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OK so first off I did try searching for a couple days before making this thread, but couldnt find anything.
So since getting my cappy and whatnot, was on an iPhone 3g (which is still under contract i will add), whenever i listen to voicemail or do anything vm related, i get weird text message from 1-000-000-0000 with a message that goes something like :
alpsgaacds01.attwireless.net:5400?f=0&v.....................................................................(jsut keeps going with random stuff.)
Any ideas on how to stop it?
Also I made sure in the voicemail settings, it has my number listed.
Go to your AT&T account and get rid of Visual Voice Mail. That's why you are getting the messages.
mxracer101 said:
Go to your AT&T account and get rid of Visual Voice Mail. That's why you are getting the messages.
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Unfourtantly there is no option to remove it in the wireless.att.com pages
I had the exact same problem.
I bought my Captivate from Be$tBuy on launch day and ditched my iPhone 3G, They messed up the transfer and never removed visual voicemail.
To fix it, you have to actually call AT&T to have them change you to a non visual-vm feature.
Have an HD7 and now upgraded to mango. Trying to get the Visual Voicemail to work.
Have called T-mobile and they have enabled the feature. I got the text message that a change to my account has been made.
When I turn on Visual Voicemail in PHONE SETTING; I get the following error: OOPS!, Something happened and we couldn't set up your visual voicemail.
I have tried turning off wifi.
So; have anyone found a fit to this. Seems like many are not getting it to work and some are.
I am on the family plan with data/text/voice
Wish that Microsoft and T-Mobile had done a better job of testing in beta.
Any help/ideas would be appreciated.
just waite till your next billing cycle?
Ylinen said:
Have an HD7 and now upgraded to mango. Trying to get the Visual Voicemail to work.
Have called T-mobile and they have enabled the feature. I got the text message that a change to my account has been made.
When I turn on Visual Voicemail in PHONE SETTING; I get the following error: OOPS!, Something happened and we couldn't set up your visual voicemail.
I have tried turning off wifi.
So; have anyone found a fit to this. Seems like many are not getting it to work and some are.
I am on the family plan with data/text/voice
Wish that Microsoft and T-Mobile had done a better job of testing in beta.
Any help/ideas would be appreciated.
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Chances are that there is no problem and that the changes made to your t-mobile account have not taken effect yet. A month ago I had the same issue. So I went to t-mobile.com and change my services to enable visual voice mail. After making the change it said that the new features would be enabled the next billing cycle. I then received an email stating that I or somebody authorized had made changes to my t-mobile account. When the new billing cycle kicked in, I received another message stating that the changes that I made were going into effect. (more or less) I was then able to use visual voicemail.
same here on a 32gb HD7 with a even more plus plan.
This is an issue for me as well. It was working on the beta but stopped when I added voice to text. I cancelled that feature in hopes that vvm would start working again but no luck. I was told to wait two hours a month ago! I just spent 45 minutes on the phone with T-MO and they told me to wait another couple hours. If that does not work than they will open a support ticket. Whatever that means. I will report back. Oh, and were not alone. http://support.t-mobile.com/message/37538
I just got a support ticket opened. well see what happens.
Here is my visual voice mail Story
So my story on visual voice mail goes like this: I was running mango beta and I had visual voice mail working just fine. I was on a old unlimited plan. I changed plans to the new 2 line unlimited plan and my visual voice mail quite working. I have spoke with the tech support line over 5 times. I have had my voice mail box removed and replaced at least five times. Still to no avail. My visual voice mail no longer works. Tech support tells me its on their end. There is no reason why it did work on beta and doesn't work on full release. In fact I had one rep pawn me off to Microsoft before the full release because she said the beta version wasn't supported by Tmobile. I have two full blown tickets in with engineering now and will post if I get anything resolved. The best people I have found so far work out of the New Mexico facility. I should have more answers by Friday.
Is your 3G data on?
Currently I'm using my T-Mobile HD7 without data.
Visual voicemail is no go.
But when I turn on 3G it works fine. (I enable Visual Voicemail as a service myself on the site.)
I haven't been charged for data yet, but I rarely use it.
Yep. 3G data with full bars of service.
