Howdy all! New to Sprint and its Google Voice integration with Android, so I'm hoping you'll be able to give me some more info about it. I checked around a bit and didn't see my question answered.
I noticed after "integrating it" and allowing my phone to treat Google Voice SMS as normal texts, all of my GV texts received are now showing up in my messaging app. If I'm using the messaging app to respond to texts received as my Google Voice number, are these being counted as texts on my Sprint plan, or just as data like Google Voice always has been previously? Do I need to keep using only the GV dedicated app for that to be the case? I have the 450 minute unlimited data plan, so I just want to make sure i'm not doing something wrong and then ending up with 150,000 dollars in a bill for SMS messages.
Also, is there a way to differentiate between Google Voice texts and texts sent to my actual Sprint number in the messaging app?
For what it's worth, this phone is freaking perfect. Maybe it's just because the phone hardware has finally caught up to and surpassed the software experience that Touchwiz was trying to offer, but 4.0 is absolutely flawless, and this is the first phone I've ever owned that I didn't want to immediately load Cyanogen onto.
Pretty sure texts are unlimited on almost all sprints plans
I thought that might be the case, but the fine print said "on our network" which I took to mean texts from sprint customer to sprint customer. If they're unlimited anyway then it's no biggie. Thank you!
A couple of my friends and I are planning on going to visit Seattle in the Winter right after Christmas, and staying with a friend in Vancouver (Canada) most of the time through the new year and the first few days in January.
How would I go about not tacking on ANY charges on my phone? I know there is a way to have it so the data will shut off (I assume because this is a CDMA phone) automatically without tacking on any charges.
But, what if someone tries to call me while I'm in Canada. If I don't answer, will I be charged? More importantly, will THEY be charged even if I don't answer the call?
What about text messages? I know that I can receive text messages and send text messages to Canada with no charges (while in the US) for sure. But, what if I'm in Canada texting to US numbers (outgoing and incoming texts).
How would I go about setting up my phone so that I would not be tacking on any charges whatsoever when in Vancouver? In other words, what are my options -- what can I do while in Vancouver (data/text/call/dance) without tacking on any charges on my plan, or what FAILSAFE work-arounds are there?
Any homie G's in the Northwest that can help me out so that I don't have to worry about this? I would GREATLY appreciate this!
TIA!
P.S. I could call Sprint about this, but I don't trust 50 year old Betty to answer my question correctly. I would greatly appreciate your inputs! Personal experiences would be nice
dkarol said:
A couple of my friends and I are planning on going to visit Seattle in the Winter right after Christmas, and staying with a friend in Vancouver (Canada) most of the time through the new year and the first few days in January.
How would I go about not tacking on ANY charges on my phone? I know there is a way to have it so the data will shut off (I assume because this is a CDMA phone) automatically without tacking on any charges.
But, what if someone tries to call me while I'm in Canada. If I don't answer, will I be charged? More importantly, will THEY be charged even if I don't answer the call?
What about text messages? I know that I can receive text messages and send text messages to Canada with no charges (while in the US) for sure. But, what if I'm in Canada texting to US numbers (outgoing and incoming texts).
How would I go about setting up my phone so that I would not be tacking on any charges whatsoever when in Vancouver? In other words, what are my options -- what can I do while in Vancouver (data/text/call/dance) without tacking on any charges on my plan, or what FAILSAFE work-arounds are there?
Any homie G's in the Northwest that can help me out so that I don't have to worry about this? I would GREATLY appreciate this!
TIA!
P.S. I could call Sprint about this, but I don't trust 50 year old Betty to answer my question correctly. I would greatly appreciate your inputs! Personal experiences would be nice
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My personal Experience.
If you are root.
I often travel to south border and was getting alot of charges, but now I relay in Wi-Fi only. I will use Google Voice for text messages over Wi-Fi and Google Voice with SIP over Wi-Fi as well. ( i just recently upgraded to E4GT and haven't root so i use Tango, or Google Talk ) I Used to have my Hero rooted and only work like that as there is alot of wifi spots i can connect to.
If i was you ill just turn off any data services on the phone it self so nothing will sync.
for charges:
The phone running regular Sprint line will go into roaming - whoever calls you will not get charge and you will not get charge unless you answer.
Text messages are .50 cents each , minute if you answer its .69 cents
Also when i recieve a call shows as "unknow number" so i will not know who called me. but again thats in mexico roaming.
You can send texts to US numbers (even if that person is sitting next to you in Vancouver) for free - you don't need to call Sprint for this. If you're going to do a lot of calling, call Sprint and add Canada Roaming for Voice. You can have it set for a certain # of days. They will prorate the charges so it's pretty cheap. The calls are then like a dime a minute instead of 40 cents? Eitherway its cheap.
