Like many members here in the USA, I am on the $25 unlimited data plan that comes with 400 SMS messages. I plan on using my Google Voice account, to send the bulk of my SMS messages, sense it is free(cheaper then $40). My question, is there anyway to get your Google Voice SMS messages to show up under the "Messaging" app, as normal? Currently when you get the notification, Google Voice is opened when you click the notification.
I do get notifications, that a new message has arrived, and it auto checks every 5-minutes. Not sure if there is anyway to lower the time frame.
I do get asked if I would like to send the SMS via my normal number or my Google Voice number.
So the integration is already pretty good, but I did not know if there are some mods out there to make it even better, or if any others have some idea's.
there is a unofficial version of google voice in the market and it checks evry minute...but wen i had the official version my sms came thru my reg message inbox and in the google voice app inbox..i jus got the unofficial app cuz its better to me but i havnt sent a message out thru it yet since i got it..im gonna see if it comes to my reg message inbox wen i receive a txt...hope i made it clear wat i was tryin to say.
and yes it does come to the messaging app..i jus chk... but it still gives u a notification in the gv app also
Set Google Voice to e-mail your Gmail account upon an SMS. You'll get the e-mail notification much more quickly, as it's pushed. Not the best solution as you get 2 notifications for each text, but it sure beats getting a text late.
What i did was send all my txt msgs to gmail and disabled sms notifications and status bar notifications and auto refresh google voice app every15 minutes.
This way i dont have to be checking google voice app(since it's not push) and i can reply to sms directly from gmail
Yea I just completly disabled notifications in Google Voice. Then from Google Voice on the PC, I went to Settings>Voicemail & SMS, and chose to forward all SMS to my email.
Now I only should get one notification. The notification will open gmail ofcourse. But I prefer to reply via Google Voice, as the interface is a little better.
Here's what I did.
1. Go into settings on your computer (not phone) and click forward to e-mail.
2. Go to your gmail account, then settings, and allow IMAP forwarding
3. On your phone go to market and download k9 beta
4. Setup the app, directions are shown when you start up.
By doing this you will have instant push messaging through your e-mail. Whenever you receive a text message, it will be forwarded to your phone instantly via IMAP where you will be notified by K9. You can reply directly to the e-mail which will text the person back. The only reasons left to keep Google voice are for sending the first text (You start the conversation) and for calling other people.
P.S. I recommend turning off inbox notifications/checking for Google Voice so you wont waste your battery or get double notifications.
I hope that wasn't too confusing, I'm about to head home and I thought I'd leave this here for you .
EDIT: I am 100% for making a new app or even integrating Google Voice directly into the OS. I would specifically like to see a contact by contact option to call with the Google Voice number Always, Sometimes, or Never. That would be immensely helpful.
coolbho3000 said:
Set Google Voice to e-mail your Gmail account upon an SMS. You'll get the e-mail notification much more quickly, as it's pushed. Not the best solution as you get 2 notifications for each text, but it sure beats getting a text late.
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This is what i do and have found it to be the best option, as the email notifications are pretty much instantaneous.
Then i just delete the email thread when i'm done with the conversation.
I uninstalled the official Google Voice App, and gave "GV" a spin. I like the 1-minute notification option, which is much better then being notified via email. The shortcuts are very nice also (long hold empty space on a Home Screen). The options under GV Shortcut are "Directly call through GV| Directly SMS through GV| Open SMS conversations| Quickly compose a GV SMS| Open your GV voicemail| Open your GV call log. Open SMS conversations, is essentially the same as the "Messaging" app, so its a handy shortcut where you can read or choose a new contact to SMS. You also get the popup when you click on a contact, to use GV or normal messaging. I am not using this app for calls.
The only nag I have with the program, is that is rarely crashes. I also can not find a way to change the notification. Currently it just vibrates three times(along with the popup in the notification bar), so no sound. Overall a very handy program.
Edit: Even if anyone has the knowledge/know how, here is the source to the program.
http://evancharlton.com/projects/gv/source/
Personally I got quite annoyed with GV as it continually crashed on me. I have to say that e-mail with K9 forwarding is the best way to go about it.
Excuse my ignorance, but isn't K9 doing the same thing the official GMAIL app is doing? Doesn't it provide instant push?
I'm not entirely sure of the difference between the two. I believe I've read that the Gmail sync is not entirely push but rather a consistant querey to the server, but I am not sure to the validity of that. Personally, I like the layout and overall scheme of K9 in comparison to the Gmail app.
gv never crashes on me(knock on wood lol) i like this 1 better only bcuz u can make free calls thru gv if u only hav a data plan or if ur only usin the g1 thru wifi and dnt hav a min plan but hav a gv acct..u can call for free usin sipdroid-gv and gismo5 but it has to be the unofficial gv..jus a way to get around havin a minute plan thru tmobile..cuz u can call and txt for free thru gv..all u need is data plan or wifi
How do you get gizmo5 to work with this?
