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Called dialed with Google Voice showing up as blocked number

I have a Kaiser with the ION build from the pre made packages thread on this board. I downloaded the official Google Voice app from the Market, and I've been using it as my default dialer. Everything is working fine except for one feature: Everyone I call is seeing me as a private number. I had my real number set to private on AT&T's side, so I went into the settings in android and tried to change the default to show. This caused massive glitches and I wasn't able to connect to AT&T anymore. I went into WinMo, and changed the setting there, which seems to be something it pushes to the sim and tower. I then deleted the data file on my SD card, and redownloaded and configured the Google Voice app. Same results.
Any ideas folks?

Since this has to do with a Droid build that has a thread please use it.
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Google Voice 2 Sprint VVM

So I am on 2.2 RC1 and I pushed the sprint core apk to my system/app folder. I was able to get it to work and setup my personal message. In the settings --> call settings I changed it from Google voice to my carrier. I also changed the number to my personal cell phone number. But for some reason when leaving a message it still goes to GV. I even uninstalled Google voice from my phone and left a message same thing. I restarted my phone several times and even clear data from settings, same thing. I also reinstalled the rom in its entirety and still no go. All messages go to GV I always used GV as my voicemail preference but want to give sprint vvm a try. My question to everyone is...
What am I doing wrong?
oops put this under themes not questions, sorry.

Did you have your voice mail set up to go to google voice before (ie *28xxx-xxx-xxxx)? If so, dial *38 on your phone.

login to google account and remove cell # from voice account. fyi,vvm works well by flashing vvm.zip...

Ok, calling *38 worked but my question is what did that do? It just made a noise and hung up on me. If I ever switch back to GV do I have to do the same thing? Thanks for your help I would have never figured it out.

Tibedabeeto said:
Ok, calling *38 worked but my question is what did that do? It just made a noise and hung up on me. If I ever switch back to GV do I have to do the same thing? Thanks for your help I would have never figured it out.
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Changing the voicemail settings in your phone back from google voice to my carrier only changes how your phone is setup. Dialing the *38 reroutes the actual voicemail back to your normal sprint mail box. When you dialed that long ass number to setup google voice the first time, *38 just undoes that.
I had the same problem when I went back to VVM last week.

I just installed Google Voice. I'd not called my own phone to go to voice mail before, so I don't know if this is AOSP or google voice, but when I call it rings forever, then it actually calls my phone again, then many rings later it goes to google voice.
All totaled a person has to wait like 18 rings to get to my voicemail. Did I set something up wrong? Is it just not working? Is there a setting somewhere to "retry" before going to voicemail?
Edit: Nevermind, I finally found the golden set of search terms that lead to an answer. In case anyone else needs help: Apparently the way it works is that no answer on your phone forwards to Google Voice. The default settings are basically "forward to my other phones" (Presumably if you miss a call on your cell it could ring your work phone, or whatever.) however it doesn't exclude the originating phone, essentially forwarding to itself. In the advanced settings of the phone there's a "Go straight to voicemail" option.

Tibedabeeto said:
So I am on 2.2 RC1 and I pushed the sprint core apk to my system/app folder. I was able to get it to work and setup my personal message. In the settings --> call settings I changed it from Google voice to my carrier. I also changed the number to my personal cell phone number. But for some reason when leaving a message it still goes to GV. I even uninstalled Google voice from my phone and left a message same thing. I restarted my phone several times and even clear data from settings, same thing. I also reinstalled the rom in its entirety and still no go. All messages go to GV I always used GV as my voicemail preference but want to give sprint vvm a try. My question to everyone is...
What am I doing wrong?
oops put this under themes not questions, sorry.
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put the phone down and log into google voice on your computer.. you can enable and disable from there..

thank you for telling me about the google voice settings on my computer, I tried installing the apk, reinstalling the rom, reinstalling the zip,*38, etc.,. Nothing worked until I went to my google voice page and went to the settings menu and uninstalled it thank you, you've saved me alot of grief.

