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how do i setup google voice?

so, i registered for google voice in the past and im thinking about actually using it now for the new thunderbolt since i wanted a new number anyway. has anyone used google voice on verizon before? what should i keep in mind when making the decision or not? does it ring a ton of times before going to voicemail like it did on sprint? have there ever been any issues with verizon and google voice or don't they mind if you use it? thanks.
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I've had it for years. No issues on VZW. Just like your normal number. Voicemail is transcribed for you, though it's not very accurate. You can usually figure out what they're trying to say. If not, you can play the message and listen to it.

I've been very happy with Google Voice on my Android phones. The voice-to-text isn't as good as some other systems I've seen, but it works well enough.
Download the app and give it a try. I think when I set my up on the TB, it gave an error complaining about being able to configure VZW. That was a new error I hadn't seen on my Inc. You may need to manually configure the "no-answer" call forwarding to your GV number. The setup should configure your phone to dial your GV number when you hit the 1 button for "Voicemail".
Give it a try!

Google Voice is the greatest thing since sliced bread, especially if you have multiple phones...one number to rule them all!
I'm testing the theory right now, but on T-Mobile people with NOT-unlimited plans were assigning their GV number as one of their Fave 5 (Friends & Family on VZW) and then telling the phone to make and receive all calls via GV, in effect giving them unlimited minutes. Does anyone know for sure if this works on VZW or not? I've set mine up that way (900 minute plan), and my used minutes seem to suggest that it will, but there's no minutes being charged to F&F on my online billing page yet.

The only thing holding me back is the apparent lack of mms. Not that many people send me picture messages, but id like for them to at least get a rejection message saying its not possible on ny device so they know it wasnt received
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Google Voice Setup for Voicemail only
I had a problem setting up voicemail for my verizon number to work with google voice and thought I would share how i corrected it.
I installed GV app and it said my carrier does not support automatic config.
I could view old messages I had but all new incoming calls went to my verizon VM
In order to route calls to GV VM I had to
Dial *71xxx-xxx-xxxx where xxx is your google voice number and hit call
it will beep a few time then hang up
next
Dial *90xxx-xxx-xxxx where xxx is your google voice number and hit call
it will beep a few time then hang up
next
Dial *92xxx-xxx-xxxx where xxx is your google voice number and hit call
it will beep a few time then hang up
next
This successfully routed all incoming calls to my google voice.
To deactivate call being routed you must do this
*73 call
*900 call
*920 call
Hope this helps someone else.

wrb123 said:
The only thing holding me back is the apparent lack of mms. Not that many people send me picture messages, but id like for them to at least get a rejection message saying its not possible on ny device so they know it wasnt received
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Agreed. The crappy texting service that GV provides is the only thing keeping me from using it full time. MMS isn't the only issue.

I'm gonna drop the Verizon text add-on and give it a try. $70/mo for unlimited LTE is amazing!
Anything I should do to make sure im not being charged for texts? Just composing them within the voice app so I think I'm ok, just slightly paranoid.
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craighwk said:
Agreed. The crappy texting service that GV provides is the only thing keeping me from using it full time. MMS isn't the only issue.
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I love the texting service from GV. It's my primary means of communicating with many people. There's so many advantages to it, including, in no particular order:
1) It's free. I turned off my SMS plan with AT&T last summer and have been 100% exclusive GV for texts since. I'm saving $20/month on my AT&T phone bill and selected NO text messages on my new Verizon account and I still have unlimited texts.
2) It works across multiple phones, platforms, devices all at the same time. When you send me a text to my GV number, it shows up on all four of my active cellphones, and on all of my computers and laptops that have GV web page open or the GV plugin (for Chrome). I can respond to them without even pulling my phone out of my pocket if I'm at the computer.
3) My texts are automatically backed up in the Google cloud, no need to worry about losing them or backing them up special on my phone as I swap ROMs or wipe data. And I can access them from any phone or web enabled computer.
4) I get all my messages, no one's ever complained that I didn't respond to something they sent that didn't come through. Seems very reliable to me after 15 on it.
As for MMS service, I think Steve Jobs was correct, albeit too far ahead of his time, when he said on the original iPhone that you didn't need MMS, just use email on a smartphone. It was a bit painful way back then (2007...seems so long ago in cell phone terms) at first, but once I trained all my contacts to just send via email I haven't missed any of the pics they want to share, and I'm not paying anything extra to the phone company for the privilege of getting a lower resolution image that's been scaled down to meet MMS limitations.