Got off the phone with T-Mobile about an hour ago. Now have an open ticket over at engineering. Like you guys I'll be waiting to see what happens.
Opened my ticket as well... Fingers crossed for a quick resolution
I have the same issue.
I had Beta 2 of Mango from when it leaked until about a month after the leak, at which point I rolled back to NoDo. At that time, VVM worked perfectly. I never disabled VVM on my T-Mobile account.
Now I can't get it to work at all. I've called T-Mobile support countless times, and all they ever seem to be able to do is reset the VVM on my account.
If you guys figure out what's up, it will hopefully benefit me.
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Well, Spent another hour on the phone today with them and now they say there is a problem with mango. (I don't really understand how that could be because it worked fine on mango beta and wasn't until I changed my plan that I had a problem. But whatever!) I would recommend to anyone that is getting an error when trying to set up visual voicemail that you call tmobile, get to tech support and file a ticket with engineering. The more they hear it the more likely it will get to the top of the pile to be fixed. At this point I am waiting to hear back from them. My ticket started on Sep 16th.
T-Mobile is aware of the problem. I just called and they mentioned that there was a service ticket out on it.
I had activated Visual Voicemail when I had the leaked RTM. It's still working, but watch when you guys actually get it to work. The audio actually comes out of the loud speaker on the back no matter what you do..... Fun stuff.
A person provided this solution to my question on T-Mobile support. It worked for me.
try texting "Activate:dt=6" to 122 without the quotes. should say you have a voice mail and should work (make sure you have the VM soc added to you plan first)
Ylinen said:
A person provided this solution to my question on T-Mobile support. It worked for me.
try texting "Activate:dt=6" to 122 without the quotes. should say you have a voice mail and should work (make sure you have the VM soc added to you plan first)
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Also saw this on the T-Mobile support site and it does indeed work. Question though. I'm now getting a flashing green indicator light when i have a missed call and/or voicemail. Was that always there?
Ylinen said:
A person provided this solution to my question on T-Mobile support. It worked for me.
try texting "Activate:dt=6" to 122 without the quotes. should say you have a voice mail and should work (make sure you have the VM soc added to you plan first)
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This did work! Nice Find!
I agree that the "Activate:dt=6" trick does enable Visual Voicemail in the Phone Tile. However, with 2 bars of 2G it tells me "Can't connect to visual voicemail" [server]. Can anyone confirm they actually get visual voicemail to download with the trick?
EDIT: After leaving myself a voicemail I finally got it to download. Now I'm experiencing the same problem others have with the audio ONLY playing through the loud speaker. Does anyone have a fix for this yet?
working fine for me, but I took some extra steps since the VVM was turned on on the handset without the service being provisioned via the "my account" page. It appears that Mango enables VVM on the handset by default.
(fyi, I was in a solid 3g service area when I did this, your results may vary).
1. Disable VVM in phone settings on the handset, restart phone.
2. Enable VVM on your account page
(waited about an hour)
3. Enable VVM in phone settings on the handset, restart phone.
(waited about 15 minutes)
4. Called and left myself a VM and it showed up delivered via VVM
I'm starting a new thread for this as it looks like the original update thread is not the best place to ask. As with other Turbo owners, the recent update broke my phone's ability to use Google Voice for my voicemail. Anyone know of a fix for this? Thanks in advance.
Yep, this happened to me as well. My only solution was to uninstall it, then reinstall, and go through the process of setting it up again. I also deleted it off of the Google Voice web interface as well. When you re-add it they ask you to confirm it, then you go through a few steps which involves dialing a string of numbers to set it all up again. I had no voicemail for a couple days before I realized it was broken. Can confirm it is working again after starting from scratch on the setup.
Just noticed the issue when I read about it here. I uninstalled Google Voice from my device and then reinstalled it and reconfigured. Seems to work now...
Thank you both! Works fine now.
I just had to reforward it with *71.
Not a problem.
I've done the forwarding and set up thru google voice, then opt in for Hangouts to manage it
Enabling Advanced Calling gets rid of any call forwarding you set up. That's why your voicemail stopped working. All you should have to do is set up your call forwarding again and it should work.
As a side note, disabling Advanced Calling also resets call forwarding. VoLTE doesn't work great for me, as I don't have a reliable LTE signal at home. So, I disabled it and discovered my old calling forwarding settings didn't come back.
