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Disable Voicemail text message

Sorry if this has been asked before.....
How can I disable the automatic text message I get from some Android number whenever I get a voice mail?

Let me guess..you loaded your first AOSP rom?
There must be something in the HTC message app that gets rid of them or something.
You could always switch to youmail.com its a million times better and has a wonderful free app in the market.

My voicemail (stock Sense) started doing this randomly a while back. Turns out my voicemail number had reset to whatever it was before I ported my old number over. This made my voicemail default to the text thing. Maybe this is different than what you're experiencing. Either way, check to see that your voicemail number is correct. Maybe a longshot, but it couldn't hurt. It's in settings somewhere.

SilverZero said:
My voicemail (stock Sense) started doing this randomly a while back. Turns out my voicemail number had reset to whatever it was before I ported my old number over. This made my voicemail default to the text thing. Maybe this is different than what you're experiencing. Either way, check to see that your voicemail number is correct. Maybe a longshot, but it couldn't hurt. It's in settings somewhere.
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Anyone been able to get this issue solved.

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Yeah, recently installed Cyanogen's CM6. Been getting these annoying text messages. Would love to disable. So... bump.

Simple fix that MIGHT work (I haven't tried it yet) is to blacklist the number in Handcent SMS but I'm not sure if Messaging in Froyo has that feature to blacklist text messages..

trobb09 said:
Simple fix that MIGHT work (I haven't tried it yet) is to blacklist the number in Handcent SMS but I'm not sure if Messaging in Froyo has that feature to blacklist text messages..
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I can confirm this method works with ChompSMS and I still receive visual voicemails in the Sprint app with no problems.

[Q] *86 Voice Mail notification on NON-SENSE ROMS

OK I know this has been brought up a few times in the CM threads. I get this ghost VM notification on CM6 and on all the nightlys. I also am getting this ghost VM notification on the MIUI rom. I do NOT get this notification on ANY sense ROMs I have tried.
I read this Forum everyday as much as I can. I have tried search. Every thing that comes up close to what I have going on doesn't seem to get fully answered as to why this is coming up on some phones and not others.
I flashed CM6 and a few nightlys on my Wifes phone and She has NEVER received the *86 VM notification.
I am always updated to the most current PRL, PRI and NV. Nothing I have tried will clear this message. On the CM6 ROM I can hit the clear button under the notification bar and that clears it for a little while but then the damn thing comes back.
Can anyone explain this and offer up a FIX. I know I'm not the only one.

Any one have any help on this?
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12 hours and no reply. I have searched the forum all day. Sorry to be a pain in the ass but if anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it.
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I have the same problem that is why i went back to fresh 3.2... I searched all thru the internet and I could not find anything either... sucks to be us. Maybe we should email darsh

Yeah I have this problem too, so I went back to fresh and I am waiting for the desire hd rom to be ported... :/
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I guess I'm in the club also. Same problem when I was on Vaelpak. Flashed back to stock, rooted, for a while. Now on Fresh.

Settings>Call>Voicemail> Change the number from *86 to whatever your phone number is.

Brutus2TheMax said:
Settings>Call>Voicemail> Change the number from *86 to whatever your phone number is.
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Thank you Brutus for the input.
I know all about that part of the set-up. This DOES NOT get rid of the Ghost notification. I still will get a notification that I have a voice mail (and YES I have checked to make sure my VM's are cleared out).
Just FYI I use google voice when I am on CM6 or nightlys. Google Voice works great but still will not clear the VM notification.

