I'm using '"should I answer?" (web site shouldianser.com), which can be set to reject (and/or send to voice mail, if I remember right) any phone call from a number not in your contacts.
Works much better than the stupid app TMobile forces on your phone (they think a phone number that is valid is a robocaller. It isn't, but I can't get them to shut up and let me get calls from that number, as I know the caller and wish to get calls from them. Oh, ok, sure, I could pay what, $5 a month to be able to turn it off? No, sorry.)
Rusty
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Subject: Re: OT -> F$%I#@ Android decided not to show contact names...
Thanks!
I don't believe I have lost any contacts.
All the names and number that I remember are there.
The problem is that contact's names are not displayed in incoming calls, and
it's a pain to screen calls... :(
ET
Michael Butash writes:
> If you log into the web for gmail and contacts, are they there? If so,
> worst case restore the phone and reimport settings. I pick up lots of
> random weirdness in every phone I've had, eventually it seems necessary to
> just start over. Much like windoze...
>
> I always seem to lose a bunch of contacts between upgrades, every vendor
> loves to set their default preferences to anything but what you want it
> seems, so stuff seems to slip away for me every time with users bound only
> to a local storage mechanism, or lost among one of another half-dozen
> accounts on the phone. I wish there were better options other than
> diligence.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 5:23 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I would suggest you look into nextcloud and some of the contact sync tools
>> there and see if you can leverage that. This would at least allow you to
>> sync co tacts but manage your own data.
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 9:45 AM <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yep, I tried rebooting...
>>> I think (hope) that my contacts are in the SIM car.
>>> I don't do anything with Google than I *ABSOLUTELY* have to (like
>>> android).
>>> ET
>>>
>>>
>>> Stephen Partington writes:
>>>
>>> > Where are your contacts stored? Google or some related service or on the
>>> > phobe/SIM?
>>> >
>>> > Ps you tried a reboot I am guessing?
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 3:10 AM <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Help...
>>> >> For some $%#@ reason, my phone decided to stop showing me the
>>> >> corresponding
>>> >> name in my contact list when I receive or place a call.
>>> >> I rely on my caller ID to screen a bunch of spam/scam calls, does
>>> anybody
>>> >> know how to restore the capability?
>>> >>
>>> >> I am about to hang myself from a pumpkin tree... :(
>>> >> ET
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