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I'm re-visiting the idea of sip and/or some voip option. Google voice is great, but uses airtime. What's everyone doing for free data/3G/Wifi calling with voip? The phone companies are charging ridiculous prices for basic service and would like to mostly make outbound calls that don't require airtime or use minutes.
Thanks!
Sipdroid will tie in your Google Voice number and set up a pbxes account to route calls through VoIP. It works pretty good.
Or get the app mentioned in one of the 7 threads about this exact same topic already. I can't remember what its called, but its an all-in-one tool. No csipsimple and/or pbxes necessary.
edit: ya know, the thread thats on the first page of this forum titled, "[Guide] Unlimited Wifi/3G VoIP Calling"... I don't expect you to search, so here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16129412#post16129412
I use grooveip
teh_lorax said:
Or get the app mentioned in one of the 7 threads about this exact same topic already. I can't remember what its called, but its an all-in-one tool. No csipsimple and/or pbxes necessary.
edit: ya know, the thread thats on the first page of this forum titled, "[Guide] Unlimited Wifi/3G VoIP Calling"... I don't expect you to search, so here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16129412#post16129412
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good thing i didnt ask the same damn question, lol
autosearch on new posts was a brilliant idea =)
Imperial.mack said:
I use grooveip
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Same here, GrooveIP work great over 3g or wifi and does NOT use minutes.
+1 on the groove ip
i spent the last day downloadin every friggin app they have and groove ip was the only one that just worked without needin a PhD, and it didnt mess with everything else on my phone either.
the one thing i haven't figured out is how to get incoming calls to my google voice number to ring on my phone. i can do outgoing calls just fine, and i get incoming text messages. but incoming calls to my google voice go straight to voicemail.
im hopin i just have a setting wrong somewhere that eventually i will find and correct, but free outgoing calls is good enough for now i guess
death2verizon said:
im hopin i just have a setting wrong somewhere that eventually i will find and correct, but free outgoing calls is good enough for now i guess
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Try this, go into the Google Voice settings (on PC) and make sure that the Do Not Disturb is off and also turn off Screen Callers.
baseballfanz said:
Try this, go into the Google Voice settings (on PC) and make sure that the Do Not Disturb is off and also turn off Screen Callers.
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yeah, i found the "call screening" setting previously and was hoping that was why but it had no effect. i did verify that the do not disturb is unchecked as well
i did find one thing i had overlooked, under the "fowarding phones - foward calls to:" i unchecked the actual number of my cell phone (the one provided by at&t, as in my "real" cell phone number).
i was thinking that having calls fowarded to my actual cell number would defeat the whole purpose, essentially just fowarding the free google voice calls to my cell as a normal incoming call and therefore using my minutes.
knowing more now then i did then about how google works by "intercepting" the calls, i'm guessing this is probably what i did wrong...
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death2verizon said:
knowing more now then i did
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than, not "then"
sorry, just my OCD rearing its ugly head, lol...
death2verizon said:
yeah, i found the "call screening" setting previously and was hoping that was why but it had no effect. i did verify that the do not disturb is unchecked as well
i did find one thing i had overlooked, under the "fowarding phones - foward calls to:" i unchecked the actual number of my cell phone (the one provided by at&t, as in my "real" cell phone number).
i was thinking that having calls fowarded to my actual cell number would defeat the whole purpose, essentially just fowarding the free google voice calls to my cell as a normal incoming call and therefore using my minutes.
knowing more now then i did then about how google works by "intercepting" the calls, i'm guessing this is probably what i did wrong...
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than, not "then"
sorry, just my OCD rearing its ugly head, lol...
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Actually, if you are using groove ip, you have to have incoming calls set to ring Google chat in your Google voice settings. And then anytime you're signed onto groove ip, calls will come to you.
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free PSTN calls? no such legit thing.
@google voice fanbois
Have you no [privacy] issue with how google bridges calls? Ever GV call has THREE parties: you, the other guy, AND google.
your "free" calls seem to have a high price tag, much as adware apps do.
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how long would you spend trying to find a free mobile phone WITH a free provider?
I'm in a slightly larger sip/pbx pond.. I pay an internets pbx host and configure asterisk to my liking.
My privacy is not a commodity
VerizonKoolaid said:
Have you no [privacy] issue with how google bridges calls? Ever GV call has THREE parties: you, the other guy, AND google.
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I am always amazed at how freaked out people get over privacy issues. Do you really think that google is going to take the time to listen in on my calls? Or read my emails? Or look at my calendar? What about what your bank does with all your transaction details? Or your ISP with all the sites you visit? Or your telephone company with all your phone records and the possibility of them illegally recording your phone calls, or at the very least, tracking where you are calling?
