It is all about the blocking app being able to hangup. Somehow 7 prevents this so all blockers must let the blocked caller go to voicemail. Thanks Google! Did they want the on board blocking to not look as pathetic as really is?
I am looking into Tasker as work around but I am a noob at that app. It may also not work there at all either.
My Googling seems to reveal it being device independent.
So if blocking then 7 forces them to VM! What a letdown this is.
I have voicemail switched off permanently, root call blocker work as a charm.
Mike
I have the ..01 phone & only get to have a warranty.
The stock dialer app allows calls to be blocked under call details. thats the only option but it works for me.
Native call block
If your mzp is up to date, then you should have native call block support in dialer settings. If not, you can use Google dialer and use that as your default dialer.
The best premium apps have voicemail blocking by virtue of the answer & hangup ability.
The stock app/dialer does not offer this feature. It is lame featureless facility.
Both on my old Sony Xperia M4 Aqua and on my new HTC 10, I've used a method that always worked (Lollipop on the M4 Aqua, Nougat/Oreo on the HTC 10).
- Root;
- Install Xposed Installer;
- Install GIN Call Blacklist from the Xposed Module Database (in app, installs the Pro version).
In neither of the two phones I was able to block private calls. I could block individual numbers and names, but private numbers were a no-go.
With GIN Call Blacklist, supported by its Xposed module, those private calls are gone. But there's still something that annoys me.
On the M4 Aqua, I wouldn't even be notified whenever a private call was blocked. Now, on the HTC 10 (Oreo), despite my efforts, I always get a dialer notification that a private call was blocked.
The phone vibrates for a second and shows the notification, but it happens so fast that the ringtone has no time to play.
Despite that, it works. That's that matters. Although it hasn't been updated since 2015.
Check it here - https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-call-blacklist-blocker-pro-t3057012
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Is there an app that will allow me to either blacklist and reject calls, or direct them to a virtual voicemail box ?
Virtual VM being within the phone not the carrier ?
I had a similar app on my Nokia N95 8GB.
Thanks
You don't need a seperate app. Just add them as a contact and select Send to voicemail. Not tried it though.
norm2002 said:
You don't need a seperate app. Just add them as a contact and select Send to voicemail. Not tried it though.
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I use that a lot problem is your phone still rings then it goes to voicemail, would have been lot better if it went straight to voicemail...
saayinla said:
I use that a lot problem is your phone still rings then it goes to voicemail, would have been lot better if it went straight to voicemail...
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Maybe you can create an mp3 file of silence then set that as the ringtone for those contacts you want to send to voicemail. Will that work?
I just came here about to post the same thing!
Individual blocking on a case by case basis is fine. But not powerful enough. I came from Nokia E series and the only thing I miss is Advanced Call Manager.
If you look up this program, what you will find is that it has some great features:
- You can set up many lists then just tell the phone to use the list for a whitelist or blacklist.
- You can block all unknown numbers.
- Block everyone. Essentially turns phone into pager.
Even blocking calls is done in a variety of ways.
- to voicemail
- to busy tone
- block and send sms
- divert to various numbers depending on mode
Etc.
As you can see, it is a very powerful program that is set up very easily and I never had any complains, only praise. I often used it when I was writing when I would only want my partner and my mother to contact me and would block everyone else.
I have been looking but can't see anything as powerful or as highly rated. What I've found are:
aFirewall
Extreme Call Blocker
Phone Armor C.
But these seem either basic or don't work reliably.
Cleargrey said:
I just came here about to post the same thing!
Individual blocking on a case by case basis is fine. But not powerful enough. I came from Nokia E series and the only thing I miss is Advanced Call Manager.
If you look up this program, what you will find is that it has some great features:
- You can set up many lists then just tell the phone to use the list for a whitelist or blacklist.
- You can block all unknown numbers.
- Block everyone. Essentially turns phone into pager.
Even blocking calls is done in a variety of ways.
- to voicemail
- to busy tone
- block and send sms
- divert to various numbers depending on mode
Etc.
As you can see, it is a very powerful program that is set up very easily and I never had any complains, only praise. I often used it when I was writing when I would only want my partner and my mother to contact me and would block everyone else.
I have been looking but can't see anything as powerful or as highly rated. What I've found are:
aFirewall
Extreme Call Blocker
Phone Armor C.
But these seem either basic or don't work reliably.
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For WM is avalible program which allow you all this. It is called MagiCall I hope that for Android is avalible something that. I hope that Im not do mistake when Im order Desire because looks like Android is not good as WM can be(missing a lot of features which are normal: USB sync like activesync, blocking calls... )
I had heard that android had this built in, but apparently not with the newest messages app. So I need an alternative. Let me know what's out there. Has to be absolutely ad-free and free. If it's a port from another device or older android, that's good enough.
Thanks!
I use Mood Messenger, no adds but I don't think you can blacklist using key words only by number. There is a program in the Play Store named SMS Blocker. It looks like you can block by keyword. I don' t know if it has adds though.
Pulse in the GPStore is both, secure as well.
I looked in F-Droid for an Ad-Free App and tested 5 Apps. All but one could only block by sender-number and not by keyword-filters. And the one that has a SMS message filter is too old and not supported in new Android versions
I would like an App that could whitelist all contacts for SMS and apply keyword filters to the rest of incoming SMS. They are anonymous (no numerical existing Phone-number) and so manual blocking is a useless task...
@ChriMo , did you check "silence" in F-Droid? it might have what your looking for.
good luck
@mrrocketdog I just tried Silence but could not find any setting about filtering incoming SMS with keywords. The App seems focused on the End-to-End encryption of SMS-Messaging including a PIN to protect/encode SMS Messages and the blocking of senders (which also the standard SMS App does).
well … heck. srry about that. but i wasnt sure.
Try "SpamHound" on google play.
It looks like most of the older call blockers don't work 100% properly under Nougat.
What are ya'll using that works better than the built-in call blocker of the Google Phone?
I want to block 10000000 and Unknown calls.
As well as prevent voicemails from being left.
I'm running Xposed too, so I can go that route.
what's up guys, I have a quick question about call blocking on Oreo. I use this root call blocking app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.rootcallblocker.beta&hl=en
Which has always worked but now on Android 8.0 it can no longer function, like many other root call blocking apps. It says in the description:
"As of Android 8, root blocking is not possible and RCB will default to no root mode, which does not block SMS at all. There are specialized apps that will do that better than RCB set as the default messaging app."
Since this change, all you are able to do is forward the call to your voicemail, you are not able to block any calls at all.
I researched and other apps say the exact same thing so it's not a problem with the app but it seems android changed the way it handles incoming calls.
My question is do you think android will stay like this and we won't be able to block calls like in previous versions of android or maybe this is just a temporary change?
Why an external application to block calls and sms ? After all, Oreo 8.0 has built-in blocking calls and sms in the system.
Oreo blocks sms and calls
Call Blocker is a alternative that works also and works well
No root needed
Sent from Samsung S7 Edge [Oreo]
I'm on the original nougat. If I need to update in order to get this to work, I will def consider it.
But call blocker apps that rely on my contact list don't work because when a call from a contact comes in, the apps always think it is not a contact. So everything gets blocked.
I use call blacklist pro and if the call comes through, you can block it using the calls log.
There are call blocking features in the phone app already. Not good enough?