Comments on: Easiest way to Enable Google Voice Push Notification on iPhone – Revised [Tutorials]

By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:55:13 +0000

Works great for me. The only thing is that I wish I could edit the notification 'pop-up' so that it doesn't include the email address as it is so long because of the API inclusion. Thanks for the tip.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:45:01 +0000

I think it's probably because you haven't registered your phone number with textfree. Once you have registered on textfree's website, you will be given a confirmation code. You need to enter that confirmation code on textfree's settings in the iphone app to get your sms in the iphone app.

Btw, Google Voice just released their HTML 5 powered webapp today (see - 'http://lifehacker.com/5456757/google-voice-arrives-on-iphones-with-html5+powered-webapp') which pretty much solves most of the problem. Although, I have to check to see they have enabled push notification for the Iphone.

Happy Texting!

By: Alok Saboo

Alok Saboo — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:45:09 +0000

Do you mean, when someone sends a text message to your Google Voice number, you get it through your SMS application? How is that possible? I am sure there is something wrong here. The idea, as you pointed out, is to save money by not receiving text on your cell phone directly and it has worked for everyone.

Just check in your settings if your text messages are forwarded to your cell phone. In that case, you can remove that option.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:22:33 +0000

Hi, so i successfully completed all of the steps and everything seems to be working, but I still get the notifications from my sms application, therefore, how is this saving me from not receiving the text messages there? i thought that was the goal…

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:51:32 +0000

There is a simpler way without Prowl for Ipod Touch / Iphone using Textfree Lite (a free app with push notification).
1) Install TextFree Lite – A free app on appstore. Create an account on their website which will give you a email address of the form “xxxxx@textfree.us”.
2) Create a new filter in your Gmail account so that the SMSs forwarded from your Google Voice account are automatically pushed to your Textfree account:
a) Create a filter to forward all messages from “@txt.voice.google.com” to “xxxxx@textfree.us”. To ensure that they are searchable on gmail, you can attach a label to the filter as well. I usually use the label “SMS”.

By: Rama

Rama — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:07:08 +0000

You don't need to bookmark google.com/voice…just reply to those emails and they will automatically sms back to the sender. Try it..it works!

By: Alok Saboo

Alok Saboo — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:45:44 +0000

Chris, that indeed is possible. However, there is a problem with that arrangement – you will receive notifications for everything in your mailbox, which can be quite annoying. But if you can live with that, this is a great suggestion.!!

By: Alok Saboo

Alok Saboo — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:43:06 +0000

Wonderful thanks!!

By: jeremytaylor

jeremytaylor — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:54:38 +0000

Hey Alok,

Sorry about that broken links, I'll try again:

1) Here is the tutorial:
http://www.redmondpie.com/jailbreak-iphone-3.1….

2) Here is the firmware link (link at bottom, offered for each kind of iphone/ipod touch):
http://www.redmondpie.com/download-the-new-ipho...

3) The Blackra1n download can be retrieved from a link at the bottom of the tutorial page

Thanks.

jeremy

By: Chris Haseler

Chris Haseler — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:03:15 +0000

Thanks!

It is possible to set up free sms / texting without using any non-Google services, though. It might also be easier this way, because you only have to have one account.
Simply set up the GV account as before, so it forwards to your email. Then, set up a Google Sync account (Instructions here: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer...). The SMS will be forwarded to your email, and your email will be instantly pushed to your iDevice, with no accounts other than your Google one. Just add a bookmark to google.com/voice on your iDevice's home screen, and you're set!