Develop Bugs

Sprint Voice Mail on the Evo

I want to have my voicemail just use a standard greeting listing my phone number. Something like all the other carriers have... "You have reached the voice mailbox of 555-555-5555, at the tone please leave a message..."
I can't find any way to do this from the Evo. The voicemail system doesn't seem to offer this as an option but rather forces you to speak a greeting and name.
I called Sprint and the girl seemed confused and thought I should be able to but was of no help.
Can I set me greeting this way?
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Mine has been that way since I joined Sprint, I never added a personal greeting.
Go to your voicemail, choose to administer your voicemail, enter 3, then 5, just keep following the directions to use the standard greetings, basically it will be 3 and then 5 again.
HTH

no luck. still no option for a standard greeting. I got it down to just my recorded name but thats all i can find.

csmall said:
no luck. still no option for a standard greeting. I got it down to just my recorded name but thats all i can find.
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When it ask for your name......Dont speak
It will have callers at the edge of their seats

I had the same problem. It really bugged me. But then I figured it out. Just go back in and delete your vmail recording and it will default to the automated one.

The voicemail that your accessing on your evo is no different than any other voicemail besides the VVM portion. theres an option, your not trying hard enough, read your manual.

Alanmw86 said:
The voicemail that your accessing on your evo is no different than any other voicemail besides the VVM portion. theres an option, your not trying hard enough, read your manual.
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Sprint dialed into my voicemail with me and couldn't figure it out either. She suggested that I speak my number to mimic the default greeting... The same thing happened to me when I had the Hero.
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liamaa said:
I had the same problem. It really bugged me. But then I figured it out. Just go back in and delete your vmail recording and it will default to the automated one.
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Thanks. Deleting everything worked.
There is no option during setup or in the menus and I believe during initial setup the problem is that it doesn't accept no for an answer when asking you to record your name and greeting.
Thanks again.
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I believe the problem is on Sprint+Android devices
I believe the problem with the vm greeting has something to do with
Sprints Android habdsets. My Tour would greet callers with my # but my
Hero would force me to record a greeting. My Touch Pro2 greeted callers
With my # but now my EVO insists I record a geeeting.

Text message to alert me of having a VM?

So I received my 1st VM since flashing to salvage mod and I noticed two things..
1. It took like 10-15 minutes for the alert to come through after I missed the call
2. I got a weird text message letting me know off said VM, but it asked me to call some number, which didn't play my message
Does this sound right? I finally called my phone number and retrieved my message

Yeah, that's a common problem. Easiest thing to do is download an SMS app that lets you block texts from certain numbers and block 9016.
edit: I think super-private conversation is what people use.

handcent will block 9016 texts and has a nice interface. Finally after being told 2000 times to try google voice, I did, and it is great. I would recommend trying that if you want something else to play around with.

Yeah, I switched to Google Voice, even on Sense ROMs (not like I ever use those anyway).

oh yeah, sense. I remember that. It was like February 2011 or something right? Best thing about google voice is the text translation. Seriously, did they even try? It's funny how bad it is, but the service is great

alaman68 said:
handcent will block 9016 texts and has a nice interface. Finally after being told 2000 times to try google voice, I did, and it is great. I would recommend trying that if you want something else to play around with.
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But, if I block the text, how he hell do I know if I actually got a VM or not?

You should still get a VM notification.

jstalford said:
You should still get a VM notification.
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Nothing showed up yesterday :/

Left a VM from my work phone, lets test this out.

Sounds like a plan. Let us know.
Edit: What steps did you follow in order to set up your VVM?

10 minutes and no alerts at all.
Does this sound normal?

When you set up your VVM did you:
•*Use Titanium Backup to backup vvw in a Sense ROM
• Flash CM7
• install the apk for VVM (attached in various threads, or extracted from a sense ROM, unless it's preinstalled in Salvage)
• Use Titanium Backup to restore data only for VVM
Sorry should have asked this first. This is the only way to get VVM properly working on AOSP.

