Can google voice ring differently than my Sprint line?

[jeffreykime]

I'm using my google voice number for business and my Sprint number for personal calls. I lobe that I can get both on my Evo. My big question that I can't find an answer to is this.

Can I get them to ring with different ringtones depending on where the call is coming from? Is like to have one ringtone for all Sprint calls and another ringtone for when someone calls my Google voice. I've looked all over the place and not found any settings or info for it. Any help would be great.

 

[chaosrecords]

Maybe..

Under the "voice" app hit MENU go to SETTINGS.

Look for SYNC and NOTIFICATIONS, tap that.

Then youll see "Select ringtone" under settings. Let me know if that works.


If it dosent then you can also set up contacts in google contacts as groups, and have each type of contact ring differently based on group ( family, coworkers, friends + whatever you add)

 

[ChaosShadow]

Yeah, you can change the ringtone within the GVoice app

Menu > Settings > Sync & Notifications > Select Ringtone

And voila! Pick your GVoice ringtone!

 

[jeffreykime]

Why don't any of my downloaded ringtones show up in there. They are all pretty quiet. I thought they were sms notification sounds.

 

[rjbphotos]

Why don't any of my downloaded ringtones show up in there. They are all pretty quiet. I thought they were sms notification sounds.

I use my Google voice in the same way never even thought about a separate ring-tone but managed to get it working even though I had the same problem as you none of my downloaded ring tones showed up. Here's what I did.


Pick a ring-tone you want for your Google voice and make it your default ring-tone for the sprint number. Now go into Google voice and set that ring-tone for the Google voice number it will show up in the list now. then go back and change your default ring-tone back to what it was and it will ring with the different ring-tones.

 

[jeffreykime]

I use my Google voice in the same way never even thought about a separate ring-tone but managed to get it working even though I had the same problem as you none of my downloaded ring tones showed up. Here's what I did.


Pick a ring-tone you want for your Google voice and make it your default ring-tone for the sprint number. Now go into Google voice and set that ring-tone for the Google voice number it will show up in the list now. then go back and change your default ring-tone back to what it was and it will ring with the different ring-tones.

I'll have to try that. I tried the setting idea and it didn't work. I'm thinking that was just notifications.

 

[jeffreykime]

I tried it but I'm still not getting anything to show up in my google voice options. Even when I switch it to another sound it keeps using my regular sprint ringtone.

 

[rjbphotos]

maybe try downloading a new ring-tone and see if that shows up Google voice might need to be running in the background to see all the ring-tones. I did not have that many ring-tones downloaded so I downloaded a new one to do my tests earlier that is the one that shows up now.

 

[superm1]

That setting is for setting the tone that is made when you have a voice mail or text message through google voice.

 

[jeffreykime]

I'll try again.

 

[realpariah]

Easiest way to address this would be to root your phone and anything [that is compatible] that you place in /system/media/ringtone will be available universally, otherwise you need to have a third party [like handcent] sound picker come up to choose ringtones saved to the SD card as Android built-in ringtone picker only searches system/media. You should be able to choose your sound picker when you tap the pick a ringtone option [so long as Google didn't program a sound picker on their own that they don't let even allow a third party option to be presented which I wouldn't put past them, but I doubt as everything hopefully it is an intent that is thrown when you tap to choose a ringtone and as long as you have a third party sound picker it should ask which to use [if you tapped one and chose always use visit Settings>apps>the app you set to use tap in list>tap clear defaults and go back and tap the menu option again].

Hopefully that helps, but if no sound picker options then you will have to root your phone and make /system re-writable and copy your sounds [ogg by default in Android] to /system/media/ringtone [or notification if you want it to show up as a notification sound option etc].

 

[Estacia Nikesasa]

What I ended up doing was going into the settings in GV on my laptop and changing the option for incoming calls to display my google voice number. Then I changed the ringtone to a different ringtone. That's just one option if you are still having difficultly.