I just renewed my plan and picked up a MyTouch 4G. So far, I have to say it puts my Nexus One to shame. However, the built in Sense UI is missing some features that I miss about the CM6 or Gingerbread roms which were previously on my Nexus One.
i.e.:
- ability to switch to vibrate mode from the lockscreen
- ability to use Launcher Pro
However, there is one feature about the stock MyTouch 4G UI that I absolutely cannot live without. And that's the built in visual voicemail. I hated having to use Google Voice on my Nexus One to get this feature.
My question:
Is there a way to root the MT4G and run a custom rom such as CM6/7 and still keep the built in visual voicemail feature found in the stock UI?
Thanks in advance!
Use ADW on it, and get rid of the Visual VM. It's ancient.
Give YouMail a try. It's a hell of a lot better than the built in VVM.
On The Nexus One ADW launcher was much more laggy than Launcher Pro. And it lacked a lot of the features as well.
Is this not the case on the MyTouch?
sn0warmy said:
On The Nexus One ADW launcher was much more laggy than Launcher Pro. And it lacked a lot of the features as well.
Is this not the case on the MyTouch?
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Nope. I use ADW EX on my MT4G and it fast. Used the free ADW before that and it was fast as well.
Wow, Youmail is absolutely terrible. It's worse than Google Voice and doesn't even hold a candle to the built in visual VM app. When attempting to listen to a voicemail in Google Voice, it would time out 75% of the time without letting me listen to it.
Youmail is even worse. It forwards my missed calls to my Youmail account where callers are constantly greeted by a busy signal and cant even get to my voicemail box to leave a message.
What a horrid service...
I have Launcher Pro on my rooted stock ROM phone. Why can't you use Launcher Pro? Also, LP was faster in my experience than ADW, but YMMV.
sn0warmy said:
Wow, Youmail is absolutely terrible. It's worse than Google Voice and doesn't even hold a candle to the built in visual VM app. When attempting to listen to a voicemail in Google Voice, it would time out 75% of the time without letting me listen to it.
Youmail is even worse. It forwards my missed calls to my Youmail account where callers are constantly greeted by a busy signal and cant even get to my voicemail box to leave a message.
What a horrid service...
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If you take the time to set YouMail up properly and install the YouMail app on your phone it is the best VVM service available. JMHO [I have used them all]
What is Visual Voicemail and how do I get activate it on my phone?
I've tried activating it before but noticed no change.
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After installing 2.1 i realized it doesnt include visual voicemail. i found some voicemail apps on market.. what do you guys recommend?
Also the absence of camera, multi touch, and light sensor; Is there any fixes available for any of these?
I kinda have to stick with 2.1 for usb tethering, but miss the original functionality.
cweezyf said:
After installing 2.1 i realized it doesnt include visual voicemail. i found some voicemail apps on market.. what do you guys recommend?
Also the absence of camera, multi touch, and light sensor; Is there any fixes available for any of these?
I kinda have to stick with 2.1 for usb tethering, but miss the original functionality.
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I am on the same boat as you are. As for Voicemail, I've heard good things about Youmail. The rest (camera, multitouch) is not done yet.
Google Voice.
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Google Voice.
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For someone who can't access Voice yet (not in continental US), what then is the best Voicemail alternative? Is Youmail better than stock Sprint Visual Voicemail?
.......cks!!! Just about every time I go to check my visual voicemail, it will stop in the middle of playing a message. Couldn't figure this out and then I realized that when I click on play in the silly Windows Media Player and then move the phone to my face so i can hear, the pause or stop buttons must be activating. Not only does the above bother me but I'd really like to use another program other than Windows Media Player. I've gone into the registry and couldn't find a way to change what media player Visual Voicemail uses. I've also looked into other visual voicemail apps because the stock version is not too pretty to look at. Any ideas? Anything? .
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.......cks!!! Just about every time I go to check my visual voicemail, it will stop in the middle of playing a message. Couldn't figure this out and then I realized that when I click on play in the silly Windows Media Player and then move the phone to my face so i can hear, the pause or stop buttons must be activating. Not only does the above bother me but I'd really like to use another program other than Windows Media Player. I've gone into the registry and couldn't find a way to change what media player Visual Voicemail uses. I've also looked into other visual voicemail apps because the stock version is not too pretty to look at. Any ideas? Anything? .
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I agree that t-mobile's version of VVM is very disappointing, and I stopped using it after 2 days on my TP2.
Have you tried google voice? It's a great alternative, and it'll send you text message transcripts of your voicemails, in addition to archiving them as text AND audio files, off your phone....and you can always listen to them just like regular VM by dialing your gvoice number. I highly recommend it.
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I agree that t-mobile's version of VVM is very disappointing, and I stopped using it after 2 days on my TP2.
Have you tried google voice? It's a great alternative, and it'll send you text message transcripts of your voicemails, in addition to archiving them as text AND audio files, off your phone....and you can always listen to them just like regular VM by dialing your gvoice number. I highly recommend it.
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Thank you! I may give it a try even though I'm not a big fan of the Google cloud world. Just now trying something called Fusion Voicemail and it's UI looks much better than T-Mobile Visual, so we'll see.........
