Voicemail services have gained active user response and this service has been still in use by many mobile users worldwide. Even the network providers include voicemail services in subsidised rate in their package.
Anyhow, this service has become extinct in INDIA years ago!
I've tried portiing to various network and none of them actually had this service even on their customer service VR menu. One terrible moment is where customer executives and network showroom representatives actaully asks what's the use of such service :silly: Recent boom with smartphones and Mobile internet users across India is going on upsurge every quarter of the year. Indian users frenzy and the proposed intention with Missed calls have already served the purpose for a Voicemail service.
I've been going through this positive brain note, that there is or there will be a standalone Android app where once the call has not been attended or rejected, an onscreen app will play our Voicemail greet and will record what they have to say. So we can access this anytime simply by opening the app or long pressing the 1 button or whatsoever. This is really cool idea where the one who calls will just be charged with their normal call rates as opposed to the Voicemail services that once existed. I'm really opening up this view to all fellow XDA devolopers where my life is ruining up with college and concerned bull ****!
If such App persists, then let me know it! :fingers-crossed:
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taking a serious look at gmail apps for my business. does anyone have any practical use and knowledge of google voicemail? please share.
thanks
mark
User Google voice, forward your number to your gv number, and then get your voicemails transcribed. It's pretty fool proof
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What I know is not much..but here goes.
I personally use google voice for my voicemail and have for over a year.
@work I am an operations manager in a drycleaners and we use a custom gmail address.
Both of these have never broke or failed. In other words it works better and is very dependable. More dependable than the software that runs our operation.
Not sure if this will help or not
I too, use google voice, and while the transcriptions usually aren't the best, it is really convenient to have all of your voicemails stored online and then you can play them all back. In terms of on a smartphone, you'll need a data connection, not only a cell connection to listen to voicemails
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Google Voice is like having a firewall in front of your real number. There are many benefits but I'll focus on the ability to block persistent telemarketers. You can block a number so it goes straight to voicemail or play the "this number is no longer in service". It also does free texting so you can forego the texting plan and save money.
I personally like it for the free visual voicemail and transcribing options, plus an email alert when I do receive a voicemail.
Also, cheap international rates compared to Verizon Wireless.
I use it for my voicemail (though still haven't switched to it for my actual number that people call). Works great!
I've been using Google Voice since Google first opened the service after purchasing GrandCentral.
My GV number is my business cell number. I also have my vzw # fwd to it for voicemail. The transcription and other features of this product make it a must have
i have been using google voice for my voicemail since it came out. the transcription of the messages is extremely convenient.
I tried it and hated it, I now us youmail, no issues so far. A lot of people to use and love Gvoice though, try it see if you like it.
I've never had an issue, and I have been using it for 6-8 months now. Works great for free visual vmail. It transcribes the message, but you can never read them. so that part is about useless. It is nice being able to delete a message without having to listen to it, and it's also nice being able to not have to dial into VM. But those are just personal preferences.
I love Google voice, I use it for my business and personal call needs all with one number. I put customers in there own contact group and assign them their own Voice mail message. Same goes for friends, family, telemarketers, etc. You can even have calls forwarded from an office phone to your cell to a home phone before it goes to voice mail. It's awesome I highly recommend it.
We use GV for several purposes, but I could see many more potentials for small businesses and startups. The company that I work for has 80 employees and provide technical services and support to government clients. I have one of my GV numbers programmed into my PBX at the office to route after hours tech support calls to blast the cell phones of on call technicians. When somebody calls in and dials "9" (for after hours tech support), it immediately rings all of the phones on the list for the on call techs. If they don't pick up, it plays a recorded message about after hours tech support, to leave a message, and a technician will be paged and will call back.
The transcript of the message is then sent out via text and email to the 3 techs and supervisors to ensure that somebody calls our clients back. It has been a great (and free service).
