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Anyone get it working? I installed it but couldnt get it to provision Coming from my moment, i now HATE having to call my voicemail. That is so 2009.
Try YouMail or Google Voice. It is much better than the visual voice from sprint.
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i've been using "Better You Mail", i've had no issues with it and it works as expected..
Using HulloMail and it's working great. I couldn't take the Sprint/Google integration of Voice myself.
oubravs2b said:
Using HulloMail and it's working great. I couldn't take the Sprint/Google integration of Voice myself.
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Goolge integration kept stealing my text messages and not delivering them to me for hours. Goolge needs to fix this BS quick, because it sucks taint!
mantis92gsr said:
Goolge integration kept stealing my text messages and not delivering them to me for hours. Goolge needs to fix this BS quick, because it sucks taint!
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I didn't have that problem. The thing I hated was having to switch between Voice for SMS and regular Messaging app for MMS. I wouldn't mind the integration if Voice handled MMS as well.
I've found that using a third party VVM (HulloMail) app and uninstalling Voice is a great setup, IMO. I also tried Visual Voicemail Plus from the market, but I kept getting two messages for every one left for me. HulloMail is great. The only thing I really miss from Voice is having voice to text sent to me. A lot of the time I'm at a client site and can't listen to messages but can read them.
You have to skip integration when you set up Google Voice.
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I also would like a way of getting Sprint's VVM working.
I tried Google Voice for awhile and ending up having serious problems with it.
If there is a way to get Sprint's VVM working, thatd be great!
spoke to Sprint advanced level support today and there was nothing they could do for me.
The way VVM works is that a text message comes in from 9016 that the VVM app picks up and then it goes out to download the voicemail. Without that text message coming in, the app will not know to retrieve any messages.
When I loaded my first cynogen rom on my htc hero, my account wasn't provisioned correctly and they weren't sending the text message anymore. I had called into advance tech support and they reset my voicemail to make it work again.
Now, on my Nexus S, I have the app loaded and it even sent back a text message saying it provisioned correctly. I guess the problem is that sprint knows I have a nexus and because of that, my account is on a different "platform" now. That platform does not utilize the messaging system for VVM and thus the notification does not come to my phone letting the VVM app know there is a voicemail to retrieve.
jedwardmiller said:
Try YouMail or Google Voice. It is much better than the visual voice from sprint.
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s3v3nXDA said:
i've been using "Better You Mail", i've had no issues with it and it works as expected..
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Thanks for the tip about Youmail. I wish I heard of this earlier. This is by far the best replacement for Sprint VVM. I hate Google Voice where it always shows you your SMS messages.
I tried Better Youmail at first since it seemed to get better market reviews. It was driving my nuts how when you put the phone in airplane mode it keeps telling you how it can't connect and I couldn't find a way to turn that off.
So I tried the regular Youmail and that worked great so I don't get the "can't connect" messages, and I could easily find a way to turn of the additional text and email notifications. There's two versions of regular Youmail on the market. The one I like best is the Youmail EOL (end of life?). The interface is black and simple just like Sprint VVM which I love.
The only thing that isn't perfect it has ads and suggestions to sign up for message transcriptions every time you play your VM. Youmail Pro disables the ads but it's $20 per year, and who knows what it looks like.
Youmail wasn't as nice and reliable as I thought.
I gave Google Voice another try and it no longer shows new SMS messages. I just installed it from market and didn't do any special Sprint integration. Not quite sure what I did or why it was so easy to turn off the SMS integration this time, but I really like it now: SMS on the messaging app, and VVM via Google Voice only, no dual notifications, no SMS going to Google Voice.
Greefus said:
Youmail wasn't as nice and reliable as I thought.
I gave Google Voice another try and it no longer shows new SMS messages. I just installed it from market and didn't do any special Sprint integration. Not quite sure what I did or why it was so easy to turn off the SMS integration this time, but I really like it now: SMS on the messaging app, and VVM via Google Voice only, no dual notifications, no SMS going to Google Voice.
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Thanks for the tips. After an hour of screwing around with the 2 Nexuses (Nexi???) in my house, sending dummy texts and VM's back and forth, I finally got it straightened out.
