Hi Guys-I did search on this forum, google search and on Sprint's website. The answer on Sprint does not seem to apply to this phone and only allows me to change the pin. Is there a way to not have to use? I remember when activated phone and set up first time there was a choice to use pin or not. I cannot find how to disable this now.
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Doc
Call your voicemail by pressing and holding the 1 button.
Now press 4 for options.
On mine, it says I have chosen to skip my voicemail passcode, press 1 to turn it on. I'm guessing it should be the opposite for you.
If the above does not work, press 7 to go into expert mode and you can change it there. HTH.
Thanks itbmd. It seems I created my own problem by trying the Google Voice using my sprint number. Apparently the settings for google voice voicemail are different and do not allow going without a passcode. When I disabled google voice it then removed voicemail completely from my sprint accountT. I had to call sprint and had the voicemail added back. Last time I will try this again!
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Does anybody know where the settings are stored that "tell" the Voicemail button innotifications which number to dial?
Whenever you get voicemail, you get a notification that pops up with an option to call voicemail. On my phone, however, the standard voicemail setup in Settings/Phone does NOT store commas so you cannot have one-click access to voicemail. In fact, when setting up the standard voicemail, you can type the comma, but when you exit and come back in, the comma is automatically deleted, so it doesn't work. So, I had to setup a contact entitled Voicemail and inserted the voicemail telephone number, comma, password and # there. Commas are retained in contact phone numbers, so I call that contact, I indeed get one-click access. I also made that contact Speed Dial 2.
What I want to be able to do is alter the settings for the Voicemail option in notifications so that instead of dialing the via the Settings/Phone setup it will either:
a) dial the contact
b) dial speed dial 2
or
c) allow me to directly enter what I want in the configuration for that option.
Even if I have to edit the Registry, I have no problem. I just don't know where that info is stored.
Anybody got any ideas?
TIA
Does V not allow you to check your voicemail from your phone without the password? I'm with Sprint, and when calling voicemail from my device it doesn't ask, but when calling from another phone it will.
-Drunk
traditionally it is stored in speed dial position 1 so you can press and hold 1 to call voicemail. I know you can edit it on AT&T phones might be able to on Verizon too.
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Does V not allow you to check your voicemail from your phone without the password? I'm with Sprint, and when calling voicemail from my device it doesn't ask, but when calling from another phone it will.
-Drunk
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No Verizon requires you to enter a password even if you call from your cell phone.
dalavar said:
traditionally it is stored in speed dial position 1 so you can press and hold 1 to call voicemail. I know you can edit it on AT&T phones might be able to on Verizon too.
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Yes, while the default is Speed Dial 1, that is NOT what I'm looking for because, as I stated above, commas cannot be maintained withing the standard voicemail setup location. Thus, when you press "voicemail" when prompted for messages, you end up having to type your password.
I am looking for a way to "remap" that Voicemail option on notifications.
On AT&T it is P for pause not comma's have you tried that?
Or you could install PhoneAlarm it allows you to change your voicemail number.
dalavar said:
On AT&T it is P for pause not comma's have you tried that?
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That was the ticket! Thanks so much for the tip!
Hello all,
Can you help me with these questions? I'd really appreciate it.
1. When I hit the top button, my Incredible locks. I have to unlock it with a password because of Exchange Active Sync policies. Can I instead make it go into a simpler "slide-to-unlock" mode with the top button before the password lock kicks in later?
2. Running stock (out of the box), can it read me my text messages? If not, what app do you recommend?
3. "Install Voice Data" is grayed out in the TTS settings. Does that mean I can't install it or is it already installed?
4. Voice dial gives me only one chance to get a command right. I say a command and I only get "OK" or "Cancel" on the screen.
All of the my previous phones would say aloud what it thought I said and ask me if it was correct or if I wanted to try again. Can the Incredible do that? If not, is there an app that can?
5. No dedicated hard button to activate voice dial or the phone dial pad. Do I need to pair a headset to get functionality like that?
6. Voice dial doesn't recognize first name, last name. It's last name, first name. I forget where, but I can change that, right? Where's that setting?
I appreciate any help!
BcNexus said:
5. No dedicated hard button to activate voice dial or the phone dial pad. Do I need to pair a headset to get functionality like that?
6. Voice dial doesn't recognize first name, last name. It's last name, first name. I forget where, but I can change that, right? Where's that setting?
I appreciate any help!
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5. If you hold the search button on the lower right of the phone it goes into voice mode. From there you can search your phone & voice dial from there.
6. Are you sure about that, mine seems to be working correctly by doing the above.
Put some answers inline here.
BcNexus said:
Hello all,
Can you help me with these questions? I'd really appreciate it.
1. When I hit the top button, my Incredible locks. I have to unlock it with a password because of Exchange Active Sync policies. Can I instead make it go into a simpler "slide-to-unlock" mode with the top button before the password lock kicks in later?
2. Running stock (out of the box), can it read me my text messages? If not, what app do you recommend?
3. "Install Voice Data" is grayed out in the TTS settings. Does that mean I can't install it or is it already installed?
