In a quest to make google voice (GV) just as good, or better, than sprint visual voicemail, do the following:
1.) setup call forwarding in GV so you keep the functionality of your sprint number and set up your greeting.
2.) under voicemail settings in GV, check send sms to your (sprint) number. uncheck send email. (by using the sms feature, you will get an 'instant' GV app notification on your phone. Otherwise, the shortest refresh interval for the GV app is 5 min, and it will take 5 min for GV app to notify you. By unchecking email setting in GV you will not get an additional notification via email on your phone if you sync to gMail like i do)
3.) download/install the GV app from the market. Set it up on your phone and choose a 60min refresh interval, just for good measure.
4.) Disable the default messaging notification, since you will use Handcent instead.
5.) Download/install Handcent.
6.) place a program shortcut to GV app on your homescreen, similar to the default Visual Voicemail shortcut
7.) call yourself from another phone and leave a voicemail. You will see that you get an SMS and a GV app notification.
8.) Finally, blacklist your GV number within Handcent.
You will now have near instant GV app notification of a voicemail. And there will be no redundant SMS or email notification of a voicemail. Go to your GV app shortcut just like you would Sprint Visual Voicemail.
Now you have 'Visual Voicemail', along with a not-so-accurate transcription service.
(btw, I'm using Damage ROM and notice no call forwarding delays)
Ah, hah! Blacklisting is a great idea! Thanks for the tip! Any idea why my Google Voice might not be playing my custom greeting? I've recorded it and set it to play both online and over the phone, but I am still getting the default greeting.
I don't get it. If you blacklist the text notification how are you getting notified? Tried this. Dont think it works. The only notification you will get is the one the the google voice app will give you while checking every 5 min and your wasting battery checking that often. Id rather just get the text notification and you have the option to call your voicemail number from that text to get your msg.
isn't there an app on the market that can give you visual voicemail?
fixxxer2008 said:
isn't there an app on the market that can give you visual voicemail?
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not if you wanna use GV or if your using a 2.1 rom.
jguy said:
I don't get it. If you blacklist the text notification how are you getting notified? Tried this. Dont think it works. The only notification you will get is the one the the google voice app will give you while checking every 5 min and your wasting battery checking that often. Id rather just get the text notification and you have the option to call your voicemail number from that text to get your msg.
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Did you turn on SMS setting on your GV account? With that on I can set my GV app refresh interval to 60MIN and still get an instant GV notification, while blacklisted .
How to Forward to GV
Guys and Gals if you call *28XXX-XXX-XXXX The X's being your GV number this will forward your calls to GV when not answered do this from the phone you want forwarded and by the way this does work kinda like it better than sprints version the text is kinda neat to or transcribing of the call.
fesstech said:
Did you turn on SMS setting on your GV account? With that on I can set my GV app refresh interval to 60MIN and still get an instant GV notification, while blacklisted .
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Didn't seem to work the first few times. It has worked when I tried again a few times. I loving it if it ends up being dependable. Thanks
jguy said:
I don't get it. If you blacklist the text notification how are you getting notified? Tried this. Dont think it works.
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I think the gvoice app watches your text messages and will "wake up" when you get one from your gvoice number. Make sure you are not using a task killer and if you are then put gvoice on the ignore list.
This will work nicely unless you do not care about the transcription feature.
so if the google voice app gets shut down by android for memory reasons you could end up with no instant notification?
Why would I want to download Handcent? its garbage...
jguy said:
I don't get it. If you blacklist the text notification how are you getting notified? Tried this. Dont think it works. The only notification you will get is the one the the google voice app will give you while checking every 5 min and your wasting battery checking that often. Id rather just get the text notification and you have the option to call your voicemail number from that text to get your msg.
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If you are using Handcent, you already have notifications turned off for the default messaging app. So you do get a text message there, but you never know about it. You also don't clog your Handcent inbox with voicemail texts. This is working great for me so far. Just make sure you properly setup your Google Voice first.
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Why would I want to download Handcent? its garbage...
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so you can blacklist the googlevoice number and won't recieve a notification about the text message but the gvoice app will still see a text came in and notify you.
He is just showing you a way so you don't get 2 notifications if you want to be notified immediately when you receive a voicemail.
centran said:
so you can blacklist the googlevoice number and won't recieve a notification about the text message but the gvoice app will still see a text came in and notify you.
