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Anyone had any issues with google voice? I have had phone calls not come through every so often, and contacts not blocked end up in the spam folder. Only fix I found was to deactivate my Sprint number and re-activate it 15 mins later on Google Voice. Friend has a Nexus S 4G and can not contact her unless I have google voice activated and even then it will go back and some contacts. If anyone has issue like this let me know.

i never really had an issue with google voice, but whenever i did have some sort of issue the first thing sprint reps would ask is "are integrated with google voice?" seems like they want to blame that first for any tech problems.
i got a new ns4g yesterday and decided ditch googlevoice, the novelty has worn of for me

Canadians' reply to American question
G'day,
You asked about Gvoice problems.
Not sure if your situation can be considered contextually similar to mine as I am doing a bit of trickery to be able to use the voicemail section from Canada.
The relevant problem for me is similar to your spam thing. Very rarely, and randomly to boot, voicemail left for me will vanish ... I only know it was left for me because the leavers informed me. No hint whatsoever that it ever happened.
Aside from that its been good to have a voicemail that can SMS me, transcribe to text and just overall be what I thought my OVERPRICED carriers voicemail should be. Already pay far too much for cellular anything in my opinion.

floydlloyd said:
G'day,
You asked about Gvoice problems.
Not sure if your situation can be considered contextually similar to mine as I am doing a bit of trickery to be able to use the voicemail section from Canada.
The relevant problem for me is similar to your spam thing. Very rarely, and randomly to boot, voicemail left for me will vanish ... I only know it was left for me because the leavers informed me. No hint whatsoever that it ever happened.
Aside from that its been good to have a voicemail that can SMS me, transcribe to text and just overall be what I thought my OVERPRICED carriers voicemail should be. Already pay far too much for cellular anything in my opinion.
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Please let us know how you managed to get it working in canada
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I'm not sure how he does it but I have my Nexus on Boost and supposedly you can't use Google Voice mail on a prepaid service but mine works. All I did was go through the setup on the google voice app and set it to be my voice mail...I didn't set up anything through the online settings from my computer. But the funny thing is if I reject a call myself it will send it to my Boost voicemail....if I let it just ring out, it will go to Google Voice mail. Don't know if that helps in your case but it works for me.

Story of the guy who thought in circles !!!
asb123 said:
Please let us know how you managed to get it working in canada
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Well ... Joke was on me !!
At first I thought I had discovered the Holy Grail ... (fool ... I am I am) I erroneously thought that I could beat the system by forwarding unanswered / phone off type calls to Google Voice, then use "Google Voice Callback FREE" app to "intercept" the "outgoing" forwarded call.
Damn ... worked really well in my coupla tests with friends etc but I quickly realized, once my online call log was posted (roughly 3 hour wait plus or minus) I was essentially just calling Google Voice using INTERNATIONAL LONG DISTANCE ... not good, I was prepared to eat the coupla minutes there, so not ready to fall on sword or anything just yet LOL
( Must have been on some heavy drugs 'cause I never stopped to realize that the forwarding is out of my hands and done at the carriers end FIDO.ca in my case)
Unless there is a way to do forwarding LOCAL to the phone or maybe have it answer THEN redirect the call using tasker or some other programmatic method I think I'm stumped ... of course I'm stumped just like the rest of us Canucks. LOL
I have a long distance plan that gives me free minutes to the US that I never use ... tried setting my voicemail # in Android to dial it ... then pause (tried comma and semicolon) then dial my Gvoice number ... No go there ...
Aaaaaargh ... lotta wasted time really without thinking it thru b4 hand AND here I was thinking that I had figured it out, so I posted that yesterday.
So out of all this blah blah blah Coupla questions
1. Is the forwarding TRULY out of my hands and done at the carriers end?
2. is there SOME way I can redirect incoming unanswered calls locally on my phone so that "Google Voice Callback FREE" app can intercept it?
Sorry to get any hopes up with my "genius" non-discovery
Floydlloyd