Do NOT use any mobile data. It's retarded expensive. Just turn off the Mobile data but leave on voice (so you can get texts or calls). Then leave on your WiFi.
I do this to Canada frequently - Whistler last year in particular. It works well and doesn't cost too much. I usually have them add the Canada Roaming voice just in case I get a bunch of calls.... But I generally change my voicemail message to say text me.
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Sorry, sending texts and receiving texts are free for you if you are sending to US numbers while in Canada if that wasn't clear.
To turn off your data go into Menu, Settings, Wireless and Network, mobile data.
As far as people calling you from the US, they won't be charged anything because your number is a US number. I'm not sure if you're charged for the incoming call in that case.... I think that you are.
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Wow!
Thank you so much guys! I really appreciate your inputs!
Okay, so in Wireless and Networks, I go into "Mobile networks" and turn off 3G data, then I go into "Roaming" and uncheck both voice and data under "International" correct? Can I leave domestic checked for voice and data and not have any problems? And also, "Roaming guard" is a bit ambiguous, would I leave everything unchecked under "Domestic" and everything checked under "International"? This seems redundant.
I would be able to use wifi in Vancouver, so could I have it so that I can see who is calling me? Can I have it so the person I am calling can see my name? -- I could call them over wifi and they would know who was calling, see me in the caller ID?
For some reason when I loaded my sim it keeps telling me I have a voice mail even though my account is empty. I tried installing google voice since thats my mail voice mail account and the icon is still there.
Anyone experience this? Anyone find a way to get rid of it?
Is this your first time starting? They send you a voicemail notification so that you'll dial your T-Mobile voicemail and set it up. Until you set it up it won't go away.
Call your number and leave yourself a message. Then delete that voicemail. It should go away.
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Call your number and leave yourself a message. Then delete that voicemail. It should go away.
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when i had this issue, i tried this months ago and worked fine.
to make sure you understand.
make sure you DO NOT set up google voice for your voice mail yet.
make sure you still have tmobile voice mail set as default.
call yourself from home phone/ girls phone/ bf's phone ect..
dial tmo's voice mail number. delete voice mail.
BOOM Shakalaka!!!
you're set.
I'm having a similar issue as the OP. I just got my sim card swapped out by T-Mobile, and now I have a new voicemail notification that I can't get rid of.
I actually have my voicemail completely disabled, so I have no way of leaving myself a message or anything (I have it setup this way so my carrier's voicemail doesn't pickup any of my voicemails).
Any recommendations on how to get rid of this? It has been driving me crazy.
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I just tried online chat, but they weren't really any help:
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Me: I just traded in my sim card for a new one at the local store, and put the new sim card into my phone. My phone now shows a new voicemail notification that I am unable to get rid of. I have voicemail completely disabled on my plan, so I know that I have no new messages. This notification is irritating, and I would like to get rid of it.
%Noel M: Welcome to T-Mobile live Chat. I’m Noel and I'll be glad to help you, for your reference my ID number is 853274.
%Noel M: Would this be for prepaid account?
Me: correct
%Noel M: Let me find ways to remove that notification off the phone, one moment please.
Me: Thank you
%Noel M: You're welcome.
%Noel M: I'm still on it, one more minute please.
%Noel M: Have you restarted the phone and checked if the voicemail icon is still on the phone? Cna you tell me the make and model of the phone?
Me: Yeah, I have tried restarting the phone, taking the sim card out, and putting it back in, etc.
Me: It's a Galaxy Nexus.
Me: I don't think the issue is related to the phone, as it started as soon as I turned on the phone with the new sim card.
%Noel M: Did the phone came from T-Mobile or from a 3rd paty reseller?
Me: 3rd party reseller - directly from Google.
%Noel M: As a courtesy for non T-Mobile phones, we can attempt to troubleshoot internet, picture message, or network issues but please be aware that we cannot guarantee the functionality.
Me: ok. Thanks.
Me: It has something to do with them switching the sim card - with the old sim card, I had zero issues, and as soon as I put the new one in the issue showed up.
%Noel M: Can you open the notification? Do we have options about it for example is by deleting it?
Me: The notification says: "New voicemail Dial +1-805-637-7243".
Me: And when I click on it it places a call to that number (the TMobile voicemail system).
Me: But I can't actually do anything once I dial the number since I do not have a voicemail account setup.
%Noel M: Let me check if there are documents about this, if not I'll let you know once I'm done.
%Noel M: Please try this steps:
Call your number and leave a voicemail
Once you recieve the notification, access your voicemail
Listen to the entire message and then press 7 to delete it
Press the * key to return to the main menu
Hang up and check for the icon
If it is still there, powercycle your phone
Me: I can't leave myself a voicemail because my voicemail is completely disabled. When I call my phone number, it just keeps on ringing, and the voicemail never picks up.
