Incoming calls go straight to VM when cell phone turned off
SteveInWA:
Quote from: GPz1100 on August 07, 2018, 04:35:31 pm
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The solution is to enable conditional call forwarding on your Sprint phone number, to send busy or unanswered or unreachable calls back to your Google Voice VM box.
This won't work if the phone is in airplane mode and doesn't have an opportunity to ring. Call will go directly to vm without ringing the obi.
Nope. Wrong. Conditional call forwarding means: if the number is busy, or is reachable but not answered, or is not reachable at all, then forward the call to the programmed number.
Millions of people use this feature on Google Voice. It's how the service is designed to function.
In order for this to work properly, you must have all of your linked, forwarding destinations added to your Google Voice configuration on the Settings page. You cannot forward one destination to another; Google Voice needs to handle the simultaneous ringing of the destinations. It is smart enough to know when a phone is powered off or otherwise immediately forwarding the call back to GV.
Taoman:
Quote from: GPz1100 on August 07, 2018, 04:35:31 pm
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The solution is to enable conditional call forwarding on your Sprint phone number, to send busy or unanswered or unreachable calls back to your Google Voice VM box.
This won't work if the phone is in airplane mode and doesn't have an opportunity to ring. Call will go directly to vm without ringing the obi.
How so? Is that something special with Sprint phones? It doesn't work that way with Verizon.
It works exactly as Steve describes it.
SteveInWA:
Conditional call forwarding works with Google Voice with all of the big four major US mobile carriers.
The only cases where it doesn't work, are with the subsidiary brands or MVNOs that don't support CCF. Thankfully, this seems to be changing, as more MVNOs are enabling the feature.
GPz1100:
Quote from: SteveInWA on August 07, 2018, 04:52:00 pm
Nope. Wrong. Conditional call forwarding means: if the number is busy, or is reachable but not answered, or is not reachable at all, then forward the call to the programmed number.
Millions of people use this feature on Google Voice. It's how the service is designed to function.
In order for this to work properly, you must have all of your linked, forwarding destinations added to your Google Voice configuration on the Settings page. You cannot forward one destination to another; Google Voice needs to handle the simultaneous ringing of the destinations. It is smart enough to know when a phone is powered off or otherwise immediately forwarding the call back to GV.
No, you're wrong. With CCF configured on the cell phone to the same gv number as configured in the obi, calls to the gv # DO NOT ring the obi when the cell phone is in airplane mode or turned off. At best there might be half a ring or 1 ring before the cell phone forwards the call back to the gv number where as you put it, "It is smart enough to know when a phone is powered off or otherwise immediately forwarding the call back to GV".
If the cell phone is on, then it's business as normal and both the obi/cell phone ring in [close] unison.
By disabling CCF entirely, calls to the gv number ring the obi regardless if the cell phone is on or not.
The difference is using gv in place of carrier voice mail only or using the gv # in place of the carrier number.
SteveInWA:
Quote from: GPz1100 on August 08, 2018, 06:03:21 am
Quote from: SteveInWA on August 07, 2018, 04:52:00 pm
Nope. Wrong. Conditional call forwarding means: if the number is busy, or is reachable but not answered, or is not reachable at all, then forward the call to the programmed number.
Millions of people use this feature on Google Voice. It's how the service is designed to function.
In order for this to work properly, you must have all of your linked, forwarding destinations added to your Google Voice configuration on the Settings page. You cannot forward one destination to another; Google Voice needs to handle the simultaneous ringing of the destinations. It is smart enough to know when a phone is powered off or otherwise immediately forwarding the call back to GV.
No, you're wrong. With CCF configured on the cell phone to the same gv number as configured in the obi, calls to the gv # DO NOT ring the obi when the cell phone is in airplane mode or turned off. At best there might be half a ring or 1 ring before the cell phone forwards the call back to the gv number where as you put it, "It is smart enough to know when a phone is powered off or otherwise immediately forwarding the call back to GV".
If the cell phone is on, then it's business as normal and both the obi/cell phone ring in [close] unison.
By disabling CCF entirely, calls to the gv number ring the obi regardless if the cell phone is on or not.
The difference is using gv in place of carrier voice mail only or using the gv # in place of the carrier number.
Dude, that is utter nonsense. Perhaps you are using a telephone from the Alex Jones Telephone Company.
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