Is there a way to access visual voicemail for free? I understand that you can rout your voicemails through google voice and access them that way, but I was looking for something more innate within the rom without routing my voicemail. If not, what are others doing out there to get around paying for visual voicemail?
PS Im running JellyBeans ROM
badboyg200 said:
Is there a way to access visual voicemail for free? I understand that you can rout your voicemails through google voice and access them that way, but I was looking for something more innate within the rom without routing my voicemail. If not, what are others doing out there to get around paying for visual voicemail?
PS Im running JellyBeans ROM
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Most people use google voice.
I don't think there are any replacements over VVM other than gv. I dont' know why you wouldn't use GV, since it has more robust functions than VVM does. it is easy to setup, too. took me like < 10 minutes.
I use youmail try it out
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youmail works great. Better than Visual if you ask me
kimdoocheol said:
Most people use google voice.
I don't think there are any replacements over VVM other than gv. I dont' know why you wouldn't use GV, since it has more robust functions than VVM does. it is easy to setup, too. took me like < 10 minutes.
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GVoice is the way to go.
There are a few other VVM apps on the market that have their own setup so you have to pay them for it instead of VZW. There are also quite a few that use "X" carriers service and their app is mainly just a different UI.
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Youmail is the Way to go !
badboyg200 said:
Is there a way to access visual voicemail for free? I understand that you can rout your voicemails through google voice and access them that way, but I was looking for something more innate within the rom without routing my voicemail. If not, what are others doing out there to get around paying for visual voicemail?
PS Im running JellyBeans ROM
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According to me, GV is the best VVM out there but still I have an experience with Youmail which was no that bad so I'd recommend you to tryout the YouMail... (You'll get back to GV, I know)
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Were are these two apps?
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Were are these two apps?
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I was wondering that myself. I hated visual voicemail personally, but city id was the bees knees. I still have the .apk, but it will not install. This is what happens when something actual works.
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Were are these two apps?
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For visual voicemail you can install Google Voice. It is free. With Verizon you have to pay a fee. I am not sure about the city I'd. I'm sorry.
It's not what the OP asked for, but I have used youmail for visual voicemail without problems. It has the ability to give custom greetings to certain contacts and you can set it not to allow certain numbers to leave voicemail at all. For nuisance callers, the combination of a blacklist on the phone and a no-voicemail setting on youmail has been ideal for me.
For city ID, there used to be an app in the market called "City Caller ID." It was pulled due to a large company threatening to sue the developer over what they say was their own patent. There are still copies of it floating around the internet, however.
MischiefsMommy said:
For visual voicemail you can install Google Voice. It is free. With Verizon you have to pay a fee. I am not sure about the city I'd. I'm sorry.
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How do you get Google Voice to work for Voicemail? I set Verizon as my carrier from the computer, but when I try to setup the app on my phone, I get a carrier incompatibly error. Google still handles my voicemail, I just can't use the app to retrieve them.
LGeX said:
How do you get Google Voice to work for Voicemail? I set Verizon as my carrier from the computer, but when I try to setup the app on my phone, I get a carrier incompatibly error. Google still handles my voicemail, I just can't use the app to retrieve them.
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Since I have used Google Voice, I have not tried to retrieve via dialing from my phone, I have always just installed and used the app (Google Voice).
I want City ID back!!!!!
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.
JoeDodds said:
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.
I am coming from an iPhone 3GS (ios 5) to the ATT GNote (stock ROM) and I am confused by the various voicemail app options available for the GNote. I was happy with the iPhone voicemail (visual voicemail?) and would prefer similar functionality (or better) on my GNote.
My GNote has two apps that came with it -- Messages and Messaging. Does one of these apps have good voicemail functionality, or should I consider other apps?
What are the options available to me (without rooting) and what are the advantages/disadvantages of each?
the messaging app don't do voicemail the at&t messages does but it also lumps phone calls and text messages into the same app,I like the at&t messages app because it gives me voicemails in text,another option is visual voicemail,there is another post going about getting that to work.
I have read favorable reviews of the Google Voice app and the AT&T Visual Voicemail app.
How do these two compare with each other as visual voicemail apps and with iPhone visual voicemail?
Does AT&T Visual Voicemail installation requiring rooting?
Use the AT&T visual voicemail app. not root required and I have it working fine on my Galaxy Note & Galaxy SII.
Use the one from this forum called. VVM_GSLEON3.apk that's the one I used and its 100% working.
marose1 said:
I have read favorable reviews of the Google Voice app and the AT&T Visual Voicemail app.
How do these two compare with each other as visual voicemail apps and with iPhone visual voicemail?
