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That is what I am looking for also. The current version, if you watch it closley when a call comes in, is kinda like a macro of some sort. Once it detects a blacklisted number, it will hit the blackberry key and select "ignore" sending the call to voicemail. This can happen anywhere between a half ring, up to two full rings sometimes. So to the person on the other end, to them it just seems like you saw them calling and hit the ignore button and sent them to voicemail. What happens is then the person calls back right away, or later. Then they get pissed thinking you are avoiding them (which you really are
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It's not really "blocking" the call, in essence what it is doing is just shortening the ring time. I want something where the phone will not ring at all or as stated above, leaves some sort of out of service message or unavailable message. This way I can avoid someone without them really knowing, so later when I'm ready to speak to them I can without them being pissed
. Then I can just say "well you know at&t with their crappy service 
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Now, I have found a way to accomplish this....what you can do is find a phone number that is out of service or a number that always gives a busy signal, then go into call forwarding options and set the option "if busy" to this number. Leave the others as-is. Now when someone calls that is blacklisted, depending on the number you entered, they will get the unavailable message or just a busy signal. When regular calls come in, if you have no service or simply don't answer, they will still go to voicemail. Only blocked calls or calls where you hit "ignore" will get the unavailable or busy signal. I have a few numbers saved that I use. One is a number that the phone company uses for testing and if you attempt to call it you'll get "the person you are trying to reach is unavailable at this time" and I found another number (I don't know who it belongs to) but it ALWAYS gives a busy signal if you call it no matter the time. So I use one of these two numbers. Now, the person still may hear a ring or two on their side, but they will not be sent to voicemail. And with that you can still get away with some lame excuse about your phone "acting up"
PM me if you want these numbers....03-25-09 10:32 AM - PM Sent
I alsi have icallmanager and I played with the "hang up" setting, all that does is answer the call and hang it up, but it doesnt do it fast enough. I called myself from a blacklisted number and you will still be able to hear whatever is going on in the background for just a sec. In my case I heard the TV. So to the other caller, all you did was pick up and hang up. Imagine you were doing something you had no business doing and someone called and the phone picked up and hung up! They'd hear a quick sound bite! And that could be costly!
Press the green phone button, then the blackberry button, then select options, then call forwarding....PM Sent03-25-09 03:53 PM - Hmmm... I have never run into that, my pickup & hangup is less than half a second, if that. Perhaps you have to adjust your Keystroke Priority from the default setting of 15 (lower values speed up the pickup and hangup) in v1.2.8.PM Sent
I alsi have icallmanager and I played with the "hang up" setting, all that does is answer the call and hang it up, but it doesnt do it fast enough. I called myself from a blacklisted number and you will still be able to hear whatever is going on in the background for just a sec. In my case I heard the TV. So to the other caller, all you did was pick up and hang up. Imagine you were doing something you had no business doing and someone called and the phone picked up and hung up! They'd hear a quick sound bite! And that could be costly!03-25-09 04:46 PM