Jetdr said:
Thank you Brutus for the input.
I know all about that part of the set-up. This DOES NOT get rid of the Ghost notification. I still will get a notification that I have a voice mail (and YES I have checked to make sure my VM's are cleared out).
Just FYI I use google voice when I am on CM6 or nightlys. Google Voice works great but still will not clear the VM notification.
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Dont skip my post I am going to say two diffrent things . First normaly you get the notification because you received a voicemail. The stock rom has a code writen in to block that text so that you dont see the notification when you receive a voicemail.
Now Jetdr I will try to answer your question here. I think your voicemail hasnt been provisioned. Click on your VVM app and hit menu, when you hit menu you should have 3 options, compose, search and settings. If you have a 4th option that says unsent or undelivered click it. When VVM sets up, it automaticly sends a voicemail to the server to setup your VVM. If that message doesnt get sent then it probably never will. You will have to uninstall the VVM.Apk and reinstall the app. One time when I was setting up CM6 I had to install the voicemail apk several times before I got it to provision correctly. If it doesn provision a minute or two after you install it then its not going to. Not sure if this is whats causing your ghost voicemail text but I am thinking this is it. The easiest way to tell is to just click the vvm app and see if it shows four options or three. It should only show three.
If you are using google voice you dont still have the sprint VVM installed do you? If you dont have the sprint VVM installed then I am not sure whats causing your issue considering my directions to fix your issue is in regardes to the sprint vvm app.
Hope that helps.

I've tried all that and more.... nothing fixes it. I've concidered calling sprint but don't want to ruin my insurance..
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Twilk... thanks so much for the response. I did all you suggested and I flashed back over to the newest MIUI ROM and I still have the VM notification. I made sure I didn't have any voice mails before I flashed. The notification will not clear even with the settings selected to not show.
Initially it has the *86 number but when I change the VM settings to my number it of course then comes up in the drop down box with my number.
The same thing happens on CM ROMs.
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Anyone else have any ideas?
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My notification says 4 voicemails... so I'm wondering if when I rooted my phone I had voicemails.. I don't really listen to my voicemails.. i'd rather just receive a text from someone... I just wish that I had made sure to clear my box before I rooted.. not sure if this is the reason for it... but it doesn't seem like there are many users with this problem. I'm sort of anti-twitter or I would ask cyanogen myself.. this is soo annoying! Especially since I hate voice mail to begin with.. I don't read my bills much, but I think sprint charges for voicemail.. anyway I can cancel my voicemail service? Also they charge me to keep a spending limit.. I want to call sprint and ask to cancel my voicemail..
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Updates ???
Feb 3 - 2011
Anybody ever figure this one. Or do we just clear the message on each reboot?

Clear dalv. and cache,then change *86 to your mobile number then block 9016 from your sprint account.I added youmail and mine works perfect.I get txt and VM very quick.If the person that left you the voice mail is in your contacts it will show them as leaving the VM and you can just tap on there pic and it will play the ones they left you.
And I have no phantom notifications or anything odd.

davekaye said:
Feb 3 - 2011
Anybody ever figure this one. Or do we just clear the message on each reboot?
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Here. That's the only known way to get rid of it. It's a PITA but it works.

Stock VVM not working

I'm not sure if it's a problem with google voice or something but stock VVM isnt working, I had youmail working, but then I started screwing with google voice and now I dont get any notifications for voicemails other than a text from 9016. lol

You may have a dud... Mine respon the first time there pressed..
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luigic81 said:
I'm not sure if it's a problem with google voice or something but stock VVM isnt working, I had youmail working, but then I started screwing with google voice and now I dont get any notifications for voicemails other than a text from 9016. lol
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Its easy to screw up your voice mail when playing with Google Voice. I did this just a couple weeks ago...
Here's how to fix it:
1) Go into your VVM app.
2) Hit menu
3) Select "Compose"
4) Send a blank message to "[email protected]"
5) Hit "record" then "stop" as soon as the stop button becomes available.
6) Hit "send"
Within a minute or two, your voice mails should begin downloading like normal.
You shouldn't have to reboot after this.

Thanks! I did this, and I now get 9016 messages telling me that I have a new vm, so thats good, atleast i'm getting notified, but I still have to call in to hear the messages. VVM is still not getting the messages.
I uninstalled google voice and youmail btw

luigic81 said:
Thanks! I did this, and I now get 9016 messages telling me that I have a new vm, so thats good, atleast i'm getting notified, but I still have to call in to hear the messages. VVM is still not getting the messages.
I uninstalled google voice and youmail btw
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I'd give Sprint a call. They may need to re provision your voice mail.
Are you using a 3rd party SMS app, by any chance? The same thing happened to me a few days ago when I installed GO SMS and then turned off the stock message app's notifications.

