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From: The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Keepgo Data SIM Failure (Pixel 2)
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 20:17:04 -0700
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On 7/9/24 2:55 AM, VanguardLH wrote:
> The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Keepgo Guy's latest suggestion -- remove and reinstall Google Voice.
>> 
>> MIRACLE!  THAT DID IT!  I'm ashamed that I didn't think of that myself. 
>> My only excuse is that (a) that's a windows-like solution and (b) doing 
>> that generally wipes out all personalization, which is something I 
>> almost NEVER am willing to do.  Still, I'm ashamed.
> 
> I suspect you could've gone into the Android app list, selected GV, and
> just stopped the app (to make sure it isn't running backgrounded),
> cleared the app's cache, cleared the app's data (you get warned about
> data loss), and then load the app again whereupon you need to restate
> your account credentials.

Possibly, but this was easy and required no additional handwork beyond 
putting the icon back in the whatever-it's-called that appears at the 
bottom of all the home pages.  The new version looks different in some 
way, which is OK.  If google had done something to voice I probably 
wouldn't have been the only person affected, so perhaps it was just a 
cosmic ray and I got lucky.

> I don't remember the cause, but I do recall have to do the above to get
> the GV app working again.  Google changed something in a new version of
> their app that didn't like the old data stored for the app.
> 
> The config for the app gets retrieved from your GV account, so those
> settings would get downloaded into the fresh load of the app.  In fact,
> I had the GV service setup for a couple years before I started using
> their app on my Android phone.  As I recall, all the app's settings came
> from my GV account, so I didn't have to do any setup in the app.  All I
> had to do was let the app log into my Google account.


-- 
Cheers, Bev
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