Jan 2, 2019

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i got a new number and wanted to port my old one. so I could still receive the calls coming from it but i don't have access to that number to verify google call how can i still port?

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Red Leatherman

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Jan 2, 2019

Welcome to the forum.

You must be able to respond to the verification call,

Either activate a phone with the number or ask your provider to forward calls to a working phone that you can answer.

Zanzibar

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Jan 2, 2019

Hi Andrew, welcome to the forum.

Having access to your old number to receive a verification call is required in order to port your number into Google Voice. If you don't have a phone currently attached to the number, yet still have the number on your account, you could ask your carrier to temporarily forward the number to a working phone you have access to. Once you receive the call from Google, you could remove the temporary forwarding.

Hope this helps, and you're successful in your port to Google Voice. Let me know if you have any further questions.

Last edited Jan 2, 2019

Google user

Jan 29, 2019

The google voice number is attached to my phone now. The new email I want to transfer the google voice number to does not yet have a number associated with it. These are the potential reasons it gives me:

You can only transfer your Google Voice number. This means that none of your text messages, call history, voicemail, settings, or forwarding phones will be transferred.
You cannot transfer your Google Voice number onto an account that has not accepted the Google Voice Terms of Service.
You cannot transfer your Google Voice number onto an account that already has a Google Voice number.

the second reason is the only one I can believe makes sense as the new line does not have a google voice number associated with it. I can not figure out how to accept the terms of service on the new one.

Ma. Ingrid Teves

Mar 27, 2019

hi, will i be charged from receiving a text message from google voice if i dont have a google voice app?

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May 31, 2019

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Rob Fleming

Jun 2, 2019

I've got a problem that doesn't have an answer posted. Back in early '15 or so, I set up a bunch of Gmailboxes for a non-profit and (perhaps later) a Google Voice number. I can call the number and it gets forwarded to my home phone, but I don't know the account name or password. Password/account recovery sends info to a mailbox I don't recognize (from the xxx's). Is there any way I can get back into that GV account? Or, if I have to set up a new one, can I transfer the original number to the new account.

OK, I'm getting senile (this was for a help line for seniors), but a Windows Update killed a lot of my notes on all this.

Many thanks for any advice.

Concerned area resident

Jul 1, 2019