GMail app / Google Voice voicemail question

[scottfreeze]

Hi all,

Sorry for the partial cross post, but I wasn't getting any love in the Droid forum.

Simple question... does the GMail app play Google Voice voicemail messages for you all? Because when I click the "play message" link, it just opens my browser and prompts me to save "voicemail.mp3". What I want to know is... did I mess up my settings somehow, or is this how the GMail app treats Google Voice voicemail messages for everyone?

Thanks,
Freeze

 

[les017]

You are getting normal operation. The ability to sort/play GVmails from within GMail, ala GV, is on their list of suggestions.

You can go an vote for it HERE

 

[jahsh]

You can however, actually download the Google Voice application, which let's you play the mp3.

Although it does get kinda furstrating, since I feel like I get 4 notification for every VM, SMS, GV, missed call, and gmail.

 

[scottfreeze]

Hi all,

Thanks for the replies. Good to know it's not just me, hopefully Google will address it with the next GMail app update.

jahsh... for your notification problem, I solved it by using only GMail for notifications. Specifically, I have my Google Voice web panel settings set to notify my GMail account upon receiving a voicemail or an SMS, and I unchecked the setting that would send the voicemails to the phone as a text message.

That way, I get the notifications of messages "pushed" to the GMail app immediately instead of having to wait for the 5 minute minimum refresh time of the Google Voice app. The key is to then go into the GV app on the phone and disable all the notifications.

That way, I only get one notification (always from GMail) for each message whether it's voice or SMS.

Hope that helps,
Freeze

 

[Peter123]

You are getting normal operation. The ability to sort/play GVmails from within GMail, ala GV, is on their list of suggestions.

You can go an vote for it HERE

Thanks les,
I installed GV for receiving voimail and it does the thing I need.
I though I have to exit gmail and go into GV to get the voice mail.)
The downside: I could not figure out how delete all voicemail entries in
one step and not one-by-one.

Peter