Sean Kovacs

I’d love to see that functionality as well. I hope integrating VOIP won’t be too hard! I have an Android phone that I use as a Wi-Fi modem for my iPhone. The Android phone is quite unreliable — an HTC Hero — and I’d like to be able to use my iPhone for everything rather than simply GV Mobile +, iPod, and Safari.

Keep up the great work!

Jon :
I’d love to see that functionality as well. I hope integrating VOIP won’t be too hard! I have an Android phone that I use as a Wi-Fi modem for my iPhone. The Android phone is quite unreliable — an HTC Hero — and I’d like to be able to use my iPhone for everything rather than simply GV Mobile +, iPod, and Safari.
Keep up the great work!

GVMUser :
Hi, now that Google has rolled its VOIP service, would you be making changes to GV Mobile/GV Mobile+ to support VOIP calling from iphone?

GVMUser :
Hi, now that Google has rolled its VOIP service, would you be making changes to GV Mobile/GV Mobile+ to support VOIP calling from iphone?

Please post a list of features and reasons why I should purchase GV Mobile+. I’m interested, but the lack of a posted feature list on your web site and “here is what you get for $1.99″ is keeping me from it.

For instance, does your application support push notifications for SMS messages? That’s all I’m really interested in. Doing some web searching, I think that the answer is no. Your free version certainly doesn’t support it.

Oh well, thanks anyway.

If you include local notifications for texting I’ll totally shell out 2 bucks. I’m only going to use it for texting, and I think most of your iPod touch audience are in the same boat.

I am running the free GV mobile with BiteSMS and I get notified of GV text messages. Just started using it so test it for yourself. BiteSMS has a free 14 day trial and after just has ads that show on the bottom of the app…fine with me.

Hi Scott!

How is it that you get notified of GV text messages with BiteSMS? Can you please elaborate on your setup. I’m playing around with BiteSMS now, and see no integration of GV or GV Mobile what-so-ever. Is your GV setup to send texts to your carrier SMS number? I’m interested in not paying my carrier for SMS.

I did not set anything up..I just installed both apps and when I get a GV test it comes to BiteSMS. Did you try to send yourself a txt thru GV?

Hi Scott -

Either I’m confused or you are. By default Google Voice forwards SMS messages to your Carrier Phone Number (thus, if you are on a limited SMS plan with your carrier, uses an SMS message). BiteSMS will pop-up if you receive a carrier SMS, but has no way of checking for a GV SMS directly. It would have to be forwarded in someway to your carrier SMS or to a BiteSMS inbox (if you set that up, which again costs $/txt).

Are you sure Google Voice isn’t just forwarding messages to your carrier SMS phone number? If it is, then BiteSMS and GV Mobile have little to do with the push notification you get.

But if you have figured out a way to receive free Google Voice SMS messages w/ a push notification Window in a very seamless fashion, I’m sure a lot of people would like to know how.

The best approach I’ve found (so far), is to have GV forward SMS to my Gmail address, and setup Push email (via exchange activesync) with gmail. I then get my emails nearly instantaneously… I’m using LockInfo to see my emails on my lock screen and jump to them quickly in the Mail App. This is the best solution I’ve found for using GV SMS on my iPhone.

I’ve read that you can use Prowl on the iPhone, and setup Growl on Mac OS X to Push a notification window to your iPhone when you receive an SMS via Email. I dislike this approach, however, due to the need to have Growl and your Mac running all the time… also, the Mail app for Mac doesn’t do Push, it has to “poll” for new email every 5 mins or so.

So far I haven’t found a good solution and I’ve been looking for weeks. TextFree gives you a free SMS phone number that integrates with the iPhone in a better way than anything I can find for Google Voice. However, you can’t send text messages from your computer’s web browser (which is really nice when I’m at work) with TextFree which is one of the major features I like from Google Voice. You have to use your iPhone for all TextFree interaction.

Thanks for your posts! Any more insight into your setup would be a big help, Scott.

Thanks!

Yes you are right…I just checked and do apologize if I mis-lead you. I haven’t used GV in a while and forgotten that I had setup GV to forward to my cell which would charge TXT messages Again sorry about that. I think I installed GV Mobile and Bite at the same time and made that assumption…thanks for straightening me out
I also tried Prowl earlier and did not like it. Oh well back to the drawing board.
I still do like BiteSMS so I will keep it anyway.

Is anyone else having an issue when trying to load voicemails? I have GV Mobile, not +. Is the + version having these same issues? I have had the issue since moving to iOS4. I am currently running 4.0.2 on a 3g iphone. Anyone else have the issue? Any work around?
Does GV Mobile + not have this issue?

