configure voicemail

[pppihdl]

is there a way to configure the voicemail? my provider has it's own phone number to call my voicemail. I just wanna press the voicemail button and getting connected to it!

[fabiopigi]

need help with the same problem

[mbd]

Same here. When I hit the voicemail button on a hardware unlocked phone it does nothing. Also, when I get a voicemail, I dont receive the normal sms notification that I do on other phones. Any assistance appreciated!

[DivXJunkie]

Hmmm... I have Hardware unlocked my iPhone and my Voicemail button goes direct to the correct number for my provider.

I am on Orange in the UK.

I assume that the default VM number is stored on the sim card.

Try putting your sim in an old phone and try setting the VM number again.

Then re insert your sim into your iPhone.

This is a guess I am afraid but it's worth a bash!

:)

[r22pilot]

I tried putting the SIM in another phone and even though the VM number was already set I did it again. Put it back in the iPhone, but still, the button doesn't do anything.

Any other ideas?

-r22pilot

[dhfonseca]

Need the same help hear in brasil, Can some one help me ????

[jacoch]

Strange. I'm on Orange too (in Switzerland) and the voicemail button works fine. But I don't get the notification by sms.

[mbd]

To anyone who has VM button working - when you put the sim into another phone, how are you configuring the VM number? (is it like on the nokia's where you hold down the '1' button till it either dials VM or asks you for the VM number?). Or is it one of the stored contact numbers saved on the SIM? Either way, can you confirm which phone you used to set the VM number and if it's stored as a sim contact the exact name you use (case sensitive)?

In case it's of relevance, I am using mine on Telstra mobile and the vm number i use is '101'.

[mbd]

Just a followup - I put my sim into a friend's Nokia 6070, held the '1' key down and was told that voicemail wasnt setup, so I set it up, put the sim back in the iphone and unfortunately, the voicemail button still doesn't work, nor does the carrier notification of a waiting voicemail. :confused:

[dhfonseca]

me too a am having the same probem can sombudy help me ti is the only thing that is not working in my iphone !!!!!

[brasuco]

Well, I might be wrong, but that's what I could find so far.

There are some networks that do the voice mail setup based on the call forwarding service.

ATT does it this way. When you configure you phone (and thus your SIM definitions in the network) to forward calls you'll be given several options:

1) Forward if busy
2) Forward if using data
3) Forward if unreachable
4) Etc

ATT uses "Forward if unreachable" to forward your calls to you voice mail box. It does that for all phones, not just iPhone.

This way, I think if you put your SIM in a phone that allows you to configure call forwarding and then Set the "Forward if unreachable" option to your own voice mail number, it might work.

The problem about that is that not every network uses the scheme, so you may end-up messing around with your voicemail box and even having to pay some fees for the forwarding.

Well, just a reminder: This is just guessing, but I would give it a try if I were you. :)

[jacoch]

I have two Orange sims. With one of them, as said before, voicemail button works fine. With the other one, nothing happens. When I put the working sim in the Samsung of my wife, I can see an Orange Box entry in Service numbers (as well as customer care, etc...). It seems to be a number stored on the sim. Unfortunately, I don't have a sim reader to see how it's stored to be recognized by iPhone.

I've played with my sims on a Treo. Both sims have the voicemail number stored on the sim contact list. But only one has the voicemail that appears as service number on the Samsung. So it seems that on one sim, the voicemail number is stored in a different manner

[ashraf@samawi.com]

No voicemail here either.... anyone have a solution?

[manvet]

hi
a not so great way is to make the voicemail as a contact, if u know your voicemail number! works on roger in canada!

[ashraf@samawi.com]

ok.. anyway to assign your voicemail number to the voicemail icon?

[healeydave]

Ok, I put my SIM & the AT&T SIM into a SIM Reader and checked it out.

The only regular stuff (in all sims) appears to be you IMSI, ICCID and the SMS center number.

In my local sim, I had 16 entries in the address book all related to the operator services including voicemail number, voicemail enable, voicemail disable, directory services etc etc.

