Comments on: Use Google Voice without changing your number

By: imadahmad

imadahmad — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:06:41 +0000

Hi, I just got the Droid from Verizon and I was wondering about the texting. I know that if you get incoming texts, Verizon still charges you. So, if I were to get my google number and not have my regular number changed and receive texts from others. Will Verizon charge me?

On another note, I have texting blocked on my plan. So, through Google Voice can I get texts with the google voice number?

By: EricFriedman

EricFriedman — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:03:54 +0000

This is a great point that I ran into when overseas – calls were actually
DOUBLE the amount of expected time due to the call forwarding feature.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:59:37 +0000

Remember that call forwarding feature works like outgoing call. So if someone calls your cell phone which forwards a call too GV and you talk for 10 minutes, this will not be considered an incoming minutes, rather outgoing. With USCC for exampel, I have free incoming calls so it will put me at risk of going over.

By: colinnwn

colinnwn — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:27:53 +0000

Google Voice now offers this as a simple configuration, and better yet, you can set GV to still ring all your phones when someone calls your GV number directly, but if they call your cell number and it forwards to GV for voicemail, GV can skip ringing all your numbers again and answer immediately.

To set up, go to Phones, click on "Use GV for voicemail on this device". It will ask you the carrier and give you the short code to use to turn on busy/no answer forwarding. Now open up advanced options, and chose "when someone calls this number directly, forward immediately to voicemail". Sorry if I got the wording of the selections a bit off, but I think it is clear enough to figure out how to do it.

Also I have read several places, if you have T-mobile, and use another service for voicemail, they will give you 200 extra minutes a month. This is so you get some extra minutes for checking your messages on a non-free number. I'm not sure if you have to call and ask for it, or if it is automatically available to whatever number is your busy/no answer forwarding number, but is nice to have.

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By: winter123

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By: EricFriedman

EricFriedman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:23:37 +0000

Depending on your phone there is a Google voice app for blackberry that works quite well.

If not, you will have to wait until you can port your number directly to Google.

By: EricFriedman

EricFriedman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:36:40 +0000

No problem – google seems to have released this as a feature today with instructions. Nothing that new though.

I now want to port my number to GV totally.

By: EricFriedman

EricFriedman — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:35:15 +0000

Thanks – and sorry to hear that.

By: kquade

kquade — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:11:03 +0000

After doing this, I now have full Voice features. This is awesome.

I would love a way to forward outgoing calls though. Maybe change the phones settings internally?