taking a serious look at gmail apps for my business. does anyone have any practical use and knowledge of google voicemail? please share.
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mark
User Google voice, forward your number to your gv number, and then get your voicemails transcribed. It's pretty fool proof
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What I know is not much..but here goes.
I personally use google voice for my voicemail and have for over a year.
@work I am an operations manager in a drycleaners and we use a custom gmail address.
Both of these have never broke or failed. In other words it works better and is very dependable. More dependable than the software that runs our operation.
Not sure if this will help or not
I too, use google voice, and while the transcriptions usually aren't the best, it is really convenient to have all of your voicemails stored online and then you can play them all back. In terms of on a smartphone, you'll need a data connection, not only a cell connection to listen to voicemails
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Google Voice is like having a firewall in front of your real number. There are many benefits but I'll focus on the ability to block persistent telemarketers. You can block a number so it goes straight to voicemail or play the "this number is no longer in service". It also does free texting so you can forego the texting plan and save money.
I personally like it for the free visual voicemail and transcribing options, plus an email alert when I do receive a voicemail.
Also, cheap international rates compared to Verizon Wireless.
I use it for my voicemail (though still haven't switched to it for my actual number that people call). Works great!
I've been using Google Voice since Google first opened the service after purchasing GrandCentral.
My GV number is my business cell number. I also have my vzw # fwd to it for voicemail. The transcription and other features of this product make it a must have
i have been using google voice for my voicemail since it came out. the transcription of the messages is extremely convenient.
I tried it and hated it, I now us youmail, no issues so far. A lot of people to use and love Gvoice though, try it see if you like it.
I've never had an issue, and I have been using it for 6-8 months now. Works great for free visual vmail. It transcribes the message, but you can never read them. so that part is about useless. It is nice being able to delete a message without having to listen to it, and it's also nice being able to not have to dial into VM. But those are just personal preferences.
I love Google voice, I use it for my business and personal call needs all with one number. I put customers in there own contact group and assign them their own Voice mail message. Same goes for friends, family, telemarketers, etc. You can even have calls forwarded from an office phone to your cell to a home phone before it goes to voice mail. It's awesome I highly recommend it.
We use GV for several purposes, but I could see many more potentials for small businesses and startups. The company that I work for has 80 employees and provide technical services and support to government clients. I have one of my GV numbers programmed into my PBX at the office to route after hours tech support calls to blast the cell phones of on call technicians. When somebody calls in and dials "9" (for after hours tech support), it immediately rings all of the phones on the list for the on call techs. If they don't pick up, it plays a recorded message about after hours tech support, to leave a message, and a technician will be paged and will call back.
The transcript of the message is then sent out via text and email to the 3 techs and supervisors to ensure that somebody calls our clients back. It has been a great (and free service).
For somebody starting a new business, a GV number gives you a layer of separation between your hardware and your incoming calls. If, when starting up, you only have your private cell phone and don't want to give that number out, you can forward your GV number to your cell. If you change cell phone numbers or providers, none of your friends or business contacts have to change their number for you, you just change the call forwarding settings on GV.
As your business grows and you add phones, you can forward incoming calls to your cell AND/OR your office number. If your office changes locations, you can move and change the call forwarding info in GV so your number remains the same.
Our business moved a few years ago and have to pay our local Telco to forward our old DID from our old location to the new one. Due to some message up small Telco laws, we can't even port the numbers to a VoIP account. If we originally had set up a GV account for our office, we would be paying much less.
Great service, free, and the transcriptions, while not perfect, can often give you at least some of the info about the message. All in all, I highly recommend it!
Seth
I've used it and it works great!
I tried to use it but it said it doesnt support verizon. Is there a way around this?
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I have used it since it was in beta and I love it transcripts can be a little off but you can play it back. But for a free service it definitely beats vm and you can arcive your messages to. I like it my wife hates it . Just give it a run and see.
