. Also too it'll import all of your friends from Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin(if you have a job), and Gmail to your phone's address book. It identifies unknown callers too by crawling over the inter-webs for all public information connected to that number(ie. location, name,a picture if available, and some other stuff I cant remember.
Seriously though View attachment 2043155
http://contactive.com/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...forums&utm_medium=XDADevelopers&utm_term=post
Also I forgot to say that our website is the bees knees, so click the link in the op. pls.
contactive_dave said:
Hi,
We make Contactive(it's an app)(just to make sure we're on the same page here). It's guaranteed to (insert sips ref here) rustle your jimmies.
We've received some great feedback lately and we're hungry like a wolf for moar. That's where you come in:fingers-crossed:. Fill our suggestion box full of stuff. Types of feedback that we like to munch on:
- all positive comments
- A bunch of five stars pls
- words that want to make us cry
- And I'm legally binded to ask for some constructive criticism. Not too much though. Our dev's get angry pretty easily(please do not tweet to contactive that i said that).
Also too our lead dev is single(lololololol) he like's to go on very brief walks on the beach, he gets tired very easily, and his fave movie is the about the ring.
I guess I should say something about the app now. Um, well it makes your phone ring, or vibrate, when you get a call. It tells you if a celebrity is calling you like Dr. Dre or if its your mailman, or if its just your mum.
But wait there's more:highfive:, if your mom's on twitter, and let's face it there's like a 99% chance she is, it will show you her latest tweet before you pick up her call... you'll be prepared. Also too it'll import all of your friends from Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin(if you have a job), and Gmail to your phone's address book. It identifies unknown callers too by crawling over the inter-webs for all public information connected to that number(ie. location, name,a picture if available, and some other stuff I cant remember.
Seriously though View attachment 2043155
http://contactive.com/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...forums&utm_medium=XDADevelopers&utm_term=post
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The app looks pretty nice ... :good: ... And the WebSIte Design ... AWESOME !! (may i ask who made the website ?) .... Keep up ... !! :good:
Looks awesome. can we get a dark theme?
this apps sounds good, gonna give a try. thread subscribe. thks to dev team :good:
I'm not trying to discredit your app but what does it bring that the others don't have ? I tried it works exactly like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.callapp.contacts that is my main contacts app
Giving it a try; seems like a useful application, but I am a little concerned about the massive consolidation of personal information. The privacy policy is a good read!
Can you add a feature to remove duplicate numbers in phone contacts
This is good:good:, but feel they have two or more contacts,
numbers on the phone does not directly connect to facebook
hanifbsk said:
Can you add a feature to remove duplicate numbers in phone contacts
This is good:good:, but feel they have two or more contacts,
numbers on the phone does not directly connect to facebook
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what do you mean by duplicate numbers?
hisname said:
what do you mean by duplicate numbers?
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I have a lot of duplicate numbers in the phone
eg for my number, there are 4 same name in the phonebook,
and it automatically removes it,
and hope this app can change the google phonebook, not only the number on the application
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The app looks pretty nice ... :good: ... And the WebSIte Design ... AWESOME !! (may i ask who made the website ?) .... Keep up ... !! :good:
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thanks! our in-house front-end guy plus designer made it.
honki24 said:
Looks awesome. can we get a dark theme?
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We've had a few requests for theme customization. right now, we're busy with bug fixes and core features, but we're hoping to get to a place where we can work on themes. We know the blue is super bright, and some people like it, some people don't.
exadeci said:
I'm not trying to discredit your app but what does it bring that the others don't have ? I tried it works exactly like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.callapp.contacts that is my main contacts app
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Yeah. CallApp is our main competitor - and right now we do pretty much the same thing. But we're tryna eventually leapfrog them.
hanifbsk said:
Can you add a feature to remove duplicate numbers in phone contacts
This is good:good:, but feel they have two or more contacts,
numbers on the phone does not directly connect to facebook
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Not sure what's happening there but Contactive SHOULD be taking care of your duplicate numbers. There's also an option to manually merge/link profiles when you go into an individual profile and hit settings. Could you shoot us an email at [email protected]?
PS. Thank you to @TheRomMistress for the article!
I'm trying to wrap my brain around how your app works and where the line in privacy is.
