On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 07:42:39 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:
Hamburger menu/three dots in the upper right corner Choose calls list
Again Hamburger menu/three dots "Empty calls list".
But that isn't selective ...
I could see many cases where deleting call logs en mass older than a
certain time period could be useful, particularly for privacy reasons.
https://www.google.com/search?q=android+delete+call+log+history+older+than+days
Hence I dug into the OP's question a little bit by testing my own phone.
It seems easy to delete ALL call log entries in one fell swoop, but when I
dug deeper, it's easy to do but everything depends on not only what app the
OP wants to use (as each does it differently), but also whether the OP
wants to delete the "real" call log (of which there is only one), or the
copy that each call log manager keeps as its own call log database.
However, there is going to be confusion on answering (& understanding) this question because everyone is using a different dialer (& contact manager).
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=phone%20dialer%20call%20log&c=apps
The answer will be different for each & different every call log app.
https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/2811854?hl=en
And, the answer will be different depending on each Android version.
https://www.quora.com/Does-Android-phone-OS-have-a-setting-that-will-automatically-delete-call-logs-after-a-certain-amount-of-time-or-a-certain-number-of-calls
But luckily, everyone has the same default underlying Android call log.
https://www.google.com/search?q=where+default+call+logs+stored+android
Whose first result was this stackexchange question from 5-1/2 years ago.
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/187772/where-does-android-store-the-missed-incoming-outgoing-calls
"It's stored in
/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/calllog.db
under the "calls" table, in reverse time order (i.e. the last item in the
table is the latest call in the log as displayed in the dialer)."
The OP's question might be answered in two ways, one of which is to modify _that_ default call log - the other is the way he's approaching it - which
is to find a call log application which modifies its own personal database.
For example, I'm using both "Phone" (com.samsung.android.dialer) and
"Open Contacts" (opencontacts.opencom.opencontacts) for my call logs.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/opencontacts.open.com.opencontacts/
They both obtain the same incoming call log data but mange it differently.
Normally I don't even look at how they interact since both have access to
the official call log database on the phone as their initial start point.
But I just checked each, one by one, which deletes the call log entries differently. A quick search shows what the OP wants "may" exist out there.
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/67049/delete-call-logs-more-than-5-days-old
In my OpenContacts, you open to the "CALL LOG" tab by default, and then you long press on one contact and up pops a context menu which has a selection
to "Delete" or "Delete Multiple" (among others). If you select to delete multiple entries, they turn bright orange as you tap them, one by one. You can't sweep though, nor can you say to delete all that are 7 days old.
In "Phone" (note there are others with the same green icon such as "Phone calls" (com.android.server.telecom) & "Phone services" (com.android.phone)
you can long press on a call log entry and then at the left is a green checkmark inside an otherwise empty circle next to it. Each call log entry
has that empty circle which you can tap one by one and then, when you're
done selecting the call logs one by one, you press the "Delete" trashcan
icon at the bottom of the screen.
As with OpenContacts' call log, you can't sweep, nor do I see any option to auto delete after 7 days but com.android.server.telecom has an "All" button
at the top, which, if selected, will select all the entries (where you can unselect those you do not wish to delete).
Since it's a group effort maybe the OP can file an enhancement request?
https://gitlab.com/sultanahamer/OpenContacts
After looking for a few minutes, I think what the OP wants probably exists.
But the OP will have to find a different call log app that does it for him.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=delete%20old%20call%20logs&c=apps
For example the "Simple Dialer" description says it does something similar.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobiletools.dialer
"Call log entries can be removed either one by one, but it can also be
cleared out at once."
Notice the first entry in that search implies that the call logs aren't actually deleted from the main Android database for call logs.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.log.deletedcalls
"The app will tell you if you have deleted calls in the phone call log."
I guess the real question needs to be re-focused by the OP in whether he
wants to modify the "real" Android underlying call log database or if he
only wants to find any call log application that modifies its own database.
https://www.wideanglesoftware.com/blog/android-call-history.php
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