Answering machine

[yairlanz]

Hello

I wrote an answering machine program (mortscript) for WM5 but I encountered a strange problem, when a call is answered all sounds playing in my phone was silent.
Does anyone know a tweak how to disable the silent feature in WN5?

Thanks

[jcute]

Do you have a cab file program for WM6? really need this program !!!

[yairlanz]

NO, Not yet.
When it's done there will be no need of cab file, it is a very light script file.

The only problem I have now is that my greeting message can't be heard by the caller because, as I said all sounds are silent.

There are no other problems, the caller can leave his message as usual.
You can even determine the length of the recording.

[levenum]

I hate to disappoint you, but an answering machine can not be written for many WM based phones in native C, let alone using mortscript.

Ahh if it was only that easy...

When a call is answered the sound is routed differently to and from the phone on the OS / Hardware level and as far as we know short of faking a BT deriver there is no way to record from the phone or play sound to the person at the other end.

There have been a lot of discussion on this subject in the forum, please use google and search the forum for "answering machine".

[yairlanz]

Thanks for your answer.

I have searched this form and the internet for such software and encountered your answer – B U T - I have noticed that in my phone (ETEN X500) I HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH RECORDING CONVERSATIONS - the caller and my voice, (I even wrote a recording script and assigned it to the record button).
The only problem with my answering machine is that after the device automatically answer the call, the caller can't hear my greeting message, actually no sound cab be played because when there is an incoming call, the device mutes all other sounds.after that I can record the caller voice with no problems.
BTW – If a song is playing and a call comes, the song mutes, but when the call end, the song voice comes again.
So I thought there must be a registry value that orders the device to mute all sounds when a call comes.

[mrky]

i know there are some tweaks (programs) ,only i cant remember wich ones... that will let you choose between muting sound/notification in call or just let it play. i think phone alarm from pocketmax.net has that option. and maybe i can come up with some others if you give some time.....at this moment i cant remember any .... but i will let you know. i know for sure that there are some options for this!!

[yairlanz]

Thanks man

That what i thought. There must be some tweak for it.

Looking forward to your reply

[levenum]

This is interesting. As I wrote in my answer the problem is with "many" not all WM based phones.

So far I only knew about one that came with a built in answering machine - the g-smart.
I assumed you had an HTC phone, but if ETENs have recording and playback capability during calls too this may be very interesting.

Unfortunately, I do not know of any specific tweak for what you ask, but check out Tweaks2k2 (http://www.tweaks2k2.com/) and Pocket hack master (http://www.pocketgear.com/en_US/html/display_product.jsp?id=prod5701265) perhaps one of them will have it.

[yairlanz]

Thanks, but no luck in both of them.

Still looking for the desired tweak...

[pujiesss]

So u need to press the record button to activate recording?

[yairlanz]

No,
The script detect an incoming call, if the call doesn't answered after X seconds (you define the X), the device answers the call, play the greeting message (which for now can't be heard by the caller – that until I find the desired tweak), after that the device opens Notes and starts recording for Y seconds (once again - you define the Y).
When the recording is done it sends a missing call notification – so you know you have missing calls.

[tsadek]

Hi there,

Perhaps I'm getting the wrong end of the stick....but how is this any better than the answerphone function you get with mobile operators??

[yairlanz]

It’s not.
But it has its benefit. You save all messages on your phone (and can forward them to your PC), you don’t have to call your operator to listen to your messages, you can control on the activation and the parameters of your answering machine and most of all – you save a lot of money (at least here we pay for each call to cellular operator)

[Menneisyys]

Guys, go read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1798169

[Raging_Peace]

Ah I think an answering machine is possible using SK Schema
I found the article on the internet and it was quite a joy as it worked perfectly for me on my Imate Jam
Played back the prerecorded message nicely and then ran Resco audio recorder to record the sound very nicely as well
If interested I can post the whole script here

[yairlanz]

Oh

Please do

Thanks

[akpidis]

Check this out guys: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-isecretary-v1-1.html

Haven't tried it yet, it looks too "simple", but ok :)

[MrGalione973]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=357635

this should indeed answer all your questions in regaurds to an answering service for you ppc

[Synned]

The beginning to visual voicemail?
This would be pretty sweet...good luck man.

[Raging_Peace]

The below mentioned article was written by andason:

Here is a how to on the answering machine... thanks to "testdebug".

first change
HKEY_CURRENT_USER->control panal->sound categories-> attenuation

0 -------- 0x0(1)


then.
how to generate and save script file= open skchema. cleck tools. click script. click new. select command. and select phone then answer at the top. click ok. click new again. select command. choose multimadia then play a wave file. select parameters. and choose file. browse and select the wav file u created by yourself using the windows default note application. choose tools again. click context menu. and click save to file. This is the script file that your are going to select and execute at the below mentioned.


from skchema, go to watch mode, type new, select watch for windows then choose phone at the top. select event title, choose phone ring on top. select ring number and put your dersired number of ring time before pickup. select execute and choose the script files that you saved at above.


Download latest version freeware PMrecorder. and create a shortcut n throw it into startup. it will record all your calls. to playback calls. just click on call list. select the logs and click play. You can set skschema to execute file when exit so that skschema will not expire. the file is a freeware mortscript, set it to delete skschema registry at hkey_current_usersoftwaresksks chemmain.Just save the file as RegDelete HKCU,Softwareskschema,main

Now u have an aswering machine that will auto answer your call at a specified number of rings which specified from u. then it will playback wav file from your recorded voice. And recording the calls. i see the pmrecorder does not record using the mic but through internal phone module as it is loud even recording othe party.

Ta-ta.........answering machine!

i even set skschme to monitor my sms. if specified number or sms words is recognised. it will excute script tp start cell profiler. scan the cell id then sms me back the cell location then format or delete all the files in case of thief.
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Note that in order for the above script to work correctly on my Imate Jam i needed to add a delay of 3 secs [after receiving the call and before playing back the greetings wav file: in parameters put #d(3)] in the original answering machine script by testdebug.
Instead of PMrecorder I used Resco audio recorder and the quality of the other party is simply "wow", very loud.

[yairlanz]

God, I envy you.

I am still stuck with my mute problem (thou the isecretary work and play the message). Its just prove my point that there must be some way to override this music mute upon incoming calls. I know that there is logic in muting music when a call comes but hi –I want to disable it !!!