keep getting voicemail notification - Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers

So I keep getting a voice mail notification in the status at when I don't have one. I've cleared cache but it keeps coming back.
Any suggestions? It's driving me crazy

Are you using a visual app or calling in? I noticed with T-Mobile VVM I had no visual messages but a spam VM had to be cleared by calling.

I'm on Sprint and added their visual voicemail. Mine won't go away sometimes until I restart my phone.

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Voicemail Nitifcations via SMS

My provider doesn't send voicemail notifications the usual way, but instead sends a text message instead.
This renders VM notifiers on most themes as useless wastes of space.
Has anyone heard of an app/theme/UI that can recognise these messages and add them to the voicemail notifiers? (This way, I could just click on the notification and have it dial up voicemail for me.)
Or has anyone heard of any app or anything that does anything interesting with this type of system?
Most voicemail (in the UK at least) seems to default to the annoying SMS notification, or the even more annoying ringback - If you're not able to take a call, why does voicemail think you will be able to 30 seconds later - duh! Anyway, rant over.
If you call your voicemail you should be able to get to the settings menu and change they way you are notified, from SMS to a voicemail icon.
Hope this helps.
Interesting. With this provider there is no other option. SMS notification only.

Redundant Google Voice SMS Notification

I'm writing this on behalf of a friend, so I don't have a Nexus S 4G to play with, but I have an Evo and am familiar with the vanilla android experience.
I have a separate GV number from my Sprint number and can get text messages for either. I also use GV as my voicemail provider.
My friend just got a Nexus S 4G, which has the Sprint/GV integration out of the box, instead of having the option (which I turned down, as I like them separate). He was getting a stock SMS app notification AND a GV notification for every SMS received. There's an option to disable the SMS notification in GV, but it must do something else, as checking/unchecking didn't do what I expected.
It wasn't until I uninstalled GV for him, and separated the Sprint/GV integration (getting him a new GV number) that the extra notifications stopped.
Now my sister has just gotten a Nexus S 4G, and she isn't very tech savvy and is on the other side of the country, so I'm to wondering if there's an easier way to accomplish getting rid of the extra notification.
I've read online about disabling Inbox synchronization to "fix" this, but I don't know if that will cease the voicemail notifications she's getting as well. Can anyone gimme an answer for that? Thanks!
Go to the SMS app and turn notifications off for that?

[Q] Hangouts default SMS app

My new Nexus 5 is being shipped and in preparation of getting used to Hangouts as the default SMS app, I've installed it on my Sprint GN2 with Cyanogen 10.1.
A few things have changed for me:
1) I'm getting an SMS notification in Hangouts for certain Twitter posts. Why? They are coming from user "40404" or similar. (I deleted so not sure of exact numbers)
2) My Sprint voicemail notifications are going to Hangouts as well. With Sprint, I've always had a voicemail apk for visual voicemail. Even on any custom ROM I've used, I've always just d/l the voicemail.apk and it just works. Now Hangouts has taken over my Sprint voicemail (not Google Voice ).
Anyone know how to disable this activity? I really don't want Hangouts to be the default notification app for everything. Also, anyone on Sprint, how do you get your voicemail without the Sprint apk?
Thanks
Well, you're getting twitter alerts in Hangouts because you have Twitter text alerts turned on. They're just coming to Hangouts now. Where all your texts are coming. I don't see why this is confusing.. ?
If you want them off, send "off" to 40404.
moonrock said:
I don't see why this is confusing.. ?
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It's confusing because I never received Twitter notifications, period. Soon as I turned on Hangouts SMS, they started appearing only for 1 person I'm following.
Look at my Twitter settings and maybe you'll understand the confusion.
angus242 said:
It's confusing because I never received Twitter notifications, period. Soon as I turned on Hangouts SMS, they started appearing only for 1 person I'm following.
Look at my Twitter settings and maybe you'll understand the confusion.
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Well, those settings make it odd, but still - reply with "off" and they should stop. 40404 is definitely an SMS alert.
Here's the voicemail notification I'm getting as well.
Performed the "off" command to Twitter and received confirmation. Not sure why using Hangouts turned it on secretly???
Also, figured out the voicemail issue is a Sprint visual voicemail issue, commonly known as the 9016 text message. I assume that Sprint sends an SMS to the visual voicemail app to trigger a notification. The 9016 text gets hidden somehow with stock firmware. I can stop the 9016 text but still need to figure out how to get the visual voicemail app to download and store the voicemail.
It will be interesting to see how a N5 purchased from Sprint will deal with voicemail.

Sprint Nexus 5 - SMS Msgs from 9016 and 8737 coming into Hangouts

Hey guys,
This is my first unlocked phone for sprint so it doesn't have any of the bloatware from sprint or the voicemail apps.
I'm getting a bunch of texts pretty constantly from 9016 and 8737.
The ones from 9016 say things like "Provisioning successful" and "has sent you a Sprint Voice Message"
I checked my voicemail and no messages are there.
The ones from 8738 start with //LL:
And have a string of text and numbers following.
Can anyone shed some light on these and how to fix this? thanks
zoglog said:
Hey guys,
This is my first unlocked phone for sprint so it doesn't have any of the bloatware from sprint or the voicemail apps.
I'm getting a bunch of texts pretty constantly from 9016 and 8737.
The ones from 9016 say things like "Provisioning successful" and "has sent you a Sprint Voice Message"
I checked my voicemail and no messages are there.
The ones from 8738 start with //LL:
And have a string of text and numbers following.
Can anyone shed some light on these and how to fix this? thanks
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sounds like leftover from visual voicemail. it should clear itself up but if you want to call and have your voicemail completely reset (so you have to redo your greeting and lose all voicemails) and it may expedite the process.