4. Voice dial gives me only one chance to get a command right. I say a command and I only get "OK" or "Cancel" on the screen.
All of the my previous phones would say aloud what it thought I said and ask me if it was correct or if I wanted to try again. Can the Incredible do that? If not, is there an app that can?
5. No dedicated hard button to activate voice dial or the phone dial pad. Do I need to pair a headset to get functionality like that?
Android does not support the handsfree profile, so getting a handset won't work to solve this problem. Really stupid, I know.
6. Voice dial doesn't recognize first name, last name. It's last name, first name. I forget where, but I can change that, right? Where's that setting?
This just depends on how your contacts are set up I think
I appreciate any help!
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Hi all!
This is my 1st Evo post (maybe 1st post period) and Im having trouble with my visual voicemail. I am on the latest firmware, the phone is brand new (got it 2 days ago).
When I open the visual voicemail app, I press menu and click undelivered messages. Sitting in this folder is "[email protected]". Ive tried resending it, no luck. I cant delete it either. I get an error message stating "there is a delay in setting up your voicemail. Your message will be sent as soon as this step is complete." Also, when I hold the 1 key down, it doesnt take me to VM, it just rings and I get an error message. I have to dial my own number to get to my voice messages. What am I doing wrong?
Problem 1: No visual voicemail
Problem 2: Holding 1 key doesnt take me to VM
Thanks in advance for anyones help, it is surely appreciated!
Chris
I forgot to mention, I have full service strength and I can use the internet and get email over the 3g/4g connection.
I called customer service, and they told me to call back on a different line. Wish I had one........
It sounds like there is an issue regarding your profile. You could try updating your profile.
Settings - System Updates - Update Profile
Also update the PRL while you're there.
If that doesn't work and you don't have another phone to call Sprint with, then take it into a store and use their phones to call support, or maybe they can help you there.
Also a suggestion, don't post replies to your topic just edit your existing one. I almost skipped the post because I saw 3 replies, assuming the question was answered.
Sirchuk said:
It sounds like there is an issue regarding your profile. You could try updating your profile.
Settings - System Updates - Update Profile
Also update the PRL while you're there.
If that doesn't work and you don't have another phone to call Sprint with, then take it into a store and use their phones to call support, or maybe they can help you there.
Also a suggestion, don't post replies to your topic just edit your existing one. I almost skipped the post because I saw 3 replies, assuming the question was answered.
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Will do, headed to a sprint store now.
Thanks for the forum ettiquite info too
here is how your fix this problem...
I just had this and nothing I did or looked up help. got off of the line with Sprint and apparently there is sometimes a "Ghost" number set up on your phone during initiation and if your ported # does not get embedded in the software properly, you are hosed.
here is how you fix it:
- from dialer, dial ##643750#
- a menu will pop up, hit edit mode
- there will be 2 options -- can't remember the names. the top one will be what should be your phone # and the bottom one is a general access # that is *not* your phone #
- on the top entry, click edit and replace the # with your own phone #
- click the menu button on the phone and initiate the change
After I did this, my many test voicemails arrived after about 10 seconds.
Hope this helps --- I was not a member of this forum but registered just to log this fix as it is very frustrating. I hope this saves someone some time and frustration!
1. Sign up for google voice,
2. setup conditional call forwarding on your voicemail
3. enjoy transcribed text and better recording quality
donatom3 said:
1. Sign up for google voice,
2. setup conditional call forwarding on your voicemail
3. enjoy transcribed text and better recording quality
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I was trying to figure this out.. What's the easy to set up forwarding to google voice?
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I was trying to figure this out.. What's the easy to set up forwarding to google voice?
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Go to settings in google voice then voice settings you should see your mobile number and a link to enable google voicemail on this phone.
Basically you're going to dial *28XXXXXXXXXX which is your phone number.
peakay said:
I just had this and nothing I did or looked up help. got off of the line with Sprint and apparently there is sometimes a "Ghost" number set up on your phone during initiation and if your ported # does not get embedded in the software properly, you are hosed.
here is how you fix it:
- from dialer, dial ##643750#
- a menu will pop up, hit edit mode
- there will be 2 options -- can't remember the names. the top one will be what should be your phone # and the bottom one is a general access # that is *not* your phone #
- on the top entry, click edit and replace the # with your own phone #
- click the menu button on the phone and initiate the change
After I did this, my many test voicemails arrived after about 10 seconds.
Hope this helps --- I was not a member of this forum but registered just to log this fix as it is very frustrating. I hope this saves someone some time apd frustration!
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I had this exact problem when I ported my old number to my Evo. I went to a Sprint store and they called CS, and I watched the keystrokes the rep did so I'd know what he did. I think the code for this is different for everybody. I just realized today that when CS did this for me, the rep dialed ##xxxxxx# where xxxxxx was actually my MSL code (just looked it up today and it looked familiar, now I know why).
So enter your own MSL and you should get what you need.
