Has something changed with XLINK and Google Voice?

[moctodCRP]

I used to be able to call out, as well as receive phone calls to my rotary phones with this set-up. But lately, I cannot call out, it'll say "Mobile network not available" when dialing with the rotary phone. However, I can dial out if I use the google voice app, then switch back and listen and talk on the rotary. But that wasn't the case before, I was always able to dial out with the rotary phone. But now it says "mobile network not available." It shouldn't need mobile network, and the most common suggestion of making sure I have it set to "Wifi and Mobile" is already been selected.

Anybody else in the same boat?

[ChrisW6ATV]

I have a very comparable but not identical problem: I cannot dial out from an Xlink device with an IP-telephone program (Bria) on an Android cell phone. (The program works fine for calls made on the cell phone itself.) (I would love to be able to do exactly what you were doing up until now.)

I know of two issues that could be part of the problem you have, and possible methods to hope to fix them. One is, I saw that same "network" message when I was putting Google Voice on a "spare" Android phone, that I bought specifically for Wi-Fi-only calling (and that I have never "activated" or put a SIM chip into, or whatever is typically done). I may have changed that setting to "Prefer Wi-Fi and (cell-system) data" as the first fix. Now that phone can make and receive calls in Google Voice over Wi-Fi.

The second issue is a setting called "default phone program". I have seen numerous mentions of this setting, and changing it to the program of your choice. Its purpose is (or should be) to do exactly what you had: When phone connection and dialing commands arrive over Bluetooth, your phone would send those commands to Google Voice, rather than to the "basic phone program"/function that would (only) use the cellular network. That setting should be part of your phone's main Settings function, under "Apps", then "Default apps". Maybe your phone got switched away from having Google Voice chosen somehow.

But, there are potentially bigger/harder issues going on here: Maybe Google -did- recently make a change, that might --block-- Google Voice from continuing to be the "default phone program" even if it was in the past. (I have two relatively recent Android phones here, and --neither one-- so far has any option in that "default phone program" setting/list other than just "phone" (meaning, for calls over the cellular network).

Check that setting in your Android phone, and please post back here whether you have a "Google Voice" option there, and if it fixes your problem. I plan to also research how to get my phones to include other phone/dialing programs in that list.

[dsk]

I have even had problems with this, sometimes it works with Linphone, but I have to admit that I do not like Linephone because I miss a lot of options.  From my mobile, I prefer GS Wave due to the great dialplan options.  By some reason, I hve not got this connected to the X-link.

[dsk]

I got problems dialling with my rotary trunk line on X-link, so I measured the dial speed, and it was 9.3 pps,  so I adjusted it up to 10.9 pps, and now it is working on my cellphone.  Cant get it dialling on sip line.