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[Q] Google Voice/ FDN/ PIN2 Question

I'm setting up Google Voice and saw that there is a fixed dial number (FDN) setting.
My questions are :
1) Will this option make it so GV's access number is the same on every call?
2) it asks for a PIN2 number. I tried 1234 and 0000 and neither worked. Tmo is stumped. I did not set a number. Does anyone know another possible default code?
Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

FDN restricts outgoing calls to only the numbers on a pre determined list. See en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_Dialing_Number for more information.
This will not affect google voice, since when you make a google voice call it is an incoming, not an outgoing call from your phone. If I remember correctly, there is a setting on the google voice page to control how your calls appear on caller id (random number or GV number)
If you want to use FDN, the default PIN2 is 5678, keep in mind that t-mobile does not support the use of this feature, so if you lock yourself out they may not be able to help you.
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Thanks for the reply. Is there anyway to have GV use a fixed access number. I use the myfaves paln to get free unlimited incoming/outoging calls. But when gv changes acess numbers and I don't catch it fast enough, I get charged.

As far as I am aware (from my knowledge of using google voice and from searching) there is not a way to prevent the access numbers from changing.
If you want to use one number for all your calls, you can start by calling your own GV number and selecting option 2 (place a call) from the main menu.
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Question about Sprint/EVO 4G and Google Voice.

I just re-downloaded Google Voice for my Android. I tried it a few months back but installed a new ROM and never reinstalled it.
I decided I wanted to be able to use my Google Voice number again so I re-downloaded it and when I went to set it up, Google Voice tells me they have partnered with Sprint and it's asking me if I want to do the fully intergrated install for Sprint OR the standard Google Voice install.
What is the difference?
I've waited to set it up because I don't want it to take over my phone until I know what I'm getting myself into!
Thanks
*Update*
Maybe if I tell you guys WHAT I want GVoice for, you can tell me what option to use.
I want to use Google voice to hide my Sprint number. I want to be able to give out a number that people CAN call me on, without them knowing my real Sprint number, and if I return their calls, I only want them to see my GVoice number.
I also like the idea of being able to block numbers in GVoice so the caller thinks my number is no longer in service which I see you can do.
Thanks.

If you ibtergrate with sprint, your sprint telephone number can be used as your google number! One number for both.
If you want to use a seperate number for google then do this.
1. Log into google voice from computer.
2. Click on your number in top right hand corner.
3. Select phones
4. Deactivate google voice on your number.
Done!!! 2 numbers.
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So then it completely defeats the purpose of using Google Voice? Everyone I know uses Google Voice to mask their cellphone providers number.
Everyone I know uses it to be anonymous. I mean I know Google knows what your real number is so like you wouldn't want to call in any bomb threats but everyone I know uses Google Voice as a disposable number. For example, bill collectors or Craigslist ads etc.

If you intergrate you may also use your google number as your number. Sorry for not explaining that!
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When you install, choose use my google number and callers will see your google number. You can always change this.
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OK so what does the integration do exactly then because I can use my Google Voice number without integrating and just doing the standard setup.
I'm kinda lost as to what it does exactly. Like what the point it.

Your google number is a landline, so if you intergrate, your cell makes the call but shows the landline nuber, as opposed to calling ftom the google number without intergration wich uses landline minutes!!
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So if if you dont have the simply everything plan and intergrate your caller id just displays your google voice wich saves landline minutes because your calling from your cell and displaying your google number.
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Im in the same boat as the OP. I just reinstalled CM7 from scratch & when I installed GV, I had the same options.
I really just use GV for the voicemail integration. I wouldnt mind being able to setup custom greetings for family members, I guess the text being saved on google is a good thing (though a little scary).
I just dont get what the point of it is if I already have a GV number (which I dont use except for voicemail).
I just dont see the benefit of porting except for the GV being the one stop phone number I give out with some blocking features.
My bigger concern is if I wanted to leave GV or sprint, how that gets handled, or what rights i am signing over to google on my information.
Any ideas on where to find more info?
THanks,
Rich

parksc976 said:
If you intergrate you may also use your google number as your number. Sorry for not explaining that!
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You have to pay to keep your GVoice number, though.
Integration is great for those of us who want the GVoice features (texting and voicemail from the app and web) without a separate GVoice number that everyone has to learn. I love having access to my texts from a browser, and can call people from my netbook and it shows up as my cell number.
Yes, you can do that without integration too, but this way I didn't have to teach everyone a new number. I've had my mobile number for over six years now; I don't want to get a new one.

