In general; I strongly don't recommend anything on the Google Play Store except the Google Dialer.
If the Google Dialer is not to your liking; I strongly recommend only trying Dialers you will find on F-Droid.org
In general; I strongly don't recommend anything on the Google Play Store except the Google Dialer.
If the Google Dialer is not to your liking; I strongly recommend only trying Dialers you will find on F-Droid.org
Google dialer?
Ad free, not slow, but collecting all possible data on your calls.
I like that it's blocking the spam calls, I get 10 spam calls for each real call. Unfortunately that needs to send back to them all my phone calls with their caller id.
I hate how it shows the call log. It only shows the latest action ever for a number and doesn't even show the time. This is especially infuriating when you need to see what time someone called. For example my doctor office called to move my appointment, then when I showed up they said that wasn't true and wanted to charged me for a no-show. I wasn't able to prove immediately that they called me on which day and at which time to move the appointment because the "simplified" call log only shows the latest call action which was that I called back several days after that.
Nah, I'm good.
I use fossify dialer, not familiar with Drupe, but works well for me.
I described the primary feature I'm looking for: a way to make calls based on a motion more complex than just clicking a name, and preferably one I can do without looking at the screen.
Gestures would work.
My bad, v tired when I replied. That is an interesting feature the only similar solution I can think of is using something like Fossify Dialer (a fork of the now ad-ridden and proprietary Simple Dialer) and use T9 dialing. That could achieve a similar speed / memorization as a gesture.
You could definitely get good enough at T9 to at least call people without looking at the screen.
Emerald Dialer is FOSS
FOSS is honestly a secondary concern to not constantly dialing random numbers every time I brush up against my phone.
Just tried it and really enjoyed, but the contact sources just don't seem to work? Two options, one from sms and one from com.android.contacts, and neither are correct (missing / duplicate contacts). Confused as to why the dialer can't just pull from my contacts like every other dialer, or I'd probably switch!
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