Sorry if this has been addressed, I did search but no luck. Im extremely new to the droid world and even newer at getting it to do what I want
I have a rooted droid eris running cyan 7 GB. The phone is not activated.
Is there an app I can install that will allow my wife to send and recieve text msg's to cell phones only using wifi?
Also, wondered if there is a way to spoof the activation. Every time I reboot the phone it wants me to activate it. I had read you could start/stop the activation a few times and it will go away but when I try to activate I have no way to pull up a responsive number pad to enter "1". When the call is in progress and I pull up the number pad it is trying to dial a new call rather than working toward the active call.
Thanks in advance
I do know about texting via email but my kids have text msg only phones and just looking for a way for the wife to be able to text and receive the kids and I from the unactivated phone.
Why no replies, there have been lots of views? Have I put it in the wrong place? Should I post in a different form?
Wow, Im shocked!
All the info on this site and not a single response to my questions? :?
Not sure if Ive posted in the wrong place, asked unanswerable questions or broken some rule but figured Id get something with all the views the post has gotten.
Google talk or Google voice I believe will let u VIA WiFi
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If I use jf's mod'd firmware, will I still have myfaves functioning as it normally would. I need to continue routing my grand central calls through myfaves or my phone bill will be out of control.
Also, does anyone else have any similar methods for saving minutes.
I appologize in advance for this question not being entirely developmental in nature; feel free to threadlock me at any time(just let me get a yes or no on my question first please ;P)
You don't actually need MyFaves on your phone to use it. You can update and maintain the numbers online so no you shouldn't lose that ability. Also as long as you use a RC33 version than your phone will still have MyFaves installed.
fattywarbucks said:
If I use jf's mod'd firmware, will I still have myfaves functioning as it normally would. I need to continue routing my grand central calls through myfaves or my phone bill will be out of control.
Also, does anyone else have any similar methods for saving minutes.
I appologize in advance for this question not being entirely developmental in nature; feel free to threadlock me at any time(just let me get a yes or no on my question first please ;P)
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I have GC (sorry everyone... no invites) and use it as a Myfaves. You should never have to access your GC account through Myfaves because all of your calls should be INCOMING. Now if you want to place a call there is a GC app which includes a dialer so you can use that instead of the standard dialer. It works pretty much the same except after you hit the send key a message comes up that says "Waiting for GrandCentral to call" and then your GC number comes up as an incoming call. Answer it and then it connects you to the number you dialed. I also have my VM set though it. Settings>Call Settings>Voicemail and set your GC number from your contacts and your done!
The fw version is actually insignificant. I used this method BEFORE I rooted my phone and even used it on my Krzr K1 back in the day.
Kind of a long winded "yes or no" but I'm certain that this answers your question.
The name of the GC app mentioned above is G1 Central. Of course you need a GC account to use it. It would be nice if Google ever opened the service up. Nice complement to the phone.
Yeah, I use G1 central to dial out and have all my incomming calls come from my grand central number which is in my myfaves, so I don't use any minutes...ever. I just don't want to lose that when I root.
Thanks for the help.
does anyone have grand central invites i would like to give it a try
fattywarbucks said:
Yeah, I use G1 central to dial out and have all my incomming calls come from my grand central number which is in my myfaves, so I don't use any minutes...ever. I just don't want to lose that when I root.
Thanks for the help.
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Men... that's awesome! Free mobile minutes you have... Why didn't I think about that?? Phone proxy, lol
muttley06 said:
does anyone have grand central invites i would like to give it a try
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As far as I know the invites option has been removed. I tried looking for it last week to send some out but it's nowhere to be seen. Google acquired GC a couple years ago I think but as far as I know they haven't done anything with it. It's still technically in a beta stage. There has also been a couple of times that I tried dialing out from the G1 Cental app and it didn't go though. No explaination on why. I checked their site and it said that I needed to "renew credits" to continue. Something tells me that when (or if) Google pulls this off their back burner they will probably charge people for outgoing calls. So I try not to send many of my out going calls through it unless I'm really hurting on my minutes (I only have the 300 min myfaves plan). The best thing about it with the G1 Central app is that you actually have a visual voicemail and you never have to delete the vm messages either. Bad thing about that though is that you have to download the message as an mp3 file which gets stored onto your card and you listen to it like you would a regular media file. That is only if you want to use the visual voicemail feature though. But I love my GC because it saves me HUGE on the minutes and I would gladly pay for the service... but within reason.
Dimath said:
Men... that's awesome! Free mobile minutes you have... Why didn't I think about that?? Phone proxy, lol
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Rooting doesn't have anything to do with your Grand Central service.
Heck... you can use Grand Central through your home or office phone if you like.
