If you use call rejection to reject everyone who's not on your contact list, do the rejected callers still get to leave voice mail for you?
Same question for call blocking: if you block incoming-call notifications for everyone who's not on your contact list, can they still leave voice mail?
Gary02468 said:
If you use call rejection to reject everyone who's not on your contact list, do the rejected callers still get to leave voice mail for you?
Same question for call blocking: if you block incoming-call notifications for everyone who's not on your contact list, can they still leave voice mail?
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Rejected callers will get dumped straight to your voice mail. I am not certain on the 2nd part of your question.
I warn against rejecting callers. I did it to someone and now I cannot un-reject them. They don't show as rejected but their calls still dump straight to VM. Tried re-rejecting and un-rejecting and still straight to VM.
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Basically I want it to take over the dialer and texting portion. I may be confused, but I could have sworn I sworn I say it being able to do these things. Also, I heard you can use GV to take over your regular voice plan? Or is that Groove IP? Idk
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Google Voice doesn't work as a VoIP service alone. It works as a "forwarding" number to your normal cell #. It costs you minutes. You can configure the Google Voice app in a way that when you dial a number from the default dialer, it will either ask you which # to use, or just use your GV# every time. Texts will be received in the Google Voice app, but you can configure it to forward them to the Messages app, also. If you want a recommendation, I'd say just use the Google Voice app for SMS and don't bother with forwarding.
GrooVe IP (and Talktatone, SIP clients, etc.) all work as VoIP services to intercept incoming Google Voice calls that are forwarded to Google Chat (Google Talk). Incoming calls to your GV# are forwarded to Google Chat (instead of your carrier #), then the app picks them up and routes it to your phone to take the VoIP call (with no minutes cost). GrooVe IP integrates into the dialer really well, but the quality wasn't great or consistent, which is the case with most VoIP calls.
In Google Voice, go to settings -> Making calls -> Use Google Voice to make all calls.
This will "hijack" all calls made from your phone. What happens is when you make a call, it will actually call some random number Google made up specifically for you, then it will get forwarded to the number you actually wanted to dial.
This will use minutes, as mentioned.
As for texts, google voice cannot "hijack" the same way it can for phone calls. I'm guessing it's a compromise google made with carriers to not steal money away from them. You can still receive texts through google voice, but not through the native Messenger app.
Frozinite said:
In Google Voice, go to settings -> Making calls -> Use Google Voice to make all calls.
This will "hijack" all calls made from your phone. What happens is when you make a call, it will actually call some random number Google made up specifically for you, then it will get forwarded to the number you actually wanted to dial.
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This, but you can choose what your Google Voice number is. Its only randomly assigned if you tell it to be. For example when creating Google Voice, I got a GV# that's the same 7-digit # as my carrier one, but with a different area code. Simple to remember.
As for texts, google voice cannot "hijack" the same way it can for phone calls. I'm guessing it's a compromise google made with carriers to not steal money away from them. You can still receive texts through google voice, but not through the native Messenger app.
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You can have your GV App receive messages then put them in the Messenger app if you'd like. Its messier though, as it assigns a random # to each contact. I'd say just use the GV App for your SMS.
Yeah, what I meant by random number was that when calling out, it will actually call a Google associated number (which seems random to me) before forwarding it with your GV# as the caller id. If you look at your bill, it will be all to the same number.
I recently decided to look into using YouMail. Basically, it forwards your unanswered calls to a mail box that is much more feature rich than the boring carrier voicemail. I have enabled call forwarding on my account, set up the call forward numbers, and my YouMail account is linked to my device. The only problem is that when I call my phone from Skype, I get a message saying something along the lines of "this voicemail inbox is not set up properly, please dial the number you are trying to reach in order to find the mailbox of the number you are calling".
As for the call forwarding options, there is the option of setting the voicemail number in the settings of the phone. I assume this is where I would enter the retrieval number and not the number to forward voicemail calls to. There is also the option to set where the calls are conditionally forwarded. This is where I assume I put the number where people actually leave voicemail, amirite?
Nevermind, it ended up being an OCN issue. I resolved it by getting YouMail Pro so I have my own personal voicemail number. Works great now!
I installed Google Voice on my AT&T HTC One X and installed the Google Voice App. I disabled the AT&T Visual Voicemail and AT&T Messages apps.
I add the cell number to my Google Voice account. I went through the process to enter the code to forward voicemail on my phone to my Google Voice number.
** I selected the option in Advanced Settings for the cell number to "go directly to Voicemail" in Google voice **
However, when I call my cell, it rings 5 times, then forwards to Google Voice, then rings 5 times before the Voicemail picks up, so it takes 10 or 11 rings to get to my voicemail!
I used a separate phone and called my Google Voice number directly and it takes 5 rings before voicemail picks up.
It seems that Google Voice for some reason isn't recognizing my cell as a forwarded to voicemail call and is treating it like a normal call.
Help!
You might want to ask this in the AT&T One X forum, this one is for Tegra 3.
BenPope said:
You might want to ask this in the AT&T One X forum, this one is for Tegra 3.
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I think I figured it out. Since AT&T doesn't have "tight" GV integration, like Verizon, to activate you are essentially just forwarding the call. When the call comes in to GV, the number is not the number of the cell, but the number of the person calling, so GV doesn't know if this is a direct call or a forwarded call that was unanswered from the cell.
There's a simple solution but it only works because I'm not using my GV phone number for incoming calls. Just turn the Do Not Disturb feature on in GV and now all calls go direct to voicemail.
Moderator: You can move this to AT&T forum if you want.
jazee said:
I think I figured it out. Since AT&T doesn't have "tight" GV integration, like Verizon, to activate you are essentially just forwarding the call. When the call comes in to GV, the number is not the number of the cell, but the number of the person calling, so GV doesn't know if this is a direct call or a forwarded call that was unanswered from the cell.
There's a simple solution but it only works because I'm not using my GV phone number for incoming calls. Just turn the Do Not Disturb feature on in GV and now all calls go direct to voicemail.
Moderator: You can move this to AT&T forum if you want.
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This works alright but GV does not pick up voicemail when Do Not Disturbe is turned on....at least this is what I am finding.
I'm having a problem with Google Voice. It seems to be ignoring the setting for unanswered calls going "Straight to voicemail" as opposed to ringing other phones. Callers (when they call my real carrier #) will hear 10+ rings before getting to GV VM. I've resorted to going back to carrier VM because of the excessive rings.
It seems like GV is ignoring the setting and ringing my other "phones", even though I have no additional ones listed and unchecked the Google Chat forwarding.
I've tried deleting my phone from the list and re-adding it, but that does nothing.
Has anybody run into a similar situation and how did you deal with it? Anybody know someone who works in the Google Voice department that can help directly? This is very very annoying!
Thanks!
Is there anyway to block all calls that are not saved to contacts? Coming from an HTC phone the built in dialer had this option. If you recieved a call from a # that was not in your contacts, the phone would send it straight to voicemail. The robocalls are getting out of hand and would be nice to silence the 15-20 of them I get daily.