budphone.ca cheesy interface with ads BUT voicemail & Canadian Long Distance free
Me again,
For those too cheap ...like myself, to pay even more for voicemail. I got this in a tweet a while back and ignored it thinking I could get the Gvoice thing going "somehow".
budphone(dot)ca
Labatts breweries wants our "consumerist" attention so thru freephoneline.ca they are offering this ... get a phone number and long distance calling to many cities in Canada + voicemail + forwarding to normal phones + coupla other things ... go see if you're interested. I dont work for BUD or Labatts BTW. I just like the free voicemail ...1 day only so far.
I signed up and it is OK for me for now. I really only wanted the voice mail. It does give me an alternate phone number too ... without affecting my current FIDO cell plan.
I already have long distance at $.25 per call in North America no matter how long the call is ... (dial a number ... pause ... dial target number. Works on cellphone homephone etc.
I haven't left it off the hook for days or anything to see if the "no matter how long the call is" thing is true, but hours on end is no problem.
This was called talk 25 with win-tel who now seems to primus.ca and it seems they've abolished that SUPER deal except for grandfathering AFAIK You can look there too to see if they offer any killer deals.
Whew ... lotta babbling there ... but might spark some Ideas perhaps?
Floydlloyd

Google Voice is available in Canada at the 403 (Calgary, AB) area code. Google will let you set it up if you sign up over a vpn. Buy yourself a cheap DID.

[Q] SGH-i337M - Using mspy app - call recordings dont work (have kitkat 4.4.2 & Root)

[Q] SGH-i337M - Using mspy app - call recordings dont work (have kitkat 4.4.2 & Root)
Hi All,
Im using the app in the Galaxy S4 SGH-i337m to record calls, but I can hear only the person who receives the call (I mean the person with the mspy app installed in the device).
Is there any way to change the configuration (Probably installing a ROM or patch) to make the recording calls through mspy.com available?
This device is same as Canadian and Mexico Models. I have used this app in other phones and works perfectly all call recordings are working 100% fine.
This might be a dumb question but I dont know how to figure this out, been reading a lot and trying to find out, like I mention in subject, this phone has kitkat 4.4.2 and is rooted, all other features of Mspy works fine but the call recording is not, and is pretty much the most important feature of the application.
Please help me to resolve this issue!!

mspy.com support response!! - They dont help at all!!
[email protected] said:
Hi All,
Im using the app in the Galaxy S4 SGH-i337m to record calls, but I can hear only the person who receives the call (I mean the person with the mspy app installed in the device).
Is there any way to change the configuration (Probably installing a ROM or patch) to make the recording calls through mspy.com available?
This device is same as Canadian and Mexico Models. I have used this app in other phones and works perfectly all call recordings are working 100% fine.
This might be a dumb question but I dont know how to figure this out, been reading a lot and trying to find out, like I mention in subject, this phone has kitkat 4.4.2 and is rooted, all other features of Mspy works fine but the call recording is not, and is pretty much the most important feature of the application.
Please help me to resolve this issue!!
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Currently there are 2 ways of the conversation to be recorded: directly from the phone line and through the microphone of the device. In first case – all parties of the conversation will be recorded in a high-quality.
In second case – the recording is executed through the microphone which is usually situated in the bottom part of the phone and it can clearly record only the voice of the target device’s owner, but the other party may not be such clear. It means that the microphone “hears” only the echoes of sounds from the phone’s speaker, which is situated in the top part of the phone. It leads to the low-quality or one-sided recordings.
The possibility to record through the phone line is determined by the manufacturer and their policy. It means that in many countries (especially in EU) it is forbidden by the law to secretly perform a recording of the phone conversation. Therefore, many manufacturers are restricting this option from the firmware of the phone. It means that some of manufacturers still keep this option for phones, which will be used in countries without such law restrictions, and the others block this feature in firmware “just in case”.
In some cases there is a possibility to replace the official firmware of the phone on other official one and activate the option to record phone conversations (the localization of the phone may be kept). Moreover, it’s possible to find the alternative (unofficial) firmware with activated option of recording designed by freelancers. It is possible to install some special patches for some of phone models which will enable the option of conversation recording.
After thorough researches it was concluded that your particular target device will not have the possibility to record calls and this problem may not be resolved from our side due to those hardware issues (which were previously stated). You can make a research on your own and find the appropriate firmware for your target device; it may resolve your problem. However, we cannot take the responsibility for those researches and provide any guarantees.
Please accept our apologies.
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PLEASE HELP ME OUT!!!!!

