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Groove IP!! Anyone tried it?

I am planning on buying the Groove Ip app that lets you make and recieve calls over ur 3g/4g and wifi and doesnt use your plan minutes. I am wondering if anyone here has used the app and if you can share your feedback? How's the quality of incoming and outgoing calls over 4g/4g? Is the call quality better over wifi? I tried gv over data with sipdroid but the set up was complicated and had to do it manually and the call quality was still not good. I am assuming groove ip does all this in the backend automatically.
Thanks.

So finally bought the app. I am on Tmobile Vibrant (Galaxy S) with froyo (rooted with Teamwhiskey's Bionix-V 1.3.1).... can anyone suggest the optimal settings? I have been getting poor performance and haven't found a configuration for GrooveIP that works perfect.

i used it with the default settings on my captivate and SGS2 with no problems.

The app is pretty impressive. I noticed the speaker sound was a little low so I increased it from settings and also increased the mic volume. Don't really know if its making any difference.
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I think you might want to try "talkatone":
http://www.talkatone.com/android-preview.html
They have a wonderful app for iOS, and recently they started working on an Android version. (free app, Ad supported, with pro version available as well)
It is still in alpha 3, but it's not that bad...I think you should give it a try if you are a regular Google Voice user.

I've had a good experience with Groove IP over my WiFi network--don't use it much over 3G. I turn off echo canceling because I think it interferes with touch tones when using voice mail systems. Easy set up if you have a Google Voice number.

Works good for me default settings on Captivate and Atrix over WiFi, even with no sim card.

I use it at a hospital I do some work for. Have no cell signal, just wifi. Works ok. time of day seems to affect quality.
It seems as good as any other IP phone I've used.

Yeah, Groove IP, definitely worth it. I have it on my HTC Droid Eris rooted running sense 2.3. I use it all the time and the quality is good and I use it on my HTC Droid Incredible running Prime XL sense 3.5. It runs great.

The other person complains of echo @ his end. O tried lowering mic gain and speaker which helped but didnt completely resolved the problem.
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I have it and it works perfectly of you have issues of quality contact their support its better helpful

Groove IP Disappeared from the Market..w/my new $5!!
Groove IP totally disappeared from the face of the Earth today(Android Market). I just paid $4.99 for the App two days ago and there gone. I know there not a fly by night app cause I have been hearing good things bout since my WinMo days. Is this want they do when they're updating the App? Is this normal or has me and many other been hood-winked??

U should make a titanium backup of the app incase they don't come back. This is very strange though.
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I think they have gone Amazon Appstore exclusive.
http://www.amazon.com/snrb-Labs-GrooVe-IP/dp/B004Z1P53W

They got suspended from the Android Market.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22440231&postcount=6

Great app. Those of you having issues it may be your connection. I never use mine over 3g just on my wifi at home (most other wifi are slower than my 3g).
As for the optimal settings I just use default. if you have latency or echo you can try the options. I think those issues are due to the connection as other voip have same problems. voip is not perfect yet, I dont use if for important calls but for those long calls to family/friends its perfect.

G2x Possibilites

I'm interested in getting a G2x... Looks like good hardware for a good price right now, but I had a few questions to see if it will fit my needs.
-I'm going to be using it wifi-only. I'm planning on installing CSipSimple to use as a VOIP phone. Anyone have experience doing this? On my Samsung moment CSipSimple has terrible issues routing audio and microphone.
-I would like to hook up my wiimote and plug the phone into my TV with HDMI for emulators... Has anyone had experience with doing this? Theoretically it looks like it should work flawless.
-I may in the future want to hook it up to voice/data. But on the cheap through a prepaid carrier like straight talk. You can get sims from straight talk, but will I have to unlock the phone? Is it even possible for this to work? Has anyone here done it before?
-Wifi only, what's the battery life like? Is a full day with moderate usage (screen-on 3 hours sporadic usage, wifi always on for voip calls) possible? Without cell connections I'd think it would last longer than normal.
-Any other issues with the phone that annoy people that might turn me off to the device?
Thanks!

i just ordered one of these, waiting for it to arrive at this very moment
i saw on the LG site a TON of bad reviews on this thing, a lot of them recent. things like the phone rebooting during a call, running hot, locking up to the point you have to remove the battery, bad battery life, and a few others.
but there were just as many good reviews too, best phone ever, no issues at all, etc. and some of those from people saying they have had their phone for over a few months, so i'm hoping mine will be fine
and i too am looking at what i can do with this device. i hope i will not be dissapointed

