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[Q] Google voice incoming call

I have my google voice setup so when someone call my GV # it is supposed to show up on my fascinate as the GV #. When my phone rings it shows up as "Voicemail" even though I have my GV # setup under a different contact name. There isn't even a "voicemail" contact setup on my phone or google accounts. I previously used this same setup with my OG Droid and DX and the call would show up as my GV contact name. Has anyone else had this issue?

Just to clarify, you have"Caller ID (incoming)" set to "Display callers number" in GV's settings, correct? What rom/kernal are you running? I've never had this issue.
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No I have it set to "Display my Google Voice Number", but it shows up on my phone as "Voicemail" when the call is coming through. I don't have a phone contact or a google contact for "Voicemail". I do have my google voice # setup as a contact. That is what I want to see when I get a call on my GV #.

I just corrected the problem, but I'm not sure why this fixed it. I went into seetings, applications, manage applications, google voice. I then clicked on "Clear Data" and now it shows up as my GV contact when I receive a call on that number. Very strange.

Glad you fixed it. A great deal of problems can be solved that way (clearing cache, fixing permissions, etc). Out of curiosity, are you using the hack on this forum that redirects the voicemail button on the dialer to gv?
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Thanks. No I actually haven't seen that one. Have you tried it?

I haven't since I still call my verizon vm occasionally (the gf and I both use gv, but in order to get m2m minutes we just call eachother's actual cell number). But I thought that could have been a possible culprit. Actually, do you have gv setup to handle all your vm, including your verizon number? Because then I could see how it would recognize your gv number as vm.
Revelation here - just had a "doh!" moment when I realized I could make my life much easier by consolidating all my vm under gv instead of rolling two separate inboxes. Nice!
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I do use GV for all of my voicemail. I've been running it like that since I had my original Droid and it's great.

Then it's possible that could've been what caused the problem, can't think of anything else. Just switched my vm over, not sure why I didn't do this earlier.
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Google Voice my new Messaging app? G-Voice Integration

So, I recently activated the Google Voice + Sprint integration and certain things about it are absolutely awesome. My only gripe with it is that all text messages are now coming in to my G-Voice app and ignoring the default messaging app on my phone. I can reply from my Messaging app and it shows up in G-Voice but new texts that come in skip the Messaging app completely.
Has anyone found a way around this behavior? G-Voice app is a nice-enough messaging client, but by no means ideal.

That's the reason I de-integrated.

There is a fix I will post back when I'm at a computer.
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not an expert, in fact, i use my evo as a wifi device only. But im somewhat certain that you can edit these settings while you are logged on to google voice on a computer.

don't need to integrate to use GV...been using GV as my voice mail forever!!
Only issue is that you will have to maintain two different numbers...your Sprint number and your GV number.
Set up you can set up your GV as your voicemail...by having conditional call forwarding on your phone. Do believe I set it up thru Sprint directly...having the call forwarded to my GV number if the phonecall goes unanswered. From there the rules are set thru GV as to which outgoing message to play depending on what number is calling.
Haven't had a problem with getting voicemail at all.
Messaging can still be done thru your sprint number (using your or whichever messaging app) and you can still txt using GV (but it'll be thru your GV number)

Um in the Google voice app in setting u can tell it too send sms as a text to your phone. Doing it right now and turned off Google voice notifications for sms
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All you need to do is go into the Google Voice application, go to Menu, Settings, Sync And Notifications, and take the check out of the send text message box.
Next.
Log into your Google Voice account on your computer and then click on teh gear icon in the top right hand corner of the page to go into your Google Voice Setting.
Click on the Voicemail Tab and then under the section "Voicemail Notifications" take the check out of both boxes.
You will now no longer receive text messages when you get a voicemail on Google Voice, but you will receive a notification on your phone just like Spring VVM use to do.
Hope that helps.

I think you guys are missing the point. There is no way to separate sms from GV after the integration. You can enable the standard sms app on your cell phone via the online GV settings. Problem with that is you will get 2 notifications from every text received - one from GV and one from the sms app. There is no way to remove notifications from the GV app for sms only.

To make use of the stock sms app on your phone log into GV online, then goto settings> phones> and click edit under your number, then select send texts to this phone. Still you have the issue I noted above.

