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Google Voice Minor Issues?

From the first moment I started the phone and booted up Voice, I've had some small issues. I'm posting here to see if anyone else has had similar issues.
When I was setting up Voice I received a message that the "forwarding number change [was] unsuccessful". I haven't noticed any particular issues resulting from this, but still, it was disconcerting. You can check to see of you have the same issue by going to Settings > Call Settings > Voicemail Settings (if you are using voice) > and then click on your phone number.
The second issue is that the ringtone is stuck as the defualt beeping noise that the phone makes on shutdown... This is when people call me on my voice number. Ringtones for contacts calling my AT&T number are working fine.
I'd love to hear if anyone else is experiencing this, and especially if you found a fix!
Thanks.
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I gotta lag. I miss calls n txts. Worked fine on backflip but its suspect now
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I gotta lag. I miss calls n txts. Worked fine on backflip but its suspect now
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Yeah, I forgot about that--I got a voicemail notification 2 hours after the phone call yesterday. An outgoing SMS froze too.
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did you go to google.com/voice from a PC and change your settings there? When I first got my Atrix, the Google Voice was set up for my Nexus One and didn't work (even after configuring) on my Atrix. So I had to tell it I had a different phone, it gave me a number with hash symbols (#) to punch in the dialer and hit "call". this then forwarded my number to google voice for use with voicemails. I now have no issues with Google Voice... well, I have one issue. The proximity sensor doesn't turn off the screen when I put the phone up to my ear to listen to a voicemail like it did on my Nexus One.

I ran into the same issue when setting up about the number unsuccessful, but I went into phone options in settings and manually changed the carrier. I havent had any other issues, all notifications are instant and I have a custom ringtone.

Is google voice good what's the point of it
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Seymour2884 said:
Is google voice good what's the point of it
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It's amazing! It's the best way to get Visual Voicemail on an Android device and it's free. To be honest if it wasn't for this app, I would have stayed with my iphone as giving up visual voicemail was a no go for me and the other apps on the market for it were not to my liking.
Once you set it, it will alert you when a voicemail comes in and also transcribe it for you. Aside from that you can even have it send an e-mail to you when voicemail comes in, you can also use voice to make calls, send texts, and much more. Best of all, it's free!
@OP: Mine did the same thing, but I haven't had any issues. If you are getting delays in the notifications, load up google voice and go to settings. From settings make sure "synchronize inbox" and "background data" are enabled.

So I got it but it keeps saying forward voice mail unsucsesful any ideas
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co.ag.2005 said:
did you go to google.com/voice from a PC and change your settings there? When I first got my Atrix, the Google Voice was set up for my Nexus One and didn't work (even after configuring) on my Atrix. So I had to tell it I had a different phone, it gave me a number with hash symbols (#) to punch in the dialer and hit "call". this then forwarded my number to google voice for use with voicemails. I now have no issues with Google Voice... well, I have one issue. The proximity sensor doesn't turn off the screen when I put the phone up to my ear to listen to a voicemail like it did on my Nexus One.
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Thanks--this is the answer. I too came from a Nexus One and I didn't change any of the settings at first. I had to delete my old forwarding number (which requires another forwarding number to be on the profile), and then make a new forwarding number profile (for my Atrix). This fixed my different ringtone issue as well. Took a few tries and wasn't as smooth as I would have liked, but I got it working--I wasn't doing well without my GV!!

Im routing my calls through voice but every once in a while a lady says "this call is now being recorded". I didn't hit anything. It seems random. Any ideas?

[Q] Voicemail Won't Pick Up

I've been having trouble with my VoiceMail. I'm running CM 7 and using the Sprint VVM 5.1.4.8 and the Voicemail will not pick up. The phone just rings and rings. I disabled Google Voice and did *38 to stop call forwarding and it still won't work. I can go into the app and hit "compose" and record a message to myself and send it and it shows up fine. But when I use another phone to call my phone, it just rings on and on and the VM never picks up. I could really use some help!
Thanks

I gotta say i have not a clue how to fix that. I have called people that had that same problem on different phones but not happen to me. Btw you should post this in q/a not the dev section. You will probably get an answer sooner
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I usually try not to troll... But why in the bloody hell would you put this in this section? This is so blatantly unrelated to development its insane.

