I really like samsungs phone/dialer app. I know you can't use it on a pixel phone but is there any other apps or modules that are somewhat similar?
The thing I like about the samsung phone app is that in the call log history I'm able to see all missed/incoming/received calls AND all incoming and outgoing texts as well. The stock android app is pretty terrible with 0 customizability and other apps in the play store is very buggy or just isn't as good.
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Hello all, do any of you know at least one app that is similar in functionality to iPhone's Mobile Log or iSmart Dialer??
I went from iphone to android and this are the only to apps I really miss, mostly because of their simplicity and the fact that they did exactly what I needed, nothing more nothing less and with no complications.
Mobile Log is a replacement for the recent call history and can hold up to 200 individual calls and as far as I can tell an infinite amount of calls for one number or contact, it also shows the number of the contact from recent and groups all the calls you make to one contact in a single row.
iSmart Dialer is an app that could integrate with in the keypad of the iphone and you could call people from there using the smart dial option. i guess i could live without this as ICS has a search option in every tab of the call application but I could really use an app like Mobile Log.
PS: So far I have tried several call log apps but none of them have what it takes, the best one I found was ToucPad Dialer but it has some issues with ICS(I presume it's not fully supported yet).
I also tried Call Log Manager Pro but this one is bad not to mention that most apps have the tabs at the top of the screen and GN has a rather log screen so it's difficult to reach them.
I would appreciate if someone could tell me at least one app that is similar to Mobile Log and iSmart Dialer
I can use my A100 perfectly fine with Sipdroid and my google voice account, however the problem is more or less a convenience issue. Sipdroid doesn't have a good way to view your contacts like in an address book, and it also doesn't dial from the "People" app when you try to place a call using sipdroid. I have had other android devices that the contacts(now People) will allow you to call a person from the internal dialer or a 3rd party one and it automatically forwards the call to sipdroid accordingly. I installed the Dialer One app hoping that it would solve the issue on my A100, and that is when I found out that it didn't work at all with it. I get a message saying "Telephony feature is unavailable on this device" I have had other tablets without telephony capabilities that this app has worked with. I am wondering if there is a simple mod I can do to trick the app into thinking it does have telephony capabilities, or if there is some way I could recompile cm9 to include any missing libraries, system files, apks, etc.. such as the internal dialer. If anyone has got Dialer One to work for them with SipDroid +GV or if you know of an app that works like the default dialer app (that we don't have) then please let me know. I appreciate the help. If I can get this figured out I'll make an attempt at providing a custom ROM with the dialer and telephony features enabled just for people who wish to use Google Voice calling with their tablet. If it is as simple as a build.prop edit then I will add that to my custom build.prop in my thread at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1799148
**Edit: I think I found a solution to get SipDroid to place calls when calling from "People(contacts)" I was looking into the process that takes place when a call is initiated and I seen that we have a Phone.apk in our a100 roms, but the process is nullified so nothing ever takes place when something triggers it.
I had the idea, well what devices that are tegra2 based have ICS and allow phone/voice calling? Motorola Atrix 4g does.. So let me find the Motorola Atrix 4G Phone.apk and replace the one I have in /system/app/ with it. Lo and Behold I can now make calls directly from my contacts!! This fixed it, partially.. What still doesn't work? Dialer One still gives the same error - "Telephony feature is unavailable on this device", but now I don't really need Dialer One anyway since I can just use the builtin contacts through the People app. Another thing thats not really desired, once you make a call you will get a blank window for the Phone app at the bottom of your "history" list (button beside the home on the launcher) I will try to figure out a way to get rid of this annoyance and prevent history from ever showing the Phone app.
If you want to try it your self, here is what to do (you must be root):
If you have Android ICS 4.0.3 or newer Download the Motorola Atrix 4G Phone.apk here. **If you are using HC then you will need the Phone.apk from a Tegra2 device that runs HoneyComb 3.x**
Mount /system writeable
Move the file /system/app/Phone.apk to /system/app/Phone.apk.bak
Put the downloaded Phone.apk in /system/app
Touch the phone number for a contact in your "People" app
Choose to call with SipDroid (or other app in list that accepts the dial function)
Watch the call take place (you may want to try dialing someone you know you isn't going to answer the phone or wonder what you are doing haha)
**Please note that this does not enable the "Call/Dial" app to show up in your applications, it simply allows calls to be passed to a Sip dialer such as SipDroid**
I just got an A100 the other day and installed Talkatone. I thought that it integrated with People like it does on my android phone. After reading your post, I tried it out. Talkatone has the "phone intercept" options but nothing happens when you click on a number in People. However, if you have the "intercept sms" option in Talkatone enabled, clicking on a number in People will start Talkatone for sms. Looks like it is dependent on the phone.apk.