Thanks for the directions on setting up GV Voicemail, I had to google the instructions (go figure) and found the same info after a quick search. Tested it today and it's working like a champ.
Sweet Jesus I really dig this phone.

I was told by the verizon customer service rep that call waiting is no longer available if you route GV to be the VM service. Anyone else successfully rig it so they can still maintain call waiting but use GV to intercept voicemails?

I have never had a problem with call waiting. Also when I set it up on my Thunderbolt I got the error message as well but when hit skip and went thru the rest of the steps, I checked to see if it was set in my phone settings and it was had a buddy call to test it and it worked just fine not really sure what happened to make i just work without haveing to complete the step where it makes you make the calls during set up but mine is working just fine.

Oh yeah guess I should mention I only you it for the visual voice mail though.

denonlake said:
I had a problem setting up voicemail for my verizon number to work with google voice and thought I would share how i corrected it.
I installed GV app and it said my carrier does not support automatic config.
I could view old messages I had but all new incoming calls went to my verizon VM
In order to route calls to GV VM I had to
Dial *71xxx-xxx-xxxx where xxx is your google voice number and hit call
it will beep a few time then hang up
next
Dial *90xxx-xxx-xxxx where xxx is your google voice number and hit call
it will beep a few time then hang up
next
Dial *92xxx-xxx-xxxx where xxx is your google voice number and hit call
it will beep a few time then hang up
next
This successfully routed all incoming calls to my google voice.
To deactivate call being routed you must do this
*73 call
*900 call
*920 call
Hope this helps someone else.
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Great info! thanx.
Question, how did you get GV to sync your GV on-line contacts list to your phone?
When I setup my phone it would not recognize my GV login and would tell me I didn't have a google account and to create a new one.
After creating a Gmail account it did recognized my phone and said you can use more than one google account login.
My GV login is working now, but I cant access my GV contacts unless I open a browser and login via the web access.
Any suggestions?
Thanx
figured it out, you have to apply a new account using the web assist option if not using gmail.

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I figured out what was wrong with Google Voice. It doesn't work with the 747 area code because Gizmo numbers used to start with 747. Its the new overlay for the San Fernando Valley. 818 area code is running out of numbers. I snooped around my Verizon account page and I was able to change it to a 818 #.
All is right in the world.

Just switched to Verizon last week (got the Droid Charge) and have been trying to get GV working for my outbound calling. I keep getting an error (bad number when it tries dialing out, and have seen more than one bad number). I googled looking for help with it...found tons of 3 year old posts with vague answers...
Anyone else had this issue? Know how to resolve it? Everything else with GV works fine on my phone, just can't dial out.
Thanks -

denonlake said:
I had a problem setting up voicemail for my verizon number to work with google voice and thought I would share how i corrected it.
I installed GV app and it said my carrier does not support automatic config.
I could view old messages I had but all new incoming calls went to my verizon VM
In order to route calls to GV VM I had to
Dial *71xxx-xxx-xxxx where xxx is your google voice number and hit call
it will beep a few time then hang up
next
Dial *90xxx-xxx-xxxx where xxx is your google voice number and hit call
it will beep a few time then hang up
next
Dial *92xxx-xxx-xxxx where xxx is your google voice number and hit call
it will beep a few time then hang up
next
This successfully routed all incoming calls to my google voice.
To deactivate call being routed you must do this
*73 call
*900 call
*920 call
Hope this helps someone else.
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Ok, I tried this and every time I do and call from another phone, there is nothing there for google voicemail. It says "please enter the number you would like to call followed by the # sign". What am I doing wrong? I dialed all 3 *numbers followed by the google voicemail number. I've tried this like 3-4 times. Help!

swtkimmie said:
Ok, I tried this and every time I do and call from another phone, there is nothing there for google voicemail. It says "please enter the number you would like to call followed by the # sign". What am I doing wrong? I dialed all 3 *numbers followed by the google voicemail number. I've tried this like 3-4 times. Help!
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You need to login in to your google page and activate it, don't remember how but the help section on your google voice page has the steps
Bamf is runnin' my bolt - smoke that vzw!

whenever I go to dial the x71xxx-xxx-xxxx i get a message saying "welcome to verizon wireless your call can not be completed as dialed.