Without actually installing your app, my theory is...
* Your app takes a snapshot of my address book and pushes that to a 3rd party service
* This service builds up a database of numbers, names, and useful information to find people on social networking sites
* Some of this information is pushed back down to the user for their particular contact
* Once a call comes in, if the user already exists the app should know which accounts on what social networks the pole for the callers most recent postings
* If the caller doesn't exist in the address book, a quick ping off to the 3rd party service is made to request any known information on this new caller's phone number, and that's pushed back down to the user and relevant content is shown
Is all that approximately correct or do I have it all backwards? Thanks!
I'm really liking the layout of this app. Good work! Could you guys incorporate a way to turn of the dialer sound?
rubin110 said:
I'm trying to wrap my brain around how your app works and where the line in privacy is.
Without actually installing your app, my theory is...
* Your app takes a snapshot of my address book and pushes that to a 3rd party service
* This service builds up a database of numbers, names, and useful information to find people on social networking sites
* Some of this information is pushed back down to the user for their particular contact
* Once a call comes in, if the user already exists the app should know which accounts on what social networks the pole for the callers most recent postings
* If the caller doesn't exist in the address book, a quick ping off to the 3rd party service is made to request any known information on this new caller's phone number, and that's pushed back down to the user and relevant content is shown
Is all that approximately correct or do I have it all backwards? Thanks!
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Iam totally agree with RUBIN110..Big concern is privacy .I'm not trying to discredit your app but App from Newyork ..,,,Whats About NSA?..Whats about U.S. and British government mass surveillance programs?
I really like the look of the app and I want to use it, but I'm concerned about the privacy aspects.
Do you collect the data and use or store it outside of this app?
rubin110 said:
I'm trying to wrap my brain around how your app works and where the line in privacy is.
Without actually installing your app, my theory is...
* Your app takes a snapshot of my address book and pushes that to a 3rd party service
* This service builds up a database of numbers, names, and useful information to find people on social networking sites
* Some of this information is pushed back down to the user for their particular contact
* Once a call comes in, if the user already exists the app should know which accounts on what social networks the pole for the callers most recent postings
* If the caller doesn't exist in the address book, a quick ping off to the 3rd party service is made to request any known information on this new caller's phone number, and that's pushed back down to the user and relevant content is shown
Is all that approximately correct or do I have it all backwards? Thanks!
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As the lowly intern, this is my understanding of how it works - from both asking a bunch of questions and sitting next to the dev guys everyday listening to what they talk about:
You got it mostly correct.
1. yes. The app saves your address book in Contactive's database and stores links (not info) to matching social network profiles. This info is NOT shared with 3rd party services.
2. yes. The service builds up a database of the following: name, number, social network IDs
3. yes. The info you see for a particular contact all depends on what info you can see if you were to visit that user's Facebook page. For example, if you are friends with Alex, all of the info you can normally see on Alex's Facebook will show up within Contactive. If you are NOT friends with Alex, only the info Alex has made public will be seen within Contactive.
4. yes - IF 1. you are friends with them already on the social networks you connect to Contactive, and/or 2. Contactive's database has connected that number to a specific social network account.
5. yes. If the caller doesnt exist in your address book, requests are sent to Contactive's database and third parties such as yelp, facebook, etc - all the different sources we use.
gaquarian said:
Iam totally agree with RUBIN110..Big concern is privacy .I'm not trying to discredit your app but App from Newyork ..,,,Whats About NSA?..Whats about U.S. and British government mass surveillance programs?
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We're pretty sure if the NSA wanted any of the info we have, they can get it off of Facebook. LOL
imtoomuch said:
I really like the look of the app and I want to use it, but I'm concerned about the privacy aspects.
Do you collect the data and use or store it outside of this app?
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Nope. We don't use or store it for anything other than to bolster our caller ID feature. We won't sell any of our information either.
Are you able to add an option to silence the key press tone?
peedub said:
Are you able to add an option to silence the key press tone?
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youre actually the second person today to ask about that. I'll bring it up to the dev team and report back.
Looks cool. Any plans for a dark theme and integrating call block( damn telemarketers)
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Hi guys
LG G3 is gonna be my first LG phone, I am moving from Samsung S4min, Note 2 , Grand 2 duos etc.......
