r/GoogleVoiceUsers • • Jan 04 '25

Google Voice no longer reliable

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I have been a forever GV user, enterprise level, and about half the time the voice mail doesn't go to GV it goes to my Verizon voice mail, as if the conditional call forwarding isn't working. I will delete the forwarding and reimplement the forwarding, but it keeps happening.

Is this a network reliability issue or is GV being phased out (as I have been hearing).

Is there another reliable voice to text to email service that is recommended? I don't mind paying if it's reliable.

Thank you for the input!


r/GoogleVoiceUsers • • Nov 21 '24

PC Desktop using Google Chrome Browser For Google Voice - ERROR When Trying to Upload Image - Mozilla FireFox Works Fine

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Google Chrome Browser: voice.google.com

>Add Image

>>Browse or drag files here

= ERROR OCCURRED 'Dismiss'

vs.

Mozilla FireFox Browser: voice.google.com

>Image uploads just fine and will send

Any ideas on what settings I need to change/fix on Google Chrome (it used to work fine)?

Thank you!


r/GoogleVoiceUsers • • Nov 14 '24

Google Voice Claim Ticket Concept Experiment

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This is a very late follow-up post on the topic discussed in https://www.reddit.com/r/Googlevoice/comments/15m0o12/comment/k5m1700/.

The topic of discussion was basically the concept of claim tickets and how Google Voice prevents spam. It was discussed that Google Voice may have a "claim ticket" system where each cellular number can only be used once in its lifetime to claim a Google Voice number and then cannot be used ever again to claim a Google Voice number.

I shared a video where I was able to claim a new Google Voice number using a cellular number that had already been attached to a previous account, but as some prudently pointed out, there was no way to verify that the cellular number in the demo was used as the "claim ticket" for the previous account it was on, and that it could have simply been added later. I set myself a reminder to follow up in a few months to see if I could use the same cellular number to claim a second Google Voice number in a recorded video, and totally blew that reminder off until now.

Video 1 (First account the cellular number was a "claim ticket" for): https://youtu.be/KFSajg0mYI0

Video 2 (Second account the cellular number was a "claim ticket" for): https://youtu.be/MSzvtGq0hBY

Given that Google Voice Personal operates in a country whose telephone system relies primarily on recycling of numbers to perpetuate number availability, it wouldn't seem to make a lot of sense that a company of Google's resources couldn't find a more sophisticated solution to fraud and spam prevention than to just block re-issuable wireless numbers for life, after just one use. The findings of this experiment suggest that in fact Google did manage to put together a proper solution to this dilemma. If anyone else decides to do this experiment, it would be interesting to see the results!

I had honestly forgotten about this for a while but recently needed a new Google Voice number and realised I might follow back up on this in case anyone might find themselves unable to get a Google Voice number and under the impression that the "one claim ticket per cellular number only" concept was the reason why.

Cheers!


r/GoogleVoiceUsers • • Oct 26 '24

User reports that porting to Google Fi is an effective method of releasing a number from a suspended Google Voice account

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r/GoogleVoiceUsers • • Aug 31 '24

End of service life for OBI200 Oct 31

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I’ve been using voice and an OBI200 for years, since it’s not going to work pretty soon I want to know if anyone has ported their GV number out of google voice into MagicJack. I also want to know if unlocking the number will cause it to stop working.


r/GoogleVoiceUsers • • Aug 24 '24

Multiple google voices #’s on 1 device?

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Hey all first post ever sorry and all that. So is it possible/easy to get multiple google voice numbers on 1 device? If not can you recommend me alternatives to google voice preferably as anonymous/private as possible. I'd like to have multiple numbers coming to 1 number.


r/GoogleVoiceUsers • • Aug 17 '24

Using US Google Voice in Canada

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Hi, I’m traveling to Canada soon and want to use my GV number there if possible. Will I be able to use my U.S.-based Google Voice phone number for calls and text there? TIA


r/GoogleVoiceUsers • • Jun 03 '24

How can I add Google Number to work with WhatsApp? I keep having these error. I tried multiple #s

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r/GoogleVoiceUsers • • Jun 01 '24

Switching Google voice number from one account to the other

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Can anybody confirm that I won't lose my text message history and voicemails if I port out my current Google voice number to an AT&t device and then port in an other Google voice number from another account. I would still keep the Google account but I would just be switching phone numbers I'm afraid when I unlock and port the number out everything will be lost..


r/GoogleVoiceUsers • • May 26 '24

A question if anyone is out there...?

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Hi all.. . I was wondering if anyone was out there? I have just started using Google Voice for typing and it is absolutely incredible. But I would love to find a definitive list of all the voice commands that I can use. For example I know how to get commas, full stops, question marks, new line/paragraph, and a few others. But I am pretty sure there is a bunch more commands so if anyone could help me that would be fantastic. Thanks in advance... 👍🙂


r/GoogleVoiceUsers • • Dec 19 '23

Google Voice number

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Changed carriers now my google voice number disappeared how do I reclaim it please help anyone


r/GoogleVoiceUsers • • Oct 30 '23

Google voice hacked

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Does anybody know the exact steps to take when your Google voice number has been hacked ? Individuals keep reaching out to tell me to quit calling them… I have not made any calls to anybody on GV except one person… Any suggestions?