Sean Kovacs

@sean, I zoomed in to hide my e-mail address but I have GV Mobile + now and am really loving the landscape SMS. Great update!
@Anonymous, thanks, I didn’t even see the Reload button.

@Marty Seriously? $2 is going to kill you?

@sean, I noticed a few things so far. When I try to set a ringtone for a contact I’m stuck on that page because there is no Save or Back button so I have to quit the app. Next, I prefer the old behavior of immediately displaying the contact’s phone number in the dialer (if he has only one number) instead of making me click his only number after I already clicked his name. Finally, I miss the Dial On Click option in settings from the old version (or I just can’t find it?) because I don’t like it when GV Mobile starts dialing automatically if I accidentally clicked the wrong contact. None of these issues really bother me. I don’t even set individual ringtones, but I’m sure other people do and they might not like getting stuck on that screen. Everything else is wonderful Excellent work!

Sean, I mean you got my 2$ but I love that your app was free before. I am going to have to say I wish you went with a rounded Icon for the App Icon. No bugs so far with my install on a 3GS.

Sean can you please add a extra contact tab with the actual gv contacts instead of the contacts on the actual ipod/iphone.

Hey Sean. The new version looks great. Thank You for it. However I have a question about a feature you removed which is a bit disappointing and forcing me to continue to use the old version. In the original version, the user could choose which phone number to ring in addition to which number to forward to. New version only offers a setting for which number to forward to. I had a very specific use for this and now with only having the number to forward to feature, I have to either 1) change my inbound routing frequently or 2) change which phone number to ring from GV via web. I can explain my detailed the usage of GV with multiple IAX and SIP trunks but do not want to write a book here.

Is there a reason why you did not leave this in?

VoIP Guy :
Hey Sean. The new version looks great. Thank You for it. However I have a question about a feature you removed which is a bit disappointing and forcing me to continue to use the old version. In the original version, the user could choose which phone number to ring in addition to which number to forward to. New version only offers a setting for which number to forward to. I had a very specific use for this and now with only having the number to forward to feature, I have to either 1) change my inbound routing frequently or 2) change which phone number to ring from GV via web. I can explain my detailed the usage of GV with multiple IAX and SIP trunks but do not want to write a book here.
Is there a reason why you did not leave this in?

Update: Nevermind. Sorry. I overlooked that it is still there just missed it.

Just so I’m not missing something, is the multiple account support so that you can use other GV accounts for the SMS/History/Voicemail functions in the app only? You can’t send/receive calls from multiple GV accounts with the same forwarding phone…

Im trying to purchase on cydia and the server is coming back with a 500 error … Just FYI, Ill try again tomorrow

sean :
@qwertypo there are url handlers..i posted on the site weeks ago

Works like a charm. I added these to prowl redirect list, and I have the option of opening either tab, thanks

Display
GV Voicemail
Key
gv voice
URL
gvm://vm

Display
GV SMS
Key
gv sms
URL
gvm://sms

Setting a phone-to-ring as ‘Gizmo phone’ consistently crashes the app..

Bummer, as I wanted to use the app to dial out via my Gizmo ATA to avoid GV 3-minute limit.. Hope this is fixed soon.

Best $2 I’ll spend this year. Congrats on hitting one out of the park. Offline dialing works for me.

@sean Maybe you could implement some kind of relay/delay for sending the message to the GV servers? If the app made the request to GV through an intermediary maybe that would give it enough time to disengage with the EDGE data connection?

Hey Sean,

Great work on the app and thanks for your hard work. However, I must ask what made you decide to NOT include push notification in this update? …or I missing something and it is?

Thanks!

jeremy

@Jeremy
You need to be an official App Store app to use Apple’s push servers from what I understand.

@Jeremy
I don’t really like self-promoting, but I made a site called VoiceGrowl that might help you:
http://googlevoice.ub3rk1tten.com/voicegrowl/
http://voicegrowl.posterous.com/voicegrowl-and-gv-mobile

You could also do something similar with http://gvmax.com , but they require you to give up your Google username and password, only do SMS, and poll for messages rather than instantly pushing them.