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When you set up your VVM did you:
•*Use Titanium Backup to backup vvw in a Sense ROM
• Flash CM7
• install the apk for VVM (attached in various threads, or extracted from a sense ROM, unless it's preinstalled in Salvage)
• Use Titanium Backup to restore data only for VVM
Sorry should have asked this first. This is the only way to get VVM properly working on AOSP.
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I am not running VVM.
So I discovered that I get the text almost immediately, but there is no "notification" that pops up.

What are you using?

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What are you using?
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I would just call my own phone number and put in my PIN.
So since I dont have VVM, I get the text message instead?

Yeah, you're not going to get a notification if you're not using a voicemail app lke Google Voice or VVM.

jstalford said:
Yeah, you're not going to get a notification if you're not using a voicemail app lke Google Voice or VVM.
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Ah ok, makes sense. I am going to DL Google Voice and test it out.

FYI, you have to set up a GV account and number on the comp first. You can set it up online from the phone, just easier from a comp.

Mindspin_311 said:
Ah ok, makes sense. I am going to DL Google Voice and test it out.
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So Google Voice works. I guess I still need to set it up to say my name and stuff.

"+1" dialing issues

I am using CM7 nighties and ever sense moving to AOSP I have noticed that all of my Facebook contacts that are synced with my phone come over with the "+1" prefix. When I go to make a call to one of them I am told that i don have a sufficient balance on my account to make this call. I am using Google Voice but this issue was around before I started using that. While using a stock Sense based ROM I don't have this issue it just drops the prefix and makes the call. I love CM& and AOSP and really want to continue using them but its getting old having to edit every number before i call it.

Have you tried turning google voice to only make international calls? Check the settings in the app.

Google Voice is what is telling me that I don't have a sufficient balance. Before I had Google Voice it would say that it was not able to place the call.

ricersniper said:
Google Voice is what is telling me that I don't have a sufficient balance. Before I had Google Voice it would say that it was not able to place the call.
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Hmmm you could try going to google.com/voice and changing your GV number linked to your phone. Have you ported your sprint # into google voice? I use two separate numbers, 1 sprint # and my GV has a seperate #. If you try that make sure you go back to call settings and select "voicemail number" and dial that little number that pops up to activate it again.
Or
Try going to all the numbers and removing the plus, google voice thinks you're calling long distance dude. I believe aosp roms don't like the +1 man you have to get that plus out lol.

Its a ROM issue. I was wondering if there was some setting or app that would take care of the issue.

I can't edit the numbers that are brought in by Facebook.

ricersniper said:
I can't edit the numbers that are brought in by Facebook.
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Ouch damn that sucks. It has to be aosp...ill do some research see what I come up with lol.

My last guess would be to try another dialer and use it over the stock cm7 one. Search market for "dialer one" or "go dialer".
Go dialer
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.jbapps.contact
Dialer one
http://market.android.com/details?id=kz.mek.DialerOne

I like go dialer but it is a no go. Still happens. This has to be in the rom some where.
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I'm having this same issue with mikg 1.01

i just expierenced it with mikg 1.01 too...very annoying...hope there is a fix soon

This has to be an issue with the Rom's.

dezel29 said:
i just expierenced it with mikg 1.01 too...very annoying...hope there is a fix soon
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try going to menu-settings-call-plus code dialing and untick "north American dialing" thats what finally worked for me.
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The only temp solution i have found with MikG 1.x is to go into your contacts and unlink the Facebook contact, hit done, and then manually relink the Facebook contact. This workaround effectively got rid of the +1 dialing prefix on the majority of my contacts.
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Google voice?

So I just picked up my first EVO yesterday. Rooted running fresh, nice.
I installed the same version of Google voice on here, as is on my Hero, however the EVO doesn't give me the option to 'make' calls. And in the set up, it took over my messaging app. I can't even change the options on messaging. Anyone know why its so limited and controlling on the EVO?
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To switch back you need to go online I believe as far as the messaging. Also try seeing uf there is a update for GV, cause in mine there is a setting to ask everytime, or to just use one or the other.

