Finally I think I have my texting problem figured out!!!!
I am using google voice with my google voice number, I am using it for texting only and nothing else. I will port my number to the google voice when i am finally out of contract at Verizon.
So for now I want the texts to only come on the Sony Tablet S, but the texts are also coming on my phone. I need to stop them from coming to my phone, how do I do that?
Thank you
Sandy
spoilingpets said:
Finally I think I have my texting problem figured out!!!!
I am using google voice with my google voice number, I am using it for texting only and nothing else. I will port my number to the google voice when i am finally out of contract at Verizon.
So for now I want the texts to only come on the Sony Tablet S, but the texts are also coming on my phone. I need to stop them from coming to my phone, how do I do that?
Thank you
Sandy
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I believe you have to get on your computer and go to the google voice n
Settings..and I believe its a setting in there somewher to disable your phone from receiving texts.
I use google voice on my table and it works great.
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Now you have really excited me LOL, So now that I am checking out Google Voice. I have a phone number from them now. I have questions!
If I give this phone number out to everyone and they call me on the GV number does that mean I am not using minutes on my verizon plan? if that is the case how do you know for sure people are calling on the proper number? how do I dial out on that number from my phone and not the Verizon number?
I apologize but this is all new to me and I have to admit everyone here has been great at helping me learn all these new things!
Thank you so much
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Hello I recenlty got my Dell Streak from Best Buy. I have since used QDL and upgraded to the latest 2.2 sofware and rooted the phone. I really like and love this phone. The new software has corrected almost all of my concerns with the phone.
But.... LOL, Theres always a but.
Iphone 3gs was my first AT&T phone. It came preloaded with visual voicemail. A feature i soon came to love and adore. Before that I had a very long history with the Palm Treo on sprint which only had a voicemail indicator. BUT the streak has abosolutley no voicemail features whatsoever. No icon to tell you that you have pending voicemails. No visual voicemail. Nothing. I searched the app market and didnot find any solution at all. Also call me stupid but im not even sure how to check my voicemail on AT&T. I'm sure i can probably just call my number and put in a pin or something. But screw that.
This is a basic cell phone function. How could this be left out!
I guess im asking if there is a solution out there that i am not aware of, or if any developers can make a fix for this. Heck i would even pay for such an application. I know I can't be the the only person who has noticed this feature missing on the Streak.
Visual voicemail isn't supported by all devices. When I went from my blackberry to the streak the visual voicemail was gone from the services on at&t account online.
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Have a look at Hullamail. It works great for me on O2 in the UK. From the app it notifies you if you receive new voicemail or missed calls and you can then view and listen from the app or set it to email you which you can then pickup and listen to the mp3 either on your phone or from your PC etc.
HTH
Stuart
You may want to sign up and try Google Voice.
As far as accessing your voice mail on AT&T just open the dialer and long press on 1 (one). If your VM isn't set up follow the prompts.
Mine has a vm icon. I'm on Steve's 1.5.0. I don't think I've never had a vm icon though. I just pull the menu down and click vm and it calls.
PhoneFusion+ is a free service to ATT customers. ATT reps will tell you but BB reps don't have any idea (at least not the ones who sold me my Streak). It gives you visual notification of calls missed/voicemails. Also lists your voicemails visually with contact info and time of call. It actually call forwards the call to its server and plays the outgoing message stored on your card. Voicemails are then sent back to your card so you can view/listen w/o having to dial into att to retrieve.
If you want the entire text of the voicemail, they will do that for a monthly fee. You can try that part free for 30 days. I found it to be very inaccurate so cancelled text VM, but kept and use the rest of the app.
PhoneFusion+ is in the Market.
+1 Google Voice
It's really a must have for any Android phone.
http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOZU7BOeQ58&NR=1
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+1 Google Voice
It's really a must have for any Android phone.
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Yes it is Pity it only works for you guys over the pond, But heres Wishing
Google Voice FTW!
