magicJack and magicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Tricks

doohickey

It's a common problem, try re-steeping your tea bag.

doohickey

The potato method interests me, but I've had no luck yet with krinkle cut or curly fry. I'm now considering to invest in a whole brand new potato.

Edit: I found an old yam in a box of parts in the basement. I hope it works. There's nothing like breathing some life back into old gear.

doohickey

Ben, I'm glad to hear it's working for you. If call quality becomes an issue, consider duct taping a USB hub next to it. And don't cheap out, get a good roll of duct tape.

doohickey

Ben Zona wrote: Where can I get the adapter in the first picture?

Similar results can be obtained without the pictured adapter by simply placing the magicJack near the AC outlet. Protip: duct tape it to the wall.

doohickey

Is the newer version of gvout work better on pap2t?
GVOut version 1.1.5.1 has been working well for me. I don't use a PAP2T, I use a SPA3102, but that shouldn't make much of a difference with regards to GVOut.

From your posts, it appears you're trying to use GVOut as a proxy. I've only ever used ...

doohickey

I suppose my previous comment can be read in different ways. The point I was trying to make is that the inconvenience of dialing 1 is spreading.

I never considered setting up a dial plan for landlines, but I'm under the impression this can be accomplished with devices like the SPA3102. I have one ...

doohickey

fuguansun wrote:Plus everytime you have to dial 1 in front of any number, is that annoying?

This may soon be required for all people who don't have the ability to write their own dial plans, including users of land lines. I was just informed yesterday that dialing 1 will soon be required in my state.

doohickey

I bought a papt2 from staples.com and not sure if unlocked or not or what that mean or firmware flash.
I would doubt that Staples sells locked products. You can download firmware, if needed, by following the product information link posted below.

Now problem is there is no restore facotory ...

doohickey

It was a joke.

As for seriousness, I don't use my mJ anymore (nor will I renew) and it has nothing to do with lack of phone support. The product, in my opinion, is unreliable and of poor quality. YMMV.

It's a 20-bucks-a-year phone service, I didn't expect much and I got what I expected.

doohickey

There's a key in the registry named "AnonymousCallRejection" and it is currently turned off (set to zero[0]). You can try turning it on (set to one[1]) to see if it works, but not every registry key is honored by magicJack.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software ...

doohickey

To your poll question: if the telephony company in question uses a magicJack itself, then not having a telephone tech support number seems more than prudent.

Whoops, you've reached magicJack tech support voicemail. Please leave a message telling us to run magicfix. Thank you.

doohickey

Wish I had known to do that before I locked in my Sipgate number.
You may be able to reclaim that number.

As I previously mentioned, my new IPkall number was still in someone else's GV account, preventing me from activating it. Sometime during the past week Google Voice Help added a new topic ...

doohickey

The only things that come to mind not specifically mentioned are deleting the startup reg entry for cdloader2.exe and, as goofy as it sounds, deleting the magicJack desktop shortcut. Have you altered your drive letters in some way?

doohickey

While I don't have a fix for your problem, I don't think the dial tone is significant of anything. I keep my MJ plugged into the USB port, but I disabled the softphone from starting up automatically and the connected phone always has a dial tone.

BTW, when you say you have done many things to fix ...

doohickey

az1324, is there any chance you would consider releasing the source code? I'm not sure how far I would get with it, I'm not really a Windows guy, but I would certainly use this opportunity to cut my teeth.

What I'm most interested in is making strictly a call initiator for the GV Call feature, as I ...

doohickey

The magicJack FAQ was changed after any soft promises of Linux support. Also, this same FAQ page, before being updated, previously stated support in late 2009.

doohickey

Dood, she is so gonna pull her dongle.

doohickey

This is just a guess, since I've never used an ATA for magicJack, but have you tried lowering the value of Cfwd No Ans Delay ? Per the registry hack for disabling voicemail with the magicJack dongle, 15 seems the appropriate value. I tested that value on my dongle and it worked. The problem I found ...

doohickey

GVOut isn't working so well for me anymore. It will successfully initiate one call and that's it.

I use the dial plan method on port 5060. I've tried both with and without the busy signal, same result.

The first time I noticed this behavior was this past week when there seemed to be some changes ...

doohickey

I wound up deleting my IPKall account and then requested a new number. Still waiting for over 12 hours... I'm doubting they'll send me a new number because, like you say Mel, we're not the only ones getting bit by GV-locked numbers and IPKall will probably tire pretty quickly of new requests.

I was ...

doohickey

I just got my IPKall number and, since new Sipsorcery accounts won't be available until September 8th at the earliest, I have it pointed at my Gizmo5 account. And, it works!

GV -> G5 = Dead Air
IPKall -> G5 = A-OK

What the...?