I have GV "working" again....however, when a number is forwarded to GV (because I choose not to answer), it rings FOREVER before GV picks up. It used to be an immediate pickup prior to the update.
This is still an issue for me, I keep reforwarding my calls and they don't stay forwarded. It seems like it's just a couple hours before it resets.
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This is still an issue for me, I keep reforwarding my calls and they don't stay forwarded. It seems like it's just a couple hours before it resets.
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Are you turning off Advanced Calling? That will reset it.
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Are you turning off Advanced Calling? That will reset it.
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No.
FWIW I just signed up to Verizon and got a Droid turbo for myself and a note 4 for my fiancé. I couldn't get Google voice to configure at all, on the Note it works flawlessly. So now I have a note. The techs there were obviously baffled. I'd still have the turbo if it wasn't for lack of GV.
Clear data/cache and reinstall/reconfigure. Haven't had any problems since I did that after the update. Didn't have any problems before the update either.
No one likes to use the hangouts for Google voice? Download the hangouts dialer and you're all set. Oh, go to settings and select ring this device for calls.
How I was doing it was I set GV to to make and answer all calls. It'll attempt to ring then give up. I'm going back to Verizon tonight. I like the Note 4 but it is pretty big. The only thing other than the turbo that I like is the Xperia z3v. I don't mind the incrementally weaker hardware paired with a 1080p screen. Waterproof is also a big plus.
gordonzhao said:
No one likes to use the hangouts for Google voice? Download the hangouts dialer and you're all set. Oh, go to settings and select ring this device for calls.
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I only use it for Voice Mail
what phone number do i put in for call forwarding my Verizon # or my Google Voice # ? I tried to just uninstall Google voice but it still isn't working, im not sure what i should try next?
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what phone number do i put in for call forwarding my Verizon # or my Google Voice # ? I tried to just uninstall Google voice but it still isn't working, im not sure what i should try next?
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You want to put your google voice number.
See this thread for more info: http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-turbo/general/fix-google-voice-forwarding-advanced-t2980980
im running chroma and want visual voice mail, so I called Verizon and disabled vvm and put on basic, tried setting up google voice no go. figured I had to have vvm turned on so I turned it back on, still didn't work. for the sake of time I disabled vvm again and put it to basic, now im getting the gargled text messages and voice mail notifications idk if itll turn off on its own? maybe it has to process in their system because so many changes?? if I wanted VVM google voice to work is there any easy instructions and should it be set to basic?? it kept saying in setup my account isn't supported when I had it set to google voice.
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im running chroma and want visual voice mail, so I called Verizon and disabled vvm and put on basic, tried setting up google voice no go. figured I had to have vvm turned on so I turned it back on, still didn't work. for the sake of time I disabled vvm again and put it to basic, now im getting the gargled text messages and voice mail notifications idk if itll turn off on its own? maybe it has to process in their system because so many changes?? if I wanted VVM google voice to work is there any easy instructions and should it be set to basic?? it kept saying in setup my account isn't supported when I had it set to google voice.
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First, for your issue, from what I've read VVM doesn't play nice with ROM's, need to be stock. I hope I'm incorrect, others likely will chime in ...
I've got the opposite issue, stock N6, not rooted or unlocked yet, and it prompts me to install the VVM app for any VM's I get (bought from VZW), I do not want VVM, and VVM is NOT enabled on my account, never has been.
How might I get my N6 VM notifications to act like I expect, and not an ad for VVM?
i know you can uninstall the Verizon vvm and call them and have it set to basic, I did on my stock phone. but now I want a rom and vvm.
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i know you can uninstall the Verizon vvm and call them and have it set to basic, I did on my stock phone. but now I want a rom and vvm.
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You can't use Verizon VVM on anything but stock. No matter how much you want it.
RW-1 said:
I've got the opposite issue, stock N6, not rooted or unlocked yet, and it prompts me to install the VVM app for any VM's I get (bought from VZW), I do not want VVM, and VVM is NOT enabled on my account, never has been.
How might I get my N6 VM notifications to act like I expect, and not an ad for VVM?