No you don't. First you change the GV via your browser as you instructed. Then, in your GV phone application you uncheck All boxes in the Sync and Notifications section of the Settings. My phone is behaving as it used to prior to integration. I feel that it is important to integrate in case I want to use my number on someone else's phone, internationally, etc.

akarol said:
No you don't. First you change the GV via your browser as you instructed. Then, in your GV phone application you uncheck All boxes in the Sync and Notifications section of the Settings. My phone is behaving as it used to prior to integration. I feel that it is important to integrate in case I want to use my number on someone else's phone, internationally, etc.
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Then are you still notified of new voice messages somehow?
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Then are you still notified of new voice messages somehow?
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Yes, the same way Sprint's VVM currently does, I'm doing this now on CM7, Google Voice is integrated to work that way, when I get a voice mail I don't get an SMS or an email, it just notifies me on my phone in the notification area, does this on a standard EVO rom also.
Just follow the directions I laid out and it will work fine, I've tested it.

gjones77 said:
Yes, the same way Sprint's VVM currently does, I'm doing this now on CM7, Google Voice is integrated to work that way, when I get a voice mail I don't get an SMS or an email, it just notifies me on my phone in the notification area, does this on a standard EVO rom also.
Just follow the directions I laid out and it will work fine, I've tested it.
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Oh, so it notifies you via text. that's still kinda annoying. Yiu have to open the text to find out you have a vm, and then open GV to get the vm. I just turned off notifications in my sms app instead. That way sms goes to high the sms app and GV, but I'm only notified by GV.
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I understand your gripe .... I found it rather annoying as well, so I went a different route and removed GV all together.
When I thought about it there was no point to having it. Instead, I go into the GV app, and select to forward SMS to my phone. I then tell GV to forward VM notifications to my email account. Basically it's the same net result: a email is sent with the transcribed message and a link to play back the voice mail. As a final fix, I made sure the messages went to Gmail so I could tag them and thus easily filter my voice mail.
I would love if GV could notify of voice-mails only ... that way SMS would get forwarded to my SMS app without appearing to get received twice, but I couldn't find an easy way to do that. The other method of turning off all notifications ends up sending a text notification which is not as clean to me IMO.

indagroove said:
I think you guys are missing the point. There is no way to separate sms from GV after the integration. You can enable the standard sms app on your cell phone via the online GV settings. Problem with that is you will get 2 notifications from every text received - one from GV and one from the sms app. There is no way to remove notifications from the GV app for sms only.
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Turn off that notifaction in google voice or dont even install the app voice mails cab be enablwd to show up in your email
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BrianDigital said:
Turn off that notifaction in google voice or dont even install the app voice mails cab be enablwd to show up in your email
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I know I could do that, but it still seems rather clunky.
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So my phone stopped receiving calls (would ring on the calling side but never rang on my side) and texts. Tried everything and decided to give up and disable this merge. Figured it was too unreliable to be worthwhile.
BTW, what happens if you have cell reception but no data reception? Will your phone not work? That's dumb if that's the case.

indagroove said:
I know I could do that, but it still seems rather clunky.
So not installing the app and using your phone like normal except for getting an email pushed to is clunky please explain. Intregation wasnt meant to be mind blowing on a device that already has that number but using your sprint number on your house phone and texting people from a tablet with a number they know
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akarol said:
So my phone stopped receiving calls (would ring on the calling side but never rang on my side) and texts. Tried everything and decided to give up and disable this merge. Figured it was too unreliable to be worthwhile.
BTW, what happens if you have cell reception but no data reception? Will your phone not work? That's dumb if that's the case.
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Can I ask why you think google voice is a voip that,last sentence you have reads like you have no idea what this service is about.
Google voice will not make calls over 3g it will send sms over 3g but only.in.the app you can have sms sent to you just like you always have and not need to use the google voice app.
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It's clunky because I have to open the email, then click the link to download the voice message as an attachment via the web browser, and then open the attachment, which is played with the music app. It's clunky when it takes 3 apps to do what can be easily done with one app.

