At&t visual voicemails play through external speaker - AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717

Like the topic says, all my voicemails play on speaker phone and i can't figure out how to change it
Extremely annoying.
Anyone else?
Please don't tell me to use Google voice. If i wanted to id be using it already

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Have you clicked that?
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+1 for using the s pen to answer someones question!
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Awesome reply!

Thanks for the replies. Apparently we're using different apps because mine doesn't look like that.

This is what I use.
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macked said:
+1 for using the s pen to answer someones question!
sent from my iPhone killers killer, Samsung Galaxy Note.
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right!!
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btothec is using VVM. You are using AT&T Messaging, a different app. There's nothing in the settings about playing messages? For the day I used it I got a VM that was converted to text, but it didn't play on my speaker.

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btothec is using VVM. You are using AT&T Messaging, a different app. There's nothing in the settings about playing messages? For the day I used it I got a VM that was converted to text, but it didn't play on my speaker.
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hmm i see
wheres this ATT messaging app that gives a transcript of the voicemail message?

You can get it in the market. I uninstalled it because I didn't like the way it took over SMS messaging. Once you install it you lose VVM on the account and have to call CS to get stock VVM back, though, so be aware of that.
"AT&T Messages" in market

hausman said:
You can get it in the market. I uninstalled it because I didn't like the way it took over SMS messaging. Once you install it you lose VVM on the account and have to call CS to get stock VVM back, though, so be aware of that.
"AT&T Messages" in market
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That "AT&T Messages" app actually came pre-installed on my Note. I ignored it, though, and chose to sideload the VVM apk instead.
(I use the GO SMS app for text messaging).

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You can get it in the market. I uninstalled it because I didn't like the way it took over SMS messaging. Once you install it you lose VVM on the account and have to call CS to get stock VVM back, though, so be aware of that.
"AT&T Messages" in market
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thanks for info bud
but can you explain a lil bit more about how it "takes over sms" ?

how much does att charge for visual voice mail. i use google voice

SayWhat10 said:
thanks for info bud
but can you explain a lil bit more about how it "takes over sms" ?
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The "AT&T Messages" app handles both text messages and visual voicemail, so the stand-alone sms messaging app no longer handles your text messages. Make sense?

KingofKingsB said:
how much does att charge for visual voice mail. i use google voice
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It's FREE on any properly provisioned AT&T LTE device, and $2.99 per month on their 3G devices.

paleh0rse said:
The "AT&T Messages" app handles both text messages and visual voicemail, so the stand-alone sms messaging app no longer handles your text messages. Make sense?
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It does take over as VVM and it does display a unified inbox of all messaging. But it doesn't take over SMS/mms from the messaging application. You can still use that or Go SMS or any other if you want...but while AT&T Messages is installed you will get the orange notification in the status bar.
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Help me get rid of annoying new voicemail notification

