Had anybody successfully gotten the T-Mobile visual voicemail app to work on their G7? I had it working on my pixel and Essential phone without a paid monthly subscription.
I uninstalled the T-Mobile Visual Voicemail app and deleted all data from the Google Phone app but still no tab for the Visual Voicemail app.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance
You mean you're trying to get the visual voicemail to show up in the stock phone app without having to use the one from the play store?
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Lancerz said:
You mean you're trying to get the visual voicemail to show up in the stock phone app without having to use the one from the play store?
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I have a T-Mobile variant LG G7, I just switched from my Pixel 2L, on that phone I had ba tab for visual voicemail but I didn't have a monthly subscription through TMobile. I downloaded and installed the Google Phone app but I can't get the Visual Voicemail tab. Just wanted to check if it was possible to get it to work. I prefer the Google phone
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I have a T-Mobile variant LG G7, I just switched from my Pixel 2L, on that phone I had ba tab for visual voicemail but I didn't have a monthly subscription through TMobile. I downloaded and installed the Google Phone app but I can't get the Visual Voicemail tab. Just wanted to check if it was possible to get it to work. I prefer the Google phone
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Just download the T-mobile visual voicemail from the play store? You don't need a subscription.
Actually you get a free 1 month trial and after it's $4 month. In my Pixel 2XL there were no charges but all it was the ability to listen to your voicemail without dialing the voicemail
I too could not get it to work in the Google Phone app. However, after installing the T-Mobile Visual Voicemail app, visual voicemail decided to show up inside the LG phone app after a delay (of hours or maybe days). That had me hopeful that it might eventually show up in the Google Phone app, but it never did despite me trying various things like installing/uninstalling T-Mobile Visual voicemail, clearing cache, enabling/disabling visual voicemail, disabling the LG phone app package, etc.
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Actually you get a free 1 month trial and after it's $4 month. In my Pixel 2XL there were no charges but all it was the ability to listen to your voicemail without dialing the voicemail
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You're talking about voicemail to text, that requires a subscription. Visual voicemail does not require a subscription, you can listen to all your voicemail within the app for free.
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You're talking about voicemail to text, that requires a subscription. Visual voicemail does not require a subscription, you can listen to all your voicemail within the app for free.
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Actually on the Google Pixel Visual Voicemail just being able to listen to your messages and deleting without having to dial the voicemail
Same Issue
I'm having the same problem - came from a Nexus 5x on T-Mobile where the stock Google phone app had a voicemail tab. After installing the Google Phone app, there's no voicemail tab on the LG G7. Very frustrated.
Hey, I work for T-Mobile as a technician (nothing special, for now).
The visual voicemail app is for the free visual voicemail service from T-Mobile. It lets you listen to voicemails from a GUI instead of a calling interface. The premium feature is "voicemail to text".
If you've reinstalled the app, cleared your own cache, etc, then call customer care and let them troubleshoot. You could be missing an account feature or two required for the setup.
For phones that have OEM Visual Voicemail (iPhones, any android with a "voicemail" tab), the app is good for setup, but otherwise is not needed. As long as the account features are good and your phone is in no position to have any bugs around interaction with carrier features, then it should work without a fuss.
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We have a system and method for dealing with issues where all of the above is correct and done and it's some kind of exception (non-TMO phone we haven't troubleshot this far before), it just takes a few days or longer to interact with the engineers and developers. We can't take logs or reports of any kind, but the information we need is brutally specific.
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We have a system and method for dealing with issues where all of the above is correct and done and it's some kind of exception (non-TMO phone we haven't troubleshot this far before), it just takes a few days or longer to interact with the engineers and developers. We can't take logs or reports of any kind, but the information we need is brutally specific.
