Call reject direction & blocked calls ringing through

[Android Central Question]

Hi there,

I have a Note 9 through Sprint and I have two issues I am trying to get figured out.

1.) I have my phone set to block all calls except my contacts. It works but when I am on a call with someone, a blocked number does ring through and I can hear the incoming call beeps during the conversation. Highly annoying. Can this be fixed somehow?

2.) Are you able to turn off the call reject to redirect calls to voicemail or am I just stuck with them able to leave a voicemail?

Thanks in advance to any help that may come my way.

 

[mkaze]

Sorry, thought I was logged in! That question is from me

 

[Javier P]

Sorry, thought I was logged in! That question is from me

No worries. I moved your thread to the Note 9 forum for better visibility.

 

[mustang7757]

Might want to set Do Not Disturb see if it works out.

 

[mkaze]

Might want to set Do Not Disturb see if it works out.

I should have mentioned the Do Not Disturb. I tried it and they are still able to ring through when on a call. :/

 

[mustang7757]

I should have mentioned the Do Not Disturb. I tried it and they are still able to ring through when on a call. :/

Wow that's 2 strikes lol
Maybe talk to your carrier if they have option to block everyone but your contacts.

 

[mkaze]

LOL yeah, I know, huh? I guess that is an option. Was really trying to avoid that

 

[mustang7757]

LOL yeah, I know, huh? I guess that is an option. Was really trying to avoid that

Yeah, crazy have that block Feature and dont work

 

[VidJunky]

I guess the question is how many callers are we talking about? I mean for some of your post it almost sounds like one person and if it is only or mainly this one person you could try creating a contact for them and blocking it. I think they might still go to VM because that is a carrier thing and not really controlled on your phone.


If you truly want to cut everyone off except your contacts you might try Google Voice. It has some pretty nice features and it replaces your VM service with your carrier. So all of the things you would need to call your carrier about, little things you want to turn on or off are all at your control. Plus it offers you a block option that wouldn't allow them to go to VM. Of course you have to receive at least one call from them first so they show up in your history but after that it's block city. Plus Voice uses your contacts, that I hope you are backing up somewhere, that are saved and backed up to your Google account to do things like personalized VM greetings, personalized greetings and not going to VM, VM to text (I'd say visual voicemail but I'm pretty sure that is copywritten and I can't afford to get sued), it offers you a Google phone number that you can give out instead of your real personal number and that comes with a bunch of features and options, just to name a few things it can do. Will it stop the online beeping, I can't rightly say, it might, but if it doesn't at least it will stop calls from going to VM if you have to put up with the beeping anyway.

On a side note, if this is more than one person I don't think your carrier can block calls just because they aren't in your contacts. You can't just go to them with a list and say only these people can call me. You'd have to be a bit more specific than that I'm afraid. I'm really surprised that the parental controls don't work better than what you describe. I've had several friends use them to block their kids from calling or getting calls from anyone not in their contacts and to think it is so easily defeated by just being on the phone with someone. Hmm who would have thought.

 

[pizza_pablo]

I have been using Google Voice for a while and really like it, but didn't know of some of its features, outlined by @vidjunkie. Thanks, for the tips!

I also didn't know that 'visual voicemail' is copy-writed. \_0_/

 

[VidJunky]

I have been using Google Voice for a while and really like it, but didn't know of some of its features, outlined by @vidjunkie. Thanks, for the tips!

I also didn't know that 'visual voicemail' is copy-writed. \_0_/

I'm just not taking chances. Big Red spies almost as much as Google. LOL.

I hope the tips help you out. A lot of it you have to do from a PC, the personalized greetings and blocking people from VM stuff like that. For the greetings it will call you and have you record the greetings. I was getting calls from an organization that wouldn't accept that I give at work for an answer so I created a contact for them and personalized greeting (saying I give at work) and blocked them from VM. They may still be calling me to this day, I don't know because I don't get anything. The Spam feature is nice too, one call, text or VM from any weirdo and you can mark them as spam right from the app. Go online and look around at some of the options because the app barely scrapes the tip of what Voice has to offer.