Voicemail going to google voice instead of carrier (2.2 leak) - Droid Incredible General

My voicemail settings are set for my carrier under settings...and yet my voicemail seems to be going to google voice every time. This is only after installing the leaked froyo.anyone else having this issue?
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kriskmk said:
My voicemail settings are set for my carrier under settings...and yet my voicemail seems to be going to google voice every time. This is only after installing the leaked froyo.anyone else having this issue?
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I had some crazy stuff happen to my phone with google voice shortly after I got my Incredible. My calls were going to straight to voicemail an nothing I could do would change that. I called verizon, and they had me turn off my phone, and then she activated it on a phone she had there. The phone rang fine for her. When She turned that phone off, and I dialed *228 #1 to reactivate mine it started working again.
There's also a GV number you can dial to activate google voice mail, and to deactivate it you can dial *73
So I guess, I'd try dialing *73 first and if that doesn't fix it, try reprogramming the phone. Lasty try vzw support.

Dmtalon said:
I had some crazy stuff happen to my phone with google voice shortly after I got my Incredible. My calls were going to straight to voicemail an nothing I could do would change that. I called verizon, and they had me turn off my phone, and then she activated it on a phone she had there. The phone rang fine for her. When She turned that phone off, and I dialed *228 #1 to reactivate mine it started working again.
There's also a GV number you can dial to activate google voice mail, and to deactivate it you can dial *73
So I guess, I'd try dialing *73 first and if that doesn't fix it, try reprogramming the phone. Lasty try vzw support.
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I tried *73.. but since that was being dialed thru Verizon.. it wasn't going anywhere..
but I tried reprogramming the phone by dialling *228 and that seems to have fixed the issue.
thank you very much for your help.

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I loved google voicemail, but hated that my phone would ring 6 times before switching over to googles side and the callers would have to wait for 6 more rings to get to my voice mail.
My friends stopped leaving messages and would just hang up.
Was there any remedy for this ?

sprintrjm said:
I loved google voicemail, but hated that my phone would ring 6 times before switching over to googles side and the callers would have to wait for 6 more rings to get to my voice mail.
My friends stopped leaving messages and would just hang up.
Was there any remedy for this ?
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Google is officially supporting it as a voicemail system now, so they actually have an option you can enable in your preferences if that's all you're using it for. Whenever it forwards from Verizon to your GV number it automatically goes to voicemail instead of ringing some more.
Also, it should be noted that voicemail is on Verizon's side. Whenever you use the Google Voice app and call the number it dials for you, you're actually calling a Verizon number. That number programs where to forward calls if you don't pick up.
Dialing just *73 should disable the custom voicemail number.
Edit: Just to be a bit more specific, I meant the preferences online, not the ones in app. https://www.google.com/voice#phones

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Θmega said:
Google is officially supporting it as a voicemail system now, so they actually have an option you can enable in your preferences if that's all you're using it for. Whenever it forwards from Verizon to your GV number it automatically goes to voicemail instead of ringing some more.
Also, it should be noted that voicemail is on Verizon's side. Whenever you use the Google Voice app and call the number it dials for you, you're actually calling a Verizon number. That number programs where to forward calls if you don't pick up.
Dialing just *73 should disable the custom voicemail number.
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Thx I'm going back to gvv

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Sprint voicemail not forwarding properly to G Voice

I have my sprint hero set to forward voicemail to my G Voice number. I have G Voice setup to go straight to voicemail and enabled voicemail forwarding.
What happens is when someone calls my number it rings, I dont answer, then it rings my google voice number which rings my cell again then it goes to voicemail.
So if I dont pick up I have 2 missed calls on my cell phone. Really annoying. I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. Everyone suggests enabling the go straight to voicemail feature on G Voice but I've alread done that. Any ideas? thanks.
I'm having the same issue...
any luck fixing it?
You could have 10 phone numbers in google voice. What it does by default is if you miss a call on your cell it forwards it to all those numbers listed, including your cell again.
In the list of phone numbers there are settings, then you click advanced settings somewhere, and then there's a setting about "If calling this number directly" or something like that, with an option to go straight to voicemail.
Took me forever to figure that out myself.
Edit: Crap, never mind, your problem sounded so similar to what I was pulling my hair out over for a couple hours that I stopped reading the "I've already tried that" part. You didn't do something silly like put the google voice number in your list of numbers, did you?

People cant leave me voicemail while Im roaming...