[GUIDE]: Google Voice + Sipdroid + GV Dialer = Free Calls!

Hey everyone, I've had an OG Droid since Jan 1. 2010, and just upgraded to the Thunderbolt, I love it! Anyways, my name's Wes, and I need to build up a few posts before I can write in the development threads. So here's my tidbit of advice, if you happen to be on a family plan or have limited available minutes, you can combine GV+Sipdroid+GVDialer to make free calls over wifi AND 3g/4g. This is covered on the internet all over the place, but I had to research a ton before getting it to work on my droid because I found that many guides out there were from back in the day when google hadn't made things so easy to set up. Now that a lot of us have 4g, call quality and connection will be very consistent. How it works (confusing i know!): free VoIP #'s are available but only allow free incoming calls, so google makes them all in coming. GV dialer uses the internet instead of minutes to tell google voice to dial your desired call out #, then google voice sends the call to you as an incoming call. Google then lets you reroute that incoming call to your random DID # from ipcomms.net, and BOOM, a free "outgoing" incoming call. So in a quick nutshell, here's what you do.
Get a google voice #, download google voice app to your phone
Download GV Dialer from the market (paid app, maybe 2 bucks or something i forget)
Download Sipdroid from the market (not sipdroid + Showmee)
Then visit ipcomms.net and get the "free DID" by registering. Once you get the email with your free did, open the document with your info and jot down your username and password. (i think they're both 10 digits, you can't change this password either)
Open sipdroid, and hit Menu>Settings,SIPAccount#1, then for username and password enter what you found in the step above. For "Server or Proxy" enter "sipconnect.ipcomms.net"
Scroll down and you can adjust whether you want it to connect over 3g(4g works also) and/or WIFI, Edge
if it's working, you'll see a green light in your notifications bar, meaning your DID # is ready to receive free calls, but no one knows that #, so...
IMPORTANT: navigate to google.com/voice on your computer, login with your credentials, then go to to settings (top right corner) > Phones tab, then click "add another phone" Enter you're 10 digit ipcomms #, then click call to verify(make sure green light is on). You will get a call on the sipdroid app, slide to answer, then enter the code google gave you in your web browser on your computer to activate (if no keypad is showing, hit menu button and you can get to it during the call)
Once this is done and your phone is added, make sure calls to your voice account are set to forward calls to you ipcomms number.
Finally, open Gv dialer, login, go to its settings, and click "default phone to ring," after a moment you'll be given the option to select your ipcomms #, click that. YOU'RE DONE!
To make a call with VoIP, open gizmo(make sure you've got green light), then on your phone open GV dialer, dial the number you want, click "connect with google voice", wait for the internet to tell google to call the number and call your ipcomms # back, and voila, you get an incoming call, answer it, and you'll hear the call connecting and starting to ring.
I wrote this in about 10 minutes so if you have any questions of if anything sounds wrong or I made typos lemme know, now i'm going back to this VCU Kansas game for a bit. Hopefully someone out there finds this useful.

You can do something like this with Fring as well, right ?

solidunit said:
You can do something like this with Fring as well, right ?
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Yes.
Under Sipdroid's description in market: "Being open source, Sipdroid has often been cloned appearing under names such as Guava, aDIP, Fritz!App,..."
You can actually do it without Sipdroid on phones with Gingerbread (its built into the settings you just enter your ipcomms info) but we don't have it yet, and the gingerbread version has very few adjustable settings.
there are also alternatives to GV dialer as well as sites that offer free DID numbers for inbound calls, but this setup has worked fine for me.

I'll give it a try, thanks!
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Yup been using it to also send and receive free text. I use ipkall tho
Free us calls, not worldwide of course
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Any other sip providers working? Using Ekiga and ipkall for Gv calling,doesn't work so well on CSipSimple...... Would like to transition to another service easily as possible,and ipcomms is a bit confusing.