I cannot get rid of this new voicemail notification from the status bar no matter what I do. Atrix does not have an option to clear voicemail notifications like other phones.
I don't have a voicemail setup and I don't plan to do it.
My firmware is 45.2.17.MB860.BellMobility.en.CA. The phone is unlocked and rooted and I am using it on a 2G network (Speakout). I called Speakout but they could not help me.
Below are the screen captures of the notification.
Thanks for any input
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Why don't you go into recovery mode and try to wipe some stuff like caches and such?
You could try clearing the data for Voicemail in TiBU, you could even try freezing the app since you don't plan on using their vm. Google Voice is a better alternative anyways.
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You could try clearing the data for Voicemail in TiBU, you could even try freezing the app since you don't plan on using their vm. Google Voice is a better alternative anyways.
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How do I clear the data for Voicemail in TiBU? Thanks
sounds like you could try a factory reset?
its in settings somewhere lol
ovexi said:
How do I clear the data for Voicemail in TiBU? Thanks
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Download Titanium Backup From Android Market here. Go to the "backup/restore" tab, find the Voicemail app, select "wipe data".
I can't see the pic at work, but from what I remember my girlfriend had the SAME PROBLEM. It's the factory voicemail that is notifying you. If you use gVoice for voicemail, you got a VM before switching over. You can clear data all you want but the VM service runs off a trigger from the server and until you clear it- youre toast. You can clear all the data in the world and it wont resolve.
To clear the trigger, there are a couple ways.
1) If you are one AT&T do this:
To remedy this issue call the AT&T Pilot Voicemail. You can locate it for your area from this document.
For example, OKLA City is (405)664-6359, you can call that # if you have free long distance (most do this day and age and from a cell).
If you call from a land line it will prompt you for the Voicemail box #, aka your phone number. Input that, your pin, then it will let you in to clear the VM.
Should you be on another carrier, call that carriers Pilot Line for their VM service. A pilot line is a backdoor to allow say a secretary to leave a VM without calling your phone. Pretty neat.. also very handy for this situation.
2) You can set the VOICEMAIL Carrier in your settings back to your OG settings of the Carrier. This will redirect you #1 dialpad button to whoever does your carrier VM service. Call it and delete the message.
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Download Titanium Backup From Android Market here. Go to the "backup/restore" tab, find the Voicemail app, select "wipe data".
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I tried in Titanium Backup but could not find the voicemail app. I custom searched for "voice" but no voicemail app came up. What is the name for this app in your phone?
ovexi said:
I tried in Titanium Backup but could not find the voicemail app. I custom searched for "voice" but no voicemail app came up. What is the name for this app in your phone?
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On MY phone the name of my VM app is Google Voice, because imo it is FAR superior to any other VM app! But since obviously we are not talking about GV.. Do a search for "dialer", my results look like this:
You see where the Dialer application (CM7) says [voicemail] in front of it? I'm guessing that's what handles VMs from your carrier. Wipe data for it and see, you can "backup" before you wipe in case you need/want to restore.. I hope that fixes your problem!
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On MY phone the name of my VM app is Google Voice, because imo it is FAR superior to any other VM app! But since obviously we are not talking about GV.. Do a search for "dialer", my results look like this:
You see where the Dialer application (CM7) says [voicemail] in front of it? I'm guessing that's what handles VMs from your carrier. Wipe data for it and see, you can "backup" before you wipe in case you need/want to restore.. I hope that fixes your problem!
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For some reason I cannot find the "voicemail" app in TiB. I searched for "dialer" and for "voice" but all I got was "voice commands", "voice readouts", "voice search", "dialer storage".
Strange. Maybe because it's stock ROM?
Thank you for this solution. That stupid notification was driving me crazy!
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Download Titanium Backup From Android Market here. Go to the "backup/restore" tab, find the Voicemail app, select "wipe data".
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Thanks, worked for me.
The other suggestion I was going to make was to call your mail box and clear down any unheard/saved calls as that notification is triggered by your carrier (well it is with mine, goes away once I listen to them, not when I call the mail box!)

