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Visual Voicemail (T-Mobile)

Anyone here use it? Is it worth activating; does it drain battery significantly, etc.? (I know folks say Google Voice is better, but I'm not interested in handing out a new phone no., etc. Don't do much phoning, or need heavy features; just curious about the pre-installed VV app.) Thx.

You don't have to hand out a new number. What you do is set your phone to forward unanswered calls to your Google Voice number and then set your Google Voice number "Do Not Disturb."
That way, all unanswered call get forwarded to Google Voice which goes straight to Voice Mail. Google Voice notifies you immediately when they are done leaving their message. Cheers!

I've used T-mobiles voice mail services including visual voice mail. I have also used Google Voice. Personally I didn't like the Google voice experience.
Much happier using T-Mobile voice mail and visual voice mail through T-Mobile.

I use it, works great for me. Never tried the google voice method.

I have never really tried the visual voice mail through T-Mobile. What makes it different and don't they charge you extra for it?

kangxi said:
I have never really tried the visual voice mail through T-Mobile. What makes it different and don't they charge you extra for it?
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Visual voice mail is free with your data plan. However, if you have been a long time customer, it may not be provisioned on your account. So all you have to do is call them, tell them to please provision visual voice mail onto your account, it should be free, and then you can activate it via your phone app.
Only real difference, Google Voice will transcribe your voice mails. Besides that major difference, I found Google Voice to be unreliable and just not for me.

SamsungVibrant said:
Visual voice mail is free with your data plan. However, if you have been a long time customer, it may not be provisioned on your account. So all you have to do is call them, tell them to please provision visual voice mail onto your account, it should be free, and then you can activate it via your phone app.
Only real difference, Google Voice will transcribe your voice mails. Besides that major difference, I found Google Voice to be unreliable and just not for me.
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I see. Well have you tried any if the newer versions? They have done a lot to make it faster and big free.
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Thanks to all for the replies/info...

I am using the visual voice mail and so far so good, it's free, so why not activating it?

I've been suing google voice for a while now. It works pretty good. Havent used vicual voiceail from t-mobile in a minute though. I think both work fine though, I'm just a google junkie

I found google voice is better.....for me. Just in case I don't feel my phone vibrate about a new voicemail. I also get email notifications, which is handy for me since I always use gmail notifications on my computers that I use.
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Sir Incognito said:
I've been suing google voice for a while now. It works pretty good. Havent used vicual voiceail from t-mobile in a minute though. I think both work fine though, I'm just a google junkie
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you might want to edit your post it says you have been suing google voice lol

I tried and use both. Visual vm has no negatives imo. Works wonderfully. GV transcripts are usually terrible-useless anyways. I only use google voice as a number on social networks and for texts when im in a bad reception area with wifi.
Plus it MAY not be free after the end of the year...
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I use both so.....

Tmobile vvm doesn't transcribe. They mean "visual" like you can see your vm details on the screen as opposed to calling in.
Its kinda stupid.
Google voice is nice as long as you have the right combo of app and dialer app. I place a widget from each app on the screen. I can see sms as they arrive. Automatically transcribes vm, not recommended if your callers tend to be mumblers or dRunks.
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I prefer visual voicemail over GV, if only cause there are too many hoops to make GV work well, and the transcription sucks in my opinion.
The only fail with T-Mobile Visual Voicemail is that it will not receive messages on WiFi, and where I live the 3g is non-existent at my house so I am always on WiFi, and if I get a voicemail I have to get of the wifi, download it and then I can switch back over.
Hope this helps.

ensonnosne said:
Tmobile vvm doesn't transcribe. They mean "visual" like you can see your vm details on the screen as opposed to calling in.
Its kinda stupid.
Google voice is nice as long as you have the right combo of app and dialer app. I place a widget from each app on the screen. I can see sms as they arrive. Automatically transcribes vm, not recommended if your callers tend to be mumblers or dRunks.
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Google voice transcriptions are terrible. The widget only shows the last SMS, and callimg people with a Google voice number only causes confusion.
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ensonnosne said:
Tmobile vvm doesn't transcribe. They mean "visual" like you can see your vm details on the screen as opposed to calling in.
Its kinda stupid.
Google voice is nice as long as you have the right combo of app and dialer app. I place a widget from each app on the screen. I can see sms as they arrive. Automatically transcribes vm, not recommended if your callers tend to be mumblers or dRunks.
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I like the visual because that way I can choose which message I want to listen to rather then start at message one

Ya like it too but they kinda do two different things.
And yes google voice is definitely not for you if it confuses the majority of your callers. Lol
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ensonnosne said:
Ya like it too but they kinda do two different things.
And yes google voice is definitely not for you if it confuses the majority of your callers. Lol
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Some people have beyter things to do than worry about which number to call or sms. Can also make managing you sms a pain, since voice isn't intergrated into the stock messaging app.
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[Q] Google Voice and Google Talk

I got my Xoom this morning and I am absolutely in love. My only issue is that I'm not able to install the Google Voice app to get my text messages and phone calls forwarded to my tablet. I don't believe Google Talk has the same abilities as Google Voice. I haven't tried sideloading the APK yet but does anyone else have any ideas or did I just miss some functionality of Google Talk?

I went out looking for Google Voice too, but it appears that it's not available for Honeycomb yet.
Hopefully this is a temporary thing.

I hope so too cause I'm really lazy and would rather do my text messages on my tablet when I'm using it. I guess I could always just log on the Google Voice website but notifications would be better.

agreed... I want GVoice too.