I was poking around a bit yesterday and found that Android disables the VVM tab in the phone if an installed package matches a string in: KEY_CARRIER_VVM_PACKAGE_NAME_STRING. A bit more detective work on my G7 (using Activity Launcher, under com.android.voicemailomtp) shows a grayed-out setting for Visual Voicemail with a note "Carrier VVM App is installed." I don't currently have the T-Mobile app installed, so I'm wondering what it's checking for and if I can override that to get the VVM tab to work in the stock Android Dialer app.
Any advanced users able to walk me through that?
I'm in the same boat. Can anyone help?
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During the Nexus/ICS unveiling in Hong Kong it was mentioned that while using Google Voice, all voicemails would be shown in the Phone app (alongside missed and recent calls).
They made note of a new API that allows all voicemail services to "plug in" to this functionality.
Have they not enabled this yet for the Google Voice app? I can receive voicemails through the GV app, but they do not show in the Phone app.
Maybe it's something wrong with my setup?
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During the Nexus/ICS unveiling in Hong Kong it was mentioned that while using Google Voice, all voicemails would be shown in the Phone app (alongside missed and recent calls).
They made note of a new API that allows all voicemail services to "plug in" to this functionality.
Have they not enabled this yet for the Google Voice app? I can receive voicemails through the GV app, but they do not show in the Phone app.
Maybe it's something wrong with my setup?
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I didn't even know they announced that. My voicemails certainly do not show up in the call log. Although, it would be pretty cool if they did.
hey that's a good question, what happened to that feature? i watched it at the event and it looked awesome. your voice mail played right inside the call log. i havent even heard anything about it since then...
Shown right here is that feature, would love to have it
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Shown right here is that feature, would love to have it
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wow. that look awesome! I would love to have that. The google voice app is not very pretty/user friendly. This method is much more elegant.
Yeah, the GV stuff really could stand to be more fully integrated with the OS. For example, wouldn't it be SWEET to receive SMS via GV and then have an option to just send those messages to the default SMS application on your phone? At the moment, there isn't really any good/friendly way for 3rd party apps to interact with the GVApp. +1 for more GV OS integration!
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Yeah, the GV stuff really could stand to be more fully integrated with the OS. For example, wouldn't it be SWEET to receive SMS via GV and then have an option to just send those messages to the default SMS application on your phone? At the moment, there isn't really any good/friendly way for 3rd party apps to interact with the GVApp. +1 for more GV OS integration!
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Kinda like iMessage where it is all integrated...
I read somewhere awhile back that they were totally redesigning the GV app...maybe that's what they're waiting on?
Still waiting on MMS support. I hate that when someone sends me a picture message it simply goes into a black hole with no bounce notification to the sender or notification to me that one was sent
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Shown right here is that feature, would love to have it
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thanks for sharing the exact clip. looking forward to this!
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Yeah, the GV stuff really could stand to be more fully integrated with the OS. For example, wouldn't it be SWEET to receive SMS via GV and then have an option to just send those messages to the default SMS application on your phone? At the moment, there isn't really any good/friendly way for 3rd party apps to interact with the GVApp. +1 for more GV OS integration!
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You can do this now...
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Charge your phone man.
Buff McBigstuff said:
Charge your phone man.
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I can go 17hrs on 3%, give or take 16hrs and 59 mins.
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You can do this now...
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True, but all replies to the original incoming SMS will be sent from the cell number and not the Google Voice number.
From what I understand the ability to integrate voicemail into the phone app exists in ICS already but the carriers or an app has to write code to make it happen. So yes if google chose they should be able to use the API they wrote into ICS for GV and integrate it...I for one hope they do, having to go to GV for voicemail suks.
Did anyone else get this update is yet?
iTzAmazed on note 2
I haven't downloaded it. When I check through on my desktop, on the Android Market website, it shows Hangouts (replaces Talk) as incompitable with the GN2, or at least the Sprint variant.
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Did anyone else get this update is yet?
iTzAmazed on note 2
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Yes, just updated. Signed out and revoked access via my firewall just like with Talk.
