Hi i'm about to purchase HD7 from kijiji here in toronto and the guy selling it has said that he unlocked the phone but hasnt used it. Is there a way to check the usage counters i.e. total minutes the phones been turned on, total minutes on incoming calls and outgoing calls etc.
I know most phones have it so i'm sure Winphone7 has somewhere in the settings if someone could point it out to me as to where it is, it would be very helpful.
Thanks
Not seen any phone stats, even the call history only shows the date the call was made if it was in coming or out going and who it was.
A quick browse through the app store doesnt show any monitoring apps either
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Hello, I have a quick question but I did not know how to search for it in the forum as it will provide way too many search results, and I dont know if anyone has asked it before.
I basically have a plan that gives me free calling after 5pm, so is there anyway to let the phone automatically reject incoming calls, but not txts, before 5pm on weekdays, and accept all of them on weekends?
Help is greatly appreciated
not sure about the rules where you live but here
you never pay to recieve calls
only when you make them
so even if my balance is 0 and i can't send sms's or make calls
i can always recieve them
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Hello, I have a quick question but I did not know how to search for it in the forum as it will provide way too many search results, and I dont know if anyone has asked it before.
I basically have a plan that gives me free calling after 5pm, so is there anyway to let the phone automatically reject incoming calls, but not txts, before 5pm on weekdays, and accept all of them on weekends?
Help is greatly appreciated
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No , but there are comm managers that will let you manually switch off the phone during the day and switch it back on after five
You can configure to receive or reject calls using any of the comm managers out there....but you wont be able to feed in timelines to running those requests. Your best bet would be to set it and apply it manually when required.
I know I can turn off the phone (airplane mode) but I would like to just reject calls, but still be able to recieve and send SMS. As far as I know, if i turn off the radio, then I wont be able to send or recieve SMS either. I'm using Garmin's V8 LITE BTW.
I thank you for the help so far!
I'd use SPB phone suite. It has an option to reject all incoming calls only. Of course msgs and all other services are still active.
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I'd use SPB phone suite. It has an option to reject all incoming calls only. Of course msgs and all other services are still active.
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That's perfect! thank you very much
Still not getting why you'd want to reject incoming calls, as I've never seen a plan where you'd pay for those...
The free calls after 5pm applies to the calls YOU make, those you receive are always free. And the solution to that is watch the time before calling someone
kilrah said:
Still not getting why you'd want to reject incoming calls, as I've never seen a plan where you'd pay for those...
The free calls after 5pm applies to the calls YOU make, those you receive are always free. And the solution to that is watch the time before calling someone
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In Canada, even if you accept the calls, it will take away from minutes that you have. it's ridiculous, I know. But I have unlimited incoming/outgoing calls after 5pm. So I have a voicemail set up, and I have unlimited txting package that i'll use until it becomes 5pm
thats crazy, iv never known people getting charged for receiveing calls unless they were international calls (ie between countries)!
Me either, first time I hear about such a thing! Wow sorry for you, you're being ripped off up there!!
Oh I know lol I was shocked when I came to Canada and heard this...so much for the Great White North
I know there is an app for t-mobile users that shows how many mins they have used ect.
I would love someone to make an app FOR NON T-mobile users that works just like the tmobile app but has manual input settings. the following features would be good.
Input Bill rotation day
Input text messages a month
Input start and end times for evenings 6pm or 9pm
Input day time minutes
Input Data limit
the app will then log all your times and show you on a bar graph how many mins you have left or how many texts you have left untill you go over on ur plan and are billed extra.
Ect, it would be great to track my cell phone usage
Couldnt you just dial "#674#" or something? i think you should be able dial codes like that and it should tell you how many minutes, texts, and so far you've used and how many you have left
im on rogers in Canada, theres no such feature.
Correct me if I'm wrong...
but I don't think someone can just make an app like that, I believe the carrier would have to be involved to get all the info.
I woke up yesterday morning and had an idea for an app...