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Turn off enhanced LTE on the phone. On your Verizon account disable HD voice and switch to basic voice mail. Obviously you will lose VoLTE but that's the only way to get regular basic voicemail.
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Turn off enhanced LTE on the phone. On your Verizon account disable HD voice and switch to basic voice mail. Obviously you will lose VoLTE but that's the only way to get regular basic voicemail.
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I hate to say I don't know how to turn off enhanced LTE on the N6, however, as far as the account goes, I don't have HD voice turned on, nor VoLTE, which is why this is so annoying.
I was on regular basic Voicemail, until I switched to the N6 as an edge upgrade, and hadn't done anything other than have it activated on my line.
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I hate to say I don't know how to turn off enhanced LTE on the N6, however, as far as the account goes, I don't have HD voice turned on, nor VoLTE, which is why this is so annoying.
I was on regular basic Voicemail, until I switched to the N6 as an edge upgrade, and hadn't done anything other than have it activated on my line.
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You sure it's not set on your account? They probably set it automatically when you activated the new phone. They were calling it advanced calling 1.0 at one point. On the phone go to settings, More, and then cellular networks. If you don't see enhanced LTE there its because it's off on your account and the phone setting doesn't matter.
IMHO I would never give up VoLTE to get basic voicemail but to each his own.
It's also possible something changed in 5.1 but I thought the plain VM indicator worked briefly for me after the 5.0.1 to 5.1 upgrade before I turned VoLTE on.
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You sure it's not set on your account? They probably set it automatically when you activated the new phone. They were calling it advanced calling 1.0 at one point. On the phone go to settings, More, and then cellular networks. If you don't see enhanced LTE there its because it's off on your account and the phone setting doesn't matter.
IMHO I would never give up VoLTE to get basic voicemail but to each his own.
It's also possible something changed in 5.1 but I thought the plain VM indicator worked briefly for me after the 5.0.1 to 5.1 upgrade before I turned VoLTE on.
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Nope, not there, never had advanced calling turned on, I had thought about it for both my wife and I, as she has a GS5, but left it for now settling into the N6...
I wouldn't give up VoLTE either just for the VM, but I hadn't yet pulled the trigger on it yet ...
It's not a deal breaker for me, just annoying as all get out, triggers my OCD which all of us here have in regards to their device hehehe.
I suppose I could call a VZ rep and have them look at the account, but truthfully that always worries me whenever one of them are in there ...
If you have any other suggestions, I'm game to listen ...
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Nope, not there, never had advanced calling turned on, I had thought about it for both my wife and I, as she has a GS5, but left it for now settling into the N6...
I wouldn't give up VoLTE either just for the VM, but I hadn't yet pulled the trigger on it yet ...
It's not a deal breaker for me, just annoying as all get out, triggers my OCD which all of us here have in regards to their device hehehe.
I suppose I could call a VZ rep and have them look at the account, but truthfully that always worries me whenever one of them are in there ...
If you have any other suggestions, I'm game to listen ...
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If you don't have Advanced Calling turned on then you don't have HD Calling nor VoLTE, they are bundled together. Anyway, no further suggestions but good luck
Just to let you know I have my basic voice mail working and I have advanced calling 1.0 turned on and my HD Calling and VoLTE is working.
I had a lot of trouble with Verizon because they couldn't figure out how to turn the visual voice mail off right. took about 10 phone calls to tech support to get it right.
I was getting the gargled text messages and voice mail notifications just like you.
Don't give up just keep calling back till you get somebody who knows what they are doing!
I knew it wasn't the phone or the sim card, I swapped another sim from a different number and the voice mail worked on the nexus 6.
Good luck!
kae9797 said:
Just to let you know I have my basic voice mail working and I have advanced calling 1.0 turned on and my HD Calling and VoLTE is working.
I had a lot of trouble with Verizon because they couldn't figure out how to turn the visual voice mail off right. took about 10 phone calls to tech support to get it right.
I was getting the gargled text messages and voice mail notifications just like you.
Don't give up just keep calling back till you get somebody who knows what they are doing!
I knew it wasn't the phone or the sim card, I swapped another sim from a different number and the voice mail worked on the nexus 6.
Good luck!