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Really mines work fine that's crazy.
iTzAmazed on note 2
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If you're using dpi mods, the Hangouts app won't work. As of yet tablets aren't supported.
I'm on Sprint (Note 2, SynergyROM) and my Talk updated automatically not long after release.
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I really like this app. Can't wait for sms integration
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I really like this app. Can't wait for sms integration
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If it ever happens. As of now Hangouts is not even close to feature parity with Talk.
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Still can't get it to sign in. It's telling me it can't reach Google.
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Im not touch of a tech but maybe clear data and force stop it then try going back into app.
iTzAmazed on note 2
Being rooted, I deleted Talk and then installed Hangouts. It works for a short time and then I start seeing a message that says it can't reach Google. Not sure what that's about. I also kept getting a Talk and Hangouts notification every time I got a message and I wasn't allowed to clear the Talk one.
In other news, I manually placed it on my Note 10.1 and it has worked flawlessly...
Still no update available for my phone. Hopefully today
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Still no update available for my phone. Hopefully today
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Same here. I still have the old talk app and google plus.
nextelfixer said:
Still no update available for my phone. Hopefully today
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Same here. I still have the old talk app and google plus.
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Having played with Hangouts...
You're better off with Talk and G+. Hangouts doesn't even have online/busy/not-online status, which has been a fundamental piece of online chat since....I dunno....AOL AIM?
I played with the "update for all of 30 minutes before I reflashed my ROM. Hangouts is currently not even a feature-complete AIM replacement. It is pretty, but that is about the only thing it has going for it over what it is supposed to replace.
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Having played with Hangouts...
You're better off with Talk and G+. Hangouts doesn't even have online/busy/not-online status, which has been a fundamental piece of online chat since....I dunno....AOL AIM?
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If the contacts picture is faded then they're not online, if it's clear then they're online, I prefer this much better than a green dot over my contacts picture! Welcome to 2013
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What is the difference between online (green in Talk) and offline (gray), busy/do-not-disturb (red) or away (yellow)?
What is when one does not have any picture?
How do I see the list of my Talk-/Hangout-capable contacts? I have about 10 such persons in Google Talk, but suddenly 20 more in the Hangouts list.
Sorry guys but it's really crap.
I've deinstalled it.
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What is the difference between online (green in Talk) and offline (gray), busy/do-not-disturb (red) or away (yellow)?
What is when one does not have any picture?
How do I see the list of my Talk-/Hangout-capable contacts? I have about 10 such persons in Google Talk, but suddenly 20 more in the Hangouts list.
Sorry guys but it's really crap.
I've deinstalled it.
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You're calling it crap without bothering to trying to learn the app?...if they weren't capable of chatting I'm sure they wouldn't be on the list
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You're calling it crap without bothering to trying to learn the app?...if they weren't capable of chatting I'm sure they wouldn't be on the list
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WRONG!
Some of them only use google account to activate the android phone and to use the app (play) store, they do not use GMail nor Talk or Hangups. At least one is only using iPhone and iMac. I used to talk to him once. He never starts Talk or Hangups since them. They are all on the long long list... Why?? How do I remove them easily?
And: how do I signalize that I am busy and may not be disturbed ("busy" = red)? How can I see that someone is away (Android phone online but screen is off: yellow/orange)?
Sorry but is is crap, CRAP *CRAP*, not an upgrade!
Bask to Talk ... and happy again!
I have the update.. But didn't take it.. I like my inverted talk better
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I'm in the camp that says it's the biggest piece of crap google has put out in a long time. While I think the name itself is lame as hell. My main issues in order are...
1. All of your contacts are added whether you want them there or not. Face it, I don't want every contact in my address book in my hangout. There is no way to remove the unwanted contacts from the list without blocking them (which also blocks them from your google+. Now I have 200+ names in my hangout. Wheres that stupid sign that we can hang around google's neck.
