How do I set this phone up so that Google Voice receives all of my voicemails instead of the built in app from Sprint?
I tried *28andthenthenumber like the google voice website says but that didnt work.
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The samsung vibrant comes with visual voicemail, but the captivate dosn't.
Is there a way to port the vibrants visual voicemail to the captivate?
I know you can use google voice for visual voicemail as well.
Visual voicemail is dependent on carrier support. ATT doesn't support it on android. The vibrant's Visual voice mail is supported by t-mobile. You couldn't get it working on the captivate without switching carriers.
I'm using google voice for voicemail. I just set it up today and I'm very happy with it. The voice quality is not as good as the iphones, but I was surprised how integrated it was. Its like it was meant to be there all along.
(and the transcriptions are usually hilarious).
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(and the transcriptions are usually hilarious).
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Agreed. The transcriptions seem like they should never have made it in the final product. Errors aside, it normally gets the numbers correct so you at least know the call back number.
The transcripts are hilarious. You can usually get the gist of the message from them thoug which is good enough for me to not bother listening to the audio.
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k2snowboards88 said:
I'm using google voice for voicemail. I just set it up today and I'm very happy with it. The voice quality is not as good as the iphones, but I was surprised how integrated it was. Its like it was meant to be there all along.
(and the transcriptions are usually hilarious).
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I was trying to set that up, but apparently can't figure it out. I downloaded google voice from the market, went through the set up, got online and logged into voice and found my google voice #. Changed my voicemail service from carrier to Google Voice. It then popped up for the number, I changed the phone number to my google voice #.
Called myself from my wife's phone, left a voicemail, it still went to my AT&T voicemail. I had to change my setting back to AT&T voicemail to access them and hear them. Meaning, my incoming calls were going to AT&T voicemail, but my phone was accessing google voice voicemail, which is correct.
I also tried using this guide that's for Captivates on knowyourcell (it was the first result when googling "captivate google voice voicemail"
but it didn't work either.
What am I doing wrong?
staySICK said:
I was trying to set that up, but apparently can't figure it out. I downloaded google voice from the market, went through the set up, got online and logged into voice and found my google voice #. Changed my voicemail service from carrier to Google Voice. It then popped up for the number, I changed the phone number to my google voice #.
Called myself from my wife's phone, left a voicemail, it still went to my AT&T voicemail. I had to change my setting back to AT&T voicemail to access them and hear them. Meaning, my incoming calls were going to AT&T voicemail, but my phone was accessing google voice voicemail, which is correct.
I also tried using this guide that's for Captivates on knowyourcell (it was the first result when googling "captivate google voice voicemail"
but it didn't work either.
What am I doing wrong?
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When I set it up I started on google.com/voice on the computer. There were a lot of steps. Maybe you should try that first.
You also have to set up missed call forwarding on your phone to your google voice voicemail number (they tell you what to do)
Is there any way to be notified of voicemails WITHOUT having sprint_core.apk, the visual voicemail app, installed? also, is there any way to retrieve google voice voicemails from my handset without using the google voice app?
thank you thank you
tailsthecat3 said:
Is there any way to be notified of voicemails WITHOUT having sprint_core.apk, the visual voicemail app, installed? also, is there any way to retrieve google voice voicemails from my handset without using the google voice app?
thank you thank you
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No and No For you to be notified of a new voicemail, you must have the Sprint_Core.apk installed, and you need the google voice app to access any voice messages.
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No and No For you to be notified of a new voicemail, you must have the Sprint_Core.apk installed, and you need the google voice app to access any voice messages.
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I thought I saw a standalone voicemail app from another rom somewhere. I could be wrong though.
My fix however was to setup the phone to use Google Voice for all my phone voicemail, there are instructions on the Google Voice site for this. Then I setup google voice to email me the voicemail messages, I get an email with the text transcript and an audio file of the message. I do NOT have the android Google Voice app installed on my phone at all. It works like a charm this way with one less app I don't need installed and running.
I use google voice and do not use the app. I just have it set to send sms notifications for new voicemail, which also sends the transcribed text. If I want to listen to it, I just dial my google voice number and listen
Ahhhhhh! Someone please help me. My Google voice isn't acting right. I've used Google voice a lot for my voicemail only. That's what I always did, I never ran into issues. Now all my text messages, incoming calls are coming through Google voice. I don't understand. I just want to use it for my voice mail. Like usual. I even went on the Google voice settings web page. I can't figure out how to disable my text messages from coming through gvoice. Can anyone help me? Thanks
I could only see this happening if people were calling and texting your Google Voice number (you can find this in GV settings on your phone) instead of your actual phone number (the one given to you by your carrier). Google voice, I believe, is unable to intercept text messages not routed to your GV number.
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I could only see this happening if people were calling and texting your Google Voice number (you can find this in GV settings on your phone) instead of your actual phone number (the one given to you by your carrier). Google voice, I believe, is unable to intercept text messages not routed to your GV number.
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they were calling and texting my google voice number. Aren't you supposed to set your google voice number to your actual phone number?
I have used Google Voice for my voicemail since the G1 so I know how all of this works generally. On the Nexus 5 if I select google voice for voicemail it still goes to the tmobile voicemail. I've enabled visual voicemail through customer service, cleared cache/data on the google voice app and restated the app. Does anyone else use their normal T-Mobile number with google voice? I have done this like I said since the G1, even on verizon where they say it didn't work, it did, it would throw up a warning saying it wouldn't work, but it worked just fine. The nagging voicemails I get from robot calls and others are a huge nuisance and google voice always fixed that. I've found tons of posts related to other things similar to my problem, but not this one specifically. The best I can come up with is it's related to the new dialer in kit kat. I've searched my best on these forums so I apologize if it's already been solved, I just really want this to work and tmob, nor nexus support are of any help.
Log in to your Google voice account on a pc. Go to your settings. Deactivate your Google voice mail. Follow directions to dial on your phone. Then activate your Google voice mail. Follow directions to dial in your phone. Go to your call settings on your phone. Go to call forwarding and make sure the last 3 entries are set to your Google voice mail #.
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Any ideas?
*71[Your Google Voice number]
*90[Your Google Voice number]
*92[Your Google Voice number]
Tried these to use google voice mail on my verizon S6 but no luck. When I call my number it just rings forever.
I've tried deactivating, activating, using the app, etc. No luck.
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Any ideas?
*71[Your Google Voice number]
*90[Your Google Voice number]
*92[Your Google Voice number]
Tried these to use google voice mail on my verizon S6 but no luck. When I call my number it just rings forever.
I've tried deactivating, activating, using the app, etc. No luck.
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Tried *72[Your Google Voice number]?
You need to go to Google voice on a desktop and reset it, it will give you a different number than your current number to forward the calls to, I had to do this, but it does work.
kilroy1stcav said:
You need to go to Google voice on a desktop and reset it, it will give you a different number than your current number to forward the calls to, I had to do this, but it does work.
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You got this to work WITH advanced calling on?
Activating advanced caking is what screwed up Google voice for me, after I activated advanced calling I did the above step and got Google voice working again, my phone says advanced calling is active but I've yet been able to use it, since both people have to have it activated, so I'm not sure if it actually works!
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Activating advanced caking is what screwed up Google voice for me, after I activated advanced calling I did the above step and got Google voice working again, my phone says advanced calling is active but I've yet been able to use it, since both people have to have it activated, so I'm not sure if it actually works!
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How exactly did you reset google voice on a computer? I hit deactivate and then tried to reactivate it and it gave me the same number as my google voice number to forward calls to.