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I echo many of the comments above. Keep in mind that you can get the Google Voice for visual and transcribed voice mail without having to sign up for your own Google Voice phone number. You can also sign up for your own Google Voice phone number and keep your existing mobile number. The entire system is very flexible and the integration of phone services into your computer via your Google voice account on the web is pretty fantastic.
I had to fiddle with it to get it to work. Had to manually forward phone to gv number then set my voicemailmservice to google. Like a couple of people mentioned using the installation wizard willnfail with a message that it does not support it.
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google voice is awesome and its free..transcribe barely ever woorks rite.. but other than that its flawless.
I use GV for my primary line voicemail..
as others have said, transcription is almost useless, I like the ability to listen without having to sit through automated prompts.
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http://www.fusionvoicemailplus.com/
http://www.phonefusion.com/
http://mobilitytoday.com/news/009092/fusion_voicemail_g1
I've got the Fuze and was interested in Visual Voicemail. I've used Youmail and get the sms and email, but I saw this post about visual voicemail on the G1. I looked and they also support windows mobile 5 and 6.
The 2nd link is the company's main page and looks like they offer pay services as well, but the free visual voicemail works as far as I have been able to tell in testing it. It has a separate .cab to install and then change the settings in your fuze for forwarding and the voicemails come up in the program in a list and can be played as mp3.
Only issue I have on this is that they play over the speaker. Plug in headphones and you get privacy, but when I'm on a plane or in an airport I'd rather just hit play and listen on the earpiece on the headset for privacy. If anyone has any suggestions on playing mp3's through media player over the built in headset I'd be interested in the suggestion. Otherwise, this does everything I've seen on the iphone.
You may want to install on your storage card, then your vmails are stored there as well so as to not take up internal storage.
damn doesn't work with rogers in canada, won't accept changes to the no answer call forwarding
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http://www.fusionvoicemailplus.com/
http://www.phonefusion.com/
http://mobilitytoday.com/news/009092/fusion_voicemail_g1
I've got the Fuze and was interested in Visual Voicemail. I've used Youmail and get the sms and email, but I saw this post about visual voicemail on the G1. I looked and they also support windows mobile 5 and 6.
The 2nd link is the company's main page and looks like they offer pay services as well, but the free visual voicemail works as far as I have been able to tell in testing it. It has a separate .cab to install and then change the settings in your fuze for forwarding and the voicemails come up in the program in a list and can be played as mp3.
Only issue I have on this is that they play over the speaker. Plug in headphones and you get privacy, but when I'm on a plane or in an airport I'd rather just hit play and listen on the earpiece on the headset for privacy. If anyone has any suggestions on playing mp3's through media player over the built in headset I'd be interested in the suggestion. Otherwise, this does everything I've seen on the iphone.
You may want to install on your storage card, then your vmails are stored there as well so as to not take up internal storage.
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I'm using YouMail right now, how does it compare to that? One feature I like about YouMail is that it will tell me the city, carrier and even the name of the person and/or business that called if available.
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calirr,
on the app the comes up when you get a new vm, it has the date, time and how many seconds the message is, the caller id number and the number it was forwarded from (assuming this is so that you can identify if it was forwarded from cell or office or other?
You don't see the txt that comes in, this is the only information you get, so if carrier and city matter it may not be good for you. I travel and it's great to turn on the phone between flights and my vmails download, then when I'm on my next flight I can listen to them when I want.
So the free services you listed aren't actually visual voicemail, but simply mp3 conversion services?
tried this a while back with sprint. turns out they charge 20 cents a minute for forwarded calls.
With AT&T, it just deducts from your minutes.
plus yall get roll over minutes don't you? How much are you spending per month?
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1. not sure your definition of visual voicemail. If you're thinking transcribe to text, no it does not do this, and I don't want that because I haven't found a service that works well, and having an announcement telling someone calling me to speak clearly doesn't help.