I apologise for posting in the wrong forum. I've been sort of scattered since this problem started. Mod's, will you please delete?
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chrismgan said:
I've been having trouble with my VoiceMail. I'm running CM 7 and using the Sprint VVM 5.1.4.8 and the Voicemail will not pick up. The phone just rings and rings. I disabled Google Voice and did *38 to stop call forwarding and it still won't work. I can go into the app and hit "compose" and record a message to myself and send it and it shows up fine. But when I use another phone to call my phone, it just rings on and on and the VM never picks up. I could really use some help!
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I think i had the same issue a few months ago, what i did was log into my Google Voice from my home PC and go into Phones settings and make sure forward calls to Mobile (Sprint) is unchecked and save settings and that should take care of it. What happens is when you finish flashing a new ROM and your phone boots up for the first time and it gets to the Google login,skip the migration to Sprint to your Google Voice because it causes this problem.Hope this helps! Peace!

Not Receiving Texts

AFter I did this I cannot receive text messages unless they are sent to my google voice number and my google voice account is active. So I tried to deactivate it, but that doesnt do anything whatsoever. I even deleted the phone completely from google voice, but as for now, using my google voice number is the only way I can receive texts. So I end up sending texts with my sprint number and then the recipient would have to respond to my google voice number. This is not acceptable. My temper is getting the best of me and I am seriously going ballistic. Its been doing it since i used the method here, so I tried to update the radios to the latest version (don't worry I know I'm doing this right), and I did, but it did nothing to help. I have the latest amon_ra 3.11 and Im running the Anthrax test kernel plus MikG 3.0, however ive also tried AOSP roms with AOSP kernels and its the same effing deal. I've also tried updating the PRL and the Profile, but NOTHING CHANGES. Ugh, I really need the texting to work because I live in a 3G weak area so google voice is not reliable. Thank you in advance... ill answer any questions you guys have.

I haven't used Google voice, but from what I've read I hate it and it takes over your phone. If you go to the webpage for googlevoice, I know you can configure it better, or get out of it altogether. I know in the AOKP thread, someone recently posted a link to the googlevoice site for customizing. Maybe check last few pages if interested. On mobile now and its kind of a ***** to go back and look up and copy to you. Good luck.
And for vmail , I'd suggest youmail, it doesn't take over all your sh1t.
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Again, I deleted my phone from google voice. It is COMPLETELY removed from it as far as I know.

You have to go one Google voice site from the PC and change settings to get your texts to go to phone again just deleting the apk doesn't do anything cuz Google voice is a effing plague I used it once it took me almost 3 weeks to get my phone back to normal, your other option is to port your sprint # to google voice so u recieve the GV texts on your phone number I did that til I found all the settings to get rid of it
We are legion, for we are many

Again, I did do that from the online google voice via my PC.

Hey,
Yeah to fix that google voice issue you have to use the sprint google voice integration which uses your sprint number as your google voice number and it works for me, I just like it for backing up my text and sending text via 3g and wifi when I got bad cell signal.
Alright to disable GV you need to log into your google voice account as it looks you did and completely disable your phone and that will kill GV.
Now if your text still arent working there is several reasons that could be
1. you have sprint, many text and calls go missing due to "the other service provider" as they say...but yeah okay they just have an outage and dont want you to doubt their service..
2. you have low memory on your phone in which case it is closing the messenger app before it registers the message, get an app in the market called ghostly sms to prevent that!
3. I know I had some issues with radios and roms, many times they are not compatible or there is glitches which cause them to not work right . This option is a pain in the butt and takes a few minutes but It was the fastest fix to my issue. I downloaded a RUU *one that can be rooted again of course* plugged my phone in as the instructions say and ran the program. and after that of course took the necessary steps to get my root permissions again and it cleared up the issues with my phone!
If you do decide to go this route here is all the tools and info you need
http://forums.acsyndicate.net/showt...-to-stock-and-S-ON-for-HTC-Evo-4G-Gingerbread
Thats my two cents and I hope you can figure it out,
I hope I helped If I did please hit the Thanks button!
Stevo

