This is the only thing that has stopped me from making the switch to one of Darchstar's new ROMs. I was very hesitant to make a thread about this but I've received PMs from other people experiencing the same issue. Here's hoping we can get this figured out.
Whenever I install a 2.1 or 2.0.1 ROM I get a notification telling me that I have a voicemail waiting. I click the notification and it automatically dials *86.
"Thanks for calling Helio by Virgin Mobile. Please enter your mobile number beginning with your area code." That's definitely not right.
I call my Sprint Voicemail box and I have no messages. I call myself and leave a message and then delete it. Nothing.
I go into "Call Settings" and change my voicemail number and the notification remains.
I registered with Google Voice. The notification stayed. I left a Google Voice voicemail and deleted it... no change.
I RUU'd, re-rooted and flashed darchstar's ROM. Mockingly, the notification appeared immediately.
I installed Flip's 2.1 Sense ROM and the Indicator showed up immediately, but I was able to clear it in the Settings menu. (Settings > Call Settings > Clear Voicemail Notification) -- This option isn't available in the AOSP ROMs. I've tried to push the settings APK from Flip's ROM, but of course the settings program does nothing but forceclose on AOSP.
I'd just switch to Flip's ROM and manually remove Sense, but AFAIK there is no fix for the Market in that ROM as of yet.
I've also called Sprint regarding the issue. I hoped that a simple reset of my voicemail box would resolve the issue. No dice. I did, however, confuse the heck out of a Tech Support representative at least.
I am not nearly as experienced with Android Development as I'd like to be, but I am trying to learn. I've poked through the SDK documentation and it seems like I might be able to completely disable that notification if I knew what I was doing a little better. This would be fine being that I've fully switched my voicemail box to Google Voice.
I have managed to get the notification to go away for a period of time. If I wipe, flash, wipe, flash enough I'll boot and the notification won't be there. Each and every single time it comes back eventually. I got it to go away for approx 7 hours about a week ago. I was so pissed when it came back...
The closest thing to a solution that I've came across is going into framework-res and removing the PNG for the voicemail notification. At least, I don't have to stare at that icon all day long that way.
Does anyone have any ideas that I haven't covered above?
You know Im right there with you. I have tried just about everything you outlined and I still couldnt get it to go away more than a few hours. Fresh 2.1 did slightly help the situation by being able to clear it but as soon as I restarted, there it was again.
Just out of curiosity Illogic, have you tried a new Micro SD card?
kbizzle said:
You know Im right there with you. I have tried just about everything you outlined and I still couldnt get it to go away more than a few hours. Fresh 2.1 did slightly help the situation by being able to clear it but as soon as I restarted, there it was again.
Just out of curiosity Illogic, have you tried a new Micro SD card?
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That I have not. I would be very surprised if that fixed it, but I suppose it is worth looking at at this point.
illogic6 said:
That I have not. I would be very surprised if that fixed it, but I suppose it is worth looking at at this point.
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I have been waiting on a 8gb class 6 for 2 and a half weeks. I was gonna test when it came in. I have partitioned many times but I wonder if it is possible something is just stuck on it and its causing this issue. I dont know, maybe im just on my last ideas about it.
I have a feeling that it has something to do with the fact that we are missing visual voicemail on these unofficial builds.
When we receive a Sprint Voicemail on a ROM without VVM we get a SMS message that would normally be filtered out by the VVM app. When you clear your voicemail box you get a SMS that looks like it's meant to turn the message waiting indicator off, but the phone doesn't recognize it.
Been pulling my hair out over this for too long.
illogic6 said:
I have a feeling that it has something to do with the fact that we are missing visual voicemail on these unofficial builds.
When we receive a Sprint Voicemail on a ROM without VVM we get a SMS message that would normally be filtered out by the VVM app. When you clear your voicemail box you get a SMS that looks like it's meant to turn the message waiting indicator off, but the phone doesn't recognize it.
Been pulling my hair out over this for too long.
