Has anyone been successfully able to get Google Voicemail to work on the GN for this plan? I configured the settings but the caller does not get the voicemail greeting, just keeps ringing. I have also disabled the carrier voicemail. Any steps to get this to work is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I don't have a Nexus yet, but did you properly register your phone on Voice? Specifically through the settings page? Typically, Voice gives you a number to dial on your phone to "activate" it.
I have this plan, and use google voice exclusively. It will work, if you set up voicemail in the google voice settings from desktop pc. You have to activate voicemail for that phone.
You can't do it through the app, cause it normally does call forwarding (just skip that setting during app setup). but call forwarding is disabled on pre-paid plans. so that is why you disable carrier voicemail. so when someone calls it will ring and ring, till google voice assumes no one is answering and sends the call to voicemail.
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I have this plan, and use google voice exclusively. It will work, if you set up voicemail in the google voice settings from desktop pc. You have to activate voicemail for that phone.
You can't do it through the app, cause it normally does call forwarding (just skip that setting during app setup). but call forwarding is disabled on pre-paid plans. so that is why you disable carrier voicemail. so when someone calls it will ring and ring, till google voice assumes no one is answering and sends the call to voicemail.
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I'm on prepaid as well... and i'm assuming you mean Google Voicemail? If so i'll have to try this out.
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I have this plan, and use google voice exclusively. It will work, if you set up voicemail in the google voice settings from desktop pc. You have to activate voicemail for that phone.
You can't do it through the app, cause it normally does call forwarding (just skip that setting during app setup). but call forwarding is disabled on pre-paid plans. so that is why you disable carrier voicemail. so when someone calls it will ring and ring, till google voice assumes no one is answering and sends the call to voicemail.
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Thanks, I have done what you described but it never goes to voicemail, just keeps ringing. Maybe I missed a step. Anything else I can try?
Do you think it's not working because I had ported my number?
You sure you have google voicemail actived for that number in your google voice settings? If so, it should just work.
Attached is a pic showing the settings I am talking about.
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You sure you have google voicemail actived for that number in your google voice settings? If so, it should just work.
Attached is a pic showing the settings I am talking about.
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Yeah, its activated like your screenshot but I did not enter those code on the phone because it errors out on the phone. What do I need to do on the phone other than signing into the GV account? Thanks
If you activated correctly it should just work. maybe you should deactivate it and try again.
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If you activated correctly it should just work. maybe you should deactivate it and try again.
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Did you disable the carrier voicemail after GV voicemail was setup or before? Not sure if that matters because I disabled it as the very first thing.
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Did you disable the carrier voicemail after GV voicemail was setup or before? Not sure if that matters because I disabled it as the very first thing.
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The order shouldn't matter. Has nothing to do with google voice or it's voice mail.
T-Mobile's prepaid plan does not support unconditional call forwarding, which is required to use Google Voice as the voice mail box on a non-Google Voice number.
However, just using a separate Google Voice number and its voice mail box works fine.
I have the same plan ($30 Monthly4G) I love it (no fees and taxes) except for this lack of unconditional call forwarding.
Hong.
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T-Mobile's prepaid plan does not support unconditional call forwarding, which is required to use Google Voice as the voice mail box on a non-Google Voice number.
However, just using a separate Google Voice number and its voice mail box works fine.
I have the same plan ($30 Monthly4G) I love it (no fees and taxes) except for this lack of unconditional call forwarding.
Hong.
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I don't think it is required to use google voices voicemail.
While the google voice app on the phone won't be able to setup voicemail (cause of lack of conditional call forwarding), you can activate it through google voice desktop version. As long as your carrier voicemail is disabled (I called them to disable it, and have them turn off web-guard), then when someone calls your google voice number, it will forward to your phone, but if no one answers the phone, after x seconds your google voice voice mail should pick up the call and your phone should show a missed call, and a google voice notification (for the voicemail).
I'm not sure why the OP is having problems. Lots of people have it setup this way.
edit: did you disable web guard too? (you need to call and verify your age). if not, maybe your problem is related to that.
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I don't think it is required to use google voices voicemail.
While the google voice app on the phone won't be able to setup voicemail (cause of lack of conditional call forwarding), you can activate it through google voice desktop version. As long as your carrier voicemail is disabled (I called them to disable it, and have them turn off web-guard), then when someone calls your google voice number, it will forward to your phone, but if no one answers the phone, after x seconds your google voice voice mail should pick up the call and your phone should show a missed call, and a google voice notification (for the voicemail).