Here's how it works:
You have your GC number: 555-123-4567
You have your home number: 555-321-9876
You have your office number: 555-111-2222
You give out your GC number to your friends/family or whoever and you set it up to forward to one (OR EVEN BOTH) of your other numbers.
IF they call your home or office then it goes through like regular.
Now I have my voicemail service for T-Mobile as my GC number.
So after 4 rings (or whatever) instead of it going to my VM it goes to my GC number and then gets sent right back to my phone. If I still don't answer then it goes to my GC voicemail.
GC also has a spam filter and a caller blocking feature as well which makes it nice to get rid of telemarkers. If you want to block someone they get a fake "The number you have dialed has been disconnected or is no longer in service..."
Great success! -Borat
Glad I snagged an invite way back when. Its been a life saver when G1 Central came out.
Hey guys i'm a noob to the Droid family.
I have the SGSII LTE on Rogers. i727R model.
I was wondering if there was a voicemail indicator on the phone.
Currently if someone leaves me a voicemail message i receive it in a text format.
And nowhere does it indicate i have a voicemail pending. To make matters worse i text message quite a bit and the most annoying part is that is looks like a regular text message received opposed to a VM text message.
Anyhow just wondering if i missed a setting or an app out there that can solve this problem.
Tanks in advance
Sandman,
I wish I had the answer to this one, I've got the same concern. My home and home office are half-way down a valley, and my phone occasionally loses signal completely. Inevitably, someone calls me when the phone has no signal, and I don't know until the SMS shows up.
That said, the SMS is always obvious, as it's full of (?), ..., and completely incoherent sections. For example:
"Hello Jordan it's peter-it's-shock(?) Cable calling. I got word that you-were(?) looking for i-p-addresses(?) I just received those. So I have fired over an email to Jordan not-your(?) email address. Anyway that you gave me i'm(?) hanging my head(?) mixing up a couple accounts. I think I'm not sure if you had a request for re reverse-point-church(?) one of those numbers. If you did please give us a call here XXXXXXXXXX and let us know which number yo..."
Shock cable?
reverse-point-church(?)
Anyway, if a anyone posts a solution, I'd be glad to hear it. Notifications is the one thing that this phone doesn't do as well as my old Blackberry did.
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Ok so I know I know I shouldn't have done it, but it's too late for that now, so please don't say don't I shouldn't have done this.
Someone took over my cell number with Google Voice and is texting and calling people about items on Craigslist. Then the poor people call me thinking I'm interested in their items. Arggg for both of us!!!
Ok so her's how it started:
I get a text from someone interested in buying my item
I text back and forth with them
They say, "I'll call you to set-up a pick-up time/location, when I call just press 01 and it will connect us"
I get a call and it's google voice, I press 01 and then it asks me to set-up my voicemail
Now I am getting calls from random people about their stuff they want to sell me...Arg!!
Went to google.com/voice and thought let me set-up an account before they get a hold of my number completely, but it was too late. I get the error "Account Creation" "There was an error with your request. Please try again"
I've never used Google Voice before today.
Tried it about a million times on, Android, FF, IE, and Chrome with the same result.
Anyone have a solution for this?
Thanks
How did they "take over" your number?
What carrier are you on?
You have never set up Google voice prior to this happening?
I am curious as I use Google voice entirely now despite Sprints vvm. I like the features and abilities I get with it.
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are you sure that someone isnt just emailing your number to people?
I'm on t-mobile.
They didn't take over my number completely, I'm getting calls and texts from people I know too, but also calls from people who say I called them about their items.
No I never had Google voice before.
Swyped from my P509 on Tmobile.
With Swype and Flash, why would anyone choose the iPhone?
Perhaps they setup google voice account based on your phone number. But since it is your phone number that is linked to this google voice account, you maybe able to gain control of it.
First try to find out the phone number that people are dialing when they call you. I don't meant the people you know, I am talking about the people who call you randomly and tell you that you called them about some craigslist add. This will be the google voice number that is linked to your cell number.
Now if you call this number, the system might recognize you as owner and let you access the account from your cell phone, listen to voicemails and change greetings.
You might need to setup a google voice account for yourself using your home phone number for example and try to reclaim your cell number.
Well it's been about a week with no more calls to my phone from people I don't know about stuff I'm not selling...I hope it resolved itself.
Swyped from my P509 on Tmobile.
With Swype and Flash, why would anyone choose the iPhone?
Would like to start off by saying thanks to all the developers that take their time to make us all happy. Now on to my question.....Is there or will there ever be a option on this stellar device that will allow MMS over WI-FI or even the opportunity to have simple WIFI calling? I did a search for this, but couldn't come up with a definitive answer. Any input would be better than none.
