A while back I must have done something to switch my default voicemail password to my Google Voice number. I'm not able to set up GVoice to be my default mailbox, and more importantly, I'm not able to access the default AT&T mailbox, so I've got a pesky icon in my notification area, and the only number it has stored for VM is my Gvoice number, which doesn't receive any voicemail.
I need the default number that AT&T mailboxes use, so I can press and hold "1" and it won't dial Gvoice.
Your voicemail number is going to be different depending on where you live. It will more often have the same area code that you use etc. Of course you can always access your voicemail by calling your own number and then pressing the * or # key on your phone (cant remember which one, usually the * key). Then it will ask you to put in your information, password in the case. That is it, you have your voicemail. (doesnt everyone know this? At one point that was the only way you could even access your voicemails back in the day)
To get your VM number for the area you live in you need to call customer care. There isn't a default number to call. It uses your service area to provide the correct number. You should actually be able to reset your VM settings in the phones settings (in some cases) and this will put the default number back in place. Of course if you have been flashing your phone that might not be the case always.
I'm currently on the one of the Bamf preview roms and as such do not receive notifications for voice mails while the phone is on. I've read from a few people that they use google voice for as a way to deal with this issue. I set up a GV account but whenever I try to set my voicemail to google voice it says it's not allowed by my carrier or something like that. Has anyone else run into that problem or can someone who has set it up just walk me through what steps you took? TIA
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The setup in the google voice app doesn't work... it wont run "auto setup" for you. You can set it up manually.... instructions can be found by google... which I had to do when I setup my phone to use google voice for my voicemail. Hope this helps
DIRECTIONS:
1. Find your activation code in the list below.
2. Enter the first code exactly as written, as if you're dialing someone. Replace [GVnumber] with your GV phone number. For example, if your GV phone number is 203-555-1212, and your service is CellCom, then you would enter *682035551212.
3. Press "Send" or "Talk" or "Enter" on your phone to dial that number.
4. If multiple codes are given, repeat steps 2 & 3 for each code. THIS IS IMPORTANT.
5. After following the steps above, try calling your mobile phone from another phone and leave a voicemail. The message should appear in your GV inbox!
Wireless Carrier or Network ---> Activation Code
Verizon (CDMA network): *71[GVnumber] AND *90[GVnumber] AND *92[GVnumber]
Verizon (TDMA Network): *74[GVnumber] and *73[GVnumber]
capflya said:
The setup in the google voice app doesn't work... it wont run "auto setup" for you. You can set it up manually.... instructions can be found by google... which I had to do when I setup my phone to use google voice for my voicemail. Hope this helps
DIRECTIONS:
1. Find your activation code in the list below.
2. Enter the first code exactly as written, as if you're dialing someone. Replace [GVnumber] with your GV phone number. For example, if your GV phone number is 203-555-1212, and your service is CellCom, then you would enter *682035551212.
3. Press "Send" or "Talk" or "Enter" on your phone to dial that number.
4. If multiple codes are given, repeat steps 2 & 3 for each code. THIS IS IMPORTANT.
5. After following the steps above, try calling your mobile phone from another phone and leave a voicemail. The message should appear in your GV inbox!
Wireless Carrier or Network ---> Activation Code
Verizon (CDMA network): *71[GVnumber] AND *90[GVnumber] AND *92[GVnumber]
Verizon (TDMA Network): *74[GVnumber] and *73[GVnumber]
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Or you could just go to http://voice.google.com
sign in, go to settings, and dial that *68 number then it will text you or call you with an activation code. that's how i did it
Quick question, why not just go into Settings-->Call-->Voicemail Settings and change it there? Does that work? Right now it is set to *86 for me.
BigMcGuire said:
Quick question, why not just go into Settings-->Call-->Voicemail Settings and change it there? Does that work? Right now it is set to *86 for me.
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The "activation code" is really enabling "no answer transfer"- a feature on vzw's end that forwards your call to Google if you don't answer.
Changing it in settings will not accomplish this, your calls will still go to your old vm provider.
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Ok, I need help. I've tried both ways and nothing is working. When I try to call my voicemail from GV from my computer it says invalid number. And I tried using the first method and that didn't work. Now when someone gets my vm they hear "please enter the number you want to call followed by the # sign". What did I do wrong and how can I fix it???
Any 1 having trouble setting up Google voice for voice mail?? I've already deactivated and activated, uninstalled, factory reset, cleared cache . Don't tell me at&t has this locked up 2??
drawde40599 said:
Any 1 having trouble setting up Google voice for voice mail?? I've already deactivated and activated, uninstalled, factory reset, cleared cache . Don't tell me at&t has this locked up 2??
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This is what I had to do.
Enter the code, *004*1(your GV# w/ area code)#
- That will change your "Call Forwarding" settings
To get the phone to dial your GV go to the Voicemail settings, select "Google Voice", and then immediately press the "Home" button. When you go back to look it should have stayed GV.
live4nyy said:
This is what I had to do.
Enter the code, *004*1(your GV# w/ area code)#
- That will change your "Call Forwarding" settings
To get the phone to dial your GV go to the Voicemail settings, select "Google Voice", and then immediately press the "Home" button. When you go back to look it should have stayed GV.
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OK thanks, I'm gunna try
works
seems to be working fine with this fix.
did the trick for the voicemail, but the texts still don't work, and that's what i'm really after. trying to cut the $20 for the text package. any thoughts?
This worked for me. Text seems to be working also. Only mod on my phone is root.
live4nyy said:
This is what I had to do.
Enter the code, *004*1(your GV# w/ area code)#
- That will change your "Call Forwarding" settings
To get the phone to dial your GV go to the Voicemail settings, select "Google Voice", and then immediately press the "Home" button. When you go back to look it should have stayed GV.
