So before I got my S3 today, everytime someone calls and I ignore it , it goes straight to the google voice voicemail and not T-mobile's voicemail service. Now that I connected my S3 and I have auto call forwarding, when I don't answer the call on both my phone and then on my S3, it goes to T-mobile voicemail. My ideal scenario would be to go from Phone --> S3 --> Google Voice. I've tried to play around with the call forwarding numbers but can't seem to find the right combo. I've tried to change the voicemail number on the S3 but it's grayed out so I can't. Anybody know how to get this to work?
Add the gear number to google voice and then click the activate voicemail link. It will give you the dialing instructions to set up the forward to VM.
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Add the gear number to google voice and then click the activate voicemail link. It will give you the dialing instructions to set up the forward to VM.
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I've already done this. I can get google voice to answer if I'm just calling my phone's number or if I'm calling my S3 number. The problem happens when I connect these two together so that I can have my calls that come in from my phone to also show up on my S3. In order to do that, I have to turn on Auto Call forwarding in the Gear S3 app on the phone which in turn also turns it on on the S3. That's when everything messes up. That's when I can't get it to go to Google Voice anymore.
Samsung gear s3 is a tizen os that is created by Samsung its not Android. Google provide support for android, ios not tizen may be in the future we can get google voice officially but its hard to get because Samsung have s voice.
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I've already done this. I can get google voice to answer if I'm just calling my phone's number or if I'm calling my S3 number. The problem happens when I connect these two together so that I can have my calls that come in from my phone to also show up on my S3. In order to do that, I have to turn on Auto Call forwarding in the Gear S3 app on the phone which in turn also turns it on on the S3. That's when everything messes up. That's when I can't get it to go to Google Voice anymore.
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So let me make sure I understand. Calls to you GV# ring to your cellphone and S3 simultaneously via call forwarding. But you also give out your cellphone #, and you want calls to that # to ring to the S3 also. But doing that bypasses the GV system, so it goes to carrier voicemail. This same problem would exist even if the secondary device were another smartphone.
I don't know how what you're trying to do can be accomplished except perhaps through NumberSync, which I'm not familiar with. As you probably know, this problem is nonexistent if you go "all in" with GV and don't give out any other number.
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So let me make sure I understand. Calls to you GV# ring to your cellphone and S3 simultaneously via call forwarding. But you also give out your cellphone #, and you want calls to that # to ring to the S3 also. But doing that bypasses the GV system, so it goes to carrier voicemail. This same problem would exist even if the secondary device were another smartphone.
I don't know how what you're trying to do can be accomplished except perhaps through NumberSync, which I'm not familiar with. As you probably know, this problem is nonexistent if you go "all in" with GV and don't give out any other number.
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I am in the same boat, I just want the my phone to forward calls to the watch when i am in remote connection (which it already does) but if i dont answer I want my the voicemail left on GV and not my watches number. I think that part can be accomplished the problem is when the watch reconnects to the phone and call forward is turned off on the phone it sets the defualt call forward back to tmobile voicemail and not my GV number. How can we stop this from happening?
If you are using GV there is no need to use call forwarding on the phone/carrier. From a GV perspective, all devices are independent. Incoming calls to your GV number are forwarded to your watch number and your cellphone number (as specified on the GV settings website). Both devices will ring simultaneous, and if you don't answer on either device, it goes to GV voicemail (as specified by the **004*phone number# code).
GV functions the same regardless of how the watch is connected to a smartphone. Remote connection vs standalone effects the pass thru of notifications, and has no impact on GV.
If you have your phone and gear activated on Google Voice, there is an option in GV that will do just what I think you're wanting.
After activating both devices on Google Voice go into Google Voice settings>Edit (your phone)>Show advanced settings>then under Forwarding Options click "Ring my other phones before going to voicemail" and save.
Now go to Edit (Gear S3)>Show advanced settings>then under Forwarding Options click "Go straight to voicemail" and save.
What this does for me is: when my Gear S3 is bluetooth disconnected from my phone, any unanswered call that comes to my phone will be forwarded to my Gear S3. If the call makes it to my Gear S3, and I don't answer the call it will go to my Google Voice voicemail.
If this is what you're wanting then I hope this helps... cheers
Oatswesow said:
If you have your phone and gear activated on Google Voice, there is an option in GV that will do just what I think you're wanting.
After activating both devices on Google Voice go into Google Voice settings>Edit (your phone)>Show advanced settings>then under Forwarding Options click "Ring my other phones before going to voicemail" and save.
Now go to Edit (Gear S3)>Show advanced settings>then under Forwarding Options click "Go straight to voicemail" and save.
What this does for me is: when my Gear S3 is bluetooth disconnected from my phone, any call that comes to my phone will be forwarded to my Gear S3. If the call makes it to my Gear S3, and I don't answer the call it will go to my Google Voice voicemail.
If this is what you're wanting then I hope this helps... cheers
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I am having the same problem as everyone else. Before I do this, does it only work if someone calls your GV #? I don't give out that number to anyone, I just use it for the voicemail feature because it texts and emails it to me.
