Not everyone on Sprint is going gaga for Google’s voice integration. XDA member zikronix had this to say on the subject (unedited):

Ok so I orginally thought the idea of GV integration with sprint was awesome…after fiddling with it. I was very disappointed.

The problems I had with it were…I dont want to use my GV number as my primary. I dont want to change my GV number to my cell number. Each option had issues that I felt needed to be addressed. Changing my GV number to my cell made it to where txt would be comming into my phone via gv app. Yes there is a work around but ita annoying and I dont want my text stored on line.

As a result, zikronix has concocted a little guide for you to have the best of both worlds. Where would we be without our ever dedicated and hard working XDA developers? The guide is pasted below for your convenience. If you have any questions on how the process works, you can hit up the XDA thread here. Feel free to provide as much feedback to the developer as you’d like. And as always, feel free to drop a comment or two below.

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Oh boy! This is a very elaborate tutorial. I may give this a try, though. I see where his coming from on the privacy thing.