Could you outline the process you used to get free minutes?
yea if u hav a gizmo5 acct jus add a new number in the gv app and put ur sip# from gizmo5 as the new number and the calling method shud b set to "call back"..make sure ur signed in giz cuz it will ask u to verify the number..dwnload sipdroid frm the market,open it hit menu and enter acct settings, server: proxy01.sipphone.com, Port:5060, Protocol:UDP, u shud see a green dot wen connected and u shud b able to call thru 3g or wifi for free using ur gv number
Takenover83 said:
Like many members here in the USA, I am on the $25 unlimited data plan that comes with 400 SMS messages. I plan on using my Google Voice account, to send the bulk of my SMS messages, sense it is free(cheaper then $40). My question, is there anyway to get your Google Voice SMS messages to show up under the "Messaging" app, as normal? Currently when you get the notification, Google Voice is opened when you click the notification.
I do get notifications, that a new message has arrived, and it auto checks every 5-minutes. Not sure if there is anyway to lower the time frame.
I do get asked if I would like to send the SMS via my normal number or my Google Voice number.
So the integration is already pretty good, but I did not know if there are some mods out there to make it even better, or if any others have some idea's.
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While it doesn't help you any, running baksmali on the app reveals that it does push notifications under Eclair. Too bad it's not going to be any help for you or me for a while.
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While it doesn't help you any, running baksmali on the app reveals that it does push notifications under Eclair. Too bad it's not going to be any help for you or me for a while.
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Google Voice has push notifications under Eclair?
Sweet!
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While it doesn't help you any, running baksmali on the app reveals that it does push notifications under Eclair. Too bad it's not going to be any help for you or me for a while.
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Any chance you could elaborate on this a bit? Gmail push notificaqtions arrive over XMPP, I erote a basic client to test this. Are google voice notifications also being pused over the XMPP service now as well? If so it wouldn't be hard to tap into this. Of course if we all get eclair eventually, It might be a wasted effort but it still interest me.
-James
pReTTyUnG1 said:
yea if u hav a gizmo5 acct jus add a new number in the gv app and put ur sip# from gizmo5 as the new number and the calling method shud b set to "call back"..make sure ur signed in giz cuz it will ask u to verify the number..dwnload sipdroid frm the market,open it hit menu and enter acct settings, server: proxy01.sipphone.com, Port:5060, Protocol:UDP, u shud see a green dot wen connected and u shud b able to call thru 3g or wifi for free using ur gv number
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Alright, I see. Is there any way to get a Gizmo5 account still? If not, is there another service which does the same thing?
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While it doesn't help you any, running baksmali on the app reveals that it does push notifications under Eclair. Too bad it's not going to be any help for you or me for a while.
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This sounds interesting. Is there a different Google Voice for Enclair or something?
Stock Nexus 5 on T-Mobile.
Have somehow gotten into a situation where my SMS and MMS messages in Hangouts disappear from view (in Hangouts) if I log out of Google+/Hangouts. Log in - they appear - log out, they disappear.
Have even tried clearing all MMS and SMS, logging out of Google+/Hangouts, and then restoring the SMS/MMS messages. Nothing. No messages seen (in Hangouts). And then I log back in to Google+/Hangouts, and wham! they reappear.
Somehow, Hangouts has decided that all of my MMS/SMS messages belong in my Google+/Hangouts profile, and if I'm not in that profile, I don't need to see my SMS/MMS (in Hangouts).
[Third-party SMS/MMS apps remain OK, however the messages are messed up - wrong order, SMS show with a blank title line, etc]
What is going on, and how can I fix this?
You probably just have to close it and re-open it (if it's still set as the default SMS app), but the bigger question is...
Why do you keep logging out and back in to Google+/Hangouts?
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Stock Nexus 5 on T-Mobile.
Have somehow gotten into a situation where my SMS and MMS messages in Hangouts disappear from view (in Hangouts) if I log out of Google+/Hangouts. Log in - they appear - log out, they disappear.
Have even tried clearing all MMS and SMS, logging out of Google+/Hangouts, and then restoring the SMS/MMS messages. Nothing. No messages seen (in Hangouts). And then I log back in to Google+/Hangouts, and wham! they reappear.
Somehow, Hangouts has decided that all of my MMS/SMS messages belong in my Google+/Hangouts profile, and if I'm not in that profile, I don't need to see my SMS/MMS (in Hangouts).
[Third-party SMS/MMS apps remain OK, however the messages are messed up - wrong order, SMS show with a blank title line, etc]
What is going on, and how can I fix this?
