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Google voice

Can someone tell me if I use Google does it take away from my mins bc I still have to use my line to call Google and rate plan was changed so I do need to make some free calls
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Call forwarding is free with I'm pretty sure all EVO plans on sprint, therefore using the google voice app for voicemail uses data and is free. ( you have to dial *28-your google voice number to set it up).
Using google voice to place calls (I call canada for free daily on it), definitely uses minutes unless... You get Sprint to give you " 3 free numbers / landlines" to call and them you don't accrue minutes for those (home, work etc...). You then just make one of your free numbers your google voice number and then all calls placed through google voice will be free too (no minute accrual).
The only problem is that last time I called customer retention, they said they were no longer offering that option (vs. Verizon, att and others that I believe still do -not confirmed)
Either way, GV is a great low cost way to call international from your cell
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Sprint does offer an option called "Sprint To Home" which lets you pick 1 number to call unlimited. It costs $5 extra a month. Also, when you sign up (you have to call customer service) they tell you that you cannot use it with any service that will allow you to re-route your calls (i.e. Google Voice). Of course, I don't think they actually check on the number you provide them, but I'm sure if all your calls came to/from this number and you were using 1000 minutes a month, a red flag is going to go off somewhere.
Basically, stop trying to cheat the system. If you need a ton of minutes, get the Unlimited plan.

Lol Google number is always different when u place a call so I guess my answer is no can't be done
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mobgod said:
Lol Google number is always different when u place a call so I guess my answer is no can't be done
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google voice is using data. as long as you have unlimited data you can do away with using minutes too much if that is your issue. so yes it will say you minutes because its using your mobile data and google voice gives you free calls anywhere in the us and only 10cents a min internation
hope that helps?

goodelyfe said:
google voice is using data. as long as you have unlimited data you can do away with using minutes too much if that is your issue. so yes it will say you minutes because its using your mobile data and google voice gives you free calls anywhere in the us and only 10cents a min internation
hope that helps?
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OK - 2 different issues
GV for the voicemail is using data and therefore unlimited.
Phone/Voice calls do not use data, they use minutes. The GV dialer dials an access number (which changes every few months) to place calls and therefore it DOES use minutes. The changing access number makes it generally impractical to change one of your "pick 5 / Favorite number" every few months.
But it can be done.
use the following format to add a telephone number in each contact that you want to use for GV (ie international)
you GV number,,your pin,,2,,the number you want to dial#
the "," is for a 2 second pause (depending which ROM you are using, it sometimes needs to be a "p")
the "#" tells GV that you are done with the number and place the call.
albeit labor intensive to setup, but it works I do it every day.
Also last point,
GV is NOT 10 cents/ min all international
as mentioned Canada is free (which is why I use this method even without the saving minutes issue)
the rates are VOIP like and can be found by logging into your google voice account and looking up "Rates"

Isn't Google Voice just VOIP?

Yes.
For obvious reasons integrates well with android and there is no access fee.
Just add money through your google checkout acct and you are golden!
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Kufer said:
Yes.
For obvious reasons integrates well with android and there is no access fee.
Just add money through your google checkout acct and you are golden!
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You don't even need to add money unless you're making international calls.

touche!!!! lol my b
thanks for the elaboration...got lazy

I'm lost lol so there is noway to do this bc it does use mins correct like people tell me to use fring but that will also say call with Google voice or without
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Yes I believe so since GV is a landline number.
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Google Voice and an outrageous phone bill!

I just got my bill from sprint and umm HOLY CRAP! 911 bucks. Evidently since I use the google voice app to make all my calls Sprint recognizes this as a land line and I got charged for all calls. I have my google # as a free number thru sprint but the google app uses another number to forward the call. So is there a google app that calls your google number then processes it that way so it looks like you're calling your google number?

