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[Tool] CallWall - The call firewall [v1.0.1 26-08]

Hi you all out there,
since I was searching for application ideas I read about the wish for a call firewall again and again.
I decided to think about it and now here it is:
CallWall - The Call Firewall
It's an application which provides a service which directly blocks incoming calls by matching them with some user creatable filters.
Current filters are:
- Simple filter (a la *1337* to block all numbers with 1337 in it)
- Regex filter (a la .*1337.*)
- Contact filter blocks a single contact
- Contact group filter blocks a hole group of contacts
- Unknown number filter blocks all calls with an unknown caller ID
The calls can be blocked (same as clicking the hangup button directly) or just be muted.
I had to compile the app against the source and not the SDK - only for the hangup thing which is ~4 lines of code, all other things are SDK stuff. It installs and runs without problems in the emulator, so I think not-rooted-phones should be able to use it, too.
Please post comments and bug thing here
Have fun with it, hope you like it.
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v1.0.1 - 26-08
-Added notifications for blocked calls and an ongoing notification while the service is started & active. All of them can be switched off in the settings.
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Source code available at my git repository.

Could you add a screening feature like "You Have Reached " I had it on my Sanyo 500 years ago and I could pick up in the middle of them leaving a message. Well I think it would be cool if its possible THx

irrenhaus at it again
nice work man
can't wait to see what you add on to this

It didn't work for me...
All the calls still got through..

AustinKnight45 said:
Could you add a screening feature like "You Have Reached " I had it on my Sanyo 500 years ago and I could pick up in the middle of them leaving a message. Well I think it would be cool if its possible THx
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Yah, I thought about an answering machine on the phone which gives you the possibility to record an answer text and which records onto the sd card. But that will maybe come somewhen in the future

Mh could you give information about your configured filters?
I could only test it on my phone and the emulator...
Thanks

irrenhaus said:
Yah, I thought about an answering machine on the phone which gives you the possibility to record an answer text and which records onto the sd card. But that will maybe come somewhen in the future
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well these features are some what there.. I have them with google voice it saves all my voice mails (even transcribes them too) and it saves my text.. And I can screen my calls I can listen to there voicemail and if i wanna pick up I just do so... so in some sense it is a answering machine. oh and the cool part if some one calls you from an unknown number they cant get through they have to first leave there name and number.. Well thats the way i have it setup anyways

tried out some of the features and working well on my part awesome work again

We already have an ignore option on the phone im not trying to put this down but how is this any different?

imbonez9 said:
We already have an ignore option on the phone im not trying to put this down but how is this any different?
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Well, I think this piece of work is just more - lets say advanced
To say the truth, I think if the original functions do it for you there is no need for this app. Also the only reason I've made this is that I heard many voices screaming for an app like this - so I decided to code it .

All the power to you in no way was i hating just asking to find out more about this

^^ I think the original way to ignore a call just lets you ignore specific contacts.
The CallWall lets you additionaly ignore unknown numbers, hole user groups and numbers by pattern... And I'm currently adding different notification things so you know that a call was blocked ^^
Well I think that's all about it...

I think this thread needs to go to "Dream applications and games" and not in the Android Dev. forum....
Like the app though, could be very useful.
Stericson

Ah well yah sorry about that, reading so much the dev forum that I didn't think of the other ones xD

great idea
I really like this idea and like the overall layout. Good work!

Call and Text blocking...
I'd love an App that let's me block text and calls from a certain number, but not only blocks them, but let's them know in no uncertain terms that I've blocked them!! Like on texts, it would send an auto-response to the number saying something like "the T-Mobile customer you are messaging has blocked this number xxx-xxx-xxxx. No messages sent will be received." or something.

suggestion
hey irrenhaus,
a feature that i dont think would be too hard to implement, is a filter where you block out everyone EXCEPT for a specific group/contact ... for example, when im at certain places, i would like to put everyone to mute except for my family... what do you think?
EDIT: i had another idea but forgot it so will edit this when i remember

I think this is great. I am tired of hitting the ignore button. I would rather the phone just mute itself and i don't even have to pay attention to it. With his feature, you don't ahve to look at the phone and touch something. This is aces above "your hitting the end button". Nice work!

