Google Phone App - Will Nexus 6 get the spam warning feature?

[stanley 39]

My wife and I both have Nexus 6 phones.  Hers is running stock M (updated with latest updates) and mind is running the lastest update of N.  Neither one seems to have gotten the updated phone app that includes the Spam warning feature.  Does anyone know if this will be coming to the N6?  Everything from Google just says nexus devices running version 6+.   I haven't been able to find much outside of google posts.  I figured that would be at least hers, if not mine on N.  Neither device is rooted.  Any thoughts are appreciated.

 

This is what I am referring to.

https://plus.google.com/+Nexus/posts/PLsxmDRUd4K

 

Edited August 18, 2016 by stanley

[RMarkwald 828]

Do you have the latest Google Dialer installed?

 

Google Dialer

[stanley 39]

Yeah, sorry, I just checked and its now there. Must have just installed in the last few days.  Sorry. You can delete this thread.  I had been waiting for it. I just got what I knew was a spam call and thought about asking.  Guess its not going to help much.  Sorry for the bad thread.

[HipKat 484]

Man just get TrueDialer and TrueCaller. They've HAD that, and more 

[iR1O 6,685]

I've noticed that Truecaller is just as worthless as Google's built in system since they always call from different numbers - it never KNOWS it's spam and never has flags since they use several different numbers every day.

The only true way to stop the BS calls would be to have a built in "block all calls not in contacts" setting. Which LG, Samsung, and Apple all have. It's just Google that doesn't include it.

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[HipKat 484]

Hate to disagree with you but this is my call log on Truedialer for the last few days.

 

 

[dBuster 1,064]

I've noticed that Truecaller is just as worthless as Google's built in system since they always call from different numbers - it never KNOWS it's spam and never has flags since they use several different numbers every day.

The only true way to stop the BS calls would be to have a built in "block all calls not in contacts" setting. Which LG, Samsung, and Apple all have. It's just Google that doesn't include it.

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How do you turn that on with the lg, block all calls not in contacts? I had to get a third party app to send calls to voicemail automatically after adding them to the list of callers to do it to... it is not native in her g4 any more since getting the recent updates to what Android m I think....

[iR1O 6,685]

I suppose I can't speak for the G4/5 as I only had the G3, but I'll look in the setting, I knew it was there - I'll find it again.

 

It would be weird/stupid for them to remove it, but again I'll get my G3 later today and get screenshots of how it was done.

 

EDIT - in the dialer, go to Settings > Call Rejection

 

Here you can select to block from list, and I created a list that was "starts with" and entered every number that wasn't an area code around me. So, I live in 515, I blocked everything starting with a 0-4 and 6-9, then 52, 53, 54, 55, etc... So that it would have to start with 51 in order for it to ring.

 

You could take it even further, but nah - and I was wrong, I thought it explicitly had that "not in contacts" ability, I could swear it did at a point, but I don't see that now.  I'm sorry for that.

[dBuster 1,064]

I suppose I can't speak for the G4/5 as I only had the G3, but I'll look in the setting, I knew it was there - I'll find it again.

 

It would be weird/stupid for them to remove it, but again I'll get my G3 later today and get screenshots of how it was done.

 

EDIT - in the dialer, go to Settings > Call Rejection

 

Here you can select to block from list, and I created a list that was "starts with" and entered every number that wasn't an area code around me. So, I live in 515, I blocked everything starting with a 0-4 and 6-9, then 52, 53, 54, 55, etc... So that it would have to start with 51 in order for it to ring.

 

You could take it even further, but nah - and I was wrong, I thought it explicitly had that "not in contacts" ability, I could swear it did at a point, but I don't see that now.  I'm sorry for that.

Ya on the G4 that "in the dialer, go to Settings > Call Rejection" isn't there on my wife's G4... She has the latest version on Android, would that control the dialer or would that be the LG software?

Also, I have seen things removed from newer Android versions that we there before so this wouldn't surprise me...

[iR1O 6,685]

Mine was in the dialer, hit the menu button, then call settings:

 

 

[HipKat 484]

I don't understand why you'd want to block calls that aren't in your contact list. Not ALL calls are spam. I'd never be able get a hold of a customer if everyone did this

[iR1O 6,685]

True, but in my case, I don't care if they are or aren't spam.  If your number isn't in my contacts, it goes to voicemail.  They can leave a VM, text me, whatever they want, but if I dont know the number I dont care who it is, I wont answer anyway.

 

I get 2-3 of these calls every day, have since 2009, and I've tried everything in my power to stop it.  I've filed thousands of complaints with the FCC, the Do Not Call list is a POS and doesnt help at all (theyre scammers, that list doesnt matter), and changing my number is next on my list, and is still a very likely option.

 

BUT - all this, every call Ive gotten, never had the same number call twice.  They spoof the number, and it's to a point where I take that "jerk" approach to it, If I dont know the number, I couldn't care less who it is, I'm not answering it.

 

Thats why that option is important to me, out of all calls I get only 1 per month is ever from a real person that called from a number I didn't know.  The rest are scams.

[iR1O 6,685]

Here's my recent calls, just as an example:

 

 

 

 

EDIT:

Here's a list of numbers theyve called me from - I started collecting these numbers in 2012 when I first got Google Voice.  

