Nexus 5 visual voicemail thread - Nexus 5 General

Let's make this thread dedicated for suggestions on visual voicemail options on the Nexus 5!
With that out of the way, I'd like to point out in case anyone else may have missed it like I think I must have, but not sure if its a 4.4.1 thing, but I noticed that in the stock phone app, when missed calls come in and someone leaves a voicemail, a voicemail icon will appear under their name, along with a play button, which when pressed plays the voicemail along with options to play via loudspeaker, scrubbing, voicemail info, etc.
Before updating to 4.4.1, I was confused on visual voicemail. There's also Google voice you can get on the play store, but I like that VV is in the stock phone app, and straightfoward . I have sprint so apparently there's no extra app like with other carriers.
Any suggestions? Detail on features would be nice
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Mine just sends a blank text from 9479 or something like that. Then I have to call the old school way.

Yeah it did that at first. At least that was while on stock 4.4. I just ended up using Google voice, but once I upgraded to 4.4.1, I just noticed today the missed call and visual voicemail with it.
Have you actually called into your regular voicemail and setup through the prompts? Maybe its something that occurred cuz I set up for Google voice, though the stock phone app mentions Google voice nowhete
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[Q] T-Mobile wont allow me to forward my voicemail to Google Voice

So due to the plan I'm under with T-Mobile (Pre-Paid Plus) they won't allow me to forward my voicemail to go to my Google Voice. Does anyone know if there's a "workaround" that?
Anyone who can help me hack this out I'll be forever in your debt.
Thanks guys!
To answer your question -
NO.
The end.
Just checking.. The Google Voice app dials the code to transfer voicemail to your gvoice numer on initial setup/settings, did that fail too?
Yeah that also failed. :\
Thanks Britoso
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Right this is a common limitation of man providers with pre paid plans. To monitor and control minutes the forwarding for calls is locked into carrier voicemail and unable to be changed.
From first hand I have seen crickt, att, and t-mobile have this issue
If you want a different voicemail you will need to be on a full regular plan.
That makes sense, thanks M9.
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[Q] is there a way to use carrier voicemail and google voice?

I love getting google voice transcriptions sent via text message but being that I have a limited days plan with att (250 mb) I'd still like to use carrier voicemail to listen to the message in order to save valuable data usage. Is this possible?
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You can call your Google voice number and listen to it like the normal one so you are using minutes and not data
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Just make sure you don't look at the transcript on your Google voice app first. Once the voicemail is marked as read, you can't listen to it on the phone call. Once you update your voicemail preferences, the voicemail key on your dial pad will call Google voice instead of att.
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[VIDEO] Google Nexus 5 - Setup Visual Voicemail for AT&T

My preference as an AT&T user is the original Visual Voicemail application over the AT&T messages app. The latter tries to combine all of your call lists, text messages, voicemails, etc in one. Some people rather retain control over their text messages. You can disable notifications, but I know at one point it would still semi interfere with other messaging applications.
Just in case you had your phone voicemail forwarding to another number, please view this video to reset it:
Having issues with my setup, no option to enter pin. And when i follow their instructions, it just hangs at waiting for verification
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Last I heard vvm was att spyware.
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**uninstalled**
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**uninstalled**
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Idk about the spyware thing, but if its hanging at waiting for verification, you probably don't have vvm provisioned on your account. Make sure your data plan says something about having vvm.
Just use Google Voice. Visual voicemail that can be accessed on any device or PC.
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Yeah I don't know about the whole spyware thing.
Anyways sometimes visual voicemail takes a little while to provision. Just a glitch in the matrix. Probably network load related.
Google voice for visual voice mail here, im also on att
Google Voice and Death Star Mobile here as well
You can't go wrong with Google Voice, especially if you live in Google-land. A minute ago I got a voicemail. A notification message with a full, mostly-accurate transcription of the voicemail went to my phone and Gmail. Gmail has native support and allows you to play the VM right from inside the email. Pretty convenient.
AT&T visual voicemail not able to download it to my Nexus 5
Hi, I am new to the forum I just got my Nexus 5 about two weeks ago and decided to use the AT&T visual voicemail every time I go to the play store to download the app tells me this app is not supported on your device don't know why I'm getting that error message it won't let me download it although I took my Sim card out of my iPhone 5 and I just put it in the new Nexus phone I'm thinking that could be the problem because the network still things that I have an iPhone 5. someone if someone could please help me I would really appreciate it
Thanks,
Wallyj2000 said:
Hi, I am new to the forum I just got my Nexus 5 about two weeks ago and decided to use the AT&T visual voicemail every time I go to the play store to download the app tells me this app is not supported on your device don't know why I'm getting that error message it won't let me download it although I took my Sim card out of my iPhone 5 and I just put it in the new Nexus phone I'm thinking that could be the problem because the network still things that I have an iPhone 5. someone if someone could please help me I would really appreciate it
Thanks,
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Download the .apk and sideload it
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AT&T visual voicemail not able to download it to my Nexus 5
toyfreak said:
Download the .apk and sideload it
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Hi, I downloaded The apk into my computer I tried to drag the file with android file transfer into my Nexus 5. I have a MacBook Pro computer I'm running Mavericks, once I dragged it in the Nexus 5 could not find it any suggestions how to install it
Thanks, Wally
Download it directly with Nexus 5 then open downloads and open the .apk to install.
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Everyone should use Google Voice. No MMS, but it's not 2006, so...
FYI, in order for call forwarding to work properly with GV on AT&T, you need to call AT&T and insist that they disable visual voicemail on your account. After all you don't need it.
After you do this, forwarding will work perfectly. Took me a week to figure this out.
chrisngrod said:
My preference as an AT&T user is the original Visual Voicemail application over the AT&T messages app. The latter tries to combine all of your call lists, text messages, voicemails, etc in one. Some people rather retain control over their text messages. You can disable notifications, but I know at one point it would still semi interfere with other messaging applications.
Just in case you had your phone voicemail forwarding to another number, please view this video to reset it:
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I've found older versions of the att visual voice mail apk around on the forums, but the latest is 2.5.2 on the play store. Anyone have an APK for that to side load onto a nexus 5?
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I've found older versions of the att visual voice mail apk around on the forums, but the latest is 2.5.2 on the play store. Anyone have an APK for that to side load onto a nexus 5?
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I found a link to the apk in this thread but I'm getting stuck after entering my password. Any ideas why I'm getting stuck here?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2018018
Called AT&T to confirm that VVM is enabled on my account and it is but they couldn't figure out why it's not working. They are getting Tier 3 support to contact me know and I should get a call between now and 1/15.
This would be nice to know cause I called At&t and was told the N5 wasn't supported. Wtft sjnce I use ur services. Oh well....how do I setup Google voicemail?
Thank U
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I have a feeling that's what they are going to tell me hence why it won't work through the Play Store but have no idea how others here were able to get it to work unless something has changed. I'll post up here what I find out.