2. I have 2 separate accounts one for just my family and the other for my xda friends. There is no real way to separate these accounts all the contacts for each are merged together. Again, where's that sign?
3. While it does show when you are online or offline it doesn't give you to option of being away or busy.
There or more but these are my top 3.
It's really a huge step backward from talk.
I've never used Message+ before, but it's the default messaging app. Is it a good app, or another crappy verizon bloat app?
I love Handcent.
Even let's you back up sms and mms separately to the cloud. And restore. Without root.
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I've never used Message+ before, but it's the default messaging app. Is it a good app, or another crappy verizon bloat app?
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I use Hangouts.
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I've never used Message+ before, but it's the default messaging app. Is it a good app, or another crappy verizon bloat app?
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You could call it a bloat app with actual functionality. With Message+ you can send texts on wifi (no Verizon signal) and from other devices (Mac/PC, Android/iOS tablet, other phone) and have it sync on your phone. I use it as my default because its the only multi-device texting app that doesn't need your phone to be on in order to send messages as they are sent directly through Verizon.
I absolutely love textra. nothing pulled me from 8sms for over a year until I found textra.
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I just find that 3rd party apps don't run as "smoothly" as built in messaging apps. Maybe it's just my mindset idk lol..
I use it on my WiFi only tablet. Works good. Aside from that I use stock.
I use Samsungs message app. I am a little irritated that took quick reply and the detailed lockscreen info away. Along with other little things like the ability to change folder colors. Annoying, but nice phone
I use Verizon Message + to restore all my messages and then I revert to using the included Android app. I've tried many of the third party apps, but I hate hate hate the advertising and I feel they are generally slower as well.
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You could call it a bloat app with actual functionality. With Message+ you can send texts on wifi (no Verizon signal) and from other devices (Mac/PC, Android/iOS tablet, other phone) and have it sync on your phone. I use it as my default because its the only multi-device texting app that doesn't need your phone to be on in order to send messages as they are sent directly through Verizon.
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I use it for these same reasons.
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I absolutely love textra. nothing pulled me from 8sms for over a year until I found textra.
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I am with ya on this! I have used 8sms for a long time and textra has made some huge improvements and pulled me away
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I use Samsungs message app. I am a little irritated that took quick reply and the detailed lockscreen info away. Along with other little things like the ability to change folder colors. Annoying, but nice phone
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Both of these options still exist...
I switch between GoSms and Handcent. Might have to check out Textra if people really like that. Also saw one called Sliding Messaging that looked kind of cool.
I moved to Message+ just for the fact I can text from my tab or pc even if my phone is dead.
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I moved to mlMessage+ just for the fact I can text from my tab or pc even if my phone is dead.
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i use hangouts its linked to my google account and backs it all up for me
I refuse to use message + because Verizon's security is absolutely garbage. I've been hacked and people have gotten into my integrated messaging and it's absolutely ridiculous what a security flaw this is. If i were you guys, I wouldn't use it.
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Pretty sure no one's trying to hack me plus I keep my text threads cleared out. I'm ocd and hate the clutter.
I've been partial to EvolveSMS lately, other than that I just user stock, which is apparently Message+ now.
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Where?
In your messages inbox, goto the settings menu. Then click on notifications
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So Sammy or Verizon made this the default texting app. I'm not liking that I can't even set an individual text alert sound per contact. I even went into contacts, added the extra field "Message Tone" and selected a unique one for given contact but always defaults to same stupid sound for all texts from all contacts. doh
Do I have to go 3rd party app to get what I want?
Nope. I disabled that crap and am using the real message app. It's there...
Same here. disabled and using samsung messages
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So Sammy or Verizon made this the default texting app. I'm not liking that I can't even set an individual text alert sound per contact. I even went into contacts, added the extra field "Message Tone" and selected a unique one for given contact but always defaults to same stupid sound for all texts from all contacts. doh
Do I have to go 3rd party app to get what I want?