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Still dialing ATT for voicemail after this trick. Calls go to google voice no problems, but I cannot get the voicemail number to change to google voice number. Do I have to restart phone? Any other tricks to try?
ck4794 said:
did the trick for the voicemail, but the texts still don't work, and that's what i'm really after. trying to cut the $20 for the text package. any thoughts?
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have you gone to voice.google.com and tried changing your text delivery settings there, under settings > voicemail & text?
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powerwagon said:
Still dialing ATT for voicemail after this trick. Calls go to google voice no problems, but I cannot get the voicemail number to change to google voice number. Do I have to restart phone? Any other tricks to try?
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have you gone to phone settings > call > voicemail > and made sure that the phone is actually saving Google Voice as your voicemail service and settings? mine would not actually save google voice in this field until after i had entered the call forwarding dial code mentioned above. took a few tries, but eventually i got it. also, try going though voice.google.com and making sure all your settings there match up with what you are trying to do.
fitchpuckman said:
have you gone to voice.google.com and tried changing your text delivery settings there, under settings > voicemail & text?
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have you gone to phone settings > call > voicemail > and made sure that the phone is actually saving Google Voice as your voicemail service and settings? mine would not actually save google voice in this field until after i had entered the call forwarding dial code mentioned above. took a few tries, but eventually i got it. also, try going though voice.google.com and making sure all your settings there match up with what you are trying to do.
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I finally got my voicemail to dial the Google voice number. I had to check off the stock voicemail button, then manually change the voicemail number (only way I could access that number) to my Gv number...then recheck the Google voice button and I was good to go. Thanks for your help!
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live4nyy said:
This is what I had to do.
Enter the code, *004*1(your GV# w/ area code)#
- That will change your "Call Forwarding" settings
To get the phone to dial your GV go to the Voicemail settings, select "Google Voice", and then immediately press the "Home" button. When you go back to look it should have stayed GV.
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I tried this trick and it worked, which is to say now it shows GV as my vm provider and any voice messages left for me are going to my GV inbox.
However, I just cant seem to get the notification working. Despite the boxes being checked in settings on my phone, it does not let me know when I have a new vm.
Any suggestions please?
Having the same problem. My google voice number is still linked as my main Sprint number though, so I wonder if that's part of the problem. Right now, I can get calls to my google voice number on the one x, but I get no sms or voicemail notifications. Really close to just sticking with Sprint and getting the EVO but I'd like to make this work if I can.
When I try to change settings on the phone, I get a lot of those "thinking" animations on the phone and it never actually accesses the settings. This is currently happening when I was trying to change my google voice voicemail number. It's supposed to be my google voice number, right? And should it be 1+ area code or just start with area code? By default, it was set to my at&t phone number so I am trying to change it.
powerwagon said:
I finally got my voicemail to dial the Google voice number. I had to check off the stock voicemail button, then manually change the voicemail number (only way I could access that number) to my Gv number...then recheck the Google voice button and I was good to go. Thanks for your help!
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no problem, glad you got it working! the sequencing of everything was weird, i think I just eventually got lucky and it worked
KT said:
I tried this trick and it worked, which is to say now it shows GV as my vm provider and any voice messages left for me are going to my GV inbox.
However, I just cant seem to get the notification working. Despite the boxes being checked in settings on my phone, it does not let me know when I have a new vm.
Any suggestions please?
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same problem here still. i've got everything setup and functioning, and I even get my email notification sent to my gmail account as i have setup via voice.google.com, but i still dont get the actual SMS or notifications from GV itself. I distinctly recall the notifications working immediately after setting it up because the first thing i did was test out how well the voice transcription worked, but they haven't worked at all in the past couple of weeks...hoping google and/or HTC are on this.
The default voice mail number that came with the phone is *86
To get to that setting hit the DIALER icon, settings, Voicemail, setup, voicemail number.
It allows me to change that to *86,password# and says it changed it but it doesn't. (password is my numeric voicemail password)
It is a MOTOG on Verizon 4.4.2 ROM and it is rooted.
Anyone experiencing this?
rampart51 said:
The default voice mail number that came with the phone is *86
To get to that setting hit the DIALER icon, settings, Voicemail, setup, voicemail number.
It allows me to change that to *86,password# and says it changed it but it doesn't. (password is my numeric voicemail password)
It is a MOTOG on Verizon 4.4.2 ROM and it is rooted.
Anyone experiencing this?
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I have the same problem on all the 5 Moto G phones with the Verizon rom. The change just will not stick. I find that strange that one can't make changes to the Voicemail number. Sort of idiotic from Verizon to block this feature.
and for people who are suggestion YouMail is fine but I still want to program the YouMail voice mail number into that slot.
Just want to make this fail save for first time smart phone users.
BuonaDomenica said:
I have the same problem on all the 5 Moto G phones with the Verizon rom. The change just will not stick. I find that strange that one can't make changes to the Voicemail number. Sort of idiotic from Verizon to block this feature.
and for people who are suggestion YouMail is fine but I still want to program the YouMail voice mail number into that slot.
Just want to make this fail save for first time smart phone users.
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Thanks....thought it was just me.
I use DIALER-ONE instead of the default dialer (which I hate). You can add a speed dial to your voicemail which works fine.
Ever since I've been using AOSP ROMs, I've never been able to change my Voicemail number. If I add a contact or dial *86 and add the pause, my voicemail pin and then #, my voicemail password will work, but no keypad numbers will work to navigate the voicemail menus.
Is there any workaround, besides manually entering my vm password every time? Perhaps modifying a system file or using an app?