I am using go sms intact, so what should I do, just turn back on stock notifications? Thanks btw!

when enabling youmail it sends a code to your Sprint VVm to re reoute it. when you want to switch back you need to call Sprint.

that was it alright, uninstalled go sms pro and got all my VVM's now! yay! Thank you!
Anyway to actually keep go sms and get my vvm? I'm assuming jsut a setting that I need to tweak?

luigic81 said:
that was it alright, uninstalled go sms pro and got all my VVM's now! yay! Thank you!
Anyway to actually keep go sms and get my vvm? I'm assuming jsut a setting that I need to tweak?
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There's a setting in GO SMS that let's you disable the stock SMS... This is what breaks the VVM. Instead, all you need to do is go into the stock SMS, hit menu, and turn off the "display notifications" option.
At least, that is what worked on my Moment last week. Since ET has a black background sms app, I haven't felt an urgent need to replace it yet... Although I really DO dislike the bubble-style display...

650-603-0000 sms instead of voicemail

So earlier in the week I flipped a setting in my handcent messenger app to handle mms and sms messages. I also created a user account so I could send people larger files via text with a url link.
Not sure if that had anything to do.with what has since been happening, but now I no longer receive voicemails through my default voicemail app, but now I get a text message with this 650-603-0000 phone number in it to retrieve my messages. As if that doesn't suck enough, the [email protected] number doesn't even work so I.have to dial 611 to get my vm.
Can anyone help??????? Please??? I.have been through the system settings a million times over, reviewed everything in handcent before finally changing back to stock presets with no luck and then uninstalling the handcent app with no luck. I really dont want to have to wipe and rebuild, but I'm at a dead end and this is killing me.
If you can help, I would be very appreciate. Thanks....
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I'm having the same issue. Any luck with a fix?
HTC Evo Root gingerbread-evo-deck-1.3d

Yes actually I figured it out. The epic, and I'm told sprint, do not support MIUI which was enabled by handcent when I flipped a setting. Unfortunately turning it back off and uninstalling handcent did nothing.
What you have to do is download the sprint voicemail apk and overwrite the existing app. This fixes it.
I must have tried a couple hundred possible solutions with no luck before I finally tried this. Good luck
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i am still having the same problem with my evo, spoke with support at sprint and they said there was an issue with the latest update. No fix yet

Here is the fix
Ok i had the same problem and went round and round. My visual voicemail was not downloading messages in addition to the text. Option 1 took care of it for me.
Re-activate your Visual Voicemail account. This will force the Voicemail client to send an activation message to the Server again. Once re-activated, all pending messages should be able to download again.
Option(1):
- Go to - Settings/Applications/Manage Applications (be sure you are looking at "all")/Voicemail/Clear data
- This will wipe out your old Inbox messages but your filesystem will come clean
Option(2):
Use Visual Voicemail Compose screen and send it to the following address: [email protected] (you must have a couple of seconds recorded)

I am having this same issue. Did you guys find a fix ?

Thanks. I was looking for the solution to resolve the same issue on my EVO 3D for few months. Finally found the answer here. Option 1 worked for me.
Thank you very much....
metasystech said:
Ok i had the same problem and went round and round. My visual voicemail was not downloading messages in addition to the text. Option 1 took care of it for me.
Re-activate your Visual Voicemail account. This will force the Voicemail client to send an activation message to the Server again. Once re-activated, all pending messages should be able to download again.
Option(1):
- Go to - Settings/Applications/Manage Applications (be sure you are looking at "all")/Voicemail/Clear data
- This will wipe out your old Inbox messages but your filesystem will come clean
Option(2):
Use Visual Voicemail Compose screen and send it to the following address: [email protected] (you must have a couple of seconds recorded)
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Yes. At least the same issue is resolved on EVO 3D with the option 1 as shown above by metasystech.
metasystech said:
Ok i had the same problem and went round and round. My visual voicemail was not downloading messages in addition to the text. Option 1 took care of it for me.
Re-activate your Visual Voicemail account. This will force the Voicemail client to send an activation message to the Server again. Once re-activated, all pending messages should be able to download again.
Option(1):
- Go to - Settings/Applications/Manage Applications (be sure you are looking at "all")/Voicemail/Clear data
- This will wipe out your old Inbox messages but your filesystem will come clean
Option(2):
Use Visual Voicemail Compose screen and send it to the following address: [email protected] (you must have a couple of seconds recorded)
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flojo73 said:
I am having this same issue. Did you guys find a fix ?
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Updated fix
This works but as of 6/20/2012 you not only have to clear the data, but also you have to uninstall the update. Then make a test voicemail, it should go through, after that update the app to the newest software and you are back up and running!
Thank you local sprint rep!!!
mailtoal said:
Thanks. I was looking for the solution to resolve the same issue on my EVO 3D for few months. Finally found the answer here. Option 1 worked for me.
Thank you very much....
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Yes. At least the same issue is resolved on EVO 3D with the option 1 as shown above by metasystech.
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Thanks
Leave it to moders and hackers to find the best and most information for fixing things. Geeze i wish sprint was smart enough to learn these things.