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Thanks to the both of you, I have yet to call them, but figure something is likely borked from the activation of the new phone, for as large as they are I've seen too many botched provisioning issues lately
Don't know when I'll get to it, but I appreciate the input!
Every time i flash the unlocked firmware, it will succeed and go to the android upgrade screen. But once it reaches 32% it says erasing and goes right back to the verizon firmware
I was able to flash the unlocked version on my Verizon Note 8. Which guide are you following? https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-8/how-to/stock-recovery-odin-recovery-software-t3671615 I used this guide by BlueFox721.
Discovideo3 said:
Every time i flash the unlocked firmware, it will succeed and go to the android upgrade screen. But once it reaches 32% it says erasing and goes right back to the verizon firmware
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Boot in recovery and factory reset then choose boot to bootloader from recovery main menu and flash unlocked firmware...make sure ums/patch is set to 1 in config file and that you are using Prince Comsy's Odin...UMS slot should be empty...bl in bl, ap in ap, cp in cp, csc in csc
This might sound strange (and, yes, I've already searched all the threads to find what I'm looking for, and couldn't find it), but, has anyone successfully flashed the Verizon firmware onto the unlocked US (SM-N950U1) Note 8? If you're wondering why in the world I'd want to do that, it's simple: Visual Voicemail. Here's my problem - I'm a chauffeur, and I rely (partly) on receiving voicemails, as I can't answer the phone when clients are in the limo (as clients get in, I silence my phone). The unlocked Note 8 not only doesn't have Visual Voicemail, but I don't even receive any sort of notification when a voicemail is left. If I don't receive any indication that I have a voicemail, how am I supposed to know? Calling myself every time I drop, so as to check for voicemails, is not a very realistic way of dealing with this. Having read in other forums, I know I'm not the only one miffed about this. Countless others with the unlocked Note 8, S8, & S8+ have discovered this "problem". Since Verizon has been worthless in helping me, I'm starting to think that the only way I'll get voicemail notifications (of any kind) is to flash my unlocked Note 8 with the Verizon firmware...unless someone reading this knows how to get voicemail notifications working. Assistance is requested...anyone?
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This might sound strange (and, yes, I've already searched all the threads to find what I'm looking for, and couldn't find it), but, has anyone successfully flashed the Verizon firmware onto the unlocked US (SM-N950U1) Note 8? If you're wondering why in the world I'd want to do that, it's simple: Visual Voicemail. Here's my problem - I'm a chauffeur, and I rely (partly) on receiving voicemails, as I can't answer the phone when clients are in the limo (as clients get in, I silence my phone). The unlocked Note 8 not only doesn't have Visual Voicemail, but I don't even receive any sort of notification when a voicemail is left. If I don't receive any indication that I have a voicemail, how am I supposed to know? Calling myself every time I drop, so as to check for voicemails, is not a very realistic way of dealing with this. Having read in other forums, I know I'm not the only one miffed about this. Countless others with the unlocked Note 8, S8, & S8+ have discovered this "problem". Since Verizon has been worthless in helping me, I'm starting to think that the only way I'll get voicemail notifications (of any kind) is to flash my unlocked Note 8 with the Verizon firmware...unless someone reading this knows how to get voicemail notifications working. Assistance is requested...anyone?
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Google voice works great...you just need to forward your vm to Google voice #...search web for Verizon vvm to Google voice...it transcribes better imho...
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Google voice works great...you just need to forward your vm to Google voice #...search web for Verizon vvm to Google voice...it transcribes better imho...
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Unfortunately, with the Galaxy Note 8, these instructions (such as those found at https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/general/guide-switch-verizon-vvm-to-google-t2151572) don't apply, and won't work. In the phone app's "Settings" menu, there is no "Other Call Options" setting. There is, however, within the phone app's settings, a "VOICEMAIL" category, of which the first two options are "Service provider" and "Voicemail settings". Under "Service provider", the only option is "My carrier"...there is no "Google Voice" option. Under "Voicemail settings", there is one sub-setting, "Voicemail number", which currently has *86 entered. Now, I could easily change that to my Google Voice number, but I'm uncertain as to whether, or not, that would do anything (plus, at least as of my time typing this post, I don't have a way of testing, as my wife is at work). Since, as indicated in step 4 of the directions given (in the above-mentioned link), one must first change the voicemail setting from "My carrier" to "Google Voice", that leads me to believe that this won't work on my unlocked Note 8.
