Google Chat Status always Away or "Voice Only"
tylercal:
Not really a work-around, but what I've done to find missed chats is do a search for "in:chats -me" in gmail. This should show all chat's you've gotten but never responded to.
JoeObi:
Any updates on this? I am not entirely sure based on the posts in this thread if it is technically possible for Obi to implement invisibility and they just haven't yet; it's also been over a year so I don't know if any of those limitations are still the state of the Google service.
The reason this has come to my attention is because newer versions of Android will automatically display Google Talk status in the Contacts list, and seeing "Voice Only" under my name has caused some confusion for people who have my email associated with my phone number.
There are a few ways to fix this (I'm not entirely sure how permanent they are), such as signing in to my Google Talk account in gmail and setting my status to available (or custom). I also think that the confusion stems on my contacts' end when they don't use the Google Talk app (it may be installed by default and not everyone goes and disables it), and it's just quietly sending info to their contacts list.
But of course, the best fix would be if I could just be invisible and not be broadcasting any potentially confusing information to whatever program might pick it up and display it. Because I don't use Google Talk for anything but allowing my Obi to receive calls, "available" or "[custom message]" isn't quite true; invisible is exactly what I want to be.
doitlikejustin:
bump
aberson:
I've had the obi with this issue for a LONG time and never realized the obi was the culprit for why I wasn't really "invisible" and why people chatted me so often even when I thought I was invisible, until today:
I just set up my wife's GV# on SP2 on the Obi and she instantly saw the warning about not being invisible anymore. This makes the Obi no longer pass the wife acceptance test...
Would love to see some updates to this issue. The Asterisk hack mentioned looks like a good start...
bryak:
I am in the same boat as everyone else. I didn't realize my Obi was doing this until my girlfriend got one
Admittedly 'Invisible' isn't the perfect solution, but it is definitely better than people messaging me thinking that i will see it next time i look at my computer. 'Voice Only' doesn't mean anything to the average computer use. Perhaps 'Invisible' and forwarding the messages the Obi receives as emails? I hope a firmware fix gets this, because i don't know that I will be vouching as heavily for the Obi/Google Voice combo until a fix comes along.
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