I know this is an off topic. Im curious to know if its possible to do away with your sms/mms plan with your carrier and just use the hangout app?
Yeah you can choose to turn it off in the settings of hangouts I use the stock messaging app
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are you being charged through your carrier for the sms/mms? If so, is their a way not to be? In example registering your google voice number instead of the carriers number
If you disable text then you won't be able to text. Chatting and Texting are different things. If all of your friends and family use Hangouts, then you can chat rather then text.
2 totally different things. SMS uses cellular texting service, while chatting uses data.
Hangouts just handles both.
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player911 said:
If you disable text then you won't be able to text. Chatting and Texting are different things. If all of your friends and family use Hangouts, then you can chat rather then text.
2 totally different things. SMS uses cellular texting service, while chatting uses data.
Hangouts just handles both.
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This. Sorry I misread your OP, it was late lol.
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player911 has covered pretty well.
Short answer to OP, if you sms/mms through Hangouts, yes, you will still be charged by your provider.
Hangouts..er to Hangouts..er = chatting, like IM = free
Hangouts..er to mobile# = texting, sms = charged
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is there a texting app that can forward and reply to texts over internet to another device?
im looking for an app that i can send and receive my texts on my archos 70 that come from my evo.
i've done some searching and didnt really find anything...
let me know thanks
You can send text using google voice.
Swyped from my evo 4g using the xda app.
Why not just use email? You can also text a specific number by using the email format for it, for sprint I think is <number>@pm.sprintpcs.com but I'm not really sure this is the right syntax.
david279 said:
You can send text using google voice.
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I would have to agree. Google Voice is a great all around app to have. I use it in place of my Sprint VVM, and I can Text Call using my Google Voice #
I guess they figured out the problem with discount accounts and got some other bugs fixed, too. Worked for me.
Kept my old voice number too, and just ported my sprint number to another Gmail account.
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Confirmed. About time!
Great! Still don't want to change my number i like having two lol
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DirtyShroomz said:
Great! Still don't want to change my number i like having two lol
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This
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Hrshycro said:
I guess they figured out the problem with discount accounts and got some other bugs fixed, too. Worked for me.
Kept my old voice number too, and just ported my sprint number to another Gmail account.
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still not working here :/ no biggie thou
Been using it for over a week now. I made my GV number be main number rather than converting my sprint number to GV. Here's why:
By transitioning you GV number to your sprint account,you still maintain your original sprint number!
- GV number becomes you primary incoming and outgoing phone number calls and texts.
- All texts will utilize the native SMS interface with your carrier and your phone.
- Texts to/from the phone will all appear on the GV website so you can carry on a chat from either place.
- GV App no longer needed for anything unless you want to use it for it's other features.
- Old sprint number remains yours. Incoming calls and texts to your old sprint number will automatically go through GV and ring down all the phones you have on the account and texts appear on the website too.
- Kick ass.
Thought this might be of interest to some people.
Yesterday I was flying American Airlines and the plane that I was on had Wifi. When I opened up my web browser on my Xoom, I saw that it was about $10 for the flight. I didn't want to pay that, so I closed my browser, but left my Xoom connect to Wifi. About 2 minutes later, Google Voice goes off saying I had a text message. I opened it up and replied. Come to find out, Google Voice worked fine without paying for the service. I was able to send and receive texts and listen to voicemails. I then wanted to find out what other apps worked. Gmail was the only other app that worked fine. The Google Market would let you search for apps and read descriptions and such, but would not let me install apps.
So the next time you are on American Airlines, you can get text messaging and gmail for free.
I have 5 AA flights next month. Interesting.
How are people using Google voice on the xoom?
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How are people using Google voice on the xoom?
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It's become my preferred texting device, especially since eliminating my phone data plan and switching to a "standard" phone. I use Google Voice and the speech to text translation all the time and hardly ever send a text from my cell phone.
How do you enable voice for text support. Right now all I see is voicemail forwarding. Thanks
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smith3jk said:
How do you enable voice for text support. Right now all I see is voicemail forwarding. Thanks
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you have got to find the app. My Xoom is a complete phone with GrooveIp and Google Voice for sms my Wifi only Xoom has its own number and everything...Its a beautiful thing
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How are people using Google voice on the xoom?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=984111
Does anyone know or can recommend an app the lets you send/receive SMS & MMS with the Thrive over Wifi?
