You’re right. A minimal ‘block list app’ is probably a good idea ™.
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I will share it soon, but I really would like to polish it a little bit prior to letting it out, as I was doing it for just my own use, and after many many years it’s the first app I’ve made on SFOS, so it’s quite messy for now. I am a little bit pedantic about those things so please bear with me…
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Are you 100% sure about this? I’ve read a couple of posts in the 4.4 update thread that it currently doesn’t work. Or have I misunderstood something? That’s the last single reason holding me from doing the update.
I’m using it on 4.4
read more about it here:
TL;DR;
you need to uninstall it before doing update, and then install latest version possible.
In my case I also need to remove an entry from /etc/ld.so.preload and that’s it.
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And that’s it? Other than that, it works just fine? I mean still autostarts and loads all the patches?
If so then I’ll have a busy evening today updating to 4.4 
I think so, as I say I’m using it. Tbh with just one patch enabled but yes. Maybe make a new topic and ask if peoples have any problems with it?
Good idea, thanks! Done.
4.4.0.68 finally fixed the issue with rejected calls coming back and ringing again.
Given how much faster the X10 III is compared to previous models, I was hoping that it would also finally be fast enough to reject calls quickly enough for the ringtone not to start ringing before the call gets programmatically rejected. But sadly no, it does not differ at all compared to previous models and OS versions, i.e. once every couple of times there is still 1-2 seconds of ringing before the call gets rejected. Enough to e.g. wake me up when I want to have some sleep (or if I am in a place where my phone should not be disturbing unless really necessary) and so I use the call blocking app to only allow important calls through. Unfortunately, handling the D-Bus call is too slow to reject calls before they start ringing.
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Another plug for an in built call blocker/filter for Sailfish OS.
Ideally I’d like one where I can block some calls based on time frames/situations.
Symbian OS, remember that?, had a very good system where you could set up Calling Groups and place your contacts into various groups as desired, and then within different Profiles (more or less the same as Ambiences in Sailfish) you could select which Calling Groups you would accept calls from.
One scenario where this was very useful where you may wish to block business calls only after hours but receive these calls during work hours. Another scenario is blocking all calls except for close family/friends during certain times of the day.
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Im wondering why Jolla still neglect to see that all community needs that and this is as mentioned already BASIC phone functionality. If this is so hard to implement there should be at least info why?
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I’m getting daily spam SMS messages from one number. I am completely unable to block this number. On Android blocking spam numbers is 2-3 taps. This is unacceptable.
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I don’t get it, why Jolla isn’t just adapting and including this app, as it would bring the desired function. This is a functionality that every 20 € feature phone is offering, so its a must 
https://openrepos.net/content/omnight/phonehook
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+1 vote for this feature to be implemented. My situation is the same as GreatJoes, I’m getting daily SMS spam from one certain number. Other than that I have been very lucky in that I have managed to avoid all phone scams/spam this far, apart from traditional phone marketing calls once in a blue moon. But now this SMS spammer has been harassing me for a few weeks already, and it would be really sweet to just be able to block the number.
As many posters have pointed out before, blocking unwanted numbers is pretty much a basic phone feature nowadays, and I was quite shocked when I realized that SailfishOS doesn’t have that functionality. This problem has even made me consider switching to Android, which I really wouldn’t like to do. 
I’m very thankful for all the work that wetab73 has done this far trying to implement a blocking feature. If I understood correctly, he has mainly tried to implement a working blocking function for calls, which is great, but has anyone tried to implement a blocking function for SMS?
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A call blocking functionality is making its way into the Sailfish OS code. I’ve started since March to find how to have it officially available. I would like to thank @slava, @abranson, @attah and @pvuorela for their great help in the matter, bearing all my various attempts and numerous pointless pull requests in a large number of repositories. Thanks also to @pvuorela for its work in the close source parts of Sailfish OS. So the functionality has finally landed in voicecall, with a new API that allows to filter out incoming calls.
The preparing pull requests have been accepted:
- in libcommhistory, to add a new incoming status and being able to identified blocked calls in the call log.
- in commhistory-daemon, not to log the calls anymore, but delegating it to voicecall manager so it can label blocked calls.
- in voicecall, creating a new plugin to log calls ; but also some rework of the call status evolution.
The main pull request in voicecall introducing the new API has also been accepted.
The main part is adding a new filter() method to an incoming call. This method can be used besides the answer() method (or the hangup() method) to filter out the call. It takes an argument which is the action to perform : “continue” means let the call ring, “ignore” means let the caller on ring tone, but don’t notify the user with a ringing device, and “reject” means immediately hang up without user intervention. This method is also available on D-Bus. Which means that phonehook can be adjusted to use it.
A minimal plugin also exists when installing the voicecall-filter-plugin package (not available yet on 4.6 obviously). This package stores ignored and rejected numbers in DConf entries ("/sailfish/voicecall/filter/rejected-numbers" and “/sailfish/voicecall/filter/ignored-numbers”). It only supports exact matching for the moment. But, I’ve a pull request under discussion to add pattern matching.
This implementation only deals with incoming calls, but not SMS. It may be an answer to these various threads:
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Hurray!
I’ve been waiting for this.
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Great,
this will be a further step towards a convincing everyday companion. I hope that two lists (ignore/reject) can then also be maintained via GUI.
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I hope that two lists (ignore/reject) can then also be maintained via GUI.
That can be expected, at least for the exact matching. It’s the credits I was giving to Pekka Vuorela for his work on the proprietary parts, obviously without details ; -) It will be visible when released.
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I’m currently away from home. When I go back, I’ll check if I still have it. I might have deleted it after I created my own call filter app better suited for own use.
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Is it possible to block an sms from an unknown number with Phonehook? I get some sent by a bank in cahoots with my carrier, no number but it says ‘promotional message’ AKA spam.
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