Before I say how I did what the title says, I need make a few things clear about it so I don't have to during the simple instructions:
#1 The following information accomplished the 2 distinct goals I had, which was, a) to link landline & mobile & answer either on either. and b) to answer my cell phone in my home from my vintage phones connected to my landline which are a North Electric manufactured mint green, Touchtone, model 60A Ericofon and a black Automatic Electric Type 80.
#2 Google says we cannot port a landline (VOIP or Voice over internet protocol, is considered a land line) to Voice.The instructions here are not to port a number, but to register it in Voice, enabling Voice to ring both your mobile and landline whenever somebody calls either and to use your landline from your mobile.
#3Porting a # to Voice removes it from the other line, which was not my goal when doing this
#4 The main enabler for using my landline and mobile simjultaneously is that my MJ VIOP landline has a free mobile app, letting me use my MJ landline on my mobile phone.
#5 I'm assuming that since MJ is hardly an innovator in the VOIP field and doesn't even really make it's own devices, rather just relabels them, that what I've done with my MJ service can be done with just about any VOIP service with a complimentary cell phone app included in the landline service.
#6 I have never found ANY information on the internet that instructs how to register a landline, or a VOIP line to Voice like this, so I am posting how I did it here.
#7 but of course, all I can speak to directly is how I've done this (with caveats posted after instructions) with my MJ service. And I figured out this simple thing and am publishing it here for the first time, which means that if, from the date of this post, the reader sees it elsewhere, it is plagiarized from me.
#8 My home phones listed above were all ready installed on my MJ landline service, accepting incoming and outgoing calls and ringing. My AE 80 rotary is connected to an inline DTMF converter (pulse to tone converter) to be able to dial calls, but it rings and answers calls without the converter.
Well I think I've actually almost completely described the title of this post above, but here are the simple steps:
Google Voice,. when you install it, as users know, it prompts you to link your cell phone to your new Voice # when you start it for the first time. You don't have to do this and I didn't, to use your new Voice #. I did, however do it later, which allows your Voice # to take over all calls.
With that in mind, note that Voice has a pretty straightforward attractive interface on your mobile phone and you can still use your phone's dialer interface and it will ask you which # to dial from.
So now to link your landline, You need a mobile app from the provider that allows you to dial from and to your landline # from the app. For Magic Jack service landlines, its called MagicApp. you just install it & enter your MJ# & it's ready to go.
Then you go to Voice settings and add your landline #. Put the number in the space provided and check the box that says it's the number of your mobile device in your hand. You'll then get a text confirmation # to copy & past in the provided confirmation box. Paste it and you've just ported your landline to Voice!
Settings in MJ account are: accepting inbound and outbound service on MJ land line under "caller features" the "advanced" dropdown link. on same page, accepting only inbound service on the android app. on another page, for forwarding calls, both stay off and are set to "off" by default.
Google Voice settings: all that is needed is achieved in the instructions above. And when someone calls your Voice # both your land line and your cell phone will receive the call and ring.
Conclusion: I've gotten 50% success with MJ and cell service #s, with both lines ringing only when the land line # is called and only my cell ringing when it is called, however, this is 100% effective using my Voice # with both lines receiving the call.
Tweeks, Caveats & unintended results: In my MJ settings, this caused a few surmountable issues. But first let me explain that there are several places in the settings where one can add their mobile # and one place I added mine to seemed to cause all the issues.
The issues are/were: when dialed from my mobile, my landline immediately went into voicemail settings without ringing.This bothered me because I like to be able to make regular calls to my home phone from my mobile. I didn't know if this issue was because the lines essentially were all one and the same now or I needed to tweak the settings. Although I did realize that all the issues were in the Magic Jack settings and I started experimenting with them. Another issue was the double answering system messages and prompts coming over the call.
So to be able to once again call my home phones, I found that I must turn off the two "call forwarding" settings in Magic Jack that I had assigned my mobile # to. (the account settings won't allow it's own phone# in the settings).
Then I checked to see if I accomplished my goal the best I can with this method to see if it works as intended: installing TalkTone on my cell phone, getting yet another free # and calling my land line # and hearing it ring to both my cell and home line and being able to answer either.