[Q] Google Voice No Notifications

I am not sure if I setup the new phone correctly or not. With my old phone I went under Settings--Call-Voicemail Service and could select voice. With this new phone not seeing the option. Also I have to click and open to view if someone left me a message or not inside of Google Voice application. Is this because of how HTC is doing multi-tasking a little different? Thanks for any help or insight.
I'm not getting voicemail notifications from GV either. It started after I flashed a custom rom.
could be the sleep issue that seems to be plaguing everyone, but other than that im not sure what it could be
I saw someone else post but did not fully understand the sleep issue and since I have not unlock phone was not clear if that is what cause the problem or stock has the same issue. Thanks for the information.
asuman1179 said:
I saw someone else post but did not fully understand the sleep issue and since I have not unlock phone was not clear if that is what cause the problem or stock has the same issue. Thanks for the information.
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i really don't know if it affects stock, but since all custom roms are having the issue then i would guess its also a stock issue? just a guess though since i dont develop roms, i just tweak them to my liking lol
I just called myself from a land line and left a voicemail. Within 30 seconds, I got an email and a text from GV notifying me of the new VM. I'm on Fresh 5.1.1 and have been about a week now. This is the first I've heard of this problem so I was worried that maybe something had recently changed. All appears to be fine here.
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The issue is deep sleep, after the phone has been off for a while it turns off WiFi and data to conserve battery
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erikivy said:
I just called myself from a land line and left a voicemail. Within 30 seconds, I got an email and a text from GV notifying me of the new VM. I'm on Fresh 5.1.1 and have been about a week now. This is the first I've heard of this problem so I was worried that maybe something had recently changed. All appears to be fine here.
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That's not the issue. Those are separate notifications. He's talking about getting a notification directly from the google voice app. You can turn off text and email notifications and just rely on the app. I have not been getting notifications from the app either.
You are correct timtlm that the app is not giving me the notifications anymore or I guess ever but still pretty new to the phone. Also wanted to mention in my old Evo 4g I had it setup to not to use the carrier voicemail service. Does not seem to be an option but that might be because of IC version.
timtlm said:
That's not the issue. Those are separate notifications. He's talking about getting a notification directly from the google voice app. You can turn off text and email notifications and just rely on the app. I have not been getting notifications from the app either.
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Sorry abut that, I misunderstood.
asuman1179 said:
You are correct timtlm that the app is not giving me the notifications anymore or I guess ever but still pretty new to the phone. Also wanted to mention in my old Evo 4g I had it setup to not to use the carrier voicemail service. Does not seem to be an option but that might be because of IC version.
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OK, I just got it to show the notification. I had checked the settings in the app to be able to review google voicemail within the call history. I'm guessing sense doesn't support that since I don't see anything in the call history. After unchecking that, I started to get notifications again.
timtlm said:
OK, I just got it to show the notification. I had checked the settings in the app to be able to review google voicemail within the call history. I'm guessing sense doesn't support that since I don't see anything in the call history. After unchecking that, I started to get notifications again.
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Can you clarify, did you uncheck "Voicemail Display: View and play voicemails from the phone call log?"
I am not seeing "Voicemail Display: View and play voicemails from the phone call log" inside of google voice app? Am I looking in the wrong place?
asuman1179 said:
I am not seeing "Voicemail Display: View and play voicemails from the phone call log" inside of google voice app? Am I looking in the wrong place?
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I unchecked it. It's in the Google voice app under menu, settings, voicemail display. It was unchecked by default. It's supposed to be a new ICS feature.
I already have that one checked. This is just so strange but guessing it has something to do with the sleep feature of the phone.
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I already have that one checked. This is just so strange but guessing it has something to do with the sleep feature of the phone.
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He said he UNCHECKED it i believe.
I also was not getting notifications for voicemails, but was for texts so I don't think it is a sleep issue. Sounds like unchecking that setting should give me voicemail notifications too, thanks.
I've been using Google Voice with these settings from the Sync And Notifications menu with no problems. I never did set up the Voicemail on the phone, and for messaging its Google Voice unless its a MMS instead of SMS. Google voice doesn't support MMS so it automatically goes to the messaging app. Notification works fine for all.
Just flashed cm11 and don't get GV text notifications.
Well I see them slide up in the top if I'm looking while I get a text but they don't stick. (Or no notification if it's off)
I didn't set up vm within GV, and I've reset GV app data, still no luck.
Also I use 2 accounts. 1 main one for email (and app purchases), and 1 primarily for Google voice.
I have no sync off for gv account. But the thing is the same setup on my tablet, I get notifications. (Same amounts, same sync settings, running jelly bean on tab, kit kat on phone)
Any suggestions?

Getting MMS from I phone instead of SMS

Whenever a certain friend sends a text to me I get it as a MMS msg instead of just a normal SMS. Is that because he is doing something wrong? I get normal txts from my wife from her I phone. What's the reason for this?
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mentallo said:
Whenever a certain friend sends a text to me I get it as a MMS msg instead of just a normal SMS. Is that because he is doing something wrong? I get normal txts from my wife from her I phone. What's the reason for this?
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thats weird are you using the default messaging app?
I use Go SMS mainly but the normal android app does the same.
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I use Go SMS mainly but the normal android app does the same.
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That's weird I send regular texts and group chats with iphone users and never have that problem. Try clearing the cache for both apps or freeze the stock messaging app.
If I try a send a text and select 2 contacts this shows up:
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I would guess you are being sent a txt athat is being sent to other users. I am guessing its due to the phone being "compatible" that its showing as mms
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If I try a send a text and select 2 contacts this shows up:
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I would guess you are being sent a txt athat is being sent to other users. I am guessing its due to the phone being "compatible" that its showing as mms
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That's what I thought but if that was the case he would be receiving replies from other people. I personally use gosms for group texting so Idk how stock works
I know for awhile there iPhone to android and vice versa was having issues. Don't know if they ever fully figured it out. They being apple or google. I don't have any I-friends lol so I can't test for ya. But if your getting the message I wouldn't worry over much.
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Kidney Poker said:
I know for awhile there iPhone to android and vice versa was having issues. Don't know if they ever fully figured it out. They being apple or google. I don't have any I-friends lol so I can't test for ya. But if your getting the message I wouldn't worry over much.
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i personally was able to group mms with 2 iphone users on the stock messaging app but now i use the gosms app because it has emojis and you know how iphone users love their emojis....
this happens all the time to me. Whenever one of my friends initiates a text message to multiple persons from his iphone, it shows up on my end as a multimedia message. Whenever one of my iphone friends sends me just a one-on-one text message it shows up as a regular SMS.
I see this problem more often when I don't clear out messages from the recipient in a conversation. Last night I started seeing it happen real bad and I noticed there were about 200 messages in the conversation so I deleted the thread and the problem went away.
I do hate the problem though, I always receive "multimedia message, press <here> to download" and then you have to wait.

