Google Voice Help & Text Notification - AT&T LG G3

I cant seem to get my google voice to setup right on this phone. If anyone has successfully done this please let me know how you did it. Second problem is Im using the stock messaging app and every time I receive a text my phone screen turns on, is there a way to disable this feature?

UMGixxer said:
I cant seem to get my google voice to setup right on this phone. If anyone has successfully done this please let me know how you did it. Second problem is Im using the stock messaging app and every time I receive a text my phone screen turns on, is there a way to disable this feature?
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root, xposed, g3 tweaksbox. Under Message Tweaks section

No one using Google Voice for voicemail?

UMGixxer said:
No one using Google Voice for voicemail?
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I'm using GV. I had issues trying to get it to work at first. I tried a few things to get it working. First I just changed the section in call forwarding to my GV number. Seemed to work ok. But if I remember correctly To get it actually working I had to go to my google voice account on computer and go to settings. Then select deactivate google voice on this phone. It then gave me the code to type into my phone. Then I went back and hit activate my google voice number. Again it gave me the code to enter on my phone. After that I just went through install and setup for GV app on my phone.

The deactivating and the re-activating did the trick.

UMGixxer said:
The deactivating and the re-activating did the trick.
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Awesome! Glad you got it working.

Or, if you switched carriers (and opted for a new number) like me, you can just disable the old number. I forgot to deactivate the old number before shutting off service to the phone.

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I can't get any of them to work with the new plan which is a bummer cause I love visual voicemail. I can't get the my account app to recognize device. Hope they fix this soon!
Edit: You guys are right Google Voice is way better and transcribes the voice mails which is hella cool!
Try setting it up with WiFi off.
use the google voice voicemail its built in. its much better and it gives you a transcript of messages(it writes it out)
TMO visual voice mail works just fine for me...
zapote21 said:
TMO visual voice mail works just fine for me...
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Keeps telling me I need to upgrade my plan. Google voice will do though thanks for the tip guys!
Ryanmo5 said:
Keeps telling me I need to upgrade my plan. Google voice will do though thanks for the tip guys!
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Are you sure it is asking you to "upgrade" and no "setup"? I had to call TMo and have them 'flip the switch', so to speak, on VVM.
-bZj
down8 said:
Are you sure it is asking you to "upgrade" and no "setup"? I had to call TMo and have them 'flip the switch', so to speak, on VVM.
-bZj
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I'll try giving them a call, just wasn't sure if it was compatible with the plan out right now or not.
try this
o enable the visual voicemail on T-Mobile, you need to do the following:
* Download the app and install it
* Call T-Mobile
* The rep can't add it automatically via the account features list -- it will error out
* The rep has to first manually update your IMEI number (of which you need to read from the back of your box)
* Then the rep has to wait for that to update (took several minutes)
* Then the rep has to go back to the features list and then add visual voicemail manually
* Try changing your phone from Unknown Device to MyTouch 3G at my.t-mobile.com and add the Visual Voicemail under Services
* If your voicemail is still being delivered the traditional way wait until you receive a text from T-Mobile (about 24 hours) stating that your account change has been updated, it will then work via the application
Google Voice Not Working?
it was working fine before, but now i get the force quit error everytime. i restarted the phone but no luck. anyone else having this problem?
aad4321 said:
try reinstall mabye?
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Didn't work
Explain what you are doing when you get the FC.
Try going into settings manage apps filter select all and clear data for Google voice
bosewicht said:
Try going into settings manage apps filter select all and clear data for Google voice
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That fixed it!!!
question about Google Voice
I just set up google Voice.
How do Is top it from routing duplicate incoming texts to both my regular message app, and google Voice
Go into your default messaging service and access the settings in the menu. Disable notifications, and you should only get notifications from Voice.
Errr... not sure if this is exactly what you were asking. You are getting texts from your google voice number on your normal phone number?
mattyboy247 said:
Go into your default messaging service and access the settings in the menu. Disable notifications, and you should only get notifications from Voice.
Errr... not sure if this is exactly what you were asking. You are getting texts from your google voice number on your normal phone number?
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What's happening, is that all of my Google voice texts are also showing up in my regular message app. Because they're also beig sent to my regular mobile number
Sounds like something that is an issue with google voice. Probably should check the settings on that. Almost seems like there is a forwarding issue going on.
I figured it out here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice/thread?tid=7b1726bc8567ada0&hl=en
Good call. I was lost when i started trying it myself. Thanks for the link... fixed it for myself too
mattyboy247 said:
Good call. I was lost when i started trying it myself. Thanks for the link... fixed it for myself too
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Glad i could help.

