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Google Voice

While everyone's stated that Google Voice for Honeycomb is in the works, I thought I'd try the *.apk hacked together here and it actually worked fine on the TF as well.
On a side note, obviously that'll only work for text messages as calls can't be made or received over data with Google Voice. Anybody ever use GrooVe IP? I'm curious if anybody has used it to do Google Voice over data (on their tablet or even on a phone, just curious how well it works / how the experience is). It sounds very interesting. The tablet could almost be used as a house/speaker phone, over our Google Voice line.

javroch said:
While everyone's stated that Google Voice for Honeycomb is in the works, I thought I'd try the *.apk hacked together here and it actually worked fine on the TF as well.
On a side note, obviously that'll only work for text messages as calls can't be made or received over data with Google Voice. Anybody ever use GrooVe IP? I'm curious if anybody has used it to do Google Voice over data (on their tablet or even on a phone, just curious how well it works / how the experience is). It sounds very interesting. The tablet could almost be used as a house/speaker phone, over our Google Voice line.
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I did a test call to myself from my TF with just Groove IP and it made the call. Couldn't test the quality because it was just me.
I also tested this on my wifi Galaxy Tab and it worked.
Edit: tried a real call on Galaxy tab w a BT headset and it didn't pick up the voice. It looks like others are having luck with it on the TF which is great.

I am going to try this on my Transformer.
Quick Question:
I am going to the Bahamas next week and am taking my Transformer. If I get this to work and have a Wifi connection down there, do you think I will be able to make calls with my GV or would I be charged a roaming fee?

This is awesome. I can send text messages from my TF now.
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heyeaglefn said:
I am going to try this on my Transformer.
Quick Question:
I am going to the Bahamas next week and am taking my Transformer. If I get this to work and have a Wifi connection down there, do you think I will be able to make calls with my GV or would I be charged a roaming fee?
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This should work fine, as the developer himself stated in a thread I was reading about it. I'll try and get a link. As long as you have internet, and a Google Voice account, GrooVe IP should work. Granted, I still haven't bought it, but I'm thinking about it.
Question: If you purchase an app and have two Android devices, it should work for both for the price of one right?

GrooveIP works fine on the Transformer. I just made a couple of calls over my Google Voice using it on the TF.
The only issue I've had with it is that the dialing screen is orientation locked to portrait which makes it look ridiculous (and makes it a bit hard to interact with) when you're in docked mode or otherwise using landscape orientation.

javroch said:
Question: If you purchase an app and have two Android devices, it should work for both for the price of one right?
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Works on any device you link your Google account to.
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Super Noob here
javroch said:
While everyone's stated that Google Voice for Honeycomb is in the works, I thought I'd try the *.apk hacked together here and it actually worked fine on the TF as well.
On a side note, obviously that'll only work for text messages as calls can't be made or received over data with Google Voice. Anybody ever use GrooVe IP? I'm curious if anybody has used it to do Google Voice over data (on their tablet or even on a phone, just curious how well it works / how the experience is). It sounds very interesting. The tablet could almost be used as a house/speaker phone, over our Google Voice line.
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I love google voice and appreciate the info. I have clicked on the .apk link and the transformer has downloaded it. Now how do I install?
Thanks!!

Eyedoctor2 said:
I love google voice and appreciate the info. I have clicked on the .apk link and the transformer has downloaded it. Now how do I install?
Thanks!!
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File manager.
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THX
Got it! Thanks!!

For texting on google voice, is there anyway for the texts to appear as they come in?
The only settings I can find, is for the application to refresh every XX minutes.

javroch said:
This should work fine, as the developer himself stated in a thread I was reading about it. I'll try and get a link. As long as you have internet, and a Google Voice account, GrooVe IP should work. Granted, I still haven't bought it, but I'm thinking about it.
Question: If you purchase an app and have two Android devices, it should work for both for the price of one right?
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Yes. The market is linked to your google account its not device specific.

gmcbay said:
GrooveIP works fine on the Transformer. I just made a couple of calls over my Google Voice using it on the TF.
The only issue I've had with it is that the dialing screen is orientation locked to portrait which makes it look ridiculous (and makes it a bit hard to interact with) when you're in docked mode or otherwise using landscape orientation.
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i must be missing a setting because all mine says is try again. gv has to be installed right? or does that even matter?

