So I was looking through the app store and don't even see an app called Google Talk yet it comes on our phones. Did this app get replaced by Google voice? I was looking to see if any updates were available and now I don't think it's supported anymore and that maybe my wife and I should switch to gvoice? The only thing we need is video chat and both Tango and Skype don't perform well for us. There is a chirping noise when 2 ions ate used for some reason. Thanks
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i think i just heard that gtalk wouldn't support video calls anymore.. i could be wrong. bummer about tango.. works great on mine.. but then again i'm not calling another ION... that is certainly weird
I just used talk about 5 minutes ago and it worked fine. Yea Tango and Skype both work terribly from one ion to another but work fine if you have 1 ion to something else.
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looks like you'll just need to wait till we get 4.0
Google Talk gets a Facelift
System apps are often missing from the market. I remember them making a big deal out of adding Gmail a while back. Until then we had to rely on apks.
For video chat you should be able to use Google+. Talk is for chat, and Voice makes calls over IP, but like a regular phone. I use Talk and Voice on my ion with no issues, but haven't had the chance to test a Google+ hangout. I'll try it tomorrow and see how it goes.
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Is there any way to get skype on our Galaxy S? I understand that currently, only Verizon Android phones are given this privilege, but i hope we can get it too.
Try nimbuzz, it gives you limited access to you skype
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there is a skype lite pack for android that works fine for text but no calls.
I'd really like to here about this aswell. Hopefully Skype will port there iOS app to android. The iOS app is amazing just a shame we're missing out
too bad verizon locked all other android users out from using skype... such a shame... i guess gtalk + fring will have to do for now...
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Try nimbuzz, it gives you limited access to you skype
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Can you clarify for me, I looked at Nimbuzz on AppBrain and on their blog. To me, it appears like they don't actually access your skype, it seems like it will allow you to contact your skype friends, but they didn't go so far as to imply they could contact you the same way.
Am I wrong? Thanks.
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Can you clarify for me, I looked at Nimbuzz on AppBrain and on their blog. To me, it appears like they don't actually access your skype, it seems like it will allow you to contact your skype friends, but they didn't go so far as to imply they could contact you the same way.
Am I wrong? Thanks.
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Nimbuzz logs into your Skype account, so it works just like regular Skype. Except with no video chat or group chats.
Tried nimbuzz yesterday and it drained my battery really quick.
Had about 30% left, nimbuzz was connected about 2 hours trough wifi and battery dropped to 10%, not good...
Just wondering the main purpose of this service. I use google voice, etc...was talk just an early predicessor??? what does everyone use it for?
Talk is a messenger back in the good old G1 days that is how us android users would communicate with each other. I do believe it was suppose to be what Google voice is now and much more. Seeing how the old Google voice versions we could sign in with just gtalk instead of verifying a phone number. I still use that version due do not actually having a carrier number.
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Simple answer. Its the same as aim, yahoo messenger or MSN messenger. Its a chat program with other people that have gmail.
Google voice is a central number for all of your phones.
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yeah it is a messenger but I just don't ever find myself using it. just like google plus, it's an eehh. things my gmail logs me into that got annoying after some time. The video chatting was horrible when I first used it, gave it a second shot and just bad...
Its the only messenger app I use and that is guarenteed to be on everyone's android phone. I use it everyday and prefer it over texting 99% of time
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All,
No credit here- I just wanted to let all of those looking for Visual Voice Mail for CM10 or other AOSP roms I have tested this on L710 SGS3 for Sprint and it does work. I tried it on CM10 nightly 8/20.
http://epicaokp.blogspot.com/2012/05/aokpcm9-fixed-sprint-visual-voicemail.html
I didnt find a thread on this so sorry if its already out there. just dwnload the Zip and flash in CWM. Some say it doesnt work in other recoveries such as TWRP. I used CWM.
you can hit thanks if you want but I did not make this... I just braved it and reported it. VVM is very important to me. Only reason to keep sprint.
enjoy
Wow, this is one of the main reasons why I stayed away from CM rom in the past. I can't live without VVM... can't stand wasting 20mins sifting thru audio voicemails with a pen and paper.
Will it update to the new version or are we stuck with the version that gets flashed? VVM just had an update in the past few weeks, i think i'm on the latest which is 5.3.0.32.
I had visual voice mail with cm10 by just making a titanium backup of it from a rom that had it, then restoring when I ran cm10.
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Are you serious? Just find an apk and install. That's what I did.
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Xalky said:
Wow, this is one of the main reasons why I stayed away from CM rom in the past. I can't live without VVM... can't stand wasting 20mins sifting thru audio voicemails with a pen and paper.
Will it update to the new version or are we stuck with the version that gets flashed? VVM just had an update in the past few weeks, i think i'm on the latest which is 5.3.0.32.
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You never had to. Google voice provides a better voicemail if you ask me. And to the folks that dont like the deep integration, you can break the tie-in and just use it for the voicemail.
But yeah... VVM is good too. I just have fewer issues with google voice.
I need the "call record" app.
There's an app section for that
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You never had to. Google voice provides a better voicemail if you ask me. And to the folks that dont like the deep integration, you can break the tie-in and just use it for the voicemail.