For somebody starting a new business, a GV number gives you a layer of separation between your hardware and your incoming calls. If, when starting up, you only have your private cell phone and don't want to give that number out, you can forward your GV number to your cell. If you change cell phone numbers or providers, none of your friends or business contacts have to change their number for you, you just change the call forwarding settings on GV.
As your business grows and you add phones, you can forward incoming calls to your cell AND/OR your office number. If your office changes locations, you can move and change the call forwarding info in GV so your number remains the same.
Our business moved a few years ago and have to pay our local Telco to forward our old DID from our old location to the new one. Due to some message up small Telco laws, we can't even port the numbers to a VoIP account. If we originally had set up a GV account for our office, we would be paying much less.
Great service, free, and the transcriptions, while not perfect, can often give you at least some of the info about the message. All in all, I highly recommend it!
Seth
I've used it and it works great!
I tried to use it but it said it doesnt support verizon. Is there a way around this?
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I have used it since it was in beta and I love it transcripts can be a little off but you can play it back. But for a free service it definitely beats vm and you can arcive your messages to. I like it my wife hates it . Just give it a run and see.
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I echo many of the comments above. Keep in mind that you can get the Google Voice for visual and transcribed voice mail without having to sign up for your own Google Voice phone number. You can also sign up for your own Google Voice phone number and keep your existing mobile number. The entire system is very flexible and the integration of phone services into your computer via your Google voice account on the web is pretty fantastic.
I had to fiddle with it to get it to work. Had to manually forward phone to gv number then set my voicemailmservice to google. Like a couple of people mentioned using the installation wizard willnfail with a message that it does not support it.
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google voice
google voice is awesome and its free..transcribe barely ever woorks rite.. but other than that its flawless.
I use GV for my primary line voicemail..
as others have said, transcription is almost useless, I like the ability to listen without having to sit through automated prompts.
This has been a work in progress over on the N4 forums, with little progress. I have zero cell reception in certain parts of my home with T-Mobile USA. What can I use as an alternative? Without using a different phone number (i.e Google Voice). Does Hangouts send SMS over Wifi or Cellular? What are you guys using?
Have you ever called tmobile about this. They have given people cell boosters for similar problems
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I'm having the same issue with T-Mobile. I have full LTE signal all around my city but the second I walk into my apartment I have absolutely no service. It's quite frustrating and I'm trying to find an alternative. I tried calling T-Mobile about it but they said their cell boosters are "only for stand alone homes and won't work in an apartment complex", which seems ridiculous but whatever.
I'd be willing to switch to Google Voice but I haven't been able to confirm whether or not Google Voice makes/receives calls and texts via Wifi, or if I'll need a separate app to make it work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The typical method these days is Google Voice (since that's not specifically an SIP/VoIP thing itself) + either GrooveIP or Talkatone (which ARE those things) and you can then do SIP/VoIP calling from the Google Voice number, but as noted in the T-Mobile $30 plan thread multiple times (and other places as well) Google is removing the ability for third party apps to interact with GV at the end of April 2014 so that's when we (people that GV + third-party apps) will be forced to find other solutions to make SIP/VoIP calls).
And the other thing is that T-Mobile Wi-Fi calling setup uses minutes from your service plan - most people don't know this and it's not a big hassle on a 1500 minute or unlimited calling plan, but for those of us with the $30 plan it's basically pointless to use it when other alternatives (such as those I just described, at least for another 5 months or so) exist.
Skype is another option but you could be looking at some money involved based on what/who/where you're calling, and then there's stuff like Vonage if you use that service but that's an expenditure as well.
Google Voice for the Home via ObiTalk
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I'm having the same issue with T-Mobile. I have full LTE signal all around my city but the second I walk into my apartment I have absolutely no service. It's quite frustrating and I'm trying to find an alternative. I tried calling T-Mobile about it but they said their cell boosters are "only for stand alone homes and won't work in an apartment complex", which seems ridiculous but whatever.
