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Hey,
I get quite a few voicemails every day & I had the same trouble with my HD2... that I have to call the voicemail number (901) in order to find out if any have been left for me...
This is the one (and only) thing I really miss from my iphone... it would just display notifications like sms/email to let you know you had a voicemail, who it was from and you could play it/delete it straight from the screen.
The only thing I'm interested in is notification - am happy to manage from calling 901... but would really like something to let me know
Any app for this?
EDIT: Note... I don't mean these visual voicemail things I've seen on the app store where you have to re-direct to another server and they convert it to text for you... cheers
Try Hullomail. It's free. When you get a missed call, you get an email and a notification from the app. Also will email you your voicemail or you can do it through the apps UI. It's great
Just downloaded this & very much like the look of it but I'm on Virgin UK, the settings don't include this o I tried T Mobile but just keep getting an invalid mmi message. Any advice? Cheers...
tastyweat said:
Note... I don't mean these visual voicemail things I've seen on the app store where you have to re-direct to another server and they convert it to text for you... cheers
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But...when you say you could see it on the screen and play/delete it right from there, that is EXACTLY what you're asking for. The conversion to text is a secondary feature to services like Ribbit.
Aitese said:
But...when you say you could see it on the screen and play/delete it right from there, that is EXACTLY what you're asking for. The conversion to text is a secondary feature to services like Ribbit.
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Should have ellabourated more... it's the idea of my voicemails going to a random 3rd party i don't like the idea of
Their main "selling" point seems to be these (pointless as far as i can tell) voice->text conversions :S
Hey!
I am lately seeing this issue. When I receive international calls, I dont see the plus code (357) in the callerid. Also they dont get identified from my phone book who have the numbers with the plus codes (357).
Any help?
might be best to post this on the social microsoft pages and ask them directly. there aren't any settings at the moment to cater for this issue.
Thanks for the reply and advise
Is this only working when everyone uses Windows Phones?
Tried it today and the conversations weren't threaded at all. It basically put my outgoing in one thread and replies from people all in their own threads. It was impossible to follow the conversation.
Has anyone tried it?
Yes it have it set to use MMS for group texting and all the devices I was texting were Android and iPhone devices.
Edit: and yea, I'm 100% sure it wasn't using different protocols for different people, since they were sitting next to me when I tested it...
Also, replies from others in the group were only coming to me, which made it impossible for anyone else to follow the conversation.
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N8ter said:
Is this only working when everyone uses Windows Phones?
Tried it today and the conversations weren't threaded at all. It basically put my outgoing in one thread and replies from people all in their own threads. It was impossible to follow the conversation.
Has anyone tried it?
Yes it have it set to use MMS for group texting and all the devices I was texting were Android and iPhone devices.
Edit: and yea, I'm 100% sure it wasn't using different protocols for different people, since they were sitting next to me when I tested it...
Also, replies from others in the group were only coming to me, which made it impossible for anyone else to follow the conversation.
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Did any of the iPhones have iMessage enabled? I know it reverts to SMS if the recipient does not support iMessage. I suspect for Group messaging, it will revert to MMS. I am wondering if there may be an issue if some are MMS and others are iMessage.
Also, with iPhone's the numbers of all recipients are visible to all recipients.
http://www.moxiemoshow.com/group-messaging-iphone/
When you sent messages to the group, were all numbers visible to all recipients?
I am wondering if Mango implemented group text messaging in a way that does not expose the numbers of all recipients. If the numbers for all recipients are not visible to all recipients, then Windows Phone 7 and the iPhone don't implement it the same. So, on one of your friends phones, check to see if all numbers are visible for messages you sent. Since their replies only went to you, I suspect they are not receiving the numbers of all recipients.
I don't know how Android implements Group messaging. Since you didn't say any of your friends had issues, I am guessing it is the same way the iPhone does it. This probably means that iMessage isn't a factor.
Unfortunately, I cannot test this because I ported the number for my LG Quantum to Google Voice to use on my iPhone that work pays for. At some point, I will be getting a prepaid SIM to put in my Quantum so that I can test things, but I have not done so yet.
All I could see on the vibrant was that I got a message from myself. Nothing about other numbers. Biggest reason I wanted to do this is so that I can cc myself in every thread I start, giving me the ability to respond transparently from any of my devices.
Was traveling for 12 hours and people got confused when I swapped devices (and.sometimes I plain.just don't feel like switching off what I'm using at that moment). Don't think I message was the issue, since the android phones aren't working either.
I knowbiys sending an mms cause.I can see the empty subject field on all of the devices.
Maybe it only works for instant.messages?
This keyboard has the worse Autocorrect ever.
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There are lots of legitimate shortcomings of this wonderful platform, this is not one of them.
