I rooted my phone in mid September and removed the bloatware, including the visual voicemail, because I was told that it could be removed with no issues. Well my phone since then will not notify me when I get a voicemail. I have flexpay so I can't use any of the apps on the market.
I was stupid and didn't back up the bloatware that I removed. I am new to all of this, I guess I shouldn't have rooted when I didn't know much about it.
Can someone help me please? In stupid people terms at that! Thanks!
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I recently flashed my phone with the energy rom that doesn't have any htc sense, instead comes with spb shell. The issue that I'm having is when ever I call my voicemail I get a text message like this "129 //vvm:SYNC:ev=MBU".
This is really annoying and I want to get rid of it some how. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I noticed that too.
However, I use Google Voice, so I never call my voicemail.
rickyoon.vegas said:
I noticed that too.
However, I use Google Voice, so I never call my voicemail.
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Its just something that shouldn't be happening. I definitely appreciate all of the work that the developers do on this site but some of the little stuff that doesn't get checked for bugs is annoying. Its almost like microsoft releaseing things even though they know there are bugs and relying on the users to point it out. Just frustrated :/
I get the same thing and I have Miri ROM. It would be nice to know how to fix it.
vvm:SYNC:ev=MBU
visual voice mail. i assume the roms you are on dont have it included.
You could perhaps hide the problem by turning off network messages, or can you turn off vvm on your t mo account? or you can probably download and install vvm as a cab. (Its certainly there in my kitchen, so i assume someone will have made it into a cab by now)
Happily running CM7 with one issue:
If I dial my own number (or longpress "1" in the dialer) to access my real voicemail box, I have many "new" messages.
But I have been receiving, listening to, and deleting these same messages using the Sprint Visual Voicemail program installed as per the usual method (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12219741&postcount=2 under "visual voicemail" for the one-sentence version).
Why are the two voicemail "boxes" not in sync?
I'm pretty convinced this is a bug-not-a-feature because it gives two different versions of the "truth" to anyone who uses both methods to check VM (because, say, your bluetooth headset doesn't allow you to hear locally-stored VVM audio files.. but that's another topic..). I'm not even sure what happens when this goes on for a month or two- do callers hear some kind of "mailbox full" announcement? Do the oldest messages just go away once they reach a certain age?
I have returned to a sense-based ROM and tried to "update my profile" and PRL, I have sent a VVM to [email protected], and I have gotten the little "toast" that says I have been provisioned successfully. But no sync. I have rebooted. I have waited overnight. I have turned off wi-fi to force 3G communication with Sprint. I have scoured the internet for these and other recommendations. Still no sync. The only thing I haven't done is called Sprint and asked them to get involved (which of course is a bit of a last resort considering we are talking about a rooted phone here).
So I'm asking for help from a) anyone who has experienced this and solved it and/or b) anyone who can shed some light on how Sprint VVM synchronization works.
Thanks in advance...
PS- I already know I can always "solve" my Sprint VVM issues by switching to Google Voice: I'm sure GV is great, but my question is not about GV. I'm just looking for basic information on the signalling method Sprint uses to synchronize your VVM with the cloud. Thanks!
I've been wondering and experiencing the same exact stuff that you mentioned, any input is appreciated here too!
NxNW said:
Happily running CM7 with one issue:
If I dial my own number (or longpress "1" in the dialer) to access my real voicemail box, I have many "new" messages.
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After reading your post I pressed 1 to go into my voicemail and it said I had 12 messages. Never noticed this issue before (I never actually call for my messages, I just use the app), very strange. Unfortunately I don't know the answer.
Thanks ausch- I should have cited your FAQ as another excellent one-sentence summary of the basic method for getting Sprint VVM to run on CM7. And then of course there's this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=982966 which spells it out a little more explicitly and, after getting a bunch of blog mentions at some point, had quite a bit of traffic for awhile. I originally reported this issue there but got no response after a few days so I just started up a new thread to get some more visibility.
I think you need another apk installed for that part to work.
