anyone using this free service w/ the g2x? do you recommend it?
I used to use it. Then I discovered Google Voice and haven't looked back.
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I use it in the rare instances I get voicemail and I have no problems so far on the g2x. You have to call T-Mobile and activate it on your account (it's free) .
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+1 for Google voice .... after using it never looked back.
UCFJake said:
I use it in the rare instances I get voicemail and I have no problems so far on the g2x. You have to call T-Mobile and activate it on your account (it's free) .
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Huh, I just checked it out in the market.. Check out the last dozen or so comments.. "Doesn't work on the g2x". Obviously it's working for you..
Working here.
I use Yap (search for it in the market). It's free and simple and works well. Very good speech to text recognition too.
youmail. love it, and it freaks my friends out when my voice mail knows their name...
Working fine here as well! The T-Mobile app that is.
I don't see why it shouldn't work?
For me it works out of the box, no activiation needed.
Just verified again that it works. Called my phone left a message and it instantly downloaded into the t-mobile visual voicemail app. I had to activate it a looong time ago with my G1. Only had issues with it on Nexus One.
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+1 for Google voice. Not only does it work great for voice messages but also to send them to you via email. It has pretty good voice recognision and I also like that I can use it to call out over my Google Voice phone number, which I use for a personal business.
It's especially nice for calling someone who you know is avoiding your calls (lame friends) so they don't recognize the number.
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Can't find visual voice mail that came stock like the iPhone 4?
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google voice
add widget to homescreen.
Why android didn't include it?
Does gingerbread has it?
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Just download visual voicemail its free from the market and you don't have to pay extra from it.
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Transformer27 said:
Just download visual voicemail its free from the market and you don't have to pay extra from it.
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are you talking about youmail, or visual voicemail plus?
arent those kind of the same thing as google voice?
I like google voice, you can check you voicemail online, it transcribes(usually poorly, but but better than spring vvm, when i had my epic.)
Google Voice.
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you make a lot of threads >_>
yep google voice. sux that any visual voice mail on att not on the iphone is considered a forwarded call and thus uses your minutes but atleast it's not a surcharge like on sprint to use call forward or use sprints transcription service. i used youmail a while back because for some reason on a stock captivate rom that phone wouldn't set call forwarding up to the google voice number for the life of me. if would just fail for no reason. yet it worked for the youmail number. on an i9000 rom my captivate set up google voice just fine. go figure. what i will say is that toe youmail transcription service works better but it is not free, they may still have a free trial for it though.
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Google Voice.
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Thanks I forgot i did do that 1 time on my iPhone 4.
Will that inbox has limit or until I fill up the 2gb? I'm guessing here.
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i have Youmail currently. i also have Google Voice but i use it when im with friends and choose to mess around and call people. comes in handy.
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you make a lot of threads >_>
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Yes because I am new to android and my questions get answered here, and my Co workers told me why did you go to the other side! They said Google is evil.
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hehe, google is evil, that or it is god you choose
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1112792&page=3
there is no other platform that has the 3rd party app support and dev comunity. the iphone ui sux. they are constantly doing hacks to get andriod features but they are never as good. meego looks good but few phones have compatable bootloaders.
I can't forward my voicemail at&t number to GV voicemail. On GV app setup when I click configure voicemail and choose GV, it just bring me back to configure voicemail,
I remember when I had my iPhone 4 and some called be on my att number and was sent to the voice mail, the voicemail was forward to GV voicemail.
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I had trouble too. Just came from iphone also. You need to log in on your PC not the Google voice app and set it up there Google.com/voice . You should be able to find where it says activate voicemail. Click it and it will give you a long number to call mine started with a *. Enter that # as if you where making a call and press send it will activate your account. I tried and tried to get it working from my phone but ended up going it this way. Good luck
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My At&t rep made a store visit today and showed me this app. It's one app that displays your voice mails, texts and call log. I just installed it and got it setup, haven't messed with it that much but it looks cool.