I need call recording feature.
Can someone tell me whether call recording works on this phone?
Please try one of those:
- Digital Call Recorder by DigitalSolutions
- Total Recall by Killer Mobile
- Automatic Call Recorder by Appliqato (Appstar Solutions)
- Call Recorder by Clever Mobile
- Call recorder (Free) ViktorDegt
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
The stock dialer comes with recording support, thought to let you know. I've not tried it but it's there.
Sent from G3
Tarzan- said:
The stock dialer comes with recording support, thought to let you know. I've not tried it but it's there.
Sent from G3
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That's a great info. Could you test it for me please and see if it records both sides? What is the format of the file?
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Ok just talked to my friend.
It does record both sides.
Recording sound is great.
Saved in voice recorder folder.
File format is 3GP
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A big thank you!
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A big thank you!
Sent from my SM-G7102 using Tapatalk
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No worries. Here is the screenshot of the dialer for reference.
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No worries. Here is the screenshot of the dialer for reference.
Sent from G3
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this is stock out of the box?
i thought it was illegal!
Nice work LG
winwiz said:
this is stock out of the box?
i thought it was illegal!
Nice work LG
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May be in S Korea it isn't. Who knows international doesn't come with it.
Sent from G3
Can someone with international version confirm that the stock dialer has it too?
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No it doesn't have this feature
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No it doesn't have this feature
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Hi Coolgus
Your G3 (which does not have a record button in the dialer is which country?
Anyone here having Singapore LG G3? Does that have a record button?
I got the international version of LG G3, no recording button in the stock dialer but
Call Recorder - ACR by NLL works flawlessly!!!!
No need to root or whatsoever
anshkhanna said:
Hi Coolgus
Your G3 (which does not have a record button in the dialer is which country?
Anyone here having Singapore LG G3? Does that have a record button?
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I'm from Greece
Hi Singapore LG G3 has no call recording function.
Sent from my LG-D855 using XDA Free mobile app
Version in Czech republic has no call recording feature too.
Xposed gives you call recording.
dondavis007 said:
Xposed gives you call recording.
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Total Recall (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.killermobile.totalrecall) works perfectly (no root required) so far on all LG G3 models. But in the event you eventually switch to a device that doesn't support call recording out of the box, it's good to know we support recording on more devices than any competing product through our variety of root recording methods.
And with Total Recall, you get the added bonus of the app not spying on you. Just remember every app that includes Ads, includes tracking code that's reporting back device data, your use habits, etc to the Ad Companies. Even during our 30 day trial period, there's ZERO ads.
Not to mention, Total Recall definitely has the most robust feature set of any Call Recorder app available (we've been building Mobile Call Recorder apps for 10 years now).
Stay Killer
Josh & Killer Mobile
winwiz said:
this is stock out of the box?
i thought it was illegal!
Nice work LG
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Oh boy here we go again
No it is NOT illegal anywhere in the world to record your OWN conversations.
Otherwise you weren't allowed to have an answering machine either.
It is illegal for 3rd parties to record your conversations! (E.g. call centers that are not affiliated to the company you want to call)
Some countries allow 3rd parties to record your conversation if they either let one o/t participants or both participants aware that the call is being recorded.
From what I understand the international version doesn't have the record button
I too need call recording. It's a real boon while on the road and not being able to jot down telnos and addresses from callers.
I hate these korean companies. They always keep the best stuff to themselves.
Is this available on all carriers? It's one of the big reasons I bought the phone but I can't find this option on my dialer. I have the 32GB US version with ATT.
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Oh boy here we go again
No it is NOT illegal anywhere in the world to record your OWN conversations.
Otherwise you weren't allowed to have an answering machine either.
It is illegal for 3rd parties to record your conversations! (E.g. call centers that are not affiliated to the company you want to call)
Some countries allow 3rd parties to record your conversation if they either let one o/t participants or both participants aware that the call is being recorded.
From what I understand the international version doesn't have the record button
I too need call recording. It's a real boon while on the road and not being able to jot down telnos and addresses from callers.
I hate these korean companies. They always keep the best stuff to themselves.