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This is definitely a Verizon App and I'm uninstalling and turning off as many of them as I can. I don't even want to their cloud.
Thanks for the replies. Didn't even realize it was a damn Verizon bloat app. Going to go back to "Chomp SMS" I think.
I think it has some great features. such as being able to text on wifi if there is no signal. if someone send you a link it gives you a preview of the site before the need to click on it. it also handles pictures that have been sent back and forth very nicely. I could go on but check it out.
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I think it has some great features. such as being able to text on wifi if there is no signal. if someone send you a link it gives you a preview of the site before the need to click on it. it also handles pictures that have been sent back and forth very nicely. I could go on but check it out.
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I was just going to say this. The vzw app is really nice. I have it on my Note 12.2 tablet too. Wifi texting is awesome. It's also integrated with glympse, which is so incredibly useful. my wife and I use it all the time.
Just because it's made by Verizon doesn't mean it's some hellishly crappy battery sucking phone melting app
I started using it last week. I discovered it by accident. It allows me to install it on my computers, my N7, and my phone. I can text from any of these devices and receive texts on all of them.
It is missing some of the cool functionality of the Samsung stock app, but it is definitely worth having. It's kind of like what Apple did with their "being able to text from phone, iPad, or Mac" thing.
Thats kind of cool.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/wcms/consumer/products/verizon-messages.html
If it works then I could stop using MightyText to text from my computer.
Cool will check this out, thx! I use handcent and pay $9.99 for the gold plan to backup all my mms/sms and can use on ipad, windows to text a year. Will check out verizons app more!
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Reporting back and it isnt the prettiest or hardly customizable at all but it works and honestly no complaints. Putting Textra and Mightytext sms app sync on the backburner while I try this out.
I installed the update in the google play market for this app and it allows much more customization with fonts, colors, backgrounds, list types, chat bubbles.
First Verizon App I like and use lol. Saying it here.:good:
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I installed the update in the google play market for this app and it allows much more customization with fonts, colors, backgrounds, list types, chat bubbles.
First Verizon App I like and use lol. Saying it here.:good:
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Not sure if I had applied the update or not. Can you tell me if it allows individual per contact notifications assignments?
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Not sure if I had applied the update or not. Can you tell me if it allows individual per contact notifications assignments?
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It allows individual sounds for different people.
Other than that its texting that works through wifi and my pc.
OK, that desktop app is pretty cool. On my iMac (OSX Yosemite) it wants access to my contacts, then my phone number, then sent me a text with a code that I popped into the app and wham! All my texts are now on my desktop app. Thanks for the heads-up!
BTW - I am still using the default Android text app on my phone and not the Verizon Message+ and I still seem to get the full functionality, so you can have the best of both worlds. One caveat - My Android contacts were not shared on my iMac so some of the desktop app messages show only the phone number and not the contact name. Looks like it is time to synchronize!
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Wow, what a surprise that this app is actually worthwhile. I'm not sure I'm curious enough to stray away from Hangouts though, I get a lot of use out of that app. If only verizon would allow wifi texting to 3rd party apps.
Is it a battery/cpu hog? I'm hesitant to believe this is a well constructed app
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Wow, what a surprise that this app is actually worthwhile. I'm not sure I'm curious enough to stray away from Hangouts though, I get a lot of use out of that app. If only verizon would allow wifi texting to 3rd party apps.
Is it a battery/cpu hog? I'm hesitant to believe this is a well constructed app
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I've been using it since yesterday. I haven't noticed any battery drain from using it.
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Is the "cloud" texting intuitive enough to justify jumping ship from hangouts? I'm really torn here.
Honestly. Just use it for a whole day.
Only disadvantage I see is that its not as polished and if your friends are using hangouts then it might not work.
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Honestly. Just use it for a whole day.
Only disadvantage I see is that its not as polished and if your friends are using hangouts then it might not work.