Anyway, so I go to add the new IPKall number to my Google Voice ...

doohickey

Thanks for the reply, Jose, but the problem is I can't even get to the Sipgate signup page now. It redirects to a page with the message I previously posted.

If you, or anyone, can try clicking the big orange Sign Up Now! button on the following page and tell me what happens, that would be helpful ...

doohickey

The GV/G5 just died for me today. I can initiate a call and others can call in, the other callers can hear me and I can leave a voicemail on my other line, but on my end there is nothing but dead air. This just began today. Anybody else experiencing this problem?

Something else that's odd: I ...

doohickey

I'm not convinced that GV has anything to do with the quality.

Yes, that's what I'm inclined to think as well since Gizmo5 is my carrier regardless of how I initiate the call. But in practice, a call initiated though Gizmo5 is always poor quality, while one initiated through Google Voice is ...

doohickey

Gizmo5.com make no mention of free phone numbers or free incoming. So what is address to sign up for this and what soft phone can I test?

Google Voice provides you with the phone number, Gizmo5 provides you with the VOIP service.

All calls (sans international) through Google Voice are free, all ...

doohickey

The magicJack faq, which shortly ago claimed support for Linux is coming soon, has been updated for clarity.

http://service.liveperson.net/hc/s-61732089/cmd/kbresource/kb-4946294381613275455/view_question!PAGETYPE?sq=linux&sf=101113&sg=0&st=206079&documentid=345414&action=view

(I can't make the ...

doohickey

Regardless of what they may claim, my guess is they will never support Linux, at least not while the service is officially limited to only North America. I have a hard time seeing how their tech support could handle the myriad variables and what incentive would make them want to try.

doohickey

Yeah, I suppose they would rather have you pay for some in-house hotel phone service.

doohickey

There's a registry key named EnableAutoUpdate in the following registry hive:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\talk4free\USB Softphone\Options\SoftwareUpdate

I don't know if magicJack honors this key, but if it does, changing the value to 0 (zero) may allow you to continue using an older version.

doohickey

The hotel may be blocking the required ports. You might want to ask them if that's indeed what they're doing and if so, explain how it's causing difficulty for you, their patron.

doohickey

EDIT: I removed this post because editing my post at the top of this page was more appropriate.

doohickey

Are your callers prefixing your number with the area code when calling you? Prefixing with a 1 may be required as well (1-903-xxx-xxxx), but I can't remember for sure.

magicJack should come with little cards with instructions on them, so they can be handed out to friends and family. :p

doohickey

Somewhat OT: I have a D-Link DI-524 as well and have noticed intermittent connection drops and other weirdness like web pages loading without CSS and such. It was such a nuisance that I decided to take advantage of a sale on an Asus router to replace it (haven't put it into operation yet.) But, for ...

doohickey

One thing I'd like to modify about GVOut is I'd like to have it start minimized or, better yet, have it sit in the notification area and/or run as a service. The main benefit of this, for me at least, is to help prevent GVOut from being accidentally stopped or having its configuration botched by ...

doohickey

I finally got around to installing and configuring GVOut and it works great. Many thanks to az1324 for writing this useful tool and also to the forum contributors, especially JFMuggs and jose.miami for the very informative dial plan jousting.

Just for reference, this is the dial plan I settled on ...

doohickey

Thanks, JFMuggs. That kinda leaves me in something of a limbo, but I appreciate that you checked that out.

Edit: After doing some googlin' it appears that Windows 7 does come with .NET preinstalled.

doohickey

JFMuggs wrote:Why don't you just run GVOut and see if it complains?

It does per my previous post on the matter:

doohickey wrote:I just installed GVOut for the first time (version 1.1.2.0) and I'm getting a "The application failed to initialize properly" error.

The error is a bit vague.

doohickey

Before I spend the next 60 minutes or so listening to my old PIII's hard drive choking on a .NET 3.5 install, can someone please confirm that NET 3.5 is indeed required by GVOut. Thanks.

doohickey

I just installed GVOut for the first time (version 1.1.2.0) and I'm getting a "The application failed to initialize properly" error.

I'm guessing I need to install .NET or something? Please tell me that's not the case because I don't think my little old workhorse will be able to manage to do that ...

doohickey

Update on extending rings by killing voicemail with a one second OGM:

Due to an unrelated(?) problem I recently experienced - mJ going straight to voicemail instead of ringing, which in my case meant straight to disconnection - I had my voicemail reset.

The number of rings before voicemail picks ...

doohickey

I heard somewhere (not tested) if your change the outgoing msg on your MJ to less then 1 sec it will cause the VM to not answer..

Recording and saving a 1 sec outgoing message will kill your voicemail. I accidentally did it last night trying to "erase" the greeting I previously recorded.

The net ...

magicJack and magicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Tricks

Search found 41 matches

Re: Using Magicjack without a computer - Visual Proof!!!

Re: issue with tk6000, cannot input extention number or othe