Google Voice Issues???

[jeffshead]

The HTC EVO 4G LTE is my first smart phone. Yippy!!!

I installed the Google Voice app and got it up and working but I noticed a couple of things and I'm hoping someone can tell me if this is normal. I did not and do not want to set up GV as a replacement for my phone's voicemail. Could that be causing the issues listed below?

1. When I make an outgoing call from my cell and select "Call with Google Voice", the number I'm calling does not display on the screen during the call. A different number (202-556-0000) displays but the number I dialed does show in the call logs once the call is completed. I think the number that shows during the call is a GV system number. Is there anyway to make the phone show the number I dialed, during the call, instead of showing the 202-556-0000 number?
2. I have set the GV app to "View and play voicemails from the phone call log" but they do not show up in the SmithMicro Visual Voicemail. It's really weird. The only time a GV voicemail shows in Visual Voicemail is when I select 'Decline' on an incoming call that was made to my GV number but when I listen to the message that's in Visual Voicemail, it's the message I, the receiver, hears when I click the 'Decline' button. Here's the message: "To send a voicemail press 2. To accept press 1. To send a voicemail press 2". It should be the message that the caller left but it's not. I can access the message the caller left by using the GV app but isn't that message supposed to also be available in Visual Voicemail?

 

[timlitw]

1 this is the way google voice works.

2. No, Google voice messages will not show up in visual voice mail they will show up in the google voice app. Once you have everyone calling you on the google voice number there will be no use for the visual voicemail app.

You will probably run into some phone numbers that don't respond well when called via google voice. Or local numbers etc. Voice Choice is an app that lets you put certain number as exceptions to the use google voice for all calls option.

 

[jeffshead]

1 this is the way google voice works.

2. No, Google voice messages will not show up in visual voice mail they will show up in the google voice app. Once you have everyone calling you on the google voice number there will be no use for the visual voicemail app.

You will probably run into some phone numbers that don't respond well when called via google voice. Or local numbers etc. Voice Choice is an app that lets you put certain number as exceptions to the use google voice for all calls option.

Thanks for clearing this up. I really appropriate you taking the time