Does AT&T Visual Voicemail installation requiring rooting?
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ATT Visual VM is the easiest and is most like Iphone visual voice mail.
Google Voice is another category. Visual voicemail is just one component of google voice. Visit Google's website dedicated to google voice if you want to explore what else it does.
Else; for simple visual VM; use ATT's solution.
There is no comparison between gv for VM and att vvm. GV is way better, but I'm using att right now because our business has a GV number and I'm one of the forwarding phones.
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youmail
I use youmail, have never had any problems with it its a great visual voicemail service, its free, has a ton of features
ps I have also used Google Voice for vm and did like that as well !!
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There is no comparison between gv for VM and att vvm. GV is way better, but I'm using att right now because our business has a GV number and I'm one of the forwarding phones.
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I also use GV and find it much better. But GV is not Just Visual Voice mail. If you just want VVM there are alternatives. To use GV just for the VM feature (which many people do) is sort of overkill. An Avg user may be intimidated with the setup compared to coming from the rather simple iphone VVM.
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I also use GV and find it much better. But GV is not Just Visual Voice mail. If you just want VVM there are alternatives. To use GV just for the VM feature (which many people do) is sort of overkill. An Avg user may be intimidated with the setup compared to coming from the rather simple iphone VVM.
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There is GV lite. It's sort of the point.
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To clarify, while Google Voice does have other functionality available, you can choose to only use the vm feature.
Also, on the Note, many of us have noted that the standard setup fails when it tries to change your vm dial number. In order to install it correctly, you should do it from the Google Voice web page instead of from within the app.
I use Google Voice.
It sets up with ease and is backed by GOOGLE.
Nuff said for me!
I'm running Peetr's Hybrid rom and noticed that It doesn't have a built in voicemail handling app. So if someone leaves me a voicemail I just get a really wierd text message instead. I was using PF voicemail for call forwarding and voicemail since I was having major service coverage issues and that will tell you missed calls no matter what. But I don't want to use that anymore since it's slow and I'm having problems with it. So my question is. What do I use for voicemail? Is there anything similar to that visual voicemail app that originally came with my phone? Free would be great but if it works I would shell out a couple bucks.
I'm wondering the same thing. I'm using the AOKP JB Rom (thx 3bill) and get multiple text messages for each voicemail. Personally, I loved the visual voicemail that came stock and I'm hoping there's a way to port it in. You can still check your voicemail though just by dialing yourself. BTW, how do you like that Rom as I haven't tried it yet but am loving the AOKP one?
Well this rom is about as good as it gets for me since I have a locked bootloader. But it is very nice compared to stock. I'm using Google voice right now for voice mail and it works pretty good so far. I just wish my texts didn't show up in it at all.
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I use Google Voice. It's very configurable. When a voicemail comes in it can notify you by text, e-mail, etc. plus the standard functions you had with visual voicemail that came with the phone. The key is to go into Google Voice web site settings and prevent it from prescreening your calls and handling your texts.
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I use Google Voice. It's very configurable. When a voicemail comes in it can notify you by text, e-mail, etc. plus the standard functions you had with visual voicemail that came with the phone. The key is to go into Google Voice web site settings and prevent it from prescreening your calls and handling your texts.
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Yep. I just found that out today. I was wondering why the hell it kept asking me to press numbers to answer my calls.
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Yep. I just found that out today. I was wondering why the hell it kept asking me to press numbers to answer my calls.
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You can turn that off in settings. Not on the app, but on the website. It refers to feature as 'call screening'.
So I like a lot of the roms out there that I've tried. But my biggest thing on most is Verizon's stupid VoiceMail app... Most of them don't have it installed and the copy of the app I have found usually doesn't work or crashes non-stop after I install it from TWRP.
I know there's YouMail (I think that's what it's called.) but I wasn't a big fan.
Is there either a way to stop getting the garbled text message when not using the verizon app or what?
I've noticed that if I don't use a rom with the Voicemail app I either don't get Voicemails or I get the garbled text message and it still doesnt' really work correctly.
I get my voicemail thru Google voice, but I also use the vzw messages+ app so no garbled texts. Well other then some rather humorous renderings of a computer program having problems figuring out some Oklahoma and Texas accents.
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TwiggLe said:
So I like a lot of the roms out there that I've tried. But my biggest thing on most is Verizon's stupid VoiceMail app... Most of them don't have it installed and the copy of the app I have found usually doesn't work or crashes non-stop after I install it from TWRP.
I know there's YouMail (I think that's what it's called.) but I wasn't a big fan.
Is there either a way to stop getting the garbled text message when not using the verizon app or what?
