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[BUG] Ghost Message Waiting Indicator in AOSP 2.1 / 2.0.1

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.

mrinehart93 said:
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.

illogic6 said:
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.

mrinehart93 said:
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.

"129 (1)" ??? what the heck is this text message??

i keep getting this blank text message which has what looks like either my sim or storage card icon next to it. the contact or sender is "129(1)".i dont know if i am missing texts or if this is some weird glitch.
anyone know what this is?
ive attached a screenshot of my messages so you can see.
thanks,
jason

Maybe you have visual voice enable in Tmobile account but not seting up in the phone yet.

justwonder said:
Maybe you have visual voice enable in Tmobile account but not seting up in the phone yet.
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hmm, can you please explain how vvm has any impact on text messaging? also what is it i need to do in order to fix this?
thanks,
jason

jason370 said:
hmm, can you please explain how vvm has any impact on text messaging? also what is it i need to do in order to fix this?
thanks,
jason
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Visual voice mail receives its updates via sms, if the app is installed it will intercept these and you will never see them ...
If you have VVM setup and no longer have the app on the phone due to a custom rom then you will see these messages ...
Easiest thing to do is grab the VVM cab and re-install it ...

watcher64 said:
Visual voice mail receives its updates via sms, if the app is installed it will intercept these and you will never see them ...
If you have VVM setup and no longer have the app on the phone due to a custom rom then you will see these messages ...
Easiest thing to do is grab the VVM cab and re-install it ...
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thats certainly very interesting. thank you for that however, wouldnt i need to have gotten a voicemail in order for this situation to occur, if we follow your logic?
i have not hasd a voicemail in quite a few days now. iis this a recurring ping via sms or must it be triggered by an actual voicemail?
thanks a lot,
jason

jason370 said:
thats certainly very interesting. thank you for that however, wouldnt i need to have gotten a voicemail in order for this situation to occur, if we follow your logic?
i have not hasd a voicemail in quite a few days now. iis this a recurring ping via sms or must it be triggered by an actual voicemail?
thanks a lot,
jason
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Yes I do believe it is sort of a "Keep Alive" sort of thing and it may also be a trigger to tell the VVM app to check , or for it to send any changes you have made to the settings ...

i set up vvm, still getting this annoying text. surely i am not the only person to ever get this and surely it must be something?
anyone?
jason

i have gotten these too, ever since i switched to custom roms..... but i've learned to just live with it.... still hoping for a solution though

Weird, I got them Until I setup VVM app, then they went away ...

i get the same thing, almost on a daily basis! i've set up vvm but it still sends me these txt... and for some reason i also get previous txts from my gf with the sim icon next to it as well.

I get them every now and then. I have the stock ROM and did not set up VVM. I learned to ignore them. I don't even delete them anymore.

Visual Voicemail and 2.2

With JI6 Visual Voicemail worked just fine, when a person left a message the Voice Mail icon didn't come up, it went right to Visual. now with JK6 I get both. I see there's an app from T-mobile you can download but why? Is this just an issues with JK6 or do I really have to download the T-mo VVM app?

i have jk6 and im not experiencing that problem.

I have the same problem. Also, some voicemails don't go to vvm, just regular...seems random.

My phone has JI6 and I have had occasional problems with VVM, like notification showing up the next day, or reappearing after I deleted it. I talked with TMo and they said it was a known issue with a number of customers and they were working on a fix. I had them disable it at their end so that I just get regular notifications.

ZX3ZX4 said:
My phone has JI6 and I have had occasional problems with VVM, like notification showing up the next day, or reappearing after I deleted it. I talked with TMo and they said it was a known issue with a number of customers and they were working on a fix. I had them disable it at their end so that I just get regular notifications.
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I went and looked at the VVM app on the market from T-Mobile and people were saying you have to activate it? Why is that?
And yea, I get it sometimes it will only to the regular VM and then a few minutes later it will show the VVM icon and the VM icon goes away... it's just annoying is all.

Deleted Visual Voicemail, Now No Voicemail Alert

A while back I deleted VVM using root explorer. Recently I just noticed that I dont get voicemail notifications anymore on the phone and I had like 10 unheard messages. Do I have to have VVM on my phone to get alerted to voicemails or did I do something wrong. I dont have visual voicemail on my account.

Use Google voice
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nuffstylez said:
Do I have to have VVM on my phone to get alerted to voicemails
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yes. that is how the VM notifications are handled in Sprint's EVO roms. I think you can just install an app called "voicemail notifier" to resolve the issue though.

I installed Visual Voicemail back on my phone and it didnt help. I still dont get voicemail notifications. What else can I try? Could it be on Sprint's end? I highly doubt it though

Verizon Visual Voicemail?

I asked in the LeeDroid thread, then realized its probably better asked here instead.
Anyone have a working APK for the Verizon Visual Voicemail app for the HTC10? Once I flash a custom ROM such as LeeDroid (and, I assume any other custom ROM?) there's no longer any app for VVM.
In fact, as far as I can tell, there is no voicemail app at all; so anytime someone leaves me a VM, I'm not getting notified about it. The only way for me to check VM's is manually press 1 each time on the dialer.
Anyone else on VZW having this issue?

Verizon Visual Voicemail
VVM is being discontinued on July 8, 2016. Here is the story:
https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/discontinue-visual-voice-mail-july-2016/

michaelbsheldon said:
VVM is being discontinued on July 8, 2016. Here is the story:
https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/discontinue-visual-voice-mail-july-2016/
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Uh, that's only the $3/mo VVM service. The basic VVM service (which is free with all phones that have Advanced Calling features) isn't going anywhere.

