reverse lookup

I have a LG Optimus S phone. Your Reverse Number app works great except on thing. It seems to have a mine of its own, when it wants to update looking a my call log. What controls the app, to lookup my call log. Is there anyway I can tell it to update it, so I can see a current listing? Jim

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Hi Jim,

Thanks for checking out the app. The app updates the numbers each time it relaunches, which is less frequently on newer phones with lots of RAM.

So, there is an “invisible” feature that lets you force an update! Just exit the app all the way using your phone’s BACK key until you hit your home screen. At this point, the app has been forced to close completely. It should show the current call log when you relaunch it. To be totally sure, open the call log once before relaunching RL to force your phone to refresh it’s call log cache.

Reverse Lookup 1.9.11.5

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Hi everyone. We just dropped Reverse Lookup and Reverse Lookup Plus updates onto the market.

This update should solve some bugs that some users had reported as well as resolve some layout related issues. We even made the menu icons more visible for Gingerbread users.

In addition, we started a preferences screen. At the moment there are just 2 that we felt our users would enjoy based on frequent feedback.

  1. Default To Manual Entry – I call this one “Tablet Mode”. For users with devices that don’t have call logs, like tablets, you may want to ALWAYS start the app on the manual entry screen. This option allows you to do just that. You can always use your devices BACK button to get to the main calls screen.
  2. Google with Dashes – When your search results in no hits, you may choose to do a Google search at the end as a last resort to finding information. Some users told us they’d like to google the number with the dashes included, so you can do that now as well.. it’s up to you!

As always, let us know if you experience any issues!

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RT @ceoSteveJobs: My television has antenna issues; don’t see anyone complaining about that…

When I block a number… it shows up in my address book, beginning with the letters zz, even when I delete the numbers from my call log. Is there a way to get these number to not add to my address book?

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The app simplifies Android’s built-in ability to block contacts from calling, so a contact has to be created for each blocked number. We tack zz_ onto them to ensure they stay pinned to the very bottom of your contact list.

Another option, if your phone’s implementation allows, would be to create a contact group for those numbers, and then have it hidden from your main contacts display. This is phone dependent so we can’t provide specific support for this option.

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#android RT @AndroidDev: Problem with Market sign-ins (affecting some, not all) is known; team is on it.

On Reverse Lookup and Ad Blockers

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Wow. Today we published an experimental update to Reverse Lookup that stops the app from running without ads. Apparantly, a lot of you are running these blocking apps and you’re not happy that we don’t want you using our work for free.

Maybe it was a little forward to prompt you to uninstall that application, I’ll give you that. But malicious? Not in the least. The app does NOTHING behind the scenes as far as uninstalling anything. It simply sent you to the uninstall screen for that app. The choice was yours.

Anyway,.. we’re meeting your community in the middle. We’ve removed the prompt to uninstall the ad blockers, and you can once again use the app. Ad revenue funds our continued work on the application, and we’re disappointed that you’re choosing not to support our efforts.. but at the end of the day we could have handled this better, and we will. Starting now.

Points Plus coming to Diet Points Calculator

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We’re extremely pleased with the reception of Diet Points Calculator 2.0, but those of you who’ve downloaded it know that we’re not about to stop there. We’ve already released 2 updates that fix some bugs and improve usability.

Moving forward, it’s apparant that there is a desire for Points Plus support, and we’re going to bring that to you in a future update. We can’t put a timeframe on that today, but we hope it’s before Christmas.

In the meantime, we will issue a few intermediate updates to do some groundwork for implementing the new points system, so look out for those soon!