I've noticed that if I don't use a rom with the Voicemail app I either don't get Voicemails or I get the garbled text message and it still doesnt' really work correctly.
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I went to my verizon account and disabled visual voicemail, so I get the old school standard voicemail notification now.
Google Voice on every device I've used for the past few years
hawkswind1 said:
I went to my verizon account and disabled visual voicemail, so I get the old school standard voicemail notification now.
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i'm getting the funky texts instead of a voicemail notification, but I don't have visual voicemail on my phone. any idea where else to turn it off?
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i'm getting the funky texts instead of a voicemail notification, but I don't have visual voicemail on my phone. any idea where else to turn it off?
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Through Verizon's website or on the my verizon app it's plan>change features>voicemail
hawkswind1 said:
Through Verizon's website or on the my verizon app it's plan>change features>voicemail
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I'm not finding it on the website, but can I download the apk from the playstore and run it there? I'm on AOSP at the moment
thanks,
goldsmitht said:
I'm not finding it on the website, but can I download the apk from the playstore and run it there? I'm on AOSP at the moment
thanks,
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Yep you should be able to install the My Verizon app from play store. If not use http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ and sideload it.
Youmail sucks because of their horrible contact sync. It messes everything up. However someone made a different app for the service called Better Youmail and it is phenomenal!
I ended up contacting verizon on there twitter support page and they disabled basic visual voicemail and I've been back to using just the old one since.
TwiggLe said:
I ended up contacting verizon on there twitter support page and they disabled basic visual voicemail and I've been back to using just the old one since.
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Jasmine ROM and Visual Voice Mail.
Flawless.
If anyone is on an AOSP ROM and getting funky SMS messages instead of voicemail notifications:
Condition:
You are running without Verizon VVM "Messaging" app installed.
Symptoms:
When someone leaves a voicemail, you get a SMS message with a bunch of header info. The message starts with //VVMMMS... and usually includes the caller's number somewhere in the string.
You do not get a standard notification of a voicemail (no envelope in the notifications and/or status bar.
Information:
It is likely that your account is setup for Basic Visual Voicemail. The messages that you are receiving are push control messages that stock-installed Verizon apps would pick up and use to generate their own notifications. Since VVM is not installed, they come across as regular SMS messages.
Verizon has 3 different voicemail offerings at present: Voicemail, Basic Visual Voicemail, and Premium Visual Voicemail; the latter is usually a paid service. Based on which is included with your account/line, they determine how the notification should be sent; the app is a key component in the proprietary service.
Solution:
You may contact Verizon at their support 800 number and go through the prompts to get technical support. When you get there, ask them to change your voicemail setting to "IMS Voicemail" instead of "IMS Visual Voicemail Basic." This should allow you to get the standard notification and call *86 when you tap it. Keep in mind that this is something done on the carrier's side, so if you decide to install VVM or use a stock ROM that includes it, the functionality will not be there. If the paid service was included as part of your contract, you may have some difficulty in getting them to change the setting back to "IMS VVM Basic" without an additional fee.
If you install hangouts, you can configure your voicemail to go to the hangouts app. Not only will it transcribe it so you can read it, you can play it right from a thread like an sms message.
It's very neat.
I use Google Voice and have been for a few years. I like the fact they transcribe the voicemail for you. Also, anytime someone leaves a voicemail or I get a missed call, i get an email on my gmail account. The missed call emails are a life saver especially when the phone never rings to notify you of a missed call to start with which has happened to me a couple of times. You can also text and make phone calls from the Google Voice app as well.
TwiggLe said:
So I like a lot of the roms out there that I've tried. But my biggest thing on most is Verizon's stupid VoiceMail app... Most of them don't have it installed and the copy of the app I have found usually doesn't work or crashes non-stop after I install it from TWRP.
I know there's YouMail (I think that's what it's called.) but I wasn't a big fan.
Is there either a way to stop getting the garbled text message when not using the verizon app or what?
I've noticed that if I don't use a rom with the Voicemail app I either don't get Voicemails or I get the garbled text message and it still doesnt' really work correctly.
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I just downloaded YouMail. trying to see what the deal is with this app. why didn't you like it?
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I just downloaded YouMail. trying to see what the deal is with this app. why didn't you like it?
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It wasn't horrible, I just didn't like having an app like that. I know everything we do even on our phones is being watched/stored somewhere by someone most likely.
But I just didn't like having yet another party having access to my things. It worked, setting up the voicemail message with a slight pain for a bit till I got it working right.
The notifications worked, people didn't have issues leaving me messages etc. It worked is the main thing. I just personally didn't care for it.
Now that I'm back to using plain voicemail without the visual VM etc I'm happy with that.