VZW call+SMS filter app from Nokia will not install

[mrZoSo]

As many already know the call+SMS filter does not block calls if your using the 928 on Verizons network, yet it works fine if you put it on another carrier.

I found this version of it at the Store - call+SMS filter ver. 1.5.4.2 - But can't get it to install, even on a dev unlocked phone. When I run XapDeploy it comes up with Invalid XAP file.
Could someone help me get this installed?
I'm thinking, possibly the one that VZW has installed on the phone is the reason the filter doesn't work properly.

Also is there a way to check what the version numbers are of the apps installed?

Thanks

 

[tonbonz]

As many already know the call+SMS filter does not block calls if your using the 928 on Verizons network, yet it works fine if you put it on another carrier.

I found this version of it at the Store - call+SMS filter ver. 1.5.4.2 - But can't get it to install, even on a dev unlocked phone. When I run XapDeploy it comes up with Invalid XAP file.
Could someone help me get this installed?
I'm thinking, possibly the one that VZW has installed on the phone is the reason the filter doesn't work properly.

Also is there a way to check what the version numbers are of the apps installed?

Thanks

Xap files downloaded from the store to a PC are encrypted and can only be installed from an sd card on supported devices. Also, in the one instance that I had to use this app on my Lumia 928 it worked just fine. If the app in the store is compatible with your device just install it from the store. You can uninstall the current app from settings by setting the date on your phone to 100 years in advance (2113) and opening the call/sms filter app. It should give an error with the option to uninstall. Don't forget to change the date back to current or you will have issues.

 

[tonbonz]

By the way the store version is the same as installed.


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[Budniu]

You can uninstall the current app from settings by setting the date on your phone to 100 years in advance (2113) and opening the call/sms filter app. It should give an error with the option to uninstall. Don't forget to change the date back to current or you will have issues.

Don't do that !!!!!
I did it and now I can't install this feature. Anyway - this option is added with "extras+info" from your link I can't install too. I think, that only "hard reset" repair it.

 

[snickler]

Here's what you have to do, get the updated extras+info app. Open it, and click on More Info, wait a few seconds (like 5) close the app and you should see calls+sms filter in the Settings menu. If it isn't there, try that process again. It only works for Lumias with the Amber Update.

 

[Budniu]

THX, but I have Amber and I have newest extras+info version (1.12.0.1). When I opened that and I wait 5, 10, 15, 60 sec call+sms filter don't show in the settings. In the first time (when I flashed Amber - august 5) I had calls+sms filter, but about 10 days he was broken. Now I haven't that option and I can't install that.

 

[mrZoSo]

By the way the store version is the same as installed.

And how do you know this? How can you check the version that is installed?

Here's what you have to do, get the updated extras+info app. Open it, and click on More Info, wait a few seconds (like 5) close the app and you should see calls+sms filter in the Settings menu. If it isn't there, try that process again. It only works for Lumias with the Amber Update.

Wish I had known that before I flashed my phone... lol
Now that I've flashed it, the Amber update one come down to it :/
UPDATE: Just read that someone had spoken to VZW and Nokia, the Amber update for the 928 on VZW has been put on hold until end of Sept.
Anyone have the Amber update files for the 928?

 

[tonbonz]

And how do you know this? How can you check the version that is installed?


extras + info
Nokia Spamfilter 1.5.4.2

 

[mrZoSo]

And how do you know this? How can you check the version that is installed?

extras + info
Nokia Spamfilter 1.5.4.2

Thank you tonbonz, I never even thought that.

Now I'm stuck with a non-Amber phone until VZW decides to release the updated version of it.
But I did manage to get the update files for the Black version(I have a White one) from Nokia, and I'm so tempted to fire up NCS to get Amber back,, lol

 

[tonbonz]

Thank you tonbonz, I never even thought that.

Now I'm stuck with a non-Amber phone until VZW decides to release the updated version of it.
But I did manage to get the update files for the Black version(I have a White one) from Nokia, and I'm so tempted to fire up NCS to get Amber back,, lol

No prob... I thought Amber was already pushed to the 928? I used NCS. Pretty sure there are links to the files for the white version somewhere in the WP8 hacking forums. Ahhh here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2300865&page=2

 

[mrZoSo]

No prob... I thought Amber was already pushed to the 928? I used NCS. Pretty sure there are links to the files for the white version somewhere in the WP8 hacking forums. Ahhh here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2300865&page=2

Terrific! Thanks yet again!!

It did go OTA the other week. But they put a hold on it. Sounds like they are updating it, I guess bug fixes. There was a couple people on another forum that got replacement phones and didn't have Amber on them and no updates available when checking on the phone. So they contacted VZW and Nokia and where informed of this Amber 'hold' but should be getting it soon, most people should have it by the end of September.
I was messing with NCS today and flashed what I just got and it's definitely not Amber.

 

[LiFePo4]

Has anyone done a hard reset to see if they can get the call+sms filter working on VZW? I have been trying to get an answer out of Nokia and VZW on this and all I get is "do a factory reset". They also claim I am the only one they know of having this issue (yet I sent links to a few forums, including Nokia's own where there is a thread on this).

 

[snickler]

extras+info just updated their app today. I would download that and try it again.

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/extras-info/2377fe1b-c10f-47da-92f3-fc517345a3c0


If that doesn't work, try a hard reset, update the extras+info and then try that.

 

[mrZoSo]

Got Amber back on the phone and the updated Extras+Info. But the call+SMS filter wasn't updated yet. So still a no go blocking calls with it on Verizons network.