Google Voice and CM6

I was trying to set up Google Voice on CM6 to check my voicemail, but when setting it up there was an error saying that my carrier didn't allow this, or something along those lines. How do I fix this?
Thanks.
Once you sign into Google voice, you can then go into call settings and set it. If you've never used Google voice, go on the web version and activate your phone.
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surfline22 said:
I was trying to set up Google Voice on CM6 to check my voicemail, but when setting it up there was an error saying that my carrier didn't allow this, or something along those lines. How do I fix this?
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If you're on Sprint it just says it can't automatically set it up, you have to do the last steps, but it tells you what to do.
Ok. I set it up on the web. Now when I try calling my phone, after a couple rings it says: "please try again" and doesn't go to any voicemail. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
surfline22 said:
Ok. I set it up on the web. Now when I try calling my phone, after a couple rings it says: "please try again" and doesn't go to any voicemail. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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dial *28 attached to your google voice number, which can be found in settings, call settings, voicemail number.
Tried that again. Still same thing. Doesn't go to voicemail.
surfline22 said:
Tried that again. Still same thing. Doesn't go to voicemail.
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Well, you could always just use sprint VVM! See my signature if you want to
i got the same message that sprint doesnt allow google voice to take place over sprint voice mail. i clicked ok and ignored it and its changed to google voice mail system anyway.
oohoy said:
i got the same message that sprint doesnt allow google voice to take place over sprint voice mail. i clicked ok and ignored it and its changed to google voice mail system anyway.
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Yeh, same here. But it doesn't go to voicemail when I call my phone.
its working fine for me on sprint i just had to do the *28 stuff
I remember when I set up my GV, the *28<number> did not work either. Came across another thread somewhere that suggested a different * number, I want to say it was something like *73 or *78? I did that, and GV works fine now, calls come in, then bounce over to GV after about 6-8 rings.
Another guy having a simmilar problem just requested a different google voice number, and did the usual setup. You could try that if your GV # isn't known to anyone anyway.
oohoy said:
i got the same message that sprint doesnt allow google voice to take place over sprint voice mail. i clicked ok and ignored it and its changed to google voice mail system anyway.
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I had this problem after the most recent update. I tried everything. Finally someone told me to go into the web page of Gvoice and go to voice settings...and change your number. I changed my number, and then reset everything up and now it works perfectly. Hope that helps!
EDIT: Woops. Didn't read the posts above mine. Sorry!

