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Does anyone know how to setup google voice to work with your ATT # not just your google voice #
Did you try installing the Voice app to your phone?
Upon initial launch of the app, the user is walked through the setup, including whether or not you want to use Google Voice to make/receive calls and if you want to use it for your voicemail. It even takes you to the screen on your phone to change the preference from carrier to Google Voice and provides you with the number to use.
How to you reduce the number of rings before going to Voice's voicemail?
JOe K.
ekasey said:
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Does anyone know how to setup google voice to work with your ATT # not just your google voice #
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Visual Voicemail works by forwarding calls from your phone to your GV number. There is no other option. The forwarding settings are on your phone - so your phone knows to forward calls if you don't answer, the phone is off, or you push reject button.
Install GV on your phone
Login to your GV account with GV phone app
I have not had any luck getting the app to configure my phone, so i go to the settings page of GV in my desktop browser, set up my mobile there - it gives you the dial code to put in your phone to configure forwarding.
JOe K. said:
How to you reduce the number of rings before going to Voice's voicemail?
JOe K.
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It is a carrier setting, I can't remember if you have to call or if you can change this from your phone - i think you have to go to AT&T online or on the phone and have them change it.
alphadog00 said:
It is a carrier setting, I can't remember if you have to call or if you can change this from your phone - i think you have to go to AT&T online or on the phone and have them change it.
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Yes you have to call customer care.
alphadog00 said:
Visual Voicemail works by forwarding calls from your phone to your GV number. There is no other option. The forwarding settings are on your phone - so your phone knows to forward calls if you don't answer, the phone is off, or you push reject button.
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Google Voice voice mail does not require a GV number. You only need GV number if you want to use the free SMS feature of GV.
The first time you install and launch GV app on your phone, it will walk you through the steps to set up the proper voice mail settings on your phone. I remember I have to punch in some numbers manually by the prompt of GV.
The free SMS texting saves me $$ but you need to be aware of the fact that GV SMS does not support short codes. So it won't work if you want to vote on American Idol etc.
Also, you have to go into google voice on your computer and there's a number you have to dial on your phone to tell your carrier to forward unanswered calls to google's service. I forget where it's located on the google voice website.
You can dial that number and enter the codes and it will use google voice for voice mail even if you have or have not installed google voice app on the phone.
Call customer service? Go to the ATT website? What? You don't have to do any of that junk.
It couldn't be simpler. Go to the following website:
https://www.google.com/voice
You have to click on "Activate Voicemail" in settings. It tells you what to do.
Install the app on your phone. Follow the instructions.
Choose "Don't Make Calls Using Google Voice" and you can continue using your ATT number.
MikeyMike01 said:
Call customer service? Go to the ATT website? What? You don't have to do any of that junk.
It couldn't be simpler. Go to the following website:
https://www.google.com/voice
You have to click on "Activate Voicemail" in settings. It tells you what to do.
Install the app on your phone. Follow the instructions.
Choose "Don't Make Calls Using Google Voice" and you can continue using your ATT number.
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You didn't read the question that was being answered. Another poster asked how to get VM to pickup with less rings - the answer is NOT google.
foxbat121 said:
Google Voice voice mail does not require a GV number. You only need GV number if you want to use the free SMS feature of GV.
The first time you install and launch GV app on your phone, it will walk you through the steps to set up the proper voice mail settings on your phone. I remember I have to punch in some numbers manually by the prompt of GV.
The free SMS texting saves me $$ but you need to be aware of the fact that GV SMS does not support short codes. So it won't work if you want to vote on American Idol etc.
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Signing up for GV gives you a GV number even if you never use it. All those numbers you punched in - they were forwarding your calls to your GV number and the only thing the GV number does is answer and record voicemail.
If you go to your phone settings (on your phone) you will see that unanswered calls and rejected calls are forwarded to a phone number - that is your GV number.
More than one person asked how to set up Visual Voicemail, or expressed their inability to get it working.
No one posted clear instructions on how to set it up.
So I did.
Please don't tell me what I did and didn't read. Thanks.
MikeyMike01 said:
More than one person asked how to set up Visual Voicemail, or expressed their inability to get it working.
No one posted clear instructions on how to set it up.
So I did.
Please don't tell me what I did and didn't read. Thanks.
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Joe K. Asked:
How to you reduce the number of rings before going to Voice's voicemail?