%Noel M: I understand. Unfortunately, we have already exhausted all troubleshooting steps available here. Since we have limited info about your device, we need you to call the manufacturer of the phone to get assistance about this matter.
Me: okay.
%Noel M: Thank you for using T-Mobile live Chat. Have a great night!
Is there any way to completely disable voicemail notifications? I use Google Voice, so I do not care about carrier voicemail notifications at all.
xur17 said:
I'm having a similar issue as the OP. I just got my sim card swapped out by T-Mobile, and now I have a new voicemail notification that I can't get rid of.
I actually have my voicemail completely disabled, so I have no way of leaving myself a message or anything (I have it setup this way so my carrier's voicemail doesn't pickup any of my voicemails).
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Enable your voicemail and leave a message, then delete the message. You don't need to have your voicemail disabled for GV to work correctly. As long as you setup GV correctly, it will enable call forwarding so your carrier voicemail does not interfere.
bozzykid said:
Enable your voicemail and leave a message, then delete the message. You don't need to have your voicemail disabled for GV to work correctly. As long as you setup GV correctly, it will enable call forwarding so your carrier voicemail does not interfere.
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But call forwarding uses my minutes. So each call that goes to voicemail costs me minutes, and I am on the 100 minutes a month plan, so I don't really have a bunch to share.
xur17 said:
But call forwarding uses my minutes. So each call that goes to voicemail costs me minutes, and I am on the 100 minutes a month plan, so I don't really have a bunch to share.
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If you really want to go the prepaid route I would just use your google voice number (in other words don't give out your "real number") and disable the voice mail that comes with whatever prepaid service you use.
jimmyz said:
If you really want to go the prepaid route I would just use your google voice number (in other words don't give out your "real number") and disable the voice mail that comes with whatever prepaid service you use.
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That's exactly what I am doing...
My voicemail is completely disabled for my account. The problem is that I swapped out my sim card at TMobile, and now my phone says it has a new voicemail with no way of clearing it, since my voicemail is completely disabled.
xur17 said:
That's exactly what I am doing...
My voicemail is completely disabled for my account. The problem is that I swapped out my sim card at TMobile, and now my phone says it has a new voicemail with no way of clearing it, since my voicemail is completely disabled.
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I hate to say it but you may have to call support. I initially had the voicemail symbol that I couldn't get rid of until I set up the voicemail. Then I had the voicemail disabled.
jimmyz said:
I hate to say it but you may have to call support. I initially had the voicemail symbol that I couldn't get rid of until I set up the voicemail. Then I had the voicemail disabled.
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I did contact support... Not to be rude, but did you read this thread? I posted a log of my chat with support, and posted that I have my voicemail disabled.
I may end up reactivating my voicemail, setting up voicemail, and then disabling voicemail again. Unfortunately I think I have to talk to support for each of those steps.
I was told that using VM doesn't use minutes. I'm on the 100 minute plan too. Just a thought. That or you could try calling from SIPDroid but I never have gotten it to work with Google Voice.
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MrObvious said:
I was told that using VM doesn't use minutes. I'm on the 100 minute plan too. Just a thought. That or you could try calling from SIPDroid but I never have gotten it to work with Google Voice.
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Calling my voicemail box definitely uses my minutes. I'm not sure if calls forwarded use minutes, but I am pretty sure they do.
I have an HTC One S, but I think it should still be the same. Go to Settings>call> Clear voicemail notification.
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I did contact support... Not to be rude, but did you read this thread? I posted a log of my chat with support, and posted that I have my voicemail disabled.
I may end up reactivating my voicemail, setting up voicemail, and then disabling voicemail again. Unfortunately I think I have to talk to support for each of those steps.
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Sorry, I meant call which will likely be more painful than chat
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jimmyz said:
Sorry, I meant call which will likely be more painful than chat
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Ah. My bad then. I'll give that a shot in a few days. Google is sending me a replacement device for other issues, so I am going to try and see if that fixes it for some reason first.
Update: I was having an issue with a voicemail notification displaying on my phone even though I had voicemail completely disabled on my phone after I got a new sim card. I solved the issue by re-enabling the voicemail for my account (via online chat), and then disabling it again a day later (again via online chat).
I'm just posting this in case someone else has the same issue as me. I didn't even have to leave myself a voicemail and delete it or anything like people above were saying (probably because my voicemail system was initially completely disabled).
Thanks everyone! Calling myself and leaving a voicemail fixed it!
I have both a Sprint Epic 4G Touch and an ATT Galaxy S3.
I have had Sprint for 12 years, it's my main number. My ATT line is newer and had a newer number that I honestly don't use much.
What I would like to do is port my Sprint number to my Google Voice account so I can use it on both phones. I was all set to do this when I was told that porting my Sprint number to GV will cause my Sprint account/line to cancel automatically and that I will have to call them and open a new line of service etc etc.
