Voice mail?

[donnie5336]

I don't know about a different app but you can do this: go to menu>settings>call settings>voice mail. Enter *86 then a ","and your the password for your voicemail. When you activate your voicemail either by long pressing the "1" key on your keypad within the phone app or when you long press the the voicemail notification icon in the pull down notification bar, it will dial voicemail and your password so you don't have to enter it.

What about the home screen voicemail shortcut? I can't get this to work when press on the shortcut icon. It always only dials *86. If I go to my contacts and scroll down to voicemail it will dial *86 plus my password. Anyway to get this to work with the homescreen icon too?

[jpcalhoun]

What about the home screen voicemail shortcut? I can't get this to work when press on the shortcut icon. It always only dials *86. If I go to my contacts and scroll down to voicemail it will dial *86 plus my password. Anyway to get this to work with the homescreen icon too?

Unfortunately it won't work with the voicemail icon shortcut...sorry.

[Zandar]

What about the home screen voicemail shortcut? I can't get this to work when press on the shortcut icon. It always only dials *86. If I go to my contacts and scroll down to voicemail it will dial *86 plus my password. Anyway to get this to work with the homescreen icon too?

Not to get on a soapbox, but if you use Google Voice for your voicemail it has a widget you can place on the homescreen that will show you your most current received item (be it a voicemail or a text via Google Voice), and you can scroll with it to older ones, too. Tap on the message or voicemail from the widget and it launches you right to the item. If it's a voicemail, you can read it or listen to it right from there (all over data; no minutes required), or reply to it if it's a text. Like with all Google services, you can also tap on the contact to call, text, email, etc. the person, too.

[jpcalhoun]

Not to get on a soapbox, but if you use Google Voice for your voicemail it has a widget you can place on the homescreen that will show you your most current received item (be it a voicemail or a text via Google Voice), and you can scroll with it to older ones, too. Tap on the message or voicemail from the widget and it launches you right to the item. If it's a voicemail, you can read it or listen to it right from there (all over data; no minutes required), or reply to it if it's a text. Like with all Google services, you can also tap on the contact to call, text, email, etc. the person, too.

I understand, but I don't think donnie5336 is there yet

[SallyC]

What about the home screen voicemail shortcut? I can't get this to work when press on the shortcut icon. It always only dials *86. If I go to my contacts and scroll down to voicemail it will dial *86 plus my password. Anyway to get this to work with the homescreen icon too?

I don't know what homescreen icon you have, but I just created a Contact called Voicemail with a phone number of *86,, plus my password. Then I long pressed on my home screen, selected App actions> Contact and selected Voicemail. It dialed my voicemail, put in my password and worked fine.

EDIT: App Actions is found under the Shortcuts menu.

[FoxKat]

No worries here foxkat. I get you but it just seems like you keep feeling the need to explain yourself or defend something that nobody is attacking. Why the need to repeat something that was already said?

The only person comparing on here is yourself because myself and zandar simply mentioned what app we prefer and why.

As for everything you have said so far being correct...... this is not true. You clearly stated that anyone who does not have a "custom " greeting set up will get the generic "the Google voice subscriber" message. This is incorrect/ misleading and I wasn't trying to trump you but simply clearing it up because anyone not familiar with Google voice would take your statement as saying that you have to create a custom greeting for everyone or they get the computerized voice.



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Your observation and desire to clarify are justified and it's all too obvious now that I see the explanation from your point of view.

It's generally assumed by most that you can record a standard greeting (just like any normal voicemail or answering machine). Unfortunately I had lumped those greetings with the "custom" greetings for friends and family in both Google Voice and YouMail into one category. My purpose was to draw the contrast of doing a standard greeting or none at all versus the Smart Greeting. My feeling is the standard greeting in your voice or the generic one provided if no recorded greeting is done both feel rather generic to someone calling who was not on the calling list. That's where the Smart Greeting does look appealing, at least to me.

Obviously I didn't express it well.

[Jungle King 76]

Your observation and desire to clarify are justified and it's all too obvious now that I see the explanation from your point of view.

It's generally assumed by most that you can record a standard greeting (just like any normal voicemail or answering machine). Unfortunately I had lumped those greetings with the "custom" greetings for friends and family in both Google Voice and YouMail into one category. My purpose was to draw the contrast of doing a standard greeting or none at all versus the Smart Greeting. My feeling is the standard greeting in your voice or the generic one provided if no recorded greeting is done both feel rather generic to someone calling who was not on the calling list. That's where the Smart Greeting does look appealing, at least to me.

Obviously I didn't express it well.

No worries. I will admit though that sometimes I just enjoy a good back and forth debate. If I come off harsh it is unintentional. The more I get someone to debate with me, the more I learn by getting to see their side and things I may not have thought of myself.

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[donnie5336]

I don't know what homescreen icon you have, but I just created a Contact called Voicemail with a phone number of *86,, plus my password. Then I long pressed on my home screen, selected App actions> Contact and selected Voicemail. It dialed my voicemail, put in my password and worked fine.

Thanks. I knew you could add a contact to your homescreen but hadn't found it yet. I didn't know it was listed under "app actions."

[SallyC]

Thanks. I knew you could add a contact to your homescreen but hadn't found it yet. I didn't know it was listed under "app actions."

I'm fairly new to Android and didn't know about "App Actions" either until FoxKat posted about using it. I thought it was really cool and am happy to be able to share it. Glad it serves your purpose.

[PSR12]

FoxKat, Did you you download the WhoAreYou Caller ID?