Is there an answering machine kind of app available for Android other than Google Voice? Or does Android not allow apps to answer and record calls automatically? It'll be great to have such an app. No voicemail charges, and you can manage the recorded calls on your own.
PS: Sorry if this has already been asked. I could not find a thread for Android about the same.
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Hi,
This is my first posting here and this forum looks promising. I just bought Samsung i5800 from Amazon and the phone looks beautiful and has lot of nice features. I'm on T-Mobile network with no data plan. I have couple of questions on the general phone usage, installing VOIP softphone software and other issues. I apologize if my questions were already asked and answered. I searched the forum but couldn't find specific answers to my questions.
1. Firstly, the phone is running little bit sluggish. Opening and closing apps seems to be tad slow. I checked up the Manage Services and killed some of them but the others I felt were important and left it out. There wasn't a lot of services running though. How to fix this issue?
2. The phone is running on Android 2.1. Do you guys know if there is a official Android 2.2 Froyo update from Samsung for this phone? If not, where do I get 2.2 ROM. Will installing 2.2 make the phone run faster?
3. On the VOIP softphone front, I set up a new sipgate account and also a Google Voice account. I installed the free csipsimple opensource software from Android market and configured it. I don't have a independent dialer to go thru csipsimple. When I use the regular phone dialer from the phone to call somebody, csipsimple is popping up and asking me if I want to go thru it or use the Mobile itself and I choose csipsimple and it works extremely well. I hope it is using my Wifi network. I checked my T-Mobile account and there was no activity in the call log for the calls I made thru csipsimple. Now, here is the problem. When I call somebody, the other party receives the call as "Unknown". How to fix this issue? Should they be seeing my google voice number? The other big issue is I'm not getting any incoming calls thru VOIP. As I had mentioned earlier, I don't have GV dialer. Do I have to buy GV Dialer ($1.99) to make the incoming calls work? All I need is to have free incoming and outgoing calls when I'm on Wifi network. Can somebody please help me on this?
Thanks.
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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 can't post to the dev forum where the closest solution was. My fix for no calls work, data and texts both work.
Go into Google voice settings and disable carrier integration.
--Done
Installed voice app on a new ROM and missed the question asking about it. Defaults to integration apparently. No need to uninstall the app or update anything else.
I'm talking about Google's free calling and texting app Google Voice. I use it on my iPhone to...you guessed it, get free texting and calling.
I was at the store trying out the S4, and I downloaded the google Voice app, but its nothing like the iPhone app...
How does Google Voice get implemented into Android. I want to be able to get free texting and calling like I do on my iPhone..
Any help?
EpicMango said:
I'm talking about Google's free calling and texting app Google Voice. I use it on my iPhone to...you guessed it, get free texting and calling.
I was at the store trying out the S4, and I downloaded the google Voice app, but its nothing like the iPhone app...
How does Google Voice get implemented into Android. I want to be able to get free texting and calling like I do on my iPhone..
Any help?
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Text works from app. Free calling try GrooVeIp. It uses your google voice.
EpicMango said:
How does Google Voice get implemented into Android. I want to be able to get free texting and calling like I do on my iPhone..
Any help?
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This should help...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+does+google+voice+work
It uses the native dialer to make calls. When you make a call it's gonna ask you which you want to use to call it (real phone number, or Google voice number)
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So Basically I can always set Google Voice to make calls when I initiate them from the stock phone app, and I use the actual Google Voice app when I want to text somebody?
EpicMango said:
So Basically I can always set Google Voice to make calls when I initiate them from the stock phone app, and I use the actual Google Voice app when I want to text somebody?
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Yes, however, make sure you understand that calls made with the Google Voice App (through the stock dialer) still use minutes. The way it works is:
1. Phone calls google
2. Phone tells google what number to call
3. Google calls number
4. Google connects caller
You will just call the number normally and all this will happen, but it still uses minutes. In order to get "free" calling, you would need an app like GrooveIP, which uses data to connect to google's server and start (and continue) the phone call (equivalent to calling from your computer).
Hi,
I want to develop an Android app which for answering machine. The app will work as follows,
When the call comes, if the user is unable to receive the call the app will get on and will ask to leave a message. App will record the message and will save it with name, time and number and will play the recorded file when the user wants.
Is this possible? If it is then can some please guide me on this how I can develop it.
Many Thanks...