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dude please do your research before you get people locked up in prison lol..
answering machines are totally different because the opposite party knows they are being record solely for the person to get their message!
call recording is done without their consent.... as far as in the US, each state has their own laws.. I am in NJ and NJ is a 1 party consent state, meaning that both parties dont have to know they are being recorded so i can record without them knowing... Alot of other states are two party consent, meaning you must let the person know they are being recorded otherwise you are committing a criminal offense
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One or two party consent
In the U.S. the individual states have different laws concerning telephone recording. These fall into two categories: Two party notification, and One party notification. Two party notification means both parties being recorded in a conversation must consent. One party notification only requires one of the parties being recorded to consent. Consent is usually granted by an notification recording at the beginning of the call, or with a audible beep tone. The recent California Supreme Court decision in Kearney v. Salomon Smith Barney, Inc., S124739 (July 13, 2006) showed that in a call from a One party consent state to a Two party consent state the Two party law takes precedence.
All-party consent states[edit]
Twelve states currently require that all parties consent to the recording: California,[20] Connecticut,[21] Florida,[22] Hawaii (in general a one-party state, but requires two-party consent if the recording device is installed in a private place),[21] Illinois (debated, see next section), Maryland,[23] Massachusetts,[21] Montana[24] (requires notification only), Nevada,[21] New Hampshire,[25] Pennsylvania,[26] and Washington.[27] (However section 3 of the Washington law states that permission is given if any of the parties announces that they will be recording the call in a reasonable manner if the recording contains that announcement.)
One-party consent states[edit]
All other states (and the District of Columbia) not listed above require only that one party consent.
Hello
Anyone know how to block all incoming connection where number is hidden "no caller id".
Is there built in feature or need download app ?
Thanks
Golempl said:
Hello
Anyone know how to block all incoming connection where number is hidden "no caller id".
Is there built in feature or need download app ?
Thanks
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I have "Call blacklist pro" for this, an Xposed module. The pro is that it's a very lightweight app, the con is that it's not supported anymore and you won't receive any additional features that would also be very much needed and appreciated. Unfortunately I've not found any valid replacement so far and if you need only basic feature that could be your app.
You can install Truecaller from Google Playstore - this application could block calls without ID and/or calls marked by community as scam/advertisements, it displays caller info provided by community. Give it a try
kondzi said:
You can install Truecaller from Google Playstore - this application could block calls without ID and/or calls marked by community as scam/advertisements, it displays caller info provided by community. Give it a try
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Just to inform readers, truecaller has some issues with respecting user privacy. Indeed many of these caller id programs have a buisness model that involves vacuuming up the information of both you and of those in your contacts. This may not be necessarily what the user desires, though it stated that this is the case in the EULA. My own search for an alternative is what brought me here.
See "How Caller ID Apps Like Truecaller Secretly Violate Your Privacy" by Dennis Z on fatsecurity.
reconmaster said:
Just to inform readers, truecaller has some issues with respecting user privacy. Indeed many of these caller id programs have a buisness model that involves vacuuming up the information of both you and of those in your contacts. This may not be necessarily what the user desires, though it stated that this is the case in the EULA. My own search for an alternative is what brought me here.
See "How Caller ID Apps Like Truecaller Secretly Violate Your Privacy" by Dennis Z on fatsecurity.
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thanks for showing up to inform us of this risk; this is horrifying, it should be circulated and Google should block this app on the play store. If Google doesn't I see it as an accomplice
Unfortunately, these egregious violations of privacy tend to manifest concurrently with certain approaches to software development business models. I generally prefer to use as much of the open-source variants in the F-Droid app store where such data collection attempts are transparent. I do enjoy some of the conveniences provided by google, so I concede they already have the aforementioned contact information.
As such, my current solution to the spam recognition is installing Google's phone app as my default call software. They've recently added access to a registery of known spam callers and you have the subsequent index of your own contacts. This seems a viable compromise giving the the fact Google already has that information be it via conacts or your email. I mainly need a solution to the fact the Federal Do-Not-Call list (US users) is now a joke when dealing the recent spike in various potential Nigerian prince schemery.
But to your original point, there is a degree of complicity in such a big-data business model. With this in mind, I prefer to limit the exposure of my personal info to 3rd parties. I'll try to help when possible when some developer's don't necessarily have their customer's best interest at heart.