VVM
After July 8th, the only thing available will be *86.
It won't show in your messages as a playable message anymore.

michaelbsheldon said:
After July 8th, the only thing available will be *86.
It won't show in your messages as a playable message anymore.
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Did you even read the page that you linked?
Alternatives
You can also continue to use our free Basic Visual Voice Mail service by upgrading your device to a smartphone or compatible phone. Please refer to our Basic Visual Voice Mail FAQs for more information.

xtermmin said:
Did you even read the page that you linked?
Alternatives
You can also continue to use our free Basic Visual Voice Mail service by upgrading your device to a smartphone or compatible phone. Please refer to our Basic Visual Voice Mail FAQs for more information.
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Sure Did read it.
It says only *86 will be available.
That is my point: you won't any longer get playable messages stored in your M9 as before. You will have to dial *86.

michaelbsheldon said:
Sure Did read it.
It says only *86 will be available.
That is my point: you won't any longer get playable messages stored in your M9 as before. You will have to dial *86.
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No?
https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/voice-mail-comparison/
What's going away is the $2.99 option.
Look under "Basic Visual Voice Mail (Included)"
App and *86
Again, read the link you posted. The first line:
On 7/8/2016, the $2.99 Visual Voice Mail service will be discontinued. Some older smartphones and basic phones that support it won't be able to use the service.
This is only impacting some older smartphones and basic phones.
The HTC 10 is newer and a smartphone, and is therefore unaffected because it qualifies for the free basic VVM.

I have the voicemail app n my viper rom here but it takes the 2.99 premium upgrade.
Is the new message+ app what your looking for? I think that had the VVM also. I had it saved somewhere but for the life of me I cant find it now. ill pull it later cause I'm going to back to stock to test something out.

afuller42 said:
I have the voicemail app n my viper rom here but it takes the 2.99 premium upgrade.
Is the new message+ app what your looking for? I think that had the VVM also. I had it saved somewhere but for the life of me I cant find it now. ill pull it later cause I'm going to back to stock to test something out.
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The Voicemail app and Message+ are two different things.
The Voicemail app defaults you to a free trial of the $2.99 premium VVM, but you can downgrade straight away to the free VVM service from the menu.
The Message+ app can be downloaded from the Play Store (search for Verizon Messages).

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-M4oEDjt1EMd0c3UmNfYkh3ZDQ
Verizon vvm and messages

Thanks all for the replies. Ultimately I'm just going back to Google voice for my VM's.

xtermmin said:
The Voicemail app and Message+ are two different things.
The Voicemail app defaults you to a free trial of the $2.99 premium VVM, but you can downgrade straight away to the free VVM service from the menu.
The Message+ app can be downloaded from the Play Store (search for Verizon Messages).
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I figured that out after I searched the play store. I have never seen this basic VVM cause I never used the stuff, I have the app installed but never use , I also thought when I did start up the message app it did have a tab for the voicemail but again it was not there.

My voice-mail goes through my HTC messages app. It is a tab/slide over in the app
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aer0zer0 said:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-M4oEDjt1EMd0c3UmNfYkh3ZDQ
Verizon vvm and messages
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Is it set up like the m9 where the messages app has 3 tabs sms, mms, and voicemail because when I tap voicemail it takes me to my text messages with no voicemails after I installed those apks. That's is the messages apk from the Verizon version right? I think there is something else probably missing to make it work properly.

Tommydorns said:
Is it set up like the m9 where the messages app has 3 tabs sms, mms, and voicemail because when I tap voicemail it takes me to my text messages with no voicemails after I installed those apks. That's is the messages apk from the Verizon version right? I think there is something else probably missing to make it work properly.
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correct, i have no idea what else you need to get going though.

It has to be some type of file that joins the two together.
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Yeah, I just had the stock system with the messages app. I was thinking the apk for the messages app would work. Now I'm in leedroid and I don't have it either.
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rajuabju said:
I asked in the LeeDroid thread, then realized its probably better asked here instead.
Anyone have a working APK for the Verizon Visual Voicemail app for the HTC10? Once I flash a custom ROM such as LeeDroid (and, I assume any other custom ROM?) there's no longer any app for VVM.
In fact, as far as I can tell, there is no voicemail app at all; so anytime someone leaves me a VM, I'm not getting notified about it. The only way for me to check VM's is manually press 1 each time on the dialer.
Anyone else on VZW having this issue?
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ptko15 said:
Yeah, I just had the stock system with the messages app. I was thinking the apk for the messages app would work. Now I'm in leedroid and I don't have it either.
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I am experiencing the same thing, after just switching to LeeDroid.
I tried downloading and installing the .APK file referenced in this thread. That seems to work somewhat, but when I launch the app I just get a message that says "Connecting to Visual Voicemail...", and then nothing happens. I wind up having to back out of the app.
Any ideas? Thanks!

Then there was this ... Running LeeDroid

Andyw2100 said:
I am experiencing the same thing, after just switching to LeeDroid.
I tried downloading and installing the .APK file referenced in this thread. That seems to work somewhat, but when I launch the app I just get a message that says "Connecting to Visual Voicemail...", and then nothing happens. I wind up having to back out of the app.
Any ideas? Thanks!
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I never got it figured out. But went back to stock.