About this app

Works on latest Android 7 Nougat!

Throw away your pager & monthly bills!! Allows Custom alerting for incoming text messages (SMS & MMS). Turn your phone into a pager, with received text messages!

Audience:
- Doctors
- IT professionals
- Anyone wanting to customize text alerts from a certain sender

Uses:
- Do you participate in an on call rotation where you get your pages via a text message? Hospital or IT professional?
- Need persistent reminders until you acknowledge the text from a certain someone or group?
- Need better control over sound alerts for text alerts?
- Need to silence alerts from a certain someone, area code, or email domain?
- Have a girlfriend or spouse that you can't afford to miss a text from?
- Get text messages from your children that you cannot miss?

Free Version:
- Free!! Free version is completely functional and no ads; Pro version simply has more features
- Download the Pro version to get access to all the locked features! (Search: OnCall Pager Pro)

Features:
- Very light-weight application, tiny install
- Works on KitKat
- Simple easy to user interface
- Supports SMS & MMS types of text messages, including MMS via email
- Reminder feature (persistent) for a keyword match for multiple senders
- Works great for scenarios where sender has different numbers each time (If your work for example sends texts from different numbers, but all begin with 712######, then just enter 712 as search string in ContactMatch to get a match
- Can enter search string to distinguish sender(s) (Contact # or email), then apply rules against (either email if coming via email, or phone # if coming via phone). Since it's a search string you can use just a partial # such as an area code, or domain name from email, etc (Could set to get persistent reminders for all email MMS texts sent from your work, for example).
- CustomContacts show a red Notification icon, while all other texts show a green icon
- Select actions for text from custom sender: Ignore only this sender, Only alert for this sender, Alert for everyone
- Spam filter option - prevent alerts for numbers with 6 digits or less
- Select custom sounds
- In-app volume control seperate from other system volumes
- Vibrate option
- Notification LED: blinks green for default senders, red for a match
- Many other options

Permissions Explained: (applies to both versions)
- Needed to process incoming SMS text message: RECEIVE_SMS, READ_SMS,
- Needed to process incoming MMS text message: RECEIVE_WAP_PUSH, RECEIVE_MMS
- Needed for vibrate option: VIBRATE
- Needed to translate incoming sender to a Contact in your phone: READ_CONTACTS
- Needed to keep device on while it is processing a message and alerting: WAKE_LOCK
- Needed for troubleshooting, but only used when Debug option or Email logs option in the menu is selected: READ_LOGS, WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (allows logs to be written to storage device)

Notes:
- Every phone and carrier is different, so make sure to test first!
- Disclaimer: Developer is NOT responsible for any missed texts!
- Within App, go into Menu Options to get Help or App info including versioning
- If you are having trouble with getting CustomContact to work, open a text from the sender you want to apply the rule to, select their message to get to message details or try to long press their actual message & click Details (differs on each phone). In there you should see the raw "From:" field. This is the field the app uses to search against for the CustomContact. Should be either a phone number or an email address.
- If you still can't figure it out, please send the Developer an email, along with the Logs (Menu Options->Email Logs to Developer)
- Activate option in Menu Options should be ignored; Find the Pro version in the market to upgrade.

Keywords: OnCall On-call On Call Pager Hospital IT Doctor

New features

Pro version now available! (Search: OnCall Pager Pro)
Change Log:
v 5.03
- Added link to Privacy Policy
- Updated notification icons depending on Android version
v 5.02
- Bug fix with notification light
v 5.01
- Minor bug fixes with sound (app crash)
- Icon updates due to new Android L requirements
- New pro features: Control max time sound can play for 3rd party sounds & Custom speech text
v 5.0
- Works on Android Lollipop (5.0)
- Added functionality to play 3rd party sounds

App Permissions

Allows an application to receive SMS messages.
Allows an application to monitor incoming MMS messages.
Allows an application to read SMS messages.
Allows an application to receive WAP push messages.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to read the low-level system log files.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.