I'd be willing to switch to Google Voice but I haven't been able to confirm whether or not Google Voice makes/receives calls and texts via Wifi, or if I'll need a separate app to make it work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Just FYI; I told AT&T to go fly a kite about 8 months ago for my home phone and have been using Google Voice on my home line as well as my cell phone for FREE. Yes; that's FREE incoming and outgoing calls.
I am using a small VoIP phone adapter found on Amazon called OBi202 from ObiTalk.com
Costs about $80 bucks and there is even a wifi adapter for $25 if you can't plug it in via Cat5 to your internet connection at home.
Anyway; you configure the phone adapter to use Google Voice and voila! You can connect 2 separate lines. I have mine and my wife's hooked up to cordless phones so I now have free home phone service.
Down side? The caller ID is a numer and not a name. I read about services available for a subscription that will give you the Name on Caller ID but if this is so important to you I guess you are OK with paying $60+ for phone service. (Yea right)
When you get a call it will ring simultaneously on your home phone and your mobile.
Free service; I LIKE THAT. And if you get bad reception at home from your mobile the nice part is that this could solve your issue because you give out your Google Voice number out and the phone will automatically start be ringing on your cordless when you are home.
Hope this helps you!!:good:
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sn0warmy said:
I'm having the same issue with T-Mobile. I have full LTE signal all around my city but the second I walk into my apartment I have absolutely no service. It's quite frustrating and I'm trying to find an alternative. I tried calling T-Mobile about it but they said their cell boosters are "only for stand alone homes and won't work in an apartment complex", which seems ridiculous but whatever.
I'd be willing to switch to Google Voice but I haven't been able to confirm whether or not Google Voice makes/receives calls and texts via Wifi, or if I'll need a separate app to make it work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Oh; to answer your question I sent myself and back texts using Google Voice over Wifi only and it worked. I have called with it via Wifi also when traveling.
So it does.
You can use MagicJack. They also have a android app. I heard it pretty good, however to use the android app, you need to register your phone. Once you register your phone, you can't unregister it. This is info I pulled about a year ago. Look into it though.
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Port your number to Google Voice.
Get a VoIP account at a provider that has good latency for your location (I use voip.ms, costs $0.014/min outgoing, ~$0.01/min incoming).
Set up CSIPSimple on your phone (use g729a for good quality on slower connections, PCMU on faster connections; be prepared to fiddle with settings to get it down right)
Make calls using CSIPSimple from your voip.ms account
Set up Google Voice to ring both your voip.ms number when you receive calls, as well as your T-Mobile number (in case you don't have WiFi or data when the call comes through).
I've got a 4G/LTE Note 8.0 N2150. Since getting this I resolved getting a one year unlimited Skype Out call subscription unlimited for my country. This is sold by Microsoft/Skype as a replacement for your phone, except for emergency calls, quote "Make internet calls for free and cheap online calls to phones and mobiles with Skype. Sign up today and discover a whole new world of staying in touch."
What Microsoft won't tell you is the dial pad doesn't work to make selections for extentions on switchboards under Android. This means all your calls to companies, institutions, government etc are defunct and requires paying extra for by using your usual cell phone SIM. Unless they have manned switchboards.
There's no information on this at all when signing up. Since the dial pad works for dialling a phone number, and the marketing is "make cheap online calls to phones" you only have two weeks to discover this and cancel your subscription.
In a one hour "support" call, where they do not up front ask for OS, device, version of Skype, etc, suggesting immature support, I was finally told that "oh, the dial pad doesn't work in Android. Never has." In the call it was blamed on Skype just recently having been acquired by Microsoft. Er, that was three years ago.
Some further investigation shows that this problem went unattended on Windows7 for a whole year 2011-2012, although Microsoft Skype now claims it's been addressed both for Windows and on Macs.
No official plans exist to address this, nor are there any replies by Skype on the forum.
So, Skype is ripe for picking unless Julie Larson-Green takes action.
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I'm looking for feedback and tips.