This service puts your voicemail into an mp3, but it doesn't email it, there is a single app that comes up and they are listed in order with information and if you click it you can listen without being connected to the network. If that isn't visual voicemail then I completely didn't understand what the iphone is doing, because it looks like the same to me and that is called visual voicemail. (by the way, I only listed one service that I found, there are different sites with information about the free service and application, they just introduced an Android version as well)
2. I saw in the directions there is some more specific instructions on Sprint. If you forward a certain way there is a .20 charge, but if you follow their directions correctly there isn't this charge.
3. It looks like this service sends a txt msg to get information to the program, so you need txting and if you're limited this may not be good for you.
4. The time your caller is leaving a message it looks like it does go against your minutes.
Rogers CDMA?
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damn doesn't work with rogers in canada, won't accept changes to the no answer call forwarding
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Below in the FAQ is a question on Sprint, which is CDMA. It's saying you have to contact the CDMA carrier to have them change it on the network, and I beleive Rogers is still CDMA as well. May be worth a call to tech support and ask if you want an app like this, for me it's worth it. The 813 number is in Florida, and that's where your calls will be forwarded to, so make sure you can call there cheap.
When you call up Sprint, the first thing to do is ask for Tech Support right away. They are the only ones who can set up the correct forwarding - Customer Service can’t. Ask the Tech Support representative to change the "Call Forward/Busy" and "Call Forward/No Answer" fields (NOT Unconditional Call Forwarding) to the Fusion Voicemail Plus number - 813-200-0200. The Tech Support representative will authorize and activate the feature. There is no additional charge for this service, unlike regular unconditional call forwarding which charges $0.20 per usage.
no rogers is GSM
has anyone had a problem where when you install it never goes through setup. I had to resend the test message to myself and even then I just got that voicemail no others.
I was helping someone get started with Google Voice in a thread, and thought a little tutorial might help people out, so I wrote one. I'd like input if you guys think I got something wrong, or left something out. I hope this can help someone.
The pdf has been updated as of 2/16/2010 with more info:
http://i0v.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Google-Voice-for-Noobs.pdf
But I figured some people might like plain text, so I'll paste it too.
I probably won't update the plain text here because it will just be getting longer and longer
(that is, unless someone requests it)
Google Voice for Noobs
Transitioning to Google Voice, on a Sprint HTC Hero
First Revision 2/14/10
What Is Google Voice?
First off, I think it helps to think of Google Voice like a switch box of some sort. You can feed telephone calls in and feed them back out, in whatever direction you’d like. The original intended functionality of GV was to allow you give people one number (your GV number) and then it would ring all of your phones when someone calls that number.
Now this might be helpful for some people, but I know the majority of people here probably don’t have more than one phone. But this setup can still be useful for people who want to use their Google Voice number as the number they give out to people. This setup is really the easiest, because once you’ve entered your cell phone in Google Voice under Settings > Phones, you’re pretty much done. The other advantage to this route is that you can have GV ask callers for their name before it rings your phone (call screening), and some other cool features. If you still want to use your Sprint phone number and just use GV for voicemail, see the next section.
Note: Now when you now first set up Google Voice, it asks if you want to set it up as strictly voicemail and then steps you through steps similar to the following section. It then gives you a more limited feature set for just the options that apply to when you’re using it as voicemail. If that’s all you want to do, then that might be the route to go. If at some point, you want to use a scenario similar to the one above Go to Settings >’Phones’ tab > Get a Google number (thanks to Jon at Hebb Networks for clarifying this)
Google Voice as Voicemail
(This is basically an explanation of what Google walks you through when you go to Settings > “Activate Google voicemail for this phone” on the GV website)
Note that sometime around November 2009, Sprint decided to make CONDITIONAL call forwarding free, so we’re going to configure it like this:
In this situation what you’ll do is dial *285555555555 (replace the 5’s with your GV number) and then press talk. You should hear some beeps to let you know everything is working alright. Then you can hang up. (To undo this feature dial *38)
Next, you want to let GV know that these calls that are being forwarded should go to voicemail. You can do this by going into your settings page in Google Voice on your computer, and clicking “Activate Google voicemail for this phone”
Another thing to note, is that there is a big difference between CONDITIONAL and UNCONDITIONAL call forwarding. CONDITIONAL forwards a call after some (you guessed it) conditions are met - i.e. Busy, or no answer. You can read more about CONDITIONAL call forwarding here: http://bit.ly/9KvT2L
On the other hand, UNCONDITIONAL call forwarding takes all calls to your sprint number, and forwards them ALL to a different number without ever ringing your cell phone. This is not typically an option that anyone would want to use, and Sprint still charges 20 cents/minute for every call that uses this. Read more here: http://bit.ly/apyfAs
Accessing Google Voice from your Hero
Now on your CDMA Hero, you’re definitely going to want to download the Google Voice app from the Market. This will currently do two functions.
