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Help How do you turn off/disable incoming Direct Connect calls?

RunVert

Well-Known Member
I am using my i1 as a work/personal phone. I use direct connect for work purposes only. Is there a way to turn off the Direct Connect incoming calls for after hours and on the weekends? and still be able to recieve regular texts and phone calls?
I did find an option in the setting menu, under "One Touch DC" that allows me to select an "off" option. However this only turns off the ability for me to send a direct connect call, however I can still recieve them even when the "off" box is checked.
Is there another setting? an app to download? or just another way to do this?
Thanks!
 
settings> call settings> additional call settings> >>phone only mode<<

I'm pretty sure you cant send or receive text either though since this turns off all data as well as ptt.
 
Yeah, that stinks if that is the only option. I still want to text on the weekends, but I also want to disconnect myself from the office on the weekends as well ..bummer :(
 
vibrate or disable ringer is as close as you can get to being free, i think they do it on purpose. if your company only uses the talkgroup you are in luck if not you are out of luck! unfortunately you will not find very many apps that cater to the needs of the nextel/boost dc user. if you message the developers (like I do) about the upgrades you wish to exist in existing apps they listen, I even offer to buy it for a higher price and they seem to at least entertain the idea. for example; Contactos app is the only contact sharing app that works/looks well however there is not a field for dc# so I contacted the company and suggested the upgrade. If we all do this the app developers will directly impact the function of the phone faster than the upgraded os can. hence, the reason android has the potential to dominate.
 
Thanks for the reply. I might have to message some developers about this, as I know for a fact that I am not the only one who wishes not to recieve DC calls when I am out with my family after work, or anytime on the weekends, as well as when I am in meetings during the week. It is a shame I have to turn off my phone in a meeting, and not have access to my email/calendar, because I might get "beeped". It is a great tool (Direct Connect) to get ahold of fellow employees in a moments notice, but I dont know why they didnt install an "off" option for after hours and also meetings! I would think this would be a fairly easy fix.
My old Nextel DC phone was a 5 year old hunk of junk basic flip phone, and even that had an OFF/disable option to where no one was able to "beep" you while in a meeting.
 
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