#1 The following information accomplished the 2 distinct goals I had, which was, a) to link landline & mobile & answer either on either. and b) to answer my cell phone in my home from my vintage phones connected to my landline which are a North Electric manufactured mint green, Touchtone, model 60A Ericofon and a black Automatic Electric Type 80.
#2 Google says we cannot port a landline (VOIP or Voice over internet protocol, is considered a land line) to Voice.The instructions here are not to port a number, but to register it in Voice, enabling Voice to ring both your mobile and landline whenever somebody calls either and to use your landline from your mobile.
#3Porting a # to Voice removes it from the other line, which was not my goal when doing this
#4 The main enabler for using my landline and mobile simjultaneously is that my MJ VIOP landline has a free mobile app, letting me use my MJ landline on my mobile phone.
#5 I'm assuming that since MJ is hardly an innovator in the VOIP field and doesn't even really make it's own devices, rather just relabels them, that what I've done with my MJ service can be done with just about any VOIP service with a complimentary cell phone app included in the landline service.
#6 I have never found ANY information on the internet that instructs how to register a landline, or a VOIP line to Voice like this, so I am posting how I did it here.
#7 but of course, all I can speak to directly is how I've done this (with caveats posted after instructions) with my MJ service. And I figured out this simple thing and am publishing it here for the first time, which means that if, from the date of this post, the reader sees it elsewhere, it is plagiarized from me.
#8 My home phones listed above were all ready installed on my MJ landline service, accepting incoming and outgoing calls and ringing. My AE 80 rotary is connected to an inline DTMF converter (pulse to tone converter) to be able to dial calls, but it rings and answers calls without the converter.
Google Voice,. when you install it, as users know, it prompts you to link your cell phone to your new Voice # when you start it for the first time. You don't have to do this and I didn't, to use your new Voice #. I did, however do it later, which allows your Voice # to take over all calls.
With that in mind, note that Voice has a pretty straightforward attractive interface on your mobile phone and you can still use your phone's dialer interface and it will ask you which # to dial from.
So now to link your landline, You need a mobile app from the provider that allows you to dial from and to your landline # from the app. For Magic Jack service landlines, its called MagicApp. you just install it & enter your MJ# & it's ready to go.
Then you go to Voice settings and add your landline #. Put the number in the space provided and check the box that says it's the number of your mobile device in your hand. You'll then get a text confirmation # to copy & past in the provided confirmation box. Paste it and you've just ported your landline to Voice!
Settings in MJ account are: accepting inbound and outbound service on MJ land line under "caller features" the "advanced" dropdown link. on same page, accepting only inbound service on the android app. on another page, for forwarding calls, both stay off and are set to "off" by default.
Google Voice settings: all that is needed is achieved in the instructions above. And when someone calls your Voice # both your land line and your cell phone will receive the call and ring.
Conclusion: I've gotten 50% success with MJ and cell service #s, with both lines ringing only when the land line # is called and only my cell ringing when it is called, however, this is 100% effective using my Voice # with both lines receiving the call.
Tweeks, Caveats & unintended results: In my MJ settings, this caused a few surmountable issues. But first let me explain that there are several places in the settings where one can add their mobile # and one place I added mine to seemed to cause all the issues.
The issues are/were: when dialed from my mobile, my landline immediately went into voicemail settings without ringing.This bothered me because I like to be able to make regular calls to my home phone from my mobile. I didn't know if this issue was because the lines essentially were all one and the same now or I needed to tweak the settings. Although I did realize that all the issues were in the Magic Jack settings and I started experimenting with them. Another issue was the double answering system messages and prompts coming over the call.
So to be able to once again call my home phones, I found that I must turn off the two "call forwarding" settings in Magic Jack that I had assigned my mobile # to. (the account settings won't allow it's own phone# in the settings).
Then I checked to see if I accomplished my goal the best I can with this method to see if it works as intended: installing TalkTone on my cell phone, getting yet another free # and calling my land line # and hearing it ring to both my cell and home line and being able to answer either.
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