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The only thing is that we seem to be the ONLY two with the problem. Everyone else doesnt have VVM and they dont have that icon everytime.
kbizzle said:
The only thing is that we seem to be the ONLY two with the problem. Everyone else doesnt have VVM and they dont have that icon everytime.
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It's not just us. I know of at least one other person for sure.
illogic6 said:
It's not just us. I know of at least one other person for sure.
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I'm guessing that'd be me. Thanks for referring me to this thread.
well i'm decompiling the settings.apk from both Sense 2.1 and AOSP 2.1 to compare them hopefully I can get the "clear voicemail notification" setting working in AOSP 2.1
Nah I got the same thing. Just choose to wait it out I guess.
wakeboarder1335 said:
well i'm decompiling the settings.apk from both Sense 2.1 and AOSP 2.1 to compare them hopefully I can get the "clear voicemail notification" setting working in AOSP 2.1
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Cool, so does that fix your issue? if so, mind giving it to me so i can update my rom with these settings for my next update? Thanks
I've opened up the settings apk with WinRAR and none of the files inside are plain text. Just compiled gobbledegook.
The settings apks are open sourced, right? Hmmmm.....
Doesn't solve the problem, but you could switch your voicemail over to Google Voice.
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Doesn't solve the problem, but you could switch your voicemail over to Google Voice.
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He mentioned that he had in the first post. It was also stated that there is no way to remove the icon. If he is like me, the icon is annoying.
No, he mentioned he tried giving himself a voicemail in his Google Voice number. I mean switching from Sprint Voicemail over to Google Voicemail. That's what I did and I solved this problem.
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I am not nearly as experienced with Android Development as I'd like to be, but I am trying to learn. I've poked through the SDK documentation and it seems like I might be able to completely disable that notification if I knew what I was doing a little better. This would be fine being that I've fully switched my voicemail box to Google Voice.
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Im pretty sure he said he had switched to google voice.
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No, he mentioned he tried giving himself a voicemail in his Google Voice number. I mean switching from Sprint Voicemail over to Google Voicemail. That's what I did and I solved this problem.
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I have forwarded my phone to Google Voice's voicemail service and the icon remained. Did you forward it to Google and resolve the issue? That's what I meant when I said that I "registered" with Google Voice. Sorry... that wasn't real clear.
illogic6 said:
I have forwarded my phone to Google Voice's voicemail service and the icon remained. Did you forward it to Google and resolve the issue?
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Illogic, I did it on Freshs 2.1 and it worked because Freshes has the clear voice mail option in settings. Not to mention, for some reason Freshs also integrated GV into the voice mail settings. It was actually pretty cool.
What I did was change the Voicemail setting in AOSP 2.1 to Google Voicemail. I just left it at that (didn't change it back to Sprint) because I like GV better. But I don't get the ghost notification with my voicemail handled by GV.
kbizzle said:
Illogic, I did it on Freshs 2.1 and it worked because Freshes has the clear voice mail option in settings. Not to mention, for some reason Freshs also integrated GV into the voice mail settings. It was actually pretty cool.
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Yeah, I noticed your posts in the ROM thread regarding that. Just if we could, somehow, get that ported to the AOSP ROMs we'd be golden.
Hi,
I was wondering if someone could help me out. I installed Phone Fusion so that I could have Visual Voicemail for my HD2 and it works great except that for each voicemail I get sent a text message with PFMA followed by many random numbers. This is quite annoying and I was wondering if anyone knew how to stop the text messages from coming in. Or is there a way to block the specific number that they are calling from so I dont get them or at least see them. Thanks!
Any help any1?
Anyone please?
have you contacted the makers of the software ?
never had this happen before anyone else ever have it happen
happened to me when i first got my hd2, heres what i did.
1.) call my hd2.
2.) leave a msg on voicemail
3.) on the hd2, call voicemail and delete it.
4.) profit. u should stop getting msgs from 129.
caffeinejunky said:
happened to me when i first got my hd2, heres what i did.
1.) call my hd2.