Love the app, have been using it since it first appeared on cydia. Keep up the great work Sean!

Thanks.

I use GV Mobile+ so much. Now it takes forever to load messages, even on wifi. I had to regress back to GV Mobile in order to do anything.Hopefully this amazing app it updated for better iOS4 compatibility.

For any of you wanting push notification, I posted a nice guide with pictures on xSellize forums. Here’s the link to the page.

(http://xsellize.com/topic/50117-gv-mobile/page__st__160)

Scroll down until you see the post by me (emachines771)

I just bought GV Mobile + and I like it. It makes my life much easier. I do want to make a few requests though in the hopes of improving the app.

1. I prefer the little blue dot next to new texts, etc better than the slight blue at the edge of the screen. I think the dot is easier to notice.

2. I would also really love to have a character counter for writing texts. This would be a huge improvement.

3. I’d like a way to create a new contact from an unknown number.

4. I’m still not sure if I like the favorite contacts tab, but I would like to have it available in the SMS screen as well. It would be great to be able to initiate an SMS from the contacts section too. I think it would be better to have the dialer section default to the contacts tab rather than the actual dialer as I never dial numbers anymore.

I realize these features may hinge on API’s from Google, but here they are:

5. A better call out system. I currently use GV Mobile + for everything except dialing out because the web apps make it much easier.

6. I too would love to see Google’s VOIP service integrated into GV Mobile +. Currently I make a lot of my calls through 3rd party VOIP services anyway and using this app for all my calling needs would be awesome.

This app is a great app and I’d love to see it get even better. Thanks for keeping Google Voice alive on the iPhone.

Just purchase GV Mobile + and I’m recieving a Magic Key Error whenever I try to log in to the Account, the login details are correct?!

GV Mobile (Without +) worked fine, except for crashing when looking up voicemails

I am trying GV but I see that it is not able to download call history, etc. Also if I setup two accounts, I am not really able to switch between them. Seems like the account I logged into from Safari works and not the other. In this case how can GVM+ support multiple accounts?

Also, if there is a FAQ, etc it would be most useful. I tried to Google for it but w/o any luck.

@Joe – I found somewhere online (forget exactly where) that if you use mobile Safari to login to Google Voice, the GV+ app Magic Key error will bet taken care of. I used it before and it worked.

To anyone interested in push notifications for a GV SMS:
There is an app on the AppStore called iTims Text (on sale for $.99 at the moment) that integrates somewhat with GV. All you have to do is setup your GV account to forward texts/voicemail (GV WILL NOT allow you to forward texts unless you check off voicemail, too) to your iTims address (nickname@itims.me). After that, whenever someone sends an SMS to your GV number, it gets sent to iTims who then pop it up as just from the person who sent it (their cell number or name if you have a contact set).

You can’t send SMS via GV with iTims, but if you reply to a text you got via GV in iTims it will go out as if from your GV number, too. Or you can just use the webapp or GV Mobile+

I also found after looking at Abdullahi’s post in that other thread (and being unable to connect to GVMax’s site) that there are other, similar solutions. VoiceGrowl is one of them, I tested it and found it to work quite nicely so far. A little awkward on the setup, yeah, but it works for receiving push notifiers of GV SMS messages.

http://googlevoice.ub3rk1tten.com/voicegrowl/

Thanks very much KrisM, works

RJ, I’m having the same problem as you!!??

I am currently doing what KrisM described above, and it works great with Prowl. One nice thing about VoiceGrowl with Prowl is that you can set Prowl to redirect to different apps. Whenever I get a GV text, I see the push notification on my home screen, but then when I unlock my iPhone it automatically opens GV Mobile + so I can read the complete text and reply to it.

Sean,

First off, THANK YOU for a great app. Love it. Now question: Google recently implemented Direct Access numbers to make calling much faster in their apps (no data connection required, I believe…) and no call-back-to-the-phone style calling. Any chance you’d be able to implement this same feature?

I love your app, but the extra time it takes to place calls (and not being able to use the iPhone’s voice command features, etc.) is becoming a source of frustration for me lately, especially as I’ve found myself out in spotty data coverage areas. The “offline mode” is a great feature in a crunch, but it takes way too long to actually start dialing. I hope there’s some way you can do the same direct-access thing Google has!

Thanks!!

