topic Re: Usage History Questions in Get Support

Usage History Questions

DanAR — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 17:24:47 GMT

1) I've noticed that Usage History shows regular outgoing texts to 7723. No charge or time is shown. This seems to be automatic. What is this?

2) Can I download Usage history for my own use, say in a csv, excel or similar file?

Thanks for your attention.

Re: Usage History Questions

will13am — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 14:57:32 GMT

@DanAR , I believe this is google dialer doing stuff in the background. It has been discussed in the past in this forum. If you disable SMS permission on the dialer app, this will stop.

Re: Usage History Questions

srlawren — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 15:38:51 GMT

@will13am wrote:
@DanAR , I believe this is google dialer doing stuff in the background. It has been discussed in the past in this forum. If you disable SMS permission on the dialer app, this will stop.

@DanAR this is correct. It's the Google Dialer trying to configure Visual Voicemail, which is a service that Public Mobile does not offer.

There is no export available. Some have manually copied-and-pasted from the page to an Excel sheet. I believe someone was working on an automated way to "screen scrape" the info from the page, but I'm not sure that ever materialized.

Re: Usage History Questions

DanAR — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 16:10:43 GMT

Thanks.

I learn something every day.

Re: Usage History Questions

DanAR — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 16:11:59 GMT

Thanks.

I'll look at my settings and correct them.

Re: Usage History Questions

loyeemanchi — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 20:38:14 GMT

It doesn't seem like a very good solution. Will it stop SMS as a whole if Google Dialer is disabled? That's the concern!