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.att.android.mobile.attmessages&feature=search_result
i saw that in the market today. but didnt mess with it. ill try it out
I don't think it plays well with wifi. Since installing it my wifi times out even though the sleep policy is set to never. If anyone else can confirm this let me know.
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I like it so far...nothing super exciting, but works well.
My phone says it's not with AT&T, even though it is.
Maybe this is an Infused 2.02 problem.
Note: This only happens when I'm browsing on my laptop to download it from there. It works directly from the phone. VERY strange~
Be careful about this app. I installed it this morning and didn't like it so I took it back off. It took me >2 hours to get AT&T to fix my voicemail box again. Even once it was "fixed" I can't access it through the regular voicemail numbers, but have to dial my own number, so it still isn't really fixed.
It takes over text messaging and voicemails, so if you don't want to use it for texting don't install it. There may be a way to get it to allow texting through another app but I didn't see it.
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Be careful about this app. I installed it this morning and didn't like it so I took it back off. It took me >2 hours to get AT&T to fix my voicemail box again. Even once it was "fixed" I can't access it through the regular voicemail numbers, but have to dial my own number, so it still isn't really fixed.
It takes over text messaging and voicemails, so if you don't want to use it for texting don't install it. There may be a way to get it to allow texting through another app but I didn't see it.
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all i did was freeze the ATT messaging app thru TIBU and my gosms took over the rest.
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all i did was freeze the ATT messaging app thru TIBU and my gosms took over the rest.
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I got my text messaging working fine as soon as I uninstalled the app, it just interfered while installed. That's what I didn't like about it. What I was warning about is it FUBAR's your voicemail. It does warn you that it's removing your voicemail-box but it doesn't tell you that it'll take an act of Congress to get voicemail working again. lol
I uninstalled it to test. I held 1 on dialpad and got into my VM fine?
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I uninstalled it to test. I held 1 on dialpad and got into my VM fine?
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Did you completely set up the messages app? If so, maybe I was just lucky enough to have problems. lol. I don't think it clears vm until after the app setup is complete. It removed the basic voicemail from my account but apparently messed some other stuff up behind the scenes. If it works for everybody else then just ignore me.
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Yea I completely set it up. Your issue could be isolated but that sucks it was a pita.
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I don't really get the point of this app.
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Obviously the point is to thoroughly confuse you....
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The phone app needs some work, definitely. More settings, sure, but the wifi issue is the biggest problem for me. It turns off at least once per hour (or every other hour). It does seem to be a bit sluggish as well in terms of how the app feels.
The website isn't too bad, though. I love that you can capture audio and video. I've been waiting for google to have web-based MMS for a long while now and AT&T did it! The quality could be a bit better on the audio and video, but for a beta, it's tolerable.
And the notifier app is nice, but I wish I could type more text in the reply field.
All in all, given that it's a beta, it's not bad. Needs love in a few areas, but once those are worked out I think it'll be a nice system to use.
Does anyone have the APK for this app? I uninstalled it cause it was turning my WIFI on and off, but now it's no longer in the market so I can't get it again?
thats because the infused rom was made on the rogers network. not at&t. so thats probably why it wont work
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thats because the infused rom was made on the rogers network. not at&t. so thats probably why it wont work
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No i was taking about the AT&T Messages app that was out on the market. It's no longer in the market. I was asking if someone had the apk for the AT&T MESSAGES app. I no this app is on other AT&T android phone cause my friend has the Atrix and i was checking it out on his phone. So i no this app is available for other AT&T android phones.
Here it is. I found it in the Atrix forum
Oops. Sorry. I should have read further and seen that it was you looking for it. Sorry for the false alarm.
Probably not the one he is looking for.
doost650 - I replied in your Atrix thread.
It was working fine for me for 6 days and now all of a sudden started messing with my wifi. Kept turning on by itself. So I uninstall it luckly I didn't have that VM problem like some of you guys mention. My VM still works but its still using that new AT&T Messages VM.