[Q] Phone Consolidation Options

Hey guys;
I'm here for a general question that I can't seem to find a solution phone. A little background:
I have two phones. One phone for work, one phone for personal. Personal is Galaxy S5 and work is Galaxy S4 Active.
I have two bluetooth devices a Martian Smart Watch, and an LG stereo headset.
The headset connects with two phones, but instead of both being default, there's a default and a backup, so if I charge, go out of range, turn off, anything, it becomes a pain in the ass to try to reconnect both. The watch is a smart watch, only connects to one device. So I'm looking into options to make two devices into one.
I've come across a few options. However, I've come to find issues with each.
Use a dual sim adapter-however I haven't come across an Active Dual Sim adapter. So I can not receive calls from both at any time, just the one that's active.
Buy a different model dual sim phone, but I haven't found a good reliable place to do this.
Try a "mirroring" method? I haven't found an actual solution for this, but it's a hypothis that something like this has to exist. Maybe an app on both phones, leave my work phone at home on the charger 24/7, and carry my personal. Any calls coming in from my work get sent through the app on my personal, and can make calls through the app on my personal that will show up from my work number.
Call forwarding on one device-but then there's no way to dial out or text from that devices phone number.
I've heard some rumors about google voice and porting a number over to it. Then using the google voice app to text or call. Anyone got information regarding this?
I dunno, I'm at a loss. Anyone found any good solutions for this?

Bleyld said:
I haven't come across an Active Dual Sim adapter. So I can not receive calls from both at any time, just the one that's active.
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You want a phone that has two SIMs simultaneously active. So do a lot of a lot of other people. But the phone manufacturer's must not perceive a large market for the demand as I haven't seen anyone bring a commercial product like that to market. There are dual SIM phones, but either one SIM is inactive i.e. you choose to boot into one SIM or the other. Or one SIM is GSM and one is CDMA, apparently for mixed-technology markets in China.
It isn't impossible. I know of a very small number of people running custom firmware that multiplexes access to the SIM, effectively checking if there are calls for each SIM in rapid succession. In effect that monitors incoming calls for both SIMs. But again, I haven't noticed any commercial models that do that. You should do a search and see if you can find a manufacturer with a true dual SIM phone.
In practical terms though, you could simply have your second number forward to your single SIM phone. The only obvious impediment to that is if your carrier plan has excessive call forwarding charges. Google voice is often helpful in this to avoid miscellaneous forwarding or airtime fees or for greater call management flexibility. You may not need a second cellular number at all if you can use a GV number for line two and then forward incoming GV calls to your mobile.
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Help needed with Caller ID stranger behavior on SM-G950W

