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Can the Xoom phone number be used for anything?

I know the Xoom can't make/receive phone calls but it DOES register when you call the number. There is a missed call log and it will appear in there when you call the Xoom. I also noticed my notification light sometimes flashes while I am calling the Xoom. I was wondering if this could be used for anything like maybe texting? I have Google Voice app set up on my Xoom linked to my reguilar cell number. Has anyone gotten Google Voice to work with their Xoom number? I tried it but it says 'number could not be verified.' Also...logging on to My Verizon, I can switch the info screen to my Xoom number to see my data usage. I also see under the text message usage menu that I received one text message. Somehow the Xoom can can receive messages, at least, from it's assigned number. Just don't know how to display them.
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If your notification light is actually blinking when you call the Xoom number then the possibility is there to use the device as a phone. The light blinking could be coincidence though right? Have you been able to reproduce this without failure?
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I have noticed that when i am trying to call my xoom that the 3g turns off, as soon as i stop calling it the 3g comes back on. Reproducible indefinitely.

It's coincidence. Tried multiple times with mine, and there's no light, no missed call. Though it does definitely have a phone number. Tried to sign up for My Verizon, no dice. They send you a confirmation code via txt...which we can't get.
In the eRoes system (authorized retailers' system) it auto-adds a block text feature when you activate the Xoom...hopefully this will change in the future.

BTW, once you sign up for a my verizon account, and the system detects the text can't be sent, they will snail mail you a password. Its a very stupid system.

What does this have to do with Developing?

i think the original question was asking if someone had been able to make this work with google voice. implying that there may be a way to make it work with software. I.E. development.

Moved. Please post in the correct section. Thank you.

Warning: If using Sprints integrated Google Voice, DONT try to install Sprints VVM!

I decided to try out the Google Voice integration with Sprint. I used the option to use my Sprint number as the primary and only number. So my sprint number and GV number were the same.
Everything was working good for a few days, when i realized that i really hated the way the Google Voice app handled voicemail. So, i found an apk and titanium backup for Sprints VVM that someone on these forums posted. I installed it, it configured itself, but it wouldnt work (which i was expecting as GV was now handling all my voicemail. i just wanted to try it out). I uninstalled it and thought nothing of it.
About an hour later my primary number stopped working. I couldnt place or receive any calls, and i couldnt txt.
Took about an hour for Sprints tech support to get everything fixed. Super lame.
So, if using your sprint number as your google voice number: DONT MESS WITH SPRINTS VVM! It will messsssssss you up! lol

I had this happen to me BEFORE I started messing with VVM. It's a GV issue altogether and not something VVM does, don't let them tell you any different because it's just not true. I've since completely deintegrated my Sprint number from GV and logged out of the app for good and the problem went away immediately.

I didn't do this,but sprint needs to learn abouts the nexus and gv. My phone completely stopped taking inclmjbg calls yesterday until I unintegrated and just used it as a forwarding phone
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I was having serious issues yesterday as well; could not receive calls or texts ("We could not complete your call, please try again.") and received the same thing on outgoing calls. after unintegrating GV would not call my phone to verify the number so I could not reintegrate it, and I still couldn't call anyone. This was happening up until about 3 hours ago, now my calls will go through with my Sprint number but it seems like my texts are still not working...

awesomeindeed said:
I had this happen to me BEFORE I started messing with VVM. It's a GV issue altogether and not something VVM does, don't let them tell you any different because it's just not true. I've since completely deintegrated my Sprint number from GV and logged out of the app for good and the problem went away immediately.
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I deintegrated as well. I really like the idea of GV, and thought alot of the features where super neat. But obviously there is still stuff to work out.

after a day of not being able to make or recieve calls, i've deintegrated it as well. i'm sure i must've did something in the settings for that to happen, but integrated gvoice it just too confusing atm. besides, i like getting texts via stock app, and if that means i have to get dual notifications, then forget it.
but sprint/gvoice integration is still new, so im open to future development.

So it sounds like the problem was more widespread than my. Individual phone. I got errors when calling out and errors if someone tried to call my sprint number, now as a forwarding phone j get dual notifications as well. Anybody know if it is cleared up by now? Voice was why I switched to sprint in part
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same thing happened to me last night. all of a sudden couldnt make or receive calls. spent a hour and a half with sprint, couldnt get it working. But when I went to the website to remove google voice integration it said it wasnt. I called Sprint back and sure enough the rep said that it was still there so she removed it and immediately i was able to make and receive calls. so the problem is with the google voice integration.

Anybody get service back without unintegrating
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Nexus S 4G missing incoming calls!