Google Voice MMS

So last time I knew, I could not receive MMS messages to my Google Voice number on Verizon. Then, I got this today.
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Is this new or what? I have never gotten. This before. Any ideas?
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What carrier is the sender on? AFAIK, MMS works to and from Sprint numbers.
The person is on Sprint. So, basically you're saying if anyone from Sprint sends me a MMS that it will email me the picture but no other carrier?
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I get an email of the picture or audio if someone sends a MMS to my Google Voice number. I didn't think that the app was able to receive them.
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The person is on Sprint. So, basically you're saying if anyone from Sprint sends me a MMS that it will email me the picture but no other carrier?
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Yea. Google and Sprint have agreements in place for Google Voice. Sprint users can also port their numbers to Google Voice directly without having to have a separate carrier number.
I use Google Voice and get pics to my phone with BOOST Mobile
I have my Gvoice settings set to:
Forward copy of my texts to gmail.
Some smaller ones do, some larger ones do not. I am almost certain that thumbnail sized simple jpegs will usually go to your smartphone.
Regardless, as long as you have this option, and an internet enabled phone, you may still be able to manually log into your gmail account to view any MMS messages that don't go to your phone. Audio and video too.
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I have my Gvoice settings set to:
Forward copy of my texts to gmail.
Some smaller ones do, some larger ones do not. I am almost certain that thumbnail sized simple jpegs will usually go to your smartphone.
Regardless, as long as you have this option, and an internet enabled phone, you may still be able to manually log into your gmail account to view any MMS messages that don't go to your phone. Audio and video too.
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but you are on sprint, right?
I receive images to my email regardless of carrier. I have gotten them from ATT, Sprint, Verizon and T-mobile accounts. I still can't send them out. I have to email any images.
When I first started using GVoice I was not able to receive any MMS texts. Then at some point the MMS texts came to my GMail. Then later on the GVoice app started doing what the OP said. I guess now GVoice can receive MMS texts and it notifies you on Gvoice but sends the media portion of it to your GMail.
ya on any phone i've used google voice ive never gotten mms at all. I'm using page plus as my carrier