Phone: Galaxy S8 / SM-G950W
Network: Telus
Problem: This is the strangest thing I've ever seen! My phone is showing incoming calls from my wife's number and another relative as "Private Number". All other calls are identified correctly. Their network is 7-Eleven Speakout.
The strangest thing is, if i take my SIM and use it on a different phone, their numbers show up just fine. Also, if i put another SIM from a different provider in my S8, it also works fine. I even changed the SIM from Telus and got a new one but it didn't help. I've reset the network settings on the phone, reset the data on the phone app, nothing worked.
It seems that the problem only happens when I use my Telus SIM on that specific S8 phone!
Unfortunately, wiping the phone is the least favorable solution as it's not rooted and I have tons of apps that it'll take considerable effort to re-configure them. I don't backup to samsung or google for privacy reasons. Used to use TitaniumBackup, but since no root exists for this phone yet i cannot use TB in this case.
My question is: Does anyone knows the process of call identification on android phones and may have a good guess why such a behavior may happen? I have a bit of a technical background so i may be able to understand any technical explanation...
I need help on this, as now i have to answer any private number that calls me when i'm away as it could be a family emergency, unfortunately telemarketers and spammers are not making my life any easier and i would love to be able to block all unknown calls again like i used to...
Thank you all for your help in advance, this is one of the strangest issues i've seen and i only ask for help here after i depleted all other ways...
Cheers!

anonov said:
Phone: Galaxy S8 / SM-G950W
Network: Telus
Problem: This is the strangest thing I've ever seen! My phone is showing incoming calls from my wife's number and another relative as "Private Number". All other calls are identified correctly. Their network is 7-Eleven Speakout.
The strangest thing is, if i take my SIM and use it on a different phone, their numbers show up just fine. Also, if i put another SIM from a different provider in my S8, it also works fine. I even changed the SIM from Telus and got a new one but it didn't help. I've reset the network settings on the phone, reset the data on the phone app, nothing worked.
It seems that the problem only happens when I use my Telus SIM on that specific S8 phone!
Unfortunately, wiping the phone is the least favorable solution as it's not rooted and I have tons of apps that it'll take considerable effort to re-configure them. I don't backup to samsung or google for privacy reasons. Used to use TitaniumBackup, but since no root exists for this phone yet i cannot use TB in this case.
My question is: Does anyone knows the process of call identification on android phones and may have a good guess why such a behavior may happen? I have a bit of a technical background so i may be able to understand any technical explanation...
I need help on this, as now i have to answer any private number that calls me when i'm away as it could be a family emergency, unfortunately telemarketers and spammers are not making my life any easier and i would love to be able to block all unknown calls again like i used to...
Thank you all for your help in advance, this is one of the strangest issues i've seen and i only ask for help here after i depleted all other ways...
Cheers!
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A friend is having the same problem, albeit worse - it's all incoming calls show as unknown.
Swapped my SIM in and it's fine. Swap back and it's stuffed again. The suspect SIM works fine in my phone tho.
Even got a new SIM and ported the number to it, but same problem.
Out of ideas to try.
Looks like it's time to replace the phone
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"unexpected account registration error" in Google Hangouts phone calls

The Google Hangouts "unexpected account registration error" has been covered in many ways in many forums and I have gone as far as to do a complete wipe to factory reset spec before adding the various things I previously had.
I have a Samsung J1 (SMJ-100MU, specifically), a Bahamas Telephone originally, now unlocked and running T-Mobile (or when I'm in the Bahamas, BTC).
I had this issue once a couple of years ago, in the Bahamas and the factory reset solved it. However, I am now in some sort of Twilight Zone where my carrier number (which I never use; the reason for my using Hangouts is that Google Voice has the same number as I used for 40 years before going mobile) sometimes receives calls (I have my GV set up so that calls are forwarded to the mobile in case I'm somewhere without good data connectivity), and while I can MAKE calls on the mobile number, I cannot make or receive calls via Hangouts/Google Voice any more.
So, as it may be specific to how the J1 has the stuff organized, and I cannot get to some of the features mentioned in other solutions, can anyone here give me step-by-step remediation for this issue? FWIW, I also use the microphone/voice transcription for my texting, as my hands are WAY too big for accurate typing; so far my resuscitation efforts have not restored the microphone feature (Hangouts Keyboard, I think? - I have not yet added that back, as I want to deal with one problem at a time.
Thanks.