I had a great app like this on my window mobile phone, except it had the option to answer the call and hang up, so the caller couldn't leave a voice mail.
Then it would send them a SMS stating they had been blocked, and if they replied via SMS the sms's were automatically deleted.
Also, it did this behind the scenes so you didn't get any notification(missed called, or sms, ringtones).
Was a really great app!...

parrothd said:
I had a great app like this on my window mobile phone, except it had the option to answer the call and hang up, so the caller couldn't leave a voice mail.
Then it would send them a SMS stating they had been blocked, and if they replied via SMS the sms's were automatically deleted.
Also, it did this behind the scenes so you didn't get any notification(missed called, or sms, ringtones).
Was a really great app!...
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do you rememer the app?

Automatically forward text messages?

I have a Nexus One with Tmobile as my main cell-phone. I received a Sprint HTC EVO 4G from the Google IO conference. I want all of the text messages I receive on my Nexus One to AUTOMATICALLY forward, as text messages, to my Sprint EVO smartphone. Is this possible? If so, how do I set this up?
-Greymarch
I write about smartphones, especially the Nexus One at my website:
http://www.greymarch.com

Another way you can go about it is forward the sms as email and set the program to not mark as read.
Edit: This is referring to a 3rd party program from the market. There are a few, try some and see what you think.

greymarch said:
I have a Nexus One with Tmobile as my main cell-phone. I received a Sprint HTC EVO 4G from the Google IO conference. I want all of the text messages I receive on my Nexus One to AUTOMATICALLY forward, as text messages, to my Sprint EVO smartphone. Is this possible? If so, how do I set this up?
-Greymarch
I write about smartphones, especially the Nexus One at my website:
http://www.greymarch.com
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This is a good time to mention Google Voice, for anyone who might be unaware of it's powerful awesomeness. As of a few months ago, I've fully switched over and I am loving it. If you're going to have two phone numbers for a while (or even if not), you would be a prime candidate for Google Voice.
Everyone should check it out, highly recommended!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KSoxdtyc58
http://www.youtube.com/googlevoice
Texts via email = awesome. (And for you, texts to multiple phones.)

Paul22000 said:
This is a good time to mention Google Voice, for anyone who might be unaware of it's powerful awesomeness. As of a few months ago, I've fully switched over and I am loving it. If you're going to have two phone numbers for a while (or even if not), you would be a prime candidate for Google Voice.
Everyone should check it out, highly recommended!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KSoxdtyc58
http://www.youtube.com/googlevoice
Texts via email = awesome. (And for you, texts to multiple phones.)
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I already have google voice. Everyone with a Nexus One has Google voice. I do not want to make people switch to my new google voice number, and Google voice has nothing to do with what I want to accomplish anyhow. The point of the thread is how to make an android phone automatically forward text messages, AS TEXT MESSAGES, to another phone. Do you know how to do that? If so, please share it with us.

If you did forward them as text messages, they would just come back as sent from your phone. The solution I gave works better because they will apear as SMS From:xxxx.

Update...
A friendly fellow on another android message board system tipped me off to SMS Forwarder in the android marketplace. I installed it on my Froyo Nexus One, and it works like a charm.
However, I hope there is a way to do this internally in android, instead of requiring a third-party application.

evilkorn said:
If you did forward them as text messages, they would just come back as sent from your phone. The solution I gave works better because they will apear as SMS From:xxxx.
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The SMS Forwarder application shows where the forwarded text message originally came from.

greymarch said:
I already have google voice. Everyone with a Nexus One has Google voice. I do not want to make people switch to my new google voice number,
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I was saying it might be beneficial to consider using GV for texting in the future. If it's such a huge deal to switch for you, then fine forget it. But it's still information for others who might be reading, which is why I specifically said "for anyone" / "everyone". This is a public forum after all.
and Google voice has nothing to do with what I want to accomplish anyhow.
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Google Voice allows you forward text messages to two (or any number) of phones.
The point of the thread is how to make an android phone automatically forward text messages, AS TEXT MESSAGES, to another phone. Do you know how to do that? If so, please share it with us.
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A quick search would have yielded plenty of options:
http://www.cyrket.com/search?q=sms+forward&market=android

greymarch said:
However, I hope there is a way to do this internally in android, instead of requiring a third-party application.
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No there isn't.

The absolute best way to get SMS forwarding is through your carrier. But that'll depend on whether your carrier cares enough to add such a feature. Rogers in Canada just added it.

