I recently set up google voice and changed my call forwarding to my google voice number. It forwards to the correct number but only rings for about 2 seconds before it go to my voicemail. Any ideas on what is happening?
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I have recently been upgraded to Google Voice, and was wondering if there was a way I could basically "spoof" all outgoing caller IDs so it appeared as my Google Voice number. The reason for doing this is if I switch to Google Voice, my calls will still show as coming from my old number.
If this isnt possible, anyone have any other ways around this?
EDIT: I should note... I do have a PPC6800/HTC MOGUL, so I have access to all the EPST settings and whatnot.
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You can but you have to call your google voice number to initiate the outgoing call instead of dialing out directly.
So I had my phone set up to where the voicemail forwards to my Google Voice, and had it working the other day. Now when people call they get a message saying that the wireless number you called is not in service.
I've tried a couple tests and here's what i came up with.
1 - Dial my cell phone directly, phone rings 5 or 6 times then gets the wireless subscriber number not found message.
2 - Dial my cell, then slide to reject the call on the cell, get busy signal
3 - Dial my Google Voice number, which then rings my cell, I let the cell ring a few times, then it goes to Google Voicemail like it should.
I have the Captivate set up to use Google Voice as the voicemail provider, and I have my google voice number entered as the voicemail number.
Is there a common setting or issue that I missed, or do I have a real problem on my hands? My phone is rooted, but still efault ROM.
I had something similar happen to me when I switched from my iPhone. I think it has to do with the number of rings before google voice picks up. For some reason they set it to 25 seconds and that's not changeable; however, you can lengthen the number of rings before your voicemail carrier takes over. Try changing it to 30 seconds with the instructions below:
1. On your phone, dial *#61# and click Send.
2. Some information should be displayed: number that the calls are being forwarded to and the delay before the forwarding engages.
3. Write down the number (including +1)
4. Dial **61*+1xxxyyyzzzz*11*30# and hit Send. +1xxxyyyzzzz is your google voice number, 30 is the delay in seconds. The delay can be set in 5 second increments, 30 is maximum.
5. Dial *#61# to verify that the new settings are active.
This worked for me, although you do have to wait a ridiculously long number of rings before it forwards it to GV. Nothing we can do about that until Google lets us mess with their 25 second time limit.
I'm thinking a lot of people will hang up before letting it ring that long. Its sort of like that saying "A watch pot never boils".
So i downloaded google voice and tried to set up my voicemail, then changed my voicemail number. Whenever i tried to call the number it said the number was invalid...so i deleted google voice but never could get back into my voice mail. Any help is appreciated
you have to call at&t and get your voicemail retreival number. Just tell them somehow it got deleted.
On another note, I have google voice for my voicemail on my capitvate and it works great! I love it!!
Ahhhhhh! Someone please help me. My Google voice isn't acting right. I've used Google voice a lot for my voicemail only. That's what I always did, I never ran into issues. Now all my text messages, incoming calls are coming through Google voice. I don't understand. I just want to use it for my voice mail. Like usual. I even went on the Google voice settings web page. I can't figure out how to disable my text messages from coming through gvoice. Can anyone help me? Thanks
I could only see this happening if people were calling and texting your Google Voice number (you can find this in GV settings on your phone) instead of your actual phone number (the one given to you by your carrier). Google voice, I believe, is unable to intercept text messages not routed to your GV number.
tcheck8 said:
I could only see this happening if people were calling and texting your Google Voice number (you can find this in GV settings on your phone) instead of your actual phone number (the one given to you by your carrier). Google voice, I believe, is unable to intercept text messages not routed to your GV number.
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they were calling and texting my google voice number. Aren't you supposed to set your google voice number to your actual phone number?
I have GV installed on my N5. If I don't answer the call or decline it it sends people to my Tmobile VM instead of my GV VM. If I tell my phone to Forward unanswered calls to my GV number and I decline a call. The other persons phone rings until it puts them to GV, but on my side I have declined the call, then there is silence, then 1 second ring and then the call ends.
How can I get rid of the phone giving me a 2nd quick ring before shooting the person to GV VM?
knitler said:
I have GV installed on my N5. If I don't answer the call or decline it it sends people to my Tmobile VM instead of my GV VM. If I tell my phone to Forward unanswered calls to my GV number and I decline a call. The other persons phone rings until it puts them to GV, but on my side I have declined the call, then there is silence, then 1 second ring and then the call ends.
How can I get rid of the phone giving me a 2nd quick ring before shooting the person to GV VM?
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Hello,
This is my first post so I hope it helps with the first part of your problem you are having with Google Voice.
Follow these steps to have your mobile phone use Google Voice for voicemail instead of your carrier's voicemail. You can always go back to using your carrier's voicemail later if you want, by entering another code.
Enter the following exactly as written, as if you are dialing someone:
**004* "Your Google Voice Number" #
Press "Send" or "Call" on your phone to dial that number. When you see the confirmation message on your phone, you are done!