Google Voice and Cricket Android (Huawei) Incompatible

[asherblack]

I posted to Cricket's Facebook page on this, and got a call from Cricket and also I called Cricket customer service. Both verified they don't have conditional call forwarding. So basically Cricket and Google Voice don't work together (in terms of the main feature, which is using google voice's voice mail on cricket phone via conditional call forwarding). Even though the Google support site provides instructions on doing this, those instructions don't actually work. The following features are *supposed* to work, but they don't and are not stackable with Cricket anyway - so you can't get the call to google voice mail under both conditions (busy, no answer), according to customer service. Also, trying *74 on the Android II phone at least, doesn't actually work. You just get a silly msg saying this feature is not currently available - no info as to why, when, what to do next, etc.

*72(0) forwarding (always)
*73(0) busy
*74(0) no answer

It's not cool that you can buy a Google phone (Android) from Cricket, and get an Android plan, but you can't use one of Google's main features - Google voice. Just try the automatic setup, and it'll fail and tell you, right within the app, to do it manually, backing up Google Support's insistence that this is supported on Cricket. It just isn't. Cricket's going to have to take a look at this, and they don't have a useful or meaningful suggestion box or feature request box to get that process started. When I gave that feedback to the person that called me, I got the impression it'll just go into a black hole somewhere of things that no one will care about. With customer service, they don't really know what to do with feature requests.

[Christopher885]

I have been using *73 and *74 for years with phonetag, and recently (about 60 days ago) started using GoogleVoice. *73 and *74 work for me. I used this on an old motorola razr and about a year ago, I upgraded to huawei (the first one, not the new model II).

The only glitch that I had with phonetag, is that I could not forward to a long distance number. Forwarding to a local number in my area code works fine.

[asherblack]

That's right. It only works with local forwarding. Bad news for Google Voice users on this Android provider.

[Christopher885]

Just get a local google voice number.