So what I am looking for is when someone calls my cell phone, it rings on both (even if connected by bluetooth) . If it is a number I don't know I don't answer and if they leave a message I want it to go to my GV voicemail, not my S3 voicemail.
I should also mention I did the **004* option and when I looked at the voicemail number, it was still the old one. I did test this and it did still go to the S3 voicemail.
My husband got this for me for Christmas and I am not as happy with it as I was with my S2 Neo.
Yes, all unanswered calls that come to my cell# (not my GV#) will be forwarded to my GS3. If I don't take the call on my GS3, then the call will go straight to my GV voicemail.
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Yes, all unanswered calls that come to my cell# (not my GV#) will be forwarded to my GS3. If I don't take the call on my GS3, then the call will go straight to my GV voicemail.
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One last question, do I need to this is for both numbers or just for the S3?
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dsireme said:
One last question, do I need to this is for both numbers or just for the S3?
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Never mind, reread what you wrote. Going to try it now.
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One last question, do I need to this is for both numbers or just for the S3?
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Never mind, reread what you wrote. Going to try it now.
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Good Luck... It should work for you too...
Didn't work for me.
dsireme said:
I am having the same problem as everyone else. Before I do this, does it only work if someone calls your GV #? I don't give out that number to anyone, I just use it for the voicemail feature because it texts and emails it to me.
So what I am looking for is when someone calls my cell phone, it rings on both (even if connected by bluetooth) . If it is a number I don't know I don't answer and if they leave a message I want it to go to my GV voicemail, not my S3 voicemail.
I should also mention I did the **004* option and when I looked at the voicemail number, it was still the old one. I did test this and it did still go to the S3 voicemail.
My husband got this for me for Christmas and I am not as happy with it as I was with my S2 Neo.
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If you have your phone and gear activated on Google Voice, there is an option in GV that will do just what I think you're wanting.
After activating both devices on Google Voice go into Google Voice settings>Edit (your phone)>Show advanced settings>then under Forwarding Options click "Ring my other phones before going to voicemail" and save.
Now go to Edit (Gear S3)>Show advanced settings>then under Forwarding Options click "Go straight to voicemail" and save.
What this does for me is: when my Gear S3 is bluetooth disconnected from my phone, any unanswered call that comes to my phone will be forwarded to my Gear S3. If the call makes it to my Gear S3, and I don't answer the call it will go to my Google Voice voicemail.
If this is what you're wanting then I hope this helps... cheers
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I hate to say that this did not work for me. But we did find something that did. On my phone, we put the GV # in the call forwarding busy, unanswered and unreachable. That seem to do it.
Note: I do have my have my forwarding on for my S3. Maybe that's why the GV option didn't work for me.
Either way, thank you for helping. :good:
If you want both devices to ring simultaneously, whether bluetooth connected or both in stand alone modes, then you have to use your GM # as your primary number. I didn't do this because that means I would have to change all of my primary #'s for everyone who has my phone number. Both devices have to have "forward unanswered calls" set to forward to Google Voice.
I don't know of a way to have both devices ring simultaneously without using you GV # as your primary number.
I'm sorry I could't help
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If you have your phone and gear activated on Google Voice, there is an option in GV that will do just what I think you're wanting.
After activating both devices on Google Voice go into Google Voice settings>Edit (your phone)>Show advanced settings>then under Forwarding Options click "Ring my other phones before going to voicemail" and save.
Now go to Edit (Gear S3)>Show advanced settings>then under Forwarding Options click "Go straight to voicemail" and save.
What this does for me is: when my Gear S3 is bluetooth disconnected from my phone, any unanswered call that comes to my phone will be forwarded to my Gear S3. If the call makes it to my Gear S3, and I don't answer the call it will go to my Google Voice voicemail.
If this is what you're wanting then I hope this helps... cheers
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This works perfectly! Now i don't have to deal with multiple voicemail's to check and my phone isn't constantly resetting the GV settings when the damn auto call forwad feature is turned off and on
Oatswesow said:
If you have your phone and gear activated on Google Voice, there is an option in GV that will do just what I think you're wanting.
After activating both devices on Google Voice go into Google Voice settings>Edit (your phone)>Show advanced settings>then under Forwarding Options click "Ring my other phones before going to voicemail" and save.
Now go to Edit (Gear S3)>Show advanced settings>then under Forwarding Options click "Go straight to voicemail" and save.
What this does for me is: when my Gear S3 is bluetooth disconnected from my phone, any unanswered call that comes to my phone will be forwarded to my Gear S3. If the call makes it to my Gear S3, and I don't answer the call it will go to my Google Voice voicemail.
If this is what you're wanting then I hope this helps... cheers
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To go off of this.. Make sure you go into the gear app on your phone and turn off auto call forwarding inside the gear app. Now this works for me connected watch to phone and when I'm away from my phone.
I wanted to do this because the call forwarding sucked as I would always get messages saying calls are not being forwarded via the stock gear settings.
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So yesterday I made the switch from using Visual Voicemail to using my Google Voice account as my Voicemail. So far, I LOVE IT (I recommend doing this if you have a GV account). My only concern is that I'm wondering if I need the app constantly running to get notifications of new voicemail? Because I have gbhil's kernel installed with the tweaked memory-killer, so I don't know if the GV app is always running. Can anyone using Google Voice for Voicemail post how they have everything setup? I want to use the least amount of battery with this, so I was thinking maybe only enabling SMS notifications of new Voicemail?