What happens if you leave sprint? Does Google 'own' your voicemails? Does your texts go through the native app, or in the google voice app?

RichTJ99 said:
What happens if you leave sprint? Does Google 'own' your voicemails? Does your texts go through the native app, or in the google voice app?
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You can de-integrate your number. I imagine that Google would give you another Google number at that point.

Google Voice on E4GT

Has anyone figured out a way to use Google Voice as the primary voicemail app?

snapa55 said:
Has anyone figured out a way to use Google Voice as the primary voicemail app?
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Yeah, you go to the website
google.voice.com
and you can configure your settings there.

To my knowledge, there's no way to set Google Voice as the primary way to handle voicemail, like there is on the Evo 4G.

I don't have my phone yet (being delivered today), but why would using the instructions from the google voice website not work? What happens when you try?
I think it is *28 then your google voice number.

Google voice voicemail is set between the account and your GV account... it is completely unrelated to the phone. The app can retrieve the VM's and help you setup the voicemail, but it isn't required.

Its working for me.

Hey, quick question. I set up google voice, but now it's my primary phone number for when I text my friends. Is there a way to undo this? Even after uninstalling it, my primary texting number is my google voice number.

Login from a desktop and deactive your google number. You have a limited time before losing your sprint number.
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If you go to the website voice.google.com - there's an option in there to integrate voicemail. On the phone settings you can click 'activate google voicemail on this phone'
basically it forwards the call at the last ring to your google voice voicemail and skips your sprint one.
Then that voicemail shows up in the google voice app, or you can set it to email you and even have a written transcript.
That's what I'm set up like. I dig it.

Works fine here. I had a little trouble getting it activated... I think this was because I was expecting it to switch too quickly after I set it up. You have to give it a few min/hours to start rolling your voicemail to Google Voice.

It will ask you to dial *38 and your number and it never works for me. Just make sure you have your sprint phone listed to forward to on the GV settings online and then install the app on your phone and go through the setup on the app and your voicemail will use GV...at least it does for me.

I had to remove it on my NS4G, caused me nothing but problems. And then when I did remove it I had to call sprint and have them reset my account because I was unable to receive calls and callers just got hung up on rather than connected to my voice mail.

I never let Sprint take over my GV number...I made it so I still had the choice to use my sprint or GV number. I ported my number to GV so I could go to any carrier I wanted to and have as many phone ring on the same number. I have a boost phone also that rings my GV number.

I have never been able to get voice mail without the app while my number was integrated. How do you get voicemails without the app? Do you just call your own number?
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420247paul said:
I have never been able to get voice mail without the app while my number was integrated. How do you get voicemails without the app? Do you just call your own number?
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No you have to have the app

That didnt work out so well for me. If you ported for free because you are on sprint as soon as you cancel your service that number is inactive. I had to choose between my number and this phone and I took the phone and dont regret it one bit
alnova1 said:
I never let Sprint take over my GV number...I made it so I still had the choice to use my sprint or GV number. I ported my number to GV so I could go to any carrier I wanted to and have as many phone ring on the same number. I have a boost phone also that rings my GV number.
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420247paul said:
That didnt work out so well for me. If you ported for free because you are on sprint as soon as you cancel your service that number is inactive. I had to choose between my number and this phone and I took the phone and dont regret it one bit
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I ported my number when GV started porting long before sprint got involved...I payed 20 bucks for it.

Google voice voicemail

Ok, i searched the best i could, but since I'm on my phone I didn't get very far. My question is, how come I can't change my voicemail to Google Voice on the e4gt? I have used gv for voicemail for a long time & don't really want to go back to Sprint vm. Is there a workaround on getting gv to work as my vm provider?
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I am using GV for my vm on the e4gt...
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Okay, & how did you change it in your settings. I have gv installed, but there is no place too change my voicemail to gv. Hopefully it automatically will use gv, because i have always used it.
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I had the same issue, but as long as you have it forwarding to your vm account with the *28...... number then it still works. I set it up and then had a test and i received the notifications. You may get a strange text message from 8757 or something like that. The only fix I have seen for that is to block the number on the phone. Hope this helps.

boydefecto said:
I had the same issue, but as long as you have it forwarding to your vm account with the *28...... number then it still works. I set it up and then had a test and i received the notifications. You may get a strange text message from 8757 or something like that. The only fix I have seen for that is to block the number on the phone. Hope this helps.
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Yeah, definitely do the *28 forward method. You can actually set that up from your G-voice account online. Newer versions of Google Voice (if you install via the phone) ask you during setup if you'd like to 'Combine your Sprint account with your Google Voice Account" -- DON'T DO THIS. Choose the 'skip' option instead and configure as above.
Why? Because if you do, G-voice will ask you to either surrender your g-voice # in favor of your Sprint # or vice-versa. You'll also notice that Sprint has bundled onto the phone a link to service that 'translates your voice mails and sends them to you as text messages' and implores you to sign up for a 'free-trial'.
They're basically offering you a 'free trial' of Google Voice which implies that you could get caught having to pay for it later if you surrender you g-voice or Sprint phone number.
Better safe than sorry.

