Not sure where to put this. IS FUNNY. Call blocking

[LurganIeUk]

Years ago I blocked an in-law on my iPhone. Not a big deal as the home phone and wife's mobile phone was still able to receive calls for that number. 

So today I noticed that the in-law leaves a voice mail on MY phone. And our land line did a quick ring from the in-law and no one there. 

I was thinking about this and recalled this happened a month or so ago. Hmmmm

So I check our Voip. All is good. Check iPhone...yup is blocked just like I would want!!!

But shortly after starting with PM I thought I could take advantage of the free incoming calls and I set up the Voip land line to forward all calls to both of our mobile phones. That way, we rarely miss any calls. And default voice mail is in the hand set and secondly the VM with the Voip provider. Both iPhone SE, but for some reason mine always rings first. 

What was happening.....land line rings, forwards to my mobile phone, iPhone blocks call and BAM!! iPhone accepts voice mail. 

Moral of the story.....know what you are doing when you block calls on iPhone especially if you are forwarding from another number!!! (I removed blocked number on iPhone.) But I can say any calls we have blocked on the Voip land line never get forwarded. I would then assume if you use call transferring that blocked numbers should be blocked on both land line and mobile phone(s). 

[Nezgar]

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@LurganIeUk wrote:

I do similar with voip.ms to send codes back to them to set up restrictions. So if similar who is this code sent back to?

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The settings are sent to, and saved at Public Mobile. Hence why they still work if your phone is off the network.

[Nezgar]

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@LurganIeUk wrote:

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So if I do this....what makes it only apply to blocked calls? On iPhone or Android??

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Like I said, it's a basic GSM based mobile network feature, so it works on any phone, including blackberry, symbian, etc not just iPhone, Android.

There are three types of 'conditional' call forward options

• Blocking or declining a call - *67*
• Unanswered calls - *61*
• Calls while your phone is in airplane mode, off the network, or out of the service area. - *62*

By default all three of these are set to go to voicemail. My code merely changes the first to go to a dead-end.

There's also "unconditional" call forwarding - *21* - forwards all calls.

[LurganIeUk]

@Nezgar 

I do similar with voip.ms to send codes back to them to set up restrictions. 

So if similar who is this code sent back to?

[LurganIeUk]

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@Nezgar wrote:

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@LurganIeUk wrote:

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Looks good. Did PM author this option? If not who figured this out??

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It's a basic feature of GSM based mobile service that most never pay attention to. I've been posting about it for a while. Here's an even earlier post:

https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Discussions/Fun-with-Conditional-Call-forwarding-and-...

You can have a lot of fun sending blocked callers to some 'entertaining' numbers...

It's nice Public Mobile gives us full control of conditional call forwarding. Lucky Mobile, for instance, doesn't let you customize or use call forwarding at all.

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So if I do this....what makes it only apply to blocked calls? On iPhone or Android??

[Nezgar]

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@LurganIeUk wrote:

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Looks good. Did PM author this option? If not who figured this out??

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It's a basic feature of GSM based mobile service that most never pay attention to. I've been posting about it for a while. Here's an even earlier post:

https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Discussions/Fun-with-Conditional-Call-forwarding-and-...

You can have a lot of fun sending blocked callers to some 'entertaining' numbers...

It's nice Public Mobile gives us full control of conditional call forwarding. Lucky Mobile, for instance, doesn't let you customize or use call forwarding at all.

[LurganIeUk]

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@Nezgar wrote:

@LurganIeUkIf you don't want your Public Mobile line to send blocked calls to voicemail, disable that by dialing:

*67*8080000000#

Undo it with ##67#

Read more about it I posted recently here: https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Phones-Hardware/How-do-I-block-a-person-from-leaving-...

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Looks good. Did PM author this option? If not who figured this out??

[Nezgar]

@LurganIeUkIf you don't want your Public Mobile line to send blocked calls to voicemail, disable that by dialing:

*67*8080000000#

Undo it with ##67#

Read more about it I posted recently here: https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Phones-Hardware/How-do-I-block-a-person-from-leaving-...

[will13am]

@LurganIeUk , thanks for the interesting story.  I use call blocking on the dialer app.  From time to time, I switch phones and so the block list is different.