[2.0 - Release] iBlacklist - Call/SMS filtering application

[tosbsas]

Hola Baku

intersante tu número (:-)) Te escribo desde Lima (:-))

Normally there is a button in iblacklist
settings for messages - addressbook only

This is your option :-))

[baku09]

I want to block sms from mobile nos. WHICH ARE NOT on my address book only. I do NOT want to block SMS from banks, etc.

If I select address book option, I will block ALL sms which I do not want.

[theguy386]

I want to block sms from mobile nos. WHICH ARE NOT on my address book only. I do NOT want to block SMS from banks, etc.

If I select address book option, I will block ALL sms which I do not want.

you are contradicting yourself there buddy...

I want to block sms from mobile nos. WHICH ARE NOT on my address book only.

but yet you say you...

I will block ALL sms which I do not want.

so what is it that you want? you want to block all your messages except for the ones in your contact list? or do you want to block only certain messages that start with a certain area code?

[baku09]

I want to block sms messages beginning with a certain area code.

[spektro]

To achieve this, you can just use a wildcard contact.
Add a contact to your active blacklist and use the number as AREA*, like if the number starts with 1212, use 1212* as your contact's phone number and make sure to have the sms switch set to ON for that contact. You may want to switch off the call switch for this contact, since you told you want to block all MESSAGES from this area code.

[theguy386]

same issue with sending sms.
I have irealquicksms installed and tlert.

appears to be ireal and iblacklist conflict.
It goes away with a respring.

spektro... does the new itunes backup feature also backup our license data ?

the icon goes away at certain times only , but for about 98% of the time it still stays until respring, any idea?

so after a bit of playing with it, I came to notice that this only happens when iBlacklist is turned OFF. When iBlacklist is turned on the icon goes away as normal.

Same here. Just installed iRealQuickSMS and the send icon gets hung in the status bar everytime.

Ok this worked for me. I found this on the iRealSMS forums. You will lose all of your SMS messages though. SSH into your phone, and browse to var/mobile/Library/SMS and delete everything in there. Reboot. Launch iRealQuickSMS and re-activate. Send SMS, no more hung icon. Apparently it has to do with corrupted messages in the SMS database.

found a temporary fix for this... just create a new active list with absolutely no one in it and you can have iBlacklist turned on at all times

[tosbsas]

spektro said that about that icon thing

Yes, I already saw those posts, but it does not happen here and seems to be
an realsms problem. As I stated, I pass the ball to irealsms servers when I know they are there. This is what me and the realsms dev worked along to
achieve in the past. A simple and fast scheme, and it always worked. I never changed it.

[baku09]

To achieve this, you can just use a wildcard contact.
Add a contact to your active blacklist and use the number as AREA*, like if the number starts with 1212, use 1212* as your contact's phone number and make sure to have the sms switch set to ON for that contact. You may want to switch off the call switch for this contact, since you told you want to block all MESSAGES from this area code.

err.. sorry for sounding like a moron, but here goes...

My country code is +51. For Mobile Nos. there is no area code. All Mobile nos. start with 9 and consist of 10 digits. For eg. A Mobile no. in my address book will look like this +519876543234. the first 2 digits '51' are the country code and the next digit '9' indicates it is a mobile no.

Will you be kind enough to give me a wildcard contact for the situation I described above? Do I enter the '+' as well in wildcard contact?

[spektro]

It's hard to believe that your country (Peru) does not have area codes for different states that form your country.
But adding the + will help. So basically you confirm you receive messages with identification like +51XXXXXXXX, only, even if the texter is from a distant place inside your country?

[baku09]

Mobile nos. do not have area code in my country.

So, Yes I recieve messages with identification like +51XXXXXXXX, only, even if the texter is from a distant place inside my country AND the first x is always 9 as all mobile nos. start with the digit '9'

[tosbsas]

I live in Peru (:-)) and yes they have area codes. Lima is always +51 1 9XXXXX the 1 is the area code of lima. Arequipa is +51 54 923456767 and so on, so iblacklist will do whatever you want it to.

If you need more help - pm me and I give you icq,or msn, or aol,or google or skype contact

[D to the M]

Alright, i know i saw it somewhere but i cant find it for the life of me. When i have the SMS app open and i get a new text, it plays the recieved sound twice. whats the word with that

again sorry i know its been asked before cant find it.

[7h31ll3g4l]

hi spektro...
iblacklist & ibirthday work on new fw 3.1?

bye...

[spektro]

Hi

iBlacklist is working normally on 3.1, as expected.

I can't speak about the birthday thing, since it's not under my development.


@ D to the M

Are you using the default messages client there? I'll take a look into your report. Thanks.

[D to the M]

Hi

@ D to the M

Are you using the default messages client there? I'll take a look into your report. Thanks.

Yes, default SMS app and i have no other SMS app installed. problem persists on 3.1.

Thank you in advance.

[Carrbone]

found a temporary fix for this... just create a new active list with absolutely no one in it and you can have iBlacklist turned on at all times

This worked for me, was the only solution to resolve this.

The icon now goes away like its supposed to.

[lara888]

i need help.

i installed iblacklist and tested a number to block but now that i don't want to block it, it remains blocked. i removed it from the blacklist, that didn't work. i uninstalled iblacklist and this: /var/mobile/Library/iBlacklist. calls and sms still blocked. reinstalled and reset database to a clear one but its still blocked. uninstalled again but it remains blocked.

please help. i'd prefer if i didn't have to restore. thanks!

btw, i also tried the whitelist option but that too didn't work.

[spektro]

If you uninstalled it, you can be 100% sure that iBlacklist is not blocking anyone because it's not there !!!!
iBlacklist is a mobile substrate extension to the SpringBoard.

What does this mean?

It means that it does DYNAMIC modifications when it's installed, which is pretty different from PERMANENT modifications that i have seen on other applications on Cydia. So, once it's not being loaded because it's not even there, NO MODIFICATIONS are applied and you have your device running exactly how it was.

[lara888]

i am relating my personal experience. that's what happened to my phone and the contact still can't contact me. i was just wondering if it changes anything regarding the phonebook or something. if there is nothing you can do regarding my problem, i understand.

thank you for your response.

[conedude13]

Hi

iBlacklist is working normally on 3.1, as expected.

I can't speak about the birthday thing, since it's not under my development.

i'm currently tinkering with some setting, having trouble getting this working. has iBlackList been tested on a 3gs w/3.1?

yeah, still cant get it to work. and all i'm using it for is to block the sms/mms popups.