r/Googlevoice

I hope I’m posting in the correct place.

I am a Medicare independent agent. I am looking for a cloud based phone system to separate my personal number from my business number.

I tried enrolling in Ring Central but they require an EIN# and a laundry list of items to be able to use SMS. I have none of this because I’m an individual, not a business.

I was going to try to use Google Voice as my cloud based service. I would appreciate any comments, experience etc.. this is my livelihood and I’m worried signing up. Also if you have any other carriers to check out, I would appreciate it.

Thank you in advance.

Hi. I’m looking to see if anyone has any experience using Google Voice (Single User) NOT Business.

I am looking for a phone service to record calls and it shouldn’t be a business account.

Long story short, I’ll be camping for a few days. I signed up for T-Mobile satellite for potential job opp phone calls while I’m out… without realizing phone calls don’t work on their service. Neither does email.

What I’d like to do is forward calls coming into my regular number to my Google Voice number. If someone leaves a message, have GV notify me via text/iMessage. That way, I at least know someone called and I can head down the mountain and call back. But I can’t seem to find a way to notify via text/iMessage, email is the only option I’m seeing and that won’t work.

I wouldn’t even ask if I hadn’t seen articles stating it was possible already. Any insight? Thanks so much.

I set up a Voice account for an elderly friend whose phone came with Visual Voicemail disabled (looking at you consumer cellular!). His wife calls him, from the adjoining room, and leaves him VM messages that he never reads. He's collected over 1000 in just the past few months.

How do I mass select them for deletion so that I don't have to do each message individually? Please help - my sanity is at stake.

Hi. I am going to be in Germany for one year. I am going to get a German SIM for my phone. I will no longer have a US carrier or the carrier number that I have linked to GV. Can I link the new German number to my GV account?

Also I have noticed that some of the German SIM cards for sale in the US do not have voice call service, only data. Do I need to get a SIM that can do voice calls?

All it says is: Sorry, Voice doesn't port numbers from your carrier or your number's exchange. It's porting in from USMobile and is active on their network. Can make calls/receive text etc.

Any ideas why I'm getting this error, or how to fix it?

I'm trying to do the port in from the website, on a PC.

Hi - looking for any help to resolve this issue.

Today, a friend called my (carrier-assigned) phone number today and someone (not me) answered it.

Then, from my phone, I dialed my own phone number. Google Voice answered and asked for my name before connecting me with the person I called. Then phone rang, and someone answered, whom I spoke to. They were unhelpful/rude, and I couldn't figure out any info about how they were using my phone number

More details:

• I used GV a long time ago, and I'd linked my carrier phone number to my account, but haven't used it in a while it had expired
• Today, I re-linked my phone number to my GV account and verified my account.
• Then I went to https://voice.google.com/u/0/regain and unlinked my number from all accounts (including my own)
• I re-linked my phone number to my GV account.

At this point, theoretically, my number should have been de-linked from all accounts, and re-added back to my own.

I called my phone number again, and I got GV again asking for my name, then it rang. No one answered and it went to a voicemail (that was not mine).

Any ideas of how I can fix this?

...and then realized it was associated with the wrong Google account, so I deleted it.

Started the process again with the correct account, verified my ID, then it wouldn't verify my existing phone number. Great.

Went back to the original account that had previously been fully verified to "get a number" again, but now my existing phone number doesn't work there either.

WTF?

I have two Google accounts, and just signed into gv with my second to make a second voice account. It occurred to me that this might be against their rules but I can’t find anything so haven’t gone any further with my sign up. it’s asking me for my ID but I can’t recall doing that with my other account (though it’s been a decade + since I signed up) so I’m not sure if it would link me to having both or not.

will this get me in any trouble or am I fine?

Hey Guys, I’m hoping to get some clarification. I wasn’t able to come up with an answer while searching the subreddit. I transferred my original Google Voice number to a carrier. Paid the $3 to transfer out. Situation has changed, and I don’t need the number on a carrier. Porting back into GV, because I don’t want to lose the number. Since I paid to unlock, and I’ll pay to port back, will the requirement to call or text monthly apply to keep number active? Thanks for the help-

I've had a GV number for many years, but never bothered with the Android app until recently -- just trying it out.

I notice calls to my GV number ring through, including spam calls, even when I have DnD turned on (both in the app, and on the phone as a whole .. maybe a separate question .. why the app can't honor the phone-wide DnD setting).

Any ideas what is causing this? I don't have any special call-forwarding rules set up. I even tried removing my android device from the list of devices, to route incoming GV calls -- but the GV app still rings and wakes me up.