I love cellphones. I often want to use one phone or another on a particular day, but I don't want to have to switch SIM cards each time.
Apparently it is not possible to get more than one SIM card with the same number, which would fix my problem.
Is there a way to do this: Have one cellphone with my public cellphone number sit in a charger, always on, routing all my calls and messages to my other phones?
These are the features I'm looking for:
Reliability (always get each call)
Good call quality
Ability to route MMS messages
All calls and messages appear to be from my public number, not the numbers on the phones I'm actually holding
I've tried a couple solutions in the past, like Google Voice (won't do MMS), Phoneleash (wasn't that reliable).
The "public" cellphone with my main number can be any OS, rooted/jailbroken or not.
Thanks for any help!
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Hi All,
Loving my Nexus S so far, but I am struggling to replicate one piece of functionality that I had on my old Nokia N95.
I can't find a voicemail app that will answer calls and record voicemail on the phone itself.
There are options for using an external service (my service provider, Google Voice, Youmail, HulloMail) but I am looking for something that will work in multiple countries and with multiple SIM cards when I travel and won't end up with me having fragmented voicemails and / or voicemail charges, that can record and manage voicemails on the actual phone itself.
I had this with the Nokia N95 using Advanced Call Manager (v2.78) from MelonMobile.
However, their Android version (1.02) doesn't, yet at least, offer this functionality.
Any suggestions on an alternative?
Thanks,
Alan.
I have my personal phone, Samsung Focus, and my work phone, iPhone 3GS, and I'd honestly like to only have to carry 1 with me, the Focus.
What I need:
Receive phone calls [Done]
Receive text messages
Receive Email [Done]
How can I have my iPhone forward text messages? Or is there a service similar to AT&T Messages I can use on my Focus to get my text messages on my iPhone?
well than try to change the number from the iphone to the focus and call it a day. I am not aware of any service that you are talking about than can forward messages from one phone to another.
I think that I might do is put the iPhone SIM Card into an old Android phone and use an SMS Relay app to forward the text messages.
You could check for a GSM shortcode that will handle SMS forwarding. I know there's one for call forwardign (you're probably already using it).
Alternatively, even if there's not an app for SMS forwarding in Apple's store, you may be able to find one on Cydia (requires jailbreaking though, which might not be OK on a "work phone").
Can you use google voice and install something like govoice on your samsung?
Just a thought.
Work provided me with an iPhone 4S and pays the bill. So, I ported my personal number for my LG Quantum to Google Voice. It made it so that I did not need to tell anyone a new number.
The official Google Voice app is not as good as some of the pay ones. I now use GV Mobile+. Also Talkatone is a google voice app that lets you talk using wifi (if connected such as at home) or data.
GV Mobile+ also supports sending pictures in text messages, unlike the official Google Voice app.
In any case, you will want to port you personal number to Google Voice.
After that, you can also take the SIM out of the iPhone and put it in a different phone. In my case, I cannot, since the iPhone 4S uses a Micro SIM, so I would need a Micro SIM to SIM adaptor.
There are Google Voice apps for Windows Phone as well.
Either way you go, the first step is porting your personal number to Google Voice.
Other advantages:
Can configure it to ring your work cell, office phone, and home phone all at the same time.
Can switch the conversation to any number you have configured by pressing * during the call.
Can easily record the conversation if you desire.
Text messages that are sent and recieved over data, so work will not notice or care.
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Perhaps google voice could help or some auto SMS forwarding app on your 2nd phone
I have two phones, both on ringplus. I run hangouts on both and use my google voice (GV) number to send text to my family and friends. This generally works so it doesn’t matter which phone I’m on, everything goes through my GV #.
Sometimes I find myself in areas that doesn’t have 3G service or sometimes I turn off my cellular data to extend my battery life. Unfortunately this means that any sms I send can’t use GV which requires data. In these events, I have to preface my texts with who I am (because they don’t recognize my ringplus number) and I wind up with a ton of separate conversations. It’s a mess.
If possible, I’d like a way to use my GV # without using data. Maybe somehow set up my phones so that even though they have their own ringplus #, texts would appear to come from my GV #.
Or maybe have some type of man in the middle setup, so my texts would arrive and then be sent out using my GV # and vice versa.
1. How can I receive calls and make calls on my local number while international? When I leave the states and I'm working in a foreign country, when someone calls me on my normal cell phone number, I want it to ring on my cellphone no matter where in the world I am. It does not need to go through the PSTN where I located, but I would need to be able to return calls to US destinations, which would require going through the PSTN for US destination calls, without having it cost an arm and a leg.
2. Random thoughts I have are call forwarding from the local number to..., a Skype $60/yr. phone number, SIP somehow, calls made by MagicJack to the US or Canada are free. MagicJack to MagicJack calls are free no matter where you are, etc. Maybe to return calls, one of the dial-a-number first plans, which are as low as 4 cents a minute, etc. I'm trying to stitch together anything that be free or inexpensive. I'm interested in your thoughts.
3. Unrelated question: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Signal app on our phones simply initializes a session with Whisper System's Servers across the Internet. Your phone number is simply a handle so when Signal users call each other, Signal knows which handles to pair up for their peer-to-peer session. Because it is done across the Internet, there is no concept of PSTN countries, area codes, etc., and where either user is located at the moment is irrelevant as long as they both have a data connection of some kind, it doesn't change how they dial, and the cost of the call ranges from free Wi-Fi, up to the cost of the small amount of cellular bandwidth consumed by the calls. Moreover, when you change SIMs and thus your phone's telephone number, the Signal telephone number remains the number that you initially set up Signal on.
Is there a way to change the outgoing caller ID on my cellphone to my business number?
The reason I am asking is because I have a VoIP-based business phone system (we host it ourselves) and my extension forwards to my cell phone when I am not in the office. It would be nice to be able to call people back from my cellphone and have it show my business number so that customers don’t inadvertently wind up with my cellphone number.
Right now I call back into our phone system and then place an outgoing call from there. But that means I cannot simply call using the dialer app and it’s difficult to do via the Bluetooth in my car because the second number (the customer’s number) as to be manually entered on the phone. It would be a lot nicer if Bell Mobility (or any carrier) could just replace my cell phone number with our business number.
Ideally I could do this for all of our technicians (who have company cell phones) so that their cellphones just becomes another extension on the system.
The Fish
They can replace your number, port it. Outside of that nothing you can do because they don't know what a business call is and what a personal call is to try and switch back and forth between your CID.
What we would do on FreePBX is create a account for the cellphone, have the boss use a SIP app on his phone, and then set the outbound CID for the account, that way when your calling someone back you just dial through the SIP app and select the outbound he wants (was running 4 companies at once and just had to use a prefix to set the ID he wanted) vs calling in and having to do a bunch of extra steps. Only thing is setting up policy for his phone to connect. I had a web site that they could authenticate through an then would add that to iptables so that they could connect since your IP will probably change occasionally, check out Dynamic Good Guys
There's really no easy way to go about it and it's all personal preference, and I know what you mean about people getting your cell number. I did on-site business and customer repairs and second someone gets your number it's calls all hours of the night, where if they used business number after-hours ivr would have caught it and left me alone.