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expired Posted by oceanlake | Staff • Oct 29, 2023
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I have never used Google Voice. Are there any best-practices or drawbacks or gotchas or things to think about or watch out for when doing this?
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Just to make sure I understand - I need to have the Google Voice app installed on the phone I am forwarding the Google Voice number to?
On that phone, can I use both its "native" number and the Google Voice number to make/receive calls and texts? (From your and others comments, I understand that some institutions may somehow detect that my number is a Google Voice number and then, therefore, not use it.)
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I have never used Google Voice. Are there any best-practices or drawbacks or gotchas or things to think about or watch out for when doing this?
Like if you actually have to use it for phone service, and you are on prepaid cell data instead of wifi, it will only ring for like half of your phone calls, and that's after your caller has sat through 2-4 rings. So if you're caller hangs up after 4 rings, you only have 0-2 rings to pick up. Or the call will come in but not vibrate or ring and there's no indepedent volume level in the app; the only way you can catch that call is if you happen to be staring at your screen when it happens, if your phone was locked, you only find out you missed a call the next time you check your alerts. Support will say it uses the android phone volume level but that's already set to the max and it's clearly not using that setting and that's all support will do for you, simply gaslight you about the bug.
Some callers, google voice thinks it's being smart by filtering out spammer calls; although it's not a spammer, it's friends and family calling from real phone numbers trying to reach you and their call never even connects. Even when you follow all the answers/advice and think you've turned off the call screening, no there's some sort of call screening level you don't have permission to control. For a couple people, I have to give them the throwaway real cell number and then update them if it ever really changes.
Google thinks everyone is constantly fiddling/changing up the apps on their phone. As a user I feel THE phone app should be a set it and forget it kind of thing; no google feels you should stay up-to-date on the latest google voice news/changes. Over the years, they have tried repeatedly to break new ground in the chat/conversation/meeting space. So the app you use to use was Google Hangouts, then they tried to push everyone to use Allo/Duo while keeping Hangouts around as functionality on it just sort of rotted for a couple years. Then they scrapped everything and made everyone switch to Voice and its still buggy AF. You'll also find that sometimes when the app automatically updates, the installation will get confused and revert to default configuration settings, so if you weren't aware that the app updated, you might not realize its not configured the way you thought it was configured. Or something about the configuration setting is corrupted after an update and the way to fix it is to clear the cached data. If you have it set to not automatically update, it'll constantly remind you that there's a newer version available. Honestly, I suspect, they don't really test Voice as a phone service; that's the only way all this stuff goes untested. Google was the tech company that pioneered releasing all of their stuff as Beta software, clearly their phone app embodies that mentality.
Everyone complains about the subpar support that Mint or Redpocket provides, try getting support from Google...
A few other things, if you have no access to data atm, you can't pull up any past text messages or contacts, it's not locally stored.
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