I just bought one of the newly released unlocked S7's. First let me say it is awesome. No bloat and numerous settings that were blocked by Verizon are available now. I popped in my sim and everything works great. The only one problem is that the voicemail app is not on the phone. When someone leaves me a message, I get some wierd cryptic text message. I can dial my own number and retrieve the messages the old fashioned way. After I delete a message, I get another cryptic text message. I assume these messages are supposed to be telling the voicemail app how many messages there are in my inbox. Does anyone know how I can either get a working Verizon voicemail app on my phone or stop these text messages at least?
skiddingus said:
I just bought one of the newly released unlocked S7's. First let me say it is awesome. No bloat and numerous settings that were blocked by Verizon are available now. I popped in my sim and everything works great. The only one problem is that the voicemail app is not on the phone. When someone leaves me a message, I get some wierd cryptic text message. I can dial my own number and retrieve the messages the old fashioned way. After I delete a message, I get another cryptic text message. I assume these messages are supposed to be telling the voicemail app how many messages there are in my inbox. Does anyone know how I can either get a working Verizon voicemail app on my phone or stop these text messages at least?
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You need the Verizon visual voicemail app or you need to disable basic visual voicemail on your line.
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PiousInquisitor said:
You need the Verizon visual voicemail app or you need to disable basic visual voicemail on your line.
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That's what I thought. I tried installing a Verizon voicemail app from the Play store but it repeatedly crashes and doesn't work at all. It did not look like the standard voicemail app that is preinstalled on the Verizon branded S7. I would like to get the APK that is preinstalled and give it a try but I haven't been able to find it yet.
skiddingus said:
That's what I thought. I tried installing a Verizon voicemail app from the Play store but it repeatedly crashes and doesn't work at all. It did not look like the standard voicemail app that is preinstalled on the Verizon branded S7. I would like to get the APK that is preinstalled and give it a try but I haven't been able to find it yet.
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I have a VVM APK I used on the S5 and S6 successfully if you'd like to give it a shot.
Edit..here's a link to it. Good luck.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xlc43x21jwculw8/VisualVoiceMail.apk?dl=0
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I would love to try it.
skiddingus said:
I would love to try it.
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Link is in my post above. Good luck
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I get an "app not installed" error after trying to install it. It seems like the app is checking compatibility before it installs. Thanks for trying.
I as well purchased one of the new unlocked S7's. I have Google Voice setup to handle my voicemail and it works great.
gramenz said:
I as well purchased one of the new unlocked S7's. I have Google Voice setup to handle my voicemail and it works great.
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Are you forwarding the Verizon phone number to the google voice number ? I use Google Voice a little but I didn't think it could handle the voicemail on the carriers system.
I have also notice that the video calling option is not available in the dialer on the unlocked phone. Not a big deal to me but it is one more small sacrifice to have the unlocked phone. I haven't looked for a work-around yet.
skiddingus said:
Are you forwarding the Verizon phone number to the google voice number ? I use Google Voice a little but I didn't think it could handle the voicemail on the carriers system.
I have also notice that the video calling option is not available in the dialer on the unlocked phone. Not a big deal to me but it is one more small sacrifice to have the unlocked phone. I haven't looked for a work-around yet.
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Yes, I have it forwarding to Google voice number. You can set it up online at www.google.com/voice Also, I don't believe that Verizon Advanced Calling is available for Unlocked phones.
gramenz said:
Yes, I have it forwarding to Google voice number. You can set it up online at www.google.com/voice Also, I don't believe that Verizon Advanced Calling is available for Unlocked phones.
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Thanks. I already have my google voice voicemail set up and working. I was looking for a way to get the Verizon phone number's mailbox working with visual voice mail. I had to call Verizon and have them add the "block visual voice mail" feature to my line so that I would stop getting the cryptic text messages every time I received or deleted a message. To save someone else some grief, if you do this, you must reboot your phone before the blocking system change takes effect.
