I have a blackberry pearl that I use on At&t its perfect the only thing is I use it as pre-paid and an annoying message comes up always telling me the balance....how do I stop please help
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Folks,
I am on a prepaid account and I am so sick of my carrier sending me a
notification after each call, each sms or each 3G session! Is there a
way to disable this? This can NOT be done through notifications or by
editing settings under HKCU\ControlPanel\Notifications\
This gets especially annoying when you are rapidly firing off txt
messages in succession because the pop-up effectively hinders your
ability to do this quickly and effectively. An example of this
carrier notification is when you send a command with *646* to T-Mobile
and it comes back with the numbers of minutes you have remaining on
your current plan. That is user-driven, of course, so it is not a
problem. The issue is with carrier-based notifications that are
automatic. I have called my provider to no avail. They claim this
cannot be turned off in their system (TOTALLY not true or all pre-paid
systems in the world would have this problem).
Thanks in advance.
Yup, I can confirm this is the case in India too!. This notification seems to be triggered by USSD service in the OS or whatever. Unfortunately, no success in turning it off.
Man, this is horrible, it is really killing the joy of using my Kaiser. If any of you super dev studs have any idea, please let us know. There just HAS to be a way! Nothing the gurus here can't manage.
So someone calls me, and they get my voice mail where i ask them to please leave their name, number and subject... after im expecting the service to go into record mode but instead the automated voice operator gives the same set of instructions offering more options.... "if you would like to leave a numeric page, please press 1 or remain on the line to leave a message" ....
I never respond to unknown numbers. So that option is pointless imo and wastes time for others calling me. Sure, it sounds petty but I get annoyed when that comes up on me.
im on at&T any way to dissable that to just do voice message, and beep for recording?
Same happens on rogers network in BC...
"hi this is mr X, im not available at the moment please leave a message / operator: please leave a message after the tone" ....
it just restates the obvious.
like i said, its probably petty but... if anyone knows something i'd appreciate it.
There might be a #***#*** set to adjust this?
Same with number of rings before going to voicemail?
I'll be watching this topic as well..
lucky644 said:
There might be a #***#*** set to adjust this?
Same with number of rings before going to voicemail?
I'll be watching this topic as well..
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this covers how to do amount of rings on an iphone:
http://iphoneguru.org/change-the-amount-of-rings-before-visual-voicemail-answers
im still interested in getting rid of the operator after voice mail.
The idea behind it is too have a caller spend more time on the call to make more money. This is set though your network so I doubt you can change this.
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So someone calls me, and they get my voice mail where i ask them to please leave their name, number and subject... after im expecting the service to go into record mode but instead the automated voice operator gives the same set of instructions offering more options.... "if you would like to leave a numeric page, please press 1 or remain on the line to leave a message" ....
I never respond to unknown numbers. So that option is pointless imo and wastes time for others calling me. Sure, it sounds petty but I get annoyed when that comes up on me.
im on at&T any way to dissable that to just do voice message, and beep for recording?
Same happens on rogers network in BC...
"hi this is mr X, im not available at the moment please leave a message / operator: please leave a message after the tone" ....
it just restates the obvious.
like i said, its probably petty but... if anyone knows something i'd appreciate it.
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There are other voicemail services available, you just set your phone to forward calls to a different number. I'm not sure if youmail has the features you're looking for, but check it out anyways.
www.youmail.com
They notify you via text message and/or email when you get a voicemail, and even send the voice message in the email for you to listen to.
I searched this, and was surprised not to find any threads on this topic, as I'm sure it has been answered already, but anyways...
I'm travelling in the US for the next 2 weeks, and I want to avoid roaming charges on my cellphone. I do have wifi where I am, and I want to know if there's any way that I can use this to avoid roaming charges.
I know there are SMS apps that send texts over your data connection, and I just wanted to see if this would help me evade roaming charges.
On a side note, if anyone knows, does rogers charge roaming on incoming and outgoing, or just outgoing?
And, can I get both my incoming and outgoing to come through wifi?
