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I just bought the inspire 4g today and now my voicemail just gets a busy tone, i think it's because i'm still on my iphone visual voice mail unlimited plan. I also tried to get google voice to work as a work around but that gets a busy tone too. If anyone remotely knows how to fix this without calling att please let me know because i don't want to take the chance of losing my unlimited plan. Thanks for all your help in advance.
You won't lose your unlimited if you call ATT. I called today to be switch to the unlimited 4g and they told me I was grandfathered into the unlimited. So I kept it.
Thanks that makes me feel so much better.
Just call customer care to fix your voicemail. When you switched it removed the iPhone visual voicemail but does not automatically add the standard voicemail feature on the phone. Care can take care of it in a snap. The downside si if you had any messages saved they are now lost.
to get a real visual voicemail like on the iphone download youmail (free) in the android market. It works like a charm
I use Phone Fusion Voicemail+. It is the bomb.
i had this same problem, they said the voicemail never got swiched from iphone's visual voicemail package.
Google Voice. Topic over.
I'm having the same problem. I'm going to call ATT tomorrow and get it fixed.
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Ok, I have a question. My daughter has an iPhone and I was helping her set up her email on it when she got a phone call during the process. I did not answer it, but when they left a message I was very impressed by the way the iPhone displayed the message on the phone. there was actually a list of all of her v-mails and it listed who they were from and what not.
I am sure we do and I just don't know it, but do we have anything like this?
There are a few apps out there, but many will probably recommend using google voice and activating the voicemail transcribe feature.
Isn't that Visual Voicemail? If so AT&T charges extra for it.
Truckerglenn said:
Isn't that Visual Voicemail? If so AT&T charges extra for it.
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Yeah I think your right.
"I wish I had more than 1 Infuse."
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joeclark said:
Ok, I have a question. My daughter has an iPhone and I was helping her set up her email on it when she got a phone call during the process. I did not answer it, but when they left a message I was very impressed by the way the iPhone displayed the message on the phone. there was actually a list of all of her v-mails and it listed who they were from and what not.
I am sure we do and I just don't know it, but do we have anything like this?
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That is called Visual Voicemail. AT&T had this set up exclusively for iPhone since iPhone's inception into AT&T, and to make data mandatory. They haven't expanded to other phones, yet.
Google voice can do something like this, and it doesn't set the popup in the middle of the screen, it shows up in the dropdown bar.
I'll post a pic shortly.
What you are looking for?
Google voice is free for voicemail. I use it. AT&T does have a visual voicemail option that you can add to your plan, but why do that when GVoice is free. (Note: I am using CM7, so idk what difference it'll make if you are on a stock ROM)
there is visual voicemail on the newest phones as far as what I've heard. Google voice is free and att doesn't surcharge for forwarded calls. att isn't so bad. for the money you get coverage and little perks like this. try Google voice on sprint see what the phone bill comes out to be with all the forwarded calls.
Thank you all! That is pretty much what I am looking for.
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Dani897 said:
there is visual voicemail on the newest phones as far as what I've heard. Google voice is free and att doesn't surcharge for forwarded calls. att isn't so bad. for the money you get coverage and little perks like this. try Google voice on sprint see what the phone bill comes out to be with all the forwarded calls.
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Funny thing is that we have Sprint Voicemail. It's an app that downloads the voicemails to your phone and uses the data of your phone. but rememember, I have unlimited data so it works perfect. It's included in the unlimited data. plus, forwarding is including in most of the plans. So, if you're on Sprint, there's no need for GVoice.
I've been using Sprint for ~2 1/2 years on a Family plan with my mom while in college and would like to transition onto my own plan. T-mobile's Monthly4G $30 (I don't talk on the phone much) would be perfect for me, and if it wasn't then the $50 plan would still be cheaper than our current Sprint plan split in half.
The one issue is Google Voice. I work in a facility where I can't have my cell phone on property so I handle my text messaging and voicemail 8 hours a day through GV's web interface. With Sprint it is incredibly convenient, my cell phone number is my GV number.
My thought is that if I go to T-mobile, I can get a new phone with a new cell phone number and just port my phone number to GV, but I'm concerned with how it would handle MMS. Can anyone provide any insight?
whoops, should have been in Q/A forum, can an admin move?
ok, so im getting the 100 minute, unlimited data 30$ tmobile plan on my sprint nexus 5 cause sprint totally sucks.
i have a google voice number and i was just wondering, now that hangouts has calling integrated, can i just use google voice number to make and receive calls over data?
im reading conflicting things, like some people want call forwarding from tmobile (im thinking they want their cell number forwarded to google voice) which 1)isnt an option and 2) not really needed since people will be calling my seperate google voice number
also reading that tmobile blocks google voice on their prepaid plans for some folks
is anyone using the 30 month 100 minute unlimited tmobile data plan and making and receiving calls using a seperate google voice number?