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So yesterday I made the switch from using Visual Voicemail to using my Google Voice account as my Voicemail. So far, I LOVE IT (I recommend doing this if you have a GV account). My only concern is that I'm wondering if I need the app constantly running to get notifications of new voicemail? Because I have gbhil's kernel installed with the tweaked memory-killer, so I don't know if the GV app is always running. Can anyone using Google Voice for Voicemail post how they have everything setup? I want to use the least amount of battery with this, so I was thinking maybe only enabling SMS notifications of new Voicemail?
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Yes, it is always running, and to be honest, it takes up very little battery to be noticed.
You or others might also be interested in this:
http://www.google.com/voice/sprint
Setting this up forwards voicemail from calls to your cell number (not your GV number) on to your Google Voice visual voicemail. In my case, nobody even knows my real cell number, they just call/text GV, but for folks transitioning it could be useful.
Isn't that the same as using Google Voice for your cellphone Voicemail? Anyway, what did it mean by "immediate" forwarding? I didn't quite understand what they meant by that... and I don't want to see a $0.20 charge on each minute/call I use... my dad would get very angry haha.
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I should probably say that right now, I have a Google Voice number, and I have the voicemail setup so that any call I get to my Sprint number gets picked up by the Google Voice number's voicemail... I hope that makes sense?
Yes, setting GV up in "voicemail mode" is a newer feature than when I first got my GV set up, but my roommate has his set up that way. It's pretty much the same but they take out a few of the forwarding features that you wouldn't be using if you're just using it as a voicemail service. (ring multiple phones and such). One thing you'll be glad to hear is that around the end of last year, Sprint decided to drop the charges on conditional call forwarding, as part of a "partnership with google". So, there are NO CHARGES when call forwarding to google voice.
Edit: I see what you're saying. When they say immediate call forwarding, they mean unconditional call forwarding. (forwarding all calls into your sprint number). What you probably want to do is CONDITIONAL call forwarding (forwarding calls when the line is busy, or when there is no answer).. See this link: http://support.sprint.com/support/a...ur_Sprint_phone/case-vw371511-20091020-144925
So you've got [sprint number]->[google voice]->[your phone] Which will be charged because all calls are forwarded to GV, and then GV rings your phone
I have, (and you probably want), [sprint number]->[your phone]->[if no answer, google voice] Which doesn't result in a charge.
Hope that helps
Hmm... I'm still confused about that. With the diagrams above, are you talking about someone calling me? Or me calling someone? Really I don't care about having anything transferred to my GV number... all I want is the voicemail part of it.
What have you done so far? Are you forwarding ALL your calls to google voice first, and then google voice is ringing your phone? (*72 forwarding?)
What I'm trying to get across here is that you want all your incoming calls to go to your phone first, then if you're busy or there it isn't answered, it will go to google voice, which will automatically pick up and go to voicemail when you have your phone set to "activate google voicemail on this phone" in your Google Voice settings.
If you currently have it set up to forward all your incoming calls to your google voice number, then google voice rings your cellphone afterwards, you will be charged for this type of call forwarding. You don't want to set it up this way if you're just using google voice for voicemail.
If you followed the setup that GV gives you for voicemail, they have you use *285555555555 (replace 5s with number you want to forward to. In this case, your GV number), which is what you want to use. This forwards calls to the specified number, after you either don't pick up your cellphone, or you're currently in a call. (*38 turns this off)
In contrast:
*725555555555 (again, replace 5s with the number to forward to) forwards all incoming calls to your sprint number to whatever number you specify. This charges you monies. Don't use this one. If you have done this, turn it off by dialing *720
Yes, I have the first thing you said currently. Basically if someone calls me (Sprint number), and I'm not there and they leave a voicemail, it leaves the voicemail with Google Voice. I then use the GV app to listen to my voicemail. I think I understand it now. So basically all I want to do is click "Enable Voicemail on this phone"? How would I go about setting it up so that all calls are forwarded to my Google Voice number (just so I don't accidentally do this)?
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If you followed the setup that GV gives you for voicemail, they have you use *285555555555 (replace 5s with number you want to forward to. In this case, your GV number), which is what you want to use. This forwards calls to the specified number, after you either don't pick up your cellphone, or you're currently in a call. (*38 turns this off)
In contrast:
*725555555555 (again, replace 5s with the number to forward to) forwards all incoming calls to your sprint number to whatever number you specify. This charges you monies. Don't use this one. If you have done this, turn it off by dialing *720
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That makes A LOT of sense! Thanks! I think this is resolved. Maybe this should be stickied or something so other people don't get confused with this.
Maybe I'll make a Google Voice for dummies writeup, since I haven't really contributed anything of substance here yet
But I went through this same thing late last year, GV can be very confusing for people that haven't used it.
Ok, so I just got done with a chat with Sprint, and I had called myself with these Google Voice settings, and according to Sprint, no $0.20 charge had been made to my bill. Looks like this is awesome! Thanks so much!
