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I love google voice so far, the concept is fantastic. However, i am having issues trying to get everything integrated with my touch pro 2. Has anyone found a way to integrate google voice into the phone so it is seamless, as if google wasnt even there? Is there a way to integrate the SMS into the phone as well instead of going to the website to SMS from the phone? Just wondering what everyone else's experience has been so far, it is great but so very clunky for me.
Thanks!
Great topic!
I would like to know also about it, I´m already suscribed but as I live outside of USA, service is not available yet...
Best program I've used to date is onedialer. Its not free but you may want to try out the free trial and see how it works for you.
Have to say the developer runs a pretty nice forum asking for input and looking to the user community to offer suggestions on ways to improve. I generally don't pay for much software but believe this one is worth it...
I dont know why someone would dial the google voice number from there phone to make a call (long distance maybe?). I was able to change my TMobile voicemail to the Google voice number so my voicemail messages get transcribed for me [although the accuracy is somewhat hit and miss ].
I found that iDailer and iContact work best. You can go to the iDialer website and you'll be walked through creating a config file. You'll have the option to add your current phone number, your google voice number, and google voice as a callback number. You can use the Rhodium keyboard controller to assign the Talk button to run iDialer when pressed. iContact will open it automatically when you select a contact from it.
As for SMS, I know it's annoying, but the best I have found is to just text the person through the web service once and save the number you get back for them.
Hope this helps!
jmmmmm said:
I dont know why someone would dial the google voice number from there phone to make a call (long distance maybe?)
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Whats "Long Distance"? I thought that term died in the 90's.
jmmmmm said:
I dont know why someone would dial the google voice number from there phone to make a call (long distance maybe?). I was able to change my TMobile voicemail to the Google voice number so my voicemail messages get transcribed for me [although the accuracy is somewhat hit and miss ].
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so people store your google voice number in their contacts and call you back there, giving you the freedom to switch number/phones whenever you want
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+voice
willthomason said:
I love google voice so far, the concept is fantastic. However, i am having issues trying to get everything integrated with my touch pro 2. Has anyone found a way to integrate google voice into the phone so it is seamless, as if google wasnt even there? Is there a way to integrate the SMS into the phone as well instead of going to the website to SMS from the phone? Just wondering what everyone else's experience has been so far, it is great but so very clunky for me.
Thanks!
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For SMS (and calling) cell phones, the best way is to get the other person to send a text (to your Googlevoice number), then add their '406' number to your address book as their mobile number. Then there's no need to go to the web site in the future. Obviously that only works with folks you communicate with regularly. I'm about to try 'onedialer' for the others...
Have a look at an app I've just released, it does Google Voice SMS, and is free:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=604699
ChrisGrundy said:
so people store your google voice number in their contacts and call you back there, giving you the freedom to switch number/phones whenever you want
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Touché teacher, Touché
About google voice?
The only feature I use is voice's voicemail. It will transcribe your voicemail and notify you by text or email, which is pretty cool. Aside from that I don't see the hype either.
Free calls if you have a family plan and enter your GV number.
When I leave the office, I forward my phone to my GV #. Then I can route it to home/cell, etc...
I give out my google number out like free candy...If google recognizes the phone number from my phone book, they are routed to my phone or friendly voicemail..if not, they have to acknowledge who they are- and when i pick up their phone call- google acts like a secretary and says- so and so is calling you, choose 1 to accept or 2 to send to voicemail...once they are sent to voicemail- i can hear them leave a message and press any number to interrupt and answer them directly..
I don't have a home phone number..so this helps insure than Comcast and other stupid number don't have my real number.
I didnt know there was a super hype- but i do think it's awesome technology.
The "listening in" on the voicemail in real time is cool!
free sms = sooooo good.
Free calls to Canada that don't come out of minutes (the GV access number I have set as one of my friends and family) is my main reason for loving Google Voice.
its is a free visual voice mail, optional international calling rates and it transcribes your messages ( you can get an idea of what the message is about but unless the queen is calling and using proper English, you will still need to listen for the exact content)
can some one send me a google voice invite I would really like to give it a try. [email protected] dot com
qquag said:
can some one send me a google voice invite I would really like to give it a try. [email protected] dot com
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You have to have an invite?
I am asking because I am tried to setup GV and it could not verify my phone number.
I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
If you have signed up for a google voice account and got your invite though google you don't need a invite. How ever I signed up a couple months ago and still waiting for my invite. They are sure slow at sending them out.
