GrooveIP $2.10 today (use google voice for calls on your android device)

This is a great app, its rock soild for google voice over wifi. The only feature I wish they would add would be texting.
 
I'm going to try this app but its still baffling to me that google hasn't already enabled this functionality natively between android and the google voice app --- it can't possibly be a technical issue and must be a political one, as the only possible explanation I can think of is they don't want their cell carrier partners getting cranky if they gave people a way to use less cell minutes.
 
What? I am confused.. my google voice app always had the ability to dial out using my google voice number.
 
NickJames said:
What? I am confused.. my google voice app always had the ability to dial out using my google voice number.
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What that's really doing is going through your voice connection, thus costing you minutes to use it. This app uses your data, so if you have unlimited data but are low on minutes, using this app doesn't cost you minutes.
 
NickJames said:
What? I am confused.. my google voice app always had the ability to dial out using my google voice number.
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I wouldn't be so sure. My g/f's phone will say its using google voice to dial out even while at home on WiFi but then is actually using her 3G cell minutes. I've configured, reconfigured, tested and retested this many times - thinking I'd just config'd or done something wrong, but its still using cellular minutes because the calls all show up on her online bill.

And like I said it seems obvious google has done this on purpose to appease the carriers.
 
Ah ok, guess I didn't really notice since I have unlimited minutes.
 
Thanks for posting this. I'm setting it up on my old moto droid so that my little sister can call and text without having a cellular plan.
 
So yeah, it works great on my old moto droid via wifi. Between grooveip and google voice my little sister can send/receive texts and calls via wifi without having a cellular plan. It works perfectly so far. I'm doing all of this because we are already at our max of 5 lines with verizon and my sister thinks that she has to be able to text. Apparently texting is this generation's aol instant messenger.
 
Thanks OP, bought it right away.

I was using SIP droid for my moto droid until I ran into some routing issues. Plus its never updated.
 
i jumped on it and I'm going to test it out this week for work purposes. If it serves me well by Saturday/Sunday, I'll be reducing ym cell plan and using this instead
 
For voice only, you can always setup your google voice number as one of your favorites on your carriers site, and then use google voice callback so it doesn't use your cell minutes.

If you already have unlimited texting, google voice callback works just fine and is free.
 
LOL Anyone notice this app seems to have been pulled from market?

Those of you that picked it up, Set it up, Is the app still functioning?
 
Still up on Amazon

Wonder what Google doesn't like about it?

I hear rumors that the big telecoms are strong-arming google over voip apps. Brace for SOPA-like legislation saying that VOIP causes child porn and lost jobs!
 
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cyclone3d said:
For voice only, you can always setup your google voice number as one of your favorites on your carriers site, and then use google voice callback so it doesn't use your cell minutes.

If you already have unlimited texting, google voice callback works just fine and is free.
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Google access numbers change, pretty often. at least for most people.
 
This ap is more than worth worth the full price......free air time as long as your on wifi...people sometimes ask whats up with the different number (than you usual mobile) but in the end, they don't care.... especially if your calling there free number (house phone)

I dropped Verizon to page plus and like the fact i can still talk for free to family members (when Im on WiFi)

Course if your never around wifi this ap would not get any use
 
The talk of this app has me interested. I have an old HTC Liberty from when I was on AT&T that I no longer am with and no longer use. Would this be of any use setting up for my son? He gets off the bus with my mom & dad in the afternoons, and I am on my way home from work. We have wifi at home and was wondering if he could use this from his room to call me if he needed. I know he could use the home phone, but we only have so many long distance minutes and he's wanted a cell of his own so I thought maybe I could make him feel like he had his own. Would this be worth it for him? I just wish that somehow it could still ring on that phone. It doesn't really make sense for him to give anyone his number and have it ring on the house phone.
 
Looks like the app returned to the android market. Odd. There seems tto be no comment made directly from developer, only thing out there on the net was few other people wondering the same, why it disapeared.
 
htpc_user said:
The talk of this app has me interested. I have an old HTC Liberty from when I was on AT&T that I no longer am with and no longer use. Would this be of any use setting up for my son? He gets off the bus with my mom & dad in the afternoons, and I am on my way home from work. We have wifi at home and was wondering if he could use this from his room to call me if he needed. I know he could use the home phone, but we only have so many long distance minutes and he's wanted a cell of his own so I thought maybe I could make him feel like he had his own. Would this be worth it for him? I just wish that somehow it could still ring on that phone. It doesn't really make sense for him to give anyone his number and have it ring on the house phone.
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It should work fine on a liberty. Just create a google voice account, get a number from them (you will have to have a real phone number in order to get one from google). Install the google voice app and GrooveIP on the phone from the android market, sign into your google voice account and you are done. As long as he is on wifi he can send and receive text messages from the liberty using the google voice app and make and receive phone calls on the liberty through GrooveIP.

I did this for my little sister because there are no more lines left on our Verizon plan and she is too young to really need a phone anyway.
 
MrkXCeL said:
Looks like the app returned to the android market. Odd. There seems tto be no comment made directly from developer, only thing out there on the net was few other people wondering the same, why it disapeared.
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On Facebook he says they took it down because they wanted the title changed - but then changed their mind and let it back up unchanged.

I have this on two phones... One with a 4G plan, simply for an alternate phone number (one business and one personal) and I let it use 4G... Not the greatest if I am on the go, but still useful if I am stationary... mostly due to handoff issues between 4G and Wifi. The other phone has no plan at all, and simply has an old T-Mobile SIM in it to keep the error warning off the home screen. It is an old ATT HTC Aria, and it works perfectly for a secondary home phone running only on Wifi.
 
Has anyone gotten this to work on Verizon 3G? I was hoping to cut down on my minutes but I had alot of trouble with the Microphone working as well as echo on the other end of the call (my end was fine but the person i called complained of echo).

Wifi was a bit better, but I am usually travelling on the road. Granted most job sites I can get into wifi since we host most of those sites, and optimim online wifi spots abide around us so I can hook into those too...

But it'd be nice to be able to cut down on minutes altogether
 
If anyone is looking for a free method, download sipdroid and use it to sign up for a pbxes.org account (it's the only way to get a pbxes account with free gv trunking). Then, you can uninstall it and get csipsimple. Use your new pbxes account and profit.

Should allow you to test your phone first, before considering GrooveIP. Some phones, it just doesn't work well at all. I can't maintain a decent phone conversation with either grooveip or pbxes/csipsimple on my phone no matter how I tweak the settings. Skype seems to work very well though.
 
Yes groovip does have some echo issues...almost like they make the mic gain too high, because if i turn the volume down the issue goes away or if i put on wired headset with in line mic it goes away all together

There are settings in grooveip for mic gain, echo chancel, speaker volume and im thinking its just a matter of getting it set up to whatever phone were using then it would be perfect
 
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