{"id":972,"date":"2011-10-24T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2011\/10\/24\/skype-was-the-default-dialer-on-my-android-phone-and-i-wanted-to-change-that\/"},"modified":"2011-10-24T10:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T10:53:00","slug":"skype-was-the-default-dialer-on-my-android-phone-and-i-wanted-to-change-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2011\/10\/24\/skype-was-the-default-dialer-on-my-android-phone-and-i-wanted-to-change-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype was the default dialer on my Android phone, and I wanted to change that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThat really gave me a hard time.<\/p>\n<p>I remember, that until a couple of days a go, when I attempted to dial a phone number resp. one of the numbers associated to a address book entry, I got a list of alternatives presented, through which I could dial. I don&#8217;t remember, that I made one of them the default dialers, but at one stage, I apparently did. I wanted to roll that back, but I had no idea why. For some reason I was obsessed with the idea, that I should be able to undo that choice exactly where I apparently selected it in the first place. But it doesn&#8217;t work like that. Searched the web for it and found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/howto\/43135\/how-to-change-the-default-application-for-android-tasks\/\">the right approach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what&#8217;s the current dialer?<\/li>\n<li>find it within &#8220;<i>Manage applications<\/i>&#8220;!<\/li>\n<li>find its &#8220;<i>Launch by default<\/i>&#8221; section!<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<i>Clear defaults<\/i>&#8221; if applicable!<\/li>\n<li>now that&#8217;s no longer your default dialer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\nIt was that easy in my case.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That really gave me a hard time. I remember, that until a couple of days a go, when I attempted to dial a phone number resp. one of the numbers associated to a address book entry, I got a list of alternatives presented, through which I could dial. I don&#8217;t remember, that I made one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-fG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}