I love my Inspire 4G and I run the RCMix3D Runny 4.0 ROM. It is fast, I like the fonts and the icons and love Sense 3.5. I also ran a UV script and another script I am forgetting. I have a few issues and the ones I have found are minor, however, just recently though I discovered I can not make outgoing calls with Google Voice. I am in the US on AT&T and its not even an option in the Voice setup to make all calls with Voice. I flashed another ROM to see if this was a ROM issue or some other phone setting issue. The other ROM I flashed (Android Revolution) I had the same issue. No option to make calls (other than international) via Google Voice. Short of flashing back to stock any one have an idea? I was thinking maybe there is a setting to do with location or carrier that is not right. I am using the RCMix kernel. It reports in the 'About Phone' to be a 'HTC Inspire 4G.' I have uninstalled Voice several times and reinstalled without any luck. A previous ROM flash showed the phone as Desire HD so I wonder if I am stuck with a phone that is reporting to be a non-US phone and no-us market Apps?
Use groovy IP if you are trying to make data calls. If you just want people to see your GV number and use your plan minutes in settings you should see
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That is what I am getting at. If I posted a screen shot I only have three choices and the first one is not make all calls with Google voice. I have a sip account where I can dial out with my home VoIP but I want voice to work so I can port my number.
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There should be no reason why you have only 3 of the 4 choices. Make sure you update google voice to the latest version. But your posts are confusing. In first post you say you can't make any voice calls. Your last post says you can at least set it on "ask". So which is it?
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That is what I am getting at. If I posted a screen shot I only have three choices and the first one is not make all calls with Google voice. I have a sip account where I can dial out with my home VoIP but I want voice to work so I can port my number.
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You could be more clear on how you have this sip account setup. If it is set to make all calls, that could be the reason you are missing that option with Voice. If your intent is to port your cell number to Voice for use with the sip account, that won't work. Voice requires you to have a cell plan.
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I thought I said it only gives a choice toake international calls. I have three options, Use for international, do not use and ask me everytime I make INTERNATIONAL call. I have the newest version . Like I said its like I am getting a non-US apk from the market since free voice calling is US ONLY. I am in Kentucky. I think a version of ClearDroid reported my phone as a Desire HD. Maybe my market account is hosed.
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There should be no reason why you have only 3 of the 4 choices. Make sure you update google voice to the latest version. But your posts are confusing. In first post you say you can't make any voice calls. Your last post says you can at least set it on "ask". So which is it?
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Does not matter because before I setup the sip Voice would not work. I have VoIP at home and they provide sip settings for softphone use.
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You could be more clear on how you have this sip account setup. If it is set to make all calls, that could be the reason you are missing that option with Voice. If your intent is to port your cell number to Voice for use with the sip account, that won't work. Voice requires you to have a cell plan.
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This looks better.
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Does not make a difference on my phone but on your phone it might since you have a sip account set up. Homescreen > menu button > settings > call > Use internet calling and try changing your setting to something else.
If you think it might help here is the google voice from my phone.
Thanks. I think it is something deeper because I flashed a different Rom yesterday and same issue. Flashed Rom, booted, download voice run setup and same issue. Nothing else was configured. Tring yours!
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No luck. I removed the sip account too. Uninstalled voice and rebooted then tried yours. Was hoping there was a system file I could dig into to check device type and or location. Maybe I am off base thinking its something like that. I could flash back stock I guess.
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In your settings for google voice, do you have the area code listed in "This phone's number"? Try "add this phone" again and see if that helps. On the same note I have heard that google voice cannot send voip calls from certain area codes. Have you been able in the past to use google voice with the area code on the phone?
Yes the area code comes up. I believe at one point when I first got the phone the missing option to make calls was there. I've done all sorts of setting changes on the phone and via a browser on the voice side and nothing works.
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Thanks. I think it is something deeper because I flashed a different Rom yesterday and same issue. Flashed Rom, booted, download voice run setup and same issue. Nothing else was configured. Tring yours!
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I'm doubtful that it is rom related. Cleardroid is and has always been based off of the stock Inspire roms. Also, I am using a non US based rom that has been modded for the Inspire and Voice has all the options and works as it should for me.