Google Voice Problem

anyone have trouble setting google voice as their primary voicemail?
when i download the app, and go through the initial setup, i sign in with my account, hit "next", select "do not use google voice to make any calls", hit "next", hit "configure", then i select the "google voice" option instead of "my carrier" - and i get an error message that says "call settings error: failed to retrieve and save current forwarding number settings. do you want to switch to the new provider anyway?"
i select "yes", and then i get another error message that says "call settings error: forwarding number change unsuccessful. please contact your carrier if your problem persists".
anyone else run into this issue? even if you haven't run into this issue, any suggestions for how to get around it? i only want to contact my carrier as a last resort, because i doubt at&t is going to know how/care to solve this issue.
any advice would be appreciated - i only want to use google voice for my voicemail! thanks in advance.

Was having the same problem and found this - worked fine - but needed to reboot:
"Go into the settings at voice.google.com and deactivate your phone and reactivate it. The deactivate step will give a code to enter in your phone...skip that. Next, click on activate this phone and it will give you a string to dial...something like *004*yourgooglevoicenumber#"
Just go online and make sure your phone is active, then enter that string *004*1...#

at what point during this process are you rebooting? i still can't get it to work...

keith3b said:
Was having the same problem and found this - worked fine - but needed to reboot:
"Go into the settings at voice.google.com and deactivate your phone and reactivate it. The deactivate step will give a code to enter in your phone...skip that. Next, click on activate this phone and it will give you a string to dial...something like *004*yourgooglevoicenumber#"
Just go online and make sure your phone is active, then enter that string *004*1...#
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The first time I did it it didn't work - after reinstalling going through setup, letting it fail, and then doing the steps, and then rebooting it worked perfectly. So yeah, thanks!

I got it to work but it changed my voice mail greeting. Can I not have the generic AT&T greeting while using google visual voice mail.

could somebody please post the EXACT steps, step by step, of how they got it to work? i.e., when you reboot, when you uninstall/reinstall google voice, whether you set it up through google voice settings or call settings in the general phone settings...
i've tried every permutation of every post on here, and i still can't get it to work for some reason.
edit: turns out that, even though it says there was a failure in the forwarding, it still works... when i call my phone, my google voice mailbox picks up - and when i leave a message, google voice gets that message and gives me an alert... strange. people actually got it to setup where they didn't receive an error? it works, but my voicemail settings in the phone's call settings doesn't say "google voice" - it still says "my carrier".

I don't think he's being clear in his post, I don't think there is way to get it to work through the GV app. Dialing the *004*+1#* changes your voice mail provider on the phone, but doesn't change the dialogue box in the phone options, it will still say "My carrier".
I used the *004* method and my phone forwards to GV and notifies of voicemail just as you described. That's how it should work =)

I pretty much followed his post. I visited the GV settings online, deactivated the phone using the codes they gave me, uninstalled the application. Reinstalled the app, then activated the phone on the site using the codes they gave me and rebooted my phone. To test it I called myself and it went straight to google voice, then upon launching the application it went to the inbox instead of the set up. This worked for me, and I don't think I'm missing any steps.

zonk7ate9 said:
I don't think he's being clear in his post, I don't think there is way to get it to work through the GV app. Dialing the *004*+1#* changes your voice mail provider on the phone, but doesn't change the dialogue box in the phone options, it will still say "My carrier".
I used the *004* method and my phone forwards to GV and notifies of voicemail just as you described. That's how it should work =)
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this is what i needed to hear all along.
i was waiting for the settings to take effect in the call settings (i.e., switch from "my carrier" to "google voice"), but this isn't going to happen on our phone.
however, even though this doesn't happen, google voice still becomes your primary voicemail.
thanks for making that clear!

Thanks for the tips after spending 25 minutes on the phone with the att rep who didn't help one bit this worked perfectly.
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Thanks for this!! Worked GREAT!

Sorry for not being clear - it still says my carrier - but works with GV... same thing on my phone.

I had the same issue as well.
Mine is now set to "Google Voice" under Voicemail Service. This is even after a reboot but GV voicemails were fine even when set as "My carrier". So not sure why it changed.
I just made sure under Settings -> Call -> Call forwarding that my GV number was set for
"Forward when busy"
"Forward when unanswered"
"Forward when unreachable"
When I select GV as Voicemail Service, it gave me the same error but it stayed. Strange. But GV has always worked for me no matter what it displayed. Long as it was set properly under the "Forward ..." options.

