macro to dial *67 before non-contacts?
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Jacob L
Moderator (Lawsonator)
You can do this with action make call>select number>*67[caller_number]. Use the magic text button to add the caller number I can't remember if what I've typed is fully accurate.
Add a trigger of incoming call [non-contact] so that it can find the call number itself, unless you want to give the number.
You can use a widget as a trigger if you wanted and have a user prompt to input the number.
Jacob L
Moderator (Lawsonator)
Try this: http://www.macrodroid.com/macrostore?id=8296
Or search MacroDroid store for ID=8296
Or search MacroDroid store for ID=8296
Jacob L
Moderator (Lawsonator)
Where will the number come from?
You can add trigger outgoing call [non-contact] with action reject call and then make call *67[call_number]
Jacob L
Moderator (Lawsonator)
I'm nor sure what you're trying to achieve. I understand that you want to add *67 before the number you want to call and only for non contacts. What trigger are you looking for? What are you going to get the number from? For example, you may want to call back the number that called you and isn't in your contacts, or you might want to intercept all outgoing calls to numbers not in your contacts or read numbers from a txt file but I guessed and built something. If you tell me what you want I can build it.
i just want to have it dial *67 before calling non contacts. i dont know what the trigger would be. i dont understand what this means : What are you going to get the number from? i just thought if i dial a non contact, the *67 would insert itself. so maybe im not thinking about this the right way. i want in to automatically do the *67. i dont want to input, or stop for any input from me. maybe it cant do this?
Pseudocyclic
Well-known member
Is this what you want to happen:
1) user manually opens phone app
2) user manually enters phone number using keypad
3) user manually presses 'dial' button
4) phone dials *67 followed by the number the user entered on keypad
?
1) user manually opens phone app
2) user manually enters phone number using keypad
3) user manually presses 'dial' button
4) phone dials *67 followed by the number the user entered on keypad
?
#3- yes! thats it.
Pseudocyclic
Well-known member
Please look again. Do you want 1-2-3-4 to happen? Or something else?
It's very hard to understand what you need and what you mean.
I guess that the '*67' is a specific prefix in your local zone/operator. To me, it doesn't mean anything and wouldn't work at all, so I can't understandwhat you want to achieve. Don't forget that MacroDroid is used worldwide and we all come from different countries, languages and cellular technical characteristics.
So, for everyone to understand your need and being able to help you efficiently, please explain what (and/or why) action you want to perform and what goal you want to reach...
just how you have it
I know this is an old message, but I just now stumbled upon it, and I want to answer your question. With many phone systems in the USA, prefixing the phone number that is being dialed with *67 will block the receiver of the call from retrieving the caller's phone number via caller-ID.
Many incoming calls these days come from spammers, and if the recipient tries to call the caller back, many of those spammers harvest the caller's phone number via caller-ID for further spamming or other undesirable purposes.
Prefixing outgoing calls to unknown numbers (i.e., numbers not in the caller's contact list) with *67 is one way to protect against this practice.
It's unlikely that the original poster wants this auto-*67 capability for spamming purposes, because most spammers use automated dialers that don't run on mobile phones in order to send out their mass-spamming phone calls, and this software can auto-prepend *67 to all such calls. It's extremely inefficient to use a mobile phone running Macrodroid for the purpose of mass-spamming.
Thanks for your explanations : '*67' look like a prefix to make your call anonymous. So, I would say that @Jacob L advice on post #13 should solve your problem.