1. Allow you to see and play all of your voicemail.
2. Route your outgoing calls back through Google Voice, if you want to. (This makes more sense, I think, if you’re giving out your Google Voice number to people, because then your calls will be all forwarded through GV, both incoming and outgoing. I don’t give out my GV number, so I have mine set to only make outgoing calls through GV for international calls.)
Another option is to call Google Voice from your cell phone, just like the old days with Sprint Voicemail. Be sure to go Settings > Call Settings > Voicemail and then type in your GV number. Then when you hold 1 from the dial pad, you’ll call GV and be able to access it that way too.
Yet another option is to just visit the Google Voice Mobile Page in the browser.
Notification Options
With a fresh setup of Google Voice Voicemail, you’ll probably quickly notice that you’ll bombarded with email and SMS notifications about a new message. You can turn these off, and if you’re using the Android app, you’ll probably want to. On the Google Voice site, visit Settings > Voicemail & SMS > Voicemail Notifications to turn these on or off.
I have one question about using GV. I have free mobile to mobile calling. When someone calls my GV number, which is then forwarded to my cell phone, is this still a mobile to mobile call, or will I be charged?
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I have one question about using GV. I have free mobile to mobile calling. When someone calls my GV number, which is then forwarded to my cell phone, is this still a mobile to mobile call, or will I be charged?
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I just did a reverse telephone lookup, and it lists my google voice number type as a landline. So, no, I don't believe it counts as a mobile number.
Edit: Just checked my Sprint bill. I've got Any Mobile, Anytime. It is charged as a land line.
(On a side note, we just switched to the free mobile to mobile a few months ago, damn I love it: "Your account used 9,346 minutes of Any Mobile, Anytime(sm) calling last month.")
According to GV surport forum. If somebody(cellphone) calls ur GV number and transfer to ur sprint number. It should be counted as Mobile to Mobile. However, if you called somebody else through ur GV number, it will be conted as you call a landline.
link is here.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice/thread?tid=75630cc990ea5c98&hl=en
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According to GV surport forum. If somebody(cellphone) calls ur GV number and transfer to ur sprint number. It should be counted as Mobile to Mobile. However, if you called somebody else through ur GV number, it will be conted as you call a landline.
link is here.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice/thread?tid=75630cc990ea5c98&hl=en
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Yupp, thats how it is, I have the bills to prove it. Also, for the person calling you it counts as a landline call for them, so if they are on Sprint it is not using mobile2mobile.
If there was a way to convince google to have gvoice lines as mobile lines it would be set....to bad...
Interestingly, the Voice app for Android doesn't do push notifications of new VMs. I get my email notifications long before the Voice app picks the VMs up. (I think it's set to check every 5 minutes?)
Any ideas on that one?
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Interestingly, the Voice app for Android doesn't do push notifications of new VMs. I get my email notifications long before the Voice app picks the VMs up. (I think it's set to check every 5 minutes?)
Any ideas on that one?
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I go to settings > refresh and notification > refresh inbox,, and there are options there for refresh rate. 5 minutes is the lowest setting. I heard somewhere that there is a 3rd party app that checks more frequently, but I haven't tried it. I wouldn't want to drain my battery with an interval shorter than 5 minutes. Maybe you'd be better off making a gmail label to sort the notifications if the delay is a problem.