Howerver, the AT&T sim has NOTHING.

My voicemail button does nothing on the phone screen, so I am really confused as to how some people are getting that button to dial their voicemail or are, did I dream that?

Perhaps I need to try and find a SIM that does do something different with the voicemail button and put that in the SIM reader. Perhaps there's a particular entry that the iphone will work with but its dependent on whether you SP has populated your SIM with it or not?


I would also like to know how the iphone deals with voicemail in general.

My Service Provider sends an voicemail related SMS after a voicemail is left, but these don't turn up on iphone. Or rather I think they do turn up but perhaps the visual voicemail routines in the phone are identifying them as VM related text messages and is trying to process them accordingly. This of-course would fail as expected, but might explain why the texts don't appear as regular SMS's.

[healeydave]

Ok, this is really strange.

I have found a UK SIM that as soon as I put it into the phone, I got the red dot up to signify there was a voicemail waiting (Virgin).

I have read this SIM in a SIM Reader, and it is no different!?!?!??

Do the Service Providers do these things differently, because I can find no reason why some Service Providers do seem to be compatible with the iphone VM button and others arn't!?!??

Ironically, Virgin Mobile in the UK actually really uses the Orange network.

[jacoch]

I don't think it's related to the service provider. I have two sims from Orange. One calls voicemail when I hit the button, the other one not. On both sims, voice mail number are available in contact list. But on the sim that works, the voice mail number is recognized as Service Number by a Samsung phone. I've asked a friend to bring me his sim reader. Maybe I can find the difference between these two sims.

[healeydave]

Hmm, really interesting, that suggests we might be able to find a way to fix this for everyone if you have two SIM's on the same operator.

The problem is widespread but no-one seems to be worrying about it too much!?!?!

When I consider I don't even get the SMS notification, there's no way to know I have a voicemail, kinda quite significant I think !!

[mbd]

Anyone had any further luck figuring this out? I'd really like to have this service if possible, and would be willing to contribute a small paypal donation towards the person who solves the problem

[joe_hensonn]

Well, I might be wrong, but that's what I could find so far.

There are some networks that do the voice mail setup based on the call forwarding service.

ATT does it this way. When you configure you phone (and thus your SIM definitions in the network) to forward calls you'll be given several options:

1) Forward if busy
2) Forward if using data
3) Forward if unreachable
4) Etc

ATT uses "Forward if unreachable" to forward your calls to you voice mail box. It does that for all phones, not just iPhone.

This way, I think if you put your SIM in a phone that allows you to configure call forwarding and then Set the "Forward if unreachable" option to your own voice mail number, it might work.

The problem about that is that not every network uses the scheme, so you may end-up messing around with your voicemail box and even having to pay some fees for the forwarding.

Well, just a reminder: This is just guessing, but I would give it a try if I were you. :)

call forwarding to voicemail or any other number if the phone is off/out of range or on another call or if user presses reject, and even how long a call remains unanswered for (which must be 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30 seconds) is governed by settings with the network..

it has nothing to do with the sim card. various os buttons or commands that you issue on your gsm phone to switch on and off all this forwarding and other stuff actually just send simple commands to the network .. which if you know them you can sent much more easily yourself.. eg 'forward all calls to 5555555 is just *21*5555555# <send>

at&t does it however the gsm spec says it has to (as per the above). contrary to what you say, every gsm network does actually use the same 'scheme' .... that's part of what makes gsm by far the best mobile telephony system globally.

the voicemail button on the iphone just dials a certain number that the os tells it too... i'm sure in time someone will work out which config or other os file this is in....

[usvi4me]

Not sure if this is relevant but here it goes anyway.

I have an AT&T activated phone. Edge is disabled from the AT & T end since I am in Trinidad for three months. The AT&T activated phone connects to bmobile here in Trinidad.

With Edge disabled on AT&T's end, one should have all voice functions with the exception of visual voice mail correct ?

Wrong:

1) When I turn the iPhone off, the caller gets a busy signal. No voice mail possibilities at all for the caller !!!