In calling Verizon today, something 'interesting' was discovered. It appears that, when the Verizon customer service person canceled my Premium Visual Voicemail (ie. the monthly $2.99 fee) a week ago, he forgot (within Verizon's internal system) to revert my line's setting from "Visual Voicemail" back to "standard Voicemail". After the customer service person (from today's call) changed that setting, I started receiving standard voicemail notifications. So, at least I've been able to finally get traditional voicemail notifications to work. That being said, I'd STILL like to regain some form of visual voicemail, be it Verizon's (which I'm assuming will be impossible, unless I flash my unlocked Note 8 with the Verizon firmware), or Google Voice's. Since the directions given by Winesnob (again, via the above link) don't appear to work on the Note 8 (because "Google Voice" isn't listed as a voicemail option within the phone's phone app settings), any other suggestions, short of flashing the Verizon firmware?
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Discovideo3 said:
Every time i flash the unlocked firmware, it will succeed and go to the android upgrade screen. But once it reaches 32% it says erasing and goes right back to the verizon firmware
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Take out the Verizon sim when. You are flashing the unlock firmware.. it seems to confuse oidn and the firmware for some reason .. then after you set up the phone just pop the sim in. You should be good to go
Just flash it to the TMO version and use t mobile if possible.?
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This might sound strange (and, yes, I've already searched all the threads to find what I'm looking for, and couldn't find it), but, has anyone successfully flashed the Verizon firmware onto the unlocked US (SM-N950U1) Note 8? If you're wondering why in the world I'd want to do that, it's simple: Visual Voicemail. Here's my problem - I'm a chauffeur, and I rely (partly) on receiving voicemails, as I can't answer the phone when clients are in the limo (as clients get in, I silence my phone). The unlocked Note 8 not only doesn't have Visual Voicemail, but I don't even receive any sort of notification when a voicemail is left. If I don't receive any indication that I have a voicemail, how am I supposed to know? Calling myself every time I drop, so as to check for voicemails, is not a very realistic way of dealing with this. Having read in other forums, I know I'm not the only one miffed about this. Countless others with the unlocked Note 8, S8, & S8+ have discovered this "problem". Since Verizon has been worthless in helping me, I'm starting to think that the only way I'll get voicemail notifications (of any kind) is to flash my unlocked Note 8 with the Verizon firmware...unless someone reading this knows how to get voicemail notifications working. Assistance is requested...anyone?
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Youmail
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Youmail
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This.
I am also Unlocked on Verizon and ran into the same dilemma and YouMail works great.
Panther6834 said:
Unfortunately, with the Galaxy Note 8, these instructions (such as those found at https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/general/guide-switch-verizon-vvm-to-google-t2151572) don't apply, and won't work. In the phone app's "Settings" menu, there is no "Other Call Options" setting. There is, however, within the phone app's settings, a "VOICEMAIL" category, of which the first two options are "Service provider" and "Voicemail settings". Under "Service provider", the only option is "My carrier"...there is no "Google Voice" option. Under "Voicemail settings", there is one sub-setting, "Voicemail number", which currently has *86 entered. Now, I could easily change that to my Google Voice number, but I'm uncertain as to whether, or not, that would do anything (plus, at least as of my time typing this post, I don't have a way of testing, as my wife is at work). Since, as indicated in step 4 of the directions given (in the above-mentioned link), one must first change the voicemail setting from "My carrier" to "Google Voice", that leads me to believe that this won't work on my unlocked Note 8.
In calling Verizon today, something 'interesting' was discovered. It appears that, when the Verizon customer service person canceled my Premium Visual Voicemail (ie. the monthly $2.99 fee) a week ago, he forgot (within Verizon's internal system) to revert my line's setting from "Visual Voicemail" back to "standard Voicemail". After the customer service person (from today's call) changed that setting, I started receiving standard voicemail notifications. So, at least I've been able to finally get traditional voicemail notifications to work. That being said, I'd STILL like to regain some form of visual voicemail, be it Verizon's (which I'm assuming will be impossible, unless I flash my unlocked Note 8 with the Verizon firmware), or Google Voice's. Since the directions given by Winesnob (again, via the above link) don't appear to work on the Note 8 (because "Google Voice" isn't listed as a voicemail option within the phone's phone app settings), any other suggestions, short of flashing the Verizon firmware?