Paul22000 said:
I was saying it might be beneficial to consider using GV for texting in the future. If it's such a huge deal to switch for you, then fine forget it. But it's still information for others who might be reading, which is why I specifically said "for anyone" / "everyone". This is a public forum after all.
Google Voice allows you forward text messages to two (or any number) of phones.
A quick search would have yielded plenty of options:
http://www.cyrket.com/search?q=sms+forward&market=android
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- It's a public forum, but my initial question was very specific. You nearly de-railed the thread.
- I did a quick search, in fact I did an extensive search on these boards and on the net. I couldnt find any answers so I posted here.
- My very specific question asked how to automatically forward a text message from my Nexus One phone to my Sprint EVO phone. Forwarding from a google voice number to other phones was never the right answer, and you know it. Why people insist on inserting themselves into internet message board questions, when they know they don't actually have the correct answer, is beyond me.

greymarch said:
- It's a public forum, but my initial question was very specific. You nearly de-railed the thread.
- I did a quick search, in fact I did an extensive search on these boards and on the net. I couldnt find any answers so I posted here.
- My very specific question asked how to automatically forward a text message from my Nexus One phone to my Sprint EVO phone. Forwarding from a google voice number to other phones was never the right answer, and you know it. Why people insist on inserting themselves into internet message board questions, when they know they don't actually have the correct answer, is beyond me.
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A VERY quick search on the market brought up some results you were looking for.
And people usually insert themselves even if it's not the exact answer the OP might have been looking for because the OP might not know about the idea, and decide that fulfills his/her needs for the situation. Why people insist on giving douche responses on internet messaging boards when people are merely trying to help them is beyond me.

[Q] Anyone notice increasing Spam due to Android apps?

Since buying the N1 in April, I've been very happy with both the phone, and the Android OS.
However, I've been noticing an uptick in the past couple of months of dubious emails hitting my Google account which I registered with my phone. admittedly this is anecdotal, but the nature of the emails leads me to think that some of the app devs whose programs I've installed/tried out, are capturing and selling validated email addresses to third parties. It then seems that some of them (besides increasing the usual Spam being filtered by gmail) go a step further and register the email address to various groups, lists, emails, newsfeeds, etc.
I'm not terribly shocked by this, and since I pretty much limit my gmail usage to using on the phone, I just want to sound people out to determine if I'm just being paranoid, or actually noticing something valid.
Not that it's related, but I'm also running Cyan 6.0.0 (8/27)

Seeing as the market is open for any individual to just slap some crap up for people to download, there is no doubt this is possible. Nothing unique to Android.
One way to attempt to protect yourself in the future would be to sign up with these dev's by adding a tag to your email address like such:
Code:
[email protected]
or
Code:
[email protected]
where '+shadydev1' is incremented to identify who is sending what. Though, the spammers could strip the tags making all this pointless, in which case just do what everyone else does and send them to your Hotmail account
*Edit* Looking at your OP again, I guess youre saying that the DEVs are pulling your email from the phone itself which is much more malicious, making my post pointless.

crachel said:
Seeing as the market is open for any individual to just slap some crap up for people to download, there is no doubt this is possible. Nothing unique to Android.
One way to attempt to protect yourself in the future would be to sign up with these dev's by adding a tag to your email address like such:
Code:
[email protected]
or
Code:
[email protected]
where '+shadydev1' is incremented to identify who is sending what. Though, the spammers could strip the tags making all this pointless, in which case just do what everyone else does and send them to your Hotmail account
*Edit* Looking at your OP again, I guess youre saying that the DEVs are pulling your email from the phone itself which is much more malicious, making my post pointless.
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Hey, I have not noticed this, but thanks for the tip! Had no idea you could tag in the username like that for GMail. I don't use it much honestly, but perhaps I will
I have my own domain and I have like spam1 spam2 spam3 etc I use... but not quite as flexible

Thanks for the suggestion. Going to start utilizing it. Sorry about the late response, been out of touch for a bit.
With the recent dustup over Facebook, that's exactly the sort of thing I'm suspecting is happening in my situation. Because it really started to amp up when I installed Cyanogen 6.0. Now in no way am I implying something wrong or directly related to Cy's code. It's awesome and I wouldn't trade it for anything. But anecdotally, the level of Spam seems to coincide. And as i don't know enough about the Android OS, not sure if 1) rooting the phone and installing a custom ROM left it more exposed than stock, 2) Some market app(s) I've installed have done a 'Facebook' with my data via some exploit or 3) Stock or rooted, wouldn't make much of a difference because jagoffs are the same no matter where, when or how. They'll find a way.
But as my original query didn't seem to gain much traction, doesn't seem others have experienced any noticible increase as a result of rooting their phones. Btw, I should say not just Spam for viagra type stuff has increased in my gmail account. but what would otherwise seem to be 'legitimate' emails that i have no idea as to their origins. religious groups, a car dealership asking me how I like my new car, etc. And after some research, it seems that variants of my email address will find their way into my inbox. according to google's Help. If I create [email protected], i'll also get email for [email protected], for example.