Yes VoIP in Hangouts works just fine with the T-Mobile $30 plan. You can't forward from T-Mobile to GV but that doesn't matter if you use your GV number to take incoming calls.
dwreck420 said:
ok, so im getting the 100 minute, unlimited data 30$ tmobile plan on my sprint nexus 5 cause sprint totally sucks.
i have a google voice number and i was just wondering, now that hangouts has calling integrated, can i just use google voice number to make and receive calls over data?
im reading conflicting things, like some people want call forwarding from tmobile (im thinking they want their cell number forwarded to google voice) which 1)isnt an option and 2) not really needed since people will be calling my seperate google voice number
also reading that tmobile blocks google voice on their prepaid plans for some folks
is anyone using the 30 month 100 minute unlimited tmobile data plan and making and receiving calls using a seperate google voice number?
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Yes, I just set up a GV number and I'm going to begin providing it to my family members and close friends to use as the number to reach me. Everyone else can leave a message for me to pick up in visual VM, and then I'll call them back if needed. The only negative is that T-Mobile's coverage really stinks outside of a few areas where it's screaming fast. Inside my house in Metro Detroit, my wife can get 30 Mbps on her Verizon GS4 while I get 5-8 on my LG G3. And it can be really spotty as you travel between cities & towns, so missing a few calls & texts when driving is going to be a real probability. But for $30/mo, I can probably live with it.
zhamilton05 said:
Yes, I just set up a GV number and I'm going to begin providing it to my family members and close friends to use as the number to reach me. Everyone else can leave a message for me to pick up in visual VM, and then I'll call them back if needed. The only negative is that T-Mobile's coverage really stinks outside of a few areas where it's screaming fast. Inside my house in Metro Detroit, my wife can get 30 Mbps on her Verizon GS4 while I get 5-8 on my LG G3. And it can be really spotty as you travel between cities & towns, so missing a few calls & texts when driving is going to be a real probability. But for $30/mo, I can probably live with it.
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The coverage is what killed it for me. I'd been waiting for Hangouts and voice to merge but switched to straight talk last month. Happy to finally get coverage in the locations I'm in the most.
First, you sure can just use Google Voice number to make and receive calls over data. In fact, Hangouts only use data, not voice/talk minute at all.
Second, prepaid mobile phone plans do not have conditional forwarding which is required to forward incoming calls to mobile DID (Direct Inward Dialing -- telephone number) to Google Voice DID. Therefore, you are correct. It is not an option. Moreover, you are also correct as to there is no such need to forward calls from mobile DID to Google Voice DID due to people will be using separate Google Voice DID. I would suggest you port Sprint mobile DID to Ring.to and have Ring.to forward all incoming calls and texts to your Google Voice DID. Consequently, people have been using your current Sprint mobile DID will continue be able to contact you without changing your DID. You just get a new DID from T-Mobile when you sign up for $30 prepaid plan for 100 minutes talk, unlimited text and data with first 5 GB up to LTE speeds.
Third, I am using $30 prepaid plan for 100 minutes talk, unlimited text and data with first 5 GB up to LTE speeds and using Hangouts for outgoing calls. It just work flawlessly! I use Voxox for incoming calls and do not use mobile DID came with T-Mobile $30 plan at all.
Initiating a new thread as Cricket WIreless has succeeded AIO
Nexus 5 on AIO wireless thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/nexus-5-aio-wireless-thread-t2598309/
I see Cricket is advertising new prepaid plans including a 10GB per month data plan (Pro plan with AutoPay at $55/month). And SIM's are $0.99 (for a limited time). I assume no activation fee.
Since all of StraightTalk's plans only support 3GB data per month (throttled thereafter) I'm considering moving from ST to Cricket. I assume they operate on the exact same network (AT&T) so I assume there should have no coverage differences. Is that a good assumption?
Can anyone please post the APN info for CricketWireless?
Anyone else change from StraightTalk to Cricket? Any issues to report?
Straight talk has 4g... I used to use them.
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31ken31 said:
Straight talk has 4g... I used to use them.
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The "3GB" in the OP refers to the per month "high-speed allowance" (data).
Cricket Wireless referral
Can anyone PM me for a referral?
FunDionysus said:
Can anyone PM me for a referral?
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Sent.
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Oh yeah, I was going to include the APN in this post. I'll just edit it in.
Name: Internet
APN: ndo
Proxy: Not Set
Port: Not Set
Username: Not Set
Password: Not Set
Server: Not Set
MMSC: http://mmsc.aiowireless.net
MMS Proxy: proxy.aiowireless.net
MMS Port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 150
Authentication type: Not Set
APN type: default,mms,fota,hipri,supl
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The correct APN settings are on their website. Can't post the link because low post count. Just search their site for "apn" and it will show up.
