Hello,
I am a recent owner of the LG G3 and I have already had some annoyances with this phone. Most of them are not big enough to take the pleasure out of using it, but one of them is getting in my normal day-to-day operations which are the basic for any phone - CALLING.
Coming from HTC, I am quite used to their Dialer app and I have a problem with LG's version. I am not sure if it is a problem on all devices or it is just mine, or is it an option that I have not changed, but if anyone knows how to go around this - please help.
I am major user of Smart Dialing and right now when I start dialing in the name of the contact it appears on top. The problem is that if that Contact has several numbers, the first number that appears is NOT the DEFAULT one selected in his profile. This makes calling a contact quite a long process...first searching, then going through the results, then sellecting it, then hitting the button to call. It looks like when you are Smart Dialing the UI is sorting contacts by frequency of contact (I have selected that option), but the numbers themselves are sorted also according to the digits and not according to which one is default and which one is not.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
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You seem to be right, even if you select a preferred number in contacts it doesn't carry through. If it really annoys you then I guess you can try a different dialer app. It is a bit sloppy by LG though.
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Good to know that I am not the only one experiencing this issue!
I will probably install a custom Dialer app, but I hope LG comes up with an update for that because their Dialer otherwise is nice.
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Seems like certain roms have issues with Google Voice. I use Google Voice for my voice mail, and with certain roms, when I go to dial out from Google Voice, whether it be using my GV number or my native Verizon number, a +1 is appended to the phone number and I get an error stating the network is busy.
At the moment, I am using TSM Gingerbang Evolved and it works fine. I get the network issue with Virtuous Unity (is the name right?) and more recently with RunnyDroid. I like some of the features of these other ROMS but cant put my finger on what the common factor is that makes Google Voice cause problems with dialing.
I'd like any assistance at all on this.. I think I may have read elsewhere that there are issues with Sense 3.0 and up with Google Voice, but I cant seem to locate that article now.
Is there no way to properly use Google Voice with higher versions of Sense?
Thanks,
-myk
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Anybody? Are any other users experiencing the same issue? I read a few posts on random forums where some had the same problem, but no resolution other than trying a different ROM. Perhaps I should change my question..
What Sense-based ROMs have you guys used that still works great with Google Voice dialing out from a voicemail?
Seriously? I can't be the only one experiencing this. Anybody at all? Maybe I'm the only one who uses GV.
Sorry man, I don't use it. I read something about having to pay for voicemail using it one time and just stopped
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myk.robinson said:
Seriously? I can't be the only one experiencing this. Anybody at all? Maybe I'm the only one who uses GV.
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You're not the only one having this issue. I'm experiencing the same problem as well but I just did the work around and edit the number i'm dialing out to delete the + from the number. It's a pain in the butt if you do it all the time but I normally just "send a text" to that number, edit the number, delete the +, copy and paste it into the phone app and dial out from there. A lot of extra steps but it works.
I'm sure someone will get around to figuring out why this is happening
Myk
This bothered me so much over the past few days I finally did some digging and I found a great workaround. It's actually an app on the market. It can edit any number you dial automatically to remove or add whatever it needs to.
Prefixer
By 253°Below
Run the app, Menu>Add Rule>Manual>Outgoing
You can label the title whatever you want.
Make sure the Rule is enabled
Under "When Number Matches" Type this in
\+?[0-9]{7,}
That tells it if a number is at least 7 digits long preceded by a + in the beginning.
During Days>Mon-Sun
From Time> 00:00
To Time> 23:59
Remove Characters
\+[1]
That's it. Try dialing a number from anywhere. Some of my facebook contacts automatically have a +1 in front of them and i'm now able to call without editing the number manually every single time.
THANK YOU!
That was driving me crazy...
thank you very much, this works like a charm and makes ROMs much more usable
Wonder why the devs of these ROMs don't include something like this, as you would think everyone has this problem. It may not be an issue with the built in phone call log, but definitely is if you use Google Voice.
thanks again
Hello all, do any of you know at least one app that is similar in functionality to iPhone's Mobile Log or iSmart Dialer??
I went from iphone to android and this are the only to apps I really miss, mostly because of their simplicity and the fact that they did exactly what I needed, nothing more nothing less and with no complications.
Mobile Log is a replacement for the recent call history and can hold up to 200 individual calls and as far as I can tell an infinite amount of calls for one number or contact, it also shows the number of the contact from recent and groups all the calls you make to one contact in a single row.
iSmart Dialer is an app that could integrate with in the keypad of the iphone and you could call people from there using the smart dial option. i guess i could live without this as ICS has a search option in every tab of the call application but I could really use an app like Mobile Log.
PS: So far I have tried several call log apps but none of them have what it takes, the best one I found was ToucPad Dialer but it has some issues with ICS(I presume it's not fully supported yet).
I also tried Call Log Manager Pro but this one is bad not to mention that most apps have the tabs at the top of the screen and GN has a rather log screen so it's difficult to reach them.
I would appreciate if someone could tell me at least one app that is similar to Mobile Log and iSmart Dialer
Under phone menu there is a call log but I can't figure out how to show the most recent calls first. It seems that the phone somehow prioritizes some calls at the top and you have to scroll down (in my case several pages) to find the calls that start with "today" and then go backwards in time.