Thanks in advance
You can call over wifi with "wifi-talkie"
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dormankenneth said:
Would like to start off by saying thanks to all the developers that take their time to make us all happy. Now on to my question.....Is there or will there ever be a option on this stellar device that will allow MMS over WI-FI or even the opportunity to have simple WIFI calling? I did a search for this, but couldn't come up with a definitive answer. Any input would be better than none.
Thanks in advance
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I searched all over recently for the exact same thing, except I wanted on where I could keep my current number. I didn't have any luck. There are options like mighty text and desksms that let you send texts through your browser but its still using your carriers service. You could use text+ or other similar options to text over wifi for free but you won't have the same number.
Basically, unless you have imessage (obviously not) or you setup a google voice account and change your main number over to that, or if you're lucky enough to be on verizon which has google talk capabilities, you're lost. And just do a search for voice calls over wifi, there are tons of ways.
Nick_123 said:
You can call over wifi with "wifi-talkie"
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That is great and all but my main concern is that NONE of my MMS go out nor come in, so I am fishing here for a solution as there was on the SGS2 where you could flash a fix that would use the WIFI connection in order to send out the MMS instead of the NON existent Edge data connection. I am hoping this is making sense. I will look for the post for the SGS2 and update with what I am talking about.
Sorry for any confusion
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I searched all over recently for the exact same thing, except I wanted on where I could keep my current number. I didn't have any luck. There are options like mighty text and desksms that let you send texts through your browser but its still using your carriers service. You could use text+ or other similar options to text over wifi for free but you won't have the same number.
Basically, unless you have imessage (obviously not) or you setup a google voice account and change your main number over to that, or if you're lucky enough to be on verizon which has google talk capabilities, you're lost. And just do a search for voice calls over wifi, there are tons of ways.
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I am able to send text messages because they use the simple GSM technology, but when it comes down to sending those pesky MMS (photo) messages, they WILL NOT go through. I have reset the APN a ton of different ways but nothing seems to work. That is why I am asking for some sort of development on MMS over wifi.
aHulab said:
I searched all over recently for the exact same thing, except I wanted on where I could keep my current number. I didn't have any luck. There are options like mighty text and desksms that let you send texts through your browser but its still using your carriers service. You could use text+ or other similar options to text over wifi for free but you won't have the same number.
Basically, unless you have imessage (obviously not) or you setup a google voice account and change your main number over to that, or if you're lucky enough to be on verizon which has google talk capabilities, you're lost. And just do a search for voice calls over wifi, there are tons of ways.
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If it is, why can I not see if someone has called or leave a message?
A cell phone is a phone with a sim card, this phone has a sim card slot (or 2), so it is...
I guess you are talking about voicemail, you can find that in the phone settings (just go in the phone app and press the 3 dots, you will find it there)
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So I have to dig to know if there are any messages?
vlt96 said:
A cell phone is a phone with a sim card, this phone has a sim card slot (or 2), so it is...
I guess you are talking about voicemail, you can find that in the phone settings (just go in the phone app and press the 3 dots, you will find it there)
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How do I know if someone has called (missed call) or left a message?
Do I have to guess and go into menu options every time just to find out?
How silly is that?
Emerogork said:
How do I know if someone has called (missed call) or left a message?
Do I have to guess and go into menu options every time just to find out?
How silly is that?
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When someone called and you didn't answer, you get a missed call notification... I don't know how voice mail works, never used it.
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You have never used voice mail?
vlt96 said:
When someone called and you didn't answer, you get a missed call notification... I don't know how voice mail works, never used it.
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No one has ever left a voice message on your phone? That is bizarre to say the least
Maybe I am just to old for all this or maybe we have come full circle. I recall when someone called either you were there to pick up or you never knew that someone called. Of course, you had to go to the phone to use it because the cord was just so long and phone numbers had 2 letters and 5 digits. (How about 1 digit zip codes?)
Ok, so you do get a note indicating that someone called. Maybe something is not set up in my phone but where/how do I see said indicator that I missed a call?
Emerogork said:
No one has ever left a voice message on your phone? That is bizarre to say the least
Maybe I am just to old for all this or maybe we have come full circle. I recall when someone called either you were there to pick up or you never knew that someone called. Of course, you had to go to the phone to use it because the cord was just so long and phone numbers had 2 letters and 5 digits. (How about 1 digit zip codes?)
Ok, so you do get a note indicating that someone called. Maybe something is not set up in my phone but where/how do I see said indicator that I missed a call?
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Slide your finger from the very top of your screen to the bottom and you will see the notification center, there should appear all the notifications including missed calls.
I should recommend watching an introductory video to android in youtube so you understand the basics. Also you should read carefully the guide included in the box of the device and take a tour in the Help app installed in your Moto G.
Also a friendly reminder that XDA is not a general help forum. It is a development and hacking forum. There are other forums that could be more helpful to beginners.