hi, i was setting up google voice on my nexus s 4g and it asked me if i wanted to use my google voice number, or my phone number. i accidentally chose to replace my google voice number with my sprint phone number. now every time someone calls i cant answer it, and i am afraid that google is charging me each time i make a call, because my real phone number is now my google voice number. how can i fix this?
Login to Google voice from a pc and it should have the option to disassociate it. My number is converted to Google voice and it works fine. Also, there's no charges for Google voice unless you're making international calls.
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I just got the Blaze 4G and when I try to choose "Google Voice" in voicemail settings, it just shows my T-mobile voicemail phone # and that's it. On my other Android phones, I would click on Google Voice in voicemail settings and that would be it.
Please help. Thanks!
Pretty sure google voice does not work with tmobile. You have to port your number to gvoice in order to get the functionality you
No- It works with all of my other tmobile phones... this is just happening on the new samsung blaze 4g...
Yea its just weird put in your google voice number and it will work if you don't know it sign into your voice account and it will have it next to your name or in your settings
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Log in to google voice at google.com/voice, click the little tool icon on the right side, and if you hit the edit button, it will give you a string of characters very similar to this:
##004#612-555-1234## with the number being your number of course.
You punch that in the dialer and it will change your settings automatically. Much easier than setting it manually.
BTW, tmobile prepaid is really hard to get google voice to work, I'm sure it's doable, but I've read many people say it's not possible.
I just ported my service from ATT about 2 weeks ago, and it works just fine.
Cheers!
I just switched from Sprint to T-Mobile...using a Nexus 4. I got really accustomed to using Google Voice on my Sprint phone. I originally downloaded it for the visual voicemail feature, but what I ended up using it for the most was the text messaging ability. I loved texting from the Google Voice web app, the Chrome extension or the Google Voice app on my WiFi-only tablet.
When I got Google Voice all set up w/ my new T-Mobile phone, though, I realized that SMS functionality wasn't available, at least using my own phone number (as opposed to a new Google Voice number). I downloaded MightyText, which seemed like a good replacement until I realized that it only works if my phone is turned on. That's kind of a bummer, because I really want to be able to text when my phone is off, dead, etc.
Does anyone know of a good Google Voice replacement for T-Mobile, or a way to get SMS working w/ Google Voice on T-Mobile. My phone is rooted and running Cyanogen Mod 10.1. Thanks in advance!
Bump. Really missing Google Voice...
Not sure there is a an app like this. Google voice has always been hit or miss with different carriers, so you're probably out of luck. Hopefully someone might be able to help you out though.
I have used Google Voice for my voicemail since the G1 so I know how all of this works generally. On the Nexus 5 if I select google voice for voicemail it still goes to the tmobile voicemail. I've enabled visual voicemail through customer service, cleared cache/data on the google voice app and restated the app. Does anyone else use their normal T-Mobile number with google voice? I have done this like I said since the G1, even on verizon where they say it didn't work, it did, it would throw up a warning saying it wouldn't work, but it worked just fine. The nagging voicemails I get from robot calls and others are a huge nuisance and google voice always fixed that. I've found tons of posts related to other things similar to my problem, but not this one specifically. The best I can come up with is it's related to the new dialer in kit kat. I've searched my best on these forums so I apologize if it's already been solved, I just really want this to work and tmob, nor nexus support are of any help.
Log in to your Google voice account on a pc. Go to your settings. Deactivate your Google voice mail. Follow directions to dial on your phone. Then activate your Google voice mail. Follow directions to dial in your phone. Go to your call settings on your phone. Go to call forwarding and make sure the last 3 entries are set to your Google voice mail #.
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I noticed I hadn't gotten any Google Voice/Hangout notifications of voice mails. I reset my Google Voice (deactivated/reactivated) to no avail. However, once I deactivated Advanced Calling (Settings...Wireless and Networks), and reset Google Voice, it's working again. Anyone else experience similar/same?
