PSA: GV BACKING OFF? OBI NOT WORKING TODAY? DO NOT PAY $10!

[hapollo]

It seems today-this week is full of posts about GV backing off and $10 ransomware is being paid to get GV working again.

As much as I love my Obi and thank OBi for their solution, I have an issue with them doing something on their end leading people to pay the $10 needlessly.

The solution:

Manually upgrade your firmware to 2886 and the $10 pop up with disappear from your Obitalk Portal.

https://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=11256.msg73954#msg73954

firmware 2886 is for OBI1xx if you have a Obi2xx use this 5264 firmware instead

https://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=9983.msg73804#msg73804

Posting this in as many forums as I can to get the word out as not everyone explores every single thread started and starts there own. Wish this could be stickied to the top.

[WaltB]

Thanks! Just figured this out.
Do you know how to recover a GV number?
I reset my Obi and now I forget what email I used for my GV service?
Thanks

[hapollo]

How many gmails do you have?

If you at least know your gmail accounts and their respective passwords, you can always log into them one at a time and the one that has your call history will be the one under:

www.google.com/voice

If that link asks you to set up a new Google Voice, that probably isn't the one. Trial and error.

[WaltB]

I only have 2, but I created a special google account for my Google voice A LONG TIME ago...
I forget what it is....

[hapollo]

Sorry, if you forgot and OBI "forget", how would you expect any of us to know what it is?

Usually when you set up any gmail account you are asked for a recovery email. Once entered, an email is sent to that recovery address. If you don't have that many emails, do a search within those other possible recovery emails for sender:  accounts.google.com. Hopefully, it will contain the info you need.

If you've never setup a recovery email you may be SOL.