I switched to Cricket from Straight Talk (AT&T) last summer and don't regret it one bit. My bill is a flat $35/mo, coverage is great, no issues with SMS/MMS (my main reason for ditching ST). They just upped the low tier limit to 1GB from 500MB, but I'm on WiFi 99% of the time so it didn't matter much to me anyway.
Aio's capped speeds still apply, 8Mbps for LTE, 4Mbps for HSPA+. After you hit the data cap those speeds are 128Kbps and 64Kbps. I've only hit my cap twice, and my phone was still usable on LTE. You can purchase an extra GB for $10 as many times as you want.
Their account app actually works, customer service is top notch (the other reason I ditched ST).
If you're not a speed queen, and are in an area with good AT&T coverage I would absolutely take Cricket over ST.
I've had Aio/Cricket for a while now. Overall, I'm satisfied. My biggest issue is the occasional MMS outage and the lack of any kind of communication about it.
One year ago I had cricket wireless on a Huawei Android phone. I live in Florida and the data rates were pathetic, seriously between 40kbit and 120kbit.
However, Muve Music app was decent. Can't believe they are selling it to Deezer.
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Thanks for the info above.
Follow-up questions. Any observations regards to how well Cricket works with Hangouts and/or Google Voice?
And any issues with tethering on Cricket?
I could sign up for a month to test myself, but I want to port my number at the same time I sign up for Cricket. I've heard there are problems porting phone numbers from ST to Cricket if you try to do it later (I'm employing extra caution as I've never previously ported a number).
FunDionysus said:
Thanks for the info above.
Follow-up questions. Any observations regards to how well Cricket works with Hangouts and/or Google Voice?
And any issues with tethering on Cricket?
I could sign up for a month to test myself, but I want to port my number at the same time I sign up for Cricket. I've heard there are problems porting phone numbers from ST to Cricket if you try to do it later (I'm employing extra caution as I've never previously ported a number).
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Hangouts and Google Voice work fine for me. As well as any other carrier. Cricket doesn't officially support tethering, but I have had no issues doing it with a small change in the settings DB.
eunichron said:
Their account app actually works, customer service is top notch (the other reason I ditched ST).
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I disagree. CS has been far from top notch. Wait times were horrible and I got disconnected multiple times to resolve a billing issue where my debit card didn't have an address or name associated with it so it got denied but still went through as pending and didn't have phone service because of it. I called in a total of about 10 times on a Sunday and each time I got hung up on or the call dropped.
That sounds like straight talk cs
FunDionysus said:
Thanks for the info above.
Follow-up questions. Any observations regards to how well Cricket works with Hangouts and/or Google Voice?
And any issues with tethering on Cricket?
I could sign up for a month to test myself, but I want to port my number at the same time I sign up for Cricket. I've heard there are problems porting phone numbers from ST to Cricket if you try to do it later (I'm employing extra caution as I've never previously ported a number).
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I only use Google voice/hangouts integration for texts and it works great... the reason I left straight talk a long time a go is they close ports after they've been idle for a while. Ie if I haven't sent or received a hangout in x amount of time they close the port and I won't get any more messages unless I reset my connection yo Google or use Wi-Fi... It was really annoying when I relied on push through gv and hangouts and never used normal texts...
Plus the service has been out standing for be single aio days.
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I disagree. CS has been far from top notch. Wait times were horrible and I got disconnected multiple times to resolve a billing issue where my debit card didn't have an address or name associated with it so it got denied but still went through as pending and didn't have phone service because of it. I called in a total of about 10 times on a Sunday and each time I got hung up on or the call dropped.
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That's weird, that was my experience with ST. MMS wasn't working on my Nexus 5, and their only answer was that my phone didn't support MMS and that I had to buy a new phone from them. I told them that it had worked fine on T-Mobile (I switched because I was moving to an area with no T-Mobile service). The reps were rude and ignorant.
When I switched to Cricket Straight Talk messed up porting my number. They had somehow generated a cancel request on their end, but still released the number, so Cricket wasn't able to pick it up. I went to a Cricket corporate store and they did everything they could to help fix it. One of the reps even called me on her day off to help try to fix it. Eventually I lost the number and had to start my account with a new one, but the store reps jumped through hoops to help me out. They even gave me credit for a month of service for the problem that ST caused.
The only other time I had to call tech support was to get some account information changed. It took all of 5 minutes, including hold time, and the rep was really nice and straight forward.