For those starting from scratch on a new phone:
1) If you have a VM notification on your taskbar, log into sprint voicemail once the old fashioned way, or else the notification will never go away. once it does go away...
2) Install updates to google voice from market
3) Launch GV, skip the integration step (or else SMS will be hijacked), set all the minimalist (my term) options in GV... don't let it make calls, etc... ONLY use it for VM's (I had to call a special *28 number for config but it might be because my GV #is different from sprint#... although in the end that is transparent to people calling my sprint # which was my goal).
4) In GV settings in your phone, turn on taskbar notification, but turn off SMS notification. In GV settings on PC at google.com/voice, turn off SMS notification AND email notification... but leave on transcripts (my preference... this is one place where GV is superior to sprint VVM... getting transcripts is pretty damn cool!)
When all is said and done, it seems to be mostly equivalent to old Sprint VVM, actually slightly better with the addition of transcripts as said above. My SMS works 100% normal. I don't have a lot of real world use yet, but from my tests the GV for voicemails only seems like it will work great.
Curious if anybody has figured out how to get stock visual voicemail working on Nexus S 4G. I'm hoping so!!
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Curious if anybody has figured out how to get stock visual voicemail working on Nexus S 4G. I'm hoping so!!
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According to Sprint it is not possible to provision the Nexus S 4G to the Sprint Visual Voicemail system. Choices are GV and regular voicemail.
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Curious if anybody has figured out how to get stock visual voicemail working on Nexus S 4G. I'm hoping so!!
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By "stock," you actually mean "Sprint," which isn't really stock in the sense of Google stock or Android stock.
Give GV a chance, you will see it has everything the Sprint app had and more.
Oh, no, I actually like GV myself. The only problem is I'm having an issue missing phone calls with my NS4G, and I'm thinking GV might be to blame.
Here's my thread on that for more info: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16214057#post16214057
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Oh, no, I actually like GV myself. The only problem is I'm having an issue missing phone calls with my NS4G, and I'm thinking GV might be to blame.
Here's my thread on that for more info: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16214057#post16214057
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That sucks. Hasn't happened to me yet.
Ironically it DID happen from time to time on my old Moment, which DID use the Sprint VVM.
When using Sultan's CM11 (full-wipe install), the t-mobile visual voicemail app will crash some audio functions. If I try to play a voicemail, it will crackle for a second and then nothing. After that, I can't hear phone audio until a reboot (although games work fine).
any clues? Everything else seems to work, but this is one app I need. The youmail voicemail app didn't work for me either.
I installed hangouts dialer (not something I've previously used) and a message popped up telling me it couldn't work with the version of hangouts installed...as far as I know I have the latest version.....does anyone have voip calls working with hangouts and google voice? I'd like to setup calls but have not previously used this feature.
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I installed hangouts dialer (not something I've previously used) and a message popped up telling me it couldn't work with the version of hangouts installed...as far as I know I have the latest version.....does anyone have voip calls working with hangouts and google voice? I'd like to setup calls but have not previously used this feature.
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Did you actually check if you have the latest version of Hangouts? Pre-installed apps are rarely the current version. Open the Play store, go to Hangouts and check. If Update is an option. If so then hit the update button. Problem solved.
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I have been using Hangouts - for all my calls actually - domestic and international ( still haven't popped a SIM card yet in the phone ) - and it has been working flawlessly. I am a long time Google Voice user , and hangouts hasn't worked very well in my previous phone, so I am very happy in this department with the new phone.
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Did you actually check if you have the latest version of Hangouts? Pre-installed apps are rarely the current version. Open the Play store, go to Hangouts and check. If Update is an option. If so then hit the update button. Problem solved.
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Yeah I set the phone to auto update in google play settings and watched Hangouts and 7 other apps update so I know it's at latest version....now that I know it's working for others I'll recheck everything since it's not an app I've used till now.
I had the phone in airplane mode with wifi enabled. It should still work with that yes?
^^^Technically you don't need to turn off Mobile Data as long as you are connected to Wi-Fi, but yes, it should work as well.
