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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
I'm new to the android, mostly I like it, but there is one thing that is driving me nuts. I don't know if I'm missing something or stupid or what.
There are a number of times I have gotten to my list of contacts - i.e. from Google Maps defining a location to navigate to, or creating a shortcut to a contact- that I get presented with a list of all my contacts (1500+) and no apparent way to search the list.
If I press the search button it brings up the contact search, but then I seem to have lost the app that wanted the contact. Is there a way to do a search on the contacts and then have it get entered into the original app? I also tried google gesture search, which was great, but I can't figure out how to do anything with the contact other than call them.
I'm beginning to think I am dense or something, please help.
if i understand correctly, i think you want to navigate to a specific contact's address from google maps?
if so, all you need to do is, while in google maps, in the destination field just type the contacts name. and if you have their address saved in your contacts it should just pop up with their address.
For maps tha'ts great, I must remember not to rush things at traffic lights.
However, the thing I am still having trouble with is creating direct dial shortcuts. I go to create the shortcut, and get a long list of contacts and A-Z on the right. I can pick a letter, but there are still hundreds of phone numbers to go through. There is no search box available at that point - I tried pushing the search button and it searches the contact list, but then all I can do is call the contact, not create a shortcut. I tried BetterCut and it doesn't have the A-Z selector.
Am i missing something here too?
This is the problem of not having a physical keyboard. And not having gestures in all lists. What you are doing is exactly what I want to do many times and there is unfortunately no way around it except scrolling up and down a list. Very annoying idiom started by the iPhone and unfortunately copied by Android. There is simply no way to filter lists unless every list is accompanied by a filter text field.
Hi, my phone isnt android but my tablet obviously is. I'm in the military with orders to korea and want to keep in touch with everyone, but my phone is a cheap cricket flip phone. All the apps that allow things like this that i could find require me to install the app on my tablet and phone, which obviously wont work. Is there an app (free or paid, i dont care which) that will let me plug in my phone number and send texts from it on my tablet? Skype's text rates are ridiculous, gtalk is great but i can only communicate with other gtalk users, facebook messenger will only be instant for people with smart phones or data plans, etc. A text app will allow me to text everyone that doesnt have a smart phone as well as those that do, and not have to hope they are at their computer to reply. Thanks for any help you guys can give me.
Have you tried using Google Voice app on your tablet? I have used it with mine and I was able to send/receive text messages using the Google Voice number I chose. I was connected to wifi when I did this.
i have google voice from before i canceled my smart phone plan, i love how it transcribes my voice mails. I dont see a send text option though, even with my new cricket number in it. All i have is an inbox, settings, labels, balance, search and refresh, and the inbox just seems to be call logs and voicemail transcribes. If you can tell me how to set up texting with it i will be quite grateful.
Edit- okay text is under labels, but i cant figure out how to send one.
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i have google voice from before i canceled my smart phone plan, i love how it transcribes my voice mails. I dont see a send text option though, even with my new cricket number in it. All i have is an inbox, settings, labels, balance, search and refresh, and the inbox just seems to be call logs and voicemail transcribes. If you can tell me how to set up texting with it i will be quite grateful.
Edit- okay text is under labels, but i cant figure out how to send one.
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Download the google voice app on your tablet, and from there you press "compose" and than just type in the number (or select a contact) and txt away .
I to have cricket .. Google voice works .. as described above.. Also two more..
PALTALK VIDEO chat has a new sms feature.. I have not used it as its brand new..
YAHOO MESSENGER NOW HAS A SIMILAR Feature. and does video chat..
Yahoo messanger for the tablet is now compatable with Crickets sms service.. IT USED to not work..
i would check them out in the order i mentioned above I do use google voice and PALTALK .. the paltalk you get from www.paltalk.com
Good Luck and STAY SAVE OVER THERE... i hear its not much better then the middle east. one of my best Girl Friends just returned from EAU .. she says they treat women over there as if they are a Possession.. i would be hung because im very independent
I have the Zio cell phone It works well well for what it is .. I love the NO contract and i get awesome signal here.. I also have a at&t cell for work and my cricket is better service ..
Something must not be compatible with my rom because there is no compose option in voice and in settings the google voice number is greyed out and i cant select it. I'll look at yahoo messenger since i have it installed and hopefully that works. Thank you both for your help.
Edit- the website for google voice has more options than the app. I thought my voicemail number i made was enough, but i made a new number thst works with texting after signing out of the app then signing back in. Just one more question, since the texts show up as from the voice number amd not the cricket number, this means i dont have to pay for the cricket service when i leave, right? I can just use this free voice number to text? It seems too good to be true.
