I have a question about Google Voice functionality when you have 2 phone numbers:
I'll be getting a company phone this week and am deciding whether to transfer my number and incur a termination fee or just use Google Voice until my contract expires.
I have been using Google Voice with the Sprint number integration and I have forgotten how exactly texts work with a Google Voice number.
I'd like to use my company phone as my only phone and not have to give out a new number to friends & family. I know I would still be able to receive calls and text to the old number on the new phone, but would I be able to send calls and texts from the old number on the new phone? Would I need to use the hangouts app to accomplish this? Or would the normal messaging app suffice?
What is the best place to ask this question?
Hi,
Since this question isn't device specific, more general software issue, you can ask for help here,
> Android Development and Hacking > Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
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Ok, I have dug and dug on this issue so I am turning to my fellow members to help me out a bit. On my wife's iPhone I have installed the sms and phone integration addons from here: GV Extensions for iPhone | SMS. This allows you to use the stock messaging application to send/receive texts. No special stuff is needed and it just plain works. What I would like to know is how can I accomplish this on my android phones? I currently have an Optimus V and just obtained a Triumph that I will be activating in the next day or two.
I strictly use Google Voice for my phonecalls/sms as I did not want to lose my cell number when I moved from AT&T to Virgin Mobile earlier in this year. So I have the GV app on the phone and I have it set to dial out so my # shows properly to the receiving party and I use it to send/receive texts. Well recently I have been trying out various apps like Iris and they only use the stock messaging app no matter what I have set in preferences. Plus lets be honest, the GV app leaves alot to be desired in terms of looks and it is laggy most of the time.
I know I can forward texts to email but that is just clunky at best. I can also send the sms's to my phones # via the GV interface but what about when I want to text someone that I don't normally text? I don't want to have to go through my entire phonebook and text people and hope they reply just to get the "gv textback #" that I then save to my contacts and set as sms default.
What I would LOVE to be able to do is just open the messages application, choose compose, select my contacts cell #, write a message, and when it sends it not hit my SMS at all but rather be sent directly through my data to GV and then to the recipient.
Is this possible? It seems odd that an iOS device can do this but an android can't. I know it should be but I know it may just be a matter of the right developer taking the time to do it. I would gladly pay the same price as I did for my wife's iPhone apps ($3/each) for this functionality on my androids. Anyone have any insight into this?
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Sorry about that. I thought I put it in the most relevant location. Thanks for moving it though. Now just to see if anyone has an idea on how to do it!
Sorry - I don't have a solution for you, but I second this. I have been trying to find a way to do this for a long time.
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I really do love Google Voice and can not figure out why they offer a better solution for iOS than Android. Major beef with G over this, especially since they offer partnered with Sprint 6 months ago to offer more integration and have not offered the same option to other vendors or the open source community.
Is this possible? It seems odd that an iOS device can do this but an android can't. I know it should be but I know it may just be a matter of the right developer taking the time to do it. I would gladly pay the same price as I did for my wife's iPhone apps ($3/each) for this functionality on my androids. Anyone have any insight into this?[/QUOTE]
Well, TextMarkter.co.uk provides solution for any Google contact to SMS, you may refer to textmarketer.co.uk/software-partners/ as well.
Hi, I'm looking for an app that would allow me to use my secondary Google Voice number .. I hope this question is in the right place.
I searched Google and found only few posts where something like this was asked and no real answers there.
I am currently using GVoice with Sprint integration so the android Google voice app is being used by my sprint number and that takes the option of even signing out of the app away. What I need is a second app to let me sign in with my other Google Voice account and able to text and maybe make calls as well? but mostly I need it for the SMS.
I believe I can use grooveIP to make and receive VoIP calls with Gvoice.. but GrooveIP doesn't have SMS.
I know there are other options for SMS such as Pinger, TextMe, TextPlus and many more and I did try those three but none of them as good as Google voice and one reason is they don't give permanent number they will delete it if not used for 30 days and that's a problem for me.. also they don't save history but only for few days or weeks where with Gvoice my history is there however long I want to keep it.
I hope I made what I'm looking for clear
I have Sprint Evo 3D with stock rooted rom..
Thank you all in advance ..
Mr. Q
Hello. I was wondering if Line messaging records user chat, voip and video calls in their servers after I have cleared or deleted my chat history? I make voip and video calls and I'm concerned about my privacy whether they keep it or not. I read about a few companies who say, they record no user data, whether it's chat, voip or video. I'm not sure about Line. If anyone has any information on this, please share. And if they keep, how long the companies generally keep them, and can they be retrieved?
Thanks.
Hi,
You would be best served asking for help in this section,
> Android Development and Hacking > Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
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I recently switched from an iPhone to Android. 1:1 messages are working fine, but group messages are being sent into a black hole. I'm hoping that someone here may know of a fix.
I deactivated iMessage using both the device settings and Apple's support site. I also (annoyingly) had to SMS everyone I know who has an iPhone, asking them to delete our existing conversation thread so that their phone would correctly start using SMS for our conversations.
Where I'm stuck is group messaging. It appears that anyone with an existing group conversation that I was part of is still "stuck" in iMessage -- i.e., it should have reverted to MMS for a group chat, since I'm no longer on iOS. But, the messages are still being sent as iMessage, and the senders have no idea that I'm not receiving them.
(I know that I'm not receiving them because my partner's iPhone receives these group iMessages, and I'm still listed as a recipient)
I've heard that the iMessage servers "time out" after 30-45 days and will fall back to SMS/MMS for a recipient if their iOS device hasn't revalidated iMessage in the background....Don't know if this is true. That would still be frustrating, but at least I'd know that I'll eventually start receiving messages again. Also, reaching out to everyone I've had group conversations with and asking them to delete every thread is pretty bananas -- there are so many permutations of group conversation members.
Do any other iOS --> Android switchers have any idea what I can do?
Hi,
This is an older thread, but might help,
> AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III [Forum Being Separated] > Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting > [Q] Group Text Messaging - Problems caused by iMessage
If that's not helpful, you will need to ask for help here,
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Alright, this issue has gone on long enough! The issue is a little more complicated than just not receiving group mms from iphones. Here's the deal:
iPhone user 1 and iPhone user 2 have the exact same settings under "settings/messaging"
imessage ON
Show contact photo: ON
Read receipts: OFF
MMS: ON
send as sms: OFF
group messaging: ON
However, I get picture messages from user 1, but not user 2. We have a family thread with 6 iphones and 3 android devices. I thought that I would get all text group texts (messages with just text) but I just learned that I don't even get all those. So there are iphones i only get text from, iphones that i get texts and pictures from, and iphones that i don't get anything from. This seems horribly inconsistent and wondering what the heck is going on!
My next step is to have iphone users delete the android contacts (however many duplicates there might be) and then re- add the numbers. But in the meant time, if anyone has any solutions/suggestions I'd love to hear them.
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