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Do you find you have problems with MMS and Google Voice? Last I checked, it was unsupported and text messages with pictures or video just went to /dev/null with
by gallamine 14y ago
Do you find you have problems with MMS and Google Voice? Last I checked, it was unsupported and text messages with pictures or video just went to /dev/null without any notifications to either party. That was a no-go for me.
- dannyr 14y agoMy main # now is Google Voice. For the past 4 years, there was just 2 instances that I needed MMS. What's frustrating though is the inability of Google Voice to receive SMS from short codes. Craigslist and Paypal also don't verify accounts with a Google Voice number.
- fossuser 14y agoYeah that short code thing sucks - still have to use my non google voice number for that.
- FireBeyond 14y agoPerhaps so, but you can't deny that for wider adoption, Google Voice needs to do something about both Short Codes and MMS. Lack of MMS is a dealbreaker for a lot of people, and "text it to my email address", as I explain to friends, is like a paradigm shifting without a clutch (with apologies to Dilbert).
- fossuser 14y agoMMS isn't supported and still silently fails (which is annoying). I just tell people to 'text my email addresss' which works, or to use something else (like facebook/snapchat).
- parfe 14y agoIf someone attempts to send your Google voice number an MMS you will receive a notification about the message and the image will be sent to your email address. http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/first-steps-towards-mms-support.html http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/first-steps-towa...
- bhaile 14y agoOnly if the MMS is from a Sprint customer. "Google Voice users are now able to receive pictures and other multimedia messages from Sprint subscribers." When I get MMS from AT&T or Verizon, then I don't get anything but from Sprint customers, I get the notification and its in my gmail account right away. Probably due to the integration with Sprint and Google Voice. http://www.google.com/googlevoice/sprint/ http://www.google.com/googlevoice/sprint/.
- parfe 14y agoI've received MMS from a MetroPCS user. I can't find an updated list of providers that google voice supports. The blog post announcing sprint mms support was in October 2011.
- inklesspen 14y agoMetroPCS uses the Sprint network.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoI'm glad that my Google Voice number doesn't accept MMS. What a silly invention. If you must use MMS, my email address works more than fine.