I have a NS4G, and I seem to be missing a lot of incoming calls. The phone doesn't ring/vibrate at all, and shows no indication of a call or a missed call. The only way I know somebody tried to call is I end up with voicemails, or people tell me that they tried calling and didn't get through.
This seems to happen even when I have a decent signal and when I can make outgoing calls just fine and even send/receive text messages. I don't think it's simply a coverage issue, because the phone is never really searching for a signal.
This has happened for certain on CM7 and Deck. I'm not sure about the stock ROM. In fact, I'm thinking of reverting back to stock just to test. If it does happen on stock, then I'm wondering if it's just something physically bad with the phone.
I have also updated my profile and PRL.
Has anybody else experienced anything similar? I don't seem to drop calls or have sporadic signal strength or anything like that.

Yes, i've noticed the same thing. Do you have a google voice integrated account? I'm wondering if that might be the common factor.
I've had to go and make sure that the GV app logs missed calls in case this happens.

Are you guys on the new radio?
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Are you guys on the new radio?
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Good point, I haven't noticed this since I updated the radio and to 2.3.5 stock, so it might have been fixed. I'll keep an eye out if it continues.

I am on the new radio. In fact, I seem to have the problem on both radios.
I am on Google Voice, by the way, and I have my cell number forward to my GV number for missed calls.
The odd thing is I don't seem to always get a missed-call notification; only one for voicemail. Then, in logging on to my GV account in the browser, it doesn't show a missed call. However, when it is working properly, and I dial my cell from a different phone, if I ignore it then I DO get a missed-call notification.
One other possible factor is I'm using an Airave at home, which is where I've noticed the problem most of the time. I'm not positive if I have experienced it outside of the home. I'll have to pay better attention.
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I bet it is google voice... I really hate how it takes over my sms too.. I use it for voicemail and that's it.

derekwilkinson said:
I bet it is google voice... I really hate how it takes over my sms too.. I use it for voicemail and that's it.
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I'm thinking it probably is GV too, but I wouldn't want to give up my SMS'ing from chrome extension.
You can turn it off so it doesn't take over SMS if you want and just lets you use the stock app all the time.

I don't have GV using SMS right now. Perhaps I'll disable the forwarding temporarily to see if that solves it.
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If your on the new radio and using an airave you may miss calls if not connected to wifi. Im having that problem on the new radio. Ill have full bars but if i call my phone it goes straight to voicemail with no notification at all.
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I am on the new radio. In fact, I seem to have the problem on both radios.
I am on Google Voice, by the way, and I have my cell number forward to my GV number for missed calls.
The odd thing is I don't seem to always get a missed-call notification; only one for voicemail. Then, in logging on to my GV account in the browser, it doesn't show a missed call. However, when it is working properly, and I dial my cell from a different phone, if I ignore it then I DO get a missed-call notification.
One other possible factor is I'm using an Airave at home, which is where I've noticed the problem most of the time. I'm not positive if I have experienced it outside of the home. I'll have to pay better attention.
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It happens when I'm on wifi too, unfortunately.
I was about to just disable GV, but then realized the NS4G doesn't get the regular Sprint Visual Voicemail app! Now what do I do??

imekul said:
It happens when I'm on wifi too, unfortunately.
I was about to just disable GV, but then realized the NS4G doesn't get the regular Sprint Visual Voicemail app! Now what do I do??
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You can use google voice for only voicemail. I have that setup and it works great. it even transcribes the voicemails to text

Unfortunately, I'm missing some calls using that setup. :-(

tmobile nexus s with gv deactivated
I have a T-Mobile nexus s on 2.3.4 stock, I'm missing a lot of calls and so is my wife, I've deactivated TV but it didn't change anything

Wondering if anybody else out there is encountering this! Trying to figure out whether or not it's a hardware issue.

I have ns4g and a use GV and when somebody calls my number, GV rings my nexus and my other phone with verizon, so I can say that the problem is not GV, most of the times only rings my other phone and the nexus nothing, the problem is the phone with a very weak radios, wifi/3g, and the poor service of sprint and is getting worst and worst.

Im having same problem on T-Mobile Nexus S but only when I'm on 3G .
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Mine does when the airvana is connected
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I've had this happen to me on the Stock rom, and Deck, and I don't use GV at all for anything. Happens when the phone is sleeping usually, if it's lit up, the call won't get missed. I've really not spent the time to research it as I don't use the phone much anyway.

I also noticed problems with incoming and outgoing texts being either delayed or not sent at all. I rigged up a little test.
I scheduled a text message to be sent to my phone every minute with the current time in the message. Then I would just keep an eye/ear out on my phone while it sat on my desk. For the majority of the time, I would get the alert every minute, but sometimes there would be nothing for five or more minutes. After this outage, it seemed like all of the incoming messages would be delivered at once.
During that outage, though, it seemed like that was when the phone calls had trouble getting through. I guess it makes sense that there would be a connection between the two.

