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Help Call logs limited? How to fix

HorrorAngel

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Nov 17, 2011
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I was looking for a number who called me a little less than a month ago and My note 3 only has logs back about 15 days. This didnt seem to be a problem on any of my other androids. I use my call logs often to retrieve numbers to people I dont want to add to contacts. The stupid phone has logs of numbers who sent me text messages for months though! Where is the setting to see the old calls or see more or whatever? How to fix it?
 
Do you get a lot of calls? Maybe the log will only hold a certain number of calls. Seems odd. Although I checked mine and it only goes back to 8/23...I do not use for a lot of calls so I can see where this could be a problem for some. You can make selections and filter what it logs...if you only want received and not dialed...or even remove logged messages.
 
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Do you get a lot of calls? Maybe the log will only hold a certain number of calls. Seems odd. Although I checked mine and it only goes back to 8/23...I do not use for a lot of calls so I can see where this could be a problem for some. You can make selections and filter what it logs...if you only want received and not dialed...or even remove logged messages.

I'm thinking it might be that calls and SMS/MMS/etc. messages are all kept in the same place, and like you said, only a certain total number of items are retained in that list. I get tons of SMS messages from Twitter feeds, monitoring systems at work, etc. And if you look in settings for the recent call list, you'll see that you can choose what to display - calls, or calls and messages, etc. That makes me think it's all one list. So then really, I wonder if there's any way to make that limit larger..
 
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I was looking for a number who called me a little less than a month ago and My note 3 only has logs back about 15 days. This didnt seem to be a problem on any of my other androids. I use my call logs often to retrieve numbers to people I dont want to add to contacts. The stupid phone has logs of numbers who sent me text messages for months though! Where is the setting to see the old calls or see more or whatever? How to fix it?

To break through the 500 call limit in Android for company Audit Trail or personal reasons, one solution is to install an unlimited call logging application such as BearContact, or " Unlimited Call Log " by SoftRelay.

You can also install an application called " Call Log Calendar " which automatically sends a print of any calls you send or receive with their duration to a personal or shared Google Calendar. Other options include adding the location of where the call was made or received to the Google Calendar.
 
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