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[G1 Apps and Games] kockroach:
We can't send out invites, like you could with gmail. It isn't set up that way. You can only get the invites directly from Google right now.

With the official app, all this will do is allow incoming calls to show as my GV number (thus a myFaves call). The outgoing calls are going through the "347" area code number (thus, NOT, a myFaves call).
[G1 Apps and Games] pistol4413:
ah I c

Ok I signed up for an invite now I have to play the waiting game. Waiting = lame!
[G1 Apps and Games] Diceman4:
I got mine in less than a week :)
[G1 Apps and Games] Rekna:
I've been waiting for months for mine....
[G1 Apps and Games] G1-evolve:
Just signed up for an invite hope I get it..
[G1 Apps and Games] WD27:
actually you can, my friend has an account and got one invite, unfortunitally by the time i heard about it he had sent it to someone else ><
[G1 Apps and Games] NguyenHuu:
maybe he lied to you, try to pretend like he had some power over it haha. cuz there isnt any options in there to send personal invites. if there was a way to send personal invites that would be sweet. maybe he did have invite when he was still on grandcentral.
[G1 Apps and Games] jashsu:
Most likely folks with extra invites are referring to actual original invites sent by Google to their secondary/tertiary gmail accounts. Apparently the link is not tied to the gmail address it is sent to. Can someone confirm or disprove this? (I.e. chime in if you got an invite link that was originally sent to someone else's email address)
[G1 Apps and Games] hobbit19:
If any one would like to invite me my gmail is hobbit19@gmail.com.
[G1 Apps and Games] jasonpeinko:
anyone know how to integrate text messaging between the two? I would like my text messages to go through google voice too.
[G1 Apps and Games] ekeefe41:
Help make GV/MyFaves piggy backing legit

http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/boar...thread.id=1785

You know they already know about it, so don't give me crap for "Letting the cat out of the bag"

Bump the thread please and lets try to make this a t-mobile policy.

(probably will never happen, but if we can convince them that this polocy will gain them customers it may)

i know this is like a X2 post along the thread i made about this, but i really want people to be involved and bump my t-mobile thread with support.
[G1 Apps and Games] uberingram:
You pasted a truncated link. Try again.
[G1 Apps and Games] Diceman4:
We cant send out invites and if you are not in the USA you cant join anyways yet.
[G1 Apps and Games] jashsu:
Yes, you can actually. I received my invite a few days ago (I am currently abroad on business). There are many ways you can go about accepting an invite while overseas. You can either have your first verified number be that of a friend or family member. Tell them the verification code. Alternately, create a Gizmo5 account and just receive the call in your browser.

You also need to tunnel your web traffic through openvpn (with redirect-gateway) or some kind of browser-based proxying plugin. It's pretty simple, there are guides all over the net to perform this part.
[G1 Apps and Games] TikiiTorch:
You don't happen to be on a Hero ROM do you? I am getting the same error as you and I am on Hero. just trying to narrow down the issue.
[G1 Apps and Games] innerspace:
fair enuff

However my comment was prompted by the discussion about calls using minutes whereas the 3rd party app has been allowing me to make calls without using airtime. I assume this Is something that tmobile would discourage (at the very least) and that their close relationship with Google and the g1 would influence the architecture of Google's official app.

Your opinion is just as valid as mine, but one major plus for me is gv allowing me to drastically lower the amount of minutes I need in my plan per month. While there are alternatives like sipdroid, they're nowhere near as user friendly as gv and do not give you the advanced functionality of gv.

To speak to the official app, I still can't login,the app is magically pulling an email address out of thin air. The question I posted to the voice help forums has disappeared as well, so not a good start to the official release for me whatsoever... I'll be sticking with Evan's app for now.
[G1 Apps and Games] jashsu:
That is the honest freaking truth and a bit of an understatement. Sipdroid has a long way to go before it can be mainstream usable. I am currently having GV forward my calls to Gizmo5, which sends it as voip to Sipdroid. It's a semi-workable option, and my only one at the moment since I am abroad for work.

It sort of seems to me that for a multi-tentacled multi-talented phone service that wants to disrupt/destroy comfortably entrenched industries, GV is really really falling short by still partially relying on the POTS. It really needs to eat up Google Talk and become a true end-to-end VOIP communication system.