I'm not sure why the OP is having problems. Lots of people have it setup this way.
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What the previous poster was explaining is that you need to use google voice all-in to get this feature. Yes it works as you describe with the GV number, but not with the T-mobile number, as I understand it.
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What the previous poster was explaining is that you need to use google voice all-in to get this feature. Yes it works as you describe with the GV number, but not with the T-mobile number, as I understand it.
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That's pretty much the only way to use google voice without making a big confusing mess for the phone owner and their callers. At least IMO. I thought that is what the OP was trying to do.
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What the previous poster was explaining is that you need to use google voice all-in to get this feature. Yes it works as you describe with the GV number, but not with the T-mobile number, as I understand it.
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Yes, that was what I was attempting to say if I can ever be good at explaining myself. http : //support.t-mobile.com/message/53150
I really really wish that T-Mobile support unconditional call forwarding for this monthly prepaid plans. As far as I can see the only real difference between the prepaid and the post-paid plans are exactly that: you pay for the next month or for the previous month.
Hong.
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What the previous poster was explaining is that you need to use google voice all-in to get this feature. Yes it works as you describe with the GV number, but not with the T-mobile number, as I understand it.
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Sorry for the confusion. Yes I am trying to use GV voicemail on the Tmobile number not the GV number. The GV number works fine but my primary number is the Tmobile number so I need voicemail on that number (preferably GV and not the carriers). Thanks
Oh man I had them disable my voicemail so I could use this feature, should have read this first.
Are there any alternatives? Workarounds? I would really like to keep my tmobile number and still use google voice on this plan.
So I'm a little bit confused about what you guys are saying. Is it possible to set up voicemail through Google voice on T-mobile's monthly4G plans? If so could someone put up a guide or something? I added my phone number to my Google account and got to the point where I could enter the code as a regular phone number (the MMI code) and my phone gives me the error saying call forwarding isn't supported. TIA
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So I'm a little bit confused about what you guys are saying. Is it possible to set up voicemail through Google voice on T-mobile's monthly4G plans? If so could someone put up a guide or something? I added my phone number to my Google account and got to the point where I could enter the code as a regular phone number (the MMI code) and my phone gives me the error saying call forwarding isn't supported. TIA
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Check the other $30 prepaid thread for more info.
Basically if you just want to use GV for Voicemail and not calls, you have to call and tell T-Mobile that you'd like to cancel your T-Mobile Voicemail service. Then you'll be able to set up GV for Voicemail at that point.
The issue is that the way GV normally works for Voicemail is your T-Mo # receives it then forwards to GV #. Most prepaid plans don't offer call forwarding so it won't work.
Of course if you're all-in and ported or using GV as your primary number, then you just use that and GV handles Voicemail normally.
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Hey everyone...so I've read that it is possible to set up Google Voice for my carrier's visual voicemail. I tried doing it by going to google.com/voice, logging in, adding my carrier's number, and activating it, but when I go to the Voice app, it says my carrier isn't set up to use Google Voicemail or something along those lines.
I'm hoping there's someone with an EVO who uses Google Voice to display voicemail for primary/carrier number. If someone knows how to do it, please tell me how you set it up! Thanks
The talk app can't do it automatically. Go to Google.com/voice. There is a spot in the settings for voicemail that tells you what to dial to setup conditional call forwarding on Sprint.
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Hey everyone...so I've read that it is possible to set up Google Voice for my carrier's visual voicemail. I tried doing it by going to google.com/voice, logging in, adding my carrier's number, and activating it, but when I go to the Voice app, it says my carrier isn't set up to use Google Voicemail or something along those lines.
I'm hoping there's someone with an EVO who uses Google Voice to display voicemail for primary/carrier number. If someone knows how to do it, please tell me how you set it up! Thanks
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I received that message too. Like, jabba said, you just activate your number through google voice. They'll give you a number to dial into the key pad that starts with a *xxxxxxxxxxx. When you click "call" you'll hear a couple beeps then the call disconnects after 3 seconds.
Also, you might have to go into the phones voicemail settings (through the voice mail widget) and set it to google voice (instead of carrier VM).
I did this today and tested it out. Works perfectly.
Is there any way to reduce the number of rings before VM pickup when using the conditional forwarding to google voice? I had it set up for a while but it took so long to pick up that I switched it back to the sprint visual vm.
One cannot alter the number of rings
before voicemail hits on Sprint's network. This is a carrier setting.
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I received that message too. Like, jabba said, you just activate your number through google voice. They'll give you a number to dial into the key pad that starts with a *xxxxxxxxxxx. When you click "call" you'll hear a couple beeps then the call disconnects after 3 seconds.
