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.
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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 .
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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.
Send a text message to 9999. For the message, type "block" (no quotes) space, then the four digit number you recieve. (9016, etc.)
This also works for blocking people from texting you. Just put their TEN digit number where you put the original 4 numbers.
Dj21o said:
Send a text message to 9999. For the message, type "block" (no quotes) space, then the four digit number you recieve. (9016, etc.)
This also works for blocking people from texting you. Just put their TEN digit number where you put the original 4 numbers.
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I have tried this and while it does block the voicemail texts from being received by your phone it also blocks your voicemail application (if you installed it, from working) Presumably the voicemail app needs those texts to know to go download the voicemail. As a result with 9016 blocked I get zero notification of voicemails.
Still it's an extremely useful tip for blocking txts and perhaps a non-sprint voicemail app.
I cannot stand vvm, just because it messes with the text messages. And it is a pain in the ass to delete them one by one. I would rather call my voicemail, rather than get bombed by the voicemail app lol.
Dj21o said:
I cannot stand vvm, just because it messes with the text messages. And it is a pain in the ass to delete them one by one. I would rather call my voicemail, rather than get bombed by the voicemail app lol.
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So if you do this and don't use VVM do you simply get a notice to call your voicemail upon receiving one? Also, can it be reverted?
Dj21o said:
I cannot stand vvm, just because it messes with the text messages. And it is a pain in the ass to delete them one by one. I would rather call my voicemail, rather than get bombed by the voicemail app lol.
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There is a solution to automatically remove the SMS messages, so you can use visual voicemail with no compromises or annoyances
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=774172
Download super private conversation from the market and block that text 9016 takes care of problem works perfectly
I mean blacklist that text 9016
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Thats a good idea. But i blocked it and love it lol.
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Download super private conversation from the market and block that text 9016 takes care of problem works perfectly
I mean blacklist that text 9016
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Redlist is a much "lighter" application. I put the 9016 number in the blacklist and made sure Redlist notifications are turned off. That way I can use the stock messaging, instead of Handcent, or downloading spc.
Redlist's free version does exactly what you need it to do, just limits how many can be in your list.
I have received two very unusual texts that don't seem to make much sense to me.
//ANDROID:${from} has sent you a Sprint Voice Message. Call ${callbackno} to listen. CFGs1840.105f53c3ffe2cafd3961pAZFdYeN//CM
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Not entirely sure what this one is referring to. I don't use Sprint Voice mail because I use Google Voice. So my voice mail messages should be on that instead. I've never even bothered to set up the Sprint voice mail as I never have any intention of using it.
//ANDROIDrovisioning successful CFGv320c.0=07c5/tHGbo5//CM
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Not entirely sure what this one means. Googling it showed that it meant a text was successfully sent and for some reason my phone didn't filter out the message. I didn't send a text when I received this one though.
Both of these were sent from the phone number 9016. Looking it up this seems to be a Sprint number of some sort. I asked some other Sprint Android users if they got anything similar, and they had not. So is anyone else with a Nexus S 4G getting weird texts like this?
Sounds like sprint spam. That's weird that your phone is displaying code. I'd just ignore it.
I just received this today also. Messages exactly same as the OP and on the same phone and carrier ...
Not sure what it is all about either .. any detailed answers?
the message is how sprint handles visual voice mail. did you happen to have a phone before that had visual voice mail and never reset your voice mail settings when you got your nexus?
Joeykrim, big fan.
Try going to messaging app and do the following: send a text to 9999 and as the message type: Block 9016. You will get a text confirming blockage of that #
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drtdiver83 said:
the message is how sprint handles visual voice mail. did you happen to have a phone before that had visual voice mail and never reset your voice mail settings when you got your nexus?
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Had an Evo for 29 days, but I'm brand new to Sprint beyond that. I never set up any voicemail beyond Google Voice though.
Haven't had another instance of these texts yet though, so I'm just assuming a glitch on Sprint's side.
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multiple 9016 text messages.
I think i have found a fix for this annoying problem.
Ive found that it happens when u install some other text message app to handle your text messages instead of the stock messaging system.
I believe the 9016 messages are suppose to be hidden or silent messages and not actually get displayed, but when you set another program to handle all the messages, it doesnt know its not suppose to display it.
*So the FIX that i found that works is to,
tell the new text message program to Not Disable other message notifications. Meaning, remove the check mark associated with that option.
I've tried googling the problem to no avail. In the options of Google Voice I set it to receive text messages, but no matter how many I receive it won't show them--they keep going to my generic touch wiz app. How did you guys set it up?
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Kelton Rivas said:
I've tried googling the problem to no avail. In the options of Google Voice I set it to receive text messages, but no matter how many I receive it won't show them--they keep going to my generic touch wiz app. How did you guys set it up?
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It really depends on how you want to receive them. I use Google Voice exclusively and I have it configured to use the Google Voice app and not the stock SMS app. How do you want to receive them?
One thing to look at:
- Log into voice.google.com from a (desktop) browser. Look for the text on the left that says "Your number" and click on your phone number.
- You should see at least two items, the first being "Google Chat" and the second being your mobile number.
- Check the "Receive text messages on this phone" box if you want to receive your Google Voice text messages via the stock messaging app on the phone. I leave this un-checked though because I prefer to use the Google Voice app.
You should also be aware that Google Voice can only receive SMS messages. It does not work with MMS messages which are typically used for sending pictures and some group messages.
And finally make sure you have notifications turned on for your Google Voice app. Maybe you are receiving them but it just isn't letting you know.
This was very helpful, thanks! When I went to that page I saw the "Google chat" thing, along with my number (it was under registered phones). However, I couldn't check "receive text messages on this phone" because that option wasn't present. It also wanted $20 to port my number; is that something you paid? I have an access number that's different from my phone number, but I guess that doesn't help. What's next? Thanks in advance!
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I got pretty excited when I saw the Messages app and read that it would sync texts to tablets, so I figured I'd give it a try. After 5 tries, it hasn't worked yet. Each time, it says "AT&T Messages setup not complete." I tap "retry," I get a text that says "This is an automated message, please ignore. (some random gibberish)," and then a red text notification that says the setup is not complete.
Is this app even worth trying to make work? I used to use Mighty Text and that would send my texts to my HP Touchpad -- sometimes.
You're better off with mighty text I used that when I had a Nexus 7. Very cool to text from the tablet. Not sure why you had issues though. My only problem was I couldn't recieve or send mms or see emojis when txting with people with iphones.
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