HeyRobi said:
I just got my bill from sprint and umm HOLY CRAP! 911 bucks. Evidently since I use the google voice app to make all my calls Sprint recognizes this as a land line and I got charged for all calls. I have my google # as a free number thru sprint but the google app uses another number to forward the call. So is there a google app that calls your google number then processes it that way so it looks like you're calling your google number?
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download google voice call back from the market and use it to make calls with your gvoice number

Wow, if this is real and legitimate, this needs major attention, and needs to be posted everywhere. I don't use G Voice, but I believe most people using the aosp roms and the Z ports are using google voice, and would probably really love to know about this.
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scottspa74 said:
Wow, if this is real and legitimate, this needs major attention, and needs to be posted everywhere. I don't use G Voice, but I believe most people using the aosp roms and the Z ports are using google voice, and would probably really love to know about this.
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Absolute Real and Unfortunately Legit! Sprint has free mobile to mobile but if you make a Google voice call you will notice a screen pops up showing you the number it's calling. I never thought about it but I had no outbound calls on my phone that I actually dialed since I use google voice for ALL my calls. Now the funny thing was I was going down the list of random numbers on my bill and I can call them and my cell phone will ring, because it was the forwarding number. Sprint is going to credit me the money but told me to delete the app they will only do this once.

t3project said:
download google voice call back from the market and use it to make calls with your gvoice number
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Thanks!
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*sigh* Old news is old.
By default, here's how GVoice and billing works:
IF you setup "Caller ID (incoming): Display caller's number" in the Google Voice site's settings:
Incoming call from a cellphone: Anymobile Anytime (unlimited/free)*
Incoming call from a landline: Regular (limited/not-free)*
Outgoing call to any number: Regular (limited/not-free)*
If you use Google Voice Callback from the Market, Gv will call you using your GV number.*
*Usually. Not 100% of the time guaranteed.
Also, OP, how'd you get Sprint to make your GV number free?

How many calls do you make per month? I use Google Voice all the time, even for business and have never gone over the limit.

Google Voice on E4GT

Has anyone figured out a way to use Google Voice as the primary voicemail app?

snapa55 said:
Has anyone figured out a way to use Google Voice as the primary voicemail app?
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Yeah, you go to the website
google.voice.com
and you can configure your settings there.

To my knowledge, there's no way to set Google Voice as the primary way to handle voicemail, like there is on the Evo 4G.

I don't have my phone yet (being delivered today), but why would using the instructions from the google voice website not work? What happens when you try?
I think it is *28 then your google voice number.

Google voice voicemail is set between the account and your GV account... it is completely unrelated to the phone. The app can retrieve the VM's and help you setup the voicemail, but it isn't required.

Its working for me.

Hey, quick question. I set up google voice, but now it's my primary phone number for when I text my friends. Is there a way to undo this? Even after uninstalling it, my primary texting number is my google voice number.

Login from a desktop and deactive your google number. You have a limited time before losing your sprint number.
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If you go to the website voice.google.com - there's an option in there to integrate voicemail. On the phone settings you can click 'activate google voicemail on this phone'
basically it forwards the call at the last ring to your google voice voicemail and skips your sprint one.
Then that voicemail shows up in the google voice app, or you can set it to email you and even have a written transcript.
That's what I'm set up like. I dig it.

Works fine here. I had a little trouble getting it activated... I think this was because I was expecting it to switch too quickly after I set it up. You have to give it a few min/hours to start rolling your voicemail to Google Voice.

It will ask you to dial *38 and your number and it never works for me. Just make sure you have your sprint phone listed to forward to on the GV settings online and then install the app on your phone and go through the setup on the app and your voicemail will use GV...at least it does for me.

I had to remove it on my NS4G, caused me nothing but problems. And then when I did remove it I had to call sprint and have them reset my account because I was unable to receive calls and callers just got hung up on rather than connected to my voice mail.

I never let Sprint take over my GV number...I made it so I still had the choice to use my sprint or GV number. I ported my number to GV so I could go to any carrier I wanted to and have as many phone ring on the same number. I have a boost phone also that rings my GV number.