Android and Google Voice are like Peaches and Cream. If you're not using Google Voice on your Streak you're missing out. Free to sign up, you pick your number. It's AWESOME!
I too had the iPhone previously and Google Voice definitely fills the visual voicemail void.
treylemkn said:
Android and Google Voice are like Peaches and Cream. If you're not using Google Voice on your Streak you're missing out. Free to sign up, you pick your number. It's AWESOME!
I too had the iPhone previously and Google Voice definitely fills the visual voicemail void.
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Ok, so I have a google voice account... how the heck do I set the voiucemail for my cell phone line to go to my google voice account?
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Ok, so I have a google voice account... how the heck do I set the voiucemail for my cell phone line to go to my google voice account?
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Install the Google voice app from the market, run it and follow the prompts. If you get a message that the forwarding change has failed go to your google voice page on your computer and click on settings, then voice settings. Click on the voice settings link and when that page loads click on activate voicemail and follow the prompts there. Make sure your carrier is listed properly.
So far the SGS2 is great except for one thing, the antiquated voice mail system app.
As much as the iPhone sucked a chubby, it did have that one good feature. I’ve searched the Market and Forum for something comparable but came up empty handed. I’m not looking for Dialers, Contacts, Voice Dial, or anything else fancy; I just want that damn Apple Voice Mail interface.
Does anyone have a suggestion? Would love to see someone put it in the stock Phone/Dialer.
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So far the SGS2 is great except for one thing, the antiquated voice mail system app.
As much as the iPhone sucked a chubby, it did have that one good feature. I’ve searched the Market and Forum for something comparable but came up empty handed. I’m not looking for Dialers, Contacts, Voice Dial, or anything else fancy; I just want that damn Apple Voice Mail interface.
Does anyone have a suggestion? Would love to see someone put it in the stock Phone/Dialer.
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i felt the same way until I installed Google Voice, its is great! Does visual voicemail and it transcribes the message as well. A little tricky to set up at first but works great!
joshuadjohnson22 said:
i felt the same way until I installed Google Voice, its is great! Does visual voicemail and it transcribes the message as well. A little tricky to set up at first but works great!
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Google Voice Rocks! .. Add a widget to your homescreen and I've grown to love it more then iPhone Voicemail.app
do you have to use your google voice number or can you use your own number?
ElectronicYank said:
do you have to use your google voice number or can you use your own number?
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you use your own number. it just forwards all unanswered calls straight to your GVoice voicemail
i got a gvoice account a long time ago but never use it. i came from an iphone so i got very accustomed to visual vmail.
can someone link me or help me on setting up gvoice mail?
thanks!
polobreaka said:
i got a gvoice account a long time ago but never use it. i came from an iphone so i got very accustomed to visual vmail.
can someone link me or help me on setting up gvoice mail?
thanks!
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Install Google Voice from the market, and then run it. Just follow the steps.
Don't know why I didn't install this earlier cause it freaking rules.
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Google voice is the best out the bunch. Especially love the transcripts, always makes for a great giggle.
How do i select my greeting for google voice? I set it so that my regular calls get forwarded it to its voicemail, but i dont see any setting for greetings
ChocolateSnow said:
How do i select my greeting for google voice? I set it so that my regular calls get forwarded it to its voicemail, but i dont see any setting for greetings
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From a web browser www.Google.com/voice then go into the settings.
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you can use google voice for free texting from your actual number? I used heywire for free texting, but people that texted my real # weren't notified that I couldn't receive texts, then I split an "unlimited" with a friend for $30/mo
Google voice does it for free from your real # without error?
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you can use google voice for free texting from your actual number? I used heywire for free texting, but people that texted my real # weren't notified that I couldn't receive texts, then I split an "unlimited" with a friend for $30/mo
Google voice does it for free from your real # without error?
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yup. Or you can choose a new gvoice number, like having 2 lines, but ones is totally free! And people can call and text that number, and you will receive it on your device, also you can choose before each call whether to call from your g voice number or your reg number.