[Q] Google Voice(mail) and Sprint voicemail

So randomly this week I have been getting some VM that comes in from GV and others still come in from sprint.
This is my work phone and the only GVmails have come from people calling from my corporate office, and the others from my area stores.
I didn't set this up and actually like the GVmail as i can just read the email that it sends.
Any help on how to fully setup so all VM come in using google voice? I logged in to my GV account but see not settings to change in there.
thanks

try reinstalling google voice and setting it up to integrate with sprint.... which brings a question how do you remove the annoying "press 1 to answer"?

that's the thing though I don't have GV on my phone installed at all and only use GV for a home number and have never setup GV with my work cell #.
Side note:From what I can remember each time I got mail from GV my phone never rang but got the VM later from GV.

Art2Fly said:
try reinstalling google voice and setting it up to integrate with sprint.... which brings a question how do you remove the annoying "press 1 to answer"?
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You have to go to Google/voice on your computer and go into settings. I just did that cuz I hated the press 1 to answer also.
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Anyone know how to get your Voicemails sent to Google but not your texts.
I have a messaging app for a reason!

handymanjames said:
Anyone know how to get your Voicemails sent to Google but not your texts.
I have a messaging app for a reason!
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Go to google/voice on your computer and change the settings
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Esteway.619 said:
Go to google/voice on your computer and change the settings
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must be blind today as when i login to GV i don't see a setting option??

black06c230 said:
must be blind today as when i login to GV i don't see a setting option??
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ok log in to your google voice account then on the right hand corner there should be a number that says (vocie mail number) click on that and that should take you into your settings

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ok log in to your google voice account then on the right hand corner there should be a number that says (vocie mail number) click on that and that should take you into your settings
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thanks i can see now....why don't they just put a button that says "setting"...to easy i guess.

so went to settings and my work cell number shows but it asks me if i want to setup GVmail....so still not sure why this week some have seen Sprint VM and about 4 others when the phone hasn't rang came from GV and all 4 were from my corp office calling me?!?!?!

black06c230 said:
so went to settings and my work cell number shows but it asks me if i want to setup GVmail....so still not sure why this week some have seen Sprint VM and about 4 others when the phone hasn't rang came from GV and all 4 were from my corp office calling me?!?!?!
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if you don't have you GVmail setup and someone calls your GV number, they will hear it ring a few times, then some silence..
If your settings are default (to screen calls or press 1 to accept the call or something dumb) THEN it adds to the confusion.
I would set up your GVmail w/ a greeting that's appropriate, get your call screening options setup the way you like it (I do not screen unless it's a private caller) Then get your text messaging options setup.
Also they have some cool functionality for voicemail to text or Vmail to email transcription too. It's funny sometimes.. They come up with some weird stuff hahahahaha..
Hope this helps

If you're using Google Voice..

You will have noticed that there are a couple of glaring issues. Voicemail notifications don't make it out of the app to anywhere in the phone (like the notifications bar). In the call log, outgoing calls get recorded as the Google bridge number instead of the number you dialed.
Please call Samsung. Inevitably the first layer of support won't be able to do anything so ask for 'Advanced technical support'. They obviously won't be able to offer a solution either, so ask them to submit a feedback ticket. If they receive enough of these, they will look into it with Google.

Happened to me the first couple days I had my phone. Did a reset and it cleared up the notification issue with Google Voice for me though. I've heard of others who got theirs on launch day have the same issue i'm guessing something to do with the activation servers being slammed.

What did you reset?

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What did you reset?
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Just did a factory reset in settings.

I had a problem installing Google Voice at first too. An error pops up when it gets to the part where you configure your phone's voicemail setting. I just backed out of the app and restarted my phone. It's working fine now after the restart.

I got the voicemail notifications working by going back to 0.4.2.34.
Do outgoing calls show up incorrectly for both of you in the call log?
Google Voice is very very well integrated in stock ICS from what I've seen and confirmed to be working in CM9 already. As a new Android user without having used stock ICS I think I prefer some things in TW better so I wanted to get this working. Hopefully stock ICS and CM9 will be as good as users here rave about since that'll solve all the GV issues completely.

vinuneuro said:
I got the voicemail notifications working by going back to 0.4.2.34.
Do outgoing calls show up incorrectly for both of you in the call log?
Google Voice is very very well integrated in stock ICS from what I've seen and confirmed to be working in CM9 already. As a new Android user without having used stock ICS I think I prefer some things in TW better so I wanted to get this working. Hopefully stock ICS and CM9 will be as good as users here rave about since that'll solve all the GV issues completely.
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I have no issues with my Sprint phone that integrates well

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\ In the call log, outgoing calls get recorded as the Google bridge number instead of the number you dialed.
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It's always been like that, you must be new!