I've just been setting GV to send me SMS notifications, and then when I have a VM, I just hit refresh, and look at it. I don't want it constantly refreshing because I hardly get VM's.
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Interestingly, the Voice app for Android doesn't do push notifications of new VMs. I get my email notifications long before the Voice app picks the VMs up. (I think it's set to check every 5 minutes?)
Any ideas on that one?
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That's the one thing that keeps me from becoming a heavy Google Voice user. I read on the Google support forums that they're working on push notifications but they said it was difficult and didn't have an ETA.
I don't know how it would be more difficult than Gmail.
Hey, thanks a lot for this guide! I've had "setting up google voicemail" on my to-do list for a while now, and your easy to understand guide motivated me to get it set up. Thanks a lot!
Just wanted to add a little something (feel free to put it in your guide if you want, to avoid questions in the forum later) for people who are on Cricket Wireless...
If you try to set this up for Cricket, the code you dial to activate Google Voicemail is slightly different.
For Cricket, dial *74xxxxxxx.
If you get an error after dialing it, something like "Cricket does not currently offer this service", then the problem isn't that Cricket doesn't offer it, but that your account does not have Call Forwarding enabled.
So, if you use Cricket and you get an error after dialing the code, go to your My Account on the Cricket Website and double check/add the Call Forwarding feature to your account. Once you do this, the code will work and GVoicemail can be activated.
Thanks again!
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Hey, thanks a lot for this guide! I've had "setting up google voicemail" on my to-do list for a while now, and your easy to understand guide motivated me to get it set up. Thanks a lot!
Just wanted to add a little something (feel free to put it in your guide if you want, to avoid questions in the forum later) for people who are on Cricket Wireless...
If you try to set this up for Cricket, the code you dial to activate Google Voicemail is slightly different.
For Cricket, dial *74xxxxxxx.
If you get an error after dialing it, something like "Cricket does not currently offer this service", then the problem isn't that Cricket doesn't offer it, but that your account does not have Call Forwarding enabled.
So, if you use Cricket and you get an error after dialing the code, go to your My Account on the Cricket Website and double check/add the Call Forwarding feature to your account. Once you do this, the code will work and GVoicemail can be activated.
Thanks again!
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Excellent, and thanks; I'm glad this is being helpful to some people. I will definitely add that to at least the PDF guide today after I finish some school work. I look at this guide as a work in progress, and I'd like to eventually make it a fairly comprehensive users-guide to GV.
My one comment is:
*28 on Sprint forwards BOTH busy line, and no answer. From reading the cricket site, it seems that you'd both need to do *73 and *74 codes, so that when you're busy, it also sends calls to GV. On sprint you can do this too, as it would be the same as doing *28. Actually when I first activated mine, I had to do it that way because the exchange I was using was having some problems with the *28. Basically *28 is just a shortcut (on sprint, not cricket) for forwarding both.
So I'll add this explanation to the guide too. (along with undo codes) I totally forgot I had that problem. But I'm pretty sure you want to also do *73.
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To the people with billing comments:
So basicially everyone is saying:
1) All GV calls out are charged as calls to a land line. (which I have experienced too)
2) All GV incoming calls are charged as if you were receiving the call directly. (i.e. [Mobile call -> GV -> your phone] is charged as mobile... OR ... [landline call -> GV -> your phone] is charged as landline]
Am I right here? If so, I'll add this in today, too.
what am i missing?
* I have google voice setup correctly
* I have the application from the market installed
* I am receiving notifications in the form of text, and through the notification bar in android.
What I cannot figure out is how to opened the darn program when i want to get back into google voice to look at the messages in the inbox. i can get in when a message icon is in the tray (i just click on it and google voice comes up), but later on when i think "what was that message again?" and I go to go back to the program I cannot find a way to get in.
* There is no program in the "all programs" page (accessed by the arrow)
* There is no widget (other than the one to change how i want google voice to make calls for me)
What am I missing? I cannot figure out how to get into the program.