Now im not a coder so im not sure how easy it would be but im thinking alot of it should be pretty simple.
Now to the core of the app.
My thoughts are for an app that goes and retrieves your voicemail and saves it as a mp3 on your phone.
1. When a message is recieved from a certain number the app is triggered
2. The app starts recording the voice mail that is left.
3. (this is the tricky part) detect when the voicemail has finish and send the no. to delete the message. For my voicemail i press 3 to delete the messages.
4. Hang up the call and save the message to your phone.
Now there is a few reasons behind this.
It will save on money for some people, as i know here in Aus some companies charge to ring your voicemail no. So this app could download it and you could listen to it as much as possible.
If its important you could save it off to your computer or email to someone else to listen to.
As i said im not a coder but i thought this might be a good idea for someont o look into. Would have been good for the ADC2 but entries have finished for that now.
Anyway if any developers want to run with this go a head.
Great idea! But it has already been done. Check the market
seriously, lol
Whats the name of it
Thanks for the heads up
pf fusion voicemail, youmail I think, tmobile visual voicemail. I personally use pf fusion visual voicemail. It saves the messages to your sd card, has a nice user interface, and also backs them up to their server so you can retrieve them online.
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pf fusion voicemail, youmail I think, tmobile visual voicemail. I personally use pf fusion visual voicemail. It saves the messages to your sd card, has a nice user interface, and also backs them up to their server so you can retrieve them online.
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youmail does exactly the same thing. in addition to that, if you buy a youmail premium subscription (they have several levels depending on how many voicemails you regularly get) you can get the voicemails transcribed to text and displayed as well.
another one to add to the list is google voice. also does the above mentioned features.
Thanks for your suggestions everyone.
There is an issue with the suggestions though.
I live in Australia and all the options are for the US.
YouMail and PhoneFusion both need your voicmail to be diverted to them and GoogleVoice isnt here yet.
What I was thinking of is something that runs from your phone.
The App calls your pre defined Voicemail number and records the message and saves it to your phone.
Would work worldwide and you wouldnt need to change your voicemail details.
Anyway, just a thought
I understand what you're trying to say and from a developer standpoint, I can fill you in as to why it wouldnt work.
First, voicemail is like call forwarding. After your phone stops ringing, nothing is actually happening on your phone. The call is forwarded after a preset number of rings, or an action (like pressing the end key to ignore the call) to a voicemail server, which answers and records the message. At that point, your phone is completely out of the loop, so the idea of having it record to both the phone and the voicemail server is dead right there because it just cant be done. The way youmail, t-mobile vvm, google voice and phonefusion simulate this is by recording the message on their servers and then downloading it to your phone using your data connection.
Now, it would be possible to have your phone do the recording after a certain number of rings, like an answering machine, but it would be ridiculously process intensive because it would have to be running at all times. This would do two things:
1. slow down your phone considerably.
2. eat battery like you wouldnt believe.
And whats the point of having something like this if your phone is going to be dead all the time and unable to record messages anyway?
So yes, its possible, but not feasible. GV should be in australia soon, seeing as the wave development team is entirely based there. So keep your fingers crossed until then.
ok I wanted this app too, but you think too hard.
Disable provider voicemail.
After 10 rings, let phone pick up call and play message. Then a beep, and the phone starts recording.
No external voicemail server needed, just have an anwering machine application.
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Now, it would be possible to have your phone do the recording after a certain number of rings, like an answering machine, but it would be ridiculously process intensive because it would have to be running at all times. This would do two things:
1. slow down your phone considerably.
2. eat battery like you wouldnt believe.
And whats the point of having something like this if your phone is going to be dead all the time and unable to record messages anyway?
So yes, its possible, but not feasible.
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Why would slow your phone down so much? It could be service, not doing anything untill a call is recieved. If it rings too long it takes over.
It doesn't need to record all the time.