No problem. I'm working on a more substantial writeup right now, so that hopefully people won't run into these confusions again.
Quick question, what is the best way to set GV up so that I don't need to have Mobile Network (EvDO) constantly on? I only really ever have EvDO enabled when I need to use it so I can save battery life.
Well, I don't ever turn mine off, but I'd guess you'd just need internet connectivity to check and download your GV messages. If you don't mind not being updated the moment you get a new message, then there's nothing you'd have to do. (I mean you'll know when you get a missed call, if your phone is on, obviously) But if you REALLY need to know right away when you get a new message, you can turn on SMS notifications in GV settings.
Your phone still has internet connectivity in 1x only mode, it's just not as fast.
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Your phone still has internet connectivity in 1x only mode, it's just not as fast.
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Well, he said he was turning off 'mobile network'. When I turn off 'mobile network' in my settings, I don't get ANY internet connectivity. I'm pretty sure it disables it entirely, regardless of connection type
Btw, I've got my tutorial writeup over in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633196
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Does anyone know how to setup google voice to work with your ATT # not just your google voice #
Did you try installing the Voice app to your phone?
Upon initial launch of the app, the user is walked through the setup, including whether or not you want to use Google Voice to make/receive calls and if you want to use it for your voicemail. It even takes you to the screen on your phone to change the preference from carrier to Google Voice and provides you with the number to use.
How to you reduce the number of rings before going to Voice's voicemail?
JOe K.
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Does anyone know how to setup google voice to work with your ATT # not just your google voice #
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Visual Voicemail works by forwarding calls from your phone to your GV number. There is no other option. The forwarding settings are on your phone - so your phone knows to forward calls if you don't answer, the phone is off, or you push reject button.
Install GV on your phone
Login to your GV account with GV phone app
I have not had any luck getting the app to configure my phone, so i go to the settings page of GV in my desktop browser, set up my mobile there - it gives you the dial code to put in your phone to configure forwarding.
JOe K. said:
How to you reduce the number of rings before going to Voice's voicemail?
JOe K.
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It is a carrier setting, I can't remember if you have to call or if you can change this from your phone - i think you have to go to AT&T online or on the phone and have them change it.
alphadog00 said:
It is a carrier setting, I can't remember if you have to call or if you can change this from your phone - i think you have to go to AT&T online or on the phone and have them change it.
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Yes you have to call customer care.
alphadog00 said:
Visual Voicemail works by forwarding calls from your phone to your GV number. There is no other option. The forwarding settings are on your phone - so your phone knows to forward calls if you don't answer, the phone is off, or you push reject button.
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Google Voice voice mail does not require a GV number. You only need GV number if you want to use the free SMS feature of GV.
The first time you install and launch GV app on your phone, it will walk you through the steps to set up the proper voice mail settings on your phone. I remember I have to punch in some numbers manually by the prompt of GV.
The free SMS texting saves me $$ but you need to be aware of the fact that GV SMS does not support short codes. So it won't work if you want to vote on American Idol etc.
Also, you have to go into google voice on your computer and there's a number you have to dial on your phone to tell your carrier to forward unanswered calls to google's service. I forget where it's located on the google voice website.
You can dial that number and enter the codes and it will use google voice for voice mail even if you have or have not installed google voice app on the phone.
Call customer service? Go to the ATT website? What? You don't have to do any of that junk.
It couldn't be simpler. Go to the following website:
https://www.google.com/voice
You have to click on "Activate Voicemail" in settings. It tells you what to do.
Install the app on your phone. Follow the instructions.
Choose "Don't Make Calls Using Google Voice" and you can continue using your ATT number.
MikeyMike01 said:
Call customer service? Go to the ATT website? What? You don't have to do any of that junk.
It couldn't be simpler. Go to the following website:
https://www.google.com/voice
You have to click on "Activate Voicemail" in settings. It tells you what to do.
Install the app on your phone. Follow the instructions.
Choose "Don't Make Calls Using Google Voice" and you can continue using your ATT number.
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You didn't read the question that was being answered. Another poster asked how to get VM to pickup with less rings - the answer is NOT google.
foxbat121 said:
Google Voice voice mail does not require a GV number. You only need GV number if you want to use the free SMS feature of GV.
The first time you install and launch GV app on your phone, it will walk you through the steps to set up the proper voice mail settings on your phone. I remember I have to punch in some numbers manually by the prompt of GV.
The free SMS texting saves me $$ but you need to be aware of the fact that GV SMS does not support short codes. So it won't work if you want to vote on American Idol etc.
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Signing up for GV gives you a GV number even if you never use it. All those numbers you punched in - they were forwarding your calls to your GV number and the only thing the GV number does is answer and record voicemail.
If you go to your phone settings (on your phone) you will see that unanswered calls and rejected calls are forwarded to a phone number - that is your GV number.
More than one person asked how to set up Visual Voicemail, or expressed their inability to get it working.
No one posted clear instructions on how to set it up.
So I did.
Please don't tell me what I did and didn't read. Thanks.
MikeyMike01 said:
More than one person asked how to set up Visual Voicemail, or expressed their inability to get it working.
No one posted clear instructions on how to set it up.
So I did.
