Develop Bugs

Conference Calls Issue

I am able to make conference calls only when I dial out both the numbers.
1. I dial the first number
2. Go to menu click 'Add Call' and call the other number
3. Merge the two
Is it not possible to put someone who is calling me on conference if I am already on a call?
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I looked around, and actually did not see anyone speaking of being able to do that. They all referenced you having to call both lines.

Thanks for the reply. I read somewhere else stating it aint possible coz of the way CDMA works.
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Block My Caller Id

This is my first Andoird, I'm coming from a Blackberry Curve. On the Blackberry I had an option to block my caller id when I make calls. Is there an app or setting for the Evo that can do this for me?
The reason I'm asking is I'm on call for work one week a month, and when I'm on call I take about 300 after hours calls a week and I don't want customers getting my cell phone number. And I really don't want to dial *67 before each call.
I did some searching and wasn't able to find anything. I checked the market and found a prefix dialer, but going off the description and the reviews it didn't look like anything I wanted.
I am rooted and running Baked Snack 9.7.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Maybe get a google voice number? It will allow calls to show your google voice number or a random number, you can enable and disable it as needed. I don't have one personally but i do know a few people that do. Might be a pain in the butt for you though.

Google voice is your best option. No pain either. You get an extra new number and when you dial out gv will ask what number you want to use.
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yea google voice is the awesome !!!!

Either google voice or you could call customer service and ask them to turn on block caller id for your phone number so it will block all the time. I don't know if they do that now but years ago I did that with sprint. I would say google voice is the best bet. It's kinda confusing at first but just keep reading and googling. I'm only using it for voicemail. You could, if you are lucky, choose/search for the same number you have now, just with a different area code. You better check your plan and talk to customer service to make sure you don't get charged for conditional or unconditional call forwarding. The kitchen sink plan, don't worry about it. Lesser plans might charge for full call forwarding and not conditional (your phone rings, and if you don't answer, it will forward to gv. I could go on and on explaining this...
Verify with your plan, and the fine print, if you are charged for any type of call forwarding or if goes against your monthly allotment of minutes. Make sure before you do this so you won't get hit with surprise charges.
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Thanks for the information. I just setup a Google Voice account. It's not quite what I'm looking for beacuse customers will still get a number to call me on, but at least now when I answer it'll ask me if I want to accept or decline the call when it goes through Google. That way I'll have an idea how's calling me. And my plan should be fine. Due to the number of calls I take they have me on an unlimited plan.
Thanks again.

You can disable the number when needed by setting it to do not disturb.

Yeah but you can have it so it displays the google voice number instead of your real number if you call someone. I don't know how your work sets it up but maybe they could, if they're call forwarding to your phone, have them call forward to your google voice number instead. That way you might be able to take advantage off all the bells and whistles gv offers. Like say, monitoring someone leaving you a voicemail and you decide if you wanna talk to them. Kinda like if you had a physical answering machine at your house, idea.
Wrong word choice and misspelling courtesy of swype.

There's a lot of stuff that can be done if you can get them to call the gv number instead of your real number.
I hate it when customers get my personal number and call when they have a complaint. Speaking of which, I need to see if I can change my settings so that my outgoing caller id shows my google number instead of my personal one.
Wrong word choice and misspelling courtesy of swype.

The "do not disturb" option is just what I was looking for. Thanks again.

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[Q] No call waiting with google voicemail?

Is anyone else having issues with call waiting not working when using google voicemail? I like the features of google voice but this is a deal breaker. I noticed that the call waiting feature is not working at all on my sprint # and every time it is going directly to voicemail, I assume this has to be because of google voice is configured to be my default voicemail?
Is there any solution to this problem besides going back to sprint vvm?

So all the people who are using google vm are fine with losing call waiting? And CM recommends google vm and boasts how it is far superior to to sprint voicemail even though we lose a major feature like this?
I find that all very hard to believe, there has got to be a solution someone must know! I've searched everywhere and can't find anything.

I use GVoice and love it, and I have no issues with call waiting.
I did have a ton of problems with GVoice when I first started using it. After a ton of reading and trial-and-error on setting things up different ways over and over I finally realized Sprint's voicemail service was conflicting with GVoice.
I called Sprint and actually had them completely remove their voicemail service from my account. I can add it back anytime I want. I have had zero issues with GVoice since then. YMMV

GV works fine for me. i get my voice mails transcribed, call waiting works, and if you install the app, you get a nice little toggle link for how you want your outbound calls routed.
win.

nebenezer said:
I use GVoice and love it, and I have no issues with call waiting.
I did have a ton of problems with GVoice when I first started using it. After a ton of reading and trial-and-error on setting things up different ways over and over I finally realized Sprint's voicemail service was conflicting with GVoice.
I called Sprint and actually had them completely remove their voicemail service from my account. I can add it back anytime I want. I have had zero issues with GVoice since then. YMMV
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Thanks, I'll give that a try!

nenn said:
GV works fine for me. i get my voice mails transcribed, call waiting works, and if you install the app, you get a nice little toggle link for how you want your outbound calls routed.
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Yea I'm getting all those features as well, like I said everything works great except call waiting. But I'm gonna try nebenezer's suggestion and hope for the best.