thank you guys for posting that are more familiar than I.
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Ok, Ill try the ruu, but which one is rootable?
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I RUUd, and no, no change. It seems like ill be stuck using google voice. I even called sprint and they "provisioned" my phone, but nothing changed

RUU and reprovision will not help is Google still has control of your messaging. I've never used it (because of so many stories like this that I've read), but I still would be convinced you're missing some option in Google voice. Like, go to Google voice on desktop, pull up account. Make sure everything IS coming in through Google voice, then go thru all of Google voices settings, and determine which ones to disable first (i.e. in what order).
Sorry, but it just sounds like Google voice has been disabled properly/fully. Good luck.
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Hey,
That's strange cause It can't be a phone issue if you did all that, interesting. Alright um have you tried logging into Google voice to see if it were still getting text? I would at this point send a email to Google and ask them to make sure your number is completely off the system maybe the issue is somewhere in there
Keep us updated
Stevo
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I've narrowed it down to only Tmobile numbers. I can get texts from Sprint, ATT, Verizon, just not Tmobile, which sucks because my significant other uses Tmobile... Ill take the phone itself to sprint tomorrow, but I know those bastards are just going to be like "We'll hard reset it". Here's more details to the issue, I had just gotten my phone fixed from Sprint and they gave me a refurb, so who do I text first? My significant other, being the good guy I am and I got responses, then I rooted it using the method i linked to in the OP, I then flashed AKOP and the problem started to happen, so then I figured, well it must be the radio since I did downgrade it, and did not upgrade it immediatly, so the next day when I realized i wasn't receiving texts I updated it... but that changed nothing. Idk how that helps or not, but well there you go. Also I tried syncing my phone completely to google plus, but in the setup screen on the phone within the app, whenever I say i want my sprint number to be the number I use, it gives me an error, and all I can do is press cancel... This is some mysterious stuff.

Double Post. Right now to get around this, I am stuck using my google voice number (not the sprint one) on my phone. Of course i get delayed notifications and this makes conversation really difficult, especially since i am on call...
I attatched what my settings are in Google voice right now. Notice how it says sprint integration is disabled. I cannot press the delete button because Google then gives me an error saying "You must have at least one physical phone associated with the account" or something like that

Hey,
so did you go into google voice settings and disable the number so it completely un-linked you from any account? & I have had it happen before where it decided to get text from any phone except my better half to, and it was working I was just confused. But after a few days all her text decided to come through at once and sprint says it wasnt their fault but yeah okay I dont believe that. So it was just one of those weird things I wont even question just beacause it ended up working!
stevo

I would suggest REenabling your number to Google voice (as I stated before), THEN, make sure you disable it by first disabling text notifications, THEN calls , THEN your number completely. I'm just going by crap I've read about Google voice. Wish I could help more.
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I did try to contact google, but they do not have a support service (WTF GOOGLE!) I read from the forums i posted on that there is another guy that has the same problem as I.

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?

vinuneuro said:
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.

Google voice is not compatible with this phone

If you configure to always use Google voice when making calls you will get an error that says call not made. If you configure Google Voice to ask you every time you make a call you will get the same error. This error also shows up in the Mate 8. Here is another thread that discusses it.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-8/help/google-voice-calling-t3303947
Kind of disappointing. If you want to use Google voicemail need to use Hangouts.