I have never been able to get voice mail without the app while my number was integrated. How do you get voicemails without the app? Do you just call your own number?
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420247paul said:
I have never been able to get voice mail without the app while my number was integrated. How do you get voicemails without the app? Do you just call your own number?
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No you have to have the app

That didnt work out so well for me. If you ported for free because you are on sprint as soon as you cancel your service that number is inactive. I had to choose between my number and this phone and I took the phone and dont regret it one bit
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I never let Sprint take over my GV number...I made it so I still had the choice to use my sprint or GV number. I ported my number to GV so I could go to any carrier I wanted to and have as many phone ring on the same number. I have a boost phone also that rings my GV number.
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420247paul said:
That didnt work out so well for me. If you ported for free because you are on sprint as soon as you cancel your service that number is inactive. I had to choose between my number and this phone and I took the phone and dont regret it one bit
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I ported my number when GV started porting long before sprint got involved...I payed 20 bucks for it.

Where's Visual Voicemail

We saw the demo, but...
Does anyone know anything about it?
Is it definitely only for Google Voice?
Availability?

All the nexus has is the necessary api hooks. It's up to the carriers to make use of said apis and release the apps.
Verizon has one in the android market, but it costs an additional $2.99/mth.
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T-Mobile also has a visual voicemail app, but it will charge you a monthly fee as well. I use Voice, works great.

Google Voice? Are your voicemails showing up in your Phone app/Call log? Based on the Oct intro in October, it looked like it was supposed to (with Google Voice).
I had a VM left the other day to my Google Voice number and it shows up in the GV app itself, but not my Phone app/Call log. How about you?

DanRyb said:
Google Voice? Are your voicemails showing up in your Phone app/Call log? Based on the Oct intro in October, it looked like it was supposed to (with Google Voice).
I had a VM left the other day to my Google Voice number and it shows up in the GV app itself, but not my Phone app/Call log. How about you?
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Same. Funny that Google built the visual voicemail API then didn't even use it themselves .
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DanRyb said:
Google Voice? Are your voicemails showing up in your Phone app/Call log? Based on the Oct intro in October, it looked like it was supposed to (with Google Voice).
I had a VM left the other day to my Google Voice number and it shows up in the GV app itself, but not my Phone app/Call log. How about you?
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I don't think I've received a voicemail since I've had a GNex to be honest. If I have I haven't seen it in the call log. Didn't know it was suppose to.
What I did notice is that it started showing missed calls under the call log and Google voice when a VM was left.
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matt2053 said:
Same. Funny that Google built the visual voicemail API then didn't even use it themselves .
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I don't think the GV app has been updated for ICS yet. Once it has it should use the new API.

AT&T VVM.apk
I attached AT&T Visual Voicemail .apk for anyone with knowledge or skills to advise if it is even possible to get it to work for GSM GNxS on AT&T with a Skyrocket provisioned SIM for LTE 4G data that includes Visual Voicemail feature in plan already.

cred05 said:
T-Mobile also has a visual voicemail app, but it will charge you a monthly fee as well. I use Voice, works great.
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TMO VV is free.

almostinsane said:
TMO VV is free.
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ATT VV is free too when on an LTE data unlimited plan anyway...so they said...

VVM Verizon
VVM for Verizon.

Google Voice
Has anyone gotten google voice to take the voice mail on Verizon? When I set it up GV told me that my carrier didn't support that feature

Dial *71###-###-#### (replace the pounds with your Google voice number) it will act like its making a call for a second or two then stop. Also make sure you have Google voice selected in your system settings.
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If you side load Verizon VVM do you still need to pay $3 a month?

rsbianchi said:
Has anyone gotten google voice to take the voice mail on Verizon? When I set it up GV told me that my carrier didn't support that feature
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That was the initial message I also got. Keep trying and it will stick. Got my Google voicemail all set up and running like a champ. No additional charges!
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Ipasq-
Have you tried loading the AT&T visual voicemail apk? What happened?

yes...as far as i know.

fuego3048 said:
Dial *71###-###-#### (replace the pounds with your Google voice number) it will act like its making a call for a second or two then stop. Also make sure you have Google voice selected in your system settings.
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Verizon only? Whatever that does it doesn't do anything on my GNex except get me to the operator saying I may have dialed a wrong #.