Active_Matrix said:
To switch back you need to go online I believe as far as the messaging. Also try seeing uf there is a update for GV, cause in mine there is a setting to ask everytime, or to just use one or the other.
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Yeah, tried everything, still doesn't met me choose how to place calls, saw on the ratings, a lot of people are the same issue as myself. I will just have to wait for another version.
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Open Google Voice > Settings > Making Calls > Use Google Voice to make all calls or Ask every time I make a call
Is this what you're talking about or am I misreading?

Did you port your sprint number to be your google voice number?

Stuke00 said:
Did you port your sprint number to be your google voice number?
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I think I did that is there any way to fix it

It seems you have integrated your GV with Sprint. You need to go in your GV account online and disable integration and remove your GV account from the app. Then you need to setup GV again, this time, press "skip" the first time you get the choice to skip while setting up and setup GV the regular way without integrating.

Blocking calls

With Sense, there was an option in Contacts to send that certain contact straight to voicemail. Is there not such an option with touchwiz?

strongsteve said:
With Sense, there was an option in Contacts to send that certain contact straight to voicemail. Is there not such an option with touchwiz?
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I thought I was just being stupid and couldn't find it. It wasn't a Sense feature... its a feature of Android itself that for some reason Samsung removed.
I guess this is another reason I'll be hoping for a pure Android ROM...

Yeah, I'm not sure why on earth they would remove that...

launcher pro will let you access that hidden menu i used it on my epic 4g and now on the epic touch.

Google voice will let you do that, and Sprint let's you use your existing number with it. Not a perfect solution, but at least it's a free workaround for this problem, and GV has a lot of other really nice features, so no reason not to use it - takes about 5 minutes to setup.
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txmikester said:
Google voice will let you do that, and Sprint let's you use your existing number with it. Not a perfect solution, but at least it's a free workaround for this problem, and GV has a lot of other really nice features, so no reason not to use it - takes about 5 minutes to setup.
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I was the biggest advocate for GV..WAS! After all kinds of issues with calls not going through and constant text send/receive issues I disabled GV and ALL of my problems went away. My friend was telling me to disable it because he had sprint too and was having none of my issues. I fought him for like a month. When I finally got rid of GV and my stuff started working again I had to eat crow and tell him he was correct.
It was amazing when it worked, but it gave me far too many problems to rely on as my primary form of communication.

Unknown Zone said:
launcher pro will let you access that hidden menu i used it on my epic 4g and now on the epic touch.
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Where? I don't see it. Thanks

amoricaorbust said:
Where? I don't see it. Thanks
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Yeah.. where??

Not sure if you are still wanting to receive voicemails from the numbers you are trying to block but if not I just use the sprint website and block numbers I dont want to receive calls or texts from...just a suggestion...
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lkctd8 said:
Not sure if you are still wanting to receive voicemails from the numbers you are trying to block but if not I just use the sprint website and block numbers I dont want to receive calls or texts from...just a suggestion...
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Depends on the caller.

eagercrow said:
I was the biggest advocate for GV..WAS! After all kinds of issues with calls not going through and constant text send/receive issues I disabled GV and ALL of my problems went away. My friend was telling me to disable it because he had sprint too and was having none of my issues. I fought him for like a month. When I finally got rid of GV and my stuff started working again I had to eat crow and tell him he was correct.
It was amazing when it worked, but it gave me far too many problems to rely on as my primary form of communication.
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+1000000 on this ive had my phone for about 2 weeks the first few days it was fine then i enabled gv and then my calls just kept ringing meanwhile the other end people could hear me and my background noise while it was still ringing on my end
and also 50% of the time my calls wouldnt start ringing at all i would have to hang up and recall a few times to get them to connect, finally i went to google voice website and unchecked all of the boxes next to my mobile number on there and my calls started using my stock number again (not the gv one) and i havent had one single problem connecting or not receiving calls since