There are countless entities that keep "private" information. Apparantly, we have total faith in the other ones I mentioned, but somehow think that Google is out to get all of us and wants our first-born child? I really don't think Google cares about all the text messages I send my brother about geeking out with random tech bits, or when I call my mom using GrooVeIP from Germany, or all emails I get from youtube people asking me to subscribe to them, or knowing that I have a weekly thing called Institute that happens Wednesday nights at 7:30PM because it is on my calendar. What are they going to do with this information? Are they going to try and create a robot clone of me to take over my life?
The point is that there is a ton of information about YOU out there and a ton of different companies have it. And they have had it long before google ever came around. If you are really concerned about your information being held by 3rd party companies, you better figure out a way to live completely self-sustained.
Hi, so here's what happened..
A couple days ago I was speaking to my uncle on my Nexus 4 sometime in the afternoon. No issues. Sometime that evening when I was driving in my car, I had my phone hooked to the car stereo's bluetooth handsfree system, as usual. I was trying to locate a place on Google Maps, the place I was driving to, when suddenly the music system stops playing and switches to handsfree mode.
I did not receive or make any call. I was just using Google Maps. I quickly go to the notifications tray to see if a call is ongoing in the background but I don't see anything. Then suddenly my uncle's voice comes on the car stereo's handsfree, the very same uncle I spoke to earlier in the day. The next thing I hear coming from the system is a replay of our conversation. His voice telling me something, exactly as he had earlier in the day. I freaked out for like 10 seconds not knowing what was going on.
My uncle hadn't called. The phone somehow connected to the car stereo on it's own and started replaying bits from my conversation with my uncle earlier in the day. Exactly as I remember. It had to have been recorded somewhere on the phone for it to be able to play it back like that.
I panicked and turned the car stereo off after a about 10 seconds. It kinda left me shaken for the whole evening.
I wanted to share this experience with the folks here just for everyone's information, and in the hopes of finding some sane explanation for it all..
I think you had a paranormal activity...
Just a joke. I really expect they are not recording conversations...
Do you have some app for call recording installed?
I would believe you if you told us exactly how this happend exactly, what type of dock or devices you have in your car, what type of apps you have in your phone and if you can find the conversation in your phone somewhere.
Great idea for a movie
Harry Potter and The Call Recorder
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glaudrem said:
I think you had a paranormal activity...
Just a joke. I really expect they are not recording conversations...
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Hehehe.. at first that's what I thought. And when I called a close friend of mine, who is an Android geek, his first question was 'how many have you had to drink'.
Jokes aside, I was absolutely myself, nothing in my system to impair my senses. It all happened exactly as I narrated up there. The audio from the conversation had to have still been on the phone for it to be played back hours later. Peculiar behaviour to say the least.
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Do you have some app for call recording installed?
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No, I don't have any (specific) app for call recording. Unless some other app has access to voice calls and is overreaching it's permissions??
shadowcore said:
I would believe you if you told us exactly how this happend exactly, what type of dock or devices you have in your car, what type of apps you have in your phone and if you can find the conversation in your phone somewhere.
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I did share exactly how it happened.
No docks. Just connected via bluetooth, as I said. Both handsfree voice call and music streaming possible with the connection.
I have about 60 apps installed on my phone; after getting it that is (pre-loaded apps excluded). It would be quite a task to list them all. What do you mean by type of apps? All are from the Play store. Almost all of them are in the top 100 apps = very popular, trusted developer.
I shall go through them tonight and see if I can figure out which app might be doing this snooping.
Check this out:
The Verge: Secret NSA spying: how can it be stopped? http://goo.gl/mag/hGebFth
So if ur using Verizon....
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Yeah, read about the spying this morning. It was in the papers and on The Verge, as you showed in your post.
But I am not living in the US nor am I on Verizon or any US mobile service provider. I do make calls to there a few times a month (one of which is a Verizon number), but this was a local call. I live in India.
On Sprint my phone never rang with calls, but Hangout does. Just wondering if anyone has tried it on Sprint
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richjolliff said:
On Sprint my phone never rang with calls, but Hangout does. Just wondering if anyone has tried it on Sprint
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If I'm sitting at my computer Hangouts will notify me and then 20 seconds later my phone will ring. It's always been that way for me though. Update made no difference.
I'm using an actual Google Voice number not carrier integration. If you are using integration you may want to disable, call in to Sprint to make sure the soc code dropped off, and then enable it again.
