I just flashed ICS to my daughters phone and now am unable to get google voice to work. Reflashed Cyanogen, that my son uses on his and still the same problem, not able to verify the phone. Neither phone has its own number, meaning they do not have cell service, but are strictly used only when connected to wifi. I cant figure out what I am doing wrong, and there is no help line for google voice that i can find. The phone will call out, but is just static on the other end and no voice can be heard. From the phone number that was called that voice can be heard on her phone. I use google voice in conjunction with groove ip. Any suggestions?
a friend experimented the same problems when he tests ICS, any suggestions will be good
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.
I've scoured the internet for 6 months checking back every month to see if there was a fix for this.
When I got my Canadian W8 variant of the s7 edge on Rogers, Call forwarding was working.
Then I rooted my device so I can use Root call blocker for its ability to pick up and hang up calls without my knowing the blocked number ever even called.
I then tried to setup YouMail for visual voicemail and keep getting mmi code errors. If I try activating it manually by going into the call setting, I get "Failed to read data, Unexpected response from network".
I attributed this error to Rogers not having call forwarding on my account. But I'm paying for it, and since I'm on family play with parents, and tested both their devices, one is an Galaxy s5 neo and the other is an iphone of some sort and both work.
What is causing this issue?
Is it because KNOX was tripped? I've tried flashing clean no root, and still same errors.
Did rooting my phone break Call Forwarding?
Did anyone else have this issue and find a fix or workaround?
I need to forward calls I ignore to YouMail.
Once again, I've gone through all the so called "fixes" in the first 3 pages of google searching. All of which are the same articles on different sites.
Thanks.
The Google Hangouts "unexpected account registration error" has been covered in many ways in many forums and I have gone as far as to do a complete wipe to factory reset spec before adding the various things I previously had.
I have a Samsung J1 (SMJ-100MU, specifically), a Bahamas Telephone originally, now unlocked and running T-Mobile (or when I'm in the Bahamas, BTC).
I had this issue once a couple of years ago, in the Bahamas and the factory reset solved it. However, I am now in some sort of Twilight Zone where my carrier number (which I never use; the reason for my using Hangouts is that Google Voice has the same number as I used for 40 years before going mobile) sometimes receives calls (I have my GV set up so that calls are forwarded to the mobile in case I'm somewhere without good data connectivity), and while I can MAKE calls on the mobile number, I cannot make or receive calls via Hangouts/Google Voice any more.
So, as it may be specific to how the J1 has the stuff organized, and I cannot get to some of the features mentioned in other solutions, can anyone here give me step-by-step remediation for this issue? FWIW, I also use the microphone/voice transcription for my texting, as my hands are WAY too big for accurate typing; so far my resuscitation efforts have not restored the microphone feature (Hangouts Keyboard, I think? - I have not yet added that back, as I want to deal with one problem at a time.
Thanks.
This is the case on LineageOS 16.0, OOS, and H2OS (the latter two the latest versions as of a few weeks ago). The Voicemail tab under Phone reports it can't activate visual voicemail. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas?
Troubleshooting tried to no avail:
Spamming "Try Again" under the Voicemail tab
Toggling Visual Voicemail from Voicemail settings
Trying various WiFi APs and cellular
Changing Radio Band from Phone info to any other region
Putting the SIM into an iPhone for a minute, and then putting it back in the OP5
Installing the actual T-Mobile VVM app and then removing it
Other info:
This SIM was used in an iPhone SE, a Pixel XL, and then this OP5
I don't recall if VVM worked on the Pixel XL, but it definitely worked on the iPhone
My phone number is de-registered from Facetime/iMessage on Apple's end
IMS registration and both VoLTE and VoWIFI work fine
According to a T-Mobile tech support rep, this is a known issue for many (most) android devices.
Having the same issue. It's a new one (within past couple weeks) that possibly coincides with the super spammy texts I keep getting from T-Mobile telling me there's a new version of the Visual Voicemail app. Could possibly be something on their end.
I had a similar problem getting mine to work. Turns out when I tried Youmail it changed settings on my line. To correct it, within the Youmail app there was a way to deactivate it. That caused it to send three different codes through the dialer. When it was done i was able to use the tmo visual voicemail again