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I and others told him to call customer service or go to AT&T website....
You started your comment with:
Call customer service? Go to the ATT website? What? You don't have to do any of that junk.
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As you can see (maybe not) references to AT&T and customer service had nothing to do with setting up Google voice - no one ever said they did. But your response connects the two together.
So if you had read the original question from Joe K. you would realize that no one was telling anyone to call or go to AT&T to set up Google Voice.
I agree it has little to do with the original question.
JOe K. said:
How to you reduce the number of rings before going to Voice's voicemail?
JOe K.
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1. On your phone, dial *#61# and click Send.
2. Some information should be displayed: number that the calls are being forwarded to and the delay before the forwarding engages.
3. Write down the number (including +1)
4. Dial **61*+1xxxyyyzzzz*11*30# and hit Send. +1xxxyyyzzzz is the number you wrote down previously, 30 is the delay in seconds. The delay can be set in 5 second increments, 30 is maximum
5. Dial *#61# to verify that the new settings are active.
Thanks guys sometimes i'm an idiot.
When I receive a call, it rings for about half a second and I can't answer it. It goes to my GV voicemail. I can't answer the call.
I thought, man if GV is this buggy I'm going to just use the T-Mo voicemail service. So in Call Settings I switched back to my carrier. But still, when I call my phone, it rings for half a second, then goes to GV voicemail. WTF.
So I went to GV settings and found my forwarding phone in the Phones tab and I clicked on "Deactivate GV on my phone." It said I had to go to my phone and type ##004#. So I did that and nothing happened. Still same problems.
This is really annoying because a) I can't answer my calls, b) I don't get any missed call notifications.
Can anyone help me?
matt2053 said:
When I receive a call, it rings for about half a second and I can't answer it. It goes to my GV voicemail. I can't answer the call.
I thought, man if GV is this buggy I'm going to just use the T-Mo voicemail service. So in Call Settings I switched back to my carrier. But still, when I call my phone, it rings for half a second, then goes to GV voicemail. WTF.
So I went to GV settings and found my forwarding phone in the Phones tab and I clicked on "Deactivate GV on my phone." It said I had to go to my phone and type ##004#. So I did that and nothing happened. Still same problems.
This is really annoying because a) I can't answer my calls, b) I don't get any missed call notifications.
Can anyone help me?
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I turned off call screening and I get my calls now. But my missed call notifications are coming from Google Voice. WTF.
Also I have my voicemail set back to My Carrier still and if I call myself I get GV Voicemail.
Shot in the dark..but do you have "Do not disturb" enabled in the Google Voice app or on the website? If so, disable it.
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Shot in the dark..but do you have "Do not disturb" enabled in the Google Voice app or on the website? If so, disable it.
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Nope. I turned off Call Screening and I finally started getting calls. BUT WHY CANT I DISABLE GOOGLE VOICE COMPLETELY!?!?!?
Have you tried logging in Google vice on computer and change settings to dis associate the number sign to that particular email account
Yeah, dude. It's in the OP.
So I went to GV settings and found my forwarding phone in the Phones tab and I clicked on "Deactivate GV on my phone." It said I had to go to my phone and type ##004#. So I did that and nothing happened. Still same problems.
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So let's say I have a GV number and a mobile number. And I turn on Call Screening. Why would it screen calls to my mobile number???
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Shot in the dark..but do you have "Do not disturb" enabled in the Google Voice app or on the website? If so, disable it.
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Even if I had DND enabled.... Why would it block calls TO MY MOBILE NUMBER?
All I want GV to do with my mobile number is forward calls from my GV number.
Easy answer. Your sprint number takes over your google voice number.
Check out here how to fix that
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075021&page=3
I posted the last post which is the easiest way to do it.
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Easy answer. Your sprint number takes over your google voice number.
Check out here how to fix that
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075021&page=3
I posted the last post which is the easiest way to do it.
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Well that would make more sense if I wasn't on T-Mobile!
Have you tried to change your settings via the web. Going to your Google voice account and change your voicemail options. Although it sounds like you need to change your cm forwarding on your phone. Go to T-Mobiles site for instructions or call T-Mobile.
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I was using goolge voice for voicemail on my Samsung epic. But when I started using it for my nexus my sms messages go to Google voice. How do I stop the text messages and keep the voicemail? Currently I disabled Google voice.