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Will do. Thanks
I have a global variant OnePlus 9 pro. It seems that my phone may not have the full features that T-Mobile has to offer with their variant of the phone. I'm also noticing that with the new Google dialer that's been implemented, I'm unable to get the visual voicemail working (see picture for what it prompts). I guess the question here really is, would the T-Mobile firmware resolve issues like this or is this more of a sim card/carrier issue?
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The regular tmobile variant doesn't even give you vvm via the dialer (op dialer) because you get to use their crappy vvm app where you are asked to pay for additional services.
If you want vvm, download their app.
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The regular tmobile variant doesn't even give you vvm via the dialer (op dialer) because you get to use their crappy vvm app where you are asked to pay for additional services.
If you want vvm, download their app.
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I've seen threads on reddit and other forums where people had the native visual voicemail working and it was fully functional. I would imagine that there should be a fix for this. Their vvm app is trash so I'm not planning on doing that.
ilikepie___ said:
I've seen threads on reddit and other forums where people had the native visual voicemail working and it was fully functional. I would imagine that there should be a fix for this. Their vvm app is trash so I'm not planning on doing that.
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They probably used Magisk mods/fingerprint changes to make the Google Dialer work fully on their phones. Iirc, changing the fingerprint to a Pixel device not only "unlocks" visual voicemail within the Google Dialer, as well as transcription (if you pay for it, that is), but also call screening. However, as I mentioned in the thread detailing how to do that (here), it creates a lot of unintentional side effects. Also, as I mentioned, there IS a difference between VVM (which is free and simply allows you to listen to voicemails without actually dialing into your VM) and transcribed voicemails (which is the voicemail-to-text feature). Either CAN be accessed without T-Mobile's proprietary software, but the latter must be added to your monthly bill to actually work.
GuyInDogSuit said:
They probably used Magisk mods/fingerprint changes to make the Google Dialer work fully on their phones. Iirc, changing the fingerprint to a Pixel device not only "unlocks" visual voicemail within the Google Dialer, as well as transcription (if you pay for it, that is), but also call screening. However, as I mentioned in the thread detailing how to do that (here), it creates a lot of unintentional side effects. Also, as I mentioned, there IS a difference between VVM (which is free and simply allows you to listen to voicemails without actually dialing into your VM) and transcribed voicemails (which is the voicemail-to-text feature). Either CAN be accessed without T-Mobile's proprietary software, but the latter must be added to your monthly bill to actually work.
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Would something like this be a viable root method with the additional mods that are added in this guideline? I don't want to cause unnecessary system app problems nor brick the device. It seems that the OnePlus 9 pro has the google dialer installed out of the box, mine being the global edition straight from OnePlus
ilikepie___ said:
Would something like this be a viable root method with the additional mods that are added in this guideline? I don't want to cause unnecessary system app problems nor brick the device. It seems that the OnePlus 9 pro has the google dialer installed out of the box, mine being the global edition straight from OnePlus
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Well, if you use any kernels or Magisk modules geared at specific devices (such as this one) you might run into some problems due to the device's fingerprint. Nothing potentially bricking or the like. Kernels and modules won't flash/install. They'll simply stop at the device validation and exit. With modules, the good thing is a lot of them aren't device-specific (with the exception of some geared at Samsung or OP devices, for example), and even if you run into problems with those, they're easily removed via recovery. Kernels, on the other hand, are a different beast. Any issue with those requires flashing the original boot.img (which will remove root, btw).
The only major issue I ran into with this mod, on my 7T, was with updating the ROM (via Oxygen Updater, anyway) and the kernel (for example, EX Kernel, which balks when it sees the device fingerprint, and cancels the flashing process). There might be ways to bypass these restrictions, but I wasn't able to find any, so I ended up having to revert the fingerprint changes to flash those, then re-do the fingerprints and Dialer setup again. This was on OOS 10, by the way. So with 9 Pro and OOS 11, the conditions might differ. YMMV.