2) When the phone is turned on and I don't answer, after many many many rings, an operator comes on and says I'm not available ! Again no option for a caller to leave a message.

So, with edge turned off at AT&T's end, voice mail is completely disabled as well. And AGAIN, I do not mean just visual voice mail !

Can anyone confirm this who has Edge disabled and still is an AT&T customer ???

[joe_hensonn]

Not sure if this is relevant but here it goes anyway.

I have an AT&T activated phone. Edge is disabled from the AT & T end since I am in Trinidad for three months. The AT&T activated phone connects to bmobile here in Trinidad.

With Edge disabled on AT&T's end, one should have all voice functions with the exception of visual voice mail correct ?

Wrong:

1) When I turn the iPhone off, the caller gets a busy signal. No voice mail possibilities at all for the caller !!!

2) When the phone is turned on and I don't answer, after many many many rings, an operator comes on and says I'm not available ! Again no option for a caller to leave a message.

So, with edge turned off at AT&T's end, voice mail is completely disabled as well. And AGAIN, I do not mean just visual voice mail !

Can anyone confirm this who has Edge disabled and still is an AT&T customer ???

egprs (edge) has nothing to do with how the global network handles voicemail and forwarding to voicemail.

what is probably happening is that, when your phone is off, the trinidad network you are in is trying to call your at&t voicemail number which is usually 3 or 4 digits and that number is not recognised by the trinidad network.

it works like this: if you connect outside of your home network your phone (or your system) tells the network all of your forwarding settings so it knows how to handle calls if you are on another call or your phone is off etc.

but in some older gsm networks, the network (the one you are in) does not understand that your voicemail box is in the states (or wherever) so it just dials that 4 digit number... whereas it should dial +1 xxxx.. (and sometimes even this doesn't work).

i this case you need to call at&t and tell them you need to full voicemail number because you want to call it from a landline occasionally. then redo all of your call forwarding using this number and the standard gsm commands and your incoming callers will be forwarded to voicemail in the proper way.

[mjaste]

I've looked pretty hard into the Voicemail thing, and I've come to the conclusion that it must be set on the SIM (or the phone has an internal database of VM numbers somewhere!).

I'm in New Zealand and my Vodafone SIM does nothing when the VM button is pressed.

I insert my T-Mobile SIM from the states (no network connectivity) and the VM button dials, but doesn't connect (no network).

I insert my AT&T SIM that came with the phone and nothing, I assume it's trying visual VM..

I don't know if there is a way in the filesystem to setup the VM number, but you can issue an AT command to the baseband to tell it your voicemail number. So you can get the voicemail button to at least work for networks it doesn't do anything on.

The command is AT+CSVM=1,"+6421700700" where +6421700700 is your VM access number. Short numbers (local) also work, so 707 for Voda NZ.

Voicemail notification doesn't work, for me at least, so this is only half the solution.

[carlosvaldosta]

huh.... never changed 1 setting....T-Mobile VM works fine...not sms tho...need to figuire out how to set Tmo sms server number...anyone?

[mjaste]

huh.... never changed 1 setting....T-Mobile VM works fine...not sms tho...need to figuire out how to set Tmo sms server number...anyone?
My TMobile VM worked fine too, apart from the fact there is no coverage, their number is set on the SIM..

Try: AT+CSCA="+12063130004"

Where +12063130004 is the T-Mobile SMSC, I think it is.. Not sure.

[healeydave]

The command is AT+CSVM=1,"+6421700700" where +6421700700 is your VM access number. Short numbers (local) also work, so 707 for Voda NZ.solution.

Mjaste, you are a star, my voicemail button has not worked for ages. I did look into this and also started to look at the GSM commands but I never got round to trying them :-)

[healeydave]

I wonder if the reason some people are not getting voicemail notifications is because they are using a custom setting with the AT+CSCS ???

[mjaste]

I wonder if the reason some people are not getting voicemail notifications is because they are using a custom setting with the AT+CSCS ???

+CSCS, no.. but I was thinking CIND, the iphone doesn't mention voicemail on a AT+CIND=? though.