An easier method is to just download GV and GVoice callback. http://www.appbrain.com/app/google-voice-callback-free/com.xinlu.gvdial
I don't have sipdroid on my phone, and I can "dialout" using this with my google voice number. It shows up on the other phone as my GV # and I checked my bill for the calls (I used it for a whole day one time to see what would happen and didn't have calls on my bill for that day) and they weren't there. I tried to do the sip droid method one time, and I had a hard time getting it setup. So I just gave up. But this solution seems to work like a charm for me.

1454 said:
An easier method is to just download GV and GVoice callback. http://www.appbrain.com/app/google-voice-callback-free/com.xinlu.gvdial
I don't have sipdroid on my phone, and I can "dialout" using this with my google voice number. It shows up on the other phone as my GV # and I checked my bill for the calls (I used it for a whole day one time to see what would happen and didn't have calls on my bill for that day) and they weren't there. I tried to do the sip droid method one time, and I had a hard time getting it setup. So I just gave up. But this solution seems to work like a charm for me.
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+1 but this only works if you have F&F and have a number to burn to put in there. Don't use it much but when calling my bud in canada or maybe a conference call i use it and it works just swell....on an incredible though, I"m still a wannabe

I got a free number from goog. Sorry, I'm bad with acronyms, what does F&F stand for?

Sipdroid thing was annoying when I tried it. I really prefer gv callback. I have it set up to ask me every time. Its pretty sweet.

so how exactly do you do this without sipdroid? I've got gv callback and its like the same as gv dialer asks which number i want to forward to, you're saying you can forward to google voice somehow? gv callback has option to start sipdroid before callback, so i would assume i still need something to handle the call received? Do I use google talk as callback number?

Do you have a google voice number? If not, go get one. It's free. Use you're regular gmail account to set it up. Then download goog voice also. There will be an option to use GV as the call back number. (also under the online GV settings you have to link you're mobile to the GV #). last, then you just set it to ask you every time to call you back, then when you go to call someone it will give you the option to use GV or not. If still need help I'll pm you my phone.

i have a google voice number, and the google voice app already. what do you mean forward to your GV number? Under google voice app there are no forwarding settings.

you mean you forward to your mobile number on google voice online settings, as in your verizon number? And it doesn't charge you any minutes? I'm pretty sure it still counts as using your minutes, you checked exactly when you called and compared it to the dates and times on your bill?

Gv callback requires friends and family to be of any benefit. Sipdroid allows you to make calls over your data connection, uses no minutes. It lags heavily though, not recommended if you have friends and family at your disposal.

edit, see my post to shaddix

I'm sorry, I've been mistaken. Somehow the actual GV app gives me the option to make voice calls. That is what i have been using. GV I downloaded but never set up. Not sure how I ended up with such a confusion. It used to just give the option to make international calls, but now you can set it up to ask everytime. I'm not yet rooted or I would take some screen shots.

I'm sorry but if you use f&f to begin with then y going thru all the hassle since f&f doesn't bill used minutes?
Sipdroid is better when you're on lte. If you are on conference calls a lot, sipdroid does help saving those minutes
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quattr0 said:
I'm sorry but if you use f&f to begin with then y going thru all the hassle since f&f doesn't bill used minutes?
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You can just use 1 f&f slot for all your calls

shaddix2 said:
You can just use 1 f&f slot for all your calls
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Ah, thank you.
Do you get free texting using only GV? I know $10/month is not a whole lot but for those that have only voice (no text plan), it will come in handy.

[Q] Best Virtual Voicemail app for the Infuse

So the Infuse does not come with a Virtual Voicemail stock on the phone. Does anyone have any suggestions what to use?

Google voice
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Set up Google Voice to use your current AT&T number.
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I tried that but the damn thing wont work because when I key those 2 digit numbers they have you do it does not register. It sucks

reissy said:
I tried that but the damn thing wont work because when I key those 2 digit numbers they have you do it does not register. It sucks
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You have to go to voice.google.com or whatever from your computer.
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I use that pf fusion voicemail or whatever it's called...seems to work ok. Not sure what else is out there. I went on a recommendation from a friend.