@Jeremy
indeed, gv mobile + would first have to be approved by Apple’s App Store first before official push notification service would be allowed. However, there are alternative push service ways. Personally I have gmail forward my sms’s to my Textfree account, then turn on push for Textfree. it won’t load the proper app when opening to reply, but it does show the sender info and a preview of the message.

qwertypo :

sean :
@qwertypo there are url handlers..i posted on the site weeks ago

Works like a charm. I added these to prowl redirect list, and I have the option of opening either tab, thanks

I am using VoiceGrowl, and Prowl to push notify for SMS and Voicemail, and thanks to the URL handlers, it loads the proper page
Display
GV Voicemail
Key
gv voice
URL
gvm://vm
Display
GV SMS
Key
gv sms
URL
gvm://sms

Thanks Illixer (and outphase), I actually have the exact same work around configured now, I was just hoping to simplify…Here’s hoping for app store approval!

Thanks!

J

A quick couple of questions about the new version before I replace the old…

#1 – Can the previous version remain installed when installing the new GV Mobile+?

#2 – In the SMS screen, is there still a limit to the amount of SMS conversations it will load? The previous (free) version limited it to 15 conversations (I believe.)

Also, I believe it was mentioned in the past but is there any way that GV Mobile could access the Google Voice contacts (saved in the Google Voice account)? It be super useful…

Thanks for the update & for all your hard work!

-enrico

I was quite happy with GV Mobile 1 and didn’t see any real reason to upgrade. 1 did everything I needed and it did it well. However, i figured that since I would be willing to pay for that I might as well buy the new version, if for no other reason than to support the developer.
Sean, I hope you are able to continue improving this great product. Thanks!

@enrico
Why don’t you just sync all your iphone contacts with Google Contacts? Thats what most people do, I think…

The best push notification system I’ve seen yet is to use Prowl. Prowl will push growl notifications to your iPhone, but it also has support for third party services. I currently have a Python script running on my computer that pushes SMS and Vociemail notifications to Prowl. There are also free 3rd party services that will do this for you as well. Prowl then has the ability to forward you to GV Mobile+ automatically.

So on my phone when I get an SMS I get a notification just like a native SMS. Prowl then opens up but immediately quits and opens GV Mobile+ directly to the SMS page.

With GV Mobile + and Prowl it’s pretty close to having native support for Google Voice

Is no one else using the app called Notifications made by Conovae http://www.appnotifications.com ? It’s only $2.99 but gives you an e-mail address and 20,000 free notifications ($0.99 per 10,000 after that). There is no hassle with running Growl on your personal computer 24/7. It’s always on and very quick to forward notifications. You just set Google Voice to forward SMS to the e-mail it provides. I e-mailed the developer yesterday, and he’s already submitted an update to his app that integrates with the new GV Mobile + URL schemes to launch directly to the SMS tab (or voicemail tab) when you receive a text notification. There is also a nice API interface that allows you to send customized notifications via curl, which is pretty cool.

How do I set the URL handlers in Prowl? Does this require SSH into phone or can be done from Prowl?

Weird I’m still getting internal 500 error when purchasing this. Any way around this?

joe4444 :
Is no one else using the app called Notifications made by Conovae http://www.appnotifications.com ? It’s only $2.99 but gives you an e-mail address and 20,000 free notifications ($0.99 per 10,000 after that).

Or you can use free mail2prowl.de gateway.

@Kris
I switched to VoiceGrowl instead of Textfree push, and I must say it’s better seeing as it will redirect.

Thanks ub3rk1tten for the service!

@Dan

Dan, in the Prowl settings there is a button to update the list of redirection apps. It will pull down a list from the developer. If there is something that you want that isn’t on the list you can probably request it on their forum. The developer is pretty open to suggestions. GV Mobile+ is already in the list

Is 2.0 going to be available on Rock or do I need to switch to Cydia? I’ve been using the free one from Rock up until now

Hi Sean..

I just bought the latest version of your app via Cydia and every time I click on the history tab it crashes. No idea what the problem may be. When I click the history tab in the old version of your app (still loaded) it loads just fine and doesn’t crash. Any ideas? I’ve rebooted my phone. Also, would love to figure out the icon problem many are describing. I can tell you my particular phone may be jailbroken, but I have no themeing installed (no mobilesubstrate or anything of the sort).

