Phonehook

I have tried the site a bit now and I'm getting some results I find a bit strange. If I search for a name, say "John", and then try to reverse search for the numbers that are listed, most of them don't give any results, but some do.

I maybe misunderstanding something here, but this doesn't seem right. If you have a number that gives correct results when doing reverse lookup on the site, but not in the app, then you can PM me that exact number.

It is call blocking, just not the passive kind. The primary use case is to prevent telemarketing calls which this does effectively. You can use ScumStopper if you don't want the other party to know you're blocking them.

I will add a note with the next release which clarifies this.

Thanks for reporting, I will try to have a fix up soon.

Update: 0.3.3 should work better. I don't think the connection dialog is broken this time either :)

Hi! The scrapers are quite limited in what they can do, and all lookups are made online (unless the list of numbers is already built in). It sounds like a specialized app or script would be more suited to this task.

Hi! I don't think I've heard of this problem before, but if you could try checking the setting "Enable while roaming" and also un-check "Show only for unknown contacts" and see if that makes a difference.

If it still doesn't work, open a new issue on github ( https://github.com/omnight/phonehook/issues ) and I can help you to debug it if you want to.

I added 1207 (for lookup) and a combo with goudengids and wittegids (for searching). Goudengids has some crazy ineffective http responses, nearly 1 mb of text for 20 search results! It also seems to actually skip a few results when changing pages, but the scraper can see them ;)

Maybe the mobile site is more efficient, but the search results seems to differ from the desktop version.

Hi! I've added a greek directory (11888) now, seemed to be one of the better ones.

Hi! It should hopefully be working again by the next version. Do you know any other sources for phone numbers in India?

Hi! It should already be possible to use that service for lookups. Blocking is a feature I've planned to do later on, just need to implement it with care.

This error is because the homescreen modifications have already been reverted (by a system upgrade or homescreen re-installation). I thought I already had handling for this but I guess not :(

The workaround for now is that you have to apply the patch again before you can uninstall.

Make sure you have enabled developer mode (System > Settings > Developer Mode) and set a root password. Also enable Remote Connection. Open the terminal app, run these commands:

devel-su
cd /usr/share/lipstick-jolla-home-qt5/
patch -N -p4  < /usr/share/phonehook/phonehook-lipstick-v3.patch;
pkcon remove phonehook
​

Now Phonehook should hopefully be uninstalled if there was no error. Sorry for your troubles!

Hi! I am aware of nemo notifications and I have tried them out a bit before, but the limited amount of text and possible interactions with the notification made me look for other options. I took some inspiration from powermenu for the current approach, but I don't insert the entire popup qml into the system files, only a DBUS service to allow for qml injections at runtime (so even if phonehook is removed without reverting the system file changes, it shouldn't cause crashes).

If it is possible to show arbitrary qml overlayed without modifying the system files that would be preferable, but right now using notifications would degrade the usability and restrict future development.