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Originally Posted by jj2me
Ack! I may be out of luck. I didn't set it the way you did on installation of the Google Voice app, and I don't think I can change it now.
Google instructions say " To change which voicemail service to use, use the Settings application."
Then says, "For more information, see Call settings."
But my LG Optimus V shows none of those Call settings. When I tap "Call settings" in the Settings app, this phone only shows a subcategory "Other call settings", and lists only four settings:
- Excuse Messages
- Plus Code Dialing
- TTY Mode
- DTMF Tones.
My guess at this stage is that Virgin Mobile decides what to allow to be set under Call settings, and doesn't allow retro-setting of "Voicemail service" on the Optimus V.
If that guess is true, then word to the wise for new sipdroid users with Optimus Vs: On Google Voice installation, select Google Voice as your voicemail service. Then you can get incoming calls to your VM number to optionally use sipdroid/Voip, as riffdex describes above in this thread.
(At some point I may gamble and see if just resetting or re-downloading Google Voice will be enough. For now, I'm just too tired from the effort it took to get sipdroid, Google Voice, pbxes, and Google Voice Callback working harmoniously.) |
While I am not familiar with Virgin Mobile, I think you are misunderstanding what you need to do to set up Voicemail. What I did to set up voicemail was I went to the GV website
www.google.com/voice, clicked settings at the top right, choose voice settings, and you should have your phone listed as one of the phones (you needed to add it to activate Google Voice), and next to it click "Activate Google voicemail on this phone". Then it will determine what carrier you have (in this case Virgin Mobile) and what steps you need to do to set it up to forward correctly. I believe that only AFTER you do this step, will you have the correct options under settings. This way you can easily switch between Google vm and the regular vm if you ever need to. As least this is how I understood it. If that does not work, reinstalling the GV app couldn't hurt. I definitely think there's a way for you to set it up, but you might need to end up starting from scratch like you were saying if you can't get it figured out.
EDIT: Also, about reinstalling the Google Voice app... theoretically, it should not affect your SIPDroid/PBX/Global GV settings. When I say Global GV settings I am referring to the settings you can change by going to "www.google.com/voice". This SIPDroid/PBX setup should be completely separate from the Google Voice app so you should be good to go if you decide to do that.