I could go to the mobile site, but that just seems silly when i know that the program is on my phone. I just can't find an icon to access it.
Please tell me I'm blind, and missing something obvious.
-AndyS-
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* I have google voice setup correctly
* I have the application from the market installed
* I am receiving notifications in the form of text, and through the notification bar in android.
What I cannot figure out is how to opened the darn program when i want to get back into google voice to look at the messages in the inbox. i can get in when a message icon is in the tray (i just click on it and google voice comes up), but later on when i think "what was that message again?" and I go to go back to the program I cannot find a way to get in.
* There is no program in the "all programs" page (accessed by the arrow)
* There is no widget (other than the one to change how i want google voice to make calls for me)
What am I missing? I cannot figure out how to get into the program.
I could go to the mobile site, but that just seems silly when i know that the program is on my phone. I just can't find an icon to access it.
Please tell me I'm blind, and missing something obvious.
-AndyS-
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I can only guess that you're looking for an icon that says "Google Voice" when actually the icon just says "Voice"
yikes!
@thematrixkid17 - see, I asked for something obvious and you gave it to me
I'm really pretty embarrassed considering the time that I was trying to figure this out, and that it was in front of me the whole time.
Thanks for the quick reply.
-AndyS-
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According to GV surport forum. If somebody(cellphone) calls ur GV number and transfer to ur sprint number. It should be counted as Mobile to Mobile. However, if you called somebody else through ur GV number, it will be conted as you call a landline.
link is here.
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Sprint has a feature called "Sprint to Home" for $5 /month. If you add that to your plan ALL calls going to and from google voice are free. I use my phone ALL the time and only manage to rack up a 20-30 minutes a month .
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@thematrixkid17 - see, I asked for something obvious and you gave it to me
I'm really pretty embarrassed considering the time that I was trying to figure this out, and that it was in front of me the whole time.
Thanks for the quick reply.
-AndyS-
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No problem. I knew that was probably your problem, because I had to do a double-take the first time I installed it too. Voice sounds really generic and has a pretty generic looking icon, so its not hard to overlook. I should add a picture of the icon to my guide
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Sprint has a feature called "Sprint to Home" for $5 /month. If you add that to your plan ALL calls going to and from google voice are free. I use my phone ALL the time and only manage to rack up a 20-30 minutes a month .
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I've heard about that. So you use google voice to dial to everybody? Cause I have 300 mins/month(Family plan,1500mins, 5ppl), if next month I use more than 300 mins, I'll call sprint to add this service.
anyone happen to happen an invite
[email protected]
so could i use this as my primary voicemail with my sprint number or would i have use the gv one? which i would see no point in if you don't use the gv number? thanks to whoever can clear this up for me
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anyone happen to happen an invite
[email protected]
so could i use this as my primary voicemail with my sprint number or would i have use the gv one? which i would see no point in if you don't use the gv number? thanks to whoever can clear this up for me
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Yes, you can use it as primary voicemail, while still using your Sprint number. That's how I primarily use mine, since I'm on a 1500 minute 5 line family plan with free mobile to mobile any network, and we barely use 200 anytime minutes COMBINED. So it doesn't make sense for me to use GV for calls, when everyone already has my Sprint number. just follow the section in the guide "google voice as voicemail" or the setup instructions on GV.
What is nice about GV for voicemail is that you get visual voicemail via the GV android app, access to voicemail on your pc, its easy to archive messages, custom greetings for different groups of callers, and a bunch of other stuff. Voicemail transcription isn't great yet, but makes it nice to get an idea of what callers are saying if you can't listen (class, meeting, etc)
Invites are pretty sparse. I only ever got three, which I've used for my close friends, or i'd hand them out.
Again, i'll be updating the guide semi-daily based on questions in this thread
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I've heard about that. So you use google voice to dial to everybody? Cause I have 300 mins/month(Family plan,1500mins, 5ppl), if next month I use more than 300 mins, I'll call sprint to add this service.
