Multi-call support allows you to:
a/ View current used minutes
accumulatively counted from the begining of current month. With minimum
configuration setting ( Enable field "Monitor sum used"), you will know the
amount of minutes used.
b/ Monitor calls for period of whole month
(not just monitoring one call separately as before).
- if you enable "Multi-call mode" and not change or
change only "Begining balance (minutes)", then ONLY the last call (call that
runs out monthly free time ) of month hangs up. In other word, call hangs
up ONLY when balance equal zero. Begin balance is the amount of remaining
minutes you have for your current plan at the time you install this application.
Every new month comes, this number is auto set to number in field "Minutes" in
"Quick settings" category. By default new month is considered to be first day of the month but you can change (if your carrier begin to charge you at other day) it at "Timer reset day" (or "Día de comienzo" for Spanish version). You can manually reset timer or change monitoring cycle to daily/weekly/monthly.
c/ Limit free time to a time interval and
apply auto hang up to only calls that go into this interval.
- if you change setting (applied for plan with free
minutes from xx hours to yy hours) in "Setting free time interval", call
will hang up when it reaches the "Free to" limit if your balance still >= 0,
otherwise call will finish when balance equal to 0 . The default settings for
"Free From" and "Free To" are 0 and 24, correspondingly. The settings mean
that all day is free. When change these settings, you should enter hours in
24-hour format and configure your phone to use 24-hour format (check it in
Settings-->Date and Time).
PLEASE NOTE: if you enable "Multi-call mode", when
your balance finishes, any further call will hang up immediately after new call
is made, to continue make call as usual you eithor need to disable the option or
disable the application till the end of the month.
USE-CASEs and CONFIGURATION:
1/ If you have a free number plan, such as free for first xx (or xxx) minutes, then you can configure the application as follows:
a/ Enter number of free minutes in field "Minutes".
b/ Enable option "Monitor sum used".
2/ If you have a plan that offers free minutes for whole month, you can configure the application as follows:
a/ Enter number of free minutes (for whole month) in field "Minutes".
b/ Enable option "Monitor sum used".
c/ Click "Multi-call settings".
d/ Enable option "Multi-call mode".
e/ If the application is installed after beginning of the month, you need to know how many free minutes left till the end of month. After knowing that number, you enter it in field "Beginning balance".
3/ If you have a plan that offers free minutes from xx hours to yy hours, then you can configure the application as follows:
- Go through all step from a to e as describe in configuration 2.
- Enter xx and yy into "Free from" and "Free to", correspondingly. Hours entered should be in 24-hour format.
- Go to System Settings-> Date & Time and enable option "Use 24-hour format.
When I downloaded the (free of charge) Call Timer app I hopped that the app will be able to count how many minutes (and seconds) I called from both of my sim cards separatelly. But for some reason it does not work. The setting is sometimes quite confusing and your web sites are not helping very much so I do not know if my setting is wrong or is it the app. How can I set automatic hang up after 20minutes of free time calling from my first sim card and 40free minutes for my second sim card? Where I can see the counter for each sim? Why this app does not have also sms counters? If this is not possible I would find the app useless, however, I appreciate, for example, the auto hang up function with the previous limit annoucements as well as some other functions (quick on/off setting (if it is called enable/disable) or timer which start on answer and not sooner or timer reset day according your contract. Thanks for answer (poetickagalerie@gmail.com) and improvement of your app.
ReplyDeleteHello Ales,
DeleteThank you for comment and suggestion! Unfortunately, currently the Call Timer app only supports the same configuration for both SIM. It doesn't handle SMSs either. The reason that it doesn't support SMS is currently we focus on timing problems. Maybe, in future we will add SMSs and data usage calculation.
So, sorry to hear that the app can't help you.
Hello.
ReplyDeleteYour app is the best. I was trying to develop a similar software but I could not detect when was the outgoing call answered. I have tried with a BroadcastReceiver without success. The timer started when I pressed the dial. Would you mind telling me what solution did you find. I was thinking about this from a while. Thank you.
Hello Zsombor,
DeleteThank you for compliment!
Regarding to the solution for detecting the answering moment, I have to say that you have to find out yourself. I have to keep that as secret because that make my application a little differs from others.