Enabling Call Screening.

ConflagratedK9

Hello! While I'm aware the primary purpose of GrapheneOs for many folks is to indeed to remove google services from the phone, there is one particular service I'm okay with using for convience - Call Screening.

I have ensured the Google Phone App, Assistant, Android System Intelligence, and Google Play Services have the appropriate permissions, and the Phone app does say the call screening feature is enabled. Unfortunately the bot and scam calls that keep me from using my phone for doctors appointments and work calls still offer no option to screen the calls.

What combination of permissions and software do I need to fan-dangle with to enable this feature properly?

treequell

ConflagratedK9 Just a side note on call screening. Does your country offer a Do Not Call register? In the UK I registered at https://www.tpsonline.org.uk/ and I no longer receive any marketing or spam calls.

hemlockiv

ConflagratedK9 I have ensured the Google Phone App, Assistant, Android System Intelligence

f13a-6c3a Even after installing bunch of dependencies including Assistant, Intelligence Service,

It should be noted that Android System Intelligence requires the preinstalled permission flag, aka it needs to be registered as a stock app in the ROM. Otherwise much (all?) of its core functionality doesn't work.

ConflagratedK9

treequell The United States does indeed have such a register, but it's toothless and incredibly ineffective.

While the phone dialer is effective at recognizing spam calls, they still come through and I receive no option to screen the call regardless of what the Google Phone app settings say.

Blastoidea

ConflagratedK9
Our fearless politicians bravely exempted themselves from our version, so as to be sure that we get their spam.

Kottonballs

The ability to only ring for known contacts would be nice as well, don't see how to do that on Graphene but I may be missing it.

Graphite

Kottonballs The ability to only ring for known contacts would be nice as well

That can be done with another dialer app. Simple Dialer or ACRPhone to name two.

Call Screening is a bit beyond the scope of an app, but rather a service that must sit in between the carrier and the phone. Not sure of any app that can do that.

PhantomRunner

You would also need Google Speech Services for the TTS functions. I've not used Call Screening on gOS so not sure if it works at all even with all dependencies.
Get it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.tts

Could you advise this thread of you get it to work or not?

ConflagratedK9

PhantomRunner ah! I do indeed have that service on my device and sadly my calls do not get screened by the assistant.

f13a-6c3a

I've tried enabling Call Screening to no avail. Even after installing bunch of dependencies including Assistant, Intelligence Service, Speech Service, etc - nothing helped. I would love to hear from anyone able to get it to work

[deleted]

I am using a very effective call screening service. It's called voicemail. Instead of blocking unknown numbers or numbers not in contacts, everyone is warned that their call won't be answered and that they have an option to leave a message or be completely ignored :)

Graphite

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There is a thing called phone tag that many people would like to avoid. It's common when dealing with businesses that aren't going to be coming from previously known numbers. Especially annoying if you have to call someone back but can't call directly and must go through a transfer/wait.

I know, I know... you could just advise all GrapheneOS users to just not interact with the world, lest they bend to your will.
@ConflagratedK9, like so many OP's, did not ask to be debated on the merits of Call Screening assistant apps.

ConflagratedK9

hemlockiv Seems I have a mission, then! I'll update the thread if I get it working, and what privacy compromises need to be made in doing so, if any.

newperson

ConflagratedK9 Any updates you can share? It would be great to have this feature as an option

2004seraph

ConflagratedK9 any updates?

Not5ure

Some mobile service providers offer filtering for robocalls. T-Mobile's service is Scam Shield, and can be activated/deactivated with short codes (#662#/#632#).

stuntinmurda

Recently, I lost the option to enable this is the google phone app. It was there from the beginning. It's pretty annoying.

pgraph

I have "enabled" it successfully in a dedicated profile. I can see the option to configure it and also downloaded the required language packs for speech recognition. Everything shows up fine, however, when I do receive a call, it is always routed to the default GrapheneOS phone app and not to the google phone app.

I have set the Google phone app as standard in this profile, but it doesn't change anything. I have then stopped and disabled the GOS default app. When I then receive a call, no app pops up and I only get a notification about a missed call.

So I suspect that the phone call is always routed to the GOS phone app in each profile and you need to set everything up in your main profile. This is however someething I don't want to do, as I want to keep it empty and only use less-privileged user profiles.

pgraph

As this is a test profile, I pretty much installed all kinds of Google Software to get this to work. I still need to narrow it down, what is actually required and what not.

Installed apps:

Google Assistant
Google Contacts
Google One
Google Phone App
Google Voice
Google Voice Search
Google Playstore/SFW

Settings -> Apps -> Default Apps:

Call redirection app: Google Voice
Caller ID & spam app: Google Phone
Digital Assistent app: Google
Phone app: Google Phone

Other settings:

In the settings of the Digital Assistant App, I have downloaded the required "Offline speech recognition" languages
In the settings of the Google Phone App, I have downloaded the required "Offline speech recognition" languages.
In the Google settings I have enabled pretty much everything (Voice and Google Assistant)

Permissions:

I have pretty much given all permissions to all of the google apps including disabling of hardening (memory, etc).

As said, this is only for testing and I still need to narrow down to figure out what is minimal required to get this to work. However, I still need to figure out how to get the phone calls routed to the google phone app, instead of the default one.

hemlockiv

pgraph I have "enabled" it successfully in a dedicated profile.

What have you enabled, and in what way is it successful, is you are not able to get calls to go to the Google Dialer app?

For the record, I have been using Google's phone app as default without issue simply by setting it at Settings > Apps > Default apps > Phone app

nkm

pgraph Any update? Did you ever get it working?

pgraph

hemlockiv Have you set it in the main profile or in a user profile?

In my case, the main profile uses the stock phone app and the user profile has Google phone app installed, set as default and is still not able to receive calls via the Google phone app :-/