Google Voice Problem

anyone have trouble setting google voice as their primary voicemail?
when i download the app, and go through the initial setup, i sign in with my account, hit "next", select "do not use google voice to make any calls", hit "next", hit "configure", then i select the "google voice" option instead of "my carrier" - and i get an error message that says "call settings error: failed to retrieve and save current forwarding number settings. do you want to switch to the new provider anyway?"
i select "yes", and then i get another error message that says "call settings error: forwarding number change unsuccessful. please contact your carrier if your problem persists".
anyone else run into this issue? even if you haven't run into this issue, any suggestions for how to get around it? i only want to contact my carrier as a last resort, because i doubt at&t is going to know how/care to solve this issue.
any advice would be appreciated - i only want to use google voice for my voicemail! thanks in advance.
Was having the same problem and found this - worked fine - but needed to reboot:
"Go into the settings at voice.google.com and deactivate your phone and reactivate it. The deactivate step will give a code to enter in your phone...skip that. Next, click on activate this phone and it will give you a string to dial...something like *004*yourgooglevoicenumber#"
Just go online and make sure your phone is active, then enter that string *004*1...#
at what point during this process are you rebooting? i still can't get it to work...
keith3b said:
Was having the same problem and found this - worked fine - but needed to reboot:
"Go into the settings at voice.google.com and deactivate your phone and reactivate it. The deactivate step will give a code to enter in your phone...skip that. Next, click on activate this phone and it will give you a string to dial...something like *004*yourgooglevoicenumber#"
Just go online and make sure your phone is active, then enter that string *004*1...#
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The first time I did it it didn't work - after reinstalling going through setup, letting it fail, and then doing the steps, and then rebooting it worked perfectly. So yeah, thanks!
I got it to work but it changed my voice mail greeting. Can I not have the generic AT&T greeting while using google visual voice mail.
could somebody please post the EXACT steps, step by step, of how they got it to work? i.e., when you reboot, when you uninstall/reinstall google voice, whether you set it up through google voice settings or call settings in the general phone settings...
i've tried every permutation of every post on here, and i still can't get it to work for some reason.
edit: turns out that, even though it says there was a failure in the forwarding, it still works... when i call my phone, my google voice mailbox picks up - and when i leave a message, google voice gets that message and gives me an alert... strange. people actually got it to setup where they didn't receive an error? it works, but my voicemail settings in the phone's call settings doesn't say "google voice" - it still says "my carrier".
I don't think he's being clear in his post, I don't think there is way to get it to work through the GV app. Dialing the *004*+1#* changes your voice mail provider on the phone, but doesn't change the dialogue box in the phone options, it will still say "My carrier".
I used the *004* method and my phone forwards to GV and notifies of voicemail just as you described. That's how it should work =)
I pretty much followed his post. I visited the GV settings online, deactivated the phone using the codes they gave me, uninstalled the application. Reinstalled the app, then activated the phone on the site using the codes they gave me and rebooted my phone. To test it I called myself and it went straight to google voice, then upon launching the application it went to the inbox instead of the set up. This worked for me, and I don't think I'm missing any steps.
zonk7ate9 said:
I don't think he's being clear in his post, I don't think there is way to get it to work through the GV app. Dialing the *004*+1#* changes your voice mail provider on the phone, but doesn't change the dialogue box in the phone options, it will still say "My carrier".
I used the *004* method and my phone forwards to GV and notifies of voicemail just as you described. That's how it should work =)
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this is what i needed to hear all along.
i was waiting for the settings to take effect in the call settings (i.e., switch from "my carrier" to "google voice"), but this isn't going to happen on our phone.
however, even though this doesn't happen, google voice still becomes your primary voicemail.
thanks for making that clear!
Thanks for the tips after spending 25 minutes on the phone with the att rep who didn't help one bit this worked perfectly.
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Thanks for this!! Worked GREAT!
Sorry for not being clear - it still says my carrier - but works with GV... same thing on my phone.
I had the same issue as well.
Mine is now set to "Google Voice" under Voicemail Service. This is even after a reboot but GV voicemails were fine even when set as "My carrier". So not sure why it changed.
I just made sure under Settings -> Call -> Call forwarding that my GV number was set for
"Forward when busy"
"Forward when unanswered"
"Forward when unreachable"
When I select GV as Voicemail Service, it gave me the same error but it stayed. Strange. But GV has always worked for me no matter what it displayed. Long as it was set properly under the "Forward ..." options.
Thanks this was bugging me!
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Thanks this was bugging me!
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In case people didn't realize the Google Voice setup just sets up forwarding nothing else. Also forwarding is at the line level and not device. So if you take the SIM out and put it in an iphone or anything else it will continue going to Google Voice until you change it manually. Just FYI,
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Google Voice stopped working after updating to 4.0.4

