How to turn your old or new android device into a WiFi phone
Requirements
1. Phone with Android version 4.3 or higher
2. Gmail account
3. Google hangouts app installed
4. Google Voice app installed
5. Hangouts dialer app installed
6. A phone number you can use to setup your Google voice account with but not use. It can be a land line or a cell
7. a WiFi network to have your device connected to. maybe at your home or at McDonalds 🙂
Steps for setup
1. Go to Google.com/voice and login
2. get a new number for your google voice account
3. activate new number be verifying with another number cell phone or lane line.
4. setup voice mail and any other settings you like on the site
5. check forward calls to Google chat this is really import also make sure you verification number isnt checked
6. Now that you have your google voice number setup you can setup the apps on your phone
7. setup google voice app first then open and setup hangouts next hangouts dialer
8. go to settings on hangouts app and select sms and enable it
8. again in settings click on your email address. Then under google voice check both incoming phone calls and messages
thats it your done
if you did everything right you now have a android phone that when it is on wifi can make and receive phone calls with the google voice number you setup. It can send and receive text also from that google voice number and even get voice mail that can be played in the hangouts app, in fact all the features listed here are done from the hangouts app.
This is a great way to use a old phone or even a phone with a bad esn
No sim card required device can be unactivated
Enjoy my little trick and also what i use for a home phone
RootJunky Out
Sync this phone with a android wear device and you will be really running smooth 🙂
if you are still having a hard time with this check out this video it the same process just with different apps
NVM Didnt check out incoming phone calls and msgs, haha Works like a charm! Thanks!!
yeah this is a pretty awesome little trick inst it
So i have it all setup i think, but whenever some one calls and doesn’t leave a voicemail are you able to set it up as to where you see that missed call?
Can you please tell me that if i use my current phone in which im using my current sim, can i just continue to make calls free. And when my phone is not connected to wifi i can use my sum. Is it possible
I don’t think you need the Google Voice App on the Android phone if you are strictly using the wifi and Hangouts. I set up my wifi tablet to make and receive calls just using the Hangouts and Hangouts dialer apps and I can make and receive calls using it and my Google Voice number will show up on the receiving party’s caller ID.
Where you will need Google Voice app on the phone is if you want to receive calls on your phone service (not wifi) and make Google Voice calls using your phone service (not wifi) so I do keep it on my phone that has cell service so I can use either phone or wifi/data to make calls.
Can anyone help me with this? I have 2 cell phones and want to use one only occasionally and strictly on WiFi *mainly* for toll calls. When I go to sign up for Google Voice it says…
“You can choose a brand new number from Google or use your existing mobile number to get the full set of Google Voice features, like:
one number that rings all your phones
online voicemail with transcriptions, sent to you by email or text
custom greetings and call blocking, and much more
I want a new number
I want to use my mobile number
So if I add my home number in Google Voice and people call this “new Google phone number” I am assigned when people call me my home phone rings? I am confused. I just want this occasionally used phone to ring, not other phones. I am looking to have 1 number for this occasionally used phone for people call and get me on, not a bunch of phones ringing. Is this possible and how? Sorry, but I am confused and I think this “forwarding” stuff is what has me confused. Thanks for any help.
It works, but you dont have to worry about step 5 anymore since its all free through hangouts and voice. No more phone bills for me, thats an extra 150 a month. Thanks dude, sharing w/everyone i know
Will this work in Canada
awesome
I did this as an experiment on my tablet. It works great! with the tablet you need use a bluetooth headset for best results. free calling and free SMS messaging. Thanks for this.
dude that was so easy and this shit works awesome!
Yep its pretty sweet right