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I love google voice so far, the concept is fantastic. However, i am having issues trying to get everything integrated with my touch pro 2. Has anyone found a way to integrate google voice into the phone so it is seamless, as if google wasnt even there? Is there a way to integrate the SMS into the phone as well instead of going to the website to SMS from the phone? Just wondering what everyone else's experience has been so far, it is great but so very clunky for me.
Thanks!
Great topic!
I would like to know also about it, I´m already suscribed but as I live outside of USA, service is not available yet...
Best program I've used to date is onedialer. Its not free but you may want to try out the free trial and see how it works for you.
Have to say the developer runs a pretty nice forum asking for input and looking to the user community to offer suggestions on ways to improve. I generally don't pay for much software but believe this one is worth it...
I dont know why someone would dial the google voice number from there phone to make a call (long distance maybe?). I was able to change my TMobile voicemail to the Google voice number so my voicemail messages get transcribed for me [although the accuracy is somewhat hit and miss ].
I found that iDailer and iContact work best. You can go to the iDialer website and you'll be walked through creating a config file. You'll have the option to add your current phone number, your google voice number, and google voice as a callback number. You can use the Rhodium keyboard controller to assign the Talk button to run iDialer when pressed. iContact will open it automatically when you select a contact from it.
As for SMS, I know it's annoying, but the best I have found is to just text the person through the web service once and save the number you get back for them.
Hope this helps!
jmmmmm said:
I dont know why someone would dial the google voice number from there phone to make a call (long distance maybe?)
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Whats "Long Distance"? I thought that term died in the 90's.
jmmmmm said:
I dont know why someone would dial the google voice number from there phone to make a call (long distance maybe?). I was able to change my TMobile voicemail to the Google voice number so my voicemail messages get transcribed for me [although the accuracy is somewhat hit and miss ].
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so people store your google voice number in their contacts and call you back there, giving you the freedom to switch number/phones whenever you want
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+voice
willthomason said:
I love google voice so far, the concept is fantastic. However, i am having issues trying to get everything integrated with my touch pro 2. Has anyone found a way to integrate google voice into the phone so it is seamless, as if google wasnt even there? Is there a way to integrate the SMS into the phone as well instead of going to the website to SMS from the phone? Just wondering what everyone else's experience has been so far, it is great but so very clunky for me.
Thanks!
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For SMS (and calling) cell phones, the best way is to get the other person to send a text (to your Googlevoice number), then add their '406' number to your address book as their mobile number. Then there's no need to go to the web site in the future. Obviously that only works with folks you communicate with regularly. I'm about to try 'onedialer' for the others...
Have a look at an app I've just released, it does Google Voice SMS, and is free:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=604699
ChrisGrundy said:
so people store your google voice number in their contacts and call you back there, giving you the freedom to switch number/phones whenever you want
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Touché teacher, Touché
Google voice is open. No special invite needed! Join away and welcome
www google com / voice
happy calling!!!
Sweet, now hopefully people stop pming me for my invites lol. Already gave them all away.
I'm interested to see if you can add your google number to your favorite 5 or a-list and get free calls... Anyone tried this yet? I just started doing it so i have nothing to report.
Bxsteez said:
I'm interested to see if you can add your google number to your favorite 5 or a-list and get free calls... Anyone tried this yet? I just started doing it so i have nothing to report.
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I was going to do this back when I got my Moto Droid on release day, but something stopped me from doing it.. I forget why I decided not to. Maybe I researched a bit and concluded that it wouldn't work. Seems like it should, though. Let me know how it works out for you
You lose caller ID but i guess you can use the google voice number as an exclusive number where only people you care to talk to have it.... I probably won't do it because of that though
okay, so i have added it to friends and fam for awhile now..i keep the caller id on cause i dont really eat through minutes..unless i am talking to comcast customer service..etc. so then what i do is, i open google voice (bookmarked in my browser) and then enter the number i want to call and then google connects me to that number by calling my phone with my gv number..i found it a lot simpler than dialing google voice and then dialing out through there. its flawless and i save the whole thirty mins
hey, another question on behalf of my friend. he has an unlocked vibrant, but is using an at&t sim card. How can we set up his at&t visual voicemail?
You might wanna tell "your friend" to look for a Captivate system dump and pick out the at&t VVM app (if it exists) and install it on "his" phone. Then forward missed calls, etc to his at&t voicemail number which I'm sure "he" can get from the carrier.
That's at least a start.
um... google voice?
cashless said:
You might wanna tell "your friend" to look for a Captivate system dump and pick out the at&t VVM app (if it exists) and install it on "his" phone. Then forward missed calls, etc to his at&t voicemail number which I'm sure "he" can get from the carrier.