Sounds weird. No chance you had Google Apps account enter the mix at any point?
[G1 Apps and Games] 2leaponover1:
From what i read about Google Voice (i do not have it so i do apologize if i am judging in incorrectly) is that it is not designed for a family living situation. If someone calls looking for my wife and it calls all the phones, i don't want to answer it. If i just give out our google number as our main number for everyone it makes no sense. I sent some input to google when they originally had sign up for GV and told them it would be great to adjust where these calls go based on caller id. I, however, thought of a cleaner solution. Why can't you set up Google Voice to prompt for an extension, i.e, myself being ext 1, wife, ext 2, child, ext3 etc...

Right now i feel this will turn into a novelty and become only functional for businessman who travel and are in sales. Right now, it doesn't even seem to be needed for your normal businessman. Any thoughts?
[G1 Apps and Games] jashsu:
This has always been a feature since before it was a Google service. You don't have to let all calls ring all your registered phones. You can create call groups based on caller id that will only ring certain phone/phones and at times of your choosing.

GV is intended to be a single-user service, not a shared service.

Even if you don't use the call management features (i.e. you just feed all calls straight through to a single phone), GV still has other useful functions, including voicemail transcription, free SMS, and free call termination in the contiguous United States.
[G1 Apps and Games] erasmogjr:
Just got my invite last night and I am lovng it. I think it helps with the battery problem on these smart phones...no more "let me call you back my phone is dying", just hit star and seamlessly transfer to another phone and now I can have a disposable number I love it.

As for the apps I think this one is better and easier to use then the official also less buggy.

Oh and to the comment that it will be a novelty service for traveling business men I am a 17 year old college student and I have found so many uses for google voice and I only have had it for a day. Just like gmail I know this will be another great service that is free and at least for me it is very reliable.
[G1 Apps and Games] tekkitan:
Just got my GV invitation today and got a decent number :)

I downloaded this app, haven't played with it too much yet though beyond getting it set up.
[G1 Apps and Games] wickednix:
I have got my invite and cannot use GV as my google voice email is not my email that I set my phone up with. Everytime I put my google voice email in I get login error on GV. Is there something I am doing wrong?
[G1 Apps and Games] donutman:
I need help. I set up everything correctly but whenever I try to call out and it calls my Google number, it says "The Google Voice Subscriber you called is not available......" Call back feature works fine, but dial out so far has not.
[G1 Apps and Games] wagz:
I got sort of curious about the myfaves thing, so I asked a friend of mine and he sent me this tidbit from T-mobile's myfaves website

"You're right. Looking at myfaves footnotes, Google Voice can't be

used for this. Here's what it says:

"Your five numbers must be US domestic numbers and must not include

411, voicemail, toll-free, 900, calling card, and customers' own

numbers; and single numbers allowing access to 500 or more persons."

I don't think they are enforcing it yet and it doesn't really effect me anyway since I am on an unlimited customer loyalty plan. But I was curious how T-Mobile could make money when google voice opened to the world.

Donutman-------

Dunno, but you might check and see if Do not disturb is turned on under settings on the GV website.
[G1 Apps and Games] erasmogjr:
@Donutman

mine does this all the time i just kinda hang tight and the ladies voice goes through the menus and sometimes is kinda skippy and then the call will be placed takes about five seconds but it seems like longer lol

a little note to anyone getting an invite. choose your number wisely lol your next one will cost you $10. Not a bad price for a disposable number but my friend got one and didnt realize this and hasnt stopped complaining yet. ;)
[G1 Apps and Games] innerspace:
My phone was originally set up w/ a Google Apps account but I've been using the unofficial GV app without problems since day one. When Google's solution ws released I installed it and tried to log in and it pulled another email address from somewhere that was neither my GV account OR the Google Apps account I used for my phone. Weirdness on many levels. I tried all kinds of trickery to get around it but eventually flashed a new rom after wiping and said something that rhymes with bucket, went ahead and set the phone up using the gmail account I use for Voice, installed the app, hated it, and went back to Evan's GV app.
[G1 Apps and Games] turboyo:
Guys is there anyway to make it so that the calls going to my actual cell number go to my google voicemail?
[G1 Apps and Games] weezerisock:
Not without setting up some kind of forward thru your carrier.
[G1 Apps and Games] turboyo:
Alright how bout disabling the double sms notificaton? i dont want an sms sent to my actual phone with the reply.. kinda defeats the purpose of free text
[G1 Apps and Games] drpfenderson:
Then disable SMS forwarding to your phone from the web settings. Then, have GV check every 5 min or so. That should work.
[G1 Apps and Games] turboyo:
Yea i figured it out u go to settings (online) then to your mobile number edit nd uncheck receive sms
[G1 Apps and Games] nolageek:
That's what I use Google Voicemail for. On your phone go to:

Settings > Call Forwarding > Forward when busy & unanswered & unreachable.

Set them all to go to your GV number.
[G1 Apps and Games] speoples20:
How is this compared to the official google voice app that google released?
[G1 Apps and Games] Stigy:
But then they get two sets of rings, correct?

The ringing to your phone (4-5 rings) and then the rings to your Google Voicemail (another 4 rings?). So thats a total of 8-9 rings before the Voicemail picks up.

I am waiting to get a second Google Voice account, turning the second one on Do Not Disturb and forwarding my calls there to use that as voicemail.
[G1 Apps and Games] drpfenderson:
More features. More customizable. Not as tightly integrated.

I tried the official Google one for a few days. It won't let you turn off notifications (WTF) so I kept getting double-notified. I also like the built-in SMS more than the Google Voice one (or the GV one), so it was annoying to silence the built-in one and ONLY use the Google Voice SMS. Once you can customize the Google Voice settings a bit more, I might switch over from GV....but until then - no thanks.
[G1 Apps and Games] mlevin:
I like GV better because you can choose per-call if you want the call to go through google or tmo. Google's app makes you pick one or the other for all calls.
[G1 Apps and Games] cigar3tte:
My issue is kind of related to this.

Right now, when someone sends me sms to my GV #, I get double notifications, both through the regular sms client and the GV client (official). I'd like to just receive it through GV client, and sms client only receives sms sent to my phone's #. Is this possible?

If I disable notification for the sms client, I won't see messages sent to my phone's #.
[G1 Apps and Games] sprime01:
google voice help

I have the google voice app, and i have my google voice account working with gizmo5 but i can't figure out how to make the outgoing calls through the handset, you know with out initiating the call from computer and having it call my g1
[G1 Apps and Games] jordanjay29:
You posted a bad link. Here's the real one:

http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/board/message?board.id=AndroidPlans&thread.id=1785

And just in case vB screws up:

http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/board/message?board.id=AndroidPlans&thread.id=1785

Titled: Open letter to T-Mobile (Google voice, MyFaves piggy backing)
[G1 Apps and Games] juphro:
I am using GV just for the voicemail management. Instructions to do so can be found here http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice/thread?tid=00a93855af6943b4&hl=en Basically one step. Just make sure to enable "do not disturb" in the settings in your GV account on the web so that the person who calls you doesn't have to listen to twice the rings.

@jordanjay29:

I was thinking about that the other day, if you had two GV accounts and 2 phones that had voicemail forwarding setup properly do you think you could make that annoying caller listen to an endess loop of rings!? lol
[G1 Apps and Games] jordanjay29:
Engadget has a better tutorial for Android users:

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/...ice-to-add-visual-voicemail-to-your-g1-dream/

And LMAO at the endless loop of rings. That would be interesting to try. Google might get pissed off at you if they were frequent callers, though. ;)
[G1 Apps and Games] Bavilo:
Received an invite a few days ago. Only to my surprise that I couldn't really use it since I live in Germany.

I worked around that and finally got my Google Voice account activated.

I then tried to add my cellphones number to the account, but it seems like Google doesn't like foreigners atm, thus I'm unable to add an International phone number to the account.