You came to the right place, the developers here have done a great job making this phone as stable as possible. They are, of course, limited by the LG code that they are working with, but the custom ROMs correct many issues. Of course, if you get a bad phone/bad hardware, not much can be done, but that's a risk with any phone.

dodgefan67 said:
i just ordered one of these, waiting for it to arrive at this very moment
i saw on the LG site a TON of bad reviews on this thing, a lot of them recent. things like the phone rebooting during a call, running hot, locking up to the point you have to remove the battery, bad battery life, and a few others.
but there were just as many good reviews too, best phone ever, no issues at all, etc. and some of those from people saying they have had their phone for over a few months, so i'm hoping mine will be fine
and i too am looking at what i can do with this device. i hope i will not be dissapointed
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Just flash custom ROMs, the hardware on this phone is amazing for such a cheap price, but LG can't code software for crap.
The stock ROM is guaranteed to give you rebooting, overheating, lock ups, bad battery life, etc...
But CM7 based ROMs (NOT CM9 BASED, CM9 IS NOT FINISHED) are all pretty rock solid stable. And even some of the 2.3.3 builds are good, Bionix Reloaded is the only 2.3.3 one that has been recently updated, but man Bionix is smooth as butter.
Have fun with your new powerhouse of a phone.

orb360 said:
-I would like to hook up my wiimote and plug the phone into my TV with HDMI for emulators... Has anyone had experience with doing this? Theoretically it looks like it should work flawless.
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I can speak specifically to this one cuz I found out the hard way. You'll need to install a CyanogenMod7 based rom for this to work. Unless something has changed, the stock based ROMs don't have the necessary blue tooth profiles to connect a wiimote, sixaxis, etc. I was running Weapon G2x and my wiimote would not connect...so I switched to CM7 and it works.
With that said i love my phone and have little to no issues since I began running custom roms.
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I picked up this G2X off craigslist yesterday and after a day I am very pleased. I have CM7 on it with no issues. I have yet to sign up for service but have been making calls and texts using Google voice and groove IP together. Sound quality had been great. I switched from a Nexus S4G
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buttchip said:
I picked up this G2X off craigslist yesterday and after a day I am very pleased. I have CM7 on it with no issues. I have yet to sign up for service but have been making calls and texts using Google voice and groove IP together. Sound quality had been great. I switched from a Nexus S4G
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Welcome 2 the forums!
Might wanna flash Hellfire Phoenix 2.0 if ya like cm7, you can use either mordif or faux kernels on it( it already has fauxs latest kernel baked in) = Buttery smooth+great performance!
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buttchip said:
I picked up this G2X off craigslist yesterday and after a day I am very pleased. I have CM7 on it with no issues. I have yet to sign up for service but have been making calls and texts using Google voice and groove IP together. Sound quality had been great. I switched from a Nexus S4G
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You can text for free with that app? How does it work?

xAshxMoneyx said:
You can text for free with that app? How does it work?
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it's an app interface to http://www.google.com/voice
Google Voice is a (free!!) virtual phone service allowing you to make and receive calls/SMS for free from a web browser and forward these calls/SMS to any other phones you own.
GrooveIP is a VOIP app that connects to google voice via your cell phone's wifi connection, so you don't need to rely on a cell voice connection.
The Google Voice android app does the same thing for SMS.

Learn something new every day, thanks!

orb360 said:
it's an app interface to
Google Voice is a (free!!) virtual phone service allowing you to make and receive calls/SMS for free from a web browser and forward these calls/SMS to any other phones you own.
GrooveIP is a VOIP app that connects to google voice via your cell phone's wifi connection, so you don't need to rely on a cell voice connection.
The Google Voice android app does the same thing for SMS.
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yeah thats some good info there, thanks for that! i was reading in my t-mobile start guide and it says that wifi calling MAY be metered just like cell phone minutes, i guess i'll have to call them to verify that. one of the reasons i got this was to make free wifi calls, but i will also check out this app!