smashmouth_engineer said:
Thanks for the suggestion. Going to start utilizing it. Sorry about the late response, been out of touch for a bit.
With the recent dustup over Facebook, that's exactly the sort of thing I'm suspecting is happening in my situation. Because it really started to amp up when I installed Cyanogen 6.0. Now in no way am I implying something wrong or directly related to Cy's code. It's awesome and I wouldn't trade it for anything. But anecdotally, the level of Spam seems to coincide. And as i don't know enough about the Android OS, not sure if 1) rooting the phone and installing a custom ROM left it more exposed than stock, 2) Some market app(s) I've installed have done a 'Facebook' with my data via some exploit or 3) Stock or rooted, wouldn't make much of a difference because jagoffs are the same no matter where, when or how. They'll find a way.
But as my original query didn't seem to gain much traction, doesn't seem others have experienced any noticible increase as a result of rooting their phones. Btw, I should say not just Spam for viagra type stuff has increased in my gmail account. but what would otherwise seem to be 'legitimate' emails that i have no idea as to their origins. religious groups, a car dealership asking me how I like my new car, etc. And after some research, it seems that variants of my email address will find their way into my inbox. according to google's Help. If I create [email protected], i'll also get email for [email protected], for example.
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Yep, as does [email protected], or [email protected]
Has nothing to do with this nonsense thread.

I have yet to get a spam mail past Gmail spam filter, and I have my Nexus rooted and on custom ROMs for a long time.
The scenario you describe theoretically might happen if you installed a "semi-malicious" app that would request your permissions for accessing your account / contact list, and you let it. Just rooting and installing whatever ROM won't get you there.

Share texts between phone and tablet

Anyone know of any apps (current or in development) that allows for text messages that come in to an android phone to be answered and responded to from a tablet?
I know theres similar functionality for answering from a computer, but this would be great over wifi or bluetooth.
(Also thinking out loud here, if the two are paired over bluetooth, would it be at all possible with some kind of development to use the tablet like a headset to answer or place calls from the phone?)
These are things that I dont expect people to say "Heres an .apk" but want to get these ideas out into the open to see if anyone has anything to contribute or point us in the right direction.

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Try using Google voice on both phone and tablet with the same account then you can get ye messages and text.

Thanks but...
1) Google voice isnt currently available for the Xoom.
2) I'd like something that doesnt require me to notify all my contacts of a number change and have them be confused about which is actually my cell phone number.

Google voice works fine through the browser

Yes you can. You can send texts from your phone on your tab using the free app Remote Web Desktop.
This app gives you your phone desktop on your tab, send texts, add files to your SD card, etc.

Gotta admit, that one is pretty great, i can see myself using it on my comp.
A little sluggish and slow on the tablet going through the browser though.
What im looking for is essentially the functionality of that on the phone side, but a dedicated app on the tablet, obviously optimized for the screen real estate and interface that will refresh on its own, have its own notifications on the tablet etc.
Basically an app that looks and acts like a dedicated sms client on the tablet, only its doing all the actual sending and receiving on the phone side and pulling it over wifi or bluetooth.
This is basically what HP has in store for the touchpad and pre3 so im not exactly expecting someone to just link to it and move along. I'm really hoping someone developing some kind of similar solution sees this and reaches out to the community.
Thanks for the suggestions and please keep them coming...always love seeing new apps.

WHY?
gbenj said:
Anyone know of any apps (current or in development) that allows for text messages that come in to an android phone to be answered and responded to from a tablet?
I know theres similar functionality for answering from a computer, but this would be great over wifi or bluetooth.
(Also thinking out loud here, if the two are paired over bluetooth, would it be at all possible with some kind of development to use the tablet like a headset to answer or place calls from the phone?)
These are things that I dont expect people to say "Heres an .apk" but want to get these ideas out into the open to see if anyone has anything to contribute or point us in the right direction.
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I am wondering why one would want to do this? just really curious as to your thought behind the question....