MikeyMike01 said:
You have to go to voice.google.com or whatever from your computer.
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Ok I got it setup. It is working now. This is the crazy part about last time I tried to setup google voice. When you went to the website to verify your # it would call your phone then have you put in the 2 digit number it gave you. for the longest time it would not recognize the 2 digit # i would put in my phone. Now it works. Thanks for reminding me about google voice! How well does it work for you guys? Does it drain a lot of battery? I have notice my phone takes for ever and a day to charge up and the battery does not last as long as my iphone did.

Better phones use more battery.
I definitely enjoy Google Voice better than the Visual Voicemail on the iPhone. The voicemail to text tends to be pretty inaccurate, but overall it's great.
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just use Visual voicemail )) lol its the one i use. and works great. you get your voicemails by email and text. and its free.

Optimus-Prime said:
just use Visual voicemail )) lol its the one i use. and works great. you get your voicemails by email and text. and its free.
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That's horrible. I'd never want Voicemail by email/text.
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reissy said:
So the Infuse does not come with a Virtual Voicemail stock on the phone. Does anyone have any suggestions what to use?
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You mean VISUAL Voice Mail. I have been using YOUMAIL for years and it works great. I used it in place of my iPhone VVM which was always flakey on my jailbroken iPhone. YOUMAIL does so much more.

Quick question about the Google Voice option. Not trying to thread jack and I apologize if it sounds that way. When you switch GV over to your AT&T number, did it do anything to your account? I thought I read that it was like porting out your number so it would kill off the account that was tied to it. Thanks guys

gdbusby said:
Quick question about the Google Voice option. Not trying to thread jack and I apologize if it sounds that way. When you switch GV over to your AT&T number, did it do anything to your account? I thought I read that it was like porting out your number so it would kill off the account that was tied to it. Thanks guys
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It does. If you port to Google it will shut down your mobile account just as if you ported to another mobile provider. Also note, there is (at this time) no way to get your number OUT OF Google (unless things changed over the last month or so).

MisterEdF said:
You mean VISUAL Voice Mail. I have been using YOUMAIL for years and it works great. I used it in place of my iPhone VVM which was always flakey on my jailbroken iPhone. YOUMAIL does so much more.
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YouMail is the ticket
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I concur Youmail works pretty good.

gdbusby said:
Quick question about the Google Voice option. Not trying to thread jack and I apologize if it sounds that way. When you switch GV over to your AT&T number, did it do anything to your account? I thought I read that it was like porting out your number so it would kill off the account that was tied to it. Thanks guys
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I dont think so. All you are doing is forwarding your # to them for voicemail. to take your phone off forwarding to gv you just do something like ##61#, ##62#, and then ##67# if i am correct. But I think that is on the iphone. Not sure about android.

reissy said:
I dont think so. All you are doing is forwarding your # to them for voicemail. to take your phone off forwarding to gv you just do something like ##61#, ##62#, and then ##67# if i am correct. But I think that is on the iphone. Not sure about android.
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If you "switch (port)" the number as the poster asked it will cancel your mobile provider's account. You CAN port a number to GV now. If you don't switch/port it the caller has to call your GV number (not the same as your mobile number) for your cell phone to ring to use GV. If you just want GV voice mail that is a totally different thing. To do that, like with YOUMAIL, you setup "conditional call forwarding" which forwards only UNANSWERED CALLS to your GV voice mail.

i have had issues setting up gv on any att rom. waiting for the rogers rom to drop! the i9000 and i9010 and i9088 roms all had zero issues on the captivate setting up gv. the att roms still give me the att vm notification and it never shows in my gv mailbox, then i try to call voicemail from the dialer and it asks me for my gv 4 digit pin. i dont know why i cant get it to switch to the gv notifications and my vm doesnt show in the app, it's rather frustrating!
youmail on the other hand is setup as call forwarding and not in voicemail settings, it works perfectly but i miss the gv transcriptions, even though the voice recognition sux, i can get the jist of the message without listening to it. youmail has a similar service but it is a pay service.