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A lot of the family plans now have the free mobile to mobile any network, so if you mainly make mobile calls, you might take a look at that as an option too. (sorry if I keep bringing this up, but it did really do a killing on my plan; my sister used almost 9000 free minutes last month because of this)
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.
Hi, attached is version 1.2.42 of T-Mobile's Visual voicemail with no other changes, I pulled it out of TB. (Hopefully it is okay to post this)
Without the annoying popup ad for VM to Text and without the crash on boot!
I uninstalled the "new" version, reinstalled the old version.
Didn't crash on boot.
Tried syncing voicemails, and it caught a few from the last few days that the "new" version missed!
Will reboot a few more times to confirm the no more crashing on boot.
I gave up on visual voicemail, and sent to google voice...it works flawlessly...no reason to turn back for me.
Doesnt porting your number cost 20$?
I created a new number for google voice...you just enter that number into your g2x's voicemail settings...and nobody would ever know the difference...people are dialing YOUR cell phone number, and if you don't answer, it gets forwarded to your google voicemail box. And then you just create a contact named "Voicemail" with your google voice number, and that's it...you can even setup a quick dial code like longhold 1, and even a shortcut if you want...but there's hardly any need because google voice sends you texts of your messages (containing a transcript as well as a link to listen to it), as well as a notification with the same info.
So just put any number you want within reason?
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You dont need a new number to take advantage of Google voice for just voicemail purposes. Just download the app from the market and forward your phone during setup.
Google voice is free for your first number. $10 to change your existing Google voice number. Or $20 to port an existing number.
Cool thing is once you get a google voice number and the app... it gives you the option to choose which number to dial out from when placing calls. Sometimes i call my friends from my Google voice number and screw with them.
I also use my Google voice number for business uses but use the same phone.
Also if you plan to change carriers... you can port your existing number to Google and get a new number from the new carrier so you can still use the old for a while incase of emergencies and someone doesn't have your new one yet.
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Yes but T-Mobile only gives you 500 mins of forwarding using a third party number. After that they charge 40 cents a min
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dottelander said:
Yes but T-Mobile only gives you 500 mins of forwarding using a third party number. After that they charge 40 cents a min
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monthly? or aggregate?
I just read the terms of my t-mobile plan, and here's what it says regarding call-forwarding:
(B) Call forwarding - Minutes used when your T-Mobile number is set to forward calls to another phone number. For calls forwarded to another number, minutes are charged based on your plans minute allowance.
Since I have unlimited anytime minutes, I don't see anything that would indicate a charge of any kind. In fact, when I look at my usage details, the calls fowarded to my google voice number are showing up as either whenever, night, or weekend minutes, depending on whent he call came.
Maybe I should call customer service to clarify...but not sure it's worth the time, as I may get 5 different answers if I ask 5 different reps, lol.
yes as unlimited you don't have any charges. i found that out when i switched down to 3000 mins a month. Of course you don't hear about it till its too late, but on the upside the credited me the overage charges......and i went back to unlimited and saved money too
its monthly
I feel retarded but the only options its showing me is using my cell number or porting it, or creating a new number. They want to charge me on either one of those. I'll take more of a look in google, but just a quick run through i did on my acct with voice is that determination. Its not easy for me, or im retarded lol
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I created a new number for google voice...you just enter that number into your g2x's voicemail settings...and nobody would ever know the difference...people are dialing YOUR cell phone number, and if you don't answer, it gets forwarded to your google voicemail box. And then you just create a contact named "Voicemail" with your google voice number, and that's it...you can even setup a quick dial code like longhold 1, and even a shortcut if you want...but there's hardly any need because google voice sends you texts of your messages (containing a transcript as well as a link to listen to it), as well as a notification with the same info.
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Hey, Thanx for the tip! I gave up on the visual vm also but never replaced it with anything else. I already had a Google voice number and the instructions you provided in your post worked like a charm.
TMobile Visual Voicemail AMRs??
What directory are the TMobile Visual Voicemail AMR files stored in?
If you haven't tried YouMail, you should!
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...
You can use youmail
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