I'm using the old fashioned voice mail service now on my Verizon number. It is tedious but I don't get many messages so I can live with it. My battery life seems to be slightly better on this phone than my old Verizon branded S7. My wife inherited the old S7 when the unlocked version was released. Well played Samsung.
skiddingus said:
I had to call Verizon and have them add the "block visual voice mail" feature to my line so that I would stop getting the cryptic text messages every time I received or deleted a message. To save someone else some grief, if you do this, you must reboot your phone before the blocking system change takes effect.
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After doing this, do you get any sort of notification when you have new voice mails?
I didn't mind the cryptic texts (in fact, I was able to determine what much of what it meant), but at least those texts let me know I had a new message. But recently they seem to have stopped, so now I get no notification I have a new voice mail
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After doing this, do you get any sort of notification when you have new voice mails?
I didn't mind the cryptic texts (in fact, I was able to determine what much of what it meant), but at least those texts let me know I had a new message. But recently they seem to have stopped, so now I get no notification I have a new voice mail
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Yes, I get the typical voicemail icon up in the notification bar. My dialer has the number one key set to long-press speeddial my voicemail and enter my password for me. This way it is not much of an inconvenience not having VVM.
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Yes, I get the typical voicemail icon up in the notification bar. My dialer has the number one key set to long-press speeddial my voicemail and enter my password for me. This way it is not much of an inconvenience not having VVM.
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When you setup google voice correctly by forwarding your carrier number to google voice you will get it all in one place. It sounds like you setup Gvoice incorrectly. Don't use the setup from the app, use the setup on the website it will guide you in doing the phone code you have to enter to forward your number.
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When you setup google voice correctly by forwarding your carrier number to google voice you will get it all in one place. It sounds like you setup Gvoice incorrectly. Don't use the setup from the app, use the setup on the website it will guide you in doing the phone code you have to enter to forward your number.
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I'm a little confused here. Are you porting your phone number from Verizon to Google Voice, or just forwarding your voicemail to Google Voice?
CVertigo1 said:
I'm a little confused here. Are you porting your phone number from Verizon to Google Voice, or just forwarding your voicemail to Google Voice?
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Just forwarding vzw # to google voice for the free visual voicemail.
Google Voice
CVertigo1 said:
I'm a little confused here. Are you porting your phone number from Verizon to Google Voice, or just forwarding your voicemail to Google Voice?
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The way I was able to get google voicemail to work was go into settings, phone, call forwarding, turn on call forwarding, unanswered calls and then put my google voice number there.
Isn't there some setting that can be used to enable it? I was using Lineage 14.1 on my HTC One m7 right before buying my 930u, and that had visual voicemail built into it that worked out of the box with Verizon.
Surely someone on here has a Verizon Galaxy S7 and can pull the APK file off of it for sharing?
AdobeCRT said:
Surely someone on here has a Verizon Galaxy S7 and can pull the APK file off of it for sharing?
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I was able to pull the APK from my friend's Verzion S7, but when I try to install it fails saying a package already exists with that name. I can't find the package on my phone though. The package name is "com.samsung.vvm" according to pm on the device. I pulled it using these instructions.
I'm baffled how to block calls and numbers on the Moto x pure/style can anyone help me please ?
With some apposite app in the Play store maybe?
Edvin73 said:
With some apposite app in the Play store maybe?
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Is this a Joke? They don't have any Call Blocking apps
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Apposite&hl=en
kendive said:
Is this a Joke? They don't have any Call Blocking apps
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Apposite&hl=en
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Oh [emoji90] . Dirty insult generator will do anyway.
BackDaws said:
I'm baffled how to block calls and numbers on the Moto x pure/style can anyone help me please ?
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I'm quite possibly wrong about this but I believe that if you update to the most recent version of the "Phone" app there is now a setting which allows you to select a phone number which has called your phone and then choose to block the number in the future.
BackDaws said:
I'm baffled how to block calls and numbers on the Moto x pure/style can anyone help me please ?
