google voice

[hurricane630]

I use google voice for my voice mail. I used it on my original droid. I went to download it yesterday, and when I was trying to "validate" my number. It said it couldn't validate it. So now I don't have a voice mail at all. I can't recover my original voice mail for some reason. and verizon was no help when I tried to recover my original voice mail. Any idea why my google voice won't validate my number? I am tired of not being able to read any voice mails!

Thanks for the help.

 

[messenger13]

Did you log into your Google Voice account on a PC/laptop and check if your account works there?

 

[johnlgalt]

If you have the same number on the new phone it's already validated, because you did that on your old phone.

Steps t getting it working:

1. Just log into the account that it was using before
2. skip the validation
3. Make sure that Settings --> Call settings --> Voicemail service is set to Google Voice (although technically, even this does not have to be done - it is just for if you want to access Voicemail via a call as opposed to using the GV app)
   • And if you do change it, you'll get an error message about how it cannot read the settings
   • Go back to the previous screen and the reading settings dialog box will still be there acting like it is trying to read
   • Hit the Home key
   • Go back into Settings --> Call settings --> and you'll see that it is now set to GV.