Thank you.

@JS
I’m receiving the 500 internal server error as well. I purchased in Cydia and via amazon.com.

Thanks for all your hard work and for a wonderful tool that is both innovative and cost-efficient..!!

Will be getting this ASAP..!!

Just noticed.. not only does it crash when I goto the History tab.. the “Speaker Off/On” button in the Voicemail tab also doesn’t work as its suppose to be default. It defaults to “Speaker Off” .. which I would assume means that my Voicemail should be blaring out of the Speakerphone (which only makes sense), but in fact the audio is coming out of the ear speaker (unacceptable). When I hit the “Speaker Off” button (so that it says Speaker On) the audio is still coming out of the ear speaker … it’s not until I hit the button again (so that it once again says Speaker Off) that audio comes out of the Speakerphone. For a very short voicemail, this process results in me NOT EVEN HEARING the voicemail.

So three issues going forward…….
#1: Tapping the History tab crashes the program. When you relaunch you had better hit another tab before the app crashes, otherwise the next time you launch it will just crash again (unless you see default tab to something other than “Last”)
#2: Voicemail speaker on/off button doesn’t act as it should
#3: Square icon that is misaligned (despite not having any third party theming packages like mobilesubstrate/etc loaded.

Any ideas Sean?

Michael, have you tried to reinstall? Someone else mentioned that their problems, different from yours, were solved after removing and reinstalling.

Joe,

I uninstalled both versions and only reinstalled the one I paid for (the latest one). All problems persist.

Sean,

LOVE THE APP! ALWAYS HAVE!

I bought it from the App Store, followed it over to the Jailbroken community, and I’m proud to let my money invest into a worthwhile app once again.

Here’s the thing. I’m a iPod Touch user. I wish I was on an iPhone, but right now it’s not within the realm of my budget. Listening to voicemails on my 1G iPod Touch NEVER works on GV Mobile+.

Any tips?

THANKS A BAZILLION TIMES!

Love the update and was happy to pay for it!

If apple rejects again… Add an option to replace the default phone.app completely like bitesms/irealsms.

That would also bypass the need for push notifications since gv would always be running in the background. I wonder what the memory difference is between gv and phone app?

Regardless, thanks so much for all the work.

@Dale Jacobs – not sure why you want GV Mobile to replace phone.app. If you want to run GVM+ in the background – just do it with Backgrounder. Although there is no reason to do that – just use Prowl for SMS/voicemail notifications as number of us already doing.

Sean, just wondering.. any chance of fixing the square icon?? It completely ruins the look of my home screen for what otherwise is a wonderful app

Updating by intervals doesn’t work for me. It either doesn’t update or gives Connection Errors (but works fine on all other options?)

I gladly spent my $2 on this – thank you!

One issue with the Offline dialing: In my iPhone Contacts (which sync to my Google Contacts), all my numbers have a ‘+’ sign and the country code. For example, any U.S. number I have is listed in this format: +12035551212 and it seems that offline dialing can’t accept it.

Is there anyway to change that, or do I have to go through my address book and delete all the “+1″ ?

Is there a way to have GV be used to dial when I click on a phone number from Safari or my native Mail applications?

Amazing app worth every penny but I can seem toget prowl to open up gv + even though I set it up exactly how ub3rkitten has it setup. Any ideas? Yes I have latest prowl

I’m still using the old free version. I’d buy one if it could be integrated into the iPhone the way it is with the Nexus One. I’d like to be able to click on a link in Safari and have it dial out using GV Mobile (i.e. have GV Mobile be the default dialer). Is this what happens with GV Mobile 2.0? Sean, is there any chance of seeing this? I’d pay good money for the ability to do this. It’s the only thing really making me consider switching to an Android phone when my contract is up.

Is there a way to get notified when the app is updated with a fixed icon? The app is great but the square icon is ruining my beautiful home screen

Finally took the plunge and decided to jailbreak…

GV Mobile + ($1.99)
Prowl ($2.99)
http://googlevoice.ub3rk1tten.com/voicegrowl/ (free)

Good Bye AT&T txting plan…