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From what I saw on my Nexus 5X now running 7.0 (which I bought this summer after frustrations with my MotoX and lack of regular security and feature pack updates), it does appear the native phone dialer app in Nougat has the ability to flag calls to be blocked and/or "reported as spam" back to Google... With the MotoX on 6.0 today, however, unless you use Google Voice/Hangouts (and Google delivering the incoming call instead), I don't see how Google can block calls before they ring on your device today. That being said, Google is hopefully working on a solution (speculation on my part) to have the native phone app do a "spam check" when it receives and incoming call (even from a carrier) on the device before it treats the calls as legit and notifies you (rings)... In theory, if millions of Android users start reporting spam phone numbers, Google should have a decent database to check against. This is the concept behind apps like Truecaller in the PlaySTore, but BE CAREFUL with those: they require your consent to copy ALL your contacts into their cloud and add them as "safe" (real) callers for everyone!
The real problem with spam calls in the US today is the open nature of the SIP transport protocol implementations all carriers are now using in their networks... Caller Line ID info is spoofed on the fly (by the call originator) to appear to be coming from a legit area and exchange you make calls in/from. THIS is extremely difficult to defend against on a device by only being able to look at CLID to make a decision on allow/deny of call. If carriers spent more effort screening the calls being put on their network (i.e. ensuring the CLID is legit for the originating source IP), they could get a better handle on the current spam crisis IMHO...
Never needed to use an app before, so you can't do it with the phone itself?
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Never needed to use an app before, so you can't do it with the phone itself?
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Sorry, just noticed you aren't in the US... Not sure if the UK has the same spoofed CLID problem that we currently do over here... As the other poster also said, newer versions of the natuve phone app offer some protection against the same number ringing through a 2nd time (once you block it)... However, as long as the "bad guys" can keep changing the # they appear to be calling from EVERY time they call you, there really isn't any point in screening incoming calls based solely on the originating number...
My wife has hundreds of "blocked" callers listed in her iPhone yet she still gets (new) spam callers every day... Is anyone really shocked that scummy telemarketers have resorted to "SIP-hacking" to stay ahead of efforts to block their "real" number?
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Sorry, just noticed you aren't in the US... Not sure if the UK has the same spoofed CLID problem that we currently do over here... As the other poster also said, newer versions of the natuve phone app offer some protection against the same number ringing through a 2nd time (once you block it)... However, as long as the "bad guys" can keep changing the # they appear to be calling from EVERY time they call you, there really isn't any point in screening incoming calls based solely on the originating number...
My wife has hundreds of "blocked" callers listed in her iPhone yet she still gets (new) spam callers every day... Is anyone really shocked that scummy telemarketers have resorted to "SIP-hacking" to stay ahead of efforts to block their "real" number?
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At the moment it's the same 2 numbers that I have to ignore , with my other phone you could turn the phone over to shut it up so wasn't a problem or add the number as a contact and block it but I can't do either with this phone
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At the moment it's the same 2 numbers that I have to ignore , with my other phone you could turn the phone over to shut it up so wasn't a problem or add the number as a contact and block it but I can't do either with this phone
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As long as the feature isn't removed by Lenovorola in the Nougat version the MotoX is announced to receive, you should very easily be able to do it right in the newer phone app I saw in 7.0...
My Nexus 5 had a Caller ID from Google, it usually worked well for businesses.
My AT&T V20 has a Caller ID app but they charge $3/month. I don't mind paying an one time fee for an app.
Any ideas for alternatives? There is this Hiya app and others but I am concerned whether they use your number and address book information without asking.
I use True Caller, I like it. Used it on my Note 4 too.
Hey guys. We just upgraded from note 4 phones to the s7 edge.... love it so far, btw!
I read nougat added spam caller reporting, but when we get spam callers the only option in info is to block them, not report them.
We are on verizon, and it looks yo me like they are sort of forcing us to buy into their caller is service for this functionality.
Is that the case, or is there a download of the vanilla nougat dialer we can use to replace the stock dialer if that restored that functionality?
I know this doesn't directly answer your question but I use an app called Hiya. It works as advertised.
Its odd no one knows other than install another app..
I'm running haggertk's lineage-16.0-20190109-UNOFFICIAL-klte.zip on a Galaxy S5 G900V.
I subscribe to Verizon's Caller ID Name, which I think they now call Call Filter - besides real caller ID, it would also give me a spam rating on incoming calls.
I found a version online and was able to add it to my playstore wish list, but it says incompatible with device when I try to install it.
Has anyone had any luck getting this to work?