I have been using Google Hangouts since it launched (and VoIP through GrooveIP/Talktaone/Vonage for ~2 years prior). My Hangouts w/ Nexus 4 experience was good overall, but Hangouts on the Idol 3 is amazing. I think most of it has to do with the bump up to LTE coverage leading to crisper calls and less potential for interference/lag.
As for your issue, I received the same prompt until I downloaded an update. You said that you already downloaded the update, so what I would suggest is to try opening the Hangouts Dialer instead of Hangouts to launch the app initially. The two apps are downloaded separately and need to both be launched before they sync capabilities IIRC.
One bone-head move I forgot was that I downloaded Google Voice but didn't launch it to adjust settings for International calls. For my Nexus 4, I had it set to prompt whether to route an international call through Google Voice. That way, even if I made an international call using Carrier Cell towers, it would deduct minutes but I would be charged using the Google Voice's low international rates. I forgot to set it up, and the call cost like $1.20 a minute. Dropped like $80 in an hour when my overall monthly plan costs $30/mo smh.
My experience with Hangouts with the Idol3 has been so much better than the Samsung Exhibit II that I am coming from . I am finally able to get away from GrooveIP ( which was working great though ) . I suspect it has something to do with the processing power that the Idol3 offers - compared to where I am coming from. I am using it on WiFi only.
Has anyones phone started getting very hot when using Hangouts DIaler?
Also, does the reversible feature work when on the phone, Can you flip it and talk into the other side?
Well after multiple attempts I finally got the hangouts dialer to work although the person on the other end complained everything they said "echo'd" and I tried it with both speakerphone and without. To answer your question I just tried dialing a call with the phone upside down and it did fine.
I have tried making domestic as well as international calls using Hangouts - and so far no one has complained about call quality, and I have not noticed any issues from my side either. I am assuming that you were making calls to a phone number, and not a hangouts-to-hangouts call ( because that is what you need the dialer for) . I have used both the supplied ear-buds, as well as without any headset of any kind. I know that without any headsets, there are chances of an echo problem. But I have not heard any complaints in either case.
BTW - No overheating for me.
And I have not tried the speakerphone - to see if there is an echo. Once I get a chance to try that, I will update if I hear any complaints.
Haven't had any heating issues personally. I did have someone mention echoes when on speakermode though. Only tried talking through Speakermode once though
No heat issues here. I, also, had someone mention a slight echo when I used the phone by itself, but that was just once.
However, is there any way to get the 6045I to acknowledge the Hangouts Dialer as the default dialer for phone calls. I thought it would ask me (once I installed it) if I wanted to use it as the default. I even tried setting it with Default App by AndUtil and it doesn't recognize the Hangouts Dialer.
Is there any way to get the sprint voicemail app working on this phone, seeing as how its not a sprint phone?
I remember a couple years back when a few of us would install a new ROM, sometimes the ROM didn't have the voicemail app and when we would install the apk, we would get all kinds of weird coded sms messages instead of ( or with) a voicemail.
If it can be made to work, does anyone have the apk?
Also im using Google voice right now, but i hate it
Coming from a OP5T, using the Google Dialer with T-Mobile here in the US, my visual voice mail (VVM) worked as expected. However, on the OP6, I can not enable VVM. When I go to Settings -> Voicemail there is not option to turn VVM on/off as there is on my OP5T. Anyone else seeing this issue our know how to fix it? I can put SIM back in the OP5T and VVM will work on it....
I'm wondering if you're actually using the Google Dialer, because that's not what comes on the phone. I'm using the modded Google Dialer on T-Mobile and visual voicemail is working fine for me. I didn't have to change any settings other than change the default phone app to the modded Google Dialer.
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I'm wondering if you're actually using the Google Dialer, because that's not what comes on the phone. I'm using the modded Google Dialer on T-Mobile and visual voicemail is working fine for me. I didn't have to change any settings other than change the default phone app to the modded Google Dialer.
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I was using the Google Dialer from Magisk. Mind to point me to where you got your modded Google Dialer?
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I'm wondering if you're actually using the Google Dialer, because that's not what comes on the phone. I'm using the modded Google Dialer on T-Mobile and visual voicemail is working fine for me. I didn't have to change any settings other than change the default phone app to the modded Google Dialer.