Dani897 said:
i have had issues setting up gv on any att rom. waiting for the rogers rom to drop! the i9000 and i9010 and i9088 roms all had zero issues on the captivate setting up gv. the att roms still give me the att vm notification and it never shows in my gv mailbox, then i try to call voicemail from the dialer and it asks me for my gv 4 digit pin. i dont know why i cant get it to switch to the gv notifications and my vm doesnt show in the app, it's rather frustrating!
youmail on the other hand is setup as call forwarding and not in voicemail settings, it works perfectly but i miss the gv transcriptions, even though the voice recognition sux, i can get the jist of the message without listening to it. youmail has a similar service but it is a pay service.
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I'm not sure what you guys are talking about. I have been using google voice for about 2-3 years. I only use it for v mail. I have my att v mail number forwarded to a google number and I get v mail, text and email. Works perfectly and the translation in texts is pretty good, although there are usually some pretty funny transpositions.

ahh found the issue, though i dont think i had to do this on any i9000 rom for my captivate (i never got it to work on the captivate rom) log into gmail from a desktop web browser, go to http://google.com/voice (voice.google.com will redirect you here as well) and look in the phone tab, next to your cell number in small blue text it says activate voicemail. when you click the link it brings up a mmi dialer code that will automatically change the forwarding numbers according to your gv number and activate the gv vm box for new mail. this step may be accomplished by the app on international roms because i dont remember ever needing to use my gmail page to set it up before. it might be a matter of permissions, maybe att disallows apps from running certain mmi codes in there roms?
the settings>callsettings>voicemail page is just for the voicemail number that you use from the dialer when you hit 1 or the vm button, even if this is set it doesn't forward to this number without the mmi code being run. the settings>callsettinge>voicecalls>callforwarding page has the forwarding numbers but setting these manually doesn't work for gv because though the calls do get forwarded it wont activate the mailbox, it needs the mmi code to do this.
the code for me looked somewhat like *004*xxxxxxxxx66# im worried it may be unique to my gv number so im not sharing the whole thing as im still not sure how these codes work.

[Q] I still use voicemail like it's 1998

Verizon charges something like 3 dollars for visual voicemail. A friend of mine switched from an iphone to a Galaxy s3 and asked how to check voicemail like the iphone does without having to dial in and punch in your pin number like it's still 1998. Any ideas? I was looking at Google Voice, but it looks to me like it is a full fledged alternative phone service. Not sure where to go from here.

dunderball said:
Verizon charges something like 3 dollars for visual voicemail. A friend of mine switched from an iphone to a Galaxy s3 and asked how to check voicemail like the iphone does without having to dial in and punch in your pin number like it's still 1998. Any ideas? I was looking at Google Voice, but it looks to me like it is a full fledged alternative phone service. Not sure where to go from here.
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I'm not really sure how the iphone voicemail does it, but you may want to check out Google Voice Lite: http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115127. I've been using it for a long time now and love it. I hated Verizon's voice mail.

dunderball said:
Verizon charges something like 3 dollars for visual voicemail. A friend of mine switched from an iphone to a Galaxy s3 and asked how to check voicemail like the iphone does without having to dial in and punch in your pin number like it's still 1998. Any ideas? I was looking at Google Voice, but it looks to me like it is a full fledged alternative phone service. Not sure where to go from here.
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Use Google voice, set it up and then when you go to dial a number it will ask if you want to use your Google voice number or just the regular phone by default. Obviously choose your regular phone and set the default and viola you have your normal phone but with Google Voice's visual voicemail. Plus you can check your voicemail anywhere you have an internet connection even if you can't currently use your phone.

Thanks. I'm basically using Google voice as a call forwarding service, and can now see my voicemail from the app. Just have to turn on do not disturb so it doesn't ring forever. Not bad.

I use Google voice too, I think passing for voice mail after posting the crazy costs of these plans to begin with is just nickel and diming us further. Just remember if you try to set it up it will give some stupid error message but Google voice will be selected as vice mail option.
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I noticed that error too. I had to dial star something-something and then my Google voice number and all worked out okay. Tested it by dialing my cell from my work line. Thanks guys.

I wasn't convinced with Google voice and setting up a "new phone number". All I really wanted was the ability to select individual voicemails to listen to without having to listen to all of them in the order received. I went with Youmail as my voicemail service. You have to pay for voicemail transcription, which I don't use, but it does allow you to listen to your voicemail calls in whatever order you want. You can also personalize greetings, block certain callers, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if Google voice can as well. I like Youmail...now all I need is for someone to leave me a voicemail rather than texting me...