Is there an Android App that can Send and Receive Texts via WiFi on your Prime like you Text from a Smartphone using a Contact's Phone number?
Thanks
Did you do any research ? at all ?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.howettl.textab
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.apdroid.tabtalk
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mysms.android.client
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Did you do any research ? at all ?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.howettl.textab
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.apdroid.tabtalk
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mysms.android.client
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I did a Google search and found some info I was just wondering if there a Popular one that Prime guys like. Thanks for your input.
"Prime guys"? I swear XDA is just goin to hell. There is already a thread on here for the exact same thing.
Try Gtalk. Every SMS will go to whatever app you have Gtalk open on, either your computer/tablet/phone.
Google Voice is as good as any app for SMS. I use it on my tablet. You can consolidate all texts and call through the same number, ditch your carrier number for the most part, so that when you swap carriers or phones or REAL phone numbers, people can still use the same number to reach you. You could even use the Google Voice Callback (though its market availability is currently in limbo, install it on an android phone by downloading the apk. It all syncs together, you can use your GV with an app like sipdroid to make calls using voip. I thought this was all common knowledge for android users.
Nick
Just install tablet talk and use a real phone. Google Voice blocks you from sending messages to a contact after 120-150 in one day, unless you are using it through forwarding texts to any cellular (dumb or smart)phone. So GV on it's own is not useful for serious communication.
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As far as I know Google Voice does not send MMS either. If it did I would use it on all my devices by default.
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Hey, I'm switching from Sprint to T-Mobile, and I need to decide if I want t port my number to TMo or keep it as my Google Voice number, with forwarding to my new number. I know T-Mobile doesn't have the full integration Sprint does, but the big question nobody seems to have answered anywhere that Google can find is this: on T-Mobile, does Google Voice still let you choose whether to receive texts via the GV app or the stock messaging app, or are you stuck using the Voice app?
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Hey, I'm switching from Sprint to T-Mobile, and I need to decide if I want t port my number to TMo or keep it as my Google Voice number, with forwarding to my new number. I know T-Mobile doesn't have the full integration Sprint does, but the big question nobody seems to have answered anywhere that Google can find is this: on T-Mobile, does Google Voice still let you choose whether to receive texts via the GV app or the stock messaging app, or are you stuck using the Voice app?
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Dude, your signature is being read by a ton of folk who's third or fourth language is English. Try writing a few posts in Russian, or better yet, Mandarin, and you'll get what their up against. (Yes, that's a deliberate dangling participle.) Although I agree with your basic gist for the most part, your approach isn't going to win anyone over to respect our ever-changing, hybrid-by-nature mother tongue. Respect is the key to respect.
To answer your question, you can set it up so Google Voice texts are forwarded to your stock messaging app/service/number. I use Handcent pretty much exclusively with my Google Voice number, but it doesn't support MMS, yet. I still use my cell number for MMS, but there've been rumors in the mill for months.
T-Mobile has always lagged behind the other major US carriers in Google integration ever since the G1 wasn't the only Android phone on the market. They lag because their cheap, and they're cheap because they lag. It's OK with me, I'd rather hack my phone than pay too much for it.
Hi everyone. I don't know if everyone has heard the news, but Oppo is coming out with a new phone called the Oppo Find 7 and there is also going to be a new Nexus handset out. I will soon be getting a unlocked phone and I am going to go with the T-Mobile $30 a month plan which includes 100 minutes of Talk, Unlimited Text, and 5GB of 4G DATA. I am going to use Google Voice to call people and I already have a number for it. So I will be using Voice over IP to call people and people will call me through that number. Now I know I explained alot of stuff that I didn't really have to explain but anyways, let me get to the real explanation. You know how, based on your launcher or lockscreen, it shows you how many miss calls or voicemails you have. Well since I will be using Google Voice and be using an app called GrooveIP or maybe Talkatone, will I get those notifications. They are in your notification bar too. I really want those notifications. Even if I use Google Voice, will it give me those notifications?