AT+CIND=?
+CIND: ("battchg",(0-5)),("signal",(0-5)),("service",(0,1)),("sounder",(0,1)),()

It would really help to study a phone/sim with a working vm notification.

[r22pilot]

Strange - If I try:

AT+CSVM=1,"+49xxxxxxxxxxxx"

it just says:

ERROR.

-r22pilot

[shadowmatt]

The command is AT+CSVM=1,"+6421700700" where +6421700700 is your VM access number. Short numbers (local) also work, so 707 for Voda NZ.

How do I input the command into my iphone?

[Spook75]

I get the following:

Welcome to minicom 2.2

OPTIONS:
Compiled on Jul 21 2007, 05:09:51.
Port /dev/tty.baseband

Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys

AT S7=45 S0=0 L1 V1 X4 &c1 E1 Q0
OK
AT+CSVM=1,"138"
ERROR

Can anyone help, please?

[healeydave]

It might be easier to discuss this stuff in IRC, I've created a channel called #iphone-config on irc.osx86.hu

I think we are close guy's, this has been bugging me for ages :-)

[healeydave]

Interesting, I have done the criminal thing of changing a few settings, rather than 1 at a time.

I am now getting notifications when a VM is received, but the notification I am getting is my credit balance instead of a VM alert :-)

[healeydave]

Xian figured out the error problem issuing commands in the baseband

Its having a pin set on the phone, remove your pin and the baseband should accept the command.

[Spook75]

Xian figured out the error problem issuing commands in the baseband

Its having a pin set on the phone, remove your pin and the baseband should accept the command.

I have disabled Phone PIN and SIM PIN, rebooted, and still have the ERROR...

Please help!!!!

[Spook75]

I have disabled Phone PIN and SIM PIN, rebooted, and still have the ERROR...

Please help!!!!

Nevermind...i stopped cutting and pasting and actuall yped in the AT commands.

Works like a charm now! thanks to all!

[healeydave]

+CSCS, no.. but I was thinking CIND, the iphone doesn't mention voicemail on a AT+CIND=? though.

AT+CIND=?
+CIND: ("battchg",(0-5)),("signal",(0-5)),("service",(0,1)),("sounder",(0,1)),()

It would really help to study a phone/sim with a working vm notification.

I've not had much luck changing anything else.
I have tried a few commands but I have noticed that most of them revert back to their default when you go back in and query them :-(

[PuffinFresh]

My TMobile VM worked fine too, apart from the fact there is no coverage, their number is set on the SIM..

Try: AT+CSCA="+12063130004"

Where +12063130004 is the T-Mobile SMSC, I think it is.. Not sure.


I accidentally ran this command on a mate's iPhone instead of the voicemail command. So now his SMS service center is set to 101, and he can't send SMS.

Is there a way to change this back to the default setting? It worked fine before.

I could set it to the number of his provider's service center, but if he tries using another provider, it won't work, so I'd rather put it back the way it was.

Thanks in advance for the help!!

[healeydave]

Nevermind...i stopped cutting and pasting and actually typed in the AT commands.

Works like a charm now! thanks to all!

Ok, I now have the definitive answer to cover PIN eventualities !!

If you do find yourself in the middle of a modification in minicom and the AT command set is giving you an error after you have entered a known good command, all you need to do is enter:

AT+CPIN="xxxx"

Where xxxx is your SIM's PIN number.

This will tell the baseband that you are authorised to make changes.

Voila, you should now be able to submit the AT commands without an error being returned :-)

enjoy!

[healeydave]

I accidentally ran this command on a mate's iPhone instead of the voicemail command. So now his SMS service center is set to 101, and he can't send SMS.

Is there a way to change this back to the default setting? It worked fine before.

I could set it to the number of his provider's service center, but if he tries using another provider, it won't work, so I'd rather put it back the way it was.

Thanks in advance for the help!!

No this change is dependent on the SIM.
All you need to do is re-write is proper message center back to this card!

If he puts another card in, the SMS center should be correct, its only the VM number that appears to be un-populated on some cards for some reason!