I only use google voice for voicemail, and I had no problems with it.

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It's always been like that, you must be new!
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it's not like that on my HTC One XL; the contact/number i called shows up in the call log and i can redial from the call log. with my SGS 3, the bridge number appears in the call log and is unassociated with the contact/number dialed. for me, that's not good because i use my GV number as a biz contact number. and what's the deal with the email client... whoops! sorry, that's for another thread!

Wait, I'm lost.
I thought Verizon disables Voice. I can't make it work for voicemail. Same with my last 3 Verizon phones .

Google voice working well here too
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I also have the bridge number in call log issue and this did NOT happen on the Galaxy S II.
An hoping that it's a Google voice bug rather than a bug in the T-Mobile version of ICS.
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Can someone post the working apk?
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I've been having the annoying issue of it not registering properly during voicemail setup. Always worked just fine on my GSII.
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Works fine on my Sprint version. Only problem I'm having is voicemail won't integrate with the call log like it did on CM9.

[Q] Google Voice voicemail issues on LG G2

Google Voice not working from G2 call logs. Anyone else notice this? It shows I have a voice-mail in the phone's call logs but it won't play. Hitting the log does nothing. Can go into GV and hear the message so that seems to be working but it doesn't work like my Gnexus did. Anyone have thoughts or a fix for this?

It's not working right for me either. I kept hoping I would find a setting somewhere but I haven't yet.

Yep. I'm seeing problems too. Sometimes phone rings on an incoming GV number call but most of the time not. This is potentially a deal breaker. I only use GV. Any solutions greatly appreciated!
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Try an older version. I wish i could comment on if this works, but i can't get my phone to access google voicemail settings. I recently resubmitted my resume online and i've had 5 calls come in this past weekend on my phone. None have not rung.

Darkestred said:
Try an older version. I wish i could comment on if this works, but i can't get my phone to access google voicemail settings. I recently resubmitted my resume online and i've had 5 calls come in this past weekend on my phone. None have not rung.
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You can manually set it up through your Google voice acct. Online. It will give u the code to set forwarding and everything ...

canecbr600 said:
You can manually set it up through your Google voice acct. Online. It will give u the code to set forwarding and everything ...
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Ok. Did that. I tried it a few times today. Rang no problem. I do not get any indication in the recent history of a voice mail but i can swipe notification bar and click on the vm and it opens in voice. Will mess around some more.

My phone rings and it shows in the recent calls notification list. It just won't play the message from that list. I have to open the voice app to listen to the message. I just wish it was more like my Galaxy Nexus but this is probably due to LGs Android tweaks.

I never even look for VM in call log, just quicker, and easier for me to click the notification ....
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I reverted to an older version of 0.4.2.54 frin 0.4.2.82 and still am having issues with ringing on an incoming call to my GV number It will ring about 5 our of 7 or so times, but when it doesn't ring, there is no notification of a missed call, not even from GV. I have to go to the Missed call folder on GV to discover the missed call. If someone does leave a message, I do get my notification of the voice message.
This reminds me of the problems I had on my old Droid X with GV and the stock VZ Motorola ROM on that phone. My last phone a Gnex running stock AOSP never had an issue with GV. I suspect that this has something to do with LG's phone/dialer app interacting with GV....
I am also running lightflow for notification, but that shouldn't have any impact on just having the damn phone ring on an incoming call.

Update.
I allowed the OTA and changed Lightflow to not run in the foreground and since haven't had further problems with GV ringing phone on incoming calls?
Not sure what fixed it.
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I have a similar problem, i can't make calls to certain numbers with gv. Nothing seems to fix it. It's definitely the g2, i switched my sim back to my nexus and gv works fine.

I was having the same issue. I deactivated it and activated it, and that seemed to solve the issue. On at&t you dial ##004# and hit send to deactivate it. To reactivate you dial **004*1(your gv number)# without the parenthesis and hit send.