Enabling Call Screening.

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.

nkm

pgraph Any update? Did you ever get it working?

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

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 :-/

hemlockiv

pgraph Oh, I use Google phone app in main profile, since it doesn't require a Google acct to use

RaMe

@hemlockiv Ahh, thats a good one! Just switched from Samsung to GraphenOS on Pixel8a and have been missing call screening. So lets see, if it works by just using the Google Phone app, didn't had this in mind :-)

PaulDavis

I used to use Truecaller. For numbers that were unrecognised, there were options to kill the call, send it to voicemail, play a message, or let it "ring" but not bother you. It would also try to find a company name associated with that number if you allowed net connection, so that if you didn't know the number as it might be an alternative of theirs, then you could see it was "Bloggs Builders" etc, and choose one of the previous options for it

PaulDavis

PaulDavis too late to edit.
Another feature is that you can block by prefix sequence, so you could block by country, state, city, company (where they have many numbers in a sequence), block mobiles by their network code, or if you really want, by the individual number. You could even block using words from their name, just in case a branch from a different town calls you.
But if your doctors etc are withholding their number, then hound them to get an outgoing only number for the switchboard

fph

There is also Yet Another Call Blocker.

DamianS555

I wanted to like the Yet Another Call Blocker, however it seems it is not developed anymore. It is effective however in Spam identification.
As an alternative I tried SpamBlocker
If you manage to attach some good database to it, then it works pretty well.
If you want to give it a try, then enable "Query API" function and add something from the github wiki page
I did try the database for numbers from Poland, and it works like a charm. If only those databases were added to the app by default, then it would be perfect.

fph

DamianS555 Thanks for the recommendation! The online database you set up is the exact same that is used in YACB, so the two solutions are going to be equally effective in practice. And those 4 years of extra security patches in SpamBlocker might well be worth the additional work to set it up. :)

secrec

ConflagratedK9 it's toothless and incredibly ineffective.

The concept is laughable. The only people who will respect it are legit businesses who don't want you to hate them. India and China don't give a crap about do not call lists.

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