3 Jul
2015
3 Jul
'15
8:39 p.m.
my phone only rings about 3 times before diverting to voicemail,
so if (as is usual) my phone is in another room plugged in to the
charger, it gets diverted to voicemail just as i'm picking it up to
answer it. this is very annoying.
anyone know of an android app that works like an old fashioned
land-line answering machine, i.e.
1. answers the call after X rings
2. plays a short message, that I can record like "leave a message after
the beep"
3. starts recording, saving to sdcard AND playing on the phone's speaker
and, most importantly:
4. allows me to pick up the call during the recording. i don't really
care if it continues to record the conversation from this point or
not.
a search on the google play store for 'call screening' or 'answering
machine' just gets a shitload of garbage.
craig
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craig sanders <cas(a)taz.net.au>
3 Jul
3 Jul
10:06 p.m.
On 3 July 2015 at 20:39, Craig Sanders <cas(a)taz.net.au> wrote:
my phone only rings about 3 times before diverting to
voicemail,
so if (as is usual) my phone is in another room plugged in to the
charger, it gets diverted to voicemail just as i'm picking it up to
answer it. this is very annoying.
No idea about the app, but if you're using your phone providers voicemail
facility, you can normally change the number of rings/seconds before
diverting to voicemail - see this Wikipedia article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_forwarding#Mobile_.28cell.29_phones
I am on Telstra, and I can change the diversion time to 30secs by doing
**61*101**30#
4 Jul
4 Jul
12:59 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 10:06:13PM +1000, Sean Crosby wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_forwarding#Mobile_.28cell.29_phones
I am on Telstra, and I can change the diversion time to 30secs by doing
**61*101**30#
thanks, i'll try this. i've got an iinet mobile, so that would
be:
**61*321**30#
BTW, iinet's help page mentions both their web-based toolkit and **61*
as methods to change the diversion number, but neglect to mention any
method of changing the number of rings / diversion time:
https://iihelp.iinet.net.au/Mobile_Voice_-_Features#toc_5
craig
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craig sanders <cas(a)taz.net.au>
1:26 p.m.
On 4 July 2015 12:59:31 pm AEST, Craig Sanders <cas(a)taz.net.au> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 10:06:13PM +1000, Sean Crosby
wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_forwarding#Mobile_.28cell.29_phones
They give that method at the bottom of this page
https://iihelp.iinet.net.au/support/node/4895
I needed to do the same a little while ago.
Nic
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Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
I am on Telstra, and I can change the diversion time to 30secs by
doing
**61*101**30#
thanks, i'll try this. i've got an iinet mobile, so that would
be:
**61*321**30#
BTW, iinet's help page mentions both their web-based toolkit and **61*
as methods to change the diversion number, but neglect to mention any
method of changing the number of rings / diversion time:
https://iihelp.iinet.net.au/Mobile_Voice_-_Features#toc_5
craig 
6 Jul
6 Jul
11:21 a.m.
Sean Crosby wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_forwarding#Mobile_.28cell.29_phones
I am on Telstra, and I can change the diversion time to 30secs by doing
**61*101**30#
OOC, do you issue this as an AT command, or what?
The cellphones I've seen lately require you to type the number *then* hit dial,
--- do you just type in the above sequence and then "call" the command?
11:55 a.m.
On 6 July 2015 at 11:21, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sean Crosby wrote:
Yes, just type in the above sequence then hit the call button. I had to
do this recently on my new Galaxy S6 that work has supplied.
You get an on screen message saying "MMI code started" followed by "Call
forwarding when no reply Registration was successful".
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Colin Fee
tfeccles(a)gmail.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_forwarding#Mobile_.28cell.29_phones
I am on Telstra, and I can change the diversion time to 30secs by doing
**61*101**30#
OOC, do you issue this as an AT command, or what?
The cellphones I've seen lately require you to type the number *then* hit
dial,
--- do you just type in the above sequence and then "call" the command?
4 Jul
4 Jul
8:59 a.m.
Craig Sanders wrote:
my phone only rings about 3 times before diverting to
voicemail,
so if (as is usual) my phone is in another room plugged in to the
charger, it gets diverted to voicemail just as i'm picking it up to
answer it. this is very annoying.
anyone know of an android app that works like an old fashioned
land-line answering machine, i.e.
1. answers the call after X rings
2. plays a short message, that I can record like "leave a message after
the beep"
3. starts recording, saving to sdcard AND playing on the phone's speaker
and, most importantly:
4. allows me to pick up the call during the recording. i don't really
care if it continues to record the conversation from this point or
not.
a search on the google play store for 'call screening' or 'answering
machine' just gets a shitload of garbage.
craig
Well one could ask why is such technology (an answering machine) not
built into the hard ware;
answer : because voicemail is a nice little earner, which suggests that
mobile phones will not be designed to allow,
the easy implementation of 'an answering-machine app'
further rant/ 'rational- producer/ retailers are interested in selling
rational-consumers;
what they have to sell, not what rational-consumers
want,
as that requires market research' /end further rant
regards Rohan McLeod
8 Jul
8 Jul
11:49 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 08:39:54PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
my phone only rings about 3 times before diverting to
voicemail,
so if (as is usual) my phone is in another room plugged in to the
charger, it gets diverted to voicemail just as i'm picking it up to
answer it. this is very annoying.
anyone know of an android app that works like an old fashioned
land-line answering machine, i.e.
FWIW Sony Xperia devices ship with an answering machine on the phone.
I haven't tried it out.
Sony adds some nice features to their android - I use most of them -
location based wifi, power saving modes, ... just I don't use my phone
as a phone very much, so haven't tried the answering machine :)
cheers,
robin
1. answers the call after X rings
2. plays a short message, that I can record like "leave a message after
the beep"
3. starts recording, saving to sdcard AND playing on the phone's speaker
and, most importantly:
4. allows me to pick up the call during the recording. i don't really
care if it continues to record the conversation from this point or
not.
a search on the google play store for 'call screening' or 'answering
machine' just gets a shitload of garbage.
craig
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