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I agree as changing ROM had no effect. I am on RcMix3D Runny. I think I will flash stock and see what happens from there.
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I'm doubtful that it is rom related. Cleardroid is and has always been based off of the stock Inspire roms. Also, I am using a non US based rom that has been modded for the Inspire and Voice has all the options and works as it should for me.
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So I am in fact an idiot. I had a Google voice mail access number not an actual Google Voice phone number. smh
That took guts to come back and admit that. Sometimes the solution is right under our noses. I take it all is well now?
Works great now.
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I'm on tmobiles prepayed plan and I always get issues with not being notified of new voicemails.. so I want to download a visual voicemail app but so far I haven't found ones that work with T-Mobile prepayed plans.. Did T-Mobile restrict all visual voicemail apps from working on prepaid?
Thanks
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i dont think they are able to that, go to the market and try a few apps out and see what one you like best. you can use apps to freeze other voice mail apps so you can try them out.
Google Voice
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Google Voice
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.googlevoice&hl=en
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Google Voice
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I use G-Voice + T-Mo prepaid with my Nexus. It's very finicky, most voicemails still go to T-Mobile's old school voicemail, and some to Google Voice. I've read that you can call and have T-Mo eliminate Voicemail from your prepaid number, then all calls to the GV number will go to GV voicemail. Unfortunately I've given just a few people (can't remember who) my actual T-Mo #, and they would get no voicemail if I cancel the T-Mo vm.
Nvm i see you tried it.
Now that our bootloaders are unlocked can we get Google voice to work on our Verizon droids?
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Now that our bootloaders are unlocked can we get Google voice to work on our Verizon droids?
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I'm not sure I see the connection - Google Voice always worked - locked or unlocked, rooted or unrooted. At least for me.
Same here. I use it all the time.
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I could never get it set up due to Verizon blocking it. When I tried I would get some pop up message saying is not supported. Because they sell a similar version for 3 bucks a month.
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I could never get it set up due to Verizon blocking it. When I tried I would get some pop up message saying is not supported. Because they sell a similar version for 3 bucks a month.
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Unless you are referring to a popup during setup that informs you that automated configuration of the voice mail is not sported - I have no clue what you are talking about. The voice mail setup popup can be skipped and then Google Voice provides instructions what to dial to manually forward voice mail from Verizon to Google Voice - always worked for me. For years.
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Unless you are referring to a popup during setup that informs you that automated configuration of the voice mail is not sported - I have no clue what you are talking about. The voice mail setup popup can be skipped and then Google Voice provides instructions what to dial to manually forward voice mail from Verizon to Google Voice - always worked for me. For years.
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Same here.
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Same with me. I use Google Voice on my Droid Maxx as my main phone number and texting application on VZW. Never even occurred to me there could be an issue.
cparekh said:
Same with me. I use Google Voice on my Droid Maxx as my main phone number and texting application on VZW. Never even occurred to me there could be an issue.
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I just use it for voice mail, and I forward my home phone to the number when I travel (which rings the Maxx.) It works great for me, too.
That said, the app could use some updating...
doogald said:
I just use it for voice mail, and I forward my home phone to the number when I travel (which rings the Maxx.) It works great for me, too.
That said, the app could use some updating...
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It's going to be integrated into Google Hangouts soon. Whether that's really "updating" it or not, we'll have to wait to see.
If you are just using it for the voicemail, try better youmail. It integrates the voicemail in the call log.
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jfriend33 said:
If you are just using it for the voicemail, try better youmail. It integrates the voicemail in the call log.
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Um, I don't get a lot of calls, but Iirc, so does gv on the alert of a new vmail. Unless my mind was playing tricks on me. But like I said, I don't get calls very often and even less to they get sent to vmail or leave one.
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If you are just using it for the voicemail, try better youmail. It integrates the voicemail in the call log. .
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Google Voice does that as well, if you want it to. (For people who want to know how, in GV, menu, settings, Voicemail display). I don't want it to.