This one. I think it is what updates your visual voicemail and deletes messages, not positive though.
aimbdd said:
I think you need another apk installed for that part to work.
This one. I think it is what updates your visual voicemail and deletes messages, not positive though.
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I just installed that through ES File Explorer, we'll see if it works.
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I should have cited your FAQ as another excellent one-sentence summary of the basic method for getting Sprint VVM to run on CM7.
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Lol, yeah when I was typing all that **** up I got lazy and just wrote it up real quick. Probably should have gone a little more in depth.
I installed it too (thank you for the suggestion aimbdd) but it force closes a lot and generally does not seem to fix my issue.
I'm getting plenty of notifications (my VVM "widget" shows the right number of unheard messages and the stock android VM notification up in the status bar shows the right number as well), the version is 5.1.0.34, and everything seems to function pretty well with this one exception.
I see references to Sprint_App_Updater.apk in lots of places (here's an example: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7246771&postcount=35 ) but it's not clear to me if the app is actually essential to the VM sync issue I'm talking about.
And one last thing, just a random quote (from http://www.evo4gforum.net/htc-evo-4g-how-to/visual-voicemail-9708/ ) from a person who had the exact *opposite* issue: he prefers using phone-call-based voicemail and wanted his visual voicemails to go away: "I did talk with Sprint and ... I asked them why are the messages that I delete on Sprint VM (#1) still going to VVM and not being deleted. No real answer except for that's the way the VVM app works. He assured me that if I delete a VVM that it will also delete it on Sprint's (#1), but for whatever reason it doesn't work the opposite way. "
This last sentence tells me there is supposed to be at least one-way sync.
I accept that the VVM app holds previously-downloaded audio files and it may not be desired (or even feasible) for Sprint to reach into your phone and delete a static audio file just just because you called into your voicemail and manually erased the original voicemail that spawned it. So maybe we will never have two-way sync.
But that quote above clearly promises that when things are functioning normally the mailboxes *do* sync in the direction I care about: if you delete a message from your phone, a signal goes back to the cloud so that the original is deleted there also.
aimbdd said:
I think you need another apk installed for that part to work.
This one. I think it is what updates your visual voicemail and deletes messages, not positive though.
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I just got a voicemail and it was still in Sprint's system after deleting it from the app so I don't think this fixes the problem. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Today's PRL update did not change the behavior.
I might start casting about for answers outside the EVO 4G forum. Seems like it would be a generic Sprint issue that would apply to more than just EVO users..
Well just to close this out, I did find a solution after posting in various other threads until someone came up with the simple suggestion of uninstalling and reinstalling.
So the issue that prompted my question is resolved and my voicemail boxes *do* sync.
But I still never did find out *how* they sync.
Seems strange the underlying sync mechanism isn't more widely understood. Guess I'll let it drop for now. Thanks to everyone who chimed in.
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Well just to close this out, I did find a solution after posting in various other threads until someone came up with the simple suggestion of uninstalling and reinstalling.
So the issue that prompted my question is resolved and my voicemail boxes *do* sync.
But I still never did find out *how* they sync.
Seems strange the underlying sync mechanism isn't more widely understood. Guess I'll let it drop for now. Thanks to everyone who chimed in.
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question, how did you uninstall and reinstall this...was it from titanium backup or something similar?
Nevermind, I found the fix/culprit (go sms) and now I'm all good.
I do NOT want Google Voice or YouMail. Let me get that out there right away. I also don't want to have to explain why several times, so just know up front I do not want either of them. I've tried them both and I do not like them.
I'm on MidNIGHT ROM 5.3. For some reason I am no longer receiving VM notifications of any kind. Nothing visual, nothing audible. When I go in VM it says it is trying to access my account but it fails every time. I check for a VM upgrade & it says "general fail".
After an hour on the phone with Sprint they want me to go to a repair center & do a hard reset on my phone. I do not want to do that for 2 reasons: 1) I don't want them to discover that my phone is rooted and 2) I don't want to deal with setting everything up again. Even if everything is backed up it still takes time to get it back to where it was. Don't want to deal with that.
