magicJack and magicJack Plus Support, Reviews, FAQs and Tricks

FORUM QUESTION: DOES ANYONE HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH THIS THAT CAN VALIDATE THAT THIS IS TRUE/HOW IT WORKS PLEASE?

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Fiona: Hello, how may I help you?

Bay: HI, I am using mj... and am considering changing phone number.... what is the cost ...

Hey folks!

Does anyone know what happens on OUTGOING voicemail message if you change your mj phone number?

I use the standard mj outgoing voicemail message and do not personalize it...

I guess what I am really wondering is what happens to/with the old number?

I DON'T want one of those recordings ...

RE: having to have a google email account...to set up google voice...

Sorry about the mistake! if I am indeed mistaken...I had considered that having a gmail might facilitate getting an invite faster... as it turns out... still had to get an invite from a generous soul/third party... and not ...

You have to have a Google email account set up. The info required for that is minimal and you don't have to use your real name.

If you have already received a G Voice invite (which is sent to your google email address), then click on the link to set up your phone number.

GV lets you try over and ...

Hey everyone!

Success with Google Voice and Magic Jack!

Google voice allows you to both search and select your phone number from their bank of available numbers for FREE!

And the great news is that it works with magic jack! If I call google voice to place a call, and then press 2, dial the number ...

Hey Thanks Macman!

I actually was offered 2 invites! I wanted to thank the other person too! Thanks to that person too! You know who you are! 8)

Macman, I only received one at my gmail...maybe only allowed to receive one... I will email you...I don't want to take more than my share... and maybe ...

I wanted to thank the person that sent me a google voice invite!

Thank you for sharing and helping!

Hey, what's up with the subtitles on user names?

Looks like I have graduated from "newbie" to "apprentice" !

Cool! How does that happen?

Hi Crackerjack!

Yep...thanks for the suggestion...and I don't mind spending the buck or two.... just that paying via ebay or online is not easy right now... and without going into specifics here...logistically would take long too to get $$ into paypal, etc! (of course now that several days have ...

Just an update here...

I have been waiting 11 days for my "requested" invite for Google Voice to try that option...

Still have not received it.

Any chance anyone has an extra one?

I did look at the website crackerjack suggested for free DID call forwarding... but I don't think there is any free ...

thanks crackerjack

I just want to be able to make some calls without giving out/showing my mj phone number or city.... ie, block caller id from identifying my outgoing calls.

the same way that *67 works on a cell or land line... like a private/unpublished number....

so some methods to accomplish ...

I just learned that GrandCentral is now Google Voice....and I have not had either before...

found this re: researching Google Voice:

"As of September 15, 2009, GrandCentral has been shut down. People who use that website can still log into the site to retrieve old messages and data, but no new ...

Re: GOOGLE VOICE possiblity

someone sent me this in private email....

I am going to look into it...

any comments?

re: Google Voice from private email:

"From what I understand MJ changed something on their end which no longer allows any of the spoofing programs to work, sorry.
HOWEVER I do ...

re: darkman

thanks... I reluctantly asked my housemate if I we could use his cell... but understandably does not want to use his cell phone for setting up the account--I wouldn't either!... as he just finally got some unauthorized billing (six month ongoing) problem resolved. So unless I could find ...

re: desidude2000 wrote:

does the spoofer work with mjproxy? is there a linux version of the spoof proxy?

Ok... sorry but I don't know.... I'm not savvy enough to understand the lingo... please elaborate....thx.

Thanks for the suggestions! and help!

re: redpepper's suggestion:

sipgate sign up first asks for cell phone number, which I do not have.

maybe I should enter the mj number...but then there is no option to select mj as "network operator."

I even tried entering an old cell number, but you must ...

Okay.... I see that the list of addresses posted by fgrider is already in my spoofer's mj proxy list...

however... spoofer will not let me change the mj proxy IP as also suggested by fgrider.

would not let me change the local mj IP either...


Moreover.... I am getting an error message as soon as ...

New at this...

Have been reading comments on caller id spoofer...and have downloaded it... but it is not working...

I want to try adding those files to my host, but don't know how...

can anyone help please?

Like I said... am new at this! Thanks!