Thanks in advance
Just wanted to bump this one up as I would really prefer to know the answer soon
I have textplus on my phone and that does allow me to send messages through wifi and I can also receive them. When I send a message it uses a really funny number (like 1001-2223202) But you select a name to be shown when the person receives the message. Also if you want to receive a message the sender has to reply to the funny number not your typical cell number, If the sender send you a message and you donèt have wifi on, the message shows up the next time you open the app.
Hope this helps....
I dont know why your are going out of your service area but another option is to pick up a SIM card for a local network when your away. You can get a cheap SIM and get a pay and talk type plan while your in that area, this way you can make local calls and message without worrying.
I guess it all depends on you situation.
Google voice works.
Sent from my Vibrant using xda app
@designerfx
I don't have an american number to tie Google Voice to, so I can't use it as it is exclusively for the states.
@hipditch
Thanks, I'll try that. I'm out of my service area because I'm on vacation
I am on the sprint network and have a samsung transform. When i go into roaming where i work, my phone shows that i have full service in roaming. I try to make a phone call it says connecting and then is followed by the screen like i hungup on the person. I try to send a txt and i get error code 97. I had a lg lotus dumb phone and it worked in the exact same area. I contact sprint and they read off the script of basic troubleshooting and then after all of that I got my intercept replaced 3x and then they gave me the transform. I called yesterday and they sent me to the exelations department and told me the phones are designed to do this and that there is nothing they can do for me. Please if anyone knows how to get my phone to work in these areas help... I thought about buying roam control to force my phone into roaming but if i cant call or txt why would i do this? Unless the app would force me on a different tower maybe. It is a very rural area lots of cows and no 3g lol but i should be able to use simple call and txt features right?
The google voice app has never worked on my phone, always giving me some message about it being for US only.
But today i tried it from my phone and it actually allowed me to set up an account. It stopped at the screen where i was setting up my voicemail pin and said "We have a problem. Your phone number could not be verified. Please try again.". So far i havent been able to get past that screen.
I was able to make google voice calls on my laptop today so it seems like they are allowing use in Canada finally. Does anyone know if its possible to use google voice on mobilicity or wind?
I am curious because mobilicity has a new plan with unlimited calls texts and data for 25 a month, but no voicemail. If i can use google voice as my voicemail then obviously that wont be a problem.
don't know if you checked this out already, but read the post below...I think it should explain what you're looking for....
http://community.windmobile.ca/windmobile/topics/using_google_voice_on_your_phone?from_gsfn=true
Thanks, its too bad that the workarounds discussed in that post still dont offer a solution for voicemail, but that will probably be useful information for future reference.
I did find a solution to this problem without using google voice if anyone is interested. I may as well share it.
To those who are interested in this plan but wont sign up without voicemail:
- You can get a free phone number and a customizable answering machine from http://www.freephoneline.ca/ (if you cant get a toronto number you can use thornhill, richmond hill, etc to avoid forwarding to a long distance number)
- Then set your phone to forward your unanswered, busy, and unavailable incoming calls to your freephoneline number.
- Then set your voicemail access number to the corresponding number on this list http://www.freephoneline.ca/vmAccessNumbers
- Also make sure to set your freephoneline to only ring once before going to voicemail, you can do this by logging into your account on their website and going to your settings
- You now have $25 BTS + Voicemail! When people call your regular phone number and you dont answer, it will forward them to your voicemail on your freephoneline number, and you can check your voicemail from your cell phone the same way you always would.
I believe they also provide the option to automatically transcribe your voicemails and email them to you in text form.
EDIT: Apparantly call forwarding is $5 more, if thats true this wouldnt work. Another option would be using Dell Voice on the android market.
Its an app gives you a canadian number with the area code of your choice and can be used to make and receive calls anywhere in canada and US for free, and customizable voicemail. It uses your carrier data to do this, but since this plan has unlimited data that shouldnt be a problem. The only problem is you would have to get used to making and receiving all your calls through an app, and using your dell voice number as your primary number.
Might be worth the extra $5 to get call features and add the freephoneline voicemail via the method above, the $5 call features addon on the mobilicity website includes Call Waiting, Call Forwarding and 3-Way Calling, (plus voicemail via fpl). Thats basically $30 for the $29 plan i currently have with wind except that it doesnt expire in a year and go up to $45 =/