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There should be updated info for Google voice on verizon....For Sprint all I had to do was dial *73mygooglevoicenumber and all was well...I did not mess with the voicemail settings on the phone as it was unnecessary...this just forwards to Google voice...you just need to know the correct "no answer forward" prefix...it used to be *71...leave all other settings alone...then when you get a voicemail phone will forward to Google voice....so if you have to call Verizon tech ask for the *number for no answer forward....then dial it in the phone like you are making a call with your Google voice number...for example, call (dial in phone app) *716235551234 and press the phone button to start the call...the example I used behind the *71 (6235551234) is not a real number and the *71 used to be Verizon's no answer forward prefix...your Google voice number is shown in settings of the Google voice app...
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xbmoyx said:
This.
I am also Unlocked on Verizon and ran into the same dilemma and YouMail works great.
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I remember using youmail on my tthunderbolt...I just preferred Google voice...glad you have something you like though...
BlueFox721 said:
I remember using youmail on my tthunderbolt...I just preferred Google voice...glad you have something you like though...
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I still prefer Visual Voicemail but don't really feel like tinkering with flashing anything. I looked into Google Voice and I was kinda confused, you have to create a new phone number? How can I use my existing number but get Google voice to work properly and get voicemails?
xbmoyx said:
I still prefer Visual Voicemail but don't really feel like tinkering with flashing anything. I looked into Google Voice and I was kinda confused, you have to create a new phone number? How can I use my existing number but get Google voice to work properly and get voicemails?
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Now that you can use your current number for calling on Google voice I'm not sure...but you can still get a Google voice number instead...I just said no when it asked if I wanted to use my cell number...and then forwarded the no answer service to the Google voice number I got from google by dialing *73googlevoicenumber
Change Google voice number:
https://support.google.com/voice/answer/115114
I promised I'd reply back, and I am. Thankfully, it appears that I won't have to flash the Verizon firmware, after all. After canceling my Premium Visual Voicemail with Verizon, I should have started receiving voicemail notifications, to which I'd have to call my own voicemail every time I wanted to listen to voicemails. As I mentioned previously, after my Visual Voicemail was canceled, I still wasn't receiving voicemail notifications. On Friday (10/6), I called Verizon customer service (for a different reason), and during the conversation, and having mentioned the call two weeks earlier, this technician discovered that the previous person had forgotten to switch my line’s voicemail from “visual” to “basic”. Once she did this, I started receiving voicemail notifications.
Of course, what I (still) really wanted was some form of visual voicemail…so, I decided to give Google Voice’s voicemail another shot. I reinstalled Google Voice, redid the GV settings, as well as the settings for my phone’s phone app, and dialed *71 followed by my GV number. I am happy to say that I am now receiving visual voicemail, as well as notifications, and, as such, I won’t have to clutter up my phone with Verizon’s bloatware.
Panther6834 said:
I promised I'd reply back, and I am. Thankfully, it appears that I won't have to flash the Verizon firmware, after all. After canceling my Premium Visual Voicemail with Verizon, I should have started receiving voicemail notifications, to which I'd have to call my own voicemail every time I wanted to listen to voicemails. As I mentioned previously, after my Visual Voicemail was canceled, I still wasn't receiving voicemail notifications. On Friday (10/6), I called Verizon customer service (for a different reason), and during the conversation, and having mentioned the call two weeks earlier, this technician discovered that the previous person had forgotten to switch my line’s voicemail from “visual” to “basic”. Once she did this, I started receiving voicemail notifications.
Of course, what I (still) really wanted was some form of visual voicemail…so, I decided to give Google Voice’s voicemail another shot. I reinstalled Google Voice, redid the GV settings, as well as the settings for my phone’s phone app, and dialed *71 followed by my GV number. I am happy to say that I am now receiving visual voicemail, as well as notifications, and, as such, I won’t have to clutter up my phone with Verizon’s bloatware.
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Glad to see it worked