So what I am looking for is a voicemail app that most closely replicates the stock Android voicemail app. I don't need anything fancy...I just want something that is going to notify me when someone leaves a message.
Please help me out and suggest away!
Thanks!!!
Took awhile, but I found one. It's a free app called "Visual Voicemail +". So far it seems to be working well. So if anyone finds themselves in this situation with the stock app this is a good option!
hullomail smart voicemail. Works great. doesn't transcribe but that never works well anyway. I bought the paid version so I could record custom greetings for callers but free works fine too.
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anyone here able to disable/enable visual voicemail while rooted? for some reason I'm having issues enabling/disabling while not getting any notifications from vvmail and I'm wondering if it's because I'm rooted. I know the T-Mobile Device Unlock app doesn't work while rooted, so I'm wondering if the vvmail app behaves the same... anyone know?
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anyone here able to disable/enable visual voicemail while rooted? for some reason I'm having issues enabling/disabling while not getting any notifications from vvmail and I'm wondering if it's because I'm rooted. I know the T-Mobile Device Unlock app doesn't work while rooted, so I'm wondering if the vvmail app behaves the same... anyone know?
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I'm rooted and on Ovrdrive's rom. It works for me.
Have you looked to see if it needs an update?
Im rooted on stock and it seems to work fine for me...though Ive never disabled it.
androiddiego said:
I'm rooted and on Ovrdrive's rom. It works for me.
Have you looked to see if it needs an update?
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yep, I generally check updates several times a day and update manually... nothing for the vvmail app. Looks like it might be something on T-Mo's end since I've already tried uninstalling, reinstalling, even wiped the device to go unrooted and it's still having the same issues. I'll have to see what happens in the next few days...
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Stock Roms won't allow you to change voicemail number, but what you can do in phone app-settings additional call options and change the number to forward too when unanswered or there is 3 options. What I did to totally bypass T-Mobile garbage voicemail for Google Voice which is far superior and free. The new Google Voice update is freaking awesome btw. Hope helps.
I just rooted my Verizon GS5 onto Lollipop (earlier thread). I froze everything I didn't want running including updates prior to activating the phone on the network. In the past, Verizon seems to push the VVM update almost immediately, but it can't happen with everything frozen. My concern is, if I enable update, won't Verizon push the Marshmallow update too? I just want the voicemail app but I can't find it anywhere. Is my best bet defrosting the update stuff long enough to get VVM and then freeze it? Or, is there an APK somewhere?
tl;dr where can I get the Verizon visual voicemail apk? If not available, will defrosting the update stuff force a Lollipop->Marshmallow update that i DON'T want?
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I just rooted my Verizon GS5 onto Lollipop (earlier thread). I froze everything I didn't want running including updates prior to activating the phone on the network. In the past, Verizon seems to push the VVM update almost immediately, but it can't happen with everything frozen. My concern is, if I enable update, won't Verizon push the Marshmallow update too? I just want the voicemail app but I can't find it anywhere. Is my best bet defrosting the update stuff long enough to get VVM and then freeze it? Or, is there an APK somewhere? tl;dr where can I get the Verizon visual voicemail apk? If not available, will defrosting the update stuff force a Lollipop->Marshmallow update that i DON'T want?
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your best bet is to post this question within the following Q&A thread that's specific to your device.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2700073
Good Luck!
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I turned software updates back on to see if that would convince Verizon to update VVM. Nothing happened, so I checked for updates. It offered me the MM update but didn't offer anything else (I politely declined).
In the past, Verizon just pushed the update and automatically turned on the Advanced VVM which they charged for (downgrade to basic for no charge) and I didn't have a choice. Now I'm not even getting an option. My wife is on a Verizon GS5 MM and she has Basic VVM so I know it's not been eliminated.
This issue has been resolved. I called Verizon and after waiting 20 minutes on hold, I was able to get them to resend the Premium VVM offer which automatically upgraded my VM app to VVM. I declined Premium and now have Basic VVM.