2.) leave a msg on voicemail
3.) on the hd2, call voicemail and delete it.
4.) profit. u should stop getting msgs from 129.
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thanks i've been getting this as well. will try this out.
Me too! I will try it out!
Wait, are you supposed to call your HD2 from another phone or just call your voicemail direct from your own HD2?
caffeinejunky said:
happened to me when i first got my hd2, heres what i did.
1.) call my hd2.
2.) leave a msg on voicemail
3.) on the hd2, call voicemail and delete it.
4.) profit. u should stop getting msgs from 129.
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Thanks for the tip, will try it.
before I installed a custom ROM, I would get a new voicemail icon and a txt from 129 upon every reboot.
after I installed the custom ROM, it stopped.
(129) text message every reboot
I believe this message has to do with Visual Voicemail. When I first got my HD2 and received voicemails, I didn't get this message. A few days later, I tried to activate Visual Voicemail. Couldn't get it to work. After that, everytime someone has left me a voicemail, sometime later I'd get a 129 text message with a time stamp of the same date and time I'd been left a voicemail. The 129 message reappears as long as you have ANY voicemails either in your inbox or even saved. You can clear them out, but the 129 message gets sent again when new voicemails are left.
I'd be willing to bet that the person that flashed a custom ROM didn't have Visual Voicemail in that custom ROM, and that's why, in their case, the problem went away.
no custom roms
running stock 2.13 and haven't used visual voice mail cause it lagged or i read about it lagging. i did accidentally open it and it said i needed a data plan to use it ?! hahah so i didnt work anyway, will try calling my phone i guess.
129
the txt message s from Microsoft My Phone program updating you data and it send you text letting you know it has updated you information
hcoria said:
the txt message s from Microsoft My Phone program updating you data and it send you text letting you know it has updated you information
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...No, it's from the T-Mobile USA voicemail system. Everytime I get a voicemail, I get a "hidden" 129 message, which I find only when I go into Message Tab > All Messages. In fact, it usually appears as a message saved on the SIM card, hence it can't be a MyPhone message because a regular MyPhone message would always save to phone memory.
I haven't gotten this to stop, but since I'm a frequent flasher, I guess my results could be different from someone who doesn't flash (I would probably need to do this for each flash). There's actually another supposed "fix" that involves going to my.t-mobile.com and going to some setting in the account that says something like "Don't give me updates for...voicemail, MMS, etc."
Yes, the 129 text message is from T-Mobile Visual Voicemail. To turn the service on/off, you need to contact T-Mobile Customer Service. (meaning, if you DID use it at one time, you need to call them to turn it off in order to get the texts to stop )
Here is a possible fix for the Phantom Voicemail received while using CM7. One of these two things fixed the problem....not sure which one though.
1. Called myself from a landline to check my voicemails. (Probably not the fix though)
2. Installed this modified phone.apk to CM7. It takes away the phantom voicemail. I restored the most recent copy of Sprint's Voicemail app to receive voicemails and it has been working like it did in Sense. Thanks to JusticeAA and SavoctaFTW for this fix.
Anyway, I haven't had any phantom voicemails for 3 days after extensive testing. You will need to use Handcent or a similar program to blacklist the 9016 text though. Let me know if this works.
Very nice. I just ended up turning off voicemail notifications when I was using CM7. It was quite annoying.
I've been getting voicemails recently and am not receiving any notifications stating to call into my voicemail to verify them. I do not have enhanced voicemail (or voicemail to txt) but my plan still has voicemail. I've looked everywhere and cannot find any notifications or voicemail app on how to enable these notifications? Can anyone please guide me in the right direction, I don't feel like calling my voicemail everyday to verify if someone has left me a message.
I had this problem on an older phone (lollipop) on Sprint. Doing some Google searches brought me to a really odd solution. I was using Google's messaging app instead of the stock one. Reverting to the stock app and rebooting solved the issue. If you've switched SMS apps, it's worth a try.
ya im using yaata messaging i believe this might be the issue.. ill try reverting and see what happens
thanks!