Hi! I'm trying to remotely troubleshoot for my father. Could you please explain what you mean by "uninstall the update" and "update the app to the newest software"? What application are you referring to, and where can I access it? Thanks so much!

yzarc said:
Hi! I'm trying to remotely troubleshoot for my father. Could you please explain what you mean by "uninstall the update" and "update the app to the newest software"? What application are you referring to, and where can I access it? Thanks so much!
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The sprint voicemail app... and you should be able to access from settings/applications/manage applications
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Sprint Visual Voicemail APK & Zip

I was looking for this and noticed many CM users looking for this as well, I tried on ICS AND CM10... it works.
Found zip (attached), flashed and it too works.

Alex1x said:
I was looking for this and noticed many CM users looking for this as well, I tried on ICS AND CM10... it works.
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Do not WORK. CM10

Alex1x said:
I was looking for this and noticed many CM users looking for this as well, I tried on ICS AND CM10... it works.
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What's the version number on yours? I've got this version installed on CM9 and CM10 and it works beautifully.

Darkendes said:
What's the version number on yours? I've got this version installed on CM9 and CM10 and it works beautifully.[/QUOTE
That one I'm using. Still get 9016 text.
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Do not WORK. CM10
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I've used this apk on aopk, cm10 v5.0 & v5.1
And it works. Just install as you do any regular apk. Personal, I used rom toolbox, located the file and installed fined.
Yes, I do get 9016 text, but I barely get vms, so maybe 1 text per day doesn't bother me. It may be a CM think, but if I find a better apk, I'll update OP.

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What's the version number on yours? I've got this version installed on CM9 and CM10 and it works beautifully.[/QUOTE
That one I'm using. Still get 9016 text.
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Yeah, I get the texts, too. I don't think there's a way to get rid of them if you want to use Sprint VVM.
I don't mind them. They can actually come in handy sometimes if you restore the VVM to a new ROM and it doesn't notify you of new voicemails right off the bat. The text still shows up when the notification doesn't. lol

Fixing the sprint visual voicmail apk to with with CM10
you need to record a voicemail, and then forward it to the following email address from within sprint visual voicemail: [email protected]
This will stop the text messages and sync your voice mail.

do you still receive the 9016 text everytime you get a voicemail?
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Didn't read the previous posts very well. When I was using the Optimus S with CM7 they had a Mms.apk that removed the 9016 text. Those can be really annoying. I like VVM better but right now I have to stick with google voice. I'm only using it for my voicemail and I don't get any texts so it works.

garayjoh said:
you need to record a voicemail, and then forward it to the following email address from within sprint visual voicemail: [email protected]
This will stop the text messages and sync your voice mail.
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Exactly how do you forward the recorded voicemail? I tried sending it with Gmail and got:
Code:
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
[email protected]
Technical details of permanent failure:
DNS Error: Domain name not found

JimSmith94 said:
Exactly how do you forward the recorded voicemail? I tried sending it with Gmail and got:
Code:
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
[email protected]
Technical details of permanent failure:
DNS Error: Domain name not found
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Record it with the VVM app and then hit send. Compose -> Record -> Send to that address, all done within the app.

carole6m said:
Record it with the VVM app and then hit send. Compose -> Record -> Send to that address, all done within the app.
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All I have is the microphone button in VVM. I record the message, then I only have the Share button with Bluetooth, Gmail, Skype, Voicemail, etc. I tried Gmail before with the above error message. When I try Voicemail with the email address you gave, the Send button stays grayed out. I suspect that it needs a phone number there.