Thanks. I had to disable Google voice. Did Sprint Integration. Phone rings when integration is disabled.
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I have completely uninstalled Google Voice and it still rings to my computer first. It is very annoying. I also don't like the fact that I have to hit 1 to answer the call now.
lehalter said:
I have completely uninstalled Google Voice and it still rings to my computer first. It is very annoying. I also don't like the fact that I have to hit 1 to answer the call now.
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DId you check your google voice setting ?
login to your g voice account> Settings>CALLs>turn off Call Screening.<--this will disable "hit 1 to answer the call "
Also, SETTING>PHONES , here should display your g voice# or ur sprint phone#, make sure your calls forwarded to your mobile.
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Thanks. I had to disable Google voice. Did Sprint Integration. Phone rings when integration is disabled.
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I had the same problem, here is what I had to do. Go to voice.google.com and go to settings. Click Phones, then click edit below your sprint phone. Click show advanced settings and make sure always ring on weekdays and always ring on weekends is selected then click save. Mine were set on never ring, so my phone would never ring.
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I had the same problem, here is what I had to do. Go to voice.google.com and go to settings. Click Phones, then click edit below your sprint phone. Click show advanced settings and make sure always ring on weekdays and always ring on weekends is selected then click save. Mine were set on never ring, so my phone would never ring.
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I had the same issue, but my "Always Ring" was set correctly. It either corrected itself, or changing roms helped. I am currently on Flex 360's Stock w/ Goodies 4.2.2 Beta 3, and it has been a pretty great rom. Couple minor items FC, but nothing major.
Tried the suggestions but still did not ring.
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Out of town using Google voice because of poor cell coverage in Oxford Ohio. Working great. All calls ringing in. We will see when I return to MI tomorrow. Hope it's fixed.
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No way to add or remove Quick Settings tiles.... Voice Mail notifications force you to Visual Voice Mail ($$) with no way to change it to *86 and three steps to clear the damn notification.
And don't even get me started about the trip back to the 90's with voice OR data.
Customer service rep says, "This phone doesn't do VoLTE"
Me, "Umm, *ever*? Or just until it's setup?"
Long pause, "...I don't know"
So ridiculous. I was really excited about getting this phone, but without root to at least put back all (any) of the standard Android features that even most VZW phones have, I'm going to end up returning this thing and going back to my S4.
What a waste. This had such potential but it's been ruined once again by VZW and their sick need to drain every penny out of their customers.
If I've missed something obvious about anything above, feel free to correct me. I have no trouble eating my words if I can get some of these really annoying things corrected.
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No way to add or remove Quick Settings tiles.... Voice Mail notifications force you to Visual Voice Mail ($$) with no way to change it to *86 and three steps to clear the damn notification.
And don't even get me started about the trip back to the 90's with voice OR data.
Customer service rep says, "This phone doesn't do VoLTE"
Me, "Umm, *ever*? Or just until it's setup?"
Long pause, "...I don't know"
So ridiculous. I was really excited about getting this phone, but without root to at least put back all (any) of the standard Android features that even most VZW phones have, I'm going to end up returning this thing and going back to my S4.
What a waste. This had such potential but it's been ruined once again by VZW and their sick need to drain every penny out of their customers.
If I've missed something obvious about anything above, feel free to correct me. I have no trouble eating my words if I can get some of these really annoying things corrected.
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Press and hold 1 to access your voicemail if you don't wanna use VVM. And yes no voice+data does suck..but it is what it is...and yes..most of the VZW reps at Cust service are morons Lol I work for the Verizon Indirect Side so I know very well lol anything else??
rpitera said:
No way to add or remove Quick Settings tiles.... Voice Mail notifications force you to Visual Voice Mail ($$) with no way to change it to *86 and three steps to clear the damn notification.
And don't even get me started about the trip back to the 90's with voice OR data.
Customer service rep says, "This phone doesn't do VoLTE"
Me, "Umm, *ever*? Or just until it's setup?"
Long pause, "...I don't know"
So ridiculous. I was really excited about getting this phone, but without root to at least put back all (any) of the standard Android features that even most VZW phones have, I'm going to end up returning this thing and going back to my S4.
What a waste. This had such potential but it's been ruined once again by VZW and their sick need to drain every penny out of their customers.
If I've missed something obvious about anything above, feel free to correct me. I have no trouble eating my words if I can get some of these really annoying things corrected.
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Give "YouMail" a shot for your voicemail. I love it. No more dialing to hear messages...