I mass-text enough. And I have never expected their responses to show up in the mass text field. How on earth would that be engineered?
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There are lots of legitimate shortcomings of this wonderful platform, this is not one of them.
I mass-text enough. And I have never expected their responses to show up in the mass text field. How on earth would that be engineered?
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Although i haven't used the group texting, i wouldn't expect it either to do what i think he is thinking it would do.
Windows Phone keeps history on all your contacts and what each contact has said under that contact. It's not a forum with all of your users joining a thread and posting for all to see. It would make sense that the response to your text came from just that person. It's not designed to let everyone see the response, only the response coming from that person to you. If it allowed more than it would be group instant messaging or group chat. That is not what it is.
Also... isn't what you are trying to do, what email is for? would make more sense.
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There are lots of legitimate shortcomings of this wonderful platform, this is not one of them.
I mass-text enough. And I have never expected their responses to show up in the mass text field. How on earth would that be engineered?
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Funny thing. The OP posted about this in another thread stating that Android doesn't support group messaging. Somehow it became a Windows Phone 7 issue.
In any case the mods removed that post for other reasons and disabled his account. I only saw the post in an email, because I get emails of all posts to the thread he posted in. When I actually went to the thread it was all cleaned up. Since this is the 2nd disabling in a short period of time, it may be permanent.
iPhone does implent group sms so that when iPhone users text each other using group SMS, it effectivey is like a chat room. Responses go to all recipients. All recipients receive the phone numbers of all recipients which allows reply to send responses to all recipients.
I am not sure if Windows Phone 7 group SMS does something similar to this when all phones are Windows Phone 7. To me this feature is primarly useful for event organizers, such as the captain of my softball team that sends things out to all of us, such as weather updates or asking if we know of anyone that can sub. Not as much for a big chat.
I don't have an active SIM for my LG Quantum, so I can't test it.
I have always thought of group texting as more of a way to send for example a merry xmas to all your friends (like 80 or so) in one clip. You don't want all your friends getting all 80 responses (that may kill someones text plan if they have limited)
Interesing that the iphone does that. you would think it wouldn't due to the above issue or to use a different transport.
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I have always thought of group texting as more of a way to send for example a merry xmas to all your friends (like 80 or so) in one clip. You don't want all your friends getting all 80 responses (that may kill someones text plan if they have limited)
Interesing that the iphone does that. you would think it wouldn't due to the above issue or to use a different transport.
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On the iPhone,
It doesn't send 80 messages to each recipient. It just includes all 80 phone numbers with the message.
But, if they reply, it will reply to all 80.
Somehow the replies from iPhones doing this only count as 1 message though.
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On the iPhone,
It doesn't send 80 messages to each recipient. It just includes all 80 phone numbers with the message.
But, if they reply, it will reply to all 80.
Somehow the replies from iPhones doing this only count as 1 message though.
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yeah i meant on the reply. hmm interesting ... maybe they included it in there plan... actually can you get limited messaging on an iphone plan? Maybe that is why?
ROCOAFZ said:
yeah i meant on the reply. hmm interesting ... maybe they included it in there plan... actually can you get limited messaging on an iphone plan? Maybe that is why?
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I think it is because group messing is actually MMS, not SMS.
This blog explains it well. http://shawnblanc.net/2010/12/iphone-group-messaging/
So, it uploads the message once.
Also, iPhone users have the free benefit of iMessage which gives unlimited messaging regardless of carrier between all iPhone OS 5 users. This also applies to iTouch and iPads.
So, on AT&T with my iPhone, I can message and iPhone on Verizon and Sprint for no charge. And to us it seems no different than SMS, except the background color is blue instead of green.
I turned group text off the minute I found out what it was I have a feeling most people don't know what they are actually doing when they use it. Whenever one goes out, I always end up with a bunch of unnecessary texts from people I don't even know.
I searched here and google and saw only a few hits on google, but there wasn't much information. I recommended a Robin when they were on super-sale a few months ago to a friend. She is a teacher and says that several parents who text her aren't getting through, although she can text them on her Robin using T-Mo SIM. She said that the T-Mo guy said he wasn't familiar with the Robin and told her to get a new phone
I told her that it sounded impossible since all text, voice and data is universal and that a phone should not be able to discriminate what carrier the text originated from.
I had her DL Android Messenger and try that as her text app and she said "it didn't work" although I didn't press her what exactly didn't work w. the app because we were emailing each other. Also had her restart. I asked her if she knew if these VZN/ATT people were on iPhones (maybe the people were trying to text her on iMessage (or whatever the iOS text app is called?) but she wasn't sure. She also has access to a Verizon flip phone that her brother has and she says that indeed texts from his phone don't go through to her phone.