when i am receiving a call it goes to my att voicemail instead of gvoice. when i try changing my call voicemail settings to google voice, i get an error that says. could not change could not change your call forward settings. failed to retreive and save current number forwarding settings.
When i bought my hox a few months ago, i had an issue getting google voice to work. after reading the thread on xda i managed to get it working. however, i just noticed that my google voice is no longer working, and i think it stopped working after my phone updated to 4.0.4 when i tried the same instructions that i used in the old xda thread. it didnt work.
edit: gvoice started working again. played with the settings for awhile, not sure what i did to make it work.
I've given up on gv because everytime I flash a rom it screws up gv and I got tired of having to jump through hoops to get it set up again. Sad because I really liked it.
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E.Cadro said:
I've given up on gv because everytime I flash a rom it screws up gv and I got tired of having to jump through hoops to get it set up again. Sad because I really liked it.
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I'm about to do the same.
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Google Voice still works fine even on 4.0.4, but you can't simply choose it in your phone's settings. Instead, after you download and install the app, open it, and go through the normal configuration. You'll choose to set Google Voice as the voicemail app, it'll reject it, etc. After it's done, you need to set call forwarding by dialing *004*1-area code-google voice number-#. Then hit call. It'll briefly flash an imei code message, and then say call forwarding successful.
For instance, if my google voice number was 321-456-7890, I would dial *004*13214567890#.
That's it. If you then look in your dialer settings, it's still not going to show google voice as your voicemail app, but it doesn't matter. It will function fine. You don't have to do anything else.
I'm somewhat of a flashoholic, and I do the exact same procedure every time I flash a new rom, and have never had a single problem with google voice, including on 4.0.4 based roms.
slippers67 said:
Google Voice still works fine even on 4.0.4, but you can't simply choose it in your phone's settings. Instead, after you download and install the app, open it, and go through the normal configuration. You'll choose to set Google Voice as the voicemail app, it'll reject it, etc. After it's done, you need to set call forwarding by dialing *004*1-area code-google voice number-#. Then hit call. It'll briefly flash an imei code message, and then say call forwarding successful.
For instance, if my google voice number was 321-456-7890, I would dial *004*13214567890#.
That's it. If you then look in your dialer settings, it's still not going to show google voice as your voicemail app, but it doesn't matter. It will function fine. You don't have to do anything else.
I'm somewhat of a flashoholic, and I do the exact same procedure every time I flash a new rom, and have never had a single problem with google voice, including on 4.0.4 based roms.
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I've only done all this once since getting this phone. Ive flashed many ROMs since. All I do when I get a new ROM setup is install voice, allow access, go to call -> settings and set Google voice as voicemail. It will "fail" but my voicemail always redirects to GV.
But excellent advice for those who haven't done this at all.
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There's another way to do this. It doesn't change the voicemail number but it does work.
1. Open settings
2. Go to "Call"
3. open "Call forwarding", it will say Reading settings... for a few seconds.
4. Change "Forward when busy", "Forward when unanswered", and "Forward when unreachable" to your OWN google voice number.
5. Ensure that "Always forward" is "Disabled"
6. Profit
That way you're forwarding to google voice even if the voicemail settings are not correct.
Cheers

[HOW TO] Get Google Voicemail working on CM10 ROMS (An Alternative to the AT&T VVM)

