Google Voice - No Texts/Voicemail Notifications all of a sudden

[surfer513]

I'm having a problem that just started today for some reason (maybe I messed something up). I've been using Google Voice for texting as well as sending/receiving phone calls. Up until today, whenever I got a text message it notified me through Google Voice app on my phone. The same thing with voicemails.

But what happened today is that it isn't notifying me for some reason. To actually "receive" the text messages and voicemails through Voice, I have to go into Google Voice app and hit "refresh".

Under "sync and notifications" for settings in Voice, I have "synchronize inbox" checked as well as "inbox notifications" so that I'm notified in the status bar when new items arrive.

And like I said, up until today it was working flawlessly, but now I have to hit "refresh" to receive them in Voice.

Any ideas what could be causing this and what the fix may be?

 

[Clementine_3]

Google had/is having issues with Google Voice, it started last week and has apparently reared it's ugly head again. Service has been sporadic at best lately for some.

 

[surfer513]

Google had/is having issues with Google Voice, it started last week and has apparently reared it's ugly head again. Service has been sporadic at best lately for some.

Ok, so what you're saying is that it's not the actual configuration on my droid 2 that's causing this? It's just Google problems right now that'll resolve itself soon?

 

[Clementine_3]

AFAIK, yes. Your settings are right and unless you changed something I'd go with "blame it on Google".
I've not have any issues (now I've cursed myself) but my sister has, she is not getting texts and could not make calls using GV on Friday.
I've read a few articles over the past few days about it...

 

[amlothi]

Just to confirm:

Mobile data is set to always be on?

Background data syncing is enabled?


You need to have an always on data connections to allow Google Voice to get notifications. If not, it will only happen when you manually connect/sync.

 

[surfer513]

Just to confirm:

Mobile data is set to always be on?

Background data syncing is enabled?


You need to have an always on data connections to allow Google Voice to get notifications. If not, it will only happen when you manually connect/sync.

I think those are both enabled. (I have the Droid 2) In Data Manager/Data Delivery I have "Background Data" and "Data Enabled" both enabled. That's correct, right?

 

[amlothi]

I also have a setting for "Background Data" under Accounts & Sync settings.

 

[droidfancy]

I had the same problem - no notification when receiving a text in Google Voice. It used to work fine but recenI started to miss incoming texts due to no notification. I fixed it by setting GV to only keep text in Gv and not sent to Messaging.

In gv settings, go to Sync and Notification, Receive Text Messages, and select Only Via the Google Voice app. This fixed it instantly.

I also re-installed gv before doing this, but that didn't make a difference.