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How to change your mobile carrier voicemail to Google Voice on Nokia N97

July 29th, 2009 danny25 Leave a comment Go to comments

If you already have a Google Voice account and you would like to use it as your primary voicemail instead of the one provided by your carrier, here is quick and easy way to forward all your calls to Google Voice.

Instruction for AT&T and T-Mobile USA:

  1. Dial *004*1[GVnumber]*11# (Replace “GVnumber” with your Google Voice number, example: *004*14087771234*11#)
  2. Press “Send” or green button
  3. Your N97 should display “Requesting” then “Forwarding Activated” (see pictures below)
  4. You’re done.

All calls will now be forwarded to your GV number. To verify simply call your own number from a different phone or you can go to Menu>Settings>Calling>Call forwarding>Voice calls. Press “If busy”>options>Check status>Number. “To number” should be your GV number. This should also be the same for “If not answered” and “If out of reach”.

To change back to your carrier voicemail press: ##004# and send.

(This instruction should apply to most if not all S60 devices.)

For more info on other carrier/phones go here.

Google Voice Setting On N97

Google Voice Setting on N97 2

Google Voice Setting on N97 3

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  • bitflung
    why not use the GUI?
    Settings -> Calling -> Call Forwarding -> Voice Calls -> If Busy -> Activate -> To Other Number -> [enter your GV number]

    You can, of course, also set this up for the other modes of not answering your mobile, like out of reach or not available (what's the difference between those two? i dont know)

    on a side note: AT&T in the USA charges for these call-forwarded minutes. Yup. Back before Google bought them out I tried doing call forwarding to my Grad Central number in this manner (on my N95 back then). The GUI methods described above worked great, but AT&T saw these call-forwarded calls as opportunities to subtract from my monthly minutes. Sometimes a telemarketer would leave a message and the hang-up event would not register properly across the forwarded link - resulting in many minutes (sometimes hours) of silence recorded in my voicemail.

    The real result: large phone bills.

    Cingular used to sell a service/device (the name escapes me) that was charged a flat monthly fee - the idea was that you go home and drop your phone in a smart charging cradle. The cradle then sends a msg to cingular (yeah, AT&T now) to enable call forwarding on all calls to your home phone #. Unlimited call forwarding through this device.

    I tried, back then, to game the system. I subscribed to the service and setup the call forwarding myself. It didn't work. Apparently the system didn't use the standard interface to setup the call-forwarding (within the cingular network) but instead re-routed all calls to another POP (outside the cingular network). The problem was that if the call was forwarded from within the Cingular network to anything but the special voicemail number, cingular billing would charge me.

    yup.

    so be careful - watch your bill - look for charges labelled CF (iirc).
  • Thanks for the heads up. I totally forgot about the forwarding charges since I have tons of rollovers. I’ll have to check my phone bill and see how many mins AT&T charged for each forwarding to GV. Thanks again!
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