I had the same problem. I even had people tell me that they got a recording saying the call couldn't be completed. I was even testing the other day and no calls I made to the phone were connection, going straight to voice mail.
I decided to disable google voice and my issues went away, as well as all the delayed SMS and failed sending SMS problems I was having.

messaging issue.

So i did a search and couldnt find a similar issue.
I can text my friend, call him, and he can call me, I cant receive his texts however. It started 2 nights ago out of the blue. The day before i could still get his texts now nada. Im on CM7 RC-0 but i dont think that matters because even if i try sending a text via google voice on a laptop he still doesnt recieve it. Anyone with any Ideas? Oh btw hes the only person who is like this to me well at least to my Knowledge.

metalblaster said:
So i did a search and couldnt find a similar issue.
I can text my friend, call him, and he can call me, I cant receive his texts however. It started 2 nights ago out of the blue. The day before i could still get his texts now nada. Im on CM7 RC-0 but i dont think that matters because even if i try sending a text via google voice on a laptop he still doesnt recieve it. Anyone with any Ideas? Oh btw hes the only person who is like this to me well at least to my Knowledge.
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These seem to be contradicting each other. It sounds like your issue is your not able to get his texts, right? If that's the case are you using any third part text apps, like GoSMS or Handcent? Is he? What kind of phone is he using? When did you first flash CM7 RC0? I think that only became available last night, so it sounds like the issue started before you flashed over to RC0.

yeah, I'm sorry I meant to say that even when I got into my Google Voice I cant see the messages he has sent.
I used to use Handcent sms and i just flashed the RC today AFTER the issue happened 2 days ago. I figured I might as well wipe the phone so i did and then updated to cm7 RC-0. Currently, I'm not using any 3rd party apps for messaging but before I used Hand-cent sms. In fact my phone is completely devoid of any Apps atm because i just wiped data, cache and Dalvik.
He is currently using a Droid X On Cm7 and I think he uses handcent as well. So he is on verizon.
Basically the event went down like this. The night before he and i had a talk via text, i received all the messages from his phone from that day then when i woke up the next morning he had texted me but I didn't get it. Later he and i chatted online and he asked if i had received the message earlier and I said no and asked him to resend it. He did and i still didnt see anything, so i sent a test message to him which he was able to get and then he sent a message back to me etc. We sent messages back and forth for about an hour. I tried to send a message via Google Voice on the computer and he received it but my log on Google voice did not update for even the message i had sent. I just deactivated my google voice account thinking i might be somethnig to do with that, but i still am not receiving his texts. I also called sprint and they did basically everything they could think of and still no messages.

Just a thought but do you have any numbers blocked on sprint dot com (they allow certain text senders and numbers to be blocked from msging or calling on you account settings)? Reason I ask is that I don't fully trust sprint's system for this. When I blocked one number for instance from calling it completely disabled my roaming calls from going through and I had to reverse it. Even though I've successfully used it to block texts I wonder if it could cause issues for someone else.

Just puttin in my 2 cents but I had this happen to me a while back and it was foor my boss... I could send em to him and everything u say u can do but it just had to pan itself out. Hell sprint even gave me a new phone just to try and it never did... then one day it just started workin again and hasn't messed up since... it rly has nothing to do with thr roms or anything... just sprints horrible service and they don't even kno wat causes it. So hopefully it will pan out
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My brother is having the same problem between his & his wife's phones and they're stock. It's a Sprint problem - they told him a car knocked down a tower in their neighborhood.
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Outgoing Call Waiting Notification

Hello,
does anyone know if there is a rom that supports Outgoing call waiting notification? By this I mean if you call someone who is already on the phone, it tells you that your call is waiting? My S2 had this feature but the Nexus 4 does not. I have tried the latest CM rom but it does not support it. I have attached a picture as an example.
Thanks

Try going into the phone settings and check event notifications. It shows stuff like forwarded calls when someone calls you and other details. Dunno about that but that was a privacy nightmare for Verizon so they shut it off as well (I think).
I remember people were upset that others could know they were on the phone instead of just "unavailable" because they didn't answer the phone. People were complaining that when parents or girlfriends or whatever called they'd keep calling because they know they are on the phone and not in the shower or sleeping or whatever.

If anyone is interested, The latest PAC rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2146879) has this feature! In call settings, enable Event Notification and it works
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Try going into the phone settings and check event notifications. It shows stuff like forwarded calls when someone calls you and other details. Dunno about that but that was a privacy nightmare for Verizon so they shut it off as well (I think).
I remember people were upset that others could know they were on the phone instead of just "unavailable" because they didn't answer the phone. People were complaining that when parents or girlfriends or whatever called they'd keep calling because they know they are on the phone and not in the shower or sleeping or whatever.
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