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Can you check your settings on your Google Dialer? When I go to settings -> voicemail, I do not have an option to enable visual voicemail. see attached image.
My settings look like yours.
I'm not too familiar with VVM, but I assume you just mean the tab for voicemails with the play/pause/delete buttons for each voicemail? If so, that's working for me. If it's something more, then I'm not sure. My voicemail is empty right now so I can't show you what it looks like, but I had a few voicemails earlier and I deleted them from that tab. I can't send myself a test message until tomorrow when I have access to a second phone.
I just changed over to the Magisk version, since the modded version I had made the notification answer/decline buttons not work, so I wouldn't recommend it. But it can be found here.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-google-phone-v14-0-175904292-bubble-t3708218
I did notice that the voicemail tab wasn't there until I enabled phone permissions for Google Dialer app. But I'm guessing that's too obvious to be your problem.
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My settings look like yours.
I'm not too familiar with VVM, but I assume you just mean the tab for voicemails with the play/pause/delete buttons for each voicemail? If so, that's working for me. If it's something more, then I'm not sure. My voicemail is empty right now so I can't show you what it looks like, but I had a few voicemails earlier and I deleted them from that tab. I can't send myself a test message until tomorrow when I have access to a second phone.
I just changed over to the Magisk version, since the modded version I had made the notification answer/decline buttons not work, so I wouldn't recommend it. But it can be found here.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-google-phone-v14-0-175904292-bubble-t3708218
I did notice that the voicemail tab wasn't there until I enabled phone permissions for Google Dialer app. But I'm guessing that's too obvious to be your problem.
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Yeah, I am the one who originally made the Magisk version so it would work with OnePlus devices.... It's odd, my will not retrieve voicemails from T-Mobile but my OP5T would do just fine. For now, I just reverted to the google voice method and that is working. Odd.
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Yeah, I am the one who originally made the Magisk version so it would work with OnePlus devices.... It's odd, my will not retrieve voicemails from T-Mobile but my OP5T would do just fine. For now, I just reverted to the google voice method and that is working. Odd.
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So after testing today I'm leaving myself a few voicemails, neither the modded version of the dialer or the Magisk version seem to be showing the voicemails. I guess I might have seen them in the OnePlus dialer and that's where I deleted them. I can't be one hundred percent sure.
For now, I am just using the T-Mobile visual voicemail app.
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So after testing today I'm leaving myself a few voicemails, neither the modded version of the dialer or the Magisk version seem to be showing the voicemails. I guess I might have seen them in the OnePlus dialer and that's where I deleted them. I can't be one hundred percent sure.
For now, I am just using the T-Mobile visual voicemail app.
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Yeah, that is exactly what I see. It works on stock app, but not Google Dialer. I am using the Google Voice method, and it does the trick for now.
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Yeah, that is exactly what I see. It works on stock app, but not Google Dialer. I am using the Google Voice method, and it does the trick for now.
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What is the Google voice method?
Sorry, not to change subject, but the Magisk version of the Google Dialer support the Spam call detection? Figured I'd ask since both of you seem to be running that version.
I was using the modded Google dialer as well on my OP6 and had no Visual Voicemail option, only with the stock dialer do I have any VVM option.
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What is the Google voice method?
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel/how-to/force-activate-google-voicemail-pixel-xl-t3506745 details how to set it up. I have used this method for multiple years while on AT&T and it has always worked for me....
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Sorry, not to change subject, but the Magisk version of the Google Dialer support the Spam call detection? Figured I'd ask since both of you seem to be running that version.
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Yes, it does.
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel/how-to/force-activate-google-voicemail-pixel-xl-t3506745 details how to set it up. I have used this method for multiple years while on AT&T and it has always worked for me....
Yes, it does.
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Is that the same thing I am doing -- I have Verizon set to NOT send my missed calls to voicemail, but to forward it to my Google Voice number. Then my Google Voice is set to immediate Do Not Disturb and goes to voicemail.
I did that because Verizon's stupid free voicemail doesn't transcribe the whole thing and they make you pay to have more than 20 voicemails in queue.