[PuffinFresh]

THANK YOU!

I got him to put the sim card into a normal phone; one that allows you to set the SMS service center easily; and corrected it there. Put it back in the iPhone and it works :D

[Supamoochu]

THANK YOU!

I got him to put the sim card into a normal phone; one that allows you to set the SMS service center easily; and corrected it there. Put it back in the iPhone and it works :D
W00ta Billies
My phone is fixed now :) posted this from it too :)

[ricochet]

I would love a solution for this - it sounds like healydave was very close with getting credit notifications instead of the vm messages (hey, at least u know there IS a vm that way!). So keep the ideas coming, there must be a way to get the sms to come thru

[healeydave]

Ok, I now have the definitive answer to cover PIN eventualities !!

If you do find yourself in the middle of a modification in minicom and the AT command set is giving you an error after you have entered a known good command, all you need to do is enter:

AT+CPIN="xxxx"

Where xxxx is your SIM's PIN number.

This will tell the baseband that you are authorised to make changes.

Voila, you should now be able to submit the AT commands without an error being returned :-)

enjoy!

P.S.
To configure your voicemail button to work, simply follow up with the command:

AT+CSVM=1,"xxxx"

Where xxxx is your networks voicemial access number.

[danelli999]

Look here!


http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6537

:)

[healeydave]

Look here!

http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6537:-)


Wow,

Some people are so desperate for some glory hunting, they have to create a new thread duplicating the work that people have already discovered to try and take the credit for it???

All the information was already in this thread posted days before!!!!

[danelli999]

Wow,

Some people are so desperate for some glory hunting, they have to create a new thread duplicating the work that people have already discovered to try and take the credit for it???

All the information was already in this thread posted days before!!!!

i don´t think so, this thread is no step by step guide for newbies.

[mbd]

Why create a thread (or even link to it) when there's a page on the wiki that has step by step instructions?

[healeydave]

Why create a thread (or even link to it) when there's a page on the wiki that has step by step instructions?

Well this thread was created before the WiKi and resulted in the creation of the IRC channel:
#iphone-config
on server
irc.os86.hu

It was on this channel that the pin problem was discovered which resulted in the original WiKi page being created on the dev pages.

Since then several new threads have been created by people duplicating the information trying to take credit for it all.

[ricochet]

So does following the steps from the wiki (to activate the voicemail button to dial your voicemail number) have any bearing in actually getting the notification SMSs which the provider sends out when a voicemail is received?

I don't mind dialling my own voicemail number, but I do need to know when to do it...

[healeydave]

The trick to populating your voicemail number is simply just that, to make the voicemail button in the Phone menu actually dial your VM Access number (like a quick short dial).

This sometimes works for people anyway, it depends on the SIM and Carrier.

The Voicemail notification is something else that I have tried to get devs to look at, so far without success.

My theory is that this problem bears a resemblance to SMS issue where SMS's that contain Alfa Characters do not make it though to the iPhone.

I have searched the net but I have not been successful in finding any information about the standard formatting of Voicemail notifications that the carriers send out.

Since I activated my VM button, I am getting VM notifications but they are in the form of may airtime balance coming up on the screen, which whilst a bit strange does help :-)

This is plaguing many users and I can't understand the reluctance for anyone to investigate it!

People have looked into springboard to figure out futile stuff like the carrier logo's, I can only assume the main people capable of investigating this, perhaps don't have the problem themselves ??

I myself receive very few voicemails and my carrier balance popping up is more than adequate for the few voicemails I receive but I am still keen to do what I can to help out on this matter because its one of the few remaining iPhone querks that needs ironing out.

The application that handles the on-screen "Dismiss" type messages is probably a good place to start since this is the application that is confusing a VM alert with a Balance Display in my case. I assume this is SpringBoard but I don't know for sure.

My phone may be an excellent example for this investigation as finding out why that notification is coming up, instead of a VM Alert would probably clear up all the problems of no notification at all!

If any dev's read this or anyone capable of dissecting the phone app responsible for this process want me to try anything out, please PM me.