FunDionysus said:
Initiating a new thread as Cricket WIreless has succeeded AIO
Nexus 5 on AIO wireless thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/nexus-5-aio-wireless-thread-t2598309/
I see Cricket is advertising new prepaid plans including a 10GB per month data plan (Pro plan with AutoPay at $55/month). And SIM's are $0.99 (for a limited time). I assume no activation fee.
Since all of StraightTalk's plans only support 3GB data per month (throttled thereafter) I'm considering moving from ST to Cricket. I assume they operate on the exact same network (AT&T) so I assume there should have no coverage differences. Is that a good assumption?
Can anyone please post the APN info for CricketWireless?
Anyone else change from StraightTalk to Cricket? Any issues to report?
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Their APN info is on their website, however since Lollipop, it appears to be baked into the OS. I was able to wipe my device and when I rebooted, all Cricket Wireless info was preloaded.
Here is the link regardless:
https://www.cricketwireless.com/sup...ice-byod/customer/bring-your-own-android.html
Tethering on Cricket?
Appreciate the feedback.
I'm holding off moving from ST to Cricket until I can obtain clarification on the following two items:
1. If there are any issues with 'tethering' on a Cricket prepaid plan. I occasionally need to tether my laptop to my Lollipop N5 and so far have not observed any issues doing so on ST..
(It has been reported T-Mobiles newly announced pre-paid plans do NOT allow any tethering.)
2. Since I will lose roaming with Cricket, I don't know.if that will impact me or not. How can I tell if with my recent ST usage, if I was always/mostly connecting to AT&T towers, or if sometimes I switched to roaming on Verizon and/or T-Mobile towers? I want to be certain that most of my recent local connections were to AT&T towers, especially at my residence and general vicinity (rural area 10 miles from town).
In regards to CS, with Cricket having a store not too far from me, I figure most of my CS interaction will be via their store. So that should beat ST non-existent CS (after all, ST is Tracfone in Walmart clothing).
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Appreciate the feedback.
I'm holding off moving from ST to Cricket until I can obtain clarification on the following two items:
1. If there are any issues with 'tethering' on a Cricket prepaid plan. I occasionally need to tether my laptop to my Lollipop N5 and so far have not observed any issues doing so on ST..
(It has been reported T-Mobiles newly announced pre-paid plans do NOT allow any tethering.)
2. Since I will lose roaming with Cricket, I don't know.if that will impact me or not. How can I tell if with my recent ST usage, if I was always/mostly connecting to AT&T towers, or if sometimes I switched to roaming on Verizon and/or T-Mobile towers? I want to be certain that most of my recent local connections were to AT&T towers, especially at my residence and general vicinity (rural area 10 miles from town).
In regards to CS, with Cricket having a store not too far from me, I figure most of my CS interaction will be via their store. So that should beat ST non-existent CS (after all, ST is Tracfone in Walmart clothing).
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I've tethered a few times and never had any problems. But admittedly it's rare.
If you have an att ST SIM then you were only on ATT. If you had a tmobile ST sim then you were only on T-Mobile. And the nexus 5 doesn't support Verizon, so you definitely weren't roaming there either .
frigidazzi said:
I've tethered a few times and never had any problems. But admittedly it's rare.
If you have an att ST SIM then you were only on ATT. If you had a tmobile ST sim then you were only on T-Mobile. And the nexus 5 doesn't support Verizon, so you definitely weren't roaming there either .
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Hmm...it's been suggested in this thread and elsewhere that ST supports roaming. Maybe I'm confused on this.
Is there a diff in how roaming works for voice/text service versus data service, as far as ST is concerned?
And how would that differ from what Cricket offers (or doesn't offer)?
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Hmm...it's been suggested in this thread and elsewhere that ST supports roaming. Maybe I'm confused on this.
Is there a diff in how roaming works for voice/text service versus data service, as far as ST is concerned?
And how would that differ from what Cricket offers (or doesn't offer)?
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I just read the whole thread. That's no mention of roaming.
frigidazzi said:
I just read the whole thread. That's no mention of roaming.
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Duh! On a non-XDA thread I recently read, It was suggested roaming would be lost if I moved from ST to Cricket. Now I understand that info was bogus. So it appears I have had no roaming capabilities and thus have been connecting via AT&T facilities all along. That has been a satisfactory experience for me. Although I do only occasional texting, so not sure if ST texting has been working efficiently.
I have the AT&T SIM that came with the ST BYOB kit purchased at Walmart. So besides buying a $0.99 SIM from Cricket, setting up the N5 on Cricket should hopefully be straight forward.
First, I need to gain a bit more confidence that tethering won't be an issue. If tethering is ok I'll make the jump.
Also I think I should first sign up for a new Google Voice number to minimize porting issues (present and future). After I got my N5 set-up on ST last year I wasn't using my old Google Voice number so Google expired it on me last month. Darn me.