UMMMMMMM? Seriously? I can't just port it and get them to give me a new number?
Someone else thought I might be able to call them and request a second number for my line, then port the old one and it would just kick over to the new number Sprint gives me and not kill my line of service.
Has anyone done this before? Help?! =)
Thanks.
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I have both a Sprint Epic 4G Touch and an ATT Galaxy S3.
I have had Sprint for 12 years, it's my main number. My ATT line is newer and had a newer number that I honestly don't use much.
What I would like to do is port my Sprint number to my Google Voice account so I can use it on both phones. I was all set to do this when I was told that porting my Sprint number to GV will cause my Sprint account/line to cancel automatically and that I will have to call them and open a new line of service etc etc.
UMMMMMMM? Seriously? I can't just port it and get them to give me a new number?
Someone else thought I might be able to call them and request a second number for my line, then port the old one and it would just kick over to the new number Sprint gives me and not kill my line of service.
Has anyone done this before? Help?! =)
Thanks.
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Sprint has gvoice integration where it can have your sprint number associated with your google account of choosing and have it work on your cellphone, just log into voice.google.com and get started there. If you decide you dont like it for any reason you can just hit the undo button on the page and it will go back to normal. EDIT: also this costs nothing you can add or subtract your sprint # as many times as you want. just go to voice.google.com or download the google voice app on you phone to get started, goodluck have fun
Yea I know how that works but I want to have my Sprint number ported to my GV account so it has no attachment to ANY carrier.
I want to be able to use my Sprint number on ANY cellphone I might ever have in the future.
Sounds like I'm going to have to cancel my Sprint account to do what I want to do. So if I walk away from Sprint, port my number over and let it cancel my account and get hit a ETF fee, will that fee be the FULL ETF fee or based on how long I have left on my contract? I have 11 months left on my Sprint contract.
kdoggy said:
Yea I know how that works but I want to have my Sprint number ported to my GV account so it has no attachment to ANY carrier.
I want to be able to use my Sprint number on ANY cellphone I might ever have in the future.
Sounds like I'm going to have to cancel my Sprint account to do what I want to do. So if I walk away from Sprint, port my number over and let it cancel my account and get hit a ETF fee, will that fee be the FULL ETF fee or based on how long I have left on my contract? I have 11 months left on my Sprint contract.
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If you do what Mynaga said to do you should be able to do this. When you download the Gvoice app on your phone you would be able to select what call you want google voice to handle on your phone like: use gv for all calls, or only international ones etc.. so if you select google voice to handle all calls on both your epic and on your ATT phone then you would always be using that same number . ..
You say you dont want to cancel your Sprint line and you want to be able to use this number on any cellphone you ever have in the future well if you upgrade to another phone with Sprint then your number gets swapped to that phone and just install google voice and set it up the same way and your good to go.... hope this helps.
Mynaga said:
Sprint has gvoice integration where it can have your sprint number associated with your google account of choosing and have it work on your cellphone, just log into voice.google.com and get started there. If you decide you dont like it for any reason you can just hit the undo button on the page and it will go back to normal. EDIT: also this costs nothing you can add or subtract your sprint # as many times as you want. just go to voice.google.com or download the google voice app on you phone to get started, goodluck have fun
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Howdy kids,
I've searched everywhere for answers, but the forums for grooveIP and Gvoice are not helpful...hoping to get answers from XDA pros with voip-only experience.
I've used my Epic flashed to cricket for years at $45/month. To cut this bill, I've recently gone Full Voip: installed talkatone & groove IP , then ported my number over to google voice on thursday night. Porting completed yesterday at 7pm. (FWIW, I'm using freedompop hotspot for 3g/4g connection & wifi at home).
I now realize that I should have installed and activated Gvoice on my phone before dropping cricket. (Since i'd been calling using my gvoice # for weeks, I didn't realize it was a separate app for android, needed to integrate sms).
Now when I try to install Gvoice app on my Epic, after singing in with my gmail acct, the next screen says "This phone's number" and a long blank. There's a button beneath to "add this phone", which then tries to send a normal sms to gvoice service , to verify my phone #. Since I've ported my # over, there's no carrier service to do this. So it fails.
All the google voice support says they "require a new number from new carrier " to forward to my gvoice #, which kinda defeats the purpose of the VOIP-only All-data system.
So, my question is, since I was able to flash my own phone to cricket (using advice and instructions found here), can I now reprogram my Epic so it shows my number instead of that long blank when activating gvoice? Or maybe program it to use an sms app as default, so it sends the text to verify my phone during that process?
I realize this is a complex issue, and I'm hoping to only get advice from Epic owners who have tried VOIP-only thru google voice. While I appreciate others' advice, we could spend weeks trading obtuse advice and explanations with zero progress.
Holla if you've encountered this or know how to solve!
Thanks a bunch , you tech-gurus!
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