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[Q] Voice announcement rather than ring on incoming call?

When I first got my Epic, on an incoming phone call, there would be a voice announcement of either someone on my contact list or a phone number if not on my contact list. I don't remember if this came this way or if somehow a friend of mine set it up this way. Anyway, after I installed the leaked dk28 or sometime after, the phone now does not do voice announcement-is just rings. How can I get back the voice announcement?
Thanks in advance

Go into settings, accessibility and then check talk-back
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Thanks for the reply. That program was not installed so I installed it. But now the Epic talks about everything. hahhahah. I just want the Epic to announce phone calls. Thank you again.

I know that its in the stock Tom by default. You could try Vlingo too. I know that you can configure it to read just calls, text, emails, or all of them. It doesn't announce EVERYTHING like talkback does
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Go into settings...text to speech....and then speak incoming caller ID.
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MojoSwag said:
I know that its in the stock Tom by default. You could try Vlingo too. I know that you can configure it to read just calls, text, emails, or all of them. It doesn't announce EVERYTHING like talkback does
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I tried Vlingo and every screen it had but could not find a way to configure voice announcement of incoming call. ug

scrihfield said:
Go into settings...text to speech....and then speak incoming caller ID.
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I tried this too but could not find the above and I really spent a lot of time looking at all the settings but to no avail. Maybe they left it out in Froyo 2.2 that I installed??

There is an app called talking caller id

rhca50 said:
There is an app called talking caller id
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Perfect! That's the application I needed. I must have somehow put it on before and erased it??. Thank you very much!

[Q] Disabling incoming phone calls?

What would be the easiest way to disable incoming phone calls on the tab? I'd like to be able to make calls but not receive them.
Naturally if disabling only the inbound is impossible, I could live with disabling outbound as well.
Data should work normally as well as contact syncing with Exchange (not sure if it's related in any way to the phone...).
Current firmwares:
PDA: JME (roto v3)
PHONE: JHA
CSC: JME

You could set your call forwarding for all calls to go to a disconnected or invalid number.

agentdr8 said:
You could set your call forwarding for all calls to go to a disconnected or invalid number.
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Hmm.. yes why not... theoretically.
The thing is, thought, that I have multi/dual sim, so if the call from my tab is forwarded to a number not in use, the caller will get the "number not in use" message. This would make my primary phone useless and would mean I can't receive calls on my phone either.
Still think disabling break in traffic on tab is the only way to go...

Bump bump.

Try menu - settings - call settings - auto reject. That will send it to voicemail
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brilldoctor said:
Try menu - settings - call settings - auto reject. That will send it to voicemail
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It can't go to voicemail because I want to answer the call on my Desire Z. I simply don't want a call to ring on my gal tab at all.

Set up call fowarding to the desire
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brilldoctor said:
Set up call fowarding to the desire
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network doesn't allow to forward to my own/the same number...

kånda said:
network doesn't allow to forward to my own/the same number...
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You are telling us that both the tab and the desire are seen by the network as the desire?

LargePrime said:
You are telling us that both the tab and the desire are seen by the network as the desire?
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I don't know how the network sees my dual SIM cards but I can't call forward to my own number from the tab. It just gives me an error message.

kånda said:
I don't know how the network sees my dual SIM cards but I can't call forward to my own number from the tab. It just gives me an error message.
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I would probably try flashing the radio from the TMo US Tab, as this is known not to support voice calls. This would of course disable both incoming and outgoing, and you'd do so at your own risk as it could end up bricking your Tab (though I'm doubtful of this, since TMo US Tabs will work with the Euro Tab radio).
Regards,
Dave

Contact your network
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Anyone here use You Mail on their Atrix?

If so have you got it to work on your phone, I set it up as I did on my Tilt 2 and all seemed fine...
So today I get a voicemail and I dial my You Mail number and it says I have no messages
So I then call my number to be brought to the att voicemail box and my message is waiting in here
Any insight would help

Mine isnt having issues. Just tried it to be sure. Sounds like for some reason your att mailbox is in use now. Try resetting up youmail maybe?