He is just showing you a way so you don't get 2 notifications if you want to be notified immediately when you receive a voicemail.
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Oh gotcha. When I had text messaging on before I was always notified instantly when I had a voicemail...hmmm weird. I turned it off cause its annoying.
i like your idea, and finally want to see if GV is worth anything to me...
anyone want to invite me to try google voice so i can give this a whirl?
richardtessi <at> gmail <dot> com
i think that's the biggest problem with everyone's GV solutions is you assume we have Google voice... but until we finally want to try it for some reason, sign up and then as Google says "We will let you know as soon as we open up the service to more users." I'm not one to sign up for something i don't want to use or try so i cannot have already been waiting and gotten my GV invitation... now there might actually be a reason I'd want to try it but i'm stuck waiting
quite disappointing, but maybe someone still has an invite!
R
I just wanted to post this even though some people know about it already. But I was also on this quest to get quasi-native mms/voicemail on my Hero. The problem was the mms handling in the google voice app (v0.2 since im on 2.1) sucks. The only thing I liked was that when someone left me a voicemail i could listen to it right in the Google Voice app (sort of like VVM and I thought a lot faster.)
I turned off notifications in the HTC messenger and stuck with google voice while having all my voicemail's in a filter sent directly to my phone with a script I wrote running on my web server at home. It was pretty cool because I could be watching TV and get text messages and voicemail notifications pop up on XBMC, I would then look down at my phone and notice the filtered email just arrived with a link... all tagged with a filter called "voicemail". I won't go into this setup unless others want it, but this all led me directly to something even better.
gvmax.com. It was the answer to everything. Now, I don't have to worry about any text messaging service. I just use a chat client. All my texts and voicemails come through gtalk, and I don't have to wait 15 freaking minutes for the google voice app to check for new messages, or worry about dual messages in multiple programs.
gvmax routes them directly to my web server INSTANTLY so I still get the notifications while watching tv. I can actually see a teaser of the text message. voicemails go to gtalk with a tinyurl, voicemails also go to my email, mms comes in as a new chat, and I can reply to the person directly over gtalk. To be honest, there are times I am chatting with someone for a several minutes before I realize they think they are text messaging me. OHHH and it doesn't cut you off in size to 2 mms (320 characters) at a time. It is an UNBELIEVABLE setup, and you can route your mp3 voicemail downloads wherever you want. I am guessing you could put them in any folder on your SD (including vvm) and have it come up just about any program you like.
It works, I think, better than the gv app as you can still call people directly from gtalk. You can even email or @reply them on twitter and it will go right to their phone.
Anyway, I discovered that free service from someone on xda and figured I would bring it up again because I know a lot of people missed it. It may not seem like it at first, but routing your mms/voicemail over a php script (http-post) with gvmax has changed my life. Since I use a chat program for everything now, it really is sort of like the messaging on the pre or iphone.
Anyway, try it out if you have time. It is really easy to setup. I can tell you I haven't missed a call or voicemail since because every computer/tv/phone I have all receive the messages. So when I have my daughter wants to play a game on my phone and I am waiting on a text I just pick up my laptop and start chatting with it. Saves a lot of time arguing.
RTessi said:
i like your idea, and finally want to see if GV is worth anything to me...
anyone want to invite me to try google voice so i can give this a whirl?
richardtessi <at> gmail <dot> com
i think that's the biggest problem with everyone's GV solutions is you assume we have Google voice... but until we finally want to try it for some reason, sign up and then as Google says "We will let you know as soon as we open up the service to more users." I'm not one to sign up for something i don't want to use or try so i cannot have already been waiting and gotten my GV invitation... now there might actually be a reason I'd want to try it but i'm stuck waiting
quite disappointing, but maybe someone still has an invite!
R
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Sorry, I missed this post. You are right, I always forget that google voice is not open yet. Well I tell you what. Go put your name on the invite list. Hell, sign up a few email addresses. They usually come in a week or so.
Until then I think I have 3-4 invitations left. Keep in mind, gv users cannot invite you. we had to sign up our email addresses to get these just like you would. It is not like we get a gv account and then can invite 10 friends. So signing yourself up is probably just as quick as finding someone who has extra invites left. They are like $5 on ebay but like I said. It takes a week MAYBE two to get an invite.
I would send you an invite but i dont have any yet.