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Did you "integrate," migrate, port... whatever you wanna call it, your Sprint number over to Google Voice?
That's what I did, and while I liked the feature, I couldn't send or receive picture messages anymore.
I had to delete GV from my phone, sign up for a new GV account/ number, and then start all over from the beginning when I did this.
I clicked the update me link on the GV website to enable picture/ MMS in GV texting, for further updates to see if it becomes available. If in the future they give us the ability to send/ receive MMS/ picture messages through GV, I'll be going back. Until now, I'll stick with it just for voicemail usage.
All I've done to fix this is to log in to Google Voice on my computer and disable the "integration" with my cell phone number. This has done the trick for me many times when I change ROMs. I see that you already disabled the service, so I'm not sure why you would still be getting your text messages sent to GV.
Jerbech Is correct ..same thing I did
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jerbeck24 said:
All I've done to fix this is to log in to Google Voice on my computer and disable the "integration" with my cell phone number. This has done the trick for me many times when I change ROMs. I see that you already disabled the service, so I'm not sure why you would still be getting your text messages sent to GV.
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Yeah I have it disabled. But I am no longer getting voicemail. So I would like to stop the SMS messages but still be able to get voicemail.
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Its one of the options on the computer, turn off SMS sent to phone option. Hope that's what you meant.
There a few guides here in the Nexus S forums on how to disable Google Voice for calls and texts while still getting VM through GV. Look around and you will find it. If I remember right you go to voice.google.com click on the gear in upper right hand corner of page and choos voice settings. Unport your Sprint # and get a new or use your already existing GV #. Then down by your Mobile number on the settings page click where it says activate google voicemail on this phone and follow instructions. Then change settings on your phone from My Carrier to Google Voice under voicemail and you should be good to go.
Is there a dialer app that can natively reject/block unwanted calls on a G3?
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Is there a dialer app that can natively reject/block unwanted calls on a G3?
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Actually, the default dialer will do that already but it's not called call block or anything like that... well, sort of... Open your Contacts app, find the contact you want to block and open it, then clock Edit (pencil icon), then tap the 3 dots menu and tick "All calls to voicemail", this will send any call from that contact immediately to voicemail, which is what will happen if a caller is blocked at the phone level anyway.
acejavelin said:
Actually, the default dialer will do that already but it's not called call block or anything like that... well, sort of... Open your Contacts app, find the contact you want to block and open it, then clock Edit (pencil icon), then tap the 3 dots menu and tick "All calls to voicemail", this will send any call from that contact immediately to voicemail, which is what will happen if a caller is blocked at the phone level anyway.
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So there is no true call block or reject in Android? By blocking, I mean no connection, no voicemail, no SMS or MMS. Maybe I was fooled by my old Gingerbread dialer.
MrTooPhone said:
So there is no true call block or reject in Android? By blocking, I mean no connection, no voicemail, no SMS or MMS. Maybe I was fooled by my old Gingerbread dialer.
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Not to my knowledge... it would have to actually answer and disconnect to do that. The most likely case here is that it would send a reject message to the cellular provider when the call is presented to it, instead of a trying or ringing message, which would then route it to the default Call Foward No Answer point.
If you did not have voicemail, or had your call forwarding disabled, the call would get a busy signal, but you couldn't do that on a call by call basis.
You can use the new google dialer which come with that option, you can get it on apkmirror...
You can use truecaller. You can choose how calls are blocked. It blocks a list of spammers automatically.
Here's the link.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truecaller
keb00 said:
You can use the new google dialer which come with that option, you can get it on apkmirror...
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I saw that when it came out, but never installed. Have you tried the new dialer? Can it coexist with the current dialer without any difficulty?
I assume you are referring to Google Phone 2.05.07_rc4, not Google Phone 3.00.04_rc4?
sanchith.hegde said:
You can use truecaller. You can choose how calls are blocked. It blocks a list of spammers automatically.
Here's the link.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truecaller
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Looks interesting. I assume you are a user? I like that it is a dialer as well.
Yes I am a user and am satisfied with it. Go ahead and download it.
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I saw that when it came out, but never installed. Have you tried the new dialer? Can it coexist with the current dialer without any difficulty?
I assume you are referring to Google Phone 2.05.07_rc4, not Google Phone 3.00.04_rc4?