As far as i can remember your google Voice ..must have a telephone number to be linked to.. Rather or not its just for the initial setup verification im not sure .
i Use google voice number for things i register to keep text spam off my cell phone number.. Go to CRICKETUSER FORUMS Register and ask this same Question over there. EVERYTHING you ever need to know about CRICKET Wireless is on that forum..
Cricket now offers world wide text as well.. but im not sure if it from over there to us or just from us to over seas..
Thanks again for your help, i should have everything i need to adequately keep in touch with everyone now. Seems like its a free number that can route to my existing numbers, but wont require them(aside from activation) if i just want to use the tablet or a pc. so i can cancel my cricket service for the year im gone, thanks for helping me save money.
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.
Hello All,
I have recently bought a Xtrons PQ89UNVIP head unit. All in all I love it. However the functionality I like the most is Google Assistant but it is doing my nuts at the moment. Say "OK Google" it promps up and politely asks what it can do for me. It plays my music in Deezer, takes me places, suggests me locations, etc. Lovely. BUT,when I tell google to make a phonecall it says "making a phonecall to XXX" as it does with every other task that I ask it to do but in this case it stops there. Not sending the command to the phone. Which is strange because using the bluetooth app is no problem. I have already checked the permissions but everything is activated for google... Hope you can help me on this!
Thanks!
Most here have the same issue with Joying units. I only found this week that if I say "OK google, show me my contacts and dial xxxxx" this has so far worked every time ?
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Most here have the same issue with Joying units. I only found this week that if I say "OK google, show me my contacts and dial xxxxx" this has so far worked every time ?
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Dammit! That is one stupid error that sort of brigns down the whole thing quite a bit. Thanks a lot however for your suggestion! This is the first bit of actuable info I have gotten on this matter so far.
Thanks Dave!
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Thanks Dave!
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No problem, hope it works for you
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No problem, hope it works for you
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Dammit. I tried it yesterday on my way home from work and the same happened. It does bring my contacts up but again, fails to send the call command as previously.
I did contact Xtrons via their FB page and their reply was epic to say the least: "Hi, our xtrons units can't work with Google Assistant". The end.
Anybody that can throw me a bone here?
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Dammit. I tried it yesterday on my way home from work and the same happened. It does bring my contacts up but again, fails to send the call command as previously.
I did contact Xtrons via their FB page and their reply was epic to say the least: "Hi, our xtrons units can't work with Google Assistant". The end.
Anybody that can throw me a bone here?
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I have a different unit but this is what kind of got it working. I doubt this will work for you but worth a shot. Posted on a FB group for my unit so i can't link the video unfortunately. Its mostly unstable and still only works if the moon is in a waxing phase and I've sacrificed a flamingo.
1. Install google contacts sync service (missing on my unit)
2. Install google contacts and make sure your contacts are syncing.
3. Install google assistant if you haven't already, obviously
4. Install shortcut master
5.launch shortcut master, search for accessibility and click on Settings from the list (i had two, used the first one)
6. Set display to larger. Exit, maybe restart, i dunno
7. Attempt a voice call and in the top right corner of the google popup tap on bluetooth dialer icon (not phone). Similar to how the mtcdialer fix worked.
I found that it would open the bt dialer but not dial the number if my contact did not have country code in the number. +1-xxx-xxx-xxxx or 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx. Bone thrown...
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Dammit. I tried it yesterday on my way home from work and the same happened. It does bring my contacts up but again, fails to send the call command as previously.
I did contact Xtrons via their FB page and their reply was epic to say the least: "Hi, our xtrons units can't work with Google Assistant". The end.
Anybody that can throw me a bone here?
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I went and tried mine again and guess what, it didn't work. Not exactly anyway. The reason it didn't work was because the head unit had somehow lost my contacts despite it previously syncing fine with Gmail.
It did work after a fashion because my phone picked up my "OK google" dialled the number and it then went through the head unit and out through the speakers. But why my contacts are not synced is a mystery
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I went and tried mine again and guess what, it didn't work. Not exactly anyway. The reason it didn't work was because the head unit had somehow lost my contacts despite it previously syncing fine with Gmail.
It did work after a fashion because my phone picked up my "OK google" dialled the number and it then went through the head unit and out through the speakers. But why my contacts are not synced is a mystery
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Try installing the Google Contact Sync service. If your contacts are not showing up in the Google Contacts apps then you know its not syncing. Or make sure contact is checked under your account sync options in the setting menu.
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Try installing the Google Contact Sync service. If your contacts are not showing up in the Google Contacts apps then you know its not syncing. Or make sure contact is checked under your account sync options in the setting menu.
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Many thanks I'll give that a go in the morning