Kent_Davis said:
I am wondering why one would want to do this? just really curious as to your thought behind the question....
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I want this kind of app too... heres my reason. My phone sits on its dock once i get home in the bedroom and i tether the wifi to my tab. So i dont have it nearby but my nook always is
Sent from one of those missing Droids

Another reason is that its much more comfortable to text and type from the tablet. (Its amazing how tiny my Incredible feels after using the Xoom for a few days.)
Like the previous post says, if I can be sitting on the couch with the tablet, leave the phone plugged in in my room, and get notifications etc on the tablet that would be great.
Plus, if i'm gonna be using the tablet more and more around the house, it would be much easier to sit there with one device on my lap instead of constantly switching between the tablet to the phone when I get a text.
Think of it as a phone extender where the main phone functions are accessible on the tablet over WiFi or bluetooth, whatever is easier.

I just wanted to throw my +1 here. I feel silly juggling my phone and tablet. I'd love to be able to walk away from my office and only have to worry about grabbing one device.

Didn't find it sluggish, xoom tethered to my N1 on Tmo's fast network. If you find something else, please share, thanks!

There is definitely a need for this. I use the google voice app on my iPad for SMS more than on my N1. I also use the talkatone ios app for voip google voice calls as well. Not having a google voice app for Honeycomb is ridiculous.

Ditto I will be needing some sort of app like so. Reason- I dont own a cell phone but I wouldnt mind pay the $20 a month for the data service and being able to text using sms.

Basically he (and me too) is looking for something that acts like Motorola's Webtop App.

neonerz said:
I just wanted to throw my +1 here. I feel silly juggling my phone and tablet. I'd love to be able to walk away from my office and only have to worry about grabbing one device.
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Basically he (and me too) is looking for something that acts like Motorola's Webtop App.
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Exactly!

I concur. This is one thing I did like about the Galaxy Tab before I sold it for the Xoom...I could answer email and TXT from one device. When you're at home using your Xoom it does make a difference in lifestyle having to grab my phone every time it beeps for a TXT...lets face it most people don't talk as much over the phone as they used to.

Very much needed app. I'd be willing to pay $10 easy for it too.
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I believe that this on the new HP Toucpad when its synced with WebOS phones. This would be awesome!
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I've been thinking about this alot over the past couple of days even to the point that I began to investigate and play around with the Android SDK to see what I might be able to do, which is not alot at the moment.
I thought of this app functioning as follows:
1) We currently have a bunch of applications that allow the user to view and respond to their text messages through an interface on the browser or computer application using an app on the phone that "broadcasts" the messaging features of the phone out over either WiFi or bluetooth. (For example, the ones mentioned earlier in this thread.)
2) We also have something called "Remote Notifier" that sends out a "ping" when a new message is received to a listening service on a computer which notifies the user on the desktop.
3) If the existing functionality of those two are combined, we have an application that can put together a list of the messages on the phone (primary location), send it out to a secondary location (in this case a tablet), while also notifying the secondary location (tablet) of a new message received.
The app on the phone also gives the secondary location the ability to respond and edit the message list on the phone.
4) The second piece of the equation we would need is an app for the tablet, preferably optimized for the screen size in a 5manner similar to the way Gmail and the native email client handle messaging, (with a list of messages on the left, and the conversation view on the right) that allows the user to browse their messages on the phone and reply within the app.
If the app on the tablet could "look" to the phone as the service provider instead of the network, I could even see notifications being created from within that app and displayed on the tablet just as if it was actually receiving the texts itself.
While I am technical enough to debug a little and troubleshoot alot, I don't have the programming background to create this from the ground up. Is there anyone out there that would be interested in working with me to build something like this?
I feel as though I have the Idea of how this will function pretty well planned out, and if there is someone who wants to do the legwork involved in the building/programming, I can definitely write and draw up use cases, user flows, and wire-frame designs for how both sides of the application would work in both the front and back end.
So, is there anyone out there interested in and capable of helping to put this together for the community? I really feel that if it is done well enough, it could take off and maybe even Google would take notice and build it in natively moving forward...If they're not already working on it.
Thoughts, questions, concerns? I would appreciate any and all feedback.
Thanks for reading....this has been a long post

if you really want to try without having to code anything try the appinventor.appinventor.googlelabs[dot]c o m/learn/setup/[/url]
ill try messing around with it later once im finished working on my woodshop project (im 14). But it you want to id try it out.