That's at least a start.
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lol, why are you putting "your friend" and "his" in quotation marks. Are you implying I'm asking the questions for myself? LOL, why wouldn't i just admit that. Its not like I'm breaking the law. It's really for someone else, not my phone. I own the vibrant with a t-mobile sim, and he owns the vibrant with a at&t sim. Is that even something to make up and lie about? lol
btw whats a system dump?
Why would anyone want to use carrier voicemail on an android phone? Google Voice is free...
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Why would anyone want to use carrier voicemail on an android phone? Google Voice is free...
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I don't even know what your comment means. If you pay for your rate plan, and it includes voicemail, why wouldn't you use it. You have no choice but to pay for it.
This wasn't the point of the question btw, this person wants to use At&t visual voice... if someone knows how to make it work on the vibrant, It will be much appreciated.
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SamsungVibrant said:
I don't even know what your comment means. If you pay for your rate plan, and it includes voicemail, why wouldn't you use it. You have no choice but to pay for it.
This wasn't the point of the question btw, this person wants to use At&t visual voice... if someone knows how to make it work on the vibrant, It will be much appreciated.
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what he saying is that: http://voice.google.com -- it's free and it's better than the carrier's voicemail. When installing the app you can redirect it to Google Voice as your primary voicemail service. And "we" don't use the carrier voicemail because Google Voice's voicemail is better. Just because they give it to you, doesn't mean that you're forced to use it.
zephiK said:
what he saying is that: http://voice.google.com -- it's free and it's better than the carrier's voicemail. When installing the app you can redirect it to Google Voice as your primary voicemail service. And "we" don't use the carrier voicemail because Google Voice's voicemail is better. Just because they give it to you, doesn't mean that you're forced to use it.
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You know, it doesn't matter. Maybe he simply doesn't want to use google voice? I don't want to use it, so I don't, and I wouldn't appreciate somebody trying to force it down my throat either.
If you can't answer his question, don't frickin' post.
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You know, it doesn't matter. Maybe he simply doesn't want to use google voice? I don't want to use it, so I don't, and I wouldn't appreciate somebody trying to force it down my throat either.
If you can't answer his question, don't frickin' post.
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No one is FORCING him to do anything. It is pretty obvious that the OP doesn't know what Google Voice is, why be so judgmental about a service that he has never tried before?
And I can say the same thing to you, hypocrite.. nothing better to do than to start conflict over the internet?
Bug in google voice
zephiK said:
what he saying is that: http://voice.google.com -- it's free and it's better than the carrier's voicemail. When installing the app you can redirect it to Google Voice as your primary voicemail service. And "we" don't use the carrier voicemail because Google Voice's voicemail is better. Just because they give it to you, doesn't mean that you're forced to use it.
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Okay so I decided to test out google voice for myself, 2 things I dont like.
I set my phone to driving mode, so it would read the voicemail outloud to me. I don't like how it first reads out your given google voicemail number, for example it reads outloud +196151234567
Another potential annoying bug. If someone calls you, and you INSTANTLY reject the call, the caller gets a busy signal, or gets an error message, and they can't leave you a voicemail. You have to let it ring at least once, if you instantly reject the call, google voice fails.
Maybe someone can confirm this for me.
Hey everyone!
I'm in meed for some help! I am running CM7 and the sprint VCMC does not work with it so now I'm trying to get Google voice set up. I have gone through the set up numerous times and it still will not work. I am selecting do not use Google voice to make calls. I only want it for voice mail. So it prompts me to dial the *28 number, I get 3 beeps and then it hangs up. (I believe that is normal) . So after the set up is finished, when I call my phone it does not forward the calls the my Google voicemail, it simply says the call can not be completed please try again. I have gone online and checked the settings still won't work! I have deletes the account and tried again and still the same error. I know it works, since there are many people around here that use it. I'm sure this is a user error thing. So if anyone has any insight please let me know! I could use all the help I can get!
Thanks!
I know how to fix this!
I've had this problem before and it's incredibly annoying to experience, and almost impossible to find out yourself unless someone tells you.
It's simple really. You NEED a "google voice" number. I know you THINK you have one, but you don't.
Go into your gvoice account, and then voice settings. Right at the top there is a icon that says "get google number". It's free and quick. Once you have a google voice number, you can then get voicemail to work properly.
Hope that helps.
If you already have a Voice number, then did you set up your Evo to use Google Voicemail? I believe the option is in Settings>Call.
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.