Filerting unknown and anonymous calls

[art]

I am currently in trial period with Magicall and when I installed the program it seems like it was working great with the one rule I created. Basically I created a rule to make numbers that call me without a number (unknown and anonymous) to pickup/hangup. It was working great. Then all of a sudden all incoming calls were being picked up and hung up. Even if they had a number. I tried to delete the rule and recreate it again but the same thing happened. Any ideas. I like the program but don't want to pay for the registered version if this is going to be a problem.

[art]

I forgot to mentione I use a Tmobile Wing, Windows Mobile 6. Magicall is installed in the main memory.

[admin]

Hi art,

Can you tell me how you set up the rule? Here is an example:

Rule type: Phone-Inbound
Filter type: No number
Action1: Hang up
Action2: Do nothing

And you can check MagiCall's log to see what number just called you.

[art]

I guess I should have included that important info:

Rule type: Phone-Inbound
Filter type: No number
Action1: Pickup/Hangup
Action2: Do nothing

When I look at the log where I called from my home phone it says the number is "anonymous", even though the number wasn't anonymous. I tried it half a dozen times with the same results. I uninsalled Magicall and tried to reinstall it to see if that works but now it says trial period is over. Thanks.

[admin]

Hi art,

I think the default timeout is too short for you.
By default, it is 500ms in MagiCall. If it cannot retrieve the caller ID within the period, it will treat it as an anonymous call.

You can increase the timeout value by adding a registry key-value pair.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MagiCall]
"GetCallerIDTimeOut"="1500"

GetCallerIDTimeOut is a string indicating a timeout period in ms.
Delete file settings.dat and logs.dat under foder "\My Documents\MagiCall" to start another trial period.

Hope my answer can help you.

[art]

When I go into the Registry to edit [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MagiCall]
I only find 3 entries:
DataLocation
LANG
MainFilter
I don't see an entry for "GetCallerIDTimeOut"="500"
Do I need to add this string. Thanks.

[admin]

Yes, you need to add it manually.

[art]

  Thank you, it seems to be working.