You want to check out the Talkatone app instead of the Grove IP app.
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Visual voice

Has anyone successfully ported att visual voicemail to a gingerbread or above Rom on infuse. Tried Google voice used 500 anytime minutes in 10 days.
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I use YouMail, check it out,I don't appear to have any issue with it "using" my minutes... But I do have like 15,000 rollover minutes so I stopped caring a long time ago lol.
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Haven't ever used AT&T's visual voicemail app. I always use Google Voice. What do you mean by Google Voice using minutes? Google Voice doesn't use any minutes when used for voicemail.

Everytime a voice mail is forwarded to google voice its causes 1 minute of anytime minutes to be burned 4 most people would not be a problem on 100 phone calls a month my wife however recieves between a hundred and two hundred phone calls a day with for job
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The best part was when we were trying to figure out the magic number it was not my wife's google voice number but more of a generic google voice number as soon as we remove google voice her anytime minutes stop flying off the shelf I have the sky rockets in the visual voicemail works fine I have tried to install it on her infuse but it says it is incompatible best I can figure is that maybe it will work with a gingerbread rom my wife is against root she will be on board if I know I can get her visual voicemail without running out of minutes
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kawyboy said:
Everytime a voice mail is forwarded to google voice its causes 1 minute of anytime minutes to be burned 4 most people would not be a problem on 100 phone calls a month my wife however recieves between a hundred and two hundred phone calls a day with for job
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I am not sure how true this is. I got a couple of vmails in the last few days on gvoice, and I don't have any minutes showing up as used.

GOOGLE VOICE... And done.
They even send you emails. Awesome, because sometimes I forget to install the app. And can get voicemails on tablet too. It's sweet.
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Erik_T said:
GOOGLE VOICE... And done.
They even send you emails. Awesome, because sometimes I forget to install the app. And can get voicemails on tablet too. It's sweet.
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Did you read my POST? I had google voice. I agree works great. Love it.
Problem is that everytime it forwards to google voice. It trips one minute
of my anytime (land line) minutes.
My wife gets 100's of calls a day. I can't use a call forwarding visual voice mail.
That is why I asked if anyone had successfuly used att voice mail app on a gingerbread rom. I am hoping that is the reason I can't install on her stock phone.
I have the app from my sky rocket running 2.3.5(6) and ICS 4.03 Leak

kawyboy said:
Did you read my POST? I had google voice. I agree works great. Love it.
Problem is that everytime it forwards to google voice. It trips one minute
of my anytime (land line) minutes.
My wife gets 100's of calls a day. I can't use a call forwarding visual voice mail.
That is why I asked if anyone had successfuly used att voice mail app on a gingerbread rom. I am hoping that is the reason I can't install on her stock phone.
I have the app from my sky rocket running 2.3.5(6) and ICS 4.03 Leak
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First of all, stay cool. People are only trying to help. Sometimes they might miss to read the sentence well.
You can't set up AT&T visual voice mail on your phone. I got the note that has vvm enabled on it. I put the SIM in with the AT&T cust care followed by a person from tech dept for over 45 mins with no use. It refused to work. And yes, it needs to be enabled on the network by AT&T rep, not just on phone.
For Note and Skyrocket, they enable it when you upgrade or change the phone to that. And though it was enabled on Note, it just refused to get set up on my Infuse..
Second, my wife and I use GV a lot. And unless its calls, vmails never used any of our anytime minutes.

Thanks. And I apollagize. Check your bill. The call forward uses anytime minutes. One per missed call. Not noticeable for most. And we even missed it 1st month. But then her work got crazy and so did her phone and surprise 600 anytime minutes in 5 days.
Again thanks for detailed response.
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Kawy is correct, I have YouMail and checked my bill last night... Sure enough there are logs for call forwards at a rate of one minute. Not a big deal for me, I have thousands of roll over minutes (15K+) and a 2100 minute a month plan. I own a business and receive several dozen calls a day, I don't miss many though, but I can see how if you miss a few hundred a month how that can be a rip off.
I saw a file on the htc vivid forum that enables att visual voice mail on all GB and ics roms... Maybe you want to check that out.
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Thank you will get over there and check it out.
Thanks hit!
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[Q] Would you turn an old android phone around?