However, for Talkatone, you don't really need the People app. Talkatone displays your "people" in the Contacts tab so it is easy to dial out directly from the app. Overall Talkatone works pretty good with Google Voice on the A100, both sending and receiving calls.
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I just got an A100 the other day and installed Talkatone. I thought that it integrated with People like it does on my android phone. After reading your post, I tried it out. Talkatone has the "phone intercept" options but nothing happens when you click on a number in People. However, if you have the "intercept sms" option in Talkatone enabled, clicking on a number in People will start Talkatone for sms. Looks like it is dependent on the phone.apk.
However, for Talkatone, you don't really need the People app. Talkatone displays your "people" in the Contacts tab so it is easy to dial out directly from the app. Overall Talkatone works pretty good with Google Voice on the A100, both sending and receiving calls.
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Thanks for the tips, i will check out talkatone, but for now the "People" app works great the way it is suppose to. its always nice to try something different though too! +1
**Edit: I installed talkatone, it works wonderfully well with the Atrix Phone.apk, when you are in the People app, when you click a number to dial, it will prompt you for what you want to use to complete the action, first pick Call(Phone), don't pick Talkatone or SipDroid, then it will prompt you again to complete the action using either Call (Phone) or Talkatone- it should immediately bring up the Talkatone dialer and begin the call. To eliminate these steps, just set the check box to always use the methods on both prompts. First prompt just choose Call/Phone.apk - Second Prompt choose Talkatone. Now when you click a number in People in will automatically call in Talkatone ** Thanks notjustafone for the recommendation of Talkatone!!
In leu of the newly released Hangouts app with Google Voice integration and Hangouts Dialer release, I downloaded and tried out the new Hangouts Dialer just now. It's awesome! However, I'm noticing that if someone calls my standard number or my Google Voice number the stock LG dialer intercepts the call and makes me answer it through the stock interface.
So now I want to permanently disable the stock LG dialer apps safely. I used Titanium Backup to freeze the "Answer Me" app but the calls still come through the stock dialer. Anyone know what else is required to freeze/uninstall to get this to go away?
EDIT 1:
I partially figured it out. In order to freeze the stock dialer app from intercepting calls to your Google Voice number, freeze the following 3 apps...
Answer Me 2.0.0
Phone 4.8.24 (VOICEMAIL)
Phone/Messaging Storage 3.5.16 (SMS/MMS/APN)
This solves the issue for your Google Voice number or if you've forwarded your standard number to your Google Voice number. However, if you don't have your standard number forwarded to your Google Voice number, calls to your standard number will still come through the stock dialer for some reason...
EDIT 2:
I also noticed that if you click on a phone number in the phone's browser (Chrome in my case) or Google Maps, it still opens the phone number in the LG dialer app, even though the app is disabled. So to make a call in Hangouts you need to copy the number then paste it into the Google Dialer. This obviously isn't a great solution by any means. Hopefully we can figure out a way to make the Hangouts dialer act as the stock dialer across everything within the phone.
Oh and info on the new releases:
New Hangouts:
http://lifehacker.com/google-voice-integration-finally-arrives-in-hangouts-1632900742
New Dialer:
http://lifehacker.com/google-launches-hangouts-dialer-gives-free-phone-calls-1632978798/all
sn0warmy said:
In leu of the newly released Hangouts app with Google Voice integration and Hangouts Dialer release, I downloaded and tried out the new Hangouts Dialer just now. It's awesome! However, I'm noticing that if someone calls my standard number or my Google Voice number the stock LG dialer intercepts the call and makes me answer it through the stock interface.
So now I want to permanently disable the stock LG dialer apps safely. I used Titanium Backup to freeze the "Answer Me" app but the calls still come through the stock dialer. Anyone know what else is required to freeze/uninstall to get this to go away?