You dont need an invite if you want to use it for voicemail. As was discussed on one of the other Google Voice threads, all you have to do is download the app from the Market. You have a phone running on Google software, your invite is installing the app. After the that just follow the directions to set it up. I have never been invited to use GV, and I successfully use it everyday. And thanks to the OP's idea, I have it set up perfect now. Good idea on the blacklisting, I was using Handcent already anyways.
bought my invite on ebay, cost $1.30 and paid through paypal.
Didn't feel comfortable asking anyone here for an invite as I haven't been active (lurker) for too long.
bought the invite and setup GV in under 10 minutes this way.
no waiting for invites
if you're desperate for GV for the voicemail, I'd say this is the optimal way to go.
During the day I use a Google Talk client on my computer as I do a lot of communication using it throughout the day. The problem is, responding to a message on my computer does not clear the notification on my phone. Every time someone sends me a new message, I have to go around to every device I have Google Talk logged in and clear all the notifications. It's very annoying.
What I would like to see is similar to email, where reading the message on my computer clears the new mail notification on my phone, and vise versa.
Anyone else frustrated by this, and does anyone know of a Google Talk or Jabber client that has this functionality?
I'm an avid user of Google Talk (or Gtalk as they say) because of the snappy way it delivers messages to my friends over 3G rather than normal SMS messages.
The problem I've had with Gtalk though is that ever since the March version of Gapps from Cyanogen there seems to be a bug that keeps repeating old phrases i've already messaged.
For example:
I'll type, "Hi" to someone, and then directly after I start typing... problem is that "Hi" comes up in my dialogue box before whatever new thing I'm typing. So my message looks like this:
Me: Hi
Me: Hiwhats up?
And so forth, and it'll continue forever, unless I leave around a 3 second waiting period before entering more text. Anyone else have this problem? Fixes for this?
Thanks!
I get this as well
This has happened twice now. The first time I thought it was a fluke, now a second time in two days I am getting concerned. I am using Google Messenger for SMS/MMS. The problem is that somebody sends me a text message and I reply to their message. My reply goes to a completely different person and the original sender never receives my reply. These are not group messages, just a single SMS.
Anybody else having this issue? I will have to switch back to my Nexus 6 if this keeps happening.
Known bug. Use Hangouts for SMS until it's fixed.
I got a text from amazon that my packaged was shipped at it showed coming from my brother. I too am using messenger. I don't like hangouts...
Yep same here, it's broken. I would say use Textra for a similar feel to messenger. Hangouts is broken too, but in a different way. It will send photos sideways if you use the paper clip in a message thread. If you use the share function in gallery it will send it fine.
I have been using Google Messenger since it came out on two other devices and have never experienced this issue until using it on the S6. I have found if I clear the app data for Messenger messages show up from the correct sender temporarily. WTF?
I came here to post something similar. I set up my dad's S6 the other day, and today he told me that if he goes into the Contacts app, selects a contact, and hits the text icon, it picks the wrong contact to send to. I tried this on numerous contacts, and it happens on all of them. If he adds them manually to a message through the Messenger app, this doesn't happen. Bizarre bug. Any ideas?
Happened again yesterday. A coworker sent me a text and it showed up from a completely different person. Guess I have to back to hangouts for now ugh...
Recurring Problem
I highly doubt the problem will be fixed soon. This bug has been blatant in all Samsung products I have had since 2007; however, it happens somewhat seldom and slightly random and the only idea I have for reproduction is:
Receive a message from person A
Read message from person A
Receive message from person B.
Open message from person B while still in the thread with person A's SMS.
reply to person B.
Watch as person A reads your reply to person B and person B never gets anything.
I'm not sure if this always reproduces it, but when I saw this happen AGAIN with my new S6 I was instantly reminded of my past with Samsung products - even prior to Android.
Same Issue--- Almost 2018 Now
I use a fully updated LG RIsio (low grade phone I know), and and the latest version of FB Messenger app for SMS. Several times in the past few months I have constructed a text for a recipient, with the intended recipients name on display as a write, hit send, and suddenly the completed text is sent to a seemingly random contact in my phone, and the deed is done.
This is insane. How do I stop this. I am gripped with the fear of something incriminating going to a family member or a coworker or manager. Why am I not hearing more about this in 2017? Most of the posts on it are from 2010. Did it never get fixed? Did it come back?
Please advise. This is the kind of oversight that can potentially ruin lives and merit a class action lawsuit.