Please don't tell me what I did and didn't read. Thanks.
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Joe K. Asked:
How to you reduce the number of rings before going to Voice's voicemail?
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I and others told him to call customer service or go to AT&T website....
You started your comment with:
Call customer service? Go to the ATT website? What? You don't have to do any of that junk.
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As you can see (maybe not) references to AT&T and customer service had nothing to do with setting up Google voice - no one ever said they did. But your response connects the two together.
So if you had read the original question from Joe K. you would realize that no one was telling anyone to call or go to AT&T to set up Google Voice.
I agree it has little to do with the original question.
JOe K. said:
How to you reduce the number of rings before going to Voice's voicemail?
JOe K.
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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 the number you wrote down previously, 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.
Thanks guys sometimes i'm an idiot.
When I receive a call, it rings for about half a second and I can't answer it. It goes to my GV voicemail. I can't answer the call.
I thought, man if GV is this buggy I'm going to just use the T-Mo voicemail service. So in Call Settings I switched back to my carrier. But still, when I call my phone, it rings for half a second, then goes to GV voicemail. WTF.
So I went to GV settings and found my forwarding phone in the Phones tab and I clicked on "Deactivate GV on my phone." It said I had to go to my phone and type ##004#. So I did that and nothing happened. Still same problems.
This is really annoying because a) I can't answer my calls, b) I don't get any missed call notifications.
Can anyone help me?
matt2053 said:
When I receive a call, it rings for about half a second and I can't answer it. It goes to my GV voicemail. I can't answer the call.
I thought, man if GV is this buggy I'm going to just use the T-Mo voicemail service. So in Call Settings I switched back to my carrier. But still, when I call my phone, it rings for half a second, then goes to GV voicemail. WTF.
So I went to GV settings and found my forwarding phone in the Phones tab and I clicked on "Deactivate GV on my phone." It said I had to go to my phone and type ##004#. So I did that and nothing happened. Still same problems.
This is really annoying because a) I can't answer my calls, b) I don't get any missed call notifications.
Can anyone help me?
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I turned off call screening and I get my calls now. But my missed call notifications are coming from Google Voice. WTF.
Also I have my voicemail set back to My Carrier still and if I call myself I get GV Voicemail.
Shot in the dark..but do you have "Do not disturb" enabled in the Google Voice app or on the website? If so, disable it.
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Shot in the dark..but do you have "Do not disturb" enabled in the Google Voice app or on the website? If so, disable it.
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Nope. I turned off Call Screening and I finally started getting calls. BUT WHY CANT I DISABLE GOOGLE VOICE COMPLETELY!?!?!?
Have you tried logging in Google vice on computer and change settings to dis associate the number sign to that particular email account
Yeah, dude. It's in the OP.
So I went to GV settings and found my forwarding phone in the Phones tab and I clicked on "Deactivate GV on my phone." It said I had to go to my phone and type ##004#. So I did that and nothing happened. Still same problems.
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So let's say I have a GV number and a mobile number. And I turn on Call Screening. Why would it screen calls to my mobile number???
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Shot in the dark..but do you have "Do not disturb" enabled in the Google Voice app or on the website? If so, disable it.
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Even if I had DND enabled.... Why would it block calls TO MY MOBILE NUMBER?
All I want GV to do with my mobile number is forward calls from my GV number.
Easy answer. Your sprint number takes over your google voice number.
Check out here how to fix that
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075021&page=3
I posted the last post which is the easiest way to do it.
tnerb123 said:
Easy answer. Your sprint number takes over your google voice number.
Check out here how to fix that
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075021&page=3
I posted the last post which is the easiest way to do it.
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Well that would make more sense if I wasn't on T-Mobile!
Have you tried to change your settings via the web. Going to your Google voice account and change your voicemail options. Although it sounds like you need to change your cm forwarding on your phone. Go to T-Mobiles site for instructions or call T-Mobile.
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I just got T-Mobile's $30 pre-paid plan with 100 Min Talk + Unlimited texts & Web (5G @ 4G). Perfect plan for me on my HTC Sensation.
I use Google Voice... and that is my primary number. I don't give my T-Mobile number out to anyone, only the Google Voice number.
With T-Mobile Prepaid, you can't change the voicemail forwarding number... so if I decline a call, it goes into T-Mobile's voicemail instead of my GV mail. If I let the phone ring, and don't decline the call, it goes to GV after 4 rings.
I've been looking for a solution where GV will work under all circumstances, and think I understand one, but want to be sure before I do it...
If I call T-Mobile to disable their voicemail, I should be able to use only my Google Voice mail. Is that right? Will it go to GV if I decline a call?
Any confirmation, or additional advice would be greatly appreciated!
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I had T-mobile prepay on a G1 last year. When i found Google Voice, I had wanted to do what you are looking to do. I called T-Mobile and asked them they told me even if i disabled my voice mail the phone would just ring and ring. Never giving the option for Google Voice voice mail to kick in.
Currently I have a regular Sprint account and want to keep both numbers but use the Google Voice voice mail. I had set it up but it told me one of the numbers would have to be deleted if i continued. Basically i want to give random people and bill collectors google voice. Then save my real number for people closer to me.