[ricochet]

Thanks for clearing that up. Might as well set up the voicemail button to the right number and see if there's any change in the notifications which currently don't come through

[mbd]

I'm not very clued in with the AT command set for GSM (things were so much easier in the 80s with modems), but I was doing some investigations in case there was an AT command (or set of AT commands) that might provide the key to receiving sms notifications. Here's a list of commands that I think may be relevant:

AT+CSSN - Supplementary service notifications
AT+CNMI - New message indications to 'TE'
AT+CMGR - Read message
AT+CMGL - List messages
AT+CMGF - Message format
AT+CPMS - Preferred message store
AT+CNUM - Subscriber number
AT+CSMS - Select message service
AT+CSMP - Set text mode parameters
AT+CSDG - show text mode parameters
AT+CSCB - Select cell broadcast message types

I'm not sure, but to play with these, you may need to do an AT&W to write the settings. Again, I'm only referring back to my modem days where an ATZ would restore the modem back to a set saved state.

Not sure if any of this will help or inspire anyone. I'm likely to wait to see what happens with the next firmware update for the phone. I'm hoping that some of the quirks which probably exist due to a lack of testing for markets outside the US will be rectified magically :-).

[healeydave]

We've been working on these commands in #iphone-config

We have identified the messages are getting through to the iphone's baseband but the application is ignoring them.
Whether this is a baseband setting still that needs to be configured or a bug in the application is not certain yet but Darkmen (who did some work in SpringBoard to do with OP logos) did show an interest in this so fingers crossed he is looking at it from the application side.

[healeydave]

Configure your VoiceMail button as per these instructions:

Install SSH and Minicom {minicom is installed through the BSD Subsystem}
run minicom -s from the SSH shell
Select Serial Port Setup
Press A
Change the device to /dev/tty.debug
Press Esc
Move down to Exit and press enter
Modem will initialize

{Debug mode is a lot less responsive than tty.baseband but you don't have to shutdown CommCenter}

{TIP: hold the space bar down until you get a response from the modem, then you can type the commands, if you find debug mode to hard to work with, use /dev/tty.baseband but you will have to shutdown commcenter first.}

If your voicemail access number is a short code or a non international number (e.g. Tesco Mobile UK = 905), type the command:

AT+CSVM=1,"905",129

If your voicemail access number is a long code international number (e.g. Orange UK = 447973100123), type the command:

AT+CSVM=1,"447973100123",145

confirm its been taken with:

AT+CSVM?

Exit Minicom with Ctrl A Z x



Configure you VoiceMail Notifications as per these instructions:

Dial into your VoiceMail using the access code (or using your newly configure button :-)

Listen to the instructions, you are looking for a notification menu.

e.g. on Tesco Mobile UK:

dial 905
Press * {for the voicemail main menu}
Select option 4 {for the mailbox settings menu}
Press 1 {for the voicemail notification menu}
Press 1 {for the on screen voicemail notification symbol}


Again, special thanks to mjaste over on IRC #iphone-config
Sometimes the simplest things are right under your nose :-)


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[ShawnMcS]

Configure you VoiceMail Notifications as per these instructions:

Dial into your VoiceMail using the access code (or using your newly configure button :-)

Listen to the instructions, you are looking for a notification menu.

e.g. on Tesco Mobile UK:

dial 905
Press * {for the voicemail main menu}
Select option 4 {for the mailbox settings menu}
Press 1 {for the voicemail notification menu}
Press 1 {for the on screen voicemail notification symbol}


Again, special thanks to mjaste over on IRC #iphone-config
Sometimes the simplest things are right under your nose :-)


.

can you please explain that a little more? i really dont know what you are trying to say. my voicemail notification is turned on and nonetheless i dont receive it on my iphone...

[phattbam]

I've tried a few methods of activating my VM button. none of them work. I'm using the original AT&T sim card.