Anyone tried sideloading the APK to see if that works? I'll try when I get home if no one has by then

side loaded
Yep I was able to install google voice but get an error when trying to to launch it

Go to the web site, that's how I have been doing it until the app comes out.
I really want to make voip calls via gvoice.
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agentpower said:
I really want to make voip calls via gvoice.
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Does the Xoom have a microphone? I was actually wondering how the front facing cam would be beneficial (video conference-wise) without audio.

Yes it does have a mic. I used the TIKL app on it to talk to my bestie. TIKL is like having a nextel walkie talkie for those who might know.
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xoom wifi google voice calling?

I have google voice installed on my wifi xoom when I try to call someone it calls my phone then when I answer it my phone calls the contact I tried to call from GV.? Is there any way to just make calls from GV? It also is the same for the browser version of GV. Texting works on both though.

Google voice is not a voice over IP service, it doesn't do calls.
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Actually there is a way. Go to the Xoom developers forum and open the thread called "CRTAnim+desktop.........". Go to last page. Note that you have to be rooted to do this.
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o man I was thinking it did because when I had it installed on my old g1 back in the day I made calls from my g1 with google voice. But don't remember it calling my g1 then connecting to the contact I called. Sorry for the dumb question. I feel very supid now

okay thanks don't know if I will be rooting this one tho. Can't say I won't because I always do when I get tired of waiting for the newest update lol.

If you dont want to root, and still make voip calls with this, its easy..
get a sipdroid account, at pbxes.org
install sipdroid on the xoom
install something like acrobits SIP dialer, or, you should be able to do it with your google voice account
the thread that tells you how to sync your google voice account to sipdroid is here
http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x-apps/15366-sipdroid-free-voip-via-google-voice.html
there are some issues today with pbxes servers, so it may not work right at the moment, but trust me, I have been making voip calls from my evo for months using this, and, made tons of calls from the xoom earlier in the week using this method
have fun!

cool thanks I will check that out.

ericman77 said:
I have google voice installed on my wifi xoom when I try to call someone it calls my phone then when I answer it my phone calls the contact I tried to call from GV.? Is there any way to just make calls from GV? It also is the same for the browser version of GV. Texting works on both though.
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Wait... how did you get Google Voice on your Wi-Fi Xoom?
It's not in the Market.

you dont need google voice on your tablet, per se, you just need a google voice account, ad, you do the configuring from the google voice website..

gerbick said:
Wait... how did you get Google Voice on your Wi-Fi Xoom?
It's not in the Market.
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Side load it. There's an older thread on this forum titled something like "I got GV working...." it includes a link where you can do a hacked version of GV that works great for SMS.
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10$ to the first finding a way ro install stock sms app.

Hello
10$ (paypal) to the first who finds a way t install a working version of the android stock sms app (think its called mms.apk).
Thanks
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Why? The Transformer is WIFI Only and has no phone modem or somthing else.
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If you have a google number you can use the Google Talk app. Works for sms.

yaaah_hoo said:
If you have a google number you can use the Google Talk app. Works for sms.
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You mean you can use the Google Voice sms app. Google Talk is just IM

Where can you get the google voice sms app?

It depends on the Telephone provider, try throwing the TelephonyProvider.apk from /system/app/ in a 2.x device onto the TF, and see if it will work then.
It might need some libs too, but idk. Im at work now, cant test it
EDIT::Check /system/etc/permissions/android.hardware.telephony.<CDMA or GSM>.xml
I think that would help too

SyncSMS
works WONDERFULLY

toddmp said:
SyncSMS
works WONDERFULLY
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agree plus it's less than $10.
For sms you can also use google voice as mentioned and voice calls
Use GrooveIP

baseballfanz said:
agree plus it's less than $10.
For sms you can also use google voice as mentioned and voice calls
Use GrooveIP
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Groove IP works great for phone calls.

Thanks pal's, but that's not what I had asked for, no?
Reason can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1105837
Works better & faster as sms sync and as a backup/recovery too

SCDroid said:
You mean you can use the Google Voice sms app. Google Talk is just IM
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You're right I mean Voice. Lol. Groove IP works great to place inbound and outbound calls on the TF. I've been using it.

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Google Voice calls only

I am trying to set up my un-activated Continuum to only use Google voice for all calls. I have gone into the Voice settings and tried setting it to make all calls through Voice and set to ask. Neither way work. They all try to use Verizon to place the calls, and not receiving any. I have EC09debinged rom installed. I wonder if it is not working because the phone is looking for a carrier activiation, but I told it to use Voice only. Any ideas?

Are you trying on Wifi?
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I am using WiFi. I can do everything else, but make and receive calls.

Mitsiboy said:
I am using WiFi. I can do everything else, but make and receive calls.
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In order to make calls you're going to need a separate app called groove Ip. There's a lite and full version.

XjokiX7 said:
In order to make calls you're going to need a separate app called groove Ip. There's a lite and full version.
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Best me to it! Lol... There are several apps on the market to make voip calls through Google voice. I don't use voip so can't give a recommendation.
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roaddog665 said:
Best me to it! Lol... There are several apps on the market to make voip calls through Google voice. I don't use voip so can't give a recommendation.
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Well this one was mostly made for google voice and it could be quiet useful.

I installed Groove IP and it works the way that I would like. Thanks a lot!

Mitsiboy said:
I installed Groove IP and it works the way that I would like. Thanks a lot!
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Also if you're having trouble receiving your calls go to settings on your google voice *pc* and click call forwarding to google chat. Not your phone.