Also, you might have to go into the phones voicemail settings (through the voice mail widget) and set it to google voice (instead of carrier VM).
I did this today and tested it out. Works perfectly.
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Thank you. I did that last night but wasn't sure if it worked because I was still getting that popup
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before voicemail hits on Sprint's network. This is a carrier setting.
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I also read about this that some people were NOT receiving calls and it would go straight to voicemail. Has this been the case with any of you?
Yes...this has been happening to me and I still can't get Google Voice set up...ARGH!!!! so frustrating
ZDK
How many people have sprint setup to forward :
* Busy Call Forwarding (Busy Call Transfer)
* No Answer Call Forwarding (No Reply Forwarding)
* Unreachable Call Forwarding (Phone Off Forwarding)
to your google voice number? Are there any added fee's or complications you've run into? Did you just have to call customer care? I heard it takes twice the amount of rings as normal to hit the google voice mail is this true?
I could see a huge benefit of receiving my voice mails via email and read them during meetings where I cannot answer and return an answer via email.
Thanks!
I've got mine set up that way since they made it free months ago. I still had a touch pro back then.
Works great.
Edit : Google had instructions on how to do it via phone. Press a few buttons.
I'm not going to quote something I'm not 100% sure of. Go to sprints site and search conditional call forwarding. Then look up your plan and see what it says about call forwarding and fees.
I have the simply everything plan so both conditional and unconditional call forwarding are included. I "think" some thing like everything data with mobile to mobile free calling, might have free conditional call forwarding. That's what you're talking about. Go check and make sure though. One of those there's a 20 cents a minute charge, so make sure.
Search a lot on google voice help. Calling someone that has free mobile to mobile, it's considered a landline call and not mobile. That means out would go against their minutes. Like I said, go research it yourself.
I went so far as to change my sprint number and not giver that out to anyone. I only give out my google voice number. The reason behind that is I want to take full advantage off all the features that gv had to offer. If you use your sprint number, you can only use gv for voicemail.
Go read up, that's what I did. Oh, btw, the transcription accuracy of your phones voice to text is noticeably better than google voice's voice to text. I like gv so far. I'm finding out new things it can do just about every day!
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I reread your question. Conditional call forwarding is what you are talking about. You don't have to call sprint customer service for that. All you do to connect (after setting up the online end and phone end of settings and program) is *28xxxxxxxxxx from your sprint phone. The x's is your google voice number. To disable conditional call forwarding from your sprint number it's *38 call. Seriously though, you need to do the homework yourself because there's way too much info about it to answer in a forum reply.
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I set that up last year on my sprint number, it's nice because even when my phone is off I still get voicemails that might come to my real phone number (I use my gvoice number for everything)
I've got Google Voice as my main number that I hand out to clients and co-workers, and everyone calls me on it. If I have no service, I'll almost always have a WiFi connection, and just have GVoice forward calls to my Sipgate number, which I have tied into Fring.
Free unlimited calls!
Now if only I'd stop using the damned Messaging app and do texting from GVoice instead, and if I could get Sprint's AnyMobile AnyTime to recognize Google Voice access numbers as cellphones...
EDIT: Here's the link for info on how to do conditional forwarding: Manage the Conditional Call Forward feature from your Sprint phone
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I've got Google Voice as my main number that I hand out to clients and co-workers, and everyone calls me on it. If I have no service, I'll almost always have a WiFi connection, and just have GVoice forward calls to my Sipgate number, which I have tied into Fring.
Free unlimited calls!
Now if only I'd stop using the damned Messaging app and do texting from GVoice instead, and if I could get Sprint's AnyMobile AnyTime to recognize Google Voice access numbers as cellphones...
EDIT: Here's the link for info on how to do conditional forwarding: Manage the Conditional Call Forward feature from your Sprint phone
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Wait...
So when I use GV to make/receive a call or text, i can use my "minutes" or get charged differently as the #'s are "landlines" ?
Am I misinterpreting what you said ?
Found this:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice/thread?tid=7162282a0c817918&hl=en
I'm thinking about signing up for Google Voice, but it's telling me I either can use my current number or get a Google number and I have no idea which to pick. My main interest is Google Voicemail where I get transcripts, etc... but I don' want to miss out on the features that you get if you use a full Google voice number, even if I don't use them immediately and only use them at some point down the road.
Can I get a GV number, have my busy and unanswered call get forward to Google (for free on Sprint), and have the ability to in the future use my GV number for the other features as well?
