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Really no visual voice mail!

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.

MikeyMike01 said:
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.

eatjello said:
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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texting app using your cell phone number? for Kindle Fire

Is there an app that can text messages using my cell phone number for Amazon Kindle Fire?

If u have sprint and Google voice u can do it.
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Desk sms
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Desk sms doesn't really work that well bc it just gets sent to your email and what not.. I would personally recommend tablet talk. Just make sure both phone and tablet are on the same wifi, run the program and sync. I use it a lot when I'm away from my phone
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Google voice on everything.

Desksms works perfect. It will notify via google voice. This allows you to send and receive texts anywhere you have access to google voice as if it were sent from your phone.
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screwyluie said:
Desksms works perfect. It will notify via google voice. This allows you to send and receive texts anywhere you have access to google voice as if it were sent from your phone.
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I'm using desk SMS and it notifies with Google talk and it works well...

T_VASS said:
Desk sms doesn't really work that well bc it just gets sent to your email and what not.. I would personally recommend tablet talk. Just make sure both phone and tablet are on the same wifi, run the program and sync. I use it a lot when I'm away from my phone
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Desk sms notifies to gtalk as well, look under notification options to change it. Best tablet to text app imo
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Any other alternatives besides Tablet Talk and Desk SMS?

is there something in particular desksms doesn't do for you?
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It costs money.

Not in the Android Market??

mightytext new version might do the job
i've signed up for the mightytext web beta which supposedly works in any browser... current version works only on chrome extension, but their web version is in private beta. maybe u can ask the dev for invite?

It is in the market. And it cost what 5/year I think it was, to cover his server costs... hardly spend for a solid app that adds such versatility to your phone
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Desksms doesn't work. I don't see where to go with it. In fact, I don't think it can do any sms. Also google voice requires you to have the Kindle Fire to be able to hear your voice. That obviously do not work because the Fire doesn't have a mic.

I use it daily. It does work. And its the only solution I've seen for sending a text from another device that will appear to the recipient as though it came from your cell number which is what the original post specified.
You need google talk on your kindle and desksms on your phone. Set desksms to notify in google talk. You will then be able to send and receive texts in google talk. What its doing is forwarding and then sending from the phone. So your phone will need to be on and in service. This works for any device that has access to google talk
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Does anyone have any ideas regarding alternative applications (besides sms/texting) that require a phone number working on the Fire?
Someone said in a different thread that you could have Whatsapp working by doing a Titanium restore, but it received messages on the Fire or the phone at random.

I am using desksms and it works fine. I use mighty text from the market and it works very well on my laptop. Hopefully they develop it further for tablets.
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That's probably where I've gotten confused. I'm using an iphone 3g with no android app for this.

As an apple hater I cant help you, sorry
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Voicemail

What voicemail are you all using? Using better youmail and getting a high pitched noise and feedback. Annoying as hell. Not sure if its the rom or app. But the app worked on my other device.
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I got trap call to unmask private calls and it's comes with visual voice mail so no issue for me
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Google Voice master race here.
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I use hullomail and no

Hmm I just got a Samsung Galaxy S3 and I was wondering the same thing

Been using Google Voice for the last year and a half on my old phone. It's one of the first apps I installed on the GSIII and it works fine, however the text transcription is laughably poor.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Been using Google Voice for the last year and a half on my old phone. It's one of the first apps I installed on the GSIII and it works fine, however the text transcription is laughably poor.
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Thanks for the replies...tried google voice and it was happening there too...reverted to stock tw rom and it stopped...restored beans 11 and flashed trinity kernel and poof the sound is gone...I'll stick with google voice for now...thanks again.

has anyone figured out how to have the new VM show up in call history?

crupp said:
has anyone figured out how to have the new VM show up in call history?
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If you are using Google Voice, that's an option in AOSP ROMs. Not sure how well it works in TouchWiz.

the problem must be TW then. Have not tried an ASOP ROM

Random Sent Txts - T Mobile

Anyone else's phone sending out random text "Activate:dt=6" from their phone?
No idea why or what it means.
Thanks.
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Google, top results, suggests it's related to T-Mobile and visual voicemail. Do your research son!

Anyone able to find out how to stop this? Apparently T-Mobile Visual Voicemail app triggers this when it's enabled. I want to keep getting the visual voicemails but not have these texts keep getting sent from my phone.

No voicemail notification

Is there a fix for this? I don't use GV. Just the standard sprint vm service. I did notice that my phone/messaging service isn't running. (See pic) Back on my gnex i had the opposite issue and would clear and force stop it to get the vm icon to go away. Now i can't get it to notify me on my nexus 5. Any tips?
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You pretty much have to use GV if you want voicemail notifications on Sprint with this phone. There's really no way around it, unfortunately.

More reasons to head to tmobile
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not a fan of GV, simply due to sms ending up in both messaging and GV.
tried youmail and seems to work fine. i would prefer vanilla voicemail but youmail seems to be the least intrusive.

Should that service be running? Is that possibility why my notifications arent coming up?
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