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[Q] Voice announcement rather than ring on incoming call?

When I first got my Epic, on an incoming phone call, there would be a voice announcement of either someone on my contact list or a phone number if not on my contact list. I don't remember if this came this way or if somehow a friend of mine set it up this way. Anyway, after I installed the leaked dk28 or sometime after, the phone now does not do voice announcement-is just rings. How can I get back the voice announcement?
Thanks in advance

Go into settings, accessibility and then check talk-back
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Thanks for the reply. That program was not installed so I installed it. But now the Epic talks about everything. hahhahah. I just want the Epic to announce phone calls. Thank you again.

I know that its in the stock Tom by default. You could try Vlingo too. I know that you can configure it to read just calls, text, emails, or all of them. It doesn't announce EVERYTHING like talkback does
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Go into settings...text to speech....and then speak incoming caller ID.
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MojoSwag said:
I know that its in the stock Tom by default. You could try Vlingo too. I know that you can configure it to read just calls, text, emails, or all of them. It doesn't announce EVERYTHING like talkback does
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I tried Vlingo and every screen it had but could not find a way to configure voice announcement of incoming call. ug

scrihfield said:
Go into settings...text to speech....and then speak incoming caller ID.
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I tried this too but could not find the above and I really spent a lot of time looking at all the settings but to no avail. Maybe they left it out in Froyo 2.2 that I installed??

There is an app called talking caller id

rhca50 said:
There is an app called talking caller id
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Perfect! That's the application I needed. I must have somehow put it on before and erased it??. Thank you very much!

Can't received phone calls.

Can't received phone calls cm7 please help.
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cman813 said:
Can't received phone calls cm7 please help.
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You need to put in a LOT more info there. Not the least of all is a more vivid description of your problem.

I am running cm7. Every body say they calling but my phone want ring and I did download Google voice and it gave me a couple of problem and I still cannot get the Google voice mail off my phone.
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cman813 said:
I am running cm7. Every body say they calling but my phone want ring and I did download Google voice and it gave me a couple of problem and I still cannot get the Google voice mail off my phone.
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You need to go online to remove google voice integration. If you are not receiving the calls, google voice is and you have misconfigured your phone. Go online to google.com/voice and revert those changes. Then uninstall the application from your phone. Should be fine after that.
My other suggestion would be to read everything when installing something on your phone, when you install google voice on the HTC evo or other google voice supported phones there is an option to merge with the google voice account or not, You should select SKIP and not continue. Sometimes people fail to read that part and this happens.
Good Luck!

Voicemail button in Touchwiz

I've been trying since the S2 to find a way for the voicemail button in the stock dialer to either call the voicemail number or to open Google voice... I have never used the sprint voicemail apk, and find it bothersome when I accidentally click the button.
I've see a similar thread for the HTC one and them modding the dialer apk... But i dont know where to begin
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Ls1ssz28 said:
I've been trying since the S2 to find a way for the voicemail button in the stock dialer to either call the voicemail number or to open Google voice... I have never used the sprint voicemail apk, and find it bothersome when I accidentally click the button.
I've see a similar thread for the HTC one and them modding the dialer apk... But i dont know where to begin
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I would like to know this too. I use google voice for voicemail as well. This would be a nice option!

Yeah me too, i figure it has to be possible because if you freeze the stock voicemail and you click the button It force closes... Meaning that it is pretty much like a shortcut to open the app... If we could change code or something to have it open Google voice would be AMAZING
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That's a good idea.. Might be able go take a look into the phone apk maybe change the shortcut location to Google voice.. voice mail
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Ls1ssz28 said:
I've been trying since the S2 to find a way for the voicemail button in the stock dialer to either call the voicemail number or to open Google voice...
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If you press and hold the number 1 in the stock dialer it will dial the voicemail number. Not sure if this is what you were looking for. I don't use Google Voice so I can't help you there.

Ls1ssz28 said:
Yeah me too, i figure it has to be possible because if you freeze the stock voicemail and you click the button It force closes... Meaning that it is pretty much like a shortcut to open the app... If we could change code or something to have it open Google voice would be AMAZING
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If you actually delete VVM.apk the voicemail button does dial to the sprint voicemail.
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Ls1ssz28 said:
I've been trying since the S2 to find a way for the voicemail button in the stock dialer to either call the voicemail number or to open Google voice... I have never used the sprint voicemail apk, and find it bothersome when I accidentally click the button.
I've see a similar thread for the HTC one and them modding the dialer apk... But i dont know where to begin
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The easiest thing to do is in your Google Voice preference check the "Voicemail Display" option. It will show your google voice voicemails in the call log, and you can just click to play them.

My issue is the button
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Can you tell me why I wouldn't get the vm icon on the Note 2 ? I get it on the S4 with the same setup
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How do I make calls from my Google voice number?

I can't seem to figure out how to make calls from my voice number and not my T-Mobile sim's number. I'm on stock rooted atm. Thanks
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patass said:
I can't seem to figure out how to make calls from my voice number and not my T-Mobile sim's number. I'm on stock rooted atm. Thanks
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install the google voice app, then set it up to use your google voice number when maling calls via your default dialer.

I have installed the Google voice app and and I'm using the stock dialer... Gvoice is using the number i want and I'm texting from that... I just don't see where to set it up to make calls from that number ... It was ported from a Sprint account, and on the actual google voice account page it has a sprint logo on it...anything special I need to do?
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patass said:
I have installed the Google voice app and and I'm using the stock dialer... Gvoice is using the number i want and I'm texting from that... I just don't see where to set it up to make calls from that number ... It was ported from a Sprint account, and on the actual google voice account page it has a sprint logo on it...anything special I need to do?
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from sprint i have no idea. but i have it set to ask me which number to use every time before i call. that option comes up when you first install google voice, as youre setting it up.

I can't help you with Sprint Google Voice integration. With regular Google Voice you just set it up in google.com/voice, in the Calls tab of Settings.
Then make calls using the Google Voice app. Or you can use GrooveIP or Talkatone.

patass said:
I have installed the Google voice app and and I'm using the stock dialer... Gvoice is using the number i want and I'm texting from that... I just don't see where to set it up to make calls from that number ... It was ported from a Sprint account, and on the actual google voice account page it has a sprint logo on it...anything special I need to do?
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Have you tried the settings in GVoice app? Do you see "Making calls"? If yes, select that and then choose "Ask every time when making calls" then the app will ask each time you make a call or "use GVoice for all calls"

Using the Google Voice app is the way to go, when you set it up remember to select "Ask every time" or "Use every time" and when you enter a number or dial from your contact directory, it must have all 10 digits or the GV app won't route the call, even on a local call...
Google Voice turned on:
Dial 222-1234 - Goes out via carrier
Dial 202-222-1234 - Goes out via Google Voice
For some reason people just don't seem to get that sometimes.

so what had happened was I installed the app first, and didnt bring my tmo number in because i thought there was a charge for that. I later added it on the website when i realized there wasn't, and because i had already set up the app i never got that prompt you guys were talking about. So I cleared the data on the app and then it asked me what i wanted to make calls from. Thanks for the help.

mod request google voice in dialer

Anyway to replace verizon voicemail with google voice?

The only thing I can think of is using this under settings in Google voice
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Certainly. Go into your dialer's settings and you'll find a Voicemail tab. You can choose Carrier or Google Voice.
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