Enabling Call Screening.

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.

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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

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.

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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 :)

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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

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.