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mallman said:
i must be missing a setting because all mine says is try again. gv has to be installed right? or does that even matter?
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No you don't have to have voice installed. I had a hard time setting up my GrooVe IP and found that you must completely exit from the app and restart for the settings to take effect. My voice username is my email address and when typing it in for some reason the keyboard kept wanting to put an extra space in the address. After I corrected that and exited out I was fine.

imager01 said:
No you don't have to have voice installed. I had a hard time setting up my GrooVe IP and found that you must completely exit from the app and restart for the settings to take effect. My voice username is my email address and when typing it in for some reason the keyboard kept wanting to put an extra space in the address. After I corrected that and exited out I was fine.
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thanks for the advice but still a no go for me. I even tried it on my EVO and i always get "couldn't connect you call, please try again"
Maybe its my wifi. will try tomorrow on a different wifi

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mallman said:
thanks for the advice but still a no go for me. I even tried it on my EVO and i always get "couldn't connect you call, please try again"
Maybe its my wifi. will try tomorrow on a different wifi
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If you can't get it to go contact the developer...thats what I did when I had a problem. He's very helpful!
[email protected]

Thanks for this info..

imager01 said:
If you can't get it to go contact the developer...thats what I did when I had a problem. He's very helpful!
[email protected]
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And he was. Turns out I had to remove my old gizmo sip # from TV and now it works
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[Q] Google Talk

I bought my wife a TF for her birthday a couple weeks ago and she's been playing around with it. So far she's happy, but today she wanted to use Skype to make a video call to her mom.
Needless to say, we soon found out that Skype Video chat isn't supported, so I found what I thought was an alternative. Google Talk, which comes stock on the Transformer. She then told her mom to get Google talk on her PC so they could chat.
This is what happens. Whether we called her mom or her mom called us, we cant get the video to load. If her mom rings the TF, our video loads in the lower right corner, but then her mom's video only pops up for a second and then we get sent to the Chat screen.
But here's the rub...I loaded Talk on my laptop and I can video call back and forth between my laptop and the TF just fine - video and sound. Now granted, I have no idea how my MIL has her PC set up...but I do know that we tried Google Talk Video PC to PC and it worked without issue.
Has anybody else experienced this and is there a fix? I searched online and found several people having the same issue, but I also found people who say it works flawlessly...and whats the disconnect between my laptop and the TF versus my MIL's PC and the TF? Could it be simply that both my devices are in the same WiFi? Could it be because my MIL lives in California?
Any input is appreciated.

It work fine for me too even when my PC and tablet are on different wifi network so probably the way it's set up on your MIL's side.
Now instead of using the app on the PC
She can try to log into her Gmail account and initiate a call from there.
I don't use any PC app at all just straight from my Gmail account on the PC
to my tablet.

Nickovtyme said:
I bought my wife a TF for her birthday a couple weeks ago and she's been playing around with it. So far she's happy, but today she wanted to use Skype to make a video call to her mom.
Needless to say, we soon found out that Skype Video chat isn't supported, so I found what I thought was an alternative. Google Talk, which comes stock on the Transformer. She then told her mom to get Google talk on her PC so they could chat.
This is what happens. Whether we called her mom or her mom called us, we cant get the video to load. If her mom rings the TF, our video loads in the lower right corner, but then her mom's video only pops up for a second and then we get sent to the Chat screen.
But here's the rub...I loaded Talk on my laptop and I can video call back and forth between my laptop and the TF just fine - video and sound. Now granted, I have no idea how my MIL has her PC set up...but I do know that we tried Google Talk Video PC to PC and it worked without issue.
Has anybody else experienced this and is there a fix? I searched online and found several people having the same issue, but I also found people who say it works flawlessly...and whats the disconnect between my laptop and the TF versus my MIL's PC and the TF? Could it be simply that both my devices are in the same WiFi? Could it be because my MIL lives in California?
Any input is appreciated.
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I had a similar issues with my laptop. I had to go into settings on my google account and manually set the correct device for the web cam. It worked fine after that.
Good luck...

baseballfanz said:
It work fine for me too even when my PC and tablet are on different wifi network so probably the way it's set up on your MIL's side.
Now instead of using the app on the PC
She can try to log into her Gmail account and initiate a call from there.
I don't use any PC app at all just straight from my Gmail account on the PC
to my tablet.
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Yes that's what she was using, her gmail account. I'll double check with her to make sure.
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RojasTKD said:
I had a similar issues with my laptop. I had to go into settings on my google account and manually set the correct device for the web cam. It worked fine after that.
Good luck...
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I'll have her look at her google settings.
You married guys know what I'm up against... It is now my job to get this working for her.
Especially since I heard a half a dozen times today, "it should just work. "
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My sympathies to you - despite being one of these womenfolk, I do actually know what you're talking about. Every other day either me or my husband is trying to fix some sort of computer issue for my mother-in-law. God help us all if she actually realizes video chat is a thing.
That said, also slightly off topic, but despite preferring Gtalk personally, it would be really nice to see Skype working on this device since everyone under the sun seems to use it. I haven't had a problem so far with TF-to-TF vid chat, but I'll see if I can replicate your issue with one of the desktops later. You'll probably have it resolved by then though, I'd imagine
Good luck!