Google voice won't play from call log

The play button shows, but nothing happens when I press it. Any ideas?
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The play button shows, but nothing happens when I press it. Any ideas?
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Ditto here.
Works fine here, even after the recent update. Perhaps you should uninstall and then reinstall.
Same. I got this message when installing google voice:
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It made me wonder if Verizon was blocking it on purpose to try and get more people to pay for their visual voicemail.
Ok, think I figured it out......I had VZWAVSService disabled. Enabled it and now they play just fine from the call log...
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I have disabled VZWAVSService too because it was popping up an error message every time I restarted the phone. I'll have to mess with it and see if I can leave it enabled without getting that error message.
So far having VZservice 're enabled I'm not getting that message anymore. I was getting it in the past which is why like everyone else I disabled it. Seems to be good now and I have restarted the phone several times which is when I would get the message.
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I defrosted mine, whatever it is, and it force closes soon after every boot just like it did before. I am currently going through all my Google voice voicemails and they play fine, but I think they were already before I defrosted vzwavsservice. I'll freeze it again and see if Google voice voicemail still works.
There is also some Verizon based voicemail on the phone too.
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Still no luck here. I re-enabled the VZWAVSerivce and it still popped up when I restarted with a message like "Unfortunately the service stopped". I even tried deleting the cache for that app and still the same prolem.
Oh well, I get the voicemail notifications from Hangouts and Google Voice app now so it's not I'll ever miss them.
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Still no luck here. I re-enabled the VZWAVSerivce and it still popped up when I restarted with a message like "Unfortunately the service stopped". I even tried deleting the cache for that app and still the same prolem.
Oh well, I get the voicemail notifications from Hangouts and Google Voice app now so it's not I'll ever miss them.
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Ok, but did un-freezing it at least allow yo to play your voicemails from your call log? Just trying to pinpoint the reason I couldn't at first. With VZWAVSerivce un-frozen I can still play voicemail from the call log so I'm guessing thats the reason. And I only get the force close message when I restart my phone so I can lie with that.
Im curious to see if those who have un-fromzen VZWAVSerivce have voicemail playing from call log again? Thanks!!
You can always try the new Hangouts with Google Voice integrated. I've frozen the VZWAVService and voicemails work through Hangouts perfectly.
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Ok, but did un-freezing it at least allow yo to play your voicemails from your call log? Just trying to pinpoint the reason I couldn't at first. With VZWAVSerivce un-frozen I can still play voicemail from the call log so I'm guessing thats the reason. And I only get the force close message when I restart my phone so I can lie with that.
Im curious to see if those who have un-fromzen VZWAVSerivce have voicemail playing from call log again? Thanks!!
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I'm not rooted, so I just disabled it in the application manager. There were no voicemails even listed in my call log anymore... which is weird because I remember seeing them listed before with a little play button next to them when it wasn't working. Maybe that's the problem... Maybe disabling VZWavservice removed all those from the call logs and I need to enable it again and have someone call me and leave a VM to see if it shows up again?
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I'm not rooted, so I just disabled it in the application manager. There were no voicemails even listed in my call log anymore... which is weird because I remember seeing them listed before with a little play button next to them when it wasn't working. Maybe that's the problem... Maybe disabling VZWavservice removed all those from the call logs and I need to enable it again and have someone call me and leave a VM to see if it shows up again?
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Check google hangouts. Voice is being merged at the moment.
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Check google hangouts. Voice is being merged at the moment.
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I'm hit and miss on Google Hangouts...been using the new Verizon message app as it sends text over wifi and the app itself is multi platform (OIS,OSX,Android,PC,etc..they make an install-able app for all platforms) I'm not sure if Hangouts sends sms over Wifi and if im correct it only sends actual hangouts over wifi? Does Hangouts save sms and hangouts on the server so if I wipe my phone i can get the messages back? (Verizon message does)
I know its slightly off topic but would love to hear a users opinion on Hangouts.
I read in comments on Play Store from Verizon indications that VZWavservice was a rebranded McAfee antivirus.
It is confusing.
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I'm hit and miss on Google Hangouts...been using the new Verizon message app as it sends text over wifi and the app itself is multi platform (OIS,OSX,Android,PC,etc..they make an install-able app for all platforms) I'm not sure if Hangouts sends sms over Wifi and if im correct it only sends actual hangouts over wifi? Does Hangouts save sms and hangouts on the server so if I wipe my phone i can get the messages back? (Verizon message does)
I know its slightly off topic but would love to hear a users opinion on Hangouts.
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If you have Google Voice turned on in Hangouts, all of your texts and calls are done over wifi/data. From what I've seen, your texts are saved online because they show up everywhere that you have Hangouts installed. The nice thing is that SMS and calls can also be done through the Chrome extension as well.
I just read a further response from Verizon on Google Play for the Verizon Support and Protection app, which is rebranded McAfee AV, in which it is clarified that VWZavservice has unrelated to Verizon Support and Protection. They did not clarify what it IS for though.
Could stand for Address Verification Service.
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sentry_mode_activated said:
If you have Google Voice turned on in Hangouts, all of your texts and calls are done over wifi/data. From what I've seen, your texts are saved online because they show up everywhere that you have Hangouts installed. The nice thing is that SMS and calls can also be done through the Chrome extension as well.
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I wish this was the case but it only seems to happen with the Hangouts messages and Google Voice messages. Any SMS sent through hangouts using your Verizon number doesn't get synced to all your other devices running hangouts. Google really should do that.
It would mean no more backing up and restoring text messages when moving to a new phone.
LaTropa64 said:
I wish this was the case but it only seems to happen with the Hangouts messages and Google Voice messages. Any SMS sent through hangouts using your Verizon number doesn't get synced to all your other devices running hangouts. Google really should do that.
It would mean no more backing up and restoring text messages when moving to a new phone.
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Ah yes you're right about that. No backup of standard SMS. But Google Voice texts are backed up like you said. I've been using it for so long I don't even think about standard SMS anymore
Well it was working for a while, and now it won't play from my call log anymore. Who knows.....
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