Sean Kovacs

HIP HIP HOOORAY!. Love the new contacts system, the VM Transcriptions and new url scheme (now if Prowl would just add it to their list). Being able to finally move my cursor to edit typos I made in the middle of a sms is very nice also

Thanks again Sean! Now… when are we getting 3.0? (j/k)

Awesome! the free GVMobile app was tight and this one will be better i hope.

So what’s the word on if we pay for this one and later an app store version is released? I’m guessing the app store version would be the one receiving updates if that happened, so would you do something for us like give everyone who bought on Cydia a code for a free download?

thanks for all the hard work Sean!

I just purchased and downloaded this new app. It worked for a minute, but now it just crashes every time I try to open it.

Congrats on the getting this out successfully! I honestly hope that Apple approves it for you too! There are tons of peeps that don’t know or won’t jailbreak and it would be good to let them take part in this fun too!

Looks good. I’ve been looking forward to this. However, the icon is very square and doesn’t really look like an iPhone app icon. It also continues to be a pixel or two lower than other app icons. Other than that it seems to be working well!

Thanks Sean!! Looks great.

What makes you say Google Voice will block intl. sms??

Nicccccceeee.

Is it just me or when trying to pay for this app through amazon payments on Cydia is giving me a 500 error? What gives?

@Seth
Same error message here

I guess I lucked out. It’s performing like a champ for me. Thank you, Sean…

Feature request: I can has ‘Remaining Balance: $XX.XX’ over the dialer? When I’m making international calls? That would be SO NICE.

So WHAT HAPPENED TO GV Mobile Lite?!

Picked this up just now, like the improvements. Thanks for keeping this both alive and in Cydia. =)

I would LOVE to buy the new GV Mobile + from Cydia, but there’s one problem. Google Checkout won’t let me allow Cydia. There seems to be a problem with either the HTML/CSS on the verification page, or it’s the way Cydia renders it. The bottom line is I can’t touch the “Allow” button. See the pic below. Anyone else have this problem?

http://bit.ly/5D1chC

Awesome! Good work, Sean!

This is awesome. Seems faster. The ability to edit SMS and having voicemail transcripts took care of the only two (small) issues I had with it before. Thank you!! Hope Apple wises up and allows this for you.

Did anyone try offline mode yet? How does it work?

Yeah, already paid $3 for it in the app store, don’t really wanna pay for it again on cydia and then again on the app store if it ever makes it back in. I think I’ll wait.

For some reason it keeps thinking that I have unread SMSes when I launch it, so it vibrates. Then it auto-updates and the “new messages” go away. When I quit and relaunch, same thing happens.

what is Offline dialing (via dialing GV #)?
Does that mean AT&T minutes wont be used?

offline = no use of wifi or 3G to place calls.

With the original app you need to be online in order to use the app to place a call.
If you don’t have a data plan/3G (iphone on T-Mobile) and you are in a place where there is no access to wifi, offline mode comes in handy, instead of manually dialing you google voice number and then the phone number you wish to call.

@Ole
Offline dialing requires… patience… to say the least. It’s not really the app’s fault, since apple doesn’t let developers dial the # key, so the app is forced to wait until Google decides to automatically connect the call ~10sec.

I assume, however, that if the app is rejected from the app store (not that anyone is wishing for that) Sean would get rid of this limitation, since he would no longer have to kowtow to Apple’s (idiotic) rules.

if it is a matter of patience I can live with it, no problem there.
I just don’t to write down a phone number I need to call from my contacts, dial GV first, input my password, press 2 and then dial the phone number I just wrote down on a piece of paper.

I wonder whether someone could write a tiny extension that just dials the # key after GV+ dials the number. That way GV+ would still playing by the rules, and only us naughty jailbroken folks would have the ability to dial offline quickly.

would it work if the phone number is saved in the contacts folder with the # extension at the end, right after the last digit of the phone number?

@sean
Having to wait 10 seconds means nothing to me. I use an old Motorola phone so I am used to a long process of dialing 2 phone numbers to place a phone call.
My wife has an iphone which has the first version of GV mobile.

If it all comes down to 10 seconds in order to be able to use the app offline, I’ll (she’ll) deal with it.

@sean
Yep, that was the problem! I hadn’t noticed before since they didn’t make a fuss in GV Mobile 1.

I LOVE it. Seriously smitten again. Makes life so much easier. BUt what is with the icon? It was too small before; now it’s all square. It makes everything else look wonky. Still; it flies.

Sean, is there a way to split it up so I have SMS and Phone in two separate apps? Or what appear to be separate icons?

Have you addressed the SMS sorting/order? Google Voice has a really terrible way of grouping messages together (not sorted by contact then time received like everywhere else).

Purchased !!!!!!!!! thank you !!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations! I was a user of the original app store version, and I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time! That said — I’m a little nervous about buying the new version, because of a problem I had before. I’m still using my original 2G iPhone. In the past, when I tried to initiate a call over EDGE using GVM, I wouldn’t get a ring. GV *was* calling, but it was going straight to my regular voicemail. Unfortunately, GV couldn’t tell that I hadn’t actually picked up, so the poor call recipient would hear their phone ring, pick up, and be greeted with silence. Later, I’d get the voicemail of the whole thing — the phone ringing, the person picking up, the “hello? hello?” and finally the click. My theory was that this was because the 2G iPhone can’t do voice and cellular data at the same time, and GV Mobile was still occupying that data connection when the GV call came in. I noticed the disclaimer in your Cydia description about weak connections, so I wonder if this is what you were referring to? Thanks, and again congrats.

@joe4444
Just reload the page, it happened to me too.

Hi Sean, any chance for threaded texts?

@Reza to clarify: it shows only the most recent, not all of them. Is there a way to bunch all texts from one contact under one thread?

@Jesse

I am using the iphone 2G but without a data plan (EDGE). It works perfectly fine on wifi.

Hello,

When I use the app, it doesn’t seem to work correctly.

For example, when I dial, it just says ‘Dialing…”, then it goes back. I am connected to wifi, and I tried it over 3G as well.

Also, when I send an SMS, nothing ever is received on the other phone.

I am on a jailbroken 3GS, running 3.1.2.

Thx!

Disregard above comment regarding SMS. However, it seems like I have to try 10+ times to make a call. Anything I can tweak on my end?

Thanks Sean! Ever thought about creating a native gmail app?

So got it, thanks, big improvements. Quick question, been using prowl to open gv mobile, had to edit the plists for prowl to allow this. Is there a way to open SMS or Voicemail tabs from the prowl command line? Thanks!

@qwertypo
Add, anyone know the wht edits I need to make so it loads the new gv mobile instead of trying to load the old one?