Any way to change the sort so the call log is almost most recent first? How to do this seems to have escaped me? Thanks and apologize in advance if it's something blindingly obvious that I missed.
I have the 851 variant and my call log is sorted with the most recent first. I checked the menu and settings and do not see anything setting to alter or rearrange the call log order at all, outside of clearing the whole list.
So I'm not sure if it's a variant specific issue or setting.
Sorry I couldn't help any further, but I wanted to post so you wouldn't feel left in the wind and would know that perhaps it might be specific to your phone.
JustLok said:
I have the 851 variant and my call log is sorted with the most recent first. I checked the menu and settings and do not see anything setting to alter or rearrange the call log order at all, outside of clearing the whole list.
So I'm not sure if it's a variant specific issue or setting.
Sorry I couldn't help any further, but I wanted to post so you wouldn't feel left in the wind and would know that perhaps it might be specific to your phone.
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Thanks for the reply. Interesting to note it's not all variants - I'll keep searching
zevrosenthal said:
Thanks for the reply. Interesting to note it's not all variants - I'll keep searching
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I would like to know about this too, it's very annoying
Stumbled upon the answer. I was looking through the pages and pages of "new" calls when I realized that these were all call log records that came over from my iPhone. I used the LG PC suite to transfer my texts, calls, etc. to the new phone and it seems that all the call records go in as "new" as sit above today or any recent calls. As I didn't want to lose my recent calls, I went through the call log call by call and deleted every call categorized as "new" and now it's working perfectly - call logs are properly displayed by date in descending order of most recent first.
I discovered this will on hold with LG support via "chat". They were more than useless. The rep said she didn't even have an G3 at her location to try and understand the problem and gave me the usual 'factory reset' to fix it. I told here there was zero percent chance I'd do a factory reset and have to spend hours to get my phone back to my setup without any assurance it would even work (which it wouldn't have if I'd done the PC Suite transfer again) and told her she should, in no way, categorize my call as "solved or finished" based on suggesting a factory reset. My expectation for tech support was near zero and LG didn't disappoint. The support was worthless. Thank goodness for XDA.
Hi gnex users, I installed CM11 M12 yesterday on my Galaxy Nexus to try to give the old phone a bit more life. So far I like it, but just one thing doesn't seem to be working for me. I have used my phone for years with two numbers -- my carrier number and my Google Voice number. I use one for work and one for personal stuff. In the stock Google Android 4.3, I was always presented with the option when calling to call using Google Voice, or call using my carrier number. I would choose one or the other depending on whether it was a work call or a personal call. With CM11, I'm not getting this option -- calls are all made using the carrier number (which I use as my personal number). Have I missed a setting here?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
oops, never mind
jmabuse said:
Hi gnex users, I installed CM11 M12 yesterday on my Galaxy Nexus to try to give the old phone a bit more life. So far I like it, but just one thing doesn't seem to be working for me. I have used my phone for years with two numbers -- my carrier number and my Google Voice number. I use one for work and one for personal stuff. In the stock Google Android 4.3, I was always presented with the option when calling to call using Google Voice, or call using my carrier number. I would choose one or the other depending on whether it was a work call or a personal call. With CM11, I'm not getting this option -- calls are all made using the carrier number (which I use as my personal number). Have I missed a setting here?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
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Looks like all I had to do was launch Google Voice for the first time. When I did that, it took me through some configuration and I was able to choose to have the dialer ask me every time.
Maybe this info will be helpful to someone else.
I looked through the forums and could not find anything on this that is recent. If I missed something I apologize for the re-post.
What I am experiencing is rather annoying. I start most of my phone calls in one of 3 ways. 1) from the contact/missed/recent screens in the dialer app, 2) from the contact info screen, as access by Textra (my preferred texting app), or 3) voice command.
Regardless of how I start the call, more times than not I am greeted with the call about to start (in other words the dialer opens and the number is present along with the contact info) then the dialer will close. Then I try again by either swiping from the contact list, or sending the voice command again and the call dials.
I am not rooted, on the latest 5.0.1.
Any ideas?
Me too, same problem on 5.0.1. Annoying~
I have the Note 4 Dev and it is rooted with MOROM 6.5 installed, and I sometimes have this happen as well.
I have been experiencing the same issues. I'm also on 5.0.1 not rooted. Running Nova Launcher.
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ssb13 said:
I looked through the forums and could not find anything on this that is recent. If I missed something I apologize for the re-post.
What I am experiencing is rather annoying. I start most of my phone calls in one of 3 ways. 1) from the contact/missed/recent screens in the dialer app, 2) from the contact info screen, as access by Textra (my preferred texting app), or 3) voice command.
Regardless of how I start the call, more times than not I am greeted with the call about to start (in other words the dialer opens and the number is present along with the contact info) then the dialer will close. Then I try again by either swiping from the contact list, or sending the voice command again and the call dials.
I am not rooted, on the latest 5.0.1.
Any ideas?
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I have noticed this issue on MoROM custom ROM and a person did mention it on that thread so it seems like this is a lollipop bug for some or all :/