And yes. Verizon is very annoying. Gotta pay for hotspot if you have unlimited data. Even then they only let you use 2gb over the hotspot a month. Love the phone...just praying for root or unlocked bootloader to put the icing on the cake
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Google voice for visual voicemail. Volte fix is incoming. Android doesn't natively have editable quick settings tiles as i know of.
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rpitera said:
No way to add or remove Quick Settings tiles.... Voice Mail notifications force you to Visual Voice Mail ($$) with no way to change it to *86 and three steps to clear the damn notification.
And don't even get me started about the trip back to the 90's with voice OR data.
Customer service rep says, "This phone doesn't do VoLTE"
Me, "Umm, *ever*? Or just until it's setup?"
Long pause, "...I don't know"
So ridiculous. I was really excited about getting this phone, but without root to at least put back all (any) of the standard Android features that even most VZW phones have, I'm going to end up returning this thing and going back to my S4.
What a waste. This had such potential but it's been ruined once again by VZW and their sick need to drain every penny out of their customers.
If I've missed something obvious about anything above, feel free to correct me. I have no trouble eating my words if I can get some of these really annoying things corrected.
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I think this is a little over dramatic. I hardly think that these issues ruin the phone.
I know it should work out of the box, but the beauty of android is that there is more than one option. If you dont like the default voicmail use somthing like Google voice. You talk about a trip back to the 90s. I would say using default VZW voicemail falls in this category.
The data and phone issue is dumb, but it is confirmed they will be fixing it. They will also be enabling VoLTE at the same time. Im pretty sure it will be one of the first devices with VoLTE support.
Customizable tiles is not a stock android feature. Only custom ROMs have this at the moment. Other maufacturers might have added this, im not sure if TouchWiz allows it. As far as im concerned I would rather be missing this feature than dealing with God awful TouchWiz.
Visual Voice Mail opt out
One of the first things I did while setting up my phone was to go into Apps and disable all Verizon apps. When I dialed *86 to set up my voice mailbox I went through the set up procedure and then hung up. After I hung up I received the notification for Visual Voice Mail. I tapped the notification, but when it asked me to Continue on the set up screen I hit the Home button. Then I pulled down the notification bar, it read "tap here to continue Visual Voice Mail setup". Instead I hit the X that clears all my notifications. Now my voice mailbox is set up and I didn't have to sign up for Visual Voice Mail. When I get a voicemail in my notifications it goes to *86. Hope this helps. Also, as far as Talk and Surf and VoLTE, all reviews I've read plus the Day 1 update we received, have indicated we will have that capability by the end of the year. I can wait a month for that.
I found out last night from Verizon that they won't sell this phone in Alaska until the update for VoLTE happens (something to do with roaming charges otherwise. Didn't make any sense to me but I didn't want to sit and argue with them when it wouldn't change the fact they didn't have any Turbos). Which as others have said is in the next month or two. As for visual voicemail, I use PF Voicemail on my Nexus 5 and while the UI is dated, it works well (on AT&T/Straight Talk). As for editing quick settings, that will be a stock feature of Lollipop, so again, hopefully in a two to three months the Turbo will have that feature too.
Sounds like most of your issues are/will be fixable. It just depends on if you're willing to wait. By the time I can buy this phone in Alaska hopefully these issues plus root will be achieved. Or else maybe an AT&T variant will be announced by then.
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One of the first things I did while setting up my phone was to go into Apps and disable all Verizon apps. When I dialed *86 to set up my voice mailbox I went through the set up procedure and then hung up. After I hung up I received the notification for Visual Voice Mail. I tapped the notification, but when it asked me to Continue on the set up screen I hit the Home button. Then I pulled down the notification bar, it read "tap here to continue Visual Voice Mail setup". Instead I hit the X that clears all my notifications. Now my voice mailbox is set up and I didn't have to sign up for Visual Voice Mail. When I get a voicemail in my notifications it goes to *86. Hope this helps. Also, as far as Talk and Surf and VoLTE, all reviews I've read plus the Day 1 update we received, have indicated we will have that capability by the end of the year. I can wait a month for that.
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That's an immense help! Thanks so much! BTW, love the nym; one of my favorite cartoons from when I was a kid...☺
Has anyone had issues with receiving SMS messages? Happens randomly where I won't receive messages from different people etc. I came from a nexus s6 so it isn't the iMessage issue. I've tried searching for reasons or solutions, factory reset the phone, called the carrier to see if settings were wrong. But no one has an answer.
Any help or if anyone experiencing the same thing would be helpful.
I have issues with getting the notifications for text messaging but only for TMobile lines. I still get the message but the phone refuses to light up, make any sound or vibrate when they come in.
Again it's only with T-Mobile numbers, all other texts work like normal
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