Does anyone know a work around for this? Or am I going to have to wait until Google opens this for the rest of the world?
[G1 Apps and Games] jashsu:
Most of the functionality in the official app will not work overseas. The official GV app connects to the GV server network using traditional cellphone voice circuits. I wouldn't hold my breath for international support either. I doubt that will come until GV is out of closed beta in the United States.
[G1 Apps and Games] Bavilo:
Bummer :(

Google Voice was one of the coolest features I've seen as of now.
[G1 Apps and Games] jashsu:
Official app aside, you can still use GV as a free US DID number and voicemail system. If you want to receive calls from the US on your phone (or PC even) GV can forward to Gizmo5 numbers. From there, you can set up a SIP softphone on your PC or get either Sipdroid or GUAVA for the G1. (Note: Sipdroid and GUAVA [really just a fork of Sipdroid] are alpha-quality software and should not be relied upon as a permanent link).

I set up my GV to forward calls to my Gizmo5 account, which rings my G1 internationally (atleast wherever I have an active SIM or wifi).

The infrastructure Google built in addition to what was already existing when they acquired Grandcentral is no trivial matter. They had to both create a network of local call-in servers and also buy a million DID numbers from Level 3 to give away to GV users. Regulatory approval aside, replicating that in another country would be no small feat and certainly a very big investment.
[G1 Apps and Games] bmfc187:
Somebody please invite me!! PLEASE?!

bmfc187@gmail.com
[G1 Apps and Games] kockroach:
Have you not read up on Google Voice? There are no invites available to distribute for those of us that have accounts. The only way to get an invite is to sign up.
[G1 Apps and Games] Blk98Bird:
Just set up forwarding from my G1 to my GV number and it seems pretty nice. The only real issue I have is that even with "do not disturb" on, it still rings an additional 3 times on the google end.

I wish there was a way to forward in both directions! Would be nice to have calls that went directly to GV route to my phone and vice-versa so I can use the GV line for business and retain my original cell number for family, friends, etc. (have had the same number for 9 years now). Unless there's some sort of rules setting i'm missing, I don't think this is a possibility though...
[G1 Apps and Games] jordanjay29:
Yet, I'm sure Google is working hard (or has plans to) at getting internationalization for its service. It won't be easy, but I doubt they want to provide a paypal-like kind of service, where only select countries are eligible and everyone else is SOL.
[G1 Apps and Games] jashsu:
Well their corporate mission is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible." That said, GV is one of its most ambitious projects to date, in as unlike their other web services, GV requires a lot of assets and cooperation from the telecom industry. These partnerships will take time to build and cultivate. Furthermore, GC/GV is a project that has had a terrible history of going dark and having a prolonged development (most likely due in no small part to the aforementioned reasons).

I know Google would love nothing more than to become the preeminent worldwide gateway for voice communications, but realistically speaking i'll be impressed if they can get GV fully ramped up and in open beta just for the US by end of 2010.

Also, atleast with the massive money sink that is Youtube you can see where the possibilities to monetize come into play (ads, sponsored videos, etc). With GV, I see a very expensive and complex service with not many viable monetization routes. Maybe they'll do adword ads akin to GMail, but then you have the problem of having to build up a sizeable enough userbase to make selling those ads profitable.
[G1 Apps and Games] cal3thousand:
Too bad sipdroid (I-p-tel) and Gizmo5 aren't getting along. The sipdroid app sends me to an informative site when its pointed to my gizmo account.
[G1 Apps and Games] jashsu:
Update your sipdroid. Gizmo has finally posted source and license on the same page as the apk download so it is now in GPL compliance.
[G1 Apps and Games] CBowley:
Go to the GV website, click on your phone number, edit options, un-check the box that says "allow sms to this number" or something to that effect. I encourage everyone to look through all of the options, there are a few neat tricks..
[G1 Apps and Games] wootroot:
got my invite yesterday and had to install the steel browser just so google would let me finish setting it up online (google see's that your using a mobile phone when going to there website using the stock browser and tells you to use a desktop/laptop), once i got it setup i downloaded a 3rd party gv app, i didnt like how much it stood out on its own as an app, and that if i used advanced task managers widget to kill all apps i had to restart the app before i tried to make a call, let alone i got txt messages every 5 minutes

thanks for posting this app up, this was definately the app to have with GV, it integrates perfectly with the phone, ive already started giving everyone my new GV number and using the features
[G1 Apps and Games] bobn4burton:
I currently have the BB Google Voice app, but am going to get an Android phone soon.