Thanks this was bugging me!

jlaudio27 said:
Thanks this was bugging me!
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In case people didn't realize the Google Voice setup just sets up forwarding nothing else. Also forwarding is at the line level and not device. So if you take the SIM out and put it in an iphone or anything else it will continue going to Google Voice until you change it manually. Just FYI,
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Integrating Google Voice voicemail into Google phone app

I used to be able to choose Google voice within my phone app instead of "your carrier", and I could access my voicemail through the phone. This is no longer working. I'm running 7.1.2, on a fresh install with all newly installed apps. Any ideas?
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I was wondering if anyone else would ever notice. It's been this way ever since they updated to Google Voice to v5.x, and has been the same on any of the devices I've used. A workaround I use every time which works is to:
1. Uninstall the newer Google Voice (temporarily). Prior to uninstalling, I wipe the app's Cache and Data too as a precaution, so I can't report on the results of following these steps without doing that.
2. Go to the APKMirror website and download the latest Google Voice v4.x APK, something like v4.7.10.
3. With Unknown Sources checked in the Security Settings on your phone, install and fully setup the old Google Voice version, including setting your Phone app to use Google Voice for voicemails.
4. Once it's all setup, you can update Google Voice to your heart's content. Note that if you go into the Phone Voicemail settings you'll see that it still doesn't give you an option to select Google Voice, but you'll also notice that it appears as if the only setting it now shows (Carrier) is not selected either, so the setting is retained even though you can't select it with the newer Google Voice installed.
5. Re-disable "Unknown Sources" if you wish.
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I've made calls to and from my wife's phone with this same workaround set up on both of our phones and it has never failed, yet. Hopefully Google doesn't do something to make at least this stop working, and how in the world is there not more complaints about this behavior?

roirraW "edor" ehT said:
I was wondering if anyone else would ever notice. It's been this way ever since they updated to Google Voice to v5.x, and has been the same on any of the devices I've used. A workaround I use every time which works is to:
1. Uninstall the newer Google Voice (temporarily). Prior to uninstalling, I wipe the app's Cache and Data too as a precaution, so I can't report on the results of following these steps without doing that.
2. Go to the APKMirror website and download the latest Google Voice v4.x APK, something like v4.7.10.
3. With Unknown Sources checked in the Security Settings on your phone, install and fully setup the old Google Voice version, including setting your Phone app to use Google Voice for voicemails.
4. Once it's all setup, you can update Google Voice to your heart's content. Note that if you go into the Phone Voicemail settings you'll see that it still doesn't give you an option to select Google Voice, but you'll also notice that it appears as if the only setting it now shows (Carrier) is not selected either, so the setting is retained even though you can't select it with the newer Google Voice installed.
5. Re-disable "Unknown Sources" if you wish.
I've made calls to and from my wife's phone with this same workaround set up on both of our phones and it has never failed, yet. Hopefully Google doesn't do something to make at least this stop working, and how in the world is there not more complaints about this behavior?
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Thanks! Appreciate the detailed instructions. I'll give this a shot.
Love the avi, btw. That's one of my favorite films of all time, especially the international cut
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That worked!

shinesthru said:
Thanks! Appreciate the detailed instructions. I'll give this a shot.
Love the avi, btw. That's one of my favorite films of all time, especially the international cut
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You're welcome! Yes, it was refreshing that an actual longer cut was even better than what I had already seen and loved. Thank you!
shinesthru said:
That worked!
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Awesome, glad it worked for someone else.

roirraW "edor" ehT said:
I was wondering if anyone else would ever notice. It's been this way ever since they updated to Google Voice to v5.x, and has been the same on any of the devices I've used. A workaround I use every time which works is to:
1. Uninstall the newer Google Voice (temporarily). Prior to uninstalling, I wipe the app's Cache and Data too as a precaution, so I can't report on the results of following these steps without doing that.
2. Go to the APKMirror website and download the latest Google Voice v4.x APK, something like v4.7.10.
3. With Unknown Sources checked in the Security Settings on your phone, install and fully setup the old Google Voice version, including setting your Phone app to use Google Voice for voicemails.
4. Once it's all setup, you can update Google Voice to your heart's content. Note that if you go into the Phone Voicemail settings you'll see that it still doesn't give you an option to select Google Voice, but you'll also notice that it appears as if the only setting it now shows (Carrier) is not selected either, so the setting is retained even though you can't select it with the newer Google Voice installed.
5. Re-disable "Unknown Sources" if you wish.
I've made calls to and from my wife's phone with this same workaround set up on both of our phones and it has never failed, yet. Hopefully Google doesn't do something to make at least this stop working, and how in the world is there not more complaints about this behavior?
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I haven't done any of this, but my incoming calls get transfered to Google Voice, and it works just like it should even though it's set to "Carrier" in the phone app.

jmartin72 said:
I haven't done any of this, but my incoming calls get transfered to Google Voice, and it works just like it should even though it's set to "Carrier" in the phone app.
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I don't know if it makes a difference if people are calling your Google Voice # or your actual carrier number. i.e. Maybe if they are calling your Google Voice number in the first place, it would send them to GV voicemail, versus those who call the actual carrier #. Have you tested both yourself, if you have a way?
Also I don't know if it makes any difference if you've set up the carrier voicemail. I haven't set up a carrier voicemail since my first cell phone, which was only in 2008. I've switched carriers three times since then and I no longer even set up the carrier voicemail. No idea why that would affect it, just putting it out there.
On both my wife's and my HTC 10, and on my Google Pixel through multiple re-flashing stock and various ROMs, by default people get sent to my carrier voicemail that's not set up, so they can't leave a voicemail. I've tested both directions from our phones. Same thing if I directly install and set up Google Voice v5.x without going through the above steps.
Maybe it mysteriously works for some others as well, just as it does for you, which would explain why this issue hasn't been broadcast loudly.
Questions for you to fill in some blanks: Do you keep mobile data on all the time? Do you have Google Voice set to handle all your outgoing calls as well? I assume you're still on Verizon and have you set up your carrier voicemail?

roirraW "edor" ehT said:
I don't know if it makes a difference if people are calling your Google Voice # or your actual carrier number. i.e. Maybe if they are calling your Google Voice number in the first place, it would send them to GV voicemail, versus those who call the actual carrier #. Have you tested both yourself, if you have a way?
Also I don't know if it makes any difference if you've set up the carrier voicemail. I haven't set up a carrier voicemail since my first cell phone, which was only in 2008. I've switched carriers three times since then and I no longer even set up the carrier voicemail. No idea why that would affect it, just putting it out there.
On both my wife's and my HTC 10, and on my Google Pixel through multiple re-flashing stock and various ROMs, by default people get sent to my carrier voicemail that's not set up, so they can't leave a voicemail. I've tested both directions from our phones. Same thing if I directly install and set up Google Voice v5.x without going through the above steps.
Maybe it mysteriously works for some others as well, just as it does for you, which would explain why this issue hasn't been broadcast loudly.
Questions for you to fill in some blanks: Do you keep mobile data on all the time? Do you have Google Voice set to handle all your outgoing calls as well? I assume you're still on Verizon and have you set up your carrier voicemail?
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I don't have people call my Google Voice number. I use my cell phone number on Verizon. The only thing I use Google Voice for is the visual voice mail. I don't use Verizons voice mail, and have never set it up. Yes mobile data is on all the time.

jmartin72 said:
I don't have people call my Google Voice number. I use my cell phone number on Verizon. The only thing I use Google Voice for is the visual voice mail. I don't use Verizons voice mail, and have never set it up. Yes mobile data is on all the time.
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Thanks for the info! I encourage everyone to call/text my Google Voice #, and I keep mobile data/wifi and all other radios off when not in use. Of course occasionally someone might call my real cell # and I'd have to re-test all scenarios for incoming calls again to determine if the people not able to leave a voicemail occurs under all circumstances for me, or only under the most common circumstance in how I use my phone.
Off topic, it's too bad Sprint is the only carrier that has the option to fully integrate with a user's Google Voice #. That was one of the carriers I had switched to at one point, and that was a nice feature. It made it so that even on outgoing calls without mobile data/wifi and/or using GV to make calls, it showed my GV # for my caller ID.

Hey guys-- thanks for the above info- I found this thread because my Pixel (unlocked and rooted) has started acting all wonky and the phone isn't even working properly at all (it seems). I've been a long term user of GV and that's the number I typically give out for my cell. I did notice some good and some not so good changes with this new version of GV overall, but didn't notice exactly when the phone app went to 5.x - I'm currently running (if you can call it that!) GV 5.014xx and it's not playing nice with my phone app at all.
Accordingly, I'd like to try this work around, but I have a few questions:
- how do you wipe cache & data upon uninstalling an app like GV? I can't even find GV in my phone's Settings>Apps listing...?
-how do I find the apk mirror website?
-can you give me more instructions on how to "including setting your Phone app to use Google Voice for voicemails." ? I'm not familiar with how to get to my phone app's settings to do this...? Also, along this line- you mention that you will see the Phone Voicemail settings still doesn't give you an option to select GV... but I don't even really know where the phone voicemail settings are located?
I bought my Pixel from Google direct, but I run it on VZW.
Thanks for any assistance / further instructions you can provide me here- I greatly appreciate it because I've just backed my phone up (using Titanium Bkup) to prepare it for being re-flashed to the latest & greatest build.
Thanks!

pstgh said:
Hey guys-- thanks for the above info- I found this thread because my Pixel (unlocked and rooted) has started acting all wonky and the phone isn't even working properly at all (it seems). I've been a long term user of GV and that's the number I typically give out for my cell. I did notice some good and some not so good changes with this new version of GV overall, but didn't notice exactly when the phone app went to 5.x - I'm currently running (if you can call it that!) GV 5.014xx and it's not playing nice with my phone app at all.
Accordingly, I'd like to try this work around, but I have a few questions:
- how do you wipe cache & data upon uninstalling an app like GV? I can't even find GV in my phone's Settings>Apps listing...?
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Hi! Go to the Android settings / Apps / select the Google Voice app from the list, choose Storage, then click the buttons to Wipe Cache and Data. FYI, I think when you click Wipe Data it automatically wipes Cache and becomes grayed out, but I try to wipe them in the opposite order just to be paranoid.
This is from memory but this should be really close.
-how do I find the apk mirror website?
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https://www.google.com/search?q=apkmirror+google+voice&oq=apkmirror+google+voice&aqs=chrome..69i57.9048j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
-can you give me more instructions on how to "including setting your Phone app to use Google Voice for voicemails." ? I'm not familiar with how to get to my phone app's settings to do this...? Also, along this line- you mention that you will see the Phone Voicemail settings still doesn't give you an option to select GV... but I don't even really know where the phone voicemail settings are located?
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Launch the phone app, click the three-dot menu button in the upper-right corner, choose Settings, choose Calls, choose Voicemail, the rest should be self-explanatory.
I bought my Pixel from Google direct, but I run it on VZW.
Thanks for any assistance / further instructions you can provide me here- I greatly appreciate it because I've just backed my phone up (using Titanium Bkup) to prepare it for being re-flashed to the latest & greatest build.
Thanks!
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You're welcome! Yep, just don't bother restoring your backup of Google Voice - start from scratch with the old Google Voice v4.7, and if you back up system settings including for Phone, don't restore that either. For what it's worth, when GV v5.x first came out several months ago, I was on Verizon, but I'm on AT&T now. The same workaround was necessary for my wife and I on both carriers.

Thanks again... but as I mentioned earlier and possibly part of why I'm having so much trouble... when I click on the phone's Settings and Apps, GV is not listed !? I know that it's installed because I can click on the GV app icon on my home page and I can go into settings etc and see how I currently have it setup... I guess I could long click on it and drag it up to 'uninstall' at the top of the screen, but that's not going to allow me to wipe the cache/data....

pstgh said:
Thanks again... but as I mentioned earlier and possibly part of why I'm having so much trouble... when I click on the phone's Settings and Apps, GV is not listed !? I know that it's installed because I can click on the GV app icon on my home page and I can go into settings etc and see how I currently have it setup... I guess I could long click on it and drag it up to 'uninstall' at the top of the screen, but that's not going to allow me to wipe the cache/data....
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You're welcome. Are you looking for Google Voice or just Voice, as it's listed in the app drawer?
Shows up for me:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
If it doesn't for you, not sure what to suggest.
Also, you can drag it up and choose "App Info" instead of Uninstall, or is that a function of my using Nova Launcher?
Off topic again, it irks me that Google and others publish apps that are called one thing in the Play Store, but called something else in the app drawer. It also irks me that Google isn't consistent with this naming of their apps.

OK- yep- I was looking for it under 'G' not 'V'. humph!
Oh well, I've deleted the 5.xx GV, wiped data (cache was already grayed out), downloaded and installed the 4.7x version and set it up to handle all calls.
I got a warning message upon selecting voicemail integration saying that my carrier (VZW) doesn't play nice with it, but I selected Google Voice anyway. Then, going into the phone app settings Calls->Voicemail it is indicating GV as the voicemail system, so that's great.
Made a test call and the phone app is still acting wonky- it will actually place the call, but it won't hang up- it's getting hung right upon trying to end the call. Still thinking that I'm going to need to reset the phone in a more major way than what I've done so far....
Separately though, two other questions:
1) Seeing the old app interface makes me wonder- the new version of GV is capable of handling MMS messages, which is really great to have (obviously), so I'm wondering if this 4.7x version does too?
2) For future reference, how do I stop 'auto app updates' on this phone? That has caused me a lot of heart ache over the years!
Thanks

pstgh said:
OK- yep- I was looking for it under 'G' not 'V'. humph!
Oh well, I've deleted the 5.xx GV, wiped data (cache was already grayed out), downloaded and installed the 4.7x version and set it up to handle all calls.
I got a warning message upon selecting voicemail integration saying that my carrier (VZW) doesn't play nice with it, but I selected Google Voice anyway. Then, going into the phone app settings Calls->Voicemail it is indicating GV as the voicemail system, so that's great.
Made a test call and the phone app is still acting wonky- it will actually place the call, but it won't hang up- it's getting hung right upon trying to end the call. Still thinking that I'm going to need to reset the phone in a more major way than what I've done so far....
Separately though, two other questions:
1) Seeing the old app interface makes me wonder- the new version of GV is capable of handling MMS messages, which is really great to have (obviously), so I'm wondering if this 4.7x version does too?
2) For future reference, how do I stop 'auto app updates' on this phone? That has caused me a lot of heart ache over the years!
Thanks
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Yeah, I always got that notification when I was on Verizon about not playing nice with GV. 98% of the time it worked anyway. Sounds like you need to restore to 100% stock and start fresh.
I doubt if the old version of the app handles MMS. It used to be that you would get an email with MMS whenever anyone sent one to your GV #. Since you can freely update to GV 5.x and it'll keep the voicemail setting after setting up 4.7, there's no reason to stick to 4.7 IMHO.
Go into the Play Store's settings and turn off auto-update apps.
Let's try to keep the this thread on topic, though.

Thanks. Yes- I upgraded GV and subsequently noticed that, in my phone's app's settings, Calls-->Voicemail has "my carrier" as the only option, *but* it is not selected... hopefully that means that it is still set to use GV ?
Thanks again- good to know that this method is out there. Hopefully Google will continue improving GV and it can integrate perfectly with all phones in the future...

pstgh said:
Thanks. Yes- I upgraded GV and subsequently noticed that, in my phone's app's settings, Calls-->Voicemail has "my carrier" as the only option, *but* it is not selected... hopefully that means that it is still set to use GV ?
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Correct, exactly as I mentioned in the steps.
Thanks again- good to know that this method is out there. Hopefully Google will continue improving GV and it can integrate perfectly with all phones in the future...
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You're welcome! Yes, I hope the elimination of the option isn't a sign that they're going to remove the capability.

Well this show voicemails in the voicemail tab in phone app? I've just used the call fwd busy/don't answer to get to gvoice, but it would be nice to see voicemails in the phone app as well...

GideonMouth said:
Well this show voicemails in the voicemail tab in phone app? I've just used the call fwd busy/don't answer to get to gvoice, but it would be nice to see voicemails in the phone app as well...
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I've never used that feature so I know nothing about it.

I'm not sure that the ''voicemail integration' in the old GV does anything more than just setting up the call forward feature. Just find the call forward busy and call forward no answer codes for your carrier and forward your mobile # to your gvoice #
I could be wrong the old way may do more, but that is all I have done to use gvoice for voicemail...

Cant Activate Visual Voicemail - T-Mobile

I have the Pixel XL 2 and have been trying to get the visual voicemail feature to work ever since I received it in October, but each time I try I get the message "Cant activate visual voicemail. You can still call to check voicemail. TRY AGAIN or CALL VOICEMAIL".
I called T-Mobile and they did everything they could on their end but the feature baked into the phone still wont work. I tried to reset the network and that didn't fix it. I tried to download the T-Mobile Visual Voicemail and it wouldnt work either -- it would open and show all my old voicemails from 2 years ago, but it just wouldn't sync. I spoke with T-Mobile tech support and the guy suggested I put the sim in my old phone to rule out that the Pixel was the problem. I switched the sim from my Pixel and put it in my old Galaxy S7 Edge and the T-Mobile app still didn't work. I would get an error stating "Failed to synchronize voicemails. Please make sure that you have connection to the data network." So I updated everything on the old phone and it still wouldnt work, so I switced the same back in the Pixel. After I switched the sim I deleted and downloaded the T-Mobile Visual Voicemail app again and it finally synced, but I dont want to use the T-Mobile Visual Voicemail app, I want to use the stock version baked into the OS. It still wont work...
Does anyone have the stock Visual Voicemail working on their Pixel XL 2?
This is so frustrating.

Strange - I have a T-Mobile sim in my Pixel 2 and the voicemail works flawlessly. I had a similar setup as you where I came from an old phone that required the T-Mobile visual voicemail app, but now the Google Dialer app has it built in and didn't require any setup to get working. Voicemails appear within 30 seconds after leaving a message.

I'm not sure why this is a problem... Im beginning to think its something on the T-Mobile network or possibly a bad sim card...
One interesting fact is that the baked in VVM somehow switched itself off during all of this and when I switched it back on it still wouldnt work, but thats when the T-Mobile VVM started working... Its the strangest thing... so, disabling the baked in VVM kills the T-Mobile app and enabling it allows the T-Mobile VVM to work. No matter what I do, the Google Dialer app wont kick in.... I need suggestions that dont require a Factory reset. Perhaps the app transfer process when I set up my phone has something to do with the issue... idk

Got it sorted.
Turns out the initial setup of my Pixel caused the issue. I opted to port over all of my apps from my S7 Edge and transferred a few Samsung apps that may have compromised the VVM. Out of frustration/desperation, I did a factory reset and as soon as the phone started up Google Dialer's VVM was working, so I added all my apps back to the phone from Googles most recent backup, which included T-Mobiles VVM and something killed it again. So I did another factory reset and this time I reviewed each and every app to install from the backup and found quite a few Samsung apps, so I omitted them along with T-Mobiles VVM app and now all is well. Im leary on attempting to install the T-Mobile VVM again, but I do miss the VM's being transcribed from voice to text....
Any recommendations on a good app that can convert VM's to text?

The transcription service from T-Mobile costs about $4/mo. So unless you were paying for it, you were only getting the 30 day trial for free. If you use any other app, you'll lose the VVM integration in the phone dialer.

PuffDaddy_d said:
The transcription service from T-Mobile costs about $4/mo. So unless you were paying for it, you were only getting the 30 day trial for free. If you use any other app, you'll lose the VVM integration in the phone dialer.
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Yeah, I recently added the $4/mo service thinking that the reason why VVM didnt work was because I needed to pay... I took it off, so I guess I'll just keep the stock VVM.
Thanks for your input!