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If you configure to always use Google voice when making calls you will get an error that says call not made. If you configure Google Voice to ask you every time you make a call you will get the same error. This error also shows up in the Mate 8. Here is another thread that discusses it.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-8/help/google-voice-calling-t3303947
Kind of disappointing. If you want to use Google voicemail need to use Hangouts.
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It works with hangouts. I'm using it right now

aknotts415 said:
It works with hangouts. I'm using it right now
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But you can't use the stock dialer with Google voice

Hangout is the best alternative solution so far

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Hangout is the best alternative solution so far
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Exactly

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I agree that works, its just a little weird in work flow when compared to otehr phones where you can use the stock dialer

I cannot send MMS via Hangouts on this phone. Very frustrating some things don't quite work

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I cannot send MMS via Hangouts on this phone. Very frustrating some things don't quite work
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Had same issue on my Nexus6 P after flashing Nougut! Flashed a custom N ROM and it worked! Some have said it's a Hangouts/N issue...

Found another issue but this is with using hangouts to make call. If you have a bluetooth device that can be used for phone calls hangouts will try to first use that device to make the call before defaulting to the ear piece. Also if you go into speaker mode you can't go back to just headset as it will yet again try to connect to that Bluetooth device and fail causing it to go back to speaker mode.
I have a Asus ZenWatch 3 and hangouts keeps trying to use this device for phone calls. Also it will try to connect if I place the call in speaker mode through hangouts and keep failing and reverting back to speaker mode.
This pretty much makes the phone useless to me. So the phone will be going back to best buy. Once Huawei fixing the stock dialer to use voice then I will come back to it

worldsoutro said:
Found another issue but this is with using hangouts to make call. If you have a bluetooth device that can be used for phone calls hangouts will try to first use that device to make the call before defaulting to the ear piece. Also if you go into speaker mode you can't go back to just headset as it will yet again try to connect to that Bluetooth device and fail causing it to go back to speaker mode.
I have a Asus ZenWatch 3 and hangouts keeps trying to use this device for phone calls. Also it will try to connect if I place the call in speaker mode through hangouts and keep failing and reverting back to speaker mode.
This pretty much makes the phone useless to me. So the phone will be going back to best buy. Once Huawei fixing the stock dialer to use voice then I will come back to it
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i just tested bluetooth and hangouts with my Plantronic headset and i was able to (1) initiate a call via bluetooth, (2) switch to handset, then (3) switch to speakerphone and then (4) go back to bluetooth without any problem. does your Asus ZenWatch 3 allow you to initiate/answer/conduct calls via the watch, and that's where the connection issues occurred? thanks for clarifying.

new version of Google Voice @ apkmirror site; i installed it and - so far - i can make calls via the dialer using the "Ask each time you make a call" option. using the "Use your Google Voice Number" (for all calls) option is still failing. interested to know if others using the newest GV version are having a similar experiences to me. will update if i begin having issues again.

Anyone try this new Google Voice App on the mate 9? Does it change calling with the stock dialer at all? Heres the link to download.
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...gle-voice-5-0-144897884-android-apk-download/

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Anyone try this new Google Voice App on the mate 9? Does it change calling with the stock dialer at all?
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Read post directly above yours. ?

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doi! lol sorry my bad lol. Thats great news! still pretty frustrating though. For us to rely on GV and have it not work like its supposed to is kind of worrying. Makes me concerned and update might break it.

I've been using it only for the last two days. Where it is very buggy for me is with Android Auto; I have to ask it to call on average of 3 times from the car. If I tap the button on the phone it calls, but that defeats the whole purpose of Android Auto. I'm still trying to get the phone to divert ALL of my messages, etc over to Voice. The stock messaging app duplicates the text messages. People I've communicated with on Hangouts still come through on Hangouts if they have more than one account... A bunch of reduncy that I didn't have prior to using it. I may delete it and wait for the prime time app. I'm still trying to learn the phone; I don't want to add unnecessary quirks to it and blame the phone.

I have Chinese AL00 version and using "OK Google" works with default phone. e.g. "Ok Google, call Joe". It also will start from the locked screen but you have to unlock for the phone call to be placed.