Yeah, I did a search and saw others with Verizon phones and advanced calling that were having this issue. It looks like if you have advanced calling, you can't use google voice.
Don't know if there is any solution yet.
On edit, this link provides a possible fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-turbo/general/fix-google-voice-forwarding-advanced-t2980980
I've had no problems with Google Voice and Hangouts, both with VoLTE enabled and disabled, and on my S6 and G3. I don't use VoIP for calls via Hangouts though, it rings my actual cell number that I have set to forward to with Google Voice.
Working extremely perfect. No issues.
chris mackenzy said:
Working extremely perfect. No issues.
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Well, I must be doing something extremely wrong. I tried again, same result. I have to turn off HD calls, and then reset Google Voice. If anyone has more suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
I'm having no problems with Google voice but having said that I'm using mine on Cricket. Are you using Hangouts for your GV messages? I had nothing but problems getting notifications for GV on it so I switched back to the old GV app.
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I noticed I hadn't gotten any Google Voice/Hangout notifications of voice mails. I reset my Google Voice (deactivated/reactivated) to no avail. However, once I deactivated Advanced Calling (Settings...Wireless and Networks), and reset Google Voice, it's working again. Anyone else experience similar/same?
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i had the same issue and turning off Advanced calling seems to have fixed it as well. thanks!
alnova1 said:
I'm having no problems with Google voice but having said that I'm using mine on Cricket. Are you using Hangouts for your GV messages? I had nothing but problems getting notifications for GV on it so I switched back to the old GV app.
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Yeah, I'm using Hangouts now without issue. I did install Google Voice, because I think that's still required for everything to wire up right. I just turned off the HD calling all together. Not worth my while, at least for now.
So, I tried some of the fixes suggested on this forum and they haven't taken yet. Disabling HD Voice works but causes other problems I'll describe below. With HD Voice active, I tried uninstalling GVoice app and removing my number altogether, then adding it all back again as if for the first time. That did not work. I tried twice. All voicemail still gets routed into my Verizon voicemail.
Spent a good hour on the phone with Verizon customer support and elevated to L2 technician. TLDR: There appears to be a conflict based on how Verizon has chosen to employ the HD Voice function. Right now, I'm forced to either have Google Voice active on my mobile phone OR retain the ability to use data and voice at the same time, but I can't have both.
I just activated my Verizon 64GB Samsung Galaxy S6 two days ago. Today, I noticed I had a Verizon voicemail message for the first time in years. I have been using Google Voice(mail) for as long as I can remember. Concerned why voicemail was skipping my GVoice, I soon discovered that others had noted that turning off the HD Voice option fixed the problem. Sure enough, it did. I thought I was good to go.
Until, the next time I made a call, I noted that my 4G immediately turned into a greyed out 1x and any attempt to use other functions of my phone while on the call were met with a warning that said I can't make calls and use data services at the same time. That was news to me, since that has never been an issue before. Surely my GS6 is not less capable than the GS3 it just replaced in this area.
This took me to Verizon customer support, which to its credit, hung in with me the entire way in troubleshooting this. We confirmed the relationship between GVoice and their Advanced Calling service (HD Voice). And we confirmed that by turning the service back on, my ability to use data while on a call would be restored. We could not determine anything in Verizon's playbook that would allow the two to co-exist. The L2 engineer confirmed that Verizon designed its build so that the only way Data and Voice could flow simultaneously is with HD Voice activated and selected. Verizon customer service was left to advise me to choose between GVoice or dual Voice/Data based on which was more important, and maybe Google will update Google Voice in the future to fix the problem. I found that last part somewhat funny, since I don't think this is Google's problem to fix since this appears to be a Verizon specific problem and I have never had a phone that hasn't worked perfectly with GVoice. Oh, and it's not like Google is pushing out patches to Voice with any intentionality either.
I joined the forums specifically to post this in the hope it helps someone else and sparks other ideas how to beat this. This appears to be a recently discovered phenomenon. Also, since the GS6 is still relatively new, maybe this will help to raise awareness and provoke a patch. Who knows.