Hello everyone,
Well if you're like me who has several android phones and have no service for them. Rather than get rid of them, reuse them! I've been working right now on roms completely dedicated to the Google Voice Service. Replacing my old provider Sprint with Google Voice is cost-less. Using VoIP and Google Voice text messaging, allowing free texting + calling over WiFi only. Because WiFi is everywhere now days. So why pay for a phone service, when you are able to obtain WiFi and have free texting + calling. I'm thinking about starting a project for all the devices that I have made a rom for replacing the old providers with Google Voice. The Question is, Do you think it's a good idea?
The GVoice Project is what I've decided to name it.
Any feedback will be appreciated.

Eller200 said:
Hello everyone,
Well if you're like me who has several android phones and have no service for them. Rather than get rid of them, reuse them! I've been working right now on roms completely dedicated to the Google Voice Service. Replacing my old provider Sprint with Google Voice is cost-less. Using VoIP and Google Voice text messaging, allowing free texting + calling over WiFi only. Because WiFi is everywhere now days. So why pay for a phone service, when you are able to obtain WiFi and have free texting + calling. I'm thinking about starting a project for all the devices that I have made a rom for replacing the old providers with Google Voice. The Question is, Do you think it's a good idea?
The GVoice Project is what I've decided to name it.
Any feedback will be appreciated.
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I LOVE THE IDEA I have another phone that I don't use, and I could give to my daughter to use. And Google Voice doesn't cost me anything, I would love to see this project come out. I say go for it.

Same as above, that sounds like a really great idea. You can start out on your phones, but as the idea gains more speed more developers will probably port the ROM to their devices.
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Nice idea...
Awesome idea, would love to see what happens.
gagdude said:
Same as above, that sounds like a really great idea. You can start out on your phones, but as the idea gains more speed more developers will probably port the ROM to their devices.
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Absolutely love the idea. As someone previously mentioned, it would be a great starter budget device for a young child. Thread Subscribed. If you need testers, let me know! I have a few devices you may be interested in porting to.
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Alright then, I will now start re-creating my roms suitable for other users to flash. I am looking around for digital designers, if anyone knows someone or themselves who would like to help in doing this project with me. PM me

Verizon Visual VM

Does anyone else get prompted to accept/decline visual voice mail EVERY single time you get a voice-mail? How many times must I decline?? I don't want to pay for this thing and I've never had it forced in my face so many times with other Verizon phones.

Oh, it asks me after I check my voicemail and delete whatever I had in there, too. Ridiculous.

Download Google Voice, set it up. This was you avoid Verizon voicemail completely, get the same features, and its free.

I honestly don't even care about the features (I've used GV before). I just need this prompt to not be coming up twice every single time I get a VM. Did you hit "accept"? I always hit reject (since I don't want to use it).

Don't know. I use Verizon VVM multiple times a day and it never prompts me.
Did you maybe freeze/debloat something?
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Same here - no issues or constant reminders... I do pay for vvm however and like the service...

JasonJoel said:
Don't know. I use Verizon VVM multiple times a day and it never prompts me.
Did you maybe freeze/debloat something?
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So you subscribe to the service then? I'd assume it wouldn't prompt you if you already have the service.

PsiPhiDan said:
Does anyone else get prompted to accept/decline visual voice mail EVERY single time you get a voice-mail? How many times must I decline?? I don't want to pay for this thing and I've never had it forced in my face so many times with other Verizon phones.
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Premium visual voice mail is the only paid part..... You can get basic visual for free. And actually it's supposed to be used on all smartphones now. Cuts down on the calls on the cell site.
Personally I use google voice because I don't run out of space and get texts sent to me transcribed but I have been doing that for ten years about.
For people who don't want to go through the setup of gv visual is offered free for basic.
Easier to check anyway don't know why you wouldn't want it xD
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I use the basic, free, version.
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Jacob11701 said:
Premium visual voice mail is the only paid part..... You can get basic visual for free. And actually it's supposed to be used on all smartphones now. Cuts down on the calls on the cell site.
Personally I use google voice because I don't run out of space and get texts sent to me transcribed but I have been doing that for ten years about.
For people who don't want to go through the setup of gv visual is offered free for basic.
Easier to check anyway don't know why you wouldn't want it xD
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I didn't realize there were two different ones - I thought it was always a paid service and kept declining for that reason.
Thank you for clarifying!

PsiPhiDan said:
I didn't realize there were two different ones - I thought it was always a paid service and kept declining for that reason.
Thank you for clarifying!
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No problem ^~^
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