Thanks for the reply...
I'm not sure that's right though. If I decline the call... it might still continue to ring a couple more times on their end, but GV kicks in after 20 seconds... doesn't it?
You may be right, I'd like to get more confirmation though.
I appreciate it.
I found this out the hard way too. It was very disappointing. I read in a couple forums that people called T-Mobile support and asked for their tier 2 support who could manually override the forwarding numbers. Unfortunately, when I tried it, the support agent said that forwarding wasn't possible under the prepaid plans. I still wonder how it was possible that others reported having success. Will there ever be a fix for us T-Mobile prepaid / Google Voice users?
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I appreciate the responses...
but it still doesn't answer the question...
If I disable T-Mobile voicemail on the phone. Wouldn't Google Voice pick up the call after a certain number of seconds?
Rather than just keep ringing, GV would answer it and play the VM message... wouldn't it?
Works for me, thanks everybody.
Ok, I called CS and had them de-activate my voicemail on my prepaid voice service.
If you call my tmobile # directly, and the device is on, it rings for 30 seconds, then goes into tmobile voicemail system asking for a #. If the device is off, it goes directly into the tmobile voicemail system asking for a #.
If you call my google voice, it rings for 30 seconds whether the device is on or not, then goes into google voicemail.
This works for what I need, and I hope it answers a question or two for others.
Also, the tech support guy said it can take a couple hours to go through, but it worked for me within a minute. The text msg I received however, said something about changing my service to monthy 4G, and I had to go make a payment. He said to ignore that, and it appears he was right, as my account still says monthy prepaid voice on mytmobile.com.
Somehow, I think the tmobile voicemail system doesn't send a pickup signal unless it's going into a mailbox. Or, maybe the Google guys programmed their end to know about this non-answer, and ignores it.
Ok so i am on the same plan and here is what I got so far after having them turn off the VM feature. You can call Tmobile customer care free using *8646.
1)If Tmobile Phone number is called calls will either continue to ring or will get a busy signal once decline/text response is initiated
2) If GV number is called, phone will ring 5 times regardless of decline/text and will go to GV VM.
More short codes can be found here for t-mobile pre paid services.
Hope this helps.
check out this post. it works. ive done it.http://www.talkandroid.com/guides/g1/replace-t-mobile-voicemail-with-google-voice-visual-mail/
How to get Google Voicemail on StraightTalk (with T-Mobile SIM card)
This also works to get Google Voice (GV) voicemail from Straight Talk if you are using their T-Mobile SIM card. For example, using the lovely cyanogenmod7 on my rooted old Motorola MB200, here are the steps I took:
I did not call customer service to get them to turn off my Straight Talk/ T-Mobile voicemail, since I don't think I'll need to.
In your cell phone (not GV)'s contacts list or address book, add a new contact with your Straight Talk/T-mobile mobile number (NOT your GV number).
While adding this new contact, select the Option to send your incoming calls for this contact straight to voicemail.
Call Settings > Voicemail Settings > Write down this number, and then change it to your new GV number.
I also UNchecked the LED voicemail notification box (so I won't even KNOW if my phone tries to tell me about Straight Talk/ T-Mobile voicemails).
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I also UNchecked the LED voicemail notification box (so I won't even KNOW if my phone tries to tell me about Straight Talk/ T-Mobile voicemails).
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Where is this? I want to turn off those bloody notifications too.
Turn off voicemail notifications if not Google Voice
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Where is this? I want to turn off those bloody notifications too.
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For me, on cyanogenmod7, I stopped getting T-Mobile/StraightTalk voicemail notifcations by UNchecking the box at: Settings > Call Settings > Other Call Settings "Voicemail notifications".
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This also works to get Google Voice (GV) voicemail from Straight Talk if you are using their T-Mobile SIM card. For example, using the lovely cyanogenmod7 on my rooted old Motorola MB200, here are the steps I took:
I did not call customer service to get them to turn off my Straight Talk/ T-Mobile voicemail, since I don't think I'll need to.
In your cell phone (not GV)'s contacts list or address book, add a new contact with your Straight Talk/T-mobile mobile number (NOT your GV number).
While adding this new contact, select the Option to send your incoming calls for this contact straight to voicemail.
Call Settings > Voicemail Settings > Write down this number, and then change it to your new GV number.
I also UNchecked the LED voicemail notification box (so I won't even KNOW if my phone tries to tell me about Straight Talk/ T-Mobile voicemails).
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It works, but as soon as you cycle power on your phone you loose the settings. At least I did on my Galaxy Nexus
adellefrank said:
This also works to get Google Voice (GV) voicemail from Straight Talk if you are using their T-Mobile SIM card. For example, using the lovely cyanogenmod7 on my rooted old Motorola MB200, here are the steps I took:
I did not call customer service to get them to turn off my Straight Talk/ T-Mobile voicemail, since I don't think I'll need to.
In your cell phone (not GV)'s contacts list or address book, add a new contact with your Straight Talk/T-mobile mobile number (NOT your GV number).
While adding this new contact, select the Option to send your incoming calls for this contact straight to voicemail.
Call Settings > Voicemail Settings > Write down this number, and then change it to your new GV number.
