Blocking someones number

andreac

Hi i have a sony ericsson W595, does anyone know if i can block someone from ringing or texting me on this phone by any chance?
Thanks

drunkmonkey

andreac wrote: »

Hi i have a sony ericsson W595, does anyone know if i can block someone from ringing or texting me on this phone by any chance?
Thanks

What you can do is go into setting, then calls, then manage calls, in manage calls you can select accept calls only from the phone book and then the phone will auto reject any numbers not in your contacts....I don't see anyway to block text messages, best off just to ignore them all, they'll eventually give up, failing that you'll just have to change your number or send your brothers over to sort the nusance caller out...;)

andreac

Thanks for that, they ring from private number but text too, so i have put an out of office on my voicemail instead so they cant leave a voicemail but just thought there might be way with the texts, not to worry.
Im def not changing my number and im sure they will give up eventually. Its their credit they are wasting, not mine!!

chrislad

I really don't see the point in blocking numbers. What's to stop them from getting another number and keeping on ringing/texting you? The only way to stop it is to change your number.

andreac

I wont be changing my number, they will give up im sure. Its their credit they are wasting really, so ill just have to put up with it for the mo. They cant leave voicemails anymore as ive switched that off, so ill just go with the ignoring instead.

Random

chrislad wrote: »

I really don't see the point in blocking numbers. What's to stop them from getting another number and keeping on ringing/texting you? The only way to stop it is to change your number.

I do agree with you but if you got a fancy Symbian app you could divert them to voicemail or something and they may not know that they're being blocked.

TheAlmightyZeus

Yeah, there are a few nice apps out that can blacklist numbers or divert private numbers to voicemail. Very handy.

Danbo!

Random wrote: »

I do agree with you but if you got a fancy Symbian app you could divert them to voicemail or something and they may not know that they're being blocked.

You could also divert particular numbers to premium line phone numbers with an application like that

TheAlmightyZeus

Just remembered, I had problems with an annoying caller a while ago.

Some spanish woman kept calling and asking me about an art class The first few times I just told her that I didn't run any art classes and she had the wrong number, then I just rejected the calls but she kept calling so I had to get a blacklister app. Now I'm free from that eejit and her art class antics.

Woo hoo!

Umiq88

Call your service provider im sure they will be able to do it

Random

psittacosis wrote: »

Call your service provider im sure they will be able to do it

I hope you have some basis for this because it's certainly not the case in general across the networks.

Sam Vimes

Stee wrote: »

You could also divert particular numbers to premium line phone numbers with an application like that

true but when you divert a call you pay the charges

thecommander

Sam Vimes wrote: »

true but when you divert a call you pay the charges

So the lesson is to make sure you divert to a good number, such as a funeral home, or the morgue. They'll soon stop.

GerardKeating

thecommander wrote: »

So the lesson is to make sure you divert to a good number, such as a funeral home, or the morgue. They'll soon stop.

But that is not fair on the funeral home or the morgue.

Better to divert to a Fax number, or NTL customers services, it wont get answered then...

von Smallhausen

Or Sky where you will be put on hold for an hour and then cut off:D

Danbo!

Sam Vimes wrote: »

true but when you divert a call you pay the charges

Now that I did not know.... Cheers!