Advice needed, I do not have a forwarding phone.
SteveInWA:
You need a working (paid) telephone number to be eligible to sign up for Google Voice.
If you can't afford phone service, or you qualify due to disability or some other qualifying reason, you can get a free basic cell phone and 200 minutes of calling per month from the Lifeline telephone program.
JamesJay:
Quote from: SteveInWA on February 15, 2016, 01:38:36 pm
You need a working (paid) telephone number to be eligible to sign up for Google Voice.
If you can't afford phone service, or you qualify due to disability or some other qualifying reason, you can get a free basic cell phone and 200 minutes of calling per month from the Lifeline telephone program.
Thanks Steve, I went to Best Buy yesterday and bought a no contract phone and some time for no contract use, its from AT&T and cost about ~$35 for the phone itself and $25 in time. I set up the .25 cents a min plan so I have 100 minutes and I already added it as a forwarding number in Google Voice.
I am stuck right here in your tutorial. vv
Quote from: SteveInWA
Important note regarding Chat: Google Chrome Browser no longer supports Chat at all. If you need to configure Chat, you must use another approved browser, such as Firefox, MSIE or Safari.
•If you do not see the Google Chat forwarding destination, then open another browser tab, log into Gmail, not GV, and use Google Chat, not Google Hangouts to make one outbound phone call. This will restore Chat to your list of forwarding targets.
So I did not have a Gmail account so I signed up for one and now I cannot log in here at the forum under my first email which I was signing into Google with , I guess it has to do with the fact that Google put my Gmail in and I cannot change it back. I am lost. :(
Anyhow I cannot figure out how to use Google Chat to make that one^ outbound phone call. I need to get Chat in my list of forwarding targets. Please help, I will be standing by for awhile. thanks
JamesJay:
Oh and I am running Google Chrome in Windows 10 so as per your instructions I have started using the one that came with Windows, I guess its Internet Explorer. So getting used to Explorer has been a total pain in the butt!!
SteveInWA:
Well, it doesn't matter which account you use to post here in the forum, and I see that you figured that out.
I tried to be as detailed as possible in my instructions, without driving people crazy.
You need to have a Google account. It doesn't matter which one you use, but it is very important that you keep track of which one you do use, and write down the user ID and password. Google will will not help you find it later, if you lose it.
OBi devices emulate (act as) Google Chat clients. So, your Google Voice account needs to have Chat enabled. The way to do that is to (temporarily) use MS Internet Explorer, in your case. You need to download and install the Google voice and video plugin: https://www.google.com/tools/dlpage/hangoutplugin
Per my detailed instructions, you need to make one outbound call on your computer, using Chat. This will enable Chat for that Google account.
SteveInWA:
Once you have made that one phone call, you no longer need to use MS IE, and you can go back to using Chrome Browser.
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