I also UNchecked the LED voicemail notification box (so I won't even KNOW if my phone tries to tell me about Straight Talk/ T-Mobile voicemails).
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Hmm, doesn't work for me, on ICS, Tmo $30 prepaid, galaxy s2.
Under call settings, voicemail service ... doesn't list a number, nothing to change.
In call, settings, there IS a "call forwarding" option for unanswered calls, with tmo voicemail number in it, but, I can't change this number, keeps saying network error when I try.
Anyone got this to work with ICS?
Thanks!
I'm on T-Mobile's Monthly 4G as well. What worked for me is I went into my phone settings and set the voicemail service to "my carrier" and the voicemail number to my Google Voice number. When I get a voicemail message I receive an SMS notification. Then I just dial my GV number and listen to the voicemail. This works if I decline the call or let it ring through. Seems to be an adequate solution for me.
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I'm on T-Mobile's Monthly 4G as well. What worked for me is I went into my phone settings and set the voicemail service to "my carrier" and the voicemail number to my Google Voice number. When I get a voicemail message I receive an SMS notification. Then I just dial my GV number and listen to the voicemail. This works if I decline the call or let it ring through. Seems to be an adequate solution for me.
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What "voicemail number" where? There doesn't seem to be such an option in ICS, Samsung Galaxy SII, under "call settings -> voicemail".
Thanks!
noneone said:
What "voicemail number" where? There doesn't seem to be such an option in ICS, Samsung Galaxy SII, under "call settings -> voicemail".
Thanks!
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oh wow I am glad I found this thread. I just switched to ST and from darkside to CM9 and now I cannot get GV to work anymore. Also you are correct there is no voicemail number in CM9 only call forward options which fail if you try to change them. Also why is there no call settings from the Settings menu, you can only get there from the Phone app lol. This really sucks because I am liking CM9 but need google voice so may have to go back to the darkside lol.
I take that back you can change the number but when you try changing the service from carrier to GV you get forwarding number change unsuccessful.
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oh wow I am glad I found this thread. I just switched to ST and from darkside to CM9 and now I cannot get GV to work anymore. Also you are correct there is no voicemail number in CM9 only call forward options which fail if you try to change them. Also why is there no call settings from the Settings menu, you can only get there from the Phone app lol. This really sucks because I am liking CM9 but need google voice so may have to go back to the darkside lol.
I take that back you can change the number but when you try changing the service from carrier to GV you get forwarding number change unsuccessful.
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Is darkside gingerbread? I am on stock ICS and have these issues, can't change forward anything in ICS.
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Is darkside gingerbread? I am on stock ICS and have these issues, can't change forward anything in ICS.
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No it's ICS. I found out Tmobile prepaid doesn't allow call forwarding so GV doesn't work so that's why there is the work around in this thread except I cannot get it to work.
daweeze02 said:
No it's ICS. I found out Tmobile prepaid doesn't allow call forwarding so GV doesn't work so that's why there is the work around in this thread except I cannot get it to work.
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Just to be clear .... Google Voice works just fine, with a VOIP program (grooveip, talkatone, etc.) you can make calls over the wireless data plan, or use google voice straight on the tmo cell minutes.
The issue ... by default .....
1) calls to your tmo cell number get answered by your tmo voicemail, NOT by google voice mail.
2) Calls to your google voice, if forwarded to your cell number, ALSO get answered by your tmo voicemail.
So google voice works great and fine. There is an issue only if you want to use google VOICEMAIL ......
There are two scenarios .....
1) You ONLY want to use your google voice NUMBER, you never want to use your tomo number (or at least don't want to get voicemails if someone calls your tomo cell number.
The solution here is to simply turn off your tmo voicemail, and all calls to your google number will be answered on google voicemail if you don't pick up, and all calls to your tmo cell number will go to /dev/null (nowhere) if you don't pick up. BUT, if you're not giving anyone your tmo number,you don't care.
2) You want to use your google voicemail for google number calls, and you DO want to use tmo number and to have google voicemail, work for your tmo cell number i.e. you want to have two active numbers each going to google voicemail.
Well you can't. At least that's what we think for ICS ...
Post earlier in this thread shows a technique that might work on gingerbread, but, with ICS, doesn't seem to be anyway to forward the tmo voicemail number to google voice.
Please someone post back if they figure out a way to get this to work.
Thanks!
Guess I should have clarified I was only trying to get it for VM's. GV calls, sip etc all work fine for me.
Hi Everyone,
Sorry if similar has been posted, I tried doing a search but I was not able to find anything for this.
So far I am loving my new watch. I have been doing a bit of playing around with it and the most recent thing I have been working on is getting google voice to be used for voicemail.
So I am newish to google voice and have not been using it for voicemail or anything until now, but I figure now I have two numbers and two voicemails and combining them to one would be great.
So I have configured my cellphone number and watch number with google voice. I have setup my google voice number to be the number that is forwarded to for voicemail for both my phone and watch. So far, initial testing seems to be going great except for one minor thing. On my watch, if I do a reboot it changes the default voicemail number that I would use to call my voicemail on the watch from my google voice number back to the default T-Mobile number. This is just a minor inconvenience as I could just setup a separate contact to be able to call the google voice number. I just like to be able to just tell it to dial voicemail though.