Nickovtyme said:
I'll have her look at her google settings.
You married guys know what I'm up against... It is now my job to get this working for her.
Especially since I heard a half a dozen times today, "it should just work. "
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To get there log into the gmail account, then:
1. Click in the gear icon on the far upper right.
2. Click mail settings.
3. Click in the chat tab
4. In the Voice & Video Chat area there is a camera drop down box to choose the hardware.
Also make sure she has installed the Video Chat plug-in:
1. Again from the gmail account click on her gmail e-mail ([email protected])
2. Click account settings
3. Click talk
4. Click install Video Chat plug-in
Hope one of those get things working for you.

I also tried it from my Desktop. My desktop (Vista 32 machine) had no issues. My laptop is a Win7 64. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. I wouldn't think so.
I'm almost positive that its something or some setting on her end not quite right.
Now to communicate it to her and make her understand cause its not like I can just hop in my car to go take a look at it.

I've got pretty much the exact same problem here! Calls from PC-PC work, but from TF-PC don't load at all. It's been like this for well over a month, and I have yet to figure out any solution.
Did you manage to get anything to work on your end?
EDIT: Found this link. Any news or solutions would probably be posted there first. As of 3 days ago Google was still working on a fix.

Hummm.... I can report that video chat does work with my TF and my Win7 64 Laptop. After going into the Google settings, as I mentioned above, and setting the correct web cam device, I have tired it several time with no issues.
My TF is up to date and running 3.2 by the way.
Of course I was on the same home network with both devices, so maybe being on different networks would yield different results.

Hey Nickovtyme, you think your MIL would want to try Yahoo Messenger?
I use it and it work good though resolution is not as good as GTalk.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1087769#

RojasTKD said:
Of course I was on the same home network with both devices, so maybe being on different networks would yield different results.
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That works fine for me when we're both on the same home network. If possible, try tether the TF via WiFi hotspot from your phone (if you have a data plan) - that will effectively put it on a different network - and try GTalk again with your computer to see if it still works.

carrige said:
That works fine for me when we're both on the same home network. If possible, try tether the TF via WiFi hotspot from your phone (if you have a data plan) - that will effectively put it on a different network - and try GTalk again with your computer to see if it still works.
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I will give it a shot.
---------- Post added at 03:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:50 PM ----------
Well, just gave it a go. Used my cell phone data connection with my TF and it worked. I first I thought it didn't, but then realized I had to open the lid so I could use the built in webcam (duh!).
But yeah, it works for me.

Skype problem

Since I installed Skype on my Note, it always is on speaker phone at the start of a call.
I don't know if anyone else has had that issue. I searched the forum and don't see it mentioned. I have tried reinstalling to no avail.
Any suggestions?
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Same happens to me. Guess it's skypes bug
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Install Moded version of Skype
Install a modded version of Skype from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1148708
There are settings to disable speakers after making a call. Also there are settings to enable Bluetooth to work with Skype.

anilhk said:
Install a modded version of Skype from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1148708
There are settings to disable speakers after making a call. Also there are settings to enable Bluetooth to work with Skype.
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Will not install on my stock Note. Does this require root?

same
I have the same problem here

I found that bug rather annoying too. I ended up using GrooveIP and my Google voice. I got GrooveIp for free in one of Amazon's give aways.
The current Skype app runs pretty well on the ICS roms. No speaker bug anyway. Skype works on Milka's, Stunner and I think I tried it on CM9 too. So I guess when the the official ICS comes out, Skype should be working.
For the past couple of weeks I've been forwarding my Sprint Calls to my Skype # and answering them on my Note running my unlimited ipad sim. It's a little quirky and I have to get use to the 1 second delay but it works.

wired issues!