But yeah... VVM is good too. I just have fewer issues with google voice.
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I can't find a thread that details that and the Google instructions are a joke. Care to fill us in on how you did that?
No offense but, Google voice is crap IMO. Or at least it was crap a year ago. That's what I tried to use when I was on cm7 on the epic. I hated it. Vvm is well worth the 2$ a month to me. I run a business with this phone, it's gotta be reliable. Like I said it's been a year since I last tried it, but the impression it left was a disaster to my business for an entire week.
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No offense but, Google voice is crap IMO. Or at least it was crap a year ago. That's what I tried to use when I was on cm7 on the epic. I hated it. Vvm is well worth the 2$ a month to me. I run a business with this phone, it's gotta be reliable. Like I said it's been a year since I last tried it, but the impression it left was a disaster to my business for an entire week.
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You should give Google Voice another try. Make sure you set it up from a PC.
I also run a busniess from my phone and the option for different contacts to hear a different voicemail greeting is worth the price of admission on its own.
I have my main voicemail greeting set up as my business name and then I have a different voicemail greetings for my personal contacts.
I can login to any PC and retrieve my voice mail, no phone needed. I'm not sure if Sprint VVM does that or not.
I honestly would not be able to run my business without Google Voice.
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bp328i said:
You should give Google Voice another try. Make sure you set it up from a PC.
I also run a busniess from my phone and the option for different contacts to hear a different voicemail greeting is worth the price of admission on its own.
I have my main voicemail greeting set up as my business name and then I have a different voicemail greetings for my personal contacts.
I can login to any PC and retrieve my voice mail, no phone needed. I'm not sure if Sprint VVM does that or not.
I honestly would not be able to run my business without Google Voice.
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Maybe I will give it another try. I'm gonna read up on it so I can set it up properly before I attempt to switch. Thanks.
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Xalky said:
Wow, this is one of the main reasons why I stayed away from CM rom in the past. I can't live without VVM... can't stand wasting 20mins sifting thru audio voicemails with a pen and paper.
Will it update to the new version or are we stuck with the version that gets flashed? VVM just had an update in the past few weeks, i think i'm on the latest which is 5.3.0.32.
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Wow guys... Ok heres the skinny. I did a TB but the backup was not there after CM10. IDK y im working on it.
#2 I tried installing .apk- didnt work, kept saying your acct cannot be verified. Thats because the supporting files are not in place in AOSP- this is the way it has been since AOSP, so idk what he's talking about.
# 3 yes it did update.
#4 Google voice is horrible- I have tried it multiple times I always get beeps in the middle of my calls and the transcriptions are terrible, best part of google voice is missed call notifications even when you didnt get the call.
Now This is a Sprint VVM thread please keep it that way and if you want to run your mouth about something else then go somewhere else. Also dont need info about other apps or whatever-
Contribute or just keep moving...
I wanted to thank ya'll for posting this. Great stuff.
Just some observations...
This is the second-to-latest Sprint Visual Voicemail application. It works well, is stable, and I love it on Paranoid Android 1.9.9
Just a note - if you're worried that upgrading to this will delete your current store of voice mail files, it will not. If all you're doing is *flashing* this on an already-rooted ROM using CMW 5.0+, you're going to be okay. I played around with it earlier today. No problems whatsoever, all stable, no SNAFUS. I don't know why some people have reported issues.
Hoppingfully yours,
--SLN
Does this give the weird text every time you get a voicemail like all the other CM's?
Cm flashers are always pushing Google voice, but I find it to be extremely inconvenient and complicated and the voice to text translations are horrible. VVM is the only way to fly in my opinion. I'm getting the 9016 text thing on freegs3 now, but it doesn't bother me. It's just another notification. I just delete the thread after a while. I've been flashing so much lately that the text notification actually caught a few messages while I was flashing.
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This should be in themes and apps not development. Especially since you didn't make it. Plus there is already a thread on themes apps with I believe the same vvm.
I know you're trying to contribute but please post in the right place.
-Sprint Galaxy Slll_Transformer Prime-
Yes i do still get the annoying texts.
Then maybe someone needs to work on the search function. I searched before posting so w/e dude. I pit it in development because you have to flash in recovery. This isn't just an apk
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I think the important question is why is this in the development thread? Please read the rules so you understand where to post. It makes the forums much easier to navigate if everyone posts in the correct forum.
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stop annoying text messages.
the Text messages can be stopped by recording a voicemail message and sending it to the following address: [email protected]
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the Text messages can be stopped by recording a voicemail message and sending it to the following address: [email protected]
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Incorrect. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PEOPLE PLEASE USE THE SEARCH feature built into the xda forums. These text messages have been around since CM6, its how AOSP works. The only way to remove them is use chompsms, gosms, or something similar to block the 9016 text messages.
There is an APK in the Apps and Themes section here, install that, reboot to recovery, fix permissions, reboot phone, open vvm app, send 25 second message to [email protected] and it will provision and work. I have never had a single problem getting VVM to work since CM6 following these steps.