Has anyone had any trouble getting the google voice voicemail set up on the VZW galaxy nexus? Whenever i get to the voicemail section it gives me the error
"Carrier config: unfortunately your network carrier is currently not supported for automatic configuration. To use google voice as your voicemail provider, please visit google voice help center for more information".
Going to the help center has nothing on how to manually set it up.... My droid 2 had no problem setting this up automatically... am I missing something?
http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=165656
The Verizon setup is at the bottom of the page
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sirgoob said:
http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=165656
The Verizon setup is at the bottom of the page
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I've done those steps, but they didnt work. The *71, *90 and *92 also didn't work in my situation.
I eventually ended up uninstalling on the phone, and deactivating and then reactivating the vvm from the web admin panel. The *71 number worked, and then reinstalled voice on the phone. It worked after that.
It seems that the error i posted in OP is present always for verizon. Still works if you manually dial the instructed number. Not sure why....
try to have someone call you and leave a voicemail message. i've only had my nexus for a couple days but i was able to set google voice up on the first day. i got the error that it couldn't be set up the normal way but in the settings and everything it looked ok and i had someone leave me a message and everything worked like it was supposed to.
Hey I hate to bring up this old thread but Ive been troubleshooting this problem long enough so I figured I would ask here.
I'm having trouble getting google voice to work the way I want to. I set it up and it seems to work, whenever people leave me voice mails my google voice app pops up and transcribes it and gives me a notification of a new voice mail. But I cant seem to set custom voice mails for specific contacts. As a matter of fact I cant seem to change my voice mail at all...it just says my recorded name.
So I go on my computer to google voice and make changes to my voice mail greeting and these changes are not reflected in my phone. Also I call my google voice number on my phone and try to change the voice mail there but it also doesn't change it.
Sorry this is long and confusing but maybe one of you know what I'm talking about
Has anyone been able to get Google Voice voicemail to work on VZW M9 with Verizon's advanced calling VoLTE?
It worked fine without Advanced calling VoLTE.
With advanced calling on, callers get the "Voicemail has not been set up" message.
I've been using Google Voice for a long time on several VZW devices with no problems.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
sdamark said:
Has anyone been able to get Google Voice voicemail to work on VZW M9 with Verizon's advanced calling VoLTE?
It worked fine without Advanced calling VoLTE.
With advanced calling on, callers get the "Voicemail has not been set up" message.
I've been using Google Voice for a long time on several VZW devices with no problems.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
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Mark....its probably been so long since you setup. You need to login to your google voice number and find the buried setup menu under settings. In there you will find a number that starts off *71 you need to dial that full number to forward voicemail traffic back to google voice. When you activate volte, they snuck in basic vvm which cleared your voicemail forwarding.
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dottat said:
Mark....its probably been so long since you setup. You need to login to your google voice number and find the buried setup menu under settings. In there you will find a number that starts off *71 you need to dial that full number to forward voicemail traffic back to google voice. When you activate volte, they snuck in basic vvm which cleared your voicemail forwarding.
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Yeah Doug, already tried the *71xxxxxxxx *90xxxxxxxx *92xxxxxxx set-up again. Still no luck.
It was saying the voicemail was not set up, before.
Now it just says the call could not be completed, if I don't pick up.
Beginning to think Google voice is just not compatible with "Advanced calling".
sdamark said:
Yeah Doug, already tried the *71xxxxxxxx *90xxxxxxxx *92xxxxxxx set-up again. Still no luck.
It was saying the voicemail was not set up, before.
Now it just says the call could not be completed, if I don't pick up.
Beginning to think Google voice is just not compatible with "Advanced calling".
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You only need one forwarding number so now you are probably all screwed up. I have two family members i fixed after they enabled advanced calling. Trust me when i say it, advanced calling is not the problem. The fact it cleared your call forwarding voicemail is to blame. Look up your google voice forwarding setup in your google voice settings using a pc browser. Dial *73 and hit call. Then dial the *71 thats in your google voice setup and nothing else!
http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/knowledge-base-17268/
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***EDIT*** Resolved -
With Google Voice there are 2 numbers.
One to call and check your voicemail, and the second is the number you forward missed calls to.
The first one is very easy to find, it's posted all over when you log in.
The second one, however, is buried so deep in it took forever for me to find.
Once I forwarded to the correct number, all works great.
PS, Thanks Doug for your help.
Would someone be able to do a step by step for me?
I have tried absolutely everything.
SnoStorm said:
Would someone be able to do a step by step for me?
I have tried absolutely everything.
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Just to fix your Google voicemail?
Make sure when you login to get the phone number you need to dial in phone to activate google voice that you are logged into Google Voice via your PC web browser. It's in settings.
google.com/voice
click the gear in the upper right hand corner. Middle of the screen there's either "activate voicemail" or "deactivate voicemail" You can click that to toggle between the clear all forwarding (*73) and whatever number your phone needs to activate voicemail. THAT is the only number you should dial on your phone to activate it.
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