[mbd]

Yeah, I went exhaustively through my carrier (telstra in australia)'s voicemail options looking for a notification menu late last week, including trying to select options that weren't offered, and couldn't find anything that allowed me to change the notification type. :-\

[alxtribal]

I ve done this for ages ... (configuring the operator voicemail with SMS notification)
When i have a message on voicemail, i have a blank screen that appears, (no text) and the Dismiss button. That is all , and no red dot on the voicemail button:(

[flup]

I've found a really quick way of getting your voicemail button working at whirlpool.net.au (thanks to Simon K for the tip)

Go to the phone app and enter this sequence of numbers and call it:

*5005*86*xxx# then press CALL

(where xxx is the number you dial to get to your voicemail. On iSim (Optus), it's 321, so I typed *5005*86*321# then pressed CALL).

Voila! Voicemail button should work! Worked for me on Vodafone New Zealand

[simonk83]

I've found a really quick way of getting your voicemail button working at whirlpool.net.au (thanks to Simon K for the tip)

Go to the phone app and enter this sequence of numbers and call it:

*5005*86*xxx# then press CALL

(where xxx is the number you dial to get to your voicemail. On iSim (Optus), it's 321, so I typed *5005*86*321# then pressed CALL).

Voila! Voicemail button should work! Worked for me on Vodafone New Zealand

Hooray :D You're welcome (I just got it from the Wiki :D)

[ExOMaNiaC]

On wiki : The Easy way :

To set voicemail type *5005*86*xxx# then CALL where xxx is your voicemail number. (86=VM on keyboard); for orange : *5005*86*888# then CALL

To set SMSC type *5005*7672*xxxxxxxxxx# then CALL where xxxxxxxxxx is your SMScenter number. (7672=SMSC on keyboard); for orange : *5005*7672*+33689004000# then CALL

Wath is this SMSC type ? ... Is it for every provider ? Many tnx

[gaz919]

I really want to know too will the smsc make the vm sms get through?

[healeydave]

Ok, a few notes:

The iPhone application that handles voicemail has been written specifically to handle the Visual Voicemail facility that only works on an official AT&T contract.

This application also handles basic voicemail compatibility, for those using a mobile for more than several years, you will remember the days when you simply got an answer phone symbol on your phones display:

http://www.tivoland.com/ebaypics/vmail.gif

This is what you need to enable in your voicemail settings. Not all voicemail systems will offer the ability to select the notification type method!

If you are not receiving VM notifications on your iPhone, put your SIM into another phone and send yourself a test voicemail, note the notification type you receive. If its in the form of a text message then this is no good. You need to change the notification type in your voicemail service. If your voicemail service has limited options, you might be able to try calling your carriers customer support and ask them if they are able to set the notification type from their end.

I'm afraid if your voicemail system does not allow the setting of "Answer Phone Symbol", there is probably nothing more you can do short of encouraging a developer to reverse the iPhone's applications and modify it to support VM text messages. We know the text message based VM notifications are making it through to the phones baseband but the theory is that the application is ignoring them or at least the messages that contain alpha characters as part of the message header (e.g. the From field etc).

The UK o2 voicemail system (and hence Tesco Mobile also as they use the same network) is one that does support the selection of the notification type. This link describes the process to change the notification type, if you want to use it as a reference:

http://www.o2.co.uk/services/messaging/voicemail901/domorewith901


Good Luck.
Dave.

[yool]

If you're with sunrise in switzerland you can activate simple notification by sending sms to 930 with simple on (5.-- once). After this you get again notified if someone left you a messi.. ("red dot" on voicemail button and a "+" on the phone icon) :)

[aaronliu]

Thanks alot. I am in Taiwan, with Transasia Tel. I had my SIM for over 10 years now, so I think it's a V1 card. anyway, I use *5005*86*123# (123 is the voicemail number) and it works!!! My voicemail button is working now!

[DarkDim]

I used *5005*86*121# for vodafone UK and it worked, the voicemail button is now enabled. Another tip for voicemail is to change the notification options (if available) to a non-txt message method, e.g. alert or alert & deliver. On vodafone this means that voicemail calls you when there are messages, no SMS alert needed (the ones that iphone cant deliver)

[perfecblue]

Thanks alot. I am in Taiwan, with Transