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[Q] Text messages over wifi

I searched this, and was surprised not to find any threads on this topic, as I'm sure it has been answered already, but anyways...
I'm travelling in the US for the next 2 weeks, and I want to avoid roaming charges on my cellphone. I do have wifi where I am, and I want to know if there's any way that I can use this to avoid roaming charges.
I know there are SMS apps that send texts over your data connection, and I just wanted to see if this would help me evade roaming charges.
On a side note, if anyone knows, does rogers charge roaming on incoming and outgoing, or just outgoing?
And, can I get both my incoming and outgoing to come through wifi?
Thanks in advance

Just wanted to bump this one up as I would really prefer to know the answer soon

I have textplus on my phone and that does allow me to send messages through wifi and I can also receive them. When I send a message it uses a really funny number (like 1001-2223202) But you select a name to be shown when the person receives the message. Also if you want to receive a message the sender has to reply to the funny number not your typical cell number, If the sender send you a message and you donèt have wifi on, the message shows up the next time you open the app.
Hope this helps....
I dont know why your are going out of your service area but another option is to pick up a SIM card for a local network when your away. You can get a cheap SIM and get a pay and talk type plan while your in that area, this way you can make local calls and message without worrying.
I guess it all depends on you situation.

Google voice works.
Sent from my Vibrant using xda app

@designerfx
I don't have an american number to tie Google Voice to, so I can't use it as it is exclusively for the states.
@hipditch
Thanks, I'll try that. I'm out of my service area because I'm on vacation

[Q] Google Voice on Mobilicity or Wind Mobile? (Canada)

The google voice app has never worked on my phone, always giving me some message about it being for US only.
But today i tried it from my phone and it actually allowed me to set up an account. It stopped at the screen where i was setting up my voicemail pin and said "We have a problem. Your phone number could not be verified. Please try again.". So far i havent been able to get past that screen.
I was able to make google voice calls on my laptop today so it seems like they are allowing use in Canada finally. Does anyone know if its possible to use google voice on mobilicity or wind?
I am curious because mobilicity has a new plan with unlimited calls texts and data for 25 a month, but no voicemail. If i can use google voice as my voicemail then obviously that wont be a problem.

don't know if you checked this out already, but read the post below...I think it should explain what you're looking for....
http://community.windmobile.ca/windmobile/topics/using_google_voice_on_your_phone?from_gsfn=true

Thanks, its too bad that the workarounds discussed in that post still dont offer a solution for voicemail, but that will probably be useful information for future reference.
I did find a solution to this problem without using google voice if anyone is interested. I may as well share it.
To those who are interested in this plan but wont sign up without voicemail:
- You can get a free phone number and a customizable answering machine from http://www.freephoneline.ca/ (if you cant get a toronto number you can use thornhill, richmond hill, etc to avoid forwarding to a long distance number)
- Then set your phone to forward your unanswered, busy, and unavailable incoming calls to your freephoneline number.
- Then set your voicemail access number to the corresponding number on this list http://www.freephoneline.ca/vmAccessNumbers
- Also make sure to set your freephoneline to only ring once before going to voicemail, you can do this by logging into your account on their website and going to your settings
- You now have $25 BTS + Voicemail! When people call your regular phone number and you dont answer, it will forward them to your voicemail on your freephoneline number, and you can check your voicemail from your cell phone the same way you always would.
I believe they also provide the option to automatically transcribe your voicemails and email them to you in text form.
EDIT: Apparantly call forwarding is $5 more, if thats true this wouldnt work. Another option would be using Dell Voice on the android market.
Its an app gives you a canadian number with the area code of your choice and can be used to make and receive calls anywhere in canada and US for free, and customizable voicemail. It uses your carrier data to do this, but since this plan has unlimited data that shouldnt be a problem. The only problem is you would have to get used to making and receiving all your calls through an app, and using your dell voice number as your primary number.
Might be worth the extra $5 to get call features and add the freephoneline voicemail via the method above, the $5 call features addon on the mobilicity website includes Call Waiting, Call Forwarding and 3-Way Calling, (plus voicemail via fpl). Thats basically $30 for the $29 plan i currently have with wind except that it doesnt expire in a year and go up to $45 =/

[Q] International Texting problems

So my dad has the galaxy s4 and is having problems sending text messages internationally. So hes texting another countries number, which sends out. he has the correct outgoing number such as 011-598-**-***-*** but when he gets the text back it changes to 98-**-***-*** and when he respawns it gets a error so how would i fix the issue with the number removing the outgoing verification numbers when he receives a text.

SoapyToad said:
So my dad has the galaxy s4 and is having problems sending text messages internationally. So hes texting another countries number, which sends out. he has the correct outgoing number such as 011-598-**-***-*** but when he gets the text back it changes to 98-**-***-*** and when he respawns it gets a error so how would i fix the issue with the number removing the outgoing verification numbers when he receives a text.
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The number 011-598-**-***-*** your dad used is usually for land-line telephone calls. The cellphone uses a "+" followed by country code and cellphone number. The numbers "011-5" could be the IDD access codes for your normal land-line telephone. It will work for telephone calls but not for texting.
When texting internationally, the destination (To) number is in the format: +(country code)(cellphone number) less the ( ).
For example if you were to text me (Singapore country code is 65), you would use this format:
+6512345678​+ sign is compulsory for cellphones.
65 is the country code
12345678 is the cellphone number​
For your dad's case,
Instead of texting to this number:
011-598-**-***-***​
Try texting to this number instead:
+98-**-***-***​
I believe the 98-**-***-*** is an Iranian cellphone number (see the link below for the Country codes):
http://countrycode.org/
Hope this helps

[Q] Need complete phone solution.

I am trying to consolidate all of my calling and texting into one app with one phone number that i can use on any device, I.E. android, windows, and hopefully, IOS in case i need it in the future using only an internet connection. Here is what i have right now, how i use it.
I have a Google voice account with one phone number. The problem with this is that i can't receive or make phone calls, i can only send and receive texts, and limited texts at that. Just to try to increase my text limits, I signed up for a Google business account, but really that just gives me a bunch of extra crap i don't need, I.E. a webpage.
When i first signed up for this account i had Verizon as my carrier so i linked my current number to the Verizon account. I have since canceled my service with Verizon, but i don't want to delete my current Google number because i am being told, once i click on delete, that i have to wait 90 days to get a new one. I would also prefer to not get a new number, but as long as i can gain full functionality for voice and text, i really don't care.
To make phone calls I use Skype. This works good enough for outgoing calls, but it shows my Skype number on caller ID, and i can't receive calls with it. So these two apps combined allow me to send limited texts, receive texts, make calls, but i don't have a way of receiving calls.
I am already paying more than enough for my twelve gigs of data through sprint every month, and I refuse to pay fifty bucks a month to only be able to receive phone calls, but paying a little more every month for an outside service wouldn't bother me too much. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

Tell Sprint to go have sexual intercourse with itself, and switch to T-Mobile. Unlimited high-speed data, text, and minutes for $80/mo.

Planterz said:
Tell Sprint to go have sexual intercourse with itself, and switch to T-Mobile. Unlimited high-speed data, text, and minutes for $80/mo.
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Wow i wish that i could immigrate to America...

[email protected] said:
I am trying to consolidate all of my calling and texting into one app with one phone number that i can use on any device, I.E. android, windows, and hopefully, IOS in case i need it in the future using only an internet connection. Here is what i have right now, how i use it.
I have a Google voice account with one phone number. The problem with this is that i can't receive or make phone calls, i can only send and receive texts, and limited texts at that. Just to try to increase my text limits, I signed up for a Google business account, but really that just gives me a bunch of extra crap i don't need, I.E. a webpage.
When i first signed up for this account i had Verizon as my carrier so i linked my current number to the Verizon account. I have since canceled my service with Verizon, but i don't want to delete my current Google number because i am being told, once i click on delete, that i have to wait 90 days to get a new one. I would also prefer to not get a new number, but as long as i can gain full functionality for voice and text, i really don't care.
To make phone calls I use Skype. This works good enough for outgoing calls, but it shows my Skype number on caller ID, and i can't receive calls with it. So these two apps combined allow me to send limited texts, receive texts, make calls, but i don't have a way of receiving calls.
I am already paying more than enough for my twelve gigs of data through sprint every month, and I refuse to pay fifty bucks a month to only be able to receive phone calls, but paying a little more every month for an outside service wouldn't bother me too much. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
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i dont know about calling, but google hangouts consoilidates all your sms in one place.

I got the hangouts desktop extension for chrome, and I can make calls from it, and I'm pretty sure i can send texts, but i still cant receive calls. One problem I'm having with it is that when i try to just type in a contact's name, it brings up a bunch of people i don't know instead of at least bringing up my google contacts first. Does anyone know how to fix this. I can't remember where, but I've also read that google is on a path to eliminate google voice, and consolidate everything to hangouts, so this might be future proof as a stable phone solution for at least the life of a cell phone contract.

[Completed] Unwanted texting prefixes and "Yi Dialler" prompts before making calls.

Hello all,
I'm unsure about where to post this issue I am having with my handset. Let me explain a little about what is going on, and maybe someone can redirect me to where I should post the full details and hopefully get some answers
Have a Huawei C8813 Handset from China. It was payment for a computer job I did some time ago. I suspect it was a contract phone of some description, however it was completely wiped when I received it.
I had to perform some build prop edits in order to get it working on 2 Degrees here in New Zealand. These involved (ro.cdma.home.operator.numeric=53024) and other related lines.
The issue I am having at the moment is that when I receive calls from other cellphones in New Zealand, they come through with no International prefix (this is fine, and desired). However text messages I receive from NZ cellphones come through with the International prefix. So if I were to receive a call from 022022022, it would come through as such, but a text message from the same number would appear on my handset as +6422022022. This causes me to attempt to enter both the prefixed and non prefixed numbers into every entry in my address book. Text messages will send fine to either the prefixed or non-prefixed number, but this causes message thread separation (undesired).
Further to this, if I make calls to a non-International-prefixed number (a local New Zealand cellphone) eg 022022022, I get a dialog up titled ""Yi Dialer" (China +86)" with the following options: "Call China (International Roaming Call)", "Call China (**133 call back)", "Call other country", "Call local". Obviously the call goes through fine if I select "Call local". However, if I put the international prefix in front of the number for NZ (+64,) calling a number in NZ, it bypasses "Yi Dialer" altogether and just makes the call eg: +6422022022.
I have searched the internet far and wide and can find very little related to "Yi Dialier" (or "easy dialer" if translated from Chinese). I have checked out all of the stock applications that came with the phone and none appear to be related to dialing.
I am interested in perhaps a build.prop or similar setting that may erase this issue and make the phone believe it is based in New Zealand. As far as I can work out, the handset thinks it is roaming all of the time, when in fact it is not. There is no convincing it of this through regular Android settings with regards to the carrier or cellphone network.
Any help or direction with this would be greatly appreciated. I am happy to provide screenshots and exact build.prop edits I have done to make the phone operate here in NZ.
Thanks in advance,
Mike

MikeNZd4d said:
Hello all,
I'm unsure about where to post this issue I am having with my handset. Let me explain a little about what is going on, and maybe someone can redirect me to where I should post the full details and hopefully get some answers
Have a Huawei C8813 Handset from China. It was payment for a computer job I did some time ago. I suspect it was a contract phone of some description, however it was completely wiped when I received it.
I had to perform some build prop edits in order to get it working on 2 Degrees here in New Zealand. These involved (ro.cdma.home.operator.numeric=53024) and other related lines.
The issue I am having at the moment is that when I receive calls from other cellphones in New Zealand, they come through with no International prefix (this is fine, and desired). However text messages I receive from NZ cellphones come through with the International prefix. So if I were to receive a call from 022022022, it would come through as such, but a text message from the same number would appear on my handset as +6422022022. This causes me to attempt to enter both the prefixed and non prefixed numbers into every entry in my address book. Text messages will send fine to either the prefixed or non-prefixed number, but this causes message thread separation (undesired).
Further to this, if I make calls to a non-International-prefixed number (a local New Zealand cellphone) eg 022022022, I get a dialog up titled ""Yi Dialer" (China +86)" with the following options: "Call China (International Roaming Call)", "Call China (**133 call back)", "Call other country", "Call local". Obviously the call goes through fine if I select "Call local". However, if I put the international prefix in front of the number for NZ (+64,) calling a number in NZ, it bypasses "Yi Dialer" altogether and just makes the call eg: +6422022022.
I have searched the internet far and wide and can find very little related to "Yi Dialier" (or "easy dialer" if translated from Chinese). I have checked out all of the stock applications that came with the phone and none appear to be related to dialing.
I am interested in perhaps a build.prop or similar setting that may erase this issue and make the phone believe it is based in New Zealand. As far as I can work out, the handset thinks it is roaming all of the time, when in fact it is not. There is no convincing it of this through regular Android settings with regards to the carrier or cellphone network.
Any help or direction with this would be greatly appreciated. I am happy to provide screenshots and exact build.prop edits I have done to make the phone operate here in NZ.
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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Hi, thank you for using XDA assist.
There is a general forum for android here*http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help*where you can get better help and support if you try to ask over there.*
Good luck.