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Didn't had a problem so far.. I think yes it is the Version 2, because the other is for Nexus and android N
keb00 said:
Didn't had a problem so far.. I think yes it is the Version 2, because the other is for Nexus and android N
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I did install. Works fine along native/original dialer.
MrTooPhone said:
I did install. Works fine along native/original dialer.
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Nice to hear that!
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Nice to hear that!
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I know a little off topic, even though the two dialers work well alongside so far, the new dialer can not answer a call. So there is no way to answer a call if the original dialer is disabled.
acejavelin said:
Not to my knowledge... it would have to actually answer and disconnect to do that. The most likely case here is that it would send a reject message to the cellular provider when the call is presented to it, instead of a trying or ringing message, which would then route it to the default Call Foward No Answer point.
If you did not have voicemail, or had your call forwarding disabled, the call would get a busy signal, but you couldn't do that on a call by call basis.
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The new Google Dialer provides a way to block calls. I laughed when I set up numbers to block, the app came back and said you still may receive voice messages. So pretty much the same as forwarding calls to voice mail as you originally implied.
MrTooPhone said:
The new Google Dialer provides a way to block calls. I laughed when I set up numbers to block, the app came back and said you still may receive voice messages. So pretty much the same as forwarding calls to voice mail as you originally implied.
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If you use truecaller it has options: reject automatically or ring silently. It won't send to voicemail.
sanchith.hegde said:
If you use truecaller it has options: reject automatically or ring silently. It won't send to voicemail.
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I like what I read about True Caller. The only reason I hesitate., it is unclear to me how much privacy is released once I sign up. Even with Google it is a constant battle. One thing I did not like about the new dialer is it wanted to make my cell number discoverable to the web. And to turn that feature off was a deep dive into the Google Control Panel. So what does True Caller do with all my contacts?
MrTooPhone said:
I like what I read about True Caller. The only reason I hesitate., it is unclear to me how much privacy is released once I sign up. Even with Google it is a constant battle. One thing I did not like about the new dialer is it wanted to make my cell number discoverable to the web. And to turn that feature off was a deep dive into the Google Control Panel. So what does True Caller do with all my contacts?
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For unknown callers it displays their names and if they are reported spam by other users it will automatically reject the call.
It doesn't do anything to your contacts.
If you call another truecaller user he will get to know who is calling.
MrTooPhone said:
I like what I read about True Caller. The only reason I hesitate., it is unclear to me how much privacy is released once I sign up. Even with Google it is a constant battle. One thing I did not like about the new dialer is it wanted to make my cell number discoverable to the web. And to turn that feature off was a deep dive into the Google Control Panel. So what does True Caller do with all my contacts?
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True caller uses your contacts and display their names when they call up someone who doesn't have their number saved.
keylocker said:
True caller uses your contacts and display their names when they call up someone who doesn't have their number saved.
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That is what I was thinking, they use the contacts list to better enhance caller ID.
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That is what I was thinking, they use the contacts list to better enhance caller ID.
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I never in my life would prefer this app. Privacy breach and what not? Once read online that it holds more than a million Indian database. Stay out of it.
YAY I get to dust off my XDA account and make a post.
So I got my t-mobile S8+ SM-G955u yesterday. I use Google voice for visual voicemail and so on. Setting up the app should be straight forward as usual but calls are not forwarded to Google Voice. They go to the default T-Mobile voicemail.
Looking a little deeper I noticed in the phone app the voicemail settings is grayed out. Service provider simply has the one option "voicemail" . Odd
So I call T-Mobile and they tell me it's a Samsung issue that I don't have access to the voicemail settings. Samsung support says it's T-Mobile whom must unlock this option. WTF?
I suppose the question I have here is. Anyone else have a T-Mobile variant with the same issue? Is this a Gvoice problem or did T-mobile really lock this down to force users to use the T-Mobile visual voicemail app?
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Noticed the same thing but when my Google voice app is installed it's still getting the voicemails and alerting me
I can't even find the voicemail setting!? Where is it?
In the "phone" app click the menu button in the top right (three dots). Then select settings. Scrollall the way down. There is a catagory listed as "voicemail" . Directly under the catagory label there are some options. Service provider is click able but only one option available. Under that Voicemail Settings are grayed out.
Still can't get Google voice to work. Sucks I like the free visual voice mail.
