Help, Google: Why do blocked numbers on my Android phones come back to haunt me?
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androidauthority.comPosted Apr 6, 2023, 3:53 PM UTC
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I came up with my own solution years ago which pretty much was to deal with this issue. I created a contact called Zblacklist with it set to send all calls to voicemail. Every time I got a spam call I'd just add them to that contact. One way to get around the problem mentioned here, but additionally, as the article suggests, just make it work Google.
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Just set it to auto block all calls if the number is not in your contacts. Done. Takes 5 seconds.
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Just remember to turn that off, if you are the contact of a friend/family getting outpatient surgery done. Learned that the hard way
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It's because each phone on a person's desk has a different number. For hospitals/large clinics it's the same first 3 digits but different last 4 digits for each phone.
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Yep. Or anything out of the ordinary, really. I'm on the other side of things and have to contact people for things and frequently people send my call to VM despite them having contacted us previously for something or other and they are waiting for a callback.
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Job interview too!
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If you have dependents this becomes near impossible. School, Dr office, etc call from a billion different numbers. Can't have everyone in contact lists
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Exactly. And not only that. I moved to another country a year and a half ago. I learned the hard way that Google dialer blocks calls without even notifying me.
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Do you never get inportant calls from new numbers?
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This is Reddit. Most commenters probably live in a basement and have no real life friends.
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Android fanboys coming up with the weirdest solutions instead of accepting that there’s a problem
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My blocked numbers carried over, so not sure what this article is going on about.
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That's really, really dumb.
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Maybe for you....
Quite practical if you only get calls from set people.
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That would be fine if Google's block filters were not so aggressive. It's pretty much all or nothing, and you can't even adjust this. Other OEMs like Samsung at least allow you to set a middle ground.
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I have it turned-on on my Samsung S20FE5G (I know it has it's own Samsung Dialer and not the Google Dialer) but the phone doesn't even block a single call from any unknown number, even if it's caller ID says it's a spam call
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Never has happened...
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