Hi All,
Has anyone been able to (with Fossify Contacts and Fossify Phone) and using dual-SIMs? Have I missed something incredibly obvious:
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actually select a SIM to dial out on from the dialler pad?
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Get Fossify to Save the preferred SIM for any particular contact,
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Find any way to actually view what SIM is saved (if any) for a particular contact?
Yet another dual-SIM basic functionality feature that seems to be missing and that’s doing my head in! I have read a few threads elsewhere (see a couple linked below) such as Fossify GitHub and GrapheneOS community, and these imply it partially had some of these functions and people were complaining so they recently removed some - WTF?
My understanding is when the dial confirmation box comes up (if you have it enabled) you can long press and a pop up gives you the choice of which SIM to dial out on - well in 4 weeks of use with multiple calls a day this has worked exactly once for me - so that’s about a 1% success rate - and that was about the second or third day of use in 4 weeks.
It also does not work at all on the dialer pad - if I understand correctly they actively removed the option to dial from a different SIM; so you are forced to dial out on your default SIM (supposedly - TBH I don’t trust this and suspect it’s just SIM 1 regardless) and there is no other way to choose which SIM if you type in a number and dial (rather than use a contact)?
In my case 80% of my calls are personal so the default SIM is my personal one. 20% are work calls and half of these are just calling numbers, not contacts. So to do that I have type in the number, call on the default line, which is my personal line, immediately hang up, then go to call history, then long press the entry (or the 3 dot menu at side), then pick SIM 2 from the pop-up, to then call on my work SIM… (meanwhile having disclosed my personal number in the missed calls on the other persons phone)…
Alternately I have to go through the rigmarole of creating an unwanted contact for a one-off call, then long press the contact (or the 3 dot menu), then pick SIM 2 from the pop-up, to then call on work SIM, then go back to the contact and delete it after the call…
What’s more even when you do the long press the contact (or the 3 dot menu), then pick SIM you want from the pop-up for an existing Contact it doesn’t save that setting nor give you anyway to manage it. So that’s a WTF, again…
Please tell me I’m completely missing something? Or tell me there’s a better pair of apps for functionality to use for calls than the Fossify ones? I’m using these because they were reported better by early users than the default Telephone and AOSP Contacts apps.
Note: The Fossify Messages app works okay because you can at least see the SIM in the interface and tap it to change it at will (even if you can’t seem to save it as default for that contact and there is no way to verify that if it is). And you can customise conversation to at least set a custom notification tone, etc, for that contact (which you can’t seem to do in contacts - again it seems Fossify had it then for some bizarre reason removed the functionality).
but if you have missed calls from one or both numbers in your recent call list, it will show each SIM number (1 or 2) under the missed number in a different color, so you know which line that call came from.
Agreed.