JimSmith94 said:
All I have is the microphone button in VVM. I record the message, then I only have the Share button with Bluetooth, Gmail, Skype, Voicemail, etc. I tried Gmail before with the above error message. When I try Voicemail with the email address you gave, the Send button stays grayed out. I suspect that it needs a phone number there.
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hmm that's weird. I don't have VVM right now but that's how I reprovisioned it before.

Here's a solution THAT ACTUALLY WORKS because I just fixed it!
JimSmith94 said:
All I have is the microphone button in VVM. I record the message, then I only have the Share button with Bluetooth, Gmail, Skype, Voicemail, etc. I tried Gmail before with the above error message. When I try Voicemail with the email address you gave, the Send button stays grayed out. I suspect that it needs a phone number there.
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I recently switched from a TW based ROM to CM10 (and now PA2). I reinstalled the latest version of Sprint's VVM app which worked fine except for the annoying text message notifications from 9016. I searched all over the Internet for a solution. I read quite a few, "oh here's all you need to do ...worked for me...problem solved!" posts which frankly need to be deleted so others don't stumble across them and waste their time. Here's what I know to be true from my own research and testing using MY SAMSUNG EPIC 4G TOUCH aka Samsung Galaxy S2:
Texting "Block 9016" to 9999 - with or without the quotes - doesn't suppress text messages from 9016. You *will* get a lovely text from Sprint confirming that messages to and from 9016 are now blocked, but they won't be...because they're not supposed to be.
Recording a voicemail message - whether it's 5 seconds or 25 seconds - and sending it to "[email protected]" doesn't suppress text messages from 9016 - something you would have quickly discovered had you finally figured out that instead of sharing via Gmail/Email after you hit the share icon - which as Jim knows only resulted in a message not delivered notice - you instead needed to click Share Message and then in the To: field type [email protected], and then hit the return key on the keypad and then the send button. Had you been successful, you would have received yet another lovely text message from Sprint confirming that your voicemail service has been reprovisioned. As it turns out, reprovisioning your service doesn't suppress texts from 9016...because they're not supposed to be suppressed.
It occurred to me that Sprint needs to send a text from 9016 to alert the VMM app to download new messages from the VMM server. I don't need to see it on the MMS app because the VMM app sends a notification to the status bar. My hunch is that something in either the TW based ROM or the TW stock MMS app was coded to suppress texts from 9016. That "something" is apparently missing on the CM10 and/or stock MMS apps.
The good news is that "something" is not missing in the Handcent SMS app available for free on Play Store. I downloaded and installed Handcent and then disabled the stock MMS app. I didn't even have to add 9016 as a blacklist number. The Handcent developers baked the suppression fix into their code sometime in 2011 according to the release notes on their website.
Try Handcent and say goodbye to annoying texts from 9016 and say hello to pretty colors and cool features (neither of which you probably care about but it's free and I'm happy).

In ChompSMS just blacklist the number and its gone

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In ChompSMS just blacklist the number and its gone
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Beginning with Handcent 3.9.8 - which was released over a year ago - the Sprint VVM 9016 fix is baked into the app itself, so there is no need to create a blacklist entry. Just download and install Handcent SMS, disable the stock Messaging app and it's gone!
http://handcent.com/dir/news/list

Works great me for thank you
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For those of us who like the stock messaging app, and dislike clunky third party programs, or just like aosp, this doesn't help
I try to avoid solutions that say "Have a small problem with this otherwise perfect app? Use a completely different app!"

Nice! Thanks man! I just switched to an MIUI JB rom and it I really wanted my VVM back. It works on there fine btw.

Installed on CM 10 10-24-12 nightly build JB 4.1.2 Samsung epic 4g. Sweeeeeet! Thanks for this!

Darkendes said:
What's the version number on yours? I've got this version installed on CM9 and CM10 and it works beautifully.
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I can confirm that this works on CM10. I just installed the stable CM10 and then this APK, works without issue.