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[GUIDE] Google Voice on your Verizon GS3

So, you want visual voicemail without having to pay the $2.99/month for it?
The answer is already here, it's called Google Voice.
I'm going to show you how to set up Google Voice and visual voicemail on your Verizon Galaxy S 3.
Step 1: Get a Google Voice number. It's free and all you need to do is go to voice.google.com
Follow the steps shown on Google Voice. Yes, you need to authenticate with an existing phone number
before they give you a Google Voice phone number.
Step 2: Once you have your GV number, I recommend removing any voicemails on your Verizon voicemail mailbox.
Step 3: On Google Voice on your computer click on the gear icon and open settings. Uncheck the boxes for forwarding,
Click on Groups & Circles.
Click on the edit button for all contacts and uncheck the boxes labeled Ring my: Mobile (or landline) and Google Talk.
Click on the edit button for anonymous callers and uncheck those boxes too. The reason for this is to make sure callers
are sent straight to voicemail if you don't pick up.
Check attachments for what to uncheck.
Step 4: Download and install Google Voice from the play store. :/ can't link it.
Step 5: I like to use the default dialer and my own cell minutes for outgoing calls, but if you want to use your GV number
for outgoing calls you can select that.
Check attachments for options.
Step 6: Now you are going to change your voicemail to Google Voice in the dialer app. Open the dialer, hit the menu button and tap settings,
tap voicemail, tap Service and choose Google Voice. You will see a warning, ignore it for now because we'll take care of
that in the next step.
Step 7: Now you are going to dial some phone numbers to set up the forward on no answer system. Where you see [GV number]
Insert the phone number Google gave you. When you dial these numbers Verizon will automatically hang up on you... jerks.
Numbers to dial:
*71[GV Number]
*90[GV Number]
*92[GV Number]
Step 8: You should now have Google Voice set up so that whenever anybody calls you and it would normally go to Verizon's voicemail
service they will now automatically be forwarded to Google Voice and leave a voicemail there. Go and test it with another
phone.
Steps to remove Google Voice. If for whatever reason you want to remove Google Voice and use Verizon's voicemail just follow these steps.
Step 1: You have already disabled forwarding in Google Voice. This feature sends callers from your GV number to any forwarding phones you set.
Step 2: Open the android dialer, hit the menu button, scroll down to Voicemail, tap it, tap services, and choose your carrier/verizon depending on your rom.
Step 3: Dial *73. Doing this removes the call forwarding settings we did earlier. Dial *86 to make sure you can connect to your voicemail.
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so question.. does this mean you will never receive a direct phone call and just have a bunch of voice messages?

kidhudi said:
so question.. does this mean you will never receive a direct phone call and just have a bunch of voice messages?
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Nope, when you dial the 3 numbers in step 7 you change the default action on no answer. By default Verizon sends a no answer phone call to the Verizon voicemail service and when you dial the 3 numbers you change that action to instead forward to GV's voicemail service.

thanks bro i will test it out. peace

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I've used googe voice for over a year and love it. You can have transcripts of your voicemails forwarded to your e-mail (though they aren't always accurate). I have found that if someone gets to your vzw mailbox somehow, you have to deactivate GV to get to your vzw mailbox.
Not really sure what the point of a guide is, though... if I remember right, google voice walks you through and sets everything up for you, so there isn't a need for the steps to not forward an answer system and all that jazz. I think i only had to call one number to have it all set up.

Google voice is awesome. I have been using it for a few years now. I never have to listen to a voicemail again.
I love how Google transcribes the message for me. Its not always 100% accurate but I get the gist of it.
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Yup, Google Voice made things easier now. :good:

Trying this out now, OP. I hope it works since I have had Google Voice for a while, but just got a Verizon phone and it wouldn't let me link the accounts before.
Edit: This definitely works!