RickInHouston said:
Ipasq-
Have you tried loading the AT&T visual voicemail apk? What happened?
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Even with correct permissions it returns package can not be installed. Side load attempted via Root Explore. Not tried changing build.prop device id and such to spoof Skyrocket. Maybe we need additional files or VVM is part of the Skyrocket's phone dialer or some bloatware. I'm just fishing and really have no idea :/

Google voice definitely works on the GNex verizon. I restored mine from my last phone so i didnt need to do the setup but it should do a wizard when you start it to get it working.

Visual voicemail? What do you use?

Trying to see what there is for visual voicemail.. I've used good voice previously on Evo and just came back from an iPhone. Really miss this feature. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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S_rob7488 said:
Trying to see what there is for visual voicemail.. I've used good voice previously on Evo and just came back from an iPhone. Really miss this feature. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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I use Google Voice exclusively. It has visual voicemail and it also lets you text/call from your computer which is a huge time saver.

I was trying to use google voice but I couldn't get it to validate.

google voice is great, I had issues getting it to work until I created a new google voice number instead of just a fowarding/voice mail number and then added the device through the web platform. It has worked ever since.

There is no build in visual voicemail for android afaik. Apple came up with their own protocol for that. As for 3rd party options, there is google voice like everybody mentioned but if you can't/don't want to use google voice then there are some apps on the market which require you to forward your unanswered calls to their number. There is always the privacy issue though which is why I do not use them.

I use Google voice on Verizon there's a YouTube video that I followed and work very well. Just go to your Google/voice.com and get a Google voice number and set it up like that.
Here's the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeNR8CtMR-w&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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S_rob7488 said:
Trying to see what there is for visual voicemail.. I've used good voice previously on Evo and just came back from an iPhone. Really miss this feature. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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... visual voicemail for gnex. Its on the market.
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For $2.99 a month? Is it worth it?

Im currently using google voice as well. if that doesn't work for you, another great service is "youmail" check it out at youmail.com

S_rob7488 said:
I was trying to use google voice but I couldn't get it to validate.
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To use Google Voice for voice mail you have to enable conditional call forwarding. For Verizon this is as easy as dialing *71 and then the 10 digit number. For Sprint I don't think it is that easy. You may want to call their customer care. Hopefully you can get it working, I'm not sure I could live without mine.
http://support.verizonwireless.com/clc/devices/knowledge_base.html?id=17268

Thanks for the info. Will try gv again.

PF Voicemail+ it's free on the market and I've been using since the OG Droid days. It's perfect. I like the fact that it'll let you play the voicemail either over speaker or through the actual headset. Try it out :O
https://market.android.com/details?...vbS5waG9uZWZ1c2lvbi52b2ljZW1haWxwbHVzLmFuZCJd

I use google voice. It is not the best at transcribing the voicemail, but you can play, pause, and delete right from the app.

ChickenGod said:
PF Voicemail+ it's free on the market and I've been using since the OG Droid days. It's perfect. I like the fact that it'll let you play the voicemail either over speaker or through the actual headset. Try it out :O
https://market.android.com/details?...vbS5waG9uZWZ1c2lvbi52b2ljZW1haWxwbHVzLmFuZCJd
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+1 been using this since my G1 and it is the best way to roll.
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Yes, I know, rebooting an old Thread. But it's better than starting a new one, right??
Based on reading this thread, as well as some other looking around I have done, it seems the only real options for free VVM are Google Voice, Youmail, or Visual Voicemail Plus.
I cannot use Google Voice. Not that I don't like it. I love using GV. However, my cell number is tied to the GV account that I use for work, so that I basically have a dual line cell phone (my VZW Number for normal stuff and the GV number for work stuff). With that, I cannot give my cell number to another GV account to get VoiceMail.
The market reviews for both YouMail and Visual Voicemail Plus leave much to be desired. Seems that for every review that says it is great, is a review that says it is crap. But, most people just review the app when it is causing issues, so it is not always a great idea to put stake in reviews. Wondering what the opinion is of people here.