Group texts

So I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (Snapdragon N950U). Over the previous 24 hours, first, my daughter and then I received a group text from an unknown person. It was noone from our contact lists and noone we know. I use chomp sms as my default messaging app. I am extremely annoyed and wish for all of these textx to stop. I cant ask the group message originator to remove me from the list because I dont know who sent it. Also of the 10 to 15 numbers on the list that he/she also sent it to, I do not know anyone on the list.
I need some advice/help. With this high end phone of mine and all of its power, you would think there would be some way to just simply remove myself from the list. In my research on this topic, the only app I found that might have a chance of stopping this is called GroupXit but I dont even know if it would really work or is still valid. The only info I can find concerning the app is that its from 2014. (kinda old)
Since I have root access, isnt there something that I can do to stop it? Some type of app for rooted phones or something?

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So I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (Snapdragon N950U). Over the previous 24 hours, first, my daughter and then I received a group text from an unknown person. It was noone from our contact lists and noone we know. I use chomp sms as my default messaging app. I am extremely annoyed and wish for all of these textx to stop. I cant ask the group message originator to remove me from the list because I dont know who sent it. Also of the 10 to 15 numbers on the list that he/she also sent it to, I do not know anyone on the list.
I need some advice/help. With this high end phone of mine and all of its power, you would think there would be some way to just simply remove myself from the list. In my research on this topic, the only app I found that might have a chance of stopping this is called GroupXit but I dont even know if it would really work or is still valid. The only info I can find concerning the app is that its from 2014. (kinda old)
Since I have root access, isnt there something that I can do to stop it? Some type of app for rooted phones or something?
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Well its not as simple as one might think.
Heres the problem.
The current infrastructure allows this and call spoofing to happen because out going calls and texts are not verified and filtered properly and said calls and text are forwarded to the given address. Like a letter. It would be like trying to stop someone from writing you a letter. There isnt a mechanism the verifies he registerd number of the phone to the ID being given over the air to the recipient. Said mechanism would make call spoofing much much harder and could be modified to remove ones-self from a group chat.
You do have a few options.
1. An app that blocks texts
2. Have your carrier block them
3. Look at who their carrier is and request a block (not sure if possible but worth a shot).
4. Ask them. I know you dont want to contact them but aslong as you dont give any information, click a link, or become hostile toward them, you should be fine. To be safe. Somewhere in your messaging setting, there should be an option to auto download attachment. Id turn that off before requesting your removal.
****HEADS UP****
some carriers do charge monthly to block someone.
Id look that info up or ask before jumping straight to that option.

Thank you Shadow Assassin. I noticed another app called Textra. It says it will specifically block the group texts of your choice. May be worth a shot.
I'm kind of hesitant to contact the originator of this group text, 1. Because I can't tell which number it comes from. (When I look at the contact details it gives me a list of 10 - 15 numbers) and 2. Because of the content of the text. Both were the same on my phone and my daughter's phone. It said : "Hey mister, I'm just gonna put this out there, I'm chubby, lonely and horny." Then it got more detailed.

TRexombo said:
Thank you Shadow Assassin. I noticed another app called Textra. It says it will specifically block the group texts of your choice. May be worth a shot.
I'm kind of hesitant to contact the originator of this group text, 1. Because I can't tell which number it comes from. (When I look at the contact details it gives me a list of 10 - 15 numbers) and 2. Because of the content of the text. Both were the same on my phone and my daughter's phone. It said : "Hey mister, I'm just gonna put this out there, I'm chubby, lonely and horny." Then it got more detailed.
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Wow, ok. Thats concerning knowing the little chance of texting both yall randomly. So it doesnt seem so random (could be wrong). You can see the actually sender by long pressing on the message and click View Message Details. You can block numbers on the galaxy 8 series. Messages/Settings/Block Messages
Now those messages wont show up in the main messages but they are saved in the blocked folder in the same place I directed you to block them.
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Due to the way sms/mms works, your phone will still receive the messages no matter what apl you use. They just block them from visibility. Only a carrier block stops them from reaching your devices
I can say, if it were me. I would atleast file a police report if it came from the same area code especially sonce both you and your daughter got it aswell. But the chances of randomly texting both of yall are slim.

Ok thank you for your advice. There has been no further activity from that group text and no others have been sent. I guess I'm just going to wait for now but if anything else happens I may be forced to take action.