Google Voice

I just bought my T999 two days ago, and am just getting a feel for this phone. I've not rooted it yet, and may not for a bit. I haven't decided.
I have rooted several other phones, so I'm comfortable with that process. I just want to get a feel for a few weeks, and even see when/if 4.1 gets officially released in the short-term.
That said, I've been using GV since it came out; really before it was officially released. I load it on my phone, and when I go to configure the voicemail, it fails. I've called TMO tech support, and of course they don't want to touch this.
Any thoughts on this? Is there truly an incompatibility with GV on the T999 as the TMO rep told me? I've searched the Apps forum, and could not find anything remotely related to this issue.
-TU

From the dialer screen, hit menú, go to call settings, scroll down to voice mail service and try it that way, I had the same issue
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g2uzer said:
From the dialer screen, hit menú, go to call settings, scroll down to voice mail service and try it that way, I had the same issue
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I tried that, and the calls are still being routed to the carrier voice mail. New messages are not routing to Google Voice.
Dangit!

Settlement it up online. It will have you enter codes and such.
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jdyowa said:
Settlement it up online. It will have you enter codes and such.
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Not following. I go to the settings within my Google account on my PC, and I can't see anything that requires codes to be added.

TU Homer said:
Not following. I go to the settings within my Google account on my PC, and I can't see anything that requires codes to be added.
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You have to go to Google voice settings Not just your Google settings. It walks you thru on setting up new/different phone number
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If you are on T-mo prepay, they don't support conditional forwarding. However any t-mo number can get to a tech support (call a few times if need to) and they can just change your voicemail number in the system to your GV number.
Alternatively you can follow GSM codes and Google Voice instructions.
Type into your phone...
*004*1XXXYYYZZZZ# dial
That will forward (missed calls, busy, and phone not reachable) calls to that number.
Also, on T-mo (not prepay) and AT&T you can set the number of seconds before the ringing call goes to VM.
*61*1XXXYYYZZZZ**10# dial
Where 10 is the number of seconds the phone rings before going to VM.
You can look it up, but valid numbers there are 5, 10, 15, 20, 30.
You can save that as a contact and change the time it rings based on location.
(If you have two GV numbers, you could direct missed calls to one voicemail box,
and phone off /no service calls to another number for a different message)
Enjoy.
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Also, just FYI, install the GV app on any android phone (since the G1), and it will allow you to toggle outgoing calls being made through GV or your call service (or prompt you each time you dial). So if the GV app is running you can call someone and the caller ID is your GV number. The phone says something about calling 1-800-whatever which is google's relay number. The app also allows you to listen to voicemails and full access to the same stuff in the webpage (ie. send SMS from the app, block calls, etc).
The only difference is that Sprint has totally integrated GV numbers with their phones, so you can actually send and receive calls from GV number without the app running or intermediate 800 number. (maybe they pseudo port your GV number)
Also protip, you can transfer GV numbers between different gmail accounts. You can even swap two GV numbers but it requires a third dummy google acct. The only thing in transferring is that you must have different pin numbers and the receiving account must not have any GV number associated with it (or you just transfer it to a new dummy acct). You can also have the same GV number listed on two gmail accounts is they both set the number to Home instead of Cell, but that means you cannot get SMS forwards. Google has a special webpage for the transferring process, which happens almost instantly.

TU Homer said:
Not following. I go to the settings within my Google account on my PC, and I can't see anything that requires codes to be added.
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You go to voice.google.com and add a cellphone to your account (or edit the number the acct is associated with). When you do this google with call you and you have to enter in two numbers. Or if you do not already have a GV number it will walk you through the process (pick a GV number, enter your cell number, confirmation, done)

Go into settings from your dialer, call forwarding, and then change the last three numbers to your gv number then it will work properly. For some reason the app doesn't do that part properly on our phones.
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awrnsmn said:
Go into settings from your dialer, call forwarding, and then change the last three numbers to your gv number then it will work properly. For some reason the app doesn't do that part properly on our phones.
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Perfect! Thanks so much!
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