I think it's a horrible app you can't see who is online or busy or whatever. This is not a chat service anymore. There is no contact list basically listing all the people from your G+ and contacts. It's horrible!. In every level. I have to scroll through 800 contacts or search just to send a message and it doesn't even let me know if that person is online, so I have no idea how they are getting my messages
I have to agree. This is pretty terrible. They even removed the calling option so its just video now, as if video-only makes sense on a PHONE.
Hopefully Talk isn't dead by the end of the year.
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Thankfully when you uninstall google hangouts you get google talk back
I'm going to agree as well. I dont like that I cant see who's online. And almost all of my contacts dont have this service so, in my opinion, they shouldnt show up at all.
If you guys have any link to updated apk please post it
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Wow, that sounds bad. I'm so glad I saw this thread before installing this garbage.
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If you guys have any link to updated apk please post it
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It's in the Play Store
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Wow, that sounds bad. I'm so glad I saw this thread before installing this garbage.
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I just sent a message to a yahoo account, thinking I was going to get an email or something, NOP! Nothing, so you have to be totally sure that message you're sending it's to someone who has a gmail account
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Thankfully when you uninstall google hangouts you get google talk back
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I did that as soon as it asked me to confirm my phone number. I really just want the built-in IM that came with my account, not a Whatsapp clone to replace it. I already have Whatsapp.
Hopefully Talk never dies. Hangouts is social media disguised as instant messaging.
So after watching a video on it, I realized it does show who is online by displaying their profile pic at the bottom when they join the hangout. But still, it shouldnt display ALL my contacts in the contact list. Just the ones who have the ability to use it.
Idk maybe it's just me, but I like the new hangout. You can send screenshots again and everything. Granted, it takes some getting used to, but after playing with it a bit, its growing on me
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So after watching a video on it, I realized it does show who is online by displaying their profile pic at the bottom when they join the hangout. But still, it shouldnt display ALL my contacts in the contact list. Just the ones who have the ability to use it.
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exactly!
I just wish it was a proper unified messaging app - i.e. could send carrier SMS to non-Hangout contacts. Incidentally, anyone know what happens to the message if you do try and send to someone who doesn't have it? Must get routed somewhere?
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I just wish it was a proper unified messaging app - i.e. could send carrier SMS to non-Hangout contacts. Incidentally, anyone know what happens to the message if you do try and send to someone who doesn't have it? Must get routed somewhere?
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I'm still waiting for the message I sent to my yahoo account
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I'm still waiting for the message I sent to my yahoo account
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I would think this only works with Gmail/Google+ users. Which, again, is why not all contacts should not be displayed. I'm going to try and search for some info on this.
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I just wish it was a proper unified messaging app - i.e. could send carrier SMS to non-Hangout contacts. Incidentally, anyone know what happens to the message if you do try and send to someone who doesn't have it? Must get routed somewhere?
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Why would you think this would happen? Google doesn't want you using carrier SMS anyway. They will shift us to internet-based messaging completely someday. That's why you didn't get SMS integration.
I'm guessing it gets sent to their Google Talk.
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I think it's a horrible app you can't see who is online or busy or whatever. This is not a chat service anymore. There is no contact list basically listing all the people from your G+ and contacts. It's horrible!. In every level. I have to scroll through 800 contacts or search just to send a message and it doesn't even let me know if that person is online, so I have no idea how they are getting my messages
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So if you go and try to start a hangout it will show you a list of people to start the hangout with, people not available(offline) has their picture grayed out and the available(online) are shown as usual. As far as the video calling-I think if the person on the other end doesn't have video calling available(due to no front facing camera on their phone or no camera on the desktop/laptop) only voice calling will be the option available....have to test it though... I think it's fresh and after awhile it will get better...I don't hate it.
Sadly a lot not to like so far. I was wondering why there were duplicate users in my contact list, if they are showing non-gmail email accounts separately I guess that explains it. Unfortunately, it doesn't show what account users in the list are coming from so you don't know which one you can use, if any.
Hopefully they will fix the contact mess and re-add status information (online/busy/offline, mobile/desktop). I like the new emoji, but hardly seems worth the great leap backwards in functionality.
On the plus side, you can finally copy text from your message history, so that's one longstanding, inexplicable failure corrected
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I like the new emoji, but hardly seems worth the great leap backwards in functionality.
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This is what is really annoying. It feels like a dumbed-down product even though its been in the making for what seems like forever. It even requires you to join G+ to get the most out of it. Plus, its not even really that unified, as people still have G+ messenger since this only replaces Talk.
Heck, the app rating in the Play store has plummeted to 3.9 as I type this. What a joke.
completely useless.
I can't believe it took them two years to make this.
google talk was MUCH better, and compared to let's say, whatsapp, google talk was completely useless. that's how bad this thing is.
I have been sending sms via voice using google, but I was wondering if there was an easy way to have them read to me. I'm thinking while Im walking listening to music, it would be nice to hear them without pulling it out. As it is now, I hear the notification, so at least I know when they come.
I was looking in the settings, but didn't see anything. Is it in the settings, or do I have to get an app?
Readittome in market.
Ian B
Robin from play store... It's very similar to Siri on Apple. works flawlessly
Thanks so much you guys rank!
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