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tarvoke · 10-13-2011, 07:03 PM

some very sketchy notes about what has always worked for me on any android device...

nb: I'm lucky enough to have a couple SIP accounts tied to actual North America phone#s (advantage is they can be registered in google voice account, both to receive calls as well as to make them) - but sipgate and others stopped allowing new signups for free accounts, so that part is a little harder if you don't have one already.

so, using my favorite client, csipsimple, register those accounts in the app. and then use the gvoice web interface to kick off calls, or using the "google voice callback free" app make calls right from the dialer on the Edge. not to mention whenever someone calls my google voice #, csipsimple will ring.

call quality is not the greatest (using exactly the same setup on gt540 or vm670, quality is a bit better) and once in a while you are behind a particularly foolish NAT such that even using STUN you get one way audio or consistently dropped calls.

once it's all working, it's pretty foolproof. but there are a hundred tiny annoying steps I didn't really mention.

people wanting to go that same route may do better with trying the sipdroid app and having it do the auto-signup to pbxes.org that it does, which doesn't require a phone# because it uses xmpp/jingle feature of gchat. (I think this is what you were mentioning in the other thread, stevesr0 - it's mostly automated, but last time I tried to get it working had no luck (plus I don't like the sipdroid client very much). but tons of others have had success with it, so may be worth a try for some)

10-13-2011, 07:03 PM	#3
tarvoke Dog Dentist Posts: 108 Karma: 18 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: PE, GT540, VM670, GOGHVMU, Qualcomm 1600	some very sketchy notes about what has always worked for me on any android device... nb: I'm lucky enough to have a couple SIP accounts tied to actual North America phone#s (advantage is they can be registered in google voice account, both to receive calls as well as to make them) - but sipgate and others stopped allowing new signups for free accounts, so that part is a little harder if you don't have one already. so, using my favorite client, csipsimple, register those accounts in the app. and then use the gvoice web interface to kick off calls, or using the "google voice callback free" app make calls right from the dialer on the Edge. not to mention whenever someone calls my google voice #, csipsimple will ring. call quality is not the greatest (using exactly the same setup on gt540 or vm670, quality is a bit better) and once in a while you are behind a particularly foolish NAT such that even using STUN you get one way audio or consistently dropped calls. once it's all working, it's pretty foolproof. but there are a hundred tiny annoying steps I didn't really mention. people wanting to go that same route may do better with trying the sipdroid app and having it do the auto-signup to pbxes.org that it does, which doesn't require a phone# because it uses xmpp/jingle feature of gchat. (I think this is what you were mentioning in the other thread, stevesr0 - it's mostly automated, but last time I tried to get it working had no luck (plus I don't like the sipdroid client very much). but tons of others have had success with it, so may be worth a try for some)