[HOW TO] Get Google Voicemail working on CM10 ROMS (An Alternative to the AT&T VVM)
Hi guys. So I cant get the AT&T's visual voicemail to work on the CM10 ROMs due to the way audio files are saved and played (still not sure).
I tried to set up Google Voice and when setting up the application after install, I STILL could not get the voicemail forwarding to the Google Voicemail to work.
HOWEVER! I finally got it to work... Thank you useless AT&T customer service.
The problem was that google voice app tries to set your voicemail on the phone app-->press phone settings--> voicemail.
HERE's THE FIX!
Go to phone app --> "press menu" --> "press phone settings" --> press call forwarding
NOW! In call fowarding settings change the numbers of the following to your google number (make sure to insert +1):
a) forward when busy
b) forward when unanswered
b) forward when unreachable
Thank is appreciated!
Last time I was on CM10 and AOKP, it was as simple as setting it up as changing the Voicemail settings.
zizuno said:
Last time I was on CM10 and AOKP, it was as simple as setting it up as changing the Voicemail settings.
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Yea, these settings are all weird.
but ill take a temp fix, haha :good:
Take it back works on 10/11/2012
tjsooley said:
Take it back works on 10/11/2012
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im confused. att vvm works? or google voice now work integrated without this setup?
jee'sgalaxy said:
HERE's THE FIX!
Go to phone app --> "press menu" --> "press phone settings" --> press call forwarding
NOW! In call fowarding settings change the numbers of the following to your google number (make sure to insert +1):
a) forward when busy
b) forward when unanswered
b) forward when unreachable
Thank is appreciated!
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This finally worked, however not the first time, I had to get a new google voice number and I DID NOT "activate google voicemail on this phone" in the settings. When I pressed the "activate google voicemail" I was getting error messages when I would try and test it.
This is working atleast for me after days of trying.
jee'sgalaxy said:
Hi guys. So I cant get the AT&T's visual voicemail to work on the CM10 ROMs due to the way audio files are saved and played (still not sure).
I tried to set up Google Voice and when setting up the application after install, I STILL could not get the voicemail forwarding to the Google Voicemail to work.
HOWEVER! I finally got it to work... Thank you useless AT&T customer service.
The problem was that google voice app tries to set your voicemail on the phone app-->press phone settings--> voicemail.
HERE's THE FIX!
Go to phone app --> "press menu" --> "press phone settings" --> press call forwarding
NOW! In call fowarding settings change the numbers of the following to your google number (make sure to insert +1):
a) forward when busy
b) forward when unanswered
b) forward when unreachable
Thank is appreciated!
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awesome, thanks
Got Visual Voicemail to work
Hi all, I actually had the SKY ICS rom installed and I backed up the app and data using rom toolbox and it worked.
Interesting, I'll check those settings.
However, I've never gotten the Google Voice app to set up voicemail correctly even on stock ROMs. The solution has been to leave it set to "carrier" and then follow the instructions on the Google Voice WEBSITE.
The instructions are carrier specific, so for AT&T:
Open the phone app.
Enter the following exactly as written, as if you are dialing someone:
*004*15559991234# (with "5559991234" being your GV number.)
Press "Send" or "Call" on your phone to dial that number. When you see the confirmation message on your phone, you are done!
This changes the forwarding settings on the Carrier's end.
AT&T VVM never worked on CM9 for me but on CM10, I've had zero problems even when everything else is FUBAR.
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LoSt180 said:
Interesting, I'll check those settings.
However, I've never gotten the Google Voice app to set up voicemail correctly even on stock ROMs. The solution has been to leave it set to "carrier" and then follow the instructions on the Google Voice WEBSITE.
The instructions are carrier specific, so for AT&T:
Open the phone app.
Enter the following exactly as written, as if you are dialing someone:
*004*15559991234# (with "5559991234" being your GV number.)
Press "Send" or "Call" on your phone to dial that number. When you see the confirmation message on your phone, you are done!
This changes the forwarding settings on the Carrier's end.
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I tried all the tricks google said and att said to do. this is the only way for me to have google voice as my voice mail.
I've noticed when setting up Google voice with its built-in setup, you have to switch the tick in voicemail settings to Google voice, then hit the back button til you get back to Google voice app, DO NOT press the configure button in voicemail settings, you must back up til the screen swaps back to Google voice, then it will automatically start the configuration process, and setup is complete. Let me know if this works for you (it took me a while to find it out, found it on some random thread somewhere)
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litshredder said:
I've noticed when setting up Google voice with its built-in setup, you have to switch the tick in voicemail settings to Google voice, then hit the back button til you get back to Google voice app, DO NOT press the configure button in voicemail settings, you must back up til the screen swaps back to Google voice, then it will automatically start the configuration process, and setup is complete. Let me know if this works for you (it took me a while to find it out, found it on some random thread somewhere)
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I tried this, but I kept getting error. The in app setup of the voice mail will not work unless you're really lucky. What my method does is that it changes the fowarding number in the SIM I believe. That's why now, if you flash new ROM on top of the previous, the fowarding number will still remain. I found my method to work every single time.
Thanks for your suggestion and input man!
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Thanks a lot man!
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jee'sgalaxy said:
HERE's THE FIX!
Thank is appreciated!
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And given.
FWIW:
OK this an ATT thread, but this fix works on T-Mobile as well. In fact, it should work on any CM10 phone, because all it's doing is setting the same things that Voice would be doing were it not wonky.
I'm pretty sure your carrier can manually set these numbers on their end, too. But as I just found out tonight, you'll have a hell of a time getting Tier 1 tech support to even understand the most basic premise involved. However, I have, in the last year, had TMO successfully set this number as the transfer/voicemail default.
Also, and correct me if I'm wrong, I thought there was a USSD code you could enter from the keypad that would set this transfer number, too.

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