SMS App and/or Settings that work with Sprint Visual Voicemail

I am now running CM12.1 on my Photon Q. I successfully installed and provisioned Sprint-VVM-M.apk (version T.7.0.0.16)
When I get a Voicmail, an SMS message shows up in my messaging app from (650)603-0000. Here is an example of one I dialed in from google voice on my laptop:
[email protected] has sent you a Sprint Voice Message. To listen call 650-603-0000 or click http://smsvoice.sprint.com/iv.do?d5ee6b9fbb3
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Calling 6506030000 results in a busy signal. Clicking on the link, opens Firefox at the mentioned URL. There is a box with a play icon. When I click it, the page refreshes, but I hear nothing in my phone. There is a SmithMicro Software logo and copyright message at the bottom of the screen.
The message does not show up in the VVM inbox. I found this thread on the Sprint community forums regarding this issue.
reply by JPSquared from Dec 16, 2011 10:21 PM
... you are using a third party text messaging program which is intercepting the notification to the Voicemail app before it can hide it ...
If you are using a third party text messaging app (GoSMS, ChompSMS, etc), depending on the application many of them will have an option that needs to be adjusted to correct this. If you are using one, let me know and I can see if I can locate that setting for you. Alternatively, if you do search on here or Google, you can likely find someone with the same app and same issue and how they fixed it.
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Evidently these messages are supposed to be handed off from the SMS app to the Visual Voicemail app. The original poster was using GoSMS. They could not figure out how to change the settings mentioned above; so, he opted to switch to Google Voice.
I had been using SMS + MMS Messages from SMS & Messages Studios from the play store. I uninstalled it and am now using the default messaging app in CM 12.1.
Does anyone have a clue what settings JPSquared might have been referring to?
Will the default SMS in CM 12.1 let me change that?
If not is anyone using an sms app that successfully hands off messages from 650-603-0000 to the VVM app? Could you tell me the SMS app and version and the VVM app version you are using that work together?
Postscript notes & thoughts:
In the default SMS app, I can set a specific ringtone for the 6506030000 conversation
... but, if I delete the conversation rather than individual notifications in it, it reverts to default for the next message
In my SMS, I also see messages from 9016. These appear to be meant to turn on / off the message waiting indicator. I assume these should also be passed to the VVM app. VVM should set my light to blue if this works, but are no such luck.
When I have a voicemail waiting, I get a message to 9016 with "MWI Notif turnOn" in it. When the voicemail box is empty, I get one to 9016 that says "MWI Notif turnOff".
Any Smart SMS App That Could Change the LED Color?
RandyB201 said:
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Postscript notes & thoughts:
In the default SMS app, I can set a specific ringtone for the 6506030000 conversation
... but, if I delete the conversation rather than individual notifications in it, it reverts to default for the next message
In my SMS, I also see messages from 9016. These appear to be meant to turn on / off the message waiting indicator. I assume these should also be passed to the VVM app. VVM should set my light to blue if this works, but are no such luck.
When I have a voicemail waiting, I get a message to 9016 with "MWI Notif turnOn" in it. When the voicemail box is empty, I get one to 9016 that says "MWI Notif turnOff".
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I could live without the Visual Voicemail app downloading my voicemail at all, if I could find a way to get my messaging app to set my phone's LED to a specific color based on those messages to 9016!
Anyone know of one that can?
Could it be MIUI whatever that is??
possible clue from this thread
saint01 said:
Yes actually I figured it out. The epic, and I'm told sprint, do not support MIUI which was enabled by handcent when I flipped a setting. Unfortunately turning it back off and uninstalling handcent did nothing.
What you have to do is download the sprint voicemail apk and overwrite the existing app. This fixes it.
I must have tried a couple hundred possible solutions with no luck before I finally tried this. Good luck
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gosms may work
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It turns out GoSMS was the culprit that was breaking my Visual Voicemail and causing me to receive the 9016 voicemail texts.
Apparently if you go into settings for GOSMS>>then Advanced>>the Receive Settings, there is an option for "Disable other Message notification".
With that option checked, it will actually disable all other SMS services and that will mess up the visual voicemail because I guess that receives a form of text message that tells it you have a voicemail and to go and get it.
Once I unchecked this option, and rebooted my phone, I began to get all my missing voicemails. So for anyone else who is having this issue, I hope this clarifies.
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The current version of Go SMS Pro that installs is 7.10
The menu has changed (of course, lol)
I do not see ""Disable other Message notification"" under any of the settings menu items...
rebooting erasing vvm data
re-provisioning
no message from 9016! hmm. darn i have to go to work more later!
system permissions?
I have a theory of why this is happening
sms messages are stored in system partition -- need higher privileges to read
vvm gets installed to data partition
Probably Have to Change Phone Company
I could write a program in Python to turn the light on when a text message is received, but C, Java, etc. are out of my league.
To replace voice mail with Google Voice, your carrier must support Conditional Call Forwarding. Red Pocket -- my current carrier does not. Yesterday, I contacted many of the Sprint mvno's listed here before I found one that supports that feature.
I am looking at changing to Pix Mobile, because they do support it. Very frustrating to have to change carriers when there is such a simple work-around to make the Message Waiting Indicator light tell you that you have a voicemail.
Pix Mobile
RandyB201 said:
...I am looking at changing to Pix Mobile, because they do support it. Very frustrating to have to change carriers when there is such a simple work-around to make the Message Waiting Indicator light tell you that you have a voicemail.
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Well, nix to Pix, they no longer offer unlimited data on their Sprint Plans.
Still shopping...
Not Boost
RandyB201 said:
Well, nix to Pix, they no longer offer unlimited data on their Sprint Plans.
Still shopping...
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Boost supports the call forwarding needed, but will not activate my XT897...

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