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It is kind of a two part app. a standalone sms app and a sms/hangouts app at the same time. When you are logged into hangouts you are smsing in that part of the app. If you sign out you are not longer in the combined app. You are now in the stand alone version. If you don't use hangouts stay signed out. If you do use hangouts stay signed in. It is kind of "it is what it is" thing. It may change later but for now with this first release for integration that is how it acts.
BKPhil said:
Stock Nexus 5 on T-Mobile.
Have somehow gotten into a situation where my SMS and MMS messages in Hangouts disappear from view (in Hangouts) if I log out of Google+/Hangouts. Log in - they appear - log out, they disappear.
Have even tried clearing all MMS and SMS, logging out of Google+/Hangouts, and then restoring the SMS/MMS messages. Nothing. No messages seen (in Hangouts). And then I log back in to Google+/Hangouts, and wham! they reappear.
Somehow, Hangouts has decided that all of my MMS/SMS messages belong in my Google+/Hangouts profile, and if I'm not in that profile, I don't need to see my SMS/MMS (in Hangouts).
[Third-party SMS/MMS apps remain OK, however the messages are messed up - wrong order, SMS show with a blank title line, etc]
What is going on, and how can I fix this?
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hangouts is designed to stay logged in... but best way to fix it would be get a MSG app and use that for texts and then log in to hangouts when you want to use it.. Or stay logged into hangouts all the time
motcher41 said:
It is kind of a two part app. a standalone sms app and a sms/hangouts app at the same time. When you are logged into hangouts you are smsing in that part of the app. If you sign out you are not longer in the combined app. You are now in the stand alone version. If you don't use hangouts stay signed out. If you do use hangouts stay signed in. It is kind of "it is what it is" thing. It may change later but for now with this first release for integration that is how it acts.
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Would have understood if new messages I sent from Hangouts had ended up in the 'combined' app. But surprised that my old SMS messages from last week, month and year get hijacked into 'combined app' as soon as I activate SMS functionality within Hangouts, and won't show unless I'm logged in.
Is there anyway possible to change the default messaging and email apps to whatever one I want? (Speficially Gmail and Textra)
Gmail works fine (for receiving at least). I turned it off because my watch was vibrating too much. I use Google's messenger just fine too - voice response and all.
Sorry for taking so long to reply, and is there a way to compose new messages from Textra?
I recall being able to send messages through the messages app on the watch.
Just ignore the "please set messages to default app on phone" message that pops up every time you make a new message on the watch.
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lennyjew said:
I recall being able to send messages through the messages app on the watch.
Just ignore the "please set messages to default app on phone" message that pops up every time you make a new message on the watch.
Sent from my SM-N915V using Tapatalk
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Oh, but I can't see my participant's messages on the gear (only I see my messages) also, group messages isn't functional.
I would like to know this too. I use Aquamail on my phone for email and Next SMS (Handscent) for messaging. I don't really want to use the default email app or default messaging. Is there not a way to change it?
Hi, just bought a new ATT S7, running 6.01.
For years, i have run SMS Backup + to sync texts to my gmail account. Love it.
On my new S7, this app does not recognize/sync SMS texts sent from the phone. If i use Google now to dictate "send message to xxx saying yyy" ...that text composed that way gets sync'd. But one that is typed or dictated in the messaging app does NOT.
Sent SMS texts are NOT sync'd either using Exchange activesync. Recvd texts sync fine.
I also use MightyText and sent texts from the phone do not show up in the app. If i send a text from the MightyText web app, it usually will sync via SMS Backup +.
I have reached out to both vendors for assistance.
i have changed my keyboard from Samsung kybd to Google keyboard. no luck.
Anyone seeing anything like this?
I turned off "Advanced Messaging" and it seems to take longer to Send the SMS from the phone, and the message will intermittently sync with the various apps (Sms backup +, MightyText.) But not always.
make sure your apn info is correct for SMS / MMS
sabasigh said:
I turned off "Advanced Messaging" and it seems to take longer to Send the SMS from the phone, and the message will intermittently sync with the various apps (Sms backup +, MightyText.) But not always.
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Keeping ADV messaging disabled seems to do the trick.
So I am sure this been asked before and probably even here. I have looked all over and cannot find an answer. A few weeks ago, I started getting the popup in Hangouts that SMS is moving out of Hangouts and that I need to select a different app for SMS messaging. Google voice texting will still be available.
So here's the thing. I only use Google voice for my number. It is my main phone number. I send and receive texts only from this. If I follow the prompt, it makes me change to a different default text app and breaks my texting functionality. Once I change it, I cannot select Hangouts as my messaging app anymore. I can roll it back to an older version and it fixes it temporarily, but as soon as it updates, the giant obnoxious message comes back.
Surely I am not the only person with this. What are others doing. I have already submitted feedback to Google on this.
Thanks,
B