Anyone encounter other ideas for getting Voice to regain prime position again?
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So, I tried some of the fixes suggested on this forum and they haven't taken yet. Disabling HD Voice works but causes other problems I'll describe below. With HD Voice active, I tried uninstalling GVoice app and removing my number altogether, then adding it all back again as if for the first time. That did not work. I tried twice. All voicemail still gets routed into my Verizon voicemail.
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Finally got this to work by ensuring to clear app data before uninstalling an making sure not to prematurely hang up on Google voice as it reinstated the call forwarding on my new mobile phone. With this fixed e now have a work-around for using Google voice while still maintaining advanced calling features.
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Finally got this to work by ensuring to clear app data before uninstalling an making sure not to prematurely hang up on Google voice as it reinstated the call forwarding on my new mobile phone. With this fixed e now have a work-around for using Google voice while still maintaining advanced calling features.
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I can confirm this process works. I turned on HD calling. In Application Management, I cleared cache and data on the Google Voice app, then uninstalled it. I then went to my computer and deactivated Google Voice mail. I then reinstalled Google Voice on my phone, and stepped through the configuration (Verizon doesn't support it directly, so you'll see that boogie-woogie - just take the defaults and move through it). I then went back to the PC and enabled Google Voice, and let the lady finish and hang up on me. Subsequent tests confirmed that I have Google Voice mail now, while HD calling is active.
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I can confirm this process works. I turned on HD calling. In Application Management, I cleared cache and data on the Google Voice app, then uninstalled it. I then went to my computer and deactivated Google Voice mail. I then reinstalled Google Voice on my phone, and stepped through the configuration (Verizon doesn't support it directly, so you'll see that boogie-woogie - just take the defaults and move through it). I then went back to the PC and enabled Google Voice, and let the lady finish and hang up on me. Subsequent tests confirmed that I have Google Voice mail now, while HD calling is active.
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I followed your steps exactly and from what I can tell everything is working properly on mine as well. THANK YOU!!
Fixed
I only have hangouts installed, I don't use the Google Voice app anymore. After I enabled advanced calling, apparently my VM forwarding also stopped.
All I had to do to fix it was re-enable the call fowarding options, and I'm back in business.
*71[Your Google Voice number]
*90[Your Google Voice number]
*92[Your Google Voice number]
The key to the whole thing is to let the call forwarding calls fully finish and hang up on you. If you hang up, they won't complete.
Didn't have to do anything on my S6 besides going through the prompts again and letting them finish. The whole uninstall/reinstall thing may be overkill.
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All I had to do to fix it was re-enable the call fowarding options, and I'm back in business.
*71[Your Google Voice number]
*90[Your Google Voice number]
*92[Your Google Voice number]
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Still not working....
Unfortunately I still can't get it working on my s6. It works if a person calls my "google voice" number. However, if they call my "verizon" phone number it just will not go to voicemail...it rings and rings. Call forwarding is on, i've done all the steps. Any one else having this problem?
Yeah same here at least visual voice mail is free now
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The key to the whole thing is to let the call forwarding calls fully finish and hang up on you. If you hang up, they won't complete.
Didn't have to do anything on my S6 besides going through the prompts again and letting them finish. The whole uninstall/reinstall thing may be overkill.
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I wonder why it worked so easily for you.
I've tried letting it hang up on me for all 3 numbers (*71, *90, *92), but it seems to refuse to work. I'll have to try the uninstall/reinstall stuff later and see if that triggers it for me.
Not working....
For those of us still having problems....I created a post on verizon's S6 community support site as well....
https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/858976
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For those of us still having problems....I created a post on verizon's S6 community support site as well....
https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/858976
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Hopefully Verizon will figure this out quickly.
Now I can't get google voice to work even with advanced calling disabled. I have it entirely set to off in settings, called all 3 numbers to setup the forward (and let them hangup on me), yet when I call my number, I get a Verizon message about needing to enter the phone number of the mailbox you're trying to leave a voicemail for...