Thanks.
i have a gv number and i still get transcripts and such via email when i have voicemails on my regular number
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i have a gv number and i still get transcripts and such via email when i have voicemails on my regular number
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So, I signup for GV and get the number, then call sprint (do I have to call them?) to setup a conditional forward of my number on Busy/Unanswered to my GV number.
Then when I'm using my phone, it's still using my normal Sprint number to dial and receive?
You don't need to call sprint at all. Signup for google voice. Confirm your cell number on google voice online. After everything is setup dial *28 then your gv number on your phone. All of your voicemails will go to google voice now. to deactivate it, dial *28 then gv phone number.
Really? Because when I told google voice to handle sprint voice mail during setup it told me that wasn't possible with sprint yet...
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GV
GV can handle your voicemails without having GV take over your phone. You lose virtual voicemail, but you gain transcribed voicemails and the ability to listen to them online.
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Really? Because when I told google voice to handle sprint voice mail during setup it told me that wasn't possible with sprint yet...
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no it works, that just means that you wont be able to 'listen' in on a phone call and be able to pick up when someone is leaving a voicemail aka screening
or like the previous user above me said.... virtual voicemail
google voice is bad ass, i really like it.
if the 'broke' people or the folks who always buy prepaid was smart...they would just buy an android phone outright on ebay, craigslist or something and get a google voice number
i mean free calls anywhere in the US and text messaging?
damn near free phone.
i use it when i call phones who dont share same carrier... or low on minutes or whatever, etc etc.
the blocking a number feature is bomb too!!! not to mention dedicated voicemail greetings for each user/number
I have been searching for a way to get Visual Voicemail through Google Voice on the GS3. Simple Mobile does not have the Conditional Call Forwarding feature, but I have heard this can be bypassed if you ask Simple Mobile to remove voicemail from the account. In the call settings it allows me to change my Voicemail service to Google Voice, but the number to forward the calls (under Call Forwarding) does not change, and it still uses the regular voicemail. When I try to change the number to forward to, it says "Unexpected response from network." Would removing voicemail from the account allow me to effectively change this number? Has anyone tried?
Thanks for the help
Never mind...
i guess no ideas?
The only way to use it is to put call screening on in the GV settings
has anyone been able to setup google voice to handle voicemail on their verizon LG G4? I tried setting it up but it could not configure and I poked around online and found a thread on the verizon forums where people were talking about the same issues.
You have to call and have Verizon activate it. I use it all the time with Verizon and my G4. I used it on my LG G2 also. It is not something that just works out of the box. It is a (paid?) feature.
I know because when I switched from the G2 to the G4, my Visual VM app wasn't working. I had to call Verizon and have them reactivate it before the app would start working.
so i would just tell them i want to use google voice as my VM provider instead of them?
You don't have to call Verizon at all. Simply dial the forwarding numbers.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/voice/2Zgc2AjG9Pw
Usually just the *71 plus your Google Voice number is all you have to do.
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You don't have to call Verizon at all. Simply dial the forwarding numbers.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/voice/2Zgc2AjG9Pw
Usually just the *71 plus your Google Voice number is all you have to do.
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isnt this actually forwarding the call to my GV number rather than using my verizon number and setting up google voice as the VM service?
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isnt this actually forwarding the call to my GV number rather than using my verizon number and setting up google voice as the VM service?
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That's how you set it up. After your phone rings enough times, it will swap over to your Google Voice for voicemail. In your Google Voice settings just have it set to not do anything regarding calls.
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That's how you set it up. After your phone rings enough times, it will swap over to your Google Voice for voicemail. In your Google Voice settings just have it set to not do anything regarding calls.
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so if i have my gv number ringing on my phone now, this method will not work, as it would ring twice right?
I have Google Voice voicemail fully set up. Confirmed working in Hangouts.
Follow the instructions and make sure you expand the section specifically for Verizon subscribers. When you dial each of the three numbers, you'll get a confirmation window on your phone about call forwarding.
As an added bonus, I disabled the visual voicemail app (VVM.apk) using the debloater tool. This way, I don't have to deal with visual voicemail , the standard VZW voicemail, or OTA updates ever again.
Google Voice is working completely for me as well and has been since I received my G4. If you follow the directions that have been posted several times, you'll set it up without issue.
One additional thing I will note is that Google Voice and VoLTE (Advanced Calling) on Verizon don't always play well together. If you're experiencing problems getting Google Voice to stick as your voicemail, turn Advanced Calling off and try setting it up again.
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