You know what else doesn't work with Google Voice is "Decline" because if you decline a call it goes straight to Sprint Voicemail. The call never gets forwarded. Deal breaker for me.

zone23 said:
You know what else doesn't work with Google Voice is "Decline" because if you decline a call it goes straight to Sprint Voicemail. The call never gets forwarded. Deal breaker for me.
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hmm, I didn't realize that.
One thing that does bug me too is that caller-id-blocked numbers don't make it to GVoice either.
My work line shows as 000-000-0000 on caller id. I have tested this on a wide variety of phones and gvoice settings and never have I been able to leave myself a vm from my work line.

zone23 said:
You know what else doesn't work with Google Voice is "Decline" because if you decline a call it goes straight to Sprint Voicemail. The call never gets forwarded. Deal breaker for me.
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Well that sucks, back to Sprint VVM for me then.
Hopefully this is something that Google can even fix and isn't a limitation due to Sprint's network or hardware in some way.

Sabres420 said:
Well that sucks, back to Sprint VVM for me then.
Hopefully this is something that Google can even fix and isn't a limitation due to Sprint's network or hardware in some way.
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FWIW, I just tested this a couple times with a friend at work, no problems here. Maybe that was another conflict with Sprint's voicemail service?
He called my phone from his, I declined the call, he left a voicemail..

If you want to make sure that voice mails go to google voice, turn on Call Screening. That way if you don't answer, decline or you miss the call, you google voice picks up the message. You may get a voicemail message in your sprint voicemail box, but it will only have the message "press 1 if you want to accept this call"
So with this method you don't have to forward calls at all.
Let me know if this helps anyone.

Google Call Screening

I have always owned the Google line of phones. Until my recent purchase of the s20 ultra. Is it possible to get Google's Call Screening to work on this device? And if so how?

Get a Google Voice number and activate call screening. Alternatively you can redirect all your calls to the GV number and use your actual number for outgoing calls. Same experience, zero friction.

cizake said:
Get a Google Voice number and activate call screening. Alternatively you can redirect all your calls to the GV number and use your actual number for outgoing calls. Same experience, zero friction.
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That can work, but I don't want or need for all my calls to be redirected. I just want Call Screening from the Dialer. I used it all the time on my P3. I read Google was rolling it out to a few devices other than theirs. I just wondered if Rooting the phone would allow and app with the screening to work. I'll have to talk to my brother who works for Google and see if there is any other possibilities. Its gonna take awhile to get used to a Galaxy over stock android though.

Question OP 9pro on Verizon - caller ID

My caller ID is not working for any calls not on my contact list. This was not the case on the Pixel 3XL I came from. I have added a secondary caller ID app called Hiya which shows me there IS caller information coming across, but the Google dialer is only showing a phone number.
Anyone else with this? Is it normal on OP? Is there a fix?

SGT said:
My caller ID is not working for any calls not on my contact list. This was not the case on the Pixel 3XL I came from. I have added a secondary caller ID app called Hiya which shows me there IS caller information coming across, but the Google dialer is only showing a phone number.
Anyone else with this? Is it normal on OP? Is there a fix?
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I have not experienced this issue. In the Google dialer app you can turn this feature on if I recall correctly.

bulletbling said:
I have not experienced this issue. In the Google dialer app you can turn this feature on if I recall correctly.
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You can.
Guess I should have mentioned I have the settings turned on.
I've reset connections, reset network settings, even wiped the phone a few times installing with zero backups. Hasn't changed anything.

While I'm moderately happy with the phone, this is still an issue.
Anyone have suggestions?

You need to call Verizon and tell them your issue.. they need to fix it on their end

I have a pretty hard time believing this is on the Verizon end when different apps will get the information.
The caller information is making it TO the phone, as evident in different apps, but the Google dialer is not broadcasting the info.
After spending countless hours with Verizon just to get this phone working on their network, I probably shouldn't doubt you. It's just a rabbit hole I don't think I can go down...trying to get to a customer support reps who actually knows how to fix things and not read candid answers off a checklist in front of them is pretty rough.

SGT said:
I have a pretty hard time believing this is on the Verizon end when different apps will get the information.
The caller information is making it TO the phone, as evident in different apps, but the Google dialer is not broadcasting the info.
After spending countless hours with Verizon just to get this phone working on their network, I probably shouldn't doubt you. It's just a rabbit hole I don't think I can go down...trying to get to a customer support reps who actually knows how to fix things and not read candid answers off a checklist in front of them is pretty rough.
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I had to do the same thing with Verizon first I couldn't receive messages and I had to get them to make the phone cdma-less on their end .. then after I got the messages to work my caller id didn't work ...I was lucky and got someone who actually knew what they were talking about and the caller id issue was fixed after the call

Djseelove said:
I had to do the same thing with Verizon first I couldn't receive messages and I had to get them to make the phone cdma-less on their end .. then after I got the messages to work my caller id didn't work ...I was lucky and got someone who actually knew what they were talking about and the caller id issue was fixed after the call
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Thanks for the clarification...pretty much the same steps I've gone through minus the last.
Guess I'll sucker up and try to call them.

SGT said:
Thanks for the clarification...pretty much the same steps I've gone through minus the last.
Guess I'll sucker up and try to call them.
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Definitely an issue on VZW side. I've seen reports about this around. I'm on T-Mobile, so it's pretty much enabled by default across all the phones my family has... Including an iPhone.