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Text Message every time I get Voice Mail

On my unlocked Dash I get a text message everytime I get a voice mail, does anyone know how to turn this off? I get about 20 VM's per day so you can see how this would bother me.. I hate getting a Text Message for every Voice Mail.
Please Help or I may end up switching back to my Blackberry which I don't want to do..
Thanks
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Thats more of the telco problem, not the phones.

I never had this problem before when I was using my blackberry? Only since I switched phones to my unlocked Dash do I get the text message for voice mail.

crazygman said:
I never had this problem before when I was using my blackberry? Only since I switched phones to my unlocked Dash do I get the text message for voice mail.
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It's something related to your carrier, not the phone. The phone isn't sending itself a text message. Maybe the Blackberry receives a SMS notification of voicemail that is handled differently, and your Dash is receiving it as a text message... Have you signed up for Blackberry service with your carrier? Have you updated your account to non-Blackberry service? Who's your carrier? Have you contacted them at all about this?

I am using Rogers in Canada. I have a blackberry account as I am using BB Connect since my company won't allow us to connect to the exchange server directly.
I have talked to Rogers and they said it have to be the phone. We I get a VM, i get the little VM message at the top of my home screen so that is working it is just the darn text message that bothers me..

just double check.. is it a text mesage that goes into your Inbox, or just a notification bubble?
Anyway, if it is a text, a quick and dirty way to solve is temp is to have a SMS blocker in place, to filter out these messages.

Hey cool so is that is piece of software SMS Blocker? if it works like email filtering that would work.. Where can I find a SMS Blocker or is a function of the phone?
Thanks great idea!!

The reason you get a text everytime you get a new voicemail is because your "unlocked" phone does not support the the MWI ( message waiting indicator) that your mobile provider uses. I have T-mobile and they use the reel to reel icon that pops up on the top of the screen when you get a new voicemail. If you have an unlocked phone it may not support the icon your providers phones use.
I've had numerous phones with this company(by choice). I am currently using an unlocked phone that was configured for another carrier's network, some of the features do not work the same, including the Message Waiting Indicator. The goods new is you can probably stop this by having your mobile company take the Message Waiting Indicator off all together. But the Bad news is, then of course you will not be notified when you get a new voicemail.

It's a feature of the Rogers network. I have it on my account too. Still debating whether I like it or not though. I think it's part of the "WhoCalled" feature they have, but I'm not sure. It's definitely part of your Rogers service plan though.

Temp Fix for Rogers network SMS after VM
Hi, I had the same problem. It was really getting to me. Now using phone guard 1.09
Works well.
After download, DONT fill in the country code, or area code screen, just leave blank.(or you will not recieve calls, they will be send to vm, ????not sure why)
On the block screen, fill in ( [email protected] ) {for rogers} in the tel sms #, Name it what ever you want.
No more text after vm.
Later
p.s. the program runs in the back ground. Uses the least mem though.

SMS delay/not retrieving :(

Hey guys,
Picked up a desire yesterday and its great, though I'm having some issues with sms. I notice I don't receive any texts until I send a text first, then I'll receive 2 or 3 texts, timestamped in the past, up to an hour ago!
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks.
edit: unrooted on o2

i get a similar problem, i know i should have received a text message but it doeant show up for hours.
unrooted on tmobile uk

Most likely when your phone is connected over GPRS the text don't come through till you disconnect, used to happen on my N95.

So if my phone is operating in GPRS mode, until it decides it doesn't need the internet anymore and disconnects, it won't retrieve texts... right. So any workarounds or fixes for this?

Prety much, after I use GPRS I just made a call and during or after the call my text came in.

Been getting this all day, are people really just dealing with this or is it only a few people that have this issue?

I am having another problem... on T-mobile, my phone won't download MMS messages. It will just say Download error, General Network Failure... After it expired (3days) , I was sent a link to the T-mobile website, where I am able to see it for 14 days.
Another problem that I am having, the phone is struggling sending long text messages... 4 or 5 normal lenght messages 500-600 characters... I am using the Text App provided with the phone.

I have a problem that I dont think is an actual problem I think its just how the phone works, and tbh its a bit rubbish.
If you dont have signal when you hit send (im my office at work I only get signal on a little square of the desk) the phone says "message not sent". Sometime when it gets signal it will send the message, but if it doesnt get signal quick enough it seems to just give up sending.... a bit lame really....
I'm going to post a message up with the T-mobile UK MMS settings so people in future can find it on search. Have a look in 5 mins.
JAmes.

I've got the same issue with my HTC Desire.
My operator is a Belgium one, namely Mobistar.
I've got the impression that when i open the sms box, i start seeing the messages. Don't know if it's the communication that goes wrong, or the 'throughput' in the phone (screen, alerting...).

After installing (and using of course) chompSMS, this problem is gone... yipppie...

