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How to block a phone number on your Android phone

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Thanks to the smartphone revolution, it has made communication with our dear and loved ones better and easier as well. There comes conveniences as well as disturbances along with everything and this smartphone revolution and easy communication has also made way for spammers, telemarketers, unwanted callers. Who would like to get disturbed by all those spam callers and strangers? No one right!!!! If you are also among those people who are searching for a perfect solution to get rid of such kind of calls and callers, then here is the simple process for blocking a phone number on your Android phone.

Though there will not a generalized way for blocking mobile numbers in Android devices, let us now go through the processes involved in certain types of popular devices.

Blocking mobile number in stock Android devices:

You can do this by simply long pressing the mobile number that you wish to block from the phone app in your device and then just selecting the Block number option.

Or you can also do this by opening the phone app on your device and then tapping on the three dot icon, then select settings, and then hit call blocking where you can add all the phone numbers that you wish to block

Blocking calls on Samsung devices:

Samsung devices are very much popular among the mobile phone users and it is a trusted brand as well. If you also this device and wondering about the process of blocking a mobile number on your Samsung phone, then just simply follow the steps below

You just need to open the phone application available on your Samsung device and then select the number which you would like to add to the block list and hit the option more, and then select the option to add to reject list. You can add, remove and edit this list later on by going to Settings> Call Settings> All Calls> Auto Reject

Using third party application:

Some manufacturers don’t offer their users this rejecting feature by default, and in such cases, the users should make use of third party applications for rejecting unwanted calls. There are a number of applications available in the Google Play Store for the Android phone users. Mr. Number, Call Blocker, Calls Blacklistare some of the applications that you can make use of

Calls Blacklist:

You can download and install this application from the Google’s Android play store. This application is a very simple way of keeping a list of contacts that you don’t want to allow to contact you using your number.

You can simply launch the app and then add the contacts that you wish to put on the reject list in the Blacklist tab. You can add numbers to this list through your contacts, calls log, message log or you can also add numbers manually. That is it, those numbers that you added under the blacklist tab won’t be able to contact you.

How To Send Any Link From Your PC To Mobile Phone Using Chrome

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Browsing the internet will be a regular task for many of us, we can say. But this task is mostly done in computers rather than on mobile phones. What if we found an interesting piece of an article or something interesting while we browsing in our PC? We will find ways to share it on our mobile phone. Right!! How do you send any link from your PC to your mobile phone?

What I personally do is sometimes I share it using FB messenger. I share to myself. Sometimes I share in Telegram. Sometimes I save the link in Google Keep notes and then open the link on a mobile phone.

Don’t you think it is something that takes and needs some effort? Yes. Right! There is actually a better and simple way to make the process easier. Do check it out.

Steps To Send Any Link From PC To Mobile

  • To begin with the process, you need to open the Google Chrome browser and type in chrome://flags in the address bar and then press enter.
  • Type “Send tab to self” in the search bar of Chrome flags and select Enabled from the drop-down menu or paste the following in the address bar of Chrome. Or just click on this link chrome://flags/#enable-send-tab-to-self
  • Now you are done with the setup, just simply relaunch the browser and you will find a “Send to *device name*” option whenever you right-click a tab or link. If you have logged in your Google Account on multiple devices, choose the device you like to send the link.

So, these are the simple steps that are involved in the process of sharing a link in your PC directly to your mobile phone. We hope you find this process helpful and try to make use of it every day.

How To Make An Android Phone Lost In Silent Mode Ring

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Smartphones have become a part of our daily life and we just cannot imagine our lives without smartphones. What if we lost such an important thing in our lives, there are a lot of ways to find it and get it back. The most general and first technique or the thing we try immediately after we lost our phone or couldn’t find our phone are by just giving it a call. This has become quite a useful thing then and now as we are using this trace our phone if you just forgot where we have kept it. This is fine. But what if our phone is in silent mode and we cannot trace it, don’t worry, here is a technique that you can use to ring a phone that is in silent mode and is untraceable.

Making An Android Phone Lost In Silent Mode Ring

For doing this, first of all, the android device manager should be active on your device and it needs just a few simple steps to enable it

  1. Open the device settings.
  2. Now head to Security.
  3. And then to Device Administrators.
  4. Then here just check the android device manager option to enable it.

Now you are done with the setup and to make it ring when you lost it in the silent mode just follow the steps below

  1. Just head to the Android device manager page in your PC or laptop or whatever.
  2. Log in with the Gmail account that you have used to login in your Android phone.
  3. You will now see a page with the Android device manager dashboard with options Ring, Lock, Erase.
  4.  And it will show the tracked location of your device automatically.
  5. You just click on the ring option to find your Android phone

So, just try these simple steps and make your task of searching for your phone simple.

How To Get Smart Replies In Notifications On Android

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We often find tonnes of notifications in our phone’s notification panel but we don’t get time to reply to them or we don’t feel like typing the message, in such times if there is such a thing which automatically shows some auto responsive messages as suggestions for us to send. For enabling the smart reply feature on Android, users need to use the Fluenty app which is removed from the Play Store due to certain reasons. Now, let us know how to get Smart Replies in Notifications on Android smartphones.

  • The very first thing that you will have to do is that you will be installing the app called Fluentyon your Android device.
  • Now after installing this app successfully, launch this app on your device and then go through some of the introductory prompt messages. After doing all the formalities that appear on the screen, you will see the main interface of the app.
  • In the next step, you will be asked to sing into Fluenty. You can either use your Google or Facebook account to create an account. Once done, tap on the ‘Ok I’m Ready!’ button.
  • It’s a smart reply app, so you don’t need to do anything with the app. From now on, whenever you will receive notifications from the messaging app, Fluenty will throw you the smart replies.
  • If you wish to add a custom reply list, you can do that through the App settings.
  • Similarly, you can adjust the text style of your notification replies also.

 

Find Out Who Is Tracking You Through Your Android Phone

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The Android operating system has become so much popular among the smartphone users just because of it’s easy to use user interface. But unlike the blackberry users, Android users should be a bit worried about their safety and privacy as Android phones don’t offer a secure system to the users. Many users are very much worried about being tracked by others. So, this is for all those people who are concerned about their security and privacy in their Android devices. Here is how you can find out who is tracking you through your device.

Know Who Is Tracking Your Android Device

Let us now go through some useful codes for Android phone users. They will help them to know about their security and also know whether they were being tracked.

  • *#21# is the code that will allow the users to know whether their messages, calls are being diverted somewhere else. Using this code the users can find the details regarding the call forwarding. This code even lets the users know whether call forwarding is enabled or disabled on their device
  • *#62# is the code that the Android users can use to know whether their calls, messages, and data are being redirected somewhere. The users can know whether their calls and messages are being redirected to their operator’s number
  • ##002# code will allow the users to deactivate call forwarding in their device. If you ever feel that your calls and messages are redirected, then you can simply make use of this code to deactivate redirects
  • *#06# code lets the users know the IMEI number of their device which is the International Mobile Equipment Identifier. The IMEI number is needed to find your device if someone has stolen it

*#*#4636#*#* code lets the users know if someone is following them or tracking them, after typing this code from the dial pad in your device, select the UTMS cell environment, then select UTMS RR info, then note down all the numbers under Cell ID, then go to the main menu and then navigate to MM info tab>Serving PLMN and note down the numbers under Local area code, then you need to visit the http://opencellid.org/ website and there you can find the basic location of your phone on the map by selecting the fourth tab to the left.