8884755228
2032953147
5159712761
8006992908
5153930680
8004929168
8666688047
5152296933
5153142578
3198614105
8188478509
8558363987
529848755000
2082275856
3128009070
3602090504
7035747643
4122751012
8595090604
8007937521
8008147017
8448095828
3082867997
7186447981
5046104584
6018869688
8505254036
3865667902
5152126589
5153935549
2124659832
7134490929
2096066824
2722226539
8154346568
8455753000
5092366589
6055469859
9403456885
2242027359
7287258139
5154783287
6674013913
6203098565
3603004578
8182908610
3178055945
5092519866
9136748956
9709442315
7122272512
2098583500
3194297522
5159719580
5159718101
7733707921
2283232331
8304602089
9545144433
2567557012
8133312414
8178769712
5155081716
6415211345
5153793106
5153935487
9204786525
9542527556
4698749866
5414326899
3042635785
6055426523
2034085689
2602289523
3174354477
3607978535
4079343821
4235549855
5092159866
8018765344
8704638589
9075816589
2196548687
4103641895
5129385698
2526859865
4136628519
5172958547
2128289550
7123006510
8016148645
8007168962
8472578327
4091234567
2534455956
2624445895
2692625287
4104437853
4233968787
5713640138
6086499614
9284768855
2712685767
2082001278
7409375569
2106457240
3347980784
5412196585
2142257458
2254885652
2392127654
2485495585
2537949764
2142004546
4359765686
4402504547
2034276978
2254174540
2404375479
4014907470
4068389570
4132078582
4358774231
4793073155
6058652870
6199137567
7145250555
7185146814
8597400817
9165550077
9246185247
3865902223
4406359657
3215821352
2074614570
9286384527
4088192688
4079352354
8706790527
2082430999
5612708057
9493463782
2135146982
2059946665
7015941159
5159712564
5128593827
5154148816
3193822146
8018397900
6245
3199710652
6107434769
3199710648
9797163252
6032498767
8042509647

[stanley 39]

I agree, I'd love a block numbers not in contacts feature. I currently have to just ignore them.

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[dBuster 1,064]

Oh boy I can't even get NFC to transfer files from her phone now that she had the last update and I even had to uninstall Android pay in order to try to NFC beam... What a joke.

Any how, here are her screen shots showing her options from the dialer

This shows her Android version

[iR1O 6,685]

Got to call restrictions, should be in there.

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[HipKat 484]

With TrueCaller/Dialer you can mark it as spam, add it to the data base and black list it in 2 clicks. It's more proactive, I think, than just ignoring it

[iR1O 6,685]

That WOULD work, if they called from the same number more than once. They never call from the same number twice, so the only true solution, other than getting the bastards stopped, is to just not answer any call from a number you don't know.

 

In theory yes that would work, but in this scenario it has no effect because they still ring every single time.

 

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[HipKat 484]

Dude, you're in a system, because I don't get that, like that. I get some spam calls but not like you do apparently

[dBuster 1,064]

Got to call restrictions, should be in there.

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There is no call restrictions. I have the screen shots there where would it be? It isn't there...

Maybe my posts should be spawned to a new thread in the g4 forum... Any mods care to do that?

Also anyone else with the g4 stock unrooted plain as it came out of the box have this so called call restrictions?

It isn't there is it...

[iR1O 6,685]

In your 4th screenshot. Right below DTMF tones, under "others"

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[iR1O 6,685]

18 hours ago, HipKat said:

Dude, you're in a system, because I don't get that, like that. I get some spam calls but not like you do apparently

 

I know I'm in some kind of recurring robo-dialing BS system.  Ive done everything possible to stop it, messed with them, recorded it, put it on YT, sent the recordings to the FCC, local authorities, FBI, and even had several meetings with my lawyer about potentially going after them via getting a subpoena and forcing uscc to give us the "origin" of the call rather than the retarded caller-id info (since it's f-ing fake anyway) - but I would spend far more going after them than I'd ever get in return.

 

Thats why I log every single call, every number, and record them when I can so I have a stupid-strong case against them if I ever get the chance.

 

As it sits, no carrier does anything to combat this, Google is starting to, but it's nearly impossible to stop them because how can the system know its a spam number when it's never been used before?  I suppose they could log when a certain number calls a LOT of people at the same time?  IDK, but if I had the ability to go after them on ANY level, legal or illegal, id do it in a heartbeat.  

 

I straight up ran out of other options and patience.  I dont care about any call enough to answer it if i dont know it, if they dont leave a VM, they get added to my growing list of scam calls, if they do, I add them to my contacts.  I want them stopped by any means, from physical violence to legal procedure, i dont care, I'll chip into a bounty if it means someone gets hurt - so be it.  I can't really express my anger towards it without cussing, idk how to stop it.  

[HipKat 484]

Might be time to change your number, bro

[iR1O 6,685]

I fear that you're right. I just wish there was a pool of numbers that were "unique" per se, that weren't really public knowledge and that a robo-dialer wouldn't be programmed to call.

Idk. I wish I could custom pick that number.

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[dBuster 1,064]

In your 4th screenshot. Right below DTMF tones, under "others"

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Okay so I go in there and there is really only one option... Allow all or only those in contacts.

Why can't you send them directly to voicemail option like the Moto x has...

Or does allowing only those in contacts automatically sends all others to voicemail?