Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: VanguardLH Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: originator whitelist? Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 13:09:24 -0500 Organization: Usenet Elder Lines: 55 Sender: V@nguard.LH Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net s4sPJxuvY2UrSof7bke3eAa2ybxWgHeCWTBIVwLqYQpqxXeM00 Keywords: VanguardLH,VLH Cancel-Lock: sha1:oAcl69cwjWDzXlFFHVxY4lWCB3g= sha256:sN6uF7d7Sf4bCe6qhDVP7cZ20qXyq8Iail7D32m3dL8= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.41 Bytes: 3525 bad sector wrote: > is there a way to build a white-list of phone numbers and have calls > from any other number silently dropped? Set a global ringtone (the default one). Could be a silent ringtone, or one that is much more quiet to eliminate jarring you from whatever you're current doing. Then, in each contact, assign the ringtone you want for that contact. I have a global and quiet ringtone for all calls. For contacts, I have all of them assigned to a much louder ringtone, except for a couple for emergency use that play the very loud siren ringtone. You could have different ringtones for different contacts, but I generally just use a louder ringtone for all my contacts. Tis a bitch, though, having to edit every contact to change the ringtone. Luckily, I only have about 20 contacts. I don't put everyone that has called me into my contacts list. Does "dropped" mean you want the call rejected, or just not interrupt you with a ringtone (which then has the caller hangup or go to voicemail)? My bank and pharmacy, for example, are not in my contacts list, but I do want their calls should they leave voicemail. My doctor calls are from an everchanging list of numbers at the hospital or clinic, and I'm not listing everyone of them (which I wouldn't know, anyway, until after getting a call from all of their numbers). Richmond mentioned using exceptions in the DND feature. My old Android 8 phone doesn't let me list specific exclusions. Its choices for call DND priorities are: Calls from: - No one. - Everyone. - Contacts. - Favorites. Mine is set to Contacts. However, I don't use DND to filter out calls by the caller. I only use it to schedule when DND is active, like when I'm sleeping. So, the DND Mode is "Priority only" which means only my contacts can wake me with a call. Luckily my contacts rarely (maybe never) call me while I'm sleeping since they're probably sleeping, too. As I recall, DND does not reject incoming calls. It simply doesn't have your phone make noise: no ringtone, no vibrate. The caller hears the rings until the voicemail service picks up the call whereupon the call can decide to hang up or leave a message. If they leave a message, you should get a notification about a new voicemail. There are times outside of sleeping hours when I do want to know I got a call from a non-contact caller, especially if I'm waiting for the call. So, instead of ignoring non-contact callers to push them to voicemail, I simply use a soft ringtone with no vibrate (the global defaults) for non-contact callers. For my contacts, I configure their contact records to use a louder ringtone. But the DND feature is another possibility.