Any resolutuion to this?
I also have a Pixel 2 XL with t-mobile. When I bought it I found that the TM VVM app wasn't synching either. Cleared cache, datat deleted reinstalled and nothing would make it work.
While the TM VVM app was installed, the built-in dialer VVM didn't exist. It just wasn't there.
I deleted (tried this twice) and a few hours later the built-in Google Phone app dialer VVM was there. But, it wasn't transcribing, just showing and playing the voice mails. Then, it started transcribing them. Then, a few days later it stopped.
After trying both, I like the TM VVM better. It's bigger, and you can sort them.
But, neither of them are working now.
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dcrandon said:
Any resolutuion to this?
I also have a Pixel 2 XL with t-mobile. When I bought it I found that the TM VVM app wasn't synching either. Cleared cache, datat deleted reinstalled and nothing would make it work.
While the TM VVM app was installed, the built-in dialer VVM didn't exist. It just wasn't there.
I deleted (tried this twice) and a few hours later the built-in Google Phone app dialer VVM was there. But, it wasn't transcribing, just showing and playing the voice mails. Then, it started transcribing them. Then, a few days later it stopped.
After trying both, I like the TM VVM better. It's bigger, and you can sort them.
But, neither of them are working now.
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OK, wait a minute...
It appears Google put a setting in to enable transcripiton and it's turned off by default. Lets turn it on and try again.
So, to clarify....
The Google VVM setting doesn't appear unless you delete the T-Mobile VVM app.
Then, it takes a few hours up to a day to show up in the Phone app settings.
Previously it would just transcribe.
After it stopped trascribing it appeared that Google added a setting to enable transcription.
Voicemail transcription
Get transcripts of your voicemail using Google's transcription service. (Learn More).
Then, when I enabled that, another setting appeared
Voicemail transcription analysis
Let Google review your voicemail messages to improve transcription accuracy. Your voicmail messages are stored anonymously. (Learn more)
Lets see how this goes.

The free and easy way to get transcribed VVM is to setup Google voice, then use the dialer codes for TMo to forward your calls to your voice number. Unlimited VMs, and you can check them from any device or PC that GV is installed on. And, free is always good

I had to uninstall the non-native visual voicemail app I downloaded and clear the cache of the phone app to get the option to appear in settings. It kept some of my voicemails too which was unexpected.

My issue seems to come back after every security update... I'm back to square one and it seems that the only resolution is to factory reset my phone and then it starts working again until the next update... ugh!
This is the best Android phone I've ever owned, but the user experience to date has been the most frustrating. The ability to make and receive phone calls as well as voicemails is the backbone of any phone... why the heck is this so difficult!?! I swear I have a defective phone or a faulty sim card, because I cant understand why I don't receive my voicemails!

so...to remind everyone I also have a Pixel 2 XL. I was also having the problem of t-Mobile VVM not synching. I finally got it to work.
First, if you have st-Mobile VVM fon your phone, even if not turned on, it will cause the VVM in Googles built dialer to disappear.
I noticed at the same time that I signed up for the Android P Beta, that a new version of T-Mobiles VVM appeared on Google Play. So, first, give the new version a try. I did that update at the same time I switched to Android P Beta, so I don't 'know which helped.
First, clear the cash and data for the old T-Mobile VMM, then uninstall it.
Also, I have found that certain combo's of plans with T-Mobile are not compatible with VM to text. I found that the newer VMM worked, but the feature you have to pay for to convert to text to read it wasn't compatible with my plan. This was per the T-Mobile CSR's. I could listen to VMM, but not read it.
The built-in Google VMM would transcribe to text, but, it didn't seem as robust. Many times it would say it couldn't transcribe. Also, the T-Mobile VMM has more features...easier to delete, you can sort by date, number, etc. You can delete multiples at one time etc.
So, I like T-Mobile VMM better, but since it can't transcribe to text for me, I went back to Google built in one.

joeyishar said:
I had to uninstall the non-native visual voicemail app I downloaded and clear the cache of the phone app to get the option to appear in settings. It kept some of my voicemails too which was unexpected.
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I switched over from AT&T to T-Mobile and couldn't get VVM to work so I installed the T-Mobile VVM app and then set it up. Once it was setup I did exactly as you described - uninstalled the T-Mobile VVM app then went and cleared cache on the native phone app and finally the VVM setting showed up in the phone app settings. Turned it on and it works perfectly, thanks!

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I switched over from AT&T to T-Mobile and couldn't get VVM to work so I installed the T-Mobile VVM app and then set it up. Once it was setup I did exactly as you described - uninstalled the T-Mobile VVM app then went and cleared cache on the native phone app and finally the VVM setting showed up in the phone app settings. Turned it on and it works perfectly, thanks!
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Just tried this and no luck. Any other info is appreciated.

KeeP in mind it can take several days for the choice to show up