Google Voice
Personalized voice-mail! Every person that calls me gets their own personal voice-mail... That and the visual voice-mail with transcribed message is awesome- also the call screening, and other sweet additions to the service- Google Voice is incredible!
I actually signed up for google voice over a year ago, and it took me a good 4-6 months before I was accepted... It's better to get accepted by google than be invited because then you can invite other people too... Those invited by other google voice customers can't actually invite anyone themselves...
Google voice is open. No special invite needed! Join away and welcome
www google com / voice
happy calling!!!
Sweet, now hopefully people stop pming me for my invites lol. Already gave them all away.
I'm interested to see if you can add your google number to your favorite 5 or a-list and get free calls... Anyone tried this yet? I just started doing it so i have nothing to report.
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I'm interested to see if you can add your google number to your favorite 5 or a-list and get free calls... Anyone tried this yet? I just started doing it so i have nothing to report.
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I was going to do this back when I got my Moto Droid on release day, but something stopped me from doing it.. I forget why I decided not to. Maybe I researched a bit and concluded that it wouldn't work. Seems like it should, though. Let me know how it works out for you
You lose caller ID but i guess you can use the google voice number as an exclusive number where only people you care to talk to have it.... I probably won't do it because of that though
okay, so i have added it to friends and fam for awhile now..i keep the caller id on cause i dont really eat through minutes..unless i am talking to comcast customer service..etc. so then what i do is, i open google voice (bookmarked in my browser) and then enter the number i want to call and then google connects me to that number by calling my phone with my gv number..i found it a lot simpler than dialing google voice and then dialing out through there. its flawless and i save the whole thirty mins
Hey everyone,
I am wondering if y'all figured out if google voice can refresh itself to get text messages. My friend's phone receives text messages ONLY after she refreshes Google voice.
Anyone else have this issue or not issue, nuisance?
I don't think anybody really understands what you are asking. What phone does your friend have, and are you referring to the text messages that are forwarded to the phone from Google Voice, or the text messages that are sent directly to the phone, or something else entirely (viewing Google Voice text messages in an application or web browser)?
It's kind of hard to answer a question when I have no idea what you're asking.
As far as I know Google Voice is not capable to run on WP7. I tried it through the browser and it required a download which WP7 cannot accomodate. So yes please clarify the question and maybe we can help.
Are you perhaps talking about one of the GV apps ?
There are two (or maybe three) unofficial Google Voice apps in the market. That's what OP is asking about.
Remember those are unofficial 3rd party apps and each has their own pros and cons.
WP7 API currently is quite limited. To make full use of Google Voice capability, Microsoft need to open up API furthermore so that Google will port an official Google Voice over.
FYI, on my Android phone, the native Google Voice app is tightly integrated with phone dialer pad so that you don't need to use a separate dial pad to call through Google Voice. Also, the multi-tasking capability means Google Voice app can sit on the background to receive text messages and voice mails. These are currently not possible on WP7. One of the Google Voice app needs to setup a dedicated server (from donated funds) to support the push notification.
Three advantages about Google Voice:
* cheap international calls on your cell phone
* free SMS
* free visual voice mail.
Since I bought my Nexus 4, rather than moving my number to tmobile and running the risk of one day losing my number, I decided to use Google Voice, instead....I love the call forwarding feature that can make multiple phones ring all from one phone number!!! It's so nice to have one number to give out, rather than 3 (work, home, cell).
The problem with this, though, is text messaging. While it works great and I never miss a text (even if I've forgotten to pay my bill :laugh I can't keep the conversations sorted properly. I easily have at least 5 conversations for each contact in my list, and I can't figure out for the life of me how to merge them or stop a new conversation from starting. I like having one conversation thread per contact so that I can easily flip through and reference my old messages in the event I need to find, say, a phone number or address one of my contacts may have sent through text. On multiple occasions I've had to ask people to resend something because I can't find it in the chat log, and it's starting to get a little frustrating. Does anyone know of any way of keeping the conversation list better organized? Or is there maybe another app out there I could use for sms that will keep my conversations better organized until google fixes this?
Google probably won't fix it until after the merge with Hangouts, which does behave like what you want.
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Yeah, hangouts is really nice!! Conversations work much better, and I hope either the app merge or gv fix come soon, because it gets pretty frustrating.
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Google probably won't fix it until after the merge with Hangouts, which does behave like what you want.
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The way GV conversations are sorted isn't a bug though. Most people hate it but it is the way Google wants it to work. Google hasn't really done anything to the Google Voice app in years other than a few minor updates. Hopefully they will merge it with Hangouts since they are actually developing that app.