Has anyone else done anything similar yet, if so are you seeing the same issue. I am thinking that the watch has an issue with saving some default things as I have had it wipe out watch settings and stuff as well.
Thanks
I too am interested in this kind of setup. Been using Google Voice as my default VM for my cell. Can't get it to stick once I set it up on my Gear S2 and it reoots.
chibluboy said:
I too am interested in this kind of setup. Been using Google Voice as my default VM for my cell. Can't get it to stick once I set it up on my Gear S2 and it reoots.
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Is your problem the same as mine where the default number that the watch is using to call out to check voicemail is going back to the default? Or is your actual number for people calling in to the watch and it going to voicemail being reset?
So the google voice voicemail seems to work great for watch and for phone. The issue with the number clearing out on the watch after a reboot really isn't a big headache as I don't power off the watch often so far.
One of the things I was thinking to try was to change the default number on my phone that is associated with the 1 key for voicemail to my google voice number and see if that would sync it over to the watch that way. I am trying to figure out how to change the default number associated to my voicemail though.
I have a Note 5 on T-Mobile and the voicemail settings is grayed out. I have read that I can root the device and then it would give me access to system files which I could then modify to be able to access the voicemail settings. I was hoping to do this without having to do a root on the phone. Has anyone else ran into this issue and is there any resolution for it without a root?
Thanks
rgburress said:
So the google voice voicemail seems to work great for watch and for phone. The issue with the number clearing out on the watch after a reboot really isn't a big headache as I don't power off the watch often so far.
One of the things I was thinking to try was to change the default number on my phone that is associated with the 1 key for voicemail to my google voice number and see if that would sync it over to the watch that way. I am trying to figure out how to change the default number associated to my voicemail though.
I have a Note 5 on T-Mobile and the voicemail settings is grayed out. I have read that I can root the device and then it would give me access to system files which I could then modify to be able to access the voicemail settings. I was hoping to do this without having to do a root on the phone. Has anyone else ran into this issue and is there any resolution for it without a root?
Thanks
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I went through the step by step process directly on the Google Voice website for adding a new # to my google voice account. Once your watch has been successfully added, GV will give you the ** (GV phone number) # sequence to dial in through your watch to permanently activate GV as your default voice mail. I have since rebooted my S2 several times and every single time my voicemail is set to Google Voice.
chibluboy said:
I went through the step by step process directly on the Google Voice website for adding a new # to my google voice account. Once your watch has been successfully added, GV will give you the ** (GV phone number) # sequence to dial in through your watch to permanently activate GV as your default voice mail. I have since rebooted my S2 several times and every single time my voicemail is set to Google Voice.
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I followed the same instructions as well. For me it works to update the voicemail so when that phone rings the google voice voicemail is the one that the caller is directed to.
But if I go into the settings there is a number to use for voicemail, That doesn't update when I use the google voice instructions. So I manully change it to my google voice number, after a reboot it clears back to the default T-Mobile number.
So I noticed a bit of an issue today with using google voice as my voicemail for the watch and phone. Was wondering if anyone has any ideas on a work around.
So basically I have my phone and watch setup with the forwarding to go to my google voice number for voicemail only.The problem I am having is that when I lose the bluetooth connection to the watch, the call forwarding sends calls from the phone to the watch. When the bluetooth connection is established again, the call forwarding disables and it sets my call forwarding number on the phone back to the default t mobile number and not my google voice number. So then I have to dial the forwarding number again to setup the forwarding to google voice every time my phone connects remotely to my watch.
A couple of thoughts on it but I am not sure if any are possible.
The ideal situation would be if I could just change the default number away from t mobile's default and have it be my google voice number, so if it resets then it would reset back to google voice number. Anyone know if this can be done if I root the note?
The other thought would be some kind of program that would run that anytime the watch first establishes bluetooth connection to the phone, the phone will auto dial the number that does the call forwarding to my google voice number, this would allow it to fix itself each time it established.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
rgburress said:
So I noticed a bit of an issue today with using google voice as my voicemail for the watch and phone. Was wondering if anyone has any ideas on a work around.
So basically I have my phone and watch setup with the forwarding to go to my google voice number for voicemail only.The problem I am having is that when I lose the bluetooth connection to the watch, the call forwarding sends calls from the phone to the watch. When the bluetooth connection is established again, the call forwarding disables and it sets my call forwarding number on the phone back to the default t mobile number and not my google voice number. So then I have to dial the forwarding number again to setup the forwarding to google voice every time my phone connects remotely to my watch.
A couple of thoughts on it but I am not sure if any are possible.
The ideal situation would be if I could just change the default number away from t mobile's default and have it be my google voice number, so if it resets then it would reset back to google voice number. Anyone know if this can be done if I root the note?
The other thought would be some kind of program that would run that anytime the watch first establishes bluetooth connection to the phone, the phone will auto dial the number that does the call forwarding to my google voice number, this would allow it to fix itself each time it established.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
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Did you ever find a solution to this? I just got Gear s3 and in the same boat. When I establish connection to watch again the phone defaults to t-mobile voicemail number and not my GV one.