EDIT 1:
I partially figured it out. In order to freeze the stock dialer app from intercepting calls to your Google Voice number, freeze the following 3 apps...
Answer Me 2.0.0
Phone 4.8.24 (VOICEMAIL)
Phone/Messaging Storage 3.5.16 (SMS/MMS/APN)
This solves the issue for your Google Voice number or if you've forwarded your standard number to your Google Voice number. However, if you don't have your standard number forwarded to your Google Voice number, calls to your standard number will still come through the stock dialer for some reason...
EDIT 2:
I also noticed that if you click on a phone number in the phone's browser (Chrome in my case) or Google Maps, it still opens the phone number in the LG dialer app, even though the app is disabled. So to make a call in Hangouts you need to copy the number then paste it into the Google Dialer. This obviously isn't a great solution by any means. Hopefully we can figure out a way to make the Hangouts dialer act as the stock dialer across everything within the phone.
Oh and info on the new releases:
New Hangouts:
http://lifehacker.com/google-voice-integration-finally-arrives-in-hangouts-1632900742
New Dialer:
http://lifehacker.com/google-launches-hangouts-dialer-gives-free-phone-calls-1632978798/all
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Geez, seems you wouldnt have to go through all this
antawnm26 said:
Geez, seems you wouldnt have to go through all this
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Yeah, it's obnoxious. It's got me missing the AOSP ROMs on my Nexus phones. With AOSP you can just set the Hangouts Dialr as the default phone app and call it a day.
My understanding is if you stop forwarding your number to your cell phone on the Google voice website, it will stop ringing your cell number and the only ring will be Hangouts. You may find you also need to remove the now largely uneeded google voice ap, it conflicts with hangouts... NOTE: if you do this, you will not receive GV calls if you do not have a good data connection. You also wan't dial out on GV if you don't have a data connection. Since they aren't going to your cell number anymore.
I Just installed Google Hangouts Dialer to make free VOIP calls on my home wifi. Unfortunately, everyone I call sounds like their voice is slowed down 10x! My girlfriend sounds like a dying old man :crying:
Is anyone else having this problem? A google search shows that people are using Google Search app and Google Now settings to change this, and I have downloaded these apps and changed their settings to no avail.
xob3444 said:
I Just installed Google Hangouts Dialer to make free VOIP calls on my home wifi. Unfortunately, everyone I call sounds like their voice is slowed down 10x! My girlfriend sounds like a dying old man :crying:
Is anyone else having this problem? A google search shows that people are using Google Search app and Google Now settings to change this, and I have downloaded these apps and changed their settings to no avail.
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knew bug, you can use tinyalsa driver, but it would break calling.
I just bought an LG G4 (on Sprint). Google Voice is not an option as the default messaging app (you must choose between Hangouts and the standard messaging app). I have tried a number of suggested tricks to make it work but it appears if I want to use Google Voice, I must also use Hangouts.
I just want to use Google Voice. Short of rooting my phone, is there any way to make Google Voice my default messaging app?
Hangouts is Google's replacement for Google Voice. I had to transition to it from Voice a while back and couldn't imagine using Voice again. I don't believe you can set Voice as your messaging app unfortunately. I now use Hangouts on all of my devices, disable the phone's phone app entirely and solely use my Google Voice number along with Hangouts & Hangouts Dialer for all my SMS / Messaging / VideoCalls / VoiceCalls and can continue my conversations on my other devices. It's nice once you've gotten used to it.
CJ-Wylde said:
Hangouts is Google's replacement for Google Voice. I had to transition to it from Voice a while back and couldn't imagine using Voice again. I don't believe you can set Voice as your messaging app unfortunately. I now use Hangouts on all of my devices, disable the phone's phone app entirely and solely use my Google Voice number along with Hangouts & Hangouts Dialer for all my SMS / Messaging / VideoCalls / VoiceCalls and can continue my conversations on my other devices. It's nice once you've gotten used to it.
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Thanks. I think I just have to make the adjustment.
Yeah, it took me a bit as well. Change is rough sometimes, but in the end I think using one app that I can access freely on all of my devices has really made me more efficient. I'm rooted and have actually disabled my phone's phone / contacts apps and solely use Hangouts + Google's AOSP Contacts app for incoming / outgoing / messaging, etc... Nobody even knows my cell number, since I don't use it, only use my Google Voice number. It's working out quite nicely now.