Whenever I roam at work and people call, they say it just rings and rings and wont let them leave a voicemail for me. Im using roam control to force roaming otherwise I get no signal at all
Anyone know what could be wrong?
I also used a google voice number as well and tied that into my account, but deactivated it a few months ago since I didnt like it. Im not sure if that messed anything up either?
redspeed said:
Whenever I roam at work and people call, they say it just rings and rings and wont let them leave a voicemail for me. Im using roam control to force roaming otherwise I get no signal at all
Anyone know what could be wrong?
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Are you allowing data when roaming? I think visual voicemail used data to deliver the message.
Edit: Sorry, didn't read carefully. Nevermind.
poit said:
Are you allowing data when roaming? I think visual voicemail used data to deliver the message.
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He's not talking about getting them, he's talking about people not being able to leave them. I haven't heard of this before, but I'm guessing it has something to do with Google Voice, and not just that you're forcing roaming.
Sprint had outages here in Phoenix. My gf called me and could not get the option to leave me a voicemail either. Sucks when you're waiting for a call about a job.
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Turns out it was not just while roaming, people could not leave me a voicemail at all.
When I linked my google voice account to sprint, it deleted my sprint voicemail due to a glitch. When I deactivated google voice, my sprint voicemail remained deleted.
I had to call in several times for them to reactivate my voicemail for me.
FYI be careful if you use the google voice link feature.
redspeed said:
Turns out it was not just while roaming, people could not leave me a voicemail at all.
When I linked my google voice account to sprint, it deleted my sprint voicemail due to a glitch. When I deactivated google voice, my sprint voicemail remained deleted.
I had to call in several times for them to reactivate my voicemail for me.
FYI be careful if you use the google voice link feature.
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It's not the google voice. It's the network. I havent been able to call out or make a call from home in 4 days now. When my girlfriend called me from work today she could not even get my voicemail. Thank you Sprint and stupid iPhone users.
MikeyLee said:
It's not the google voice. It's the network. I havent been able to call out or make a call from home in 4 days now. When my girlfriend called me from work today she could not even get my voicemail. Thank you Sprint and stupid iPhone users.
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I think in this case it was google voice since I used it briefly last month, and thats when the voicemail issues started. A lot of people were telling me they couldnt leave voicemail but i didnt think much of it at the time. When I talked to sprint they told me my voicemail was deleted from my account at the same time I started google voice so it cant be a coincidence.

[Q] N4 on AT&T - no voicemail?

Moved from an iPhone to the N4 on AT&T about a month ago. Until today I did not realize that the voicemail feature does not work (might be a blessing in disguise ). I do not use any app for visual voicemail though that's how the iPhone worked. I tried dialing 1 for voicemail and AT&T prompts me to enter my voicemail number, I enter my mobile phone (10 digits) and it says "invalid mailbox number" or something to that effect. I suspect it's because it used to work differently on the iPhone. Also if I call my cell from a different phone it just rings and rings, it never goes to voicemail, so I guess I have no voicemail service.
Anyone know how to get it to work or should I just get the AT&T visual voicemail app from the play store and hope that works? I know, last resort is to call AT&T, which I try to avoid if possible.
sirxdroid said:
Moved from an iPhone to the N4 on AT&T about a month ago. Until today I did not realize that the voicemail feature does not work (might be a blessing in disguise ). I do not use any app for visual voicemail though that's how the iPhone worked. I tried dialing 1 for voicemail and AT&T prompts me to enter my voicemail number, I enter my mobile phone (10 digits) and it says "invalid mailbox number" or something to that effect. I suspect it's because it used to work differently on the iPhone. Also if I call my cell from a different phone it just rings and rings, it never goes to voicemail, so I guess I have no voicemail service.
Anyone know how to get it to work or should I just get the AT&T visual voicemail app from the play store and hope that works? I know, last resort is to call AT&T, which I try to avoid if possible.
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You need to call att and tell them you are no longer using an iPhone. Voicemail is set up in a special way specifically for the iPhone, at least on att it is. I had to do the same thing a couple years ago when I moved to the first galaxy s. It's stupid.
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Endoran said:
You need to call att and tell them you are no longer using an iPhone. Voicemail is set up in a special way specifically for the iPhone, at least on att it is. I had to do the same thing a couple years ago when I moved to the first galaxy s. It's stupid.
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Ah, thanks. People in the community know more than AT&T of course When I called them to get the data going on my N4, they first put me on some Blackberry plan that stopped working after a day. It took another call to get provisioned for the "phone" APN. You'd think that they should have noticed I no longer have the iPhone and they would have fixed my voicemail too...
So getting the AT&T Visual Voicemail app won't help if my voicemail is setup for iPhone right? What's interesting is that calls to my mobile just keep on ringing, they don't go to any voicemail, iPhone or otherwise. I guess somehow the system knows I don't have an iPhone, but it doesn't do anything to fix it.
Google Voice
You should just install the Google Voice app and follow the setup instructions, it's much better than visual voice mail
sirxdroid said:
Ah, thanks. People in the community know more than AT&T of course When I called them to get the data going on my N4, they first put me on some Blackberry plan that stopped working after a day. It took another call to get provisioned for the "phone" APN. You'd think that they should have noticed I no longer have the iPhone and they would have fixed my voicemail too...
So getting the AT&T Visual Voicemail app won't help if my voicemail is setup for iPhone right? What's interesting is that calls to my mobile just keep on ringing, they don't go to any voicemail, iPhone or otherwise. I guess somehow the system knows I don't have an iPhone, but it doesn't do anything to fix it.
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The at&t VVM app won't work on the N4 as it's not one of the phones that the app supports. Just get Google voice and let that be your VVM. It's much better than the crappy at&t app (I used it on my vivid...)
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Thanks everyone for your help. I called AT&T and got the VM going, old school long press "1". Good enough for now. Not a big VM user, took me almost a month to notice the voicemail was not working on my N4
Yes, I know about GV and I might actually port my mobile number to GV soon.
Mine sure as hell works. Got the nastiest voicemail ever from my ex. Blessing in disguise is right.
Funny thing is AT&T told me my voicemail service "expired". Gotta check the expiration date next time