We define spam calls, as any calls from phone numbers that meet these 2 criteria:
Not on your contacts list
Did not leave you a cash deposit
If an unknown callers leave you a deposit before calling you, your phone rings. If you answer the call and the call time lasts more than 25 seconds, the caller receives a full and immediate refund. This is a "good call".
However, if you answer and hang up before 25 seconds, you keep 80% of the deposit while our app keeps 20%. Callers only lose money when you answer and hang up before 25 seconds.
This way, only callers who are willing to risk $0.05 to speak with you are allowed to call you and good callers get that $0.05 back. This is our unique approach to solving the spam problem.
For Play store, please search: "RoboCash spam" and search for the black circle with the green R.
For our website: please visit our site at "myrobocash dot com".
Currently, only US, Canada, Philippines, Brazil and UK can sign up. If you're interested in using this and not from any of these countries, please let me know so I can try opening up the app to work for you. Thank you.
Finally got a workaround to READ_CALL_LOG by implementing CallScreeningService and RoleManager to read the phone number.
Since RoleManager was introduced in Android 10, it will work for all Android versions 10+. Sadly, I will not be able to service Android 9 users.... Thankfully Android 7-8.1 are still able to use this.
So if you live in a country in which it's not supported you don't have the option.
But I would like it, english will do Just fine as I talk English anyway when I pick up the phone.
Is it correct that the option availability is based on the sim origin (country)? If thats the case chances are slim to find a way around it.
Tried most things, like usa vpn, clear cache & data phone app, uninstalled phone update, updated. Nothing changes.
I'd be guessing no as Google say it depends on SIM.
From here:
Screen your calls before you answer them - Phone app Help
You can use Call Screen to find out who’s calling and why before you pick up a call. Call Screen works on your device and doesn't use Wi-Fi or mobile data. Calls answered by the Google Assistan
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Screen your calls before you answer themYou can use Call Screen to find out who’s calling and why before you pick up a call. Call Screen works on your device and doesn't use Wi-Fi or mobile data. Calls answered by the Google Assistant incur carrier call minutes. Learn how Call Screen works with your data.
Where Call Screen is availableYou can screen calls automatically on all Pixel phones in the US.
You can screen calls manually on Pixel phones in these countries:
Australia
Canada
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Spain
UK
US
Tip: Manual Call Screen is also available in the US and Canada on selected Android devices.
Tip: Manual Call Screen only works with a SIM card from the countries where Call Screen is available.
I just did some research on this subject, there are two options:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.realnetworks.kontxt.voice
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.yukhlin.answeringmachine&hl=en_US&gl=US
#2 unfortunately requires some additional hardware and #1 will most likely have a terrible privacy policy
no root - cube acr
root - there are a lot of options in the forum
Thank you all for help, yes Root opens doors, but I live so remote that if I brick it I have big problem (would be without a phone for 6 weeks).
Cube acr I could try but feature not interesting enough for me to let other alien application handle it. Maybe interesting for other people.
I'm kinda annoyed with google treating us different, they just could release it everywhere but just limited to english or whatever. Same with call recording, it's legal in some countries like Netherlands but they find it more easy just to cancel it for whole europe? Why just not release it everywhere, if it is illegal to use (like crossing a red light) just don't do/use it. It's also illegal to scam people with phone, prank call cops etc etc... but yet possible to do with a phone. Which bright mind made it illegal anyway? Ridiculous, so many times companies told me lies on the phone to sell their products. And we can't prove it, on the other side they are allowed to record the call, which I understand with a contract being discussed. It should be a fair playground with each party being able to record.
The only reason I can understand why it is illegal is that this is politicians greatest fear, being recorded and that their crooked way of working is on tape and useable in court.
call recording is available without root, https://callrecorder.skvalex.com is a great solution I use it on grapheneos no root.
Does A13 still allow call recording thru Cube ACR? If not is there a way to switch dialers without root?
If you are a root user you can install GoogleDialerMod, just search it on Github. I activated call screening and call recording in Ecuador, that app is amazing.