Which phone has this ring feature?

Required functionality -

Someone I know calls me, and my phone rings.
Someone I don't know calls me, and my phone stays silent.

(This would be based on some kind of 'phonebook configuration')

Which phones have this feature?

Thanks, regards, dnw.

---

› See More: Which phone has this ring feature?

"Dot Net Developer" wrote

> Required functionality -
>
> Someone I know calls me, and my phone rings.
> Someone I don't know calls me, and my phone stays silent.
>
> (This would be based on some kind of 'phonebook configuration')
>
> Which phones have this feature?

Well, my "obsolete" Siemens A56 manual says:
Call screening
Only calls from numbers that are in the Phonebook or in a predefined group
are signalled audibly or by vibrating alert. Other calls are only displayed.
If you do not accept these calls, they are forwarded to your voicemail.

My Nokia 1112 manual doesn't say anything, but the Contacts menu has a
place for "No. Screening", where I can add numbers. I'm not sure how it works.

For some phones the only way is to save the number in your Contacts,
then assign it a silent ringtone (if that's an option) so you never hear it.

At 11 Apr 2007 11:10:23 +0000 MasterBlaster wrote:

> For some phones the only way is to save the number in your Contacts,
> then assign it a silent ringtone (if that's an option) so you never
> hear it.

But you can work that feature backwards to simulate what the OP wants-
assign your contacts an audible ringtone, and make the phone's default
ringtone silent.

So virtually every modern phone does what the OP wants- some just require
more effort to setup than others...

"Todd Allcock" wrote

> > For some phones the only way is to save the number in your Contacts,
> > then assign it a silent ringtone (if that's an option) so you never
> > hear it.
>
> But you can work that feature backwards to simulate what the OP wants-
> assign your contacts an audible ringtone, and make the phone's default
> ringtone silent.

And one other thing I forgot to mention...

We had some emergencies, and I tried calling 15 times, but you never answered!!
My cell battery died, so I had to run all over town using payphones and gas
station phones, but for some reason you never picked up, even though I know
you never turn off your cell phone. Now auntie Em and Toto are dead because
you're the only one who knows the combination to the lock on the root cellar
where they hid from the tornado. We also lost a seven billion dollar contract
because you're the only one with the password to the project file, and Mr. Gates
couldn't wait any longer, so he gave the contract to that "Jobs" guy, even though
he despises him. I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!!!!!! (And you're fired.)

Hmmm.....maybe it's not such a great idea to just ignore any strange number until
you know for sure who's on the other end.

"Dot Net Developer" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> Required functionality -
>
> Someone I know calls me, and my phone rings.
> Someone I don't know calls me, and my phone stays silent.
>
> (This would be based on some kind of 'phonebook configuration')
>
> Which phones have this feature?
>
> Thanks, regards, dnw.
>
>

Motorola E815 would do it, easy.

Make an MP3 file on your computer with no sound...a short blank recording
in MP3 format. That's your main ringtone....silence. Copy it to the
transflash card on the computer, then copy from the transflash plugged
into the phone onto the phone's internal memory where all ringtones MUST
reside.

For each contact in your phonebook, add a separate ringtone MP3 to the
phonebook records for each contact you want to ring the phone. If you
don't want separate ringtones to identify particular people, make each
one use the same MP3 file as a ringtone. You may also group them with
separate ringtones for each group. For any phonebook entry you don't
want them calling you, simply point that entry to the blank MP3 file you
use as the main blank ringtone so that entry will not make a sound.

If you also don't want the voicemail or SMS messages to "notify" you, put
the blank ringtone in their appropriate entry in the sounds setup, too.

The phone now only makes a sound, your ringtone(s), when those persons in
the phonebook who have an assigned, sounding ringtone, call you and the
phone identifies and associates with their caller ID. Those that have
caller ID off will not ring as the phone has no way of identifying them
and plays the blank ringtone MP3.

Most any phone that has a memory card SHOULD be able to easily do
this....but, like Verizon, many carriers have hobbled up the damned
phones so bad you're not allowed to make your own ringtones because some
bureaucrat's trying to force you to BUY them. I'm on Alltel....no
hobbling, no BS like this.

My main ringtone is an old fashioned fire bell that goes on and on and
on. That sound will make a whole restaurant look this way...(c; It's
LOUD!



Larry
--

On 11 Apr, 17:18, Todd Allcock <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 11 Apr 2007 11:10:23 +0000 MasterBlaster wrote:
>
> > For some phones the only way is to save the number in your Contacts,
> > then assign it a silent ringtone (if that's an option) so you never
> > hear it.
>
> But you can work that feature backwards to simulate what the OP wants-
> assign your contacts an audible ringtone, and make the phone's default
> ringtone silent.
>
> So virtually every modern phone does what the OP wants- some just require
> more effort to setup than others...

Yes of course! Using your logic, I have now achieved exactly what I
want.
Thanks.

Larry <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> Make an MP3 file on your computer with no sound...a short blank
> recording in MP3 format. That's your main ringtone....silence. Copy
> it to the transflash card on the computer, then copy from the
> transflash plugged into the phone onto the phone's internal memory
> where all ringtones MUST reside.
>

I found out none of this will work on Verizon because Verizon refuses to
let you copy MP3 files from the transflash card to the internal memory to
prevent you from making your own ringtones...trying to SELL you something.

Damn them....


Larry
--