Can't get Google Voice to ring my Nexus

Here is my issue...
I'm on Tmobile's $30/mo prepaid plan. I want to use google voice to ring my nexus as I've been using a GV number for the last year or so. So in other words, I don't want to use my carrier number, I want my GV number to ring the phone. I had succeeded in doing this with my GS3 and Galaxy Nexus before without any issues. When I call my GV number from another phone, it won't ring my nexus, and eventually goes to GV voicemail.
What makes it stranger is that I was able to get it to ring once or twice by calling my GV #, but trying the call again would result in the Nexus not ringing anymore.
I have tried doing the **004*XXXXXXXXXXX# codes a dozen times getting a message like "Call forwarding Connection problem or invalid MMI code."
I've tried deleting the phone from my computer on the GV page and adding it back again. No success there.
I'm short on ideas. Any help would be much appreciated.
Go here and follow the guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2057887
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I'm not interested in using VOIP. I want to use the cellular network because the call quality is better than any VOIP solution. I just want my GV number to be in front of my tmobile number.
If I understand correctly you want people to call your GV number, and GV to forward/ call your device on the device's number?
If so, all you should have to do is log into GV on the computer, put your device's number into the settings, verify you have the phone, and it should be set up.
I have it set up that way with T-Mobile prepaid, and never had any issues. If you are doing those things and it is still not working, please elaborate more.
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I'm having a similar issue, I have a Nexus 4, I'm on the T-Mobile $30 plan, I go to verify my T-Mobile # on GV and after I hit "Connect" it says 'Verifying your phone...' for 30 seconds or so, then says "We could not verify your phone. Please try again.".
I've tried calling from at least a dozen computers, nothing, my phone never rings, no matter how much signal I have or what, it's INFURIATING.
I just got setup on this same tmo plan, and I'm having similar issues with GV. I managed to get GV to forward incoming calls to my tmo phone number, but If I call out, it still uses my tmo number regardless of whether I have GV set to make all calls. The GV voice mail also is screwy. If someone calls my phone and I let it ring and don't pick up, it will go to GV, but if I tell the phone to ignore the call, it goes to tmo voice mail. This 30$ plan is just what I've been looking for but honestly its really aggravating that it all worked flawless on Straightalk with ATT sim. I don't want to have to use GrooveIP or some other app to call constantly through GV, when it worked properly on ATT's network. Tmo, definitely has to work to do in this area.
Here's how I got it to work.
Went to google voice and put in my work deskphone number.
Verified it, then boom, I have a verified number.
Used that to set up a google voice number that's 3 numbers off from my old one (Same area code, first three different, last 4 the same) and paid $4.99 for GrooVe IP, logged into my Google Voice account and now I can make calls to and from my google voice number. Be sure to download an app called Contact Cleanup or something like that, I think GrooVe IP needs you to have your phone numbers in international format to dial. Also, my only real complaint about this is occasionally someone will call my old number because my new one wont ring, but signging out and back into GrooVe IP seems to fix this.
Every few days I try to verify my cell number with no luck, I was reading and the best I can come up with is it's either a fault, or something on purpose, on T-Mobile's end.
And FYI my phone shows up with my GV number on caller ID, and text messages, and all that jazz, I sent out a few dozen text messages using GV online to everyone in my contacts list know to only use my old number for emergencies.
I haven't using a single minute on my T-Mobile plan since I did this like 2 weeks ago, I love it.
Two things to keep in mind.
1) "Forward calls to" phone numbers can only be used in one GV account at a time. Otherwise you could create 100 Gmail/GV accounts and forward them to one line. I had this issue trying to add my home phone to both my GV and my spouse's GV account. Many free SIP DID's have this as a known issue. Google can remove the number, but it's a painful process.
2) The Nexus 4 has a ARP issue on WiFi. Ping your phone LAN IP after you lock the screen to see what I mean. This has caused some issues with some VOIP apps.
ficklecycler said:
Here is my issue...
I'm on Tmobile's $30/mo prepaid plan. I want to use google voice to ring my nexus as I've been using a GV number for the last year or so. So in other words, I don't want to use my carrier number, I want my GV number to ring the phone. I had succeeded in doing this with my GS3 and Galaxy Nexus before without any issues. When I call my GV number from another phone, it won't ring my nexus, and eventually goes to GV voicemail.
What makes it stranger is that I was able to get it to ring once or twice by calling my GV #, but trying the call again would result in the Nexus not ringing anymore.
I have tried doing the **004*XXXXXXXXXXX# codes a dozen times getting a message like "Call forwarding Connection problem or invalid MMI code."
I've tried deleting the phone from my computer on the GV page and adding it back again. No success there.
I'm short on ideas. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Are you using the same gmail on your phone as the account you originally created the GV number on?
I was having this problem and I transferred the # to my new gmail, problem solved.