Z1s and Google voice

Is any one having any issues getting voicemails to show up in their call log after seeing up Google voice? I get the notification but vast seem to find them in the call log.
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Is any one having any issues getting voicemails to show up in their call log after seeing up Google voice? I get the notification but vast seem to find them in the call log.
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Are you sure that you entered your google voice number properly in the forwarding options? I had trouble for the first few hours, but called T-mobile and they checked the forwarding settings... now it works properly.
In the call log, you will see only a missed call. The message itself will only show up in your gmail list, and the browser version of google voice... I think.? There is also a stand-alone .apk app for gVoice, available in the play store]
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Is any one having any issues getting voicemails to show up in their call log after seeing up Google voice? I get the notification but vast seem to find them in the call log.
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I am sure ebbed it right as it works just fine for calls. But in a 4.1 I believe they added the option to have your vm show up in the call log to listen to only. This worked fine on my n4. And the option is selected in the stand alone app.
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I'm having some strange issues with GV on my Z1S. Just switched to T-Mobile last week and immediately made GV my voicemail. I removed my number from the website and re-added it, went through the prompts, and got the forwarding working. Now, I have 2 strange issues:
1. All the time the phantom voicemail icon will appear on my phone. I force quit "phone" (the app) and it goes away, but it'll show up sometime tomorrow or when I reboot my phone or something.
2. The GV voicemail seems to work intermittently (may have some effect on #1). Meaning, someone will call me and tell me they left a message, but the message is no where to be found. My theory is the forwarding didn't kick in, the message went to T-Mobile voicemail, and the phantom icon appeared. However, I can't yet confirm that.
Anyone dealing with either of these issues?
Is there a way to check my T-Mo voicemail after I've set everything up with google voice?
Thanks.
Same issues am having. For number 1 i am going to try and reset my number from the website.
For number 2 I just disabled the option to see vm in the call log.
The Phantom vm is tmobile picking up and then GV taking over so essentially a vm on each. It's annoying
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Hangouts Dialer App + Google Voice

Just in case you don't know...the new Hangouts Dialer app is out and if you've enabled Google Voice on your Sprint account...VOILA!! WIFI calling.
Just tried on my Nexus 7 and it works great. Calls going to my Sprint number are routed to the tablet also. If I don't have data but still have service (Wild and Wonderful West Virginia)...the calls still go to my phone.
Ok so a little update...
I received the message to allow hangouts to basically replace the google voice app. Hangouts is faster than the gvoice app every was..which is good. Also consumes less battery.
However, if I don't have data or WiFi I can't send texts from hangouts even though it's my default app for messaging. If I don't have data I have to use the stock messenger. Which isn't exactly a problem...just wanted to state the fact.
Texts and calls work on my nexus 7. Voice quality seems fine even tho I have DSL at home.
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Under settings>SMS and settings>[your email here] you can control whether texts are sent from gvoice or your regular phone number [emoji106]
Every time I make outgoing calls on my tablet, the caller ID shows up as unknown. Also, how can I send sms through tablets?
Settings, email, and then look under Google Voice section to enable messages.
My caller ID is working just fine from my tablet. I'm sure there's going to be kinks that need worked out. I've had random issues with GV for years lol
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