She's going to let me look at the phone this weekend and I plan on checking if there are any filtering or settings that might be causing her not to get texts from VZN or ATT phones and then clearing the text app's (not sure what the default text app is on the Robin) data. She says that she can get texts from T-Mo and she will be bringing the brother's VZN phone for me to test. I will report back what / if anything that I find in this thread.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions what might be causing this / have ever heard of such a thing?
TIA
I know there was talk of Google just basically forcing it on but do we know if and how RCS will work? From carrier models and unlocked?
I dont know why this isnt being made a big deal because thisi could really make a huge change....i talked with someone yesterday at tmobile and they said it was turned off around February this year for some reason....Google just cant run things like Apple simply put because Apple would not have left that in the carriers hand period....Google needs to take over and build out their data centers like apple and say the hell with the carriers because it can really be something that could be great....its one of the reasons i left iphone because i was under the impression it was very near but i may be wrong....
I'd rather not have RCS.... I like my privacy and don't need others seeing if I have read a message or am typing out a reply to them, etc. But I realize others think this is a nice feature, I personally am glad that we have SMS for our texting though. If one wants RCS they can use a messenger service easily enough.
Have been using RCS for ages here O2 UK and have to say like a lot. Nothing done by me just popped up.
I use beta Google messages.
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I'd rather not have RCS.... I like my privacy and don't need others seeing if I have read a message or am typing out a reply to them, etc. But I realize others think this is a nice feature, I personally am glad that we have SMS for our texting though. If one wants RCS they can use a messenger service easily enough.
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Hundred percent agree. When I got my N10+ I got bombarded with this nonsense message on every new SMS I received or was sending, if I really don't want msg recieved receipt or something along the lines and then freaking thing changed the settings on it's own. I can understand lawyer sending subpoena would want receive receipt, but I'm not a lawyer. If I want see people typing I'll make video call. BTW I have something called chat on my phone under messages, isn't that RCS? If so let me make sure it's all disabled.
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Hundred percent agree. When I got my N10+ I got bombarded with this nonsense message on every new SMS I received or was sending, if I really don't want msg recieved receipt or something along the lines and then freaking thing changed the settings on it's own. I can understand lawyer sending subpoena would want receive receipt, but I'm not a lawyer. If I want see people typing I'll make video call. BTW I have something called chat on my phone under messages, isn't that RCS? If so let me make sure it's all disabled.
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teegunn said:
I'd rather not have RCS.... I like my privacy and don't need others seeing if I have read a message or am typing out a reply to them, etc. But I realize others think this is a nice feature, I personally am glad that we have SMS for our texting though. If one wants RCS they can use a messenger service easily enough.
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Being able to see if your message has been read is really nice because you can tell if someone is purposely ignoring you or just busy. If I want to keep them guessing, I ignore their message entirely.
Most people in my country use whatsapp. Both android and apple.
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Being able to see if your message has been read is really nice because you can tell if someone is purposely ignoring you or just busy. If I want to keep them guessing, I ignore their message entirely.
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I want to read your msg and decide myself if I deem it important or not, it could be emergency. I could be ignoring your message because I'm driving, I could be having fun with my wife or simply ignore you as irrelevant, it's my problem not yours. I want my privacy and I will not allow my phone to spy on me, which it's doing anyway.
90% of time I send a message, other person reads and responds. If I have no response and it's urgent I call, otherwise they ignore me I ignore them. This nonsense with msg read, person is typing etc. sounds like privacy issue to me, created by law enforcement or corporate lawyer minded person. IMO all those settings should be factory set to NO and you should actually explicitly agree to your phone spying on you, not set to on automatically, some people are probably not even aware of it.
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I want to read your msg and decide myself if I deem it important or not, it could be emergency. I could be ignoring your message because I'm driving, I could be having fun with my wife or simply ignore you as irrelevant, it's my problem not yours. I want my privacy and I will not allow my phone to spy on me, which it's doing anyway.
90% of time I send a message, other person reads and responds. If I have no response and it's urgent I call, otherwise they ignore me I ignore them. This nonsense with msg read, person is typing etc. sounds like privacy issue to me, created by law enforcement or corporate lawyer minded person. IMO all those settings should be factory set to NO and you should actually explicitly agree to your phone spying on you, not set to on automatically, some people are probably not even aware of it.
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I understand your opinion, and simply disagree for the above-mentioned reasons.
From the counter position, knowing whether or not you've had time to read my message is very helpful to me because I may or may not feel the urgency to call you depending on why I sent a message in the first place. If the issue is relatively time-sensitive but you haven't read my message after an uncomfortable amount of time I will call. If you have read it, it may not be necessary to call as I might assume you've already determined its importance since I know you read the message.
From my perspective, it sounds like you sort of just don't like messaging for normal day-to-day communication which is totally fine - nothing wrong with having your own likes and dislikes.