[Q] Verizon Wireless Call Forwarding to Google Voice Failing

I updated my VZW S5 to the latest and greatest 4.4.4 and have activated the VoLTE options.
Prior to this, I had set up *71 forwarding to my GV number, and it had worked for years.
Today, I found out that when my VZW number is called, and I don't answer, the call goes into a ringing "loop". It seems that VZW is not forwarding to the GV number.
I've tried cancelling forwarding and reactivating using *71, *72, *90, and *92, but the result is the same.
Is anyone else experiencing this? Anyone find a solution?
JohnKuczek said:
I updated my VZW S5 to the latest and greatest 4.4.4 and have activated the VoLTE options.
Prior to this, I had set up *71 forwarding to my GV number, and it had worked for years.
Today, I found out that when my VZW number is called, and I don't answer, the call goes into a ringing "loop". It seems that VZW is not forwarding to the GV number.
I've tried cancelling forwarding and reactivating using *71, *72, *90, and *92, but the result is the same.
Is anyone else experiencing this? Anyone find a solution?
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I am not in the office at the moment, but I think we got a sticky about what does not work with AC1.0 and this was one. Disable GV for now and I'll figure it out for you. *73 disables. *71(your gv)
JohnKuczek said:
I updated my VZW S5 to the latest and greatest 4.4.4 and have activated the VoLTE options.
Prior to this, I had set up *71 forwarding to my GV number, and it had worked for years.
Today, I found out that when my VZW number is called, and I don't answer, the call goes into a ringing "loop". It seems that VZW is not forwarding to the GV number.
I've tried cancelling forwarding and reactivating using *71, *72, *90, and *92, but the result is the same.
Is anyone else experiencing this? Anyone find a solution?
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Did you ever get it? Sorry for the long wait I had to go out of town
JTidler said:
Did you ever get it? Sorry for the long wait I had to go out of town
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I have forwarding disabled, can you confirm that VZW is now blocking forwarding to GV numbers?
Tried again today. *71 and 10 digit GV number. Seems like it takes, but when I call my mobile it just rings, pauses, then starts ringing again, it never actually forwards to GV.
JohnKuczek said:
Tried again today. *71 and 10 digit GV number. Seems like it takes, but when I call my mobile it just rings, pauses, then starts ringing again, it never actually forwards to GV.
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I answered you here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55632337
superrelaxx said:
I answered you here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55632337
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I am having the exact same problem, and I tried this. Doesn't work for me.
superrelaxx said:
I answered you here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55632337
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JAYNO20 said:
I am having the exact same problem, and I tried this. Doesn't work for me.
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I've tried this and it has not solved my problem. The number that shows up for me is the same as my Voice number.
superrelaxx, do you have a full-function GV account with its own Google-issued number, on which people can call you, or do you have a GV "Lite" account, that is only used for voicemail?
Working with Verizon Wireless, and they claim there is a problem during the forwarding. I'm likely oversimplifying, but it seems that VZW sends the call to AT&T Landline, who then sends it to Google's landline operator (I forget who they said this was), then it goes to Voice. For my number, there is a problem at the transition from AT&T Landline to Google's operator. So basically, it is a network issue that is occurring on a disinterested carriers network, and so nothing is happening fast.
On a side note, I tried to get creative since others still have working VZW to Voice forwarding, and I got a new number, and paid to keep the old number, too, in the hopes that a new number would work... No joy, I'm out $30 and now have a second number that behaves the same way as the first.
After discussions here and on the Google Product Forums, I disabled VZW Advanced Calling. Now conditional call forwarding works.
JohnKuczek said:
After discussions here and on the Google Product Forums, I disabled VZW Advanced Calling. Now conditional call forwarding works.
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Yeah I guess that's the only fix for this. Makes no sense to me why voLTE would mess with call forwarding options.

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