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I have been using Heywire for sms. It does not do mms but it is excellent for sms. The person you send the message to doesn't need to have Heywire installed.
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you can try texttab. What it does is connect thru Bluetooth to your phone, and receives any SMS your phone gets and sends them to your thrive. Which you can reply and send on your thrive once your paired up.
TexTab worked awesome on mine! I absolutely love that program. Thanks for the head's up on that app. Definitely worth paying for it...
I have google voice and I have loved being able to text from any browser, including the thrive's browser. Especially if you're on sprint for your mobile servce, I would strongly recommend setting up google voice.
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steven7590 said:
I have google voice and I have loved being able to text from any browser, including the thrive's browser. Especially if you're on sprint for your mobile servce, I would strongly recommend setting up google voice.
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Sprints decision to work in collaboration with google voice makes it this way. I have Sprint and love them for this. A friend of mine is having trouble figuring out how to send google voice sms from his Thrive since he is on TMobile tho.
I use DeskSMS, I started using it over month ago and the fact it actually syncs with my contacts on my phone rather they have Google Voice or any other service makes it IMO the best app there for texting over wifi without having to jump between phone numbers. Especially for those of us that didnt want to lose our MMS capability by completely syncing with Google Voice.
I tried DeskSMS for a little while and it works ok. I stopped using it because Google Voice Canadian numbers are still not available. Hopefully I will use DeskSMS again once Canadian Google voice numbers are available.
Rogers Wireless use to offer wifi calling and text for consumer however this option is no longer compatible with my current plan with them so I had to improvise.
I`ve also tried textplus which work very well and you can get a Canadian number by
paying a monthly fee.
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I have been using Heywire for sms. It does not do mms but it is excellent for sms. The person you send the message to doesn't need to have Heywire installed.
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HeyWire just got an update that now allows MMS.
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I am using google voice on all my android devices and computers. Most over wi_fi and all sync almost at the same time. Love the thrive.
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What is the best app out there for sending and receiving SMS text messages using your tablet?
sms sync tab text.. these are two that i have tired both work. Not used them in a while so might work better now with updates to them.. can do bluetooth or must be on same wifi network. .
Also if you are tethered you can use google voice or yahoo messenger to text to and from phone numbers. Groove ip as well and grove with google voice is awesome to make Phone calls from tablet.. There are so many out there you will have to try and find what works best for your liking and style.
I would recommend using SyncSMS
I would recommend Google voice and talkatone, as the latter requires a Google voice number. Talkatone incorporates both WiFi calling and SMS texting, while using only Google voice allows only texting over WiFi.
I've been trying out Tablet Talk lately and it seems to work well.
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I've been trying out Tablet Talk lately and it seems to work well.
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Same here... Tablet Talk is awesome!
I use mighty text. I am not sure about the other apps, but this app uses your own phone number, and there is an extension for the chrome browser for a computer.
SyncSMS
I think I like SyncSMS the best. It seems to be the best of the suggestions.
Google Voice + Groove IP apps so you can make/receive unlimited calls within North America along with unlimited SMS text for free over WIFI. Just pay the one time fee for the Groove IP app or use free equivalent.
I really like tablet talk
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Another one here for tablet talk, been using it for a while now with little to no issues.
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I use mighty text. I am not sure about the other apps, but this app uses your own phone number, and there is an extension for the chrome browser for a computer.
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Play store shows this one as incompatible on my device. -.-
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I would recommend Google voice and talkatone, as the latter requires a Google voice number. Talkatone incorporates both WiFi calling and SMS texting, while using only Google voice allows only texting over WiFi.
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+1 to Google Voice. I use Google Voice's app for texts, and GrooveIP for calls.
I'm using mySMS it's free and works good. Give it a try. I have it set on my cell phone to run in background but not to notify or pop up. I then am able to use Handcent as my normal SMS application.
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Do any of the texting apps mentioned here actually give you your own #, so that actual mobile users can text you? (I'm only aware of Google Voice doing this)
Using tablet talk and it's working great.
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Using syncsms here, just make sure you have free space in your drop box and you're fine!
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I use mighty text. I am not sure about the other apps, but this app uses your own phone number, and there is an extension for the chrome browser for a computer.
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Mighty text is awesome they just neeed to have a native app and it's perfect the call from phone feature is sexy.
Do any of these apps support mms too?
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Do any of these apps support mms too?
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Yes the Mighty one does