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Cab121 said:
In the "phone" app click the menu button in the top right (three dots). Then select settings. Scrollall the way down. There is a catagory listed as "voicemail" . Directly under the catagory label there are some options. Service provider is click able but only one option available. Under that Voicemail Settings are grayed out.
Still can't get Google voice to work. Sucks I like the free visual voice mail.
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ah... Was looking in the settings. I don't even see google voice as an option. It's not greyed out for me, but the only vmail service provider is "my carrier". I do have google voice installed...
Weird! Same with me, but the voicemails are definitely going to google voice and delivered via hangouts (WHICH I ALWAYS HAVE TO FORCE CLOSE AND REOPEN ANY TIME I WANT TO LISTEN TO A VOICEMAIL. DRIVES ME INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Edit: I got a dup notification in google voice app... I guess I'll see if I can disable hangouts for voicemail and just use the refreshed voice app and hangouts for texting, at least until they axe google voice in hangouts. I want them to switch google voice to allo anyway, much more lightweight.
Edit 2: Looks like there is no way to block voicemail in hangouts and only get it in voice app... if anyone knows a way, please share?
gzrecoil said:
Weird! Same with me, but the voicemails are definitely going to google voice and delivered via hangouts (WHICH I ALWAYS HAVE TO FORCE CLOSE AND REOPEN ANY TIME I WANT TO LISTEN TO A VOICEMAIL. DRIVES ME INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Edit: I got a dup notification in google voice app... I guess I'll see if I can disable hangouts for voicemail and just use the refreshed voice app and hangouts for texting, at least until they axe google voice in hangouts. I want them to switch google voice to allo anyway, much more lightweight.
Edit 2: Looks like there is no way to block voicemail in hangouts and only get it in voice app... if anyone knows a way, please share?
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check your settings on google voices webpage. I have GV installed, no option in the phone dialer to config it but I only get voicemail notifications from the GV app.
I figured it out
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I figured it out. No option on the s8 to change from carriers voicemail, so go to call forwarding, enter your google phone number under if no answer and if busy. Hurray.
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I figured it out. No option on the s8 to change from carriers voicemail, so go to call forwarding, enter your google phone number under if no answer and if busy. Hurray.
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Where is this option? I dont see it under Call Settings.
S8 and google voice
Call settings, more settings, then call forwarding.
If you don't know your google voice phone number log in on a computer and you will see it.
When I opened my GV application after downloading it from the Play store it prompted me if I wanted to use it for V/M, I never had to do anything to activate it in the dialer settings like I did in the past. My service is with AT&T but I don't think that would matter.
This setting is not on Sprint devices . So far I cannot get GV to work for voicemails. Mine worked the other day by doing the *28 for forwarding and broke but now tells me that feature code is not valid.
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https://support.google.com/voice/an.../support.google.com/voice/answer/165656?hl=en
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That doesnt work either. Already tried.. did that first
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00_MACKIE_00 said:
This setting is not on Sprint devices . So far I cannot get GV to work for voicemails. Mine worked the other day by doing the *28 for forwarding and broke but now tells me that feature code is not valid.
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If you are on Sprint, try using *73. *28 didn't work for me, but I was able to type *73(Google voice number with area code - example *735152445611) to forward my missed calls to my google voice number. My Google voice is now working.
dmaul3300 said:
If you are on Sprint, try using *73. *28 didn't work for me, but I was able to type *73(Google voice number with area code - example *735152445611) to forward my missed calls to my google voice number. My Google voice is now working.
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Thank you... this worked
Wonder what changed.....
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00_MACKIE_00 said:
Thank you... this worked
Wonder what changed.....
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do you have the GV option in the phone dialer or no?
dansan382 said:
do you have the GV option in the phone dialer or no?
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Nope. Only for the Sprint VM app
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Has anyone gotten this to work with Verizon? When i go to call settings->Voicemail->Service Provider, I only see "My carrier" as an option. In the past, I just installed google voice and it let me set it as my voicemail service provider. Anyone know whats going on?
dmbfan13 said:
Has anyone gotten this to work with Verizon? When i go to call settings->Voicemail->Service Provider, I only see "My carrier" as an option. In the past, I just installed google voice and it let me set it as my voicemail service provider. Anyone know whats going on?
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Still trying to get this to work.....Has anyone gotten this to work being on Verizon?