One thing I really like about it and have been using it for years, in setup it will ask you if you want to use your mobile number, or your gv number, or you can set it to ask you each time. I have it ask, as that prevents accidental dialing. I have it send the transcribed messages to my sms, but they are seldom accurate, but accurate enough that I get the idea of what the call is like lol. It's 2013 google, transcription should be darn near 100%.......jmo.
Glenn

When this fowards to your google voice does it use your minutes?
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mikec86 said:
When this fowards to your google voice does it use your minutes?
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Yes, unfortunately. The only way to get around using minutes on is to use a 3rd party dialer for GV like GrooveIP or Talkatone.

mikec86 said:
When this fowards to your google voice does it use your minutes?
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I'm not exactly sure about minutes usage. I haven't been able to find any solid information about it, but voicemails are generally 1-5 mins. I do know that it uses data when you listen to the voicemails because the GV app downloads the voice mails and transcripts from GV servers. With the low quality of voice phone calls I wouldn't worry abut using too much data.
My actual phone usage isn't that much, and I'm on a family plan with a shared 700 minutes, I use much more data (grandfathered into unlimited 4G) and text messages (unlimited).

You might also want to enable 'do not disturb' in google voice. That way your calls will be forwarded to your voicemails much much faster.

dunderball said:
You might also want to enable 'do not disturb' in google voice. That way your calls will be forwarded to your voicemails much much faster.
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When you do step 3 you disable all forwarding and just set GV to send everyone to voicemail. Might want to change this if you want to use GV for more than visual voice mail... but that's all I wanted out of it.

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When this fowards to your google voice does it use your minutes?
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Any calls on Google voice use your minutes (both incoming and outgoing). Unless you use a SIP client. So I take issue with the original post saying you can change to not using your minutes, because you can't. I've been using Google voice for several years. I hope they add it yo Babel ASAP... Would love to finally be able to get pictures via GV.

rockingondrums said:
Any calls on Google voice use your minutes (both incoming and outgoing). Unless you use a SIP client. So I take issue with the original post saying you can change to not using your minutes, because you can't. I've been using Google voice for several years. I hope they add it yo Babel ASAP... Would love to finally be able to get pictures via GV.
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Slightly incorrect. Incoming/Outgoing calls using your GV # can be made over WiFi only using GrooveIP, so depending on your environment, there's always the possibility you may not use any of your minutes.
Additionally, the functionality to receive MMS through GV has been available for over a year now, as the MMS goes to the Gmail account your GV # is associated with.

rockingondrums said:
Any calls on Google voice use your minutes (both incoming and outgoing). Unless you use a SIP client. So I take issue with the original post saying you can change to not using your minutes, because you can't. I've been using Google voice for several years. I hope they add it yo Babel ASAP... Would love to finally be able to get pictures via GV.
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While that is true if you don't set it up following my directions but if you do follow them you won't use GV for calls, only for voicemail. It will use the default android dialer to place and receive calls. If you don't pick up, it is automatically forwarded and as far as I know call forwarding is included with verizon plans.

golfinglenn said:
One thing I really like about it and have been using it for years, in setup it will ask you if you want to use your mobile number, or your gv number, or you can set it to ask you each time. I have it ask, as that prevents accidental dialing. I have it send the transcribed messages to my sms, but they are seldom accurate, but accurate enough that I get the idea of what the call is like lol. It's 2013 google, transcription should be darn near 100%.......jmo.
Glenn
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To be fair, in ideal conditions, speech recognition is pretty good. Try the google voice typing, it's pretty impressive, but that's only under ideal situations, ie, quiet room, speaking clearly into the mic.
Now to transcribe a voicemail, which probably has lots of background noise, slurred together words, add in some umms and ahhhs, i'm actually pretty impressed at what comes out of transcription, since a lot of the times even I couldn't understand what the other person said on the voicemail.

Got it working thanks bro.

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oilfighter said:
To be fair, in ideal conditions, speech recognition is pretty good. Try the google voice typing, it's pretty impressive, but that's only under ideal situations, ie, quiet room, speaking clearly into the mic.
Now to transcribe a voicemail, which probably has lots of background noise, slurred together words, add in some umms and ahhhs, i'm actually pretty impressed at what comes out of transcription, since a lot of the times even I couldn't understand what the other person said on the voicemail.
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Please know that you can always play the actual voice mail recording if the transcription was bad. I have been using google voice since it was in beta testing and the transcripts have always been poor.
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