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Thank you! I may give it a try even though I'm not a big fan of the Google cloud world. Just now trying something called Fusion Voicemail and it's UI looks much better than T-Mobile Visual, so we'll see.........
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yeah, I believe Fusion is among the most popular of the 3rd-party solutions. I don't care about having an app on my phone so much as ease and convenience of message managment. gVoice isn't for everybody, but it's filling the role perfectly for me
Youmail works good also.
Thanks guys! Going to try them all, while also trying to figure out if it's possible to just change which media player the T-Mobile Visual Voicemail app uses......
T-Mobile Visual Voicemail is horrible for me since the screen stays on when I put the phone to my ear. Then my ears like to tap on various buttons on the screen..
I just got my Epic a few hours ago, and my girlfriend noticed that there seems to be no stock Voice Recorder application. Unfortunately thats something that very important because she records her nursing lectures.
Am I missing it, or is there not one there. Also, if it is missing one, is there one in the market that works well, and that will work on the Epic?
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I just got my Epic a few hours ago, and my girlfriend noticed that there seems to be no stock Voice Recorder application. Unfortunately thats something that very important because she records her nursing lectures.
Am I missing it, or is there not one there. Also, if it is missing one, is there one in the market that works well, and that will work on the Epic?
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Why did you think the Epic came with a stock voice recorder? There are plenty of free voice recorders on the market. Did you really need to post this instead of just searching the market for "voice recorder"?
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Why did you think the Epic came with a stock voice recorder? There are plenty of free voice recorders on the market. Did you really need to post this instead of just searching the market for "voice recorder"?
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I thought the Epic came with a voice recorder because the Evo I owned before came with one. I wasn't sure if it was called something else, or hidden in another app that I was unaware of. Also, I tried one in the Market called voice recorder and was having a few issues getting it to work on my Epic. All is fixed now, No need to get hostile.
Like he said, in the market there are dozens of them. No need to make a thread about it...
yikes, found this old thread while searching the same thing. /system/app shows an app called "sound recorder", but it wont launch.
Why does my hero have a native voice recorder and the epic doesnt? I understand how op is feeling. Looks like i still need to do some research on the epic.
I dont like downloading apps for basic functions, like caller id, calculator, vr, etc etc.
Atleast we no longer need to download an app to get mms working.
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I'm in the same boat. All Android have a stock built in RECORDER because you can send voice messages to people. Unfortunately, I think since 2.1 or so, they stopped giving you access to it as if it were an app. Also unfortunately, most the apps in the market suck at doing such a simple thing. I use a recorder about 5x daily, and since I lost the native app, I've been dissappointed.
In reference to the custom ROM (MikRoms - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1038967) is it compatible with Google Voice Commands. I understand that these require Froyo, but the ROM has some 3.0 features in it. Can someone confirm if Voice Commands work with that ROM? I don't have enough posts to ask in that thread
I couldn't use it with text. Didn't even attempt to record what I said.
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I couldn't use it with text. Didn't even attempt to record what I said.
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Thanks. I'm assuming it just did a Google search then? It's an amazing feature added in Froyo I really don't want to install a ROM that doesn't support it but we'll see what happens
Voice text works perfectly fine on mine
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Voice text works perfectly fine on mine
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Very awesome. I'm going to install 1.03 later. Hope it's good as it sounds! I miss Sense (using cm7 now)
Hell yeah. I liked CM7, but the plain look, and the loss of the Sense widgets, just not the same, even using the LPP widgets, and some of the themes..
Trust me, you will love the 2.1/3.0 Roms
Running MikG 1.03
Voice commands confirmed!
Still got a lot of playing around to do. I will say that CM7 was better for customization but it feels great to have HTC's dialer, camera, widgets, etc back.
I'm running MikG 1.02 and I'm having the same problem, When i look at the task manager it keeps restating. My solution, and this is the crazy part.. I uninstalled my paypal app, and my google voice works perfect... Yes crazy.. My Solution to you is to look at the running task and see if it's restarting, then try and find the app that causing the problem or conflict... Maybe someone else could give some info on this....
Got voice on 1.03 - see only one other person had luck with it.
I'm on 1.03 updated from 1.02, the voice commands work most of the time through google search, but sometimes it fails to read for me as well. Most often it won't work when in the Navigation app doing a voice search.
a friend was using a galaxy S 4g when he switched to a rooted MT4G .. he had a visual voicemail icon on the galaxy so when he switched he wouldnt get the VM notification on the MT4g.. so far he downloaded the simple visual Vm from the market.. its kinda crappy.. is there a way for him to DL the visual VM app he was used to on the galaxy for the MT4G?
he is on the virtu unity 1.29 ROM
Galaxy S 4G, assuming he's on T-mobile. there used to be a visual voicemail app from T-mobile on the market, but I just looked and couldnt find it anywhere. Ive used YouMail Voicemail Plus and it works great, give it a shot
I know that on the stock rom, you just click the phone button and scroll to the voicemail button.
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I know that on the stock rom, you just click the phone button and scroll to the voicemail button.
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yeah that works, or press the 1, but the problem is that since he subscribes to visual Vm the notifications doesnt show up if he doesnt have the visual app.