Michael

Don’t know much about the technology, but here’s my thought-
Could you build an app that allows the same making/recieving calls as in GMail? Right now I have my Google Voice set up that when someone calls my number it rings my GMail. That’d be nice to have for the iPod touch, that it’d ring it. That way for us iPod touch users that want a Wi-Fi phone could have one that makes and recieves calls with 1 number for text and all? Or is there a way to do that already?

@DMKlunk
With the Google Voice app you probably could but Apple is being an ass in approving it.

@DMKlunk
With the Google Voice app you probably could but Apple is being an ass in approving it.

Thanks KrisM, that works well. How do you have your redirection in Prowl setup? I have mine going to the Google Voice Inbox page in Safari. Going to try that for awhile and see how I like it. For some reason redirecting to GVMobile does not work from Prowl .

Actually, the best way I’ve seen to integrate GV SMS messages is with TextNow. Check out: http://textnow.com/googlevoice.shtml

Basically, you have to forward GV SMS messages to the TextNow email address you get & you have to send the first message to someone from the GV web/mobile interface, but, after that, TextNow behaves like a normal SMS app & sends messages from your GV number…

@GVMUser
That would be great. I could get an iPod Touch and severe the contract ties for good.

Just read that GV Mobile is going back to app store. Is it going to be continued to be updated via cydia if I have already purchased the program from there or is the app going to app store different from what I have purchased and have to shell out more money to buy the new app from app store?

Just read that GV Mobile is going back to app store. Is it going to be continued to be updated via cydia if I have already purchased the program from there or is the app going to app store different from what I have purchased and have to shell out more money to buy the new app from app store?

Also, perhaps a big concern for some of us is how GV mobile will handle the direct access numbers now implemented by Google. I know that I for one would like to have the program be able to use a static dial out number as the older version of google voice on android still does. as many of you know, lots of people have intentionally not upgraded to google voice 0.3.4 b/c of the direct access numbers for each contact. the older version of google voice .apk file can be found all over the internet and used by those of us who have friends and family numbers on verizon, or similarly A-list free numbers on At&t.

Sean, can you please shed some light on this issue? would be much appreciated.

@CT

I had purchase GV Mobile+ for my 3G. Just got a 4 and jb’d it, but can’t find the app on Cydia. What’s up?

Hi, i’m having trouble logging in to the app. It says it had a problem retreiving my ‘magic key’. I have no idea what that is. Can someone help?

Hello,
I just downloaded gvmobile, and I sent an SMS, but it won’t show up in the actual sms folder. it keeps toggling between signing in.

You need to update this page…

This app just plain doesn’t work sometimes. It says something like “Signing in ..” but it loads nothing from my Google Voice. This happens so many times that I just use the web app more often now. Frankly, the only benefit an app like that has over a web app is the push capabilities which isn’t implemented in this paid app. It’s so frustrating that I’m thinking of developing my own GV app.

@enigma The app you are talking about is not Sean Kovacs, and is called GV Connect. Sean Kovacs app is GV Mobile +.

@Nickerbocker

ok your an idiot, when you register your phone number you elect to get text messages there you twit

Can anyone help me set this up? I am outside the US but have used proxy to set up account and now I need someone receive the instant phonecall and input my code! If anyone could help me out I’d really appreciate it. A lot! Drop me a line if you’d be willing at mikejkelland@yahoo.co.uk

@Joe

click the support link under gv mobile+ on the right of this page for magic key fix, or go to http://www.seankovacs.com/index.php/gv-mobile/support/

@Joe

click the support link under gv mobile+ on the right of this page for magic key fix, or go to http://www.seankovacs.com/index.php/gv-mobile/support/

If I paid for this app in Cydia, do I have to pay for it again? Can I get a private promo code or something?

Another app to check out for SMS push notifications is Notifo – you can simply set it up so that your Gmail account forwards to Notifo’s server. And as an added bonus, it works with Growl on OS X too.

I’ve got a 1st gen ipod touch running 3.1.3 and it crashes on startup. any ideas?

I’d like to see a way to select for deletion MULTIPLE VM messages. It’s a bit painful to do a large quantity one at a time.

I currently use PushMail to get text notifications. I have GV set up to forward texts to Gmail. Then, I have a rule that those messages get sent to PushMail, which produces the notifications. Works great until GVMobile might do push SMS notices. @Nickerbocker

When can we see push alerts via GVMobile+?

i need help please i try to set up gv mobile+ with my gmail account but showme error magic key i put on multi account in setting but dont work im in canada somebody can helpme please step by step thnks

Look at gvmax for forwarding messages
@Nickerbocker