I have couple of wired issues with my Samsung Galaxy S 3
SMS Notifications:
Sometimes, not always, only sometimes, I get an SMS but no notification is given. No statusbar notification and no sound/viberate notifications.
Nothing at all.
When open my SMS app, I can then see there is one unread message.
I even have reminder of unread messages which it remindes me of unread messages every 10mins., not even this notify me of these messages.
Does anyone have this issue?
Bluetooth headset:
Sometimes, when I start talking using my Jabra headset, all of sudden, there no more sound on it, then I need to press the button on the phone saying headset to switch back to phone and again press headset to switch again to headset, then it works.
Sometimes I have to switch between phone and headset once to get it to work, others, It happens every minute in a conversation so I need to switch between phone and headset everytime.
Anybody have such issues?

A bit more information about your setup would help us help you. Are you stock or running a ROM? How long has the text message thing been going on?
I bet the messaging problem is a network issue. It will probably go away in a day or less.
BTW wired means something uses a cable, opposite of wireless. Weird is synonymous with strange or bizarre.
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About the SMS part, go to message settings, and see if Notifications is on

mentose457 said:
A bit more information about your setup would help us help you. Are you stock or running a ROM? How long has the text message thing been going on?
I bet the messaging problem is a network issue. It will probably go away in a day or less.
BTW wired means something uses a cable, opposite of wireless. Weird is synonymous with strange or bizarre.
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hehe meant Weird, typing mistake, but this is not my problem right now
info:
I contacted my network and they could see that the phone failed to retrieve few messages, so they could see that the problem is with my phone.
Android version: 4.1.2
I am using the stock sms app.

djteotancolis said:
About the SMS part, go to message settings, and see if Notifications is on
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it is on and always has, otherwise I wouldn't get notifications at all!

shemeri said:
hehe meant Weird, typing mistake, but this is not my problem right now
info:
I contacted my network and they could see that the phone failed to retrieve few messages, so they could see that the problem is with my phone.
Android version: 4.1.2
I am using the stock sms app.
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If thats the case wait for a few days and then go to the store to get it checked out? You're rooted I take it?
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djteotancolis said:
If thats the case wait for a few days and then go to the store to get it checked out? You're rooted I take it?
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I guess i should.
But it is not rooted.
I am suspecting browsertexting app that does something. So I have now removed it and trying again.
But that for the SMS, not bluetooth problem.

shemeri said:
I guess i should.
But it is not rooted.
I am suspecting browsertexting app that does something. So I have now removed it and trying again.
But that for the SMS, not bluetooth problem.
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How are you on 4.1.2? Did you use the leaked rom?
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[Q] Recording phone calls.

Hi.
I tried many app on our phone but none seems to work fine.
Last time it was ACR (red/white icon) and had some issue like after 15-20 s. of answered call I could't hear the person on the other side.
Can anybody advice good apk and would be great if can record from line in (not microphone).

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/record-your-phone-calls-with-incall-recorder/
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mazak23 said:
Hi.
I tried many app on our phone but none seems to work fine.
Last time it was ACR (red/white icon) and had some issue like after 15-20 s. of answered call I could't hear the person on the other side.
Can anybody advice good apk and would be great if can record from line in (not microphone).
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demkantor said:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/record-your-phone-calls-with-incall-recorder/
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I made mistake, it was ICR not ACR, so with InCallRecording I have some issue like I said before.. anybody have similar?

Call recorder using line (for SGH-T699)
mazak23 said:
I made mistake, it was ICR not ACR, so with InCallRecording I have some issue like I said before.. anybody have similar?
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Any progress on this? I still can't find a single app that can record calls using any option within any app.

I'm using ACR now, so far is fine, but sometimes cannot record either of party voice, but over 90% of records are OK.

mazak23 said:
I'm using ACR now, so far is fine, but sometimes cannot record either of party voice, but over 90% of records are OK.
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What settings are you using? I can't seem to get it to record.

thapar said:
What settings are you using? I can't seem to get it to record.
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Look.
But unfortunately sometimes it not recording myself, I am trying to change some settings.

Working Call Recorder FOUND!
Call Recorder by Skvalex works 100% of the time for incoming and outgoing calls and uses the line (not the speaker) for recording. I have tried numerous call recording applications, but this is the only one that works for the Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G (SGH-T699). This will require root.
1) Install https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skvalex.callrecorder (costs $10, or test it first using the time-limited trial from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21317161)
2) In the application, click the Menu button, go to Settings > Recording > Device menu, select the Qualcomm MSM8960 chipset.
In the future, our phone's model may be put in this list for convenience, but choosing the chipset is anyway functionally equivalent.
3) Select CAF as the "Recording Method". (This option requires root)
4) Disable the "Delay before start recording" for Incoming and Outgoing calls.
4) Enjoy.