Question for Google Voice users

Hi everyone,
I'm using a GSM version of our GN. I only use Google Voice as I change carriers very often therefor I never want to give the carrier phone number.
When receiving a call on ICS we have 3 options:
- pick up
- Decline
- or send a quick preset text message.
Is there a way to make the phone send the text message out of GV and not the carrier Caller ID?
I'd pay for an app to do just that.
Thanks

turn off texting on the phone altogether and it forces GV to send any texts...but you lose MMS capability...
when you choose to send text, does it ask you if you want to send it through GV or regular? probably not if the call comes in on your regular number...try having someone call your GV number and send them a text to see which number shows up...
if that works, just use the GV number for everything

Yeah the text reply is useless because it uses the built in texting and not the GV app. That was the case when I tried it a year or two ago it might have changed now but I doubt it.
Also GV has MMS now (receiving).

aldo37 said:
Yeah the text reply is useless because it uses the built in texting and not the GV app. That was the case when I tried it a year or two ago it might have changed now but I doubt it.
Also GV has MMS now (receiving).
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I've heard rumors some people can get MMS. (through some kind of forward to gmail setup) but it's never worked for me.

aldo37 said:
Also GV has MMS now (receiving).
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Not quite... you can receive MMS from a Sprint sender. That's it. Your provider doesn't matter, nothing else matters. Only Sprint senders.
None of my friends have Sprint (or anyone I know really) so for all intents and purposes GV still doesn't have MMS (at least for me).

On a similar note...does anyone else feel google treats Google Voice as a red headed stepchild?
I have been using a year and a half old version of the app because it's the only one that treats the back button as an actual return to main screen button...instead of some funky cycle through every previous text button. It is also the last version to handle notifications correctly (newer versions keep the notification in task bar if you reply to one online)

I've tried setting my phone to use GV as the default way to send texts, but still see he same bad behavior with Verizon texts being sent from quick messages. Sucks!
Probably will need an updated dialer from google, but if anyone has any other ideas I'll try them...

Royal2000H said:
Not quite... you can receive MMS from a Sprint sender. That's it. Your provider doesn't matter, nothing else matters. Only Sprint senders.
None of my friends have Sprint (or anyone I know really) so for all intents and purposes GV still doesn't have MMS (at least for me).
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I don't think so. I receive MMS from people all the time in my inbox (Sprint and non-Sprint). You have to make sure email notification when you get a text is on I think.

Note 4 deleting text messages

Hey guys i just recently got a Note 4 switching over from an iPhone 6. I love it so far but one issue has got me extremely frustrated. My phone keeps automatically deleting text messages and/or not sending/receiving text messages. It looks as if its sort of a known problem with this phone. I have already disabled the "Delete old messages: option in messaging settings and still am experiencing this issue. Help! I'm loving the Note 4 but this is just irritating.

Did you remove your phone number from apples iMessage servers?

rodger-sp said:
Did you remove your phone number from apples iMessage servers?
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I had AT&T reactivate a new SIM card and switched my account provisions but as far as removing from their server, no? i mean i dont have the phone and dont know where i would do it. Although i found this link selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage and put my phone number but says its not registered so i dont believe thats my issue

It's more an Apple problem, well known.
One aspect of it;
http://mashable.com/2014/11/10/apple-imessage-android-fix/
You can also make sure you have the correct message center (voicemail) number in the phone.

I posted that link in my last post about de-registering my number which as though it seems to not be registered. I would recieve a text, see it in my notification panel, open it, and poof. its gone.

It happens to iPhone and noniphone users

http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/10/technology/mobile/apple-imessage-iphone/
http://www.xda-developers.com/apple-holding-ios-users-hostage-with-imessage-flaw/
Pretty crappy way to run a business like this and hold users hostage because they are defecting to another competing OS.

Nexbit Robin can't recieve text messages from any Verizon or AT & T phones

I searched here and google and saw only a few hits on google, but there wasn't much information. I recommended a Robin when they were on super-sale a few months ago to a friend. She is a teacher and says that several parents who text her aren't getting through, although she can text them on her Robin using T-Mo SIM. She said that the T-Mo guy said he wasn't familiar with the Robin and told her to get a new phone
I told her that it sounded impossible since all text, voice and data is universal and that a phone should not be able to discriminate what carrier the text originated from.
I had her DL Android Messenger and try that as her text app and she said "it didn't work" although I didn't press her what exactly didn't work w. the app because we were emailing each other. Also had her restart. I asked her if she knew if these VZN/ATT people were on iPhones (maybe the people were trying to text her on iMessage (or whatever the iOS text app is called?) but she wasn't sure. She also has access to a Verizon flip phone that her brother has and she says that indeed texts from his phone don't go through to her phone.
She's going to let me look at the phone this weekend and I plan on checking if there are any filtering or settings that might be causing her not to get texts from VZN or ATT phones and then clearing the text app's (not sure what the default text app is on the Robin) data. She says that she can get texts from T-Mo and she will be bringing the brother's VZN phone for me to test. I will report back what / if anything that I find in this thread.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions what might be causing this / have ever heard of such a thing?
TIA