The two biggest complaints I have with the BB Google Voice app is that the SMS can take quite a long time to refresh and you receive no notification when new sms arrives (other than your icon changes). Sometimes it takes 20-40 minutes to get a GV SMS on my phone. There doesn't appear anyway to have the app check on quicker intervals.

So here are my official Android Google Voice/GV app questions:

1. how long is the delay to receive SMS? (official Google Voice app)

2. How long is the delay to receive SMS? (GV app)

3. Is there anyway to adjust how often it checks for new SMS? (offical Google Voice app)

4. If I use this third-part GV app (which looks pretty cool btw)...what is the most frequent setting available to check for new SMS? You mentioned to set it to 5min...can you set it to check more frequently than 5min? Say every min or so??

Thanks for any help...pretty pumped about Android and Google Voice !!
[G1 Apps and Games] jashsu:
Official app updated (7/28)

- Customize notifications

- Decide on a call-to-call basis whether to call via GV

http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.google.android.apps.googlevoice
[G1 Apps and Games] giantcrazy:
Doesn't Google Voice push the SMS down to your phone of choice via SMS? That's how I set it up at least - when my Google Voice account gets an SMS, it gets forwarded down to my mobile account.

As a result - there's no polling interval, since it's a push.
[G1 Apps and Games] jashsu:
For smartphone platforms with native GV apps, the GV app can fetch SMSes in the background and present them in a more GV-centric context. Of course it is still possible to have the SMSes sent through the standard SMS system, but then it would incur SMS fees with the carrier (if your carrier charges for inbound SMS, which is de rigeur in the United States).
[G1 Apps and Games] wootroot:
anyone else use the GV Promo and get google cards mailed to them?

https://www.google.com/voice/promo/iprint

i just ordered mine, just curious if anyone else decided to get some?
[G1 Apps and Games] bhilgeman:
Read through here and didn't see anyone saying not to ask so here it goes..

Will someone please send me a GV invite?

Much aprreciated!!
[G1 Apps and Games] bhilgeman:
Crap... Nevermind...
[G1 Apps and Games] wootroot:
yeah signup online, i got my invite 3 weeks after i submitted it, others have waited months, i just signed up my wife, lets see how long it takes for that invite to come in
[G1 Apps and Games] Chahk:
A new update for the official GV client was released today. It allows a per-call choice to use GV or not. The only thing is, they forgot to build this functionality into the widget, so it still cycles between "All", "International" and "None".
[G1 Apps and Games] jordanjay29:
Which widget is this? Does it come with the official Google Voice app, because if so, it's not showing up on my phone.
[G1 Apps and Games] cjkholt:
Long press screen, instead of widget choose shortcuts, should be torwards the bottom "toggle GV"
[G1 Apps and Games] jordanjay29:
Ooooh, no wonder. Thanks for that tip.
[G1 Apps and Games] johnnylicious:
nice tip thanks alot!!
[G1 Apps and Games] jordanjay29:
Weirdly enough, this isn't working for me. And after I tried it, the Google Voice app stopped working, and I had to reinstall it. Strange. *scratches head*

EDIT: Ok, after a reinstall it works.

Also, it does have the new toggle for asking for each call. Try replacing your toggle or reinstalling the app. The new code must not be working well with prexisting widgets.
[G1 Apps and Games] turboyo:
If you set it up this way you still get charged for a text.. so for people with limited sms that are using google voice as a way to have unlimited this wont be the best thing
[G1 Apps and Games] Chahk:
Confirmed. Re-adding the shortcut didn't help, but uninstalling and reinstalling the package did.
[G1 Apps and Games] KaL-EL3038:
ok i am new at this whole GV thing...

And I've been trying to keep up with but I am freaking lost so hear it goes....I downloaded the new app the updated one and tried calling using my gv app and checked my minutes before calling and checked after calling and its taking my minutes away....so what I am trying to say isn't this app or google voice suppose to be freecalls when you use your google number...or the app...so can someone help cause I am lost...I tried the other google app the unoficial one and that one works and also people who have flex pay can't do that visual voicemail loop to google account cause flex pay accounts doesn't let us foward....what bull lol so can somebody please help