In the past several days, as there has been influx in Gingerbread users, I have seen an increase in traffic to one of my all time favorite guide to setup internet calling via Android phones using Google Voice #s and enjoy free calling throughout US with wi-fi as long the Google offer lasts. So I thought maybe I will create a new thread with the link to enable easy access to all the wandering souls looking for the information.
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And here is the link: A Guide to Setup Internet Calling using Google Voice and Android Gingerbread
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Hello,
The Google Voice users in XDA may know that with the last major change in the Google Voice apk, the team decided to institute a direct-dial facility to make outgoing calls through Google Voice.
History: Prior to this version, all call were routed through standard numbers (202-556-0000) for the Northeast region. The way it worked (for outgoing calls) was that GV would use the internet to inform their engine in the back-end to give a call-back from a fixed phone number. Thus if I added 202-556-0000 number to my (Fav-5) number, then all my outgoing calls would be free.
New Version update: Some say that google decided to sleep with the telcos and started to assign unique numbers to each telephone number in the contact list (at the back-end) so that the GV app can now initiate a call to 'directly' using the unique number without going through the internet call-back process.
Irrespective of principle, Google decided to inconvenience millions of people without an option to disable the direct dial 'feature' which has pissed many people and resulted in very long ranting threads on their help forum. And like all Google products - official support is almost zero.
Solution: To go back to the older technique of dialing - users have uninstalled the latest GV app from the ROM (e.g. using Titanium Backup) and installed the previous version of the apk file.
Current state and request: Google Voice application has seen another major update today where they have introduced the anticipated widgets but still no option to change the direct-dial feature.
Unfortunately, I am not a programmer but I was wondering if there was a way to extract the widget functionality from the new apk and use it in conjunction with the older GV version (without widgets and direct dial) or something to that objective?
Thanks for your help!
I need the Google Voice apk that dialed out to 202-556-0000
I need the Google Voice apk that dialed out to 202-556-0000.
Can't sustain on a 400 mins MyFaves plan without that.
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Just in time too!
(OP is Sept '10)
I also need the GV app without direct access number...
any updates on that?
-greenboy- said:
I also need the GV app without direct access number...
any updates on that?
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Someone posted a DropBox link to 0.3.4 in a similar thread on droidforums.net.
droidforums.net/forum/droid-applications/62483-google-voice-0-4-0-12-no-more-fnf.html#post660251 (I can't post external links yet.)
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I arrived here via Google and figured there are probably others looking for it also.
Hi folks,
I'm looking for someone who can either provide a guide for replacing existing BlurPhone.apk with .apks that work with the native gingerbread SIP stack OR someone who successfully hacks BlurPhone.apk so mIsSIPSupported is not hard-coded to false.
I personally will provide $20 Paypal payment to anyone who is the first to do either of these two things. I've been patiently waiting for ROM releases on this phone only to find out that all the options we currently have still utilize the stock BlurPhone app...
Anyone else who would like to offer bounties for this accomplishment please chime in here.
Thanks!
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This is actually a HUGE thing for me - so I'll toss in $20 too.
Dumb question: Would this just be standard SIP support that I remember Google talking about 12 months ago, or would this also include the ability to use Google Voice right in the OS?
Google Video Chat works ridiculously well so I can only imagine how well Google Voice calls would sound (requires less bandwidth) if it was built right into the OS. As it stands, I use GrooveIP and it is always very frustrating to the recipient of my call.
this request is specifically about the functionality disabled by motorola in blurphone.apk
bump...
anyone? anyone?
Very much needed
I will also be willing to put in money if this gets done. What was Motorola thinking taking it out?
good news...new ICS CM9 has working built-in sip ..whoot
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I'm going to cut to the chase because I'm rather lazy about typing all this up and my head is kind of jumbled right now so I won't go into detail on how this came up. Found on this page.
After a bit of research I found that Android 4.1.2 and onwards have a feature built into the OS that notifies carriers whether or not we're using the data for tethering. As of right now the only way I have seen to bypass this is to use a user agent filter in your browser. It's obviously annoying since the pages that come up are the mobile web pages and aren't optimized for desktop usage. I want to know if there's a way to bypass (or remove) that feature.
The script on the page above didn't work for me, which is basically why I'm making this post. I've already tried changing my APN to no avail.
Note: I'm on T-Mobile.
The point of this thread is to get the ball rolling on potential fixes for loss of unlimited tethering on the T-Mobile note 4 and potentially other devices. Please do not post saying you are having problems what I would like to see here are users who havnt been blocked yet posting their ROM and mod combo while listing which devicess or services can properly function when tethered for those who have been blocked to try. For me currently running PAC ROM with build.prop and settings.db mods with dun apn and have tether to computer and limited services to Xbox one and ps4. (Netflix and gaming services work on both consoles but no other video apps, ie. Hulu and crunchyroll.) Almost all mods still work for me with the same functionality, my personal goal is to regain full functionality on my consoles. Thank you!