Try HulloMail
can't find HulloMail in the market
i also would like to have this "answering machine" app... and I also don't understand why this would slow down the phone, or eat up a lot of battery. as someone said already, it would run in the background (like "toggle settings" "missed call" and all the other services do) and just really start to work when a call comes in and it has to play a message and record the callers message.
the only downside (with which i can live) is certainly that the phone has to be switched on all the time, because off it couldn't record anything. for me that is no problem, i have a docking station at home and in the office, so when i am not running around, it is charged.
technically i see this as very feasible
i wonder whether devs shy away from this... because actually doing this is a major attack at the "revenue machine" of mobile operators, because - well - a local soft answering machine would take a huge amount of calling minutes away from the operators.
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First, voicemail is like call forwarding. After your phone stops ringing, nothing is actually happening on your phone. The call is forwarded after a preset number of rings, or an action (like pressing the end key to ignore the call) to a voicemail server, which answers and records the message. At that point, your phone is completely out of the loop, so the idea of having it record to both the phone and the voicemail server is dead right there because it just cant be done.
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Actually that's not exactly true. If you take a look in the Android Call Settings. Under GSM/CDMA Call Settings > Call Forwarding, you'll see that Call Forwarding when busy, unanswered and unreachable can all be disabled. It's possible one could write a program to catch the call after it rings X times, but I'm not sure if Android has that kind of hook in its API yet.
But as for it being impossible due to the forwarding, that's utterly false.
Quite simple.
Cancel the carrier answering service. (I hate the term "voicemail" -- everyone who uses it should be shot dead).
Have the program answer the phone after some defined number of rings and record it.
1) It would NOT slow down your phone.
2) It would NOT eat battery.
Don't know where that guy got the idea that it would... it WON'T.
These days I’m on vacation using a pre-paid connection. I actaved a data connection on it and started getting these usage summary notifications every few seconds (e.g: Data charge is xx.xx, your available balance is yy.yy, valid until dd/mm/yy). Its really annoying because if I keep the phone locked for like an hour I am presented with 50 odd such messages that I have to press OK before being able to use the phone . When I called the technical support, I was told that it is a phone feature usually called “After call summary” or “call summary”, that can be turned off from the phone itself. Since they don’t carry any android devices he couldn’t help me where to find it. I looked around myself, but couldn’t find anything . Can someone help me with this ? Thanks.
Guess no one knows about this feature or how to disable it?
some one help me with this too..
Hi. I don't think it's a device feature. And if it's a "call summary" then it shouldn't inform about data plan. Try searching for a disabling code on your operator's website.
I have a "call summary" enabled - it pops up after a call, and I can disable/enable it only with a USSD code defined by operator.
Remove Call Summary Screen on Verizon Galaxy 8
I was getting an annoying call summary screen on my Galaxy 8s. It appeared to have the green android messaging icon in the call summary and splash screen. I use the Verizon massaging app. I therefore disabled the android messaging app and the issue disappeared. If you have another android, see if you can replace the android messaging app prior to disabling it.
Hey everyone,
I have a bit of a weird issue here. I have a note 8 from Verizon which everyone knows comes unlocked. I am using it on AT&T and everything works well except for one thing. For some reason when I receive phone calls from people, it shows on the screen with a + sign in front of the phone number. So if someone calls me that is in my contact book, it will not show their name since there is no + sign in my contact book. So also now in my call history if I try to call that number back it sounds like it is trying to make an international call. I have no idea what is happening. Data, texts and calls work but instead of getting a call from 9999999999 I get +9999999999.
Please help me out here, I love the phone!!
Zachary
I've read about this issue before. Googling 'incoming calls show +' gives you some leads.
In short it seems to be related to Dialling Assistance settings (note spell error, is as in settings...). I couldn't find those via the regular settings (used to be accessible via settings in Phone app), but I could via the app 'Shortcut Master (Light)' ...
Search for 'dialing' and then launch:
'com.android.phone.operator.usa.AssistedDialingActivity'. My settings (N950U1) are as per SS...
Try playing with these settings.