I'm having the same problem
I set up YouMail but all my voicemails are still going to my old voicemail box. When I first installed it, it seemed to work fine and it downloaded some messages. But now all new messages go to the old voicemail box. Do anybody have any ideas?

i stumbled across (you mail) last night, got excited installed it, went to register and of course gotta have a US number for it to work. yet again Canadians no go.
EDIT: sorry for the rant. it has nothing to do with your questions, just saw the post and decided to reply.

I had to change the numbers in the call forwarding section of the phone settings. Did the same in the voicemail settings. Now when I push and hold "1" it dials YouMail.
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you just need to reactivate your call forwarding to YouMail. dial this..
*004*17142043114# and press call...

purepulse64 said:
you just need to reactivate your call forwarding to YouMail. dial this..
*004*17142043114# and press call...
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This did not work I got
Call forwarding
Connection problem or invalid MMI code

You'll need to set it manually go to settings -> call settings -> call forwarding
You'll change: when busy, unanswered, unreachable
Use the number +17142043114
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purepulse64 said:
You'll need to set it manually go to settings -> call settings -> call forwarding
You'll change: when busy, unanswered, unreachable
Use the number +17142043114
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Good looking on the info
Will test to see if it works

It works, thanks a lot

Wow it worked, Thanks a lot

NP I know you want YouMail to work... it rocks
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noo, use google voice

Supish said:
noo, use google voice
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Doesn't work in my area (USVI)
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Supish said:
noo, use google voice
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I prefer using YouMail over GV for my answering service.
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it's crazy... mine works, but i never set it up. i was using it on my iPhone 4, then started using the wp7 for a little bit and it was going to youmail. then i switched to my atrix and it continues to work w/o having to set it up again.
i'm guessing the quick code above changed my deposit number in at&t's system.
for the record: i did set it up on my i4, but haven't had to on any phone after.

Unless your call forwarding gets changed it should keep working.
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[Q] Total call timers

Hi Guyz
I just bought an Atrix last week, coming from a captivate.
Where do i find the total call time in the Atrix.
I mean the place where it says
incoming call:
outgoing call:
total call:
In the captivate , all i had to do was hit the menu button in the recent call lists.
I could not find this anywhere on the Atrix.
Can anyone help!

It tells you right after you end the call, and you can also find it when you click on recent calls. It will be next to the phone number of the call.
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captaincanada84 said:
It tells you right after you end the call, and you can also find it when you click on recent calls. It will be next to the phone number of the call.
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I am not talking about a single call. Am talking about the total call timers till date!

Re: Straight Talk (T-Mobile and Google Voice) voicemail issue

Re: Straight Talk (T-Mobile and Google Voice) voicemail issue
All,
For those who are on ST using a T-Mobile SIM and Google Voice, how exactly did you get it disabled? I see plenty of references to AT&T in here (those lucky ones who can do forwarding) but not T-Mobile.
My issue is the gal says she can only reset it, which disables it so my Google Voice works but then I immediately get a permanent "new voicemail" notification until I set it up and then check voicemails (and there isn't anything so I think its just a default prompt to get you to setup voicemail). Of course when I do that it enables the voicemail and breaks google voice.
I really need help either getting it disabled properly or at the very least clearing that notification without setting up the voicemail box but the lady on the other end doesnt know how.

Just don't give people your Tmobile phone number. If everyone calls you on your GV number, only GV voicemail will pick up.
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I think you're mixing up info from different threads.
You probably read about being able to permanently disable voice mail on tmobile, on the $30 Walmart/ tmobile thread. I don't think that option is available to straight talk.

Thanks, I could swear someone had mentioned doing the same thing for ST but I guess not. I did have her reset it so the box is invalid, if you call in it asks you to set it up. I just cleared the data for the phone app and that got rid of the notification.
chrisrozon said:
Just don't give people your Tmobile phone number. If everyone calls you on your GV number, only GV voicemail will pick up.
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Unfortunately not the case, when I reject the call it goes directly to the ST voicemail.

ryan stewart said:
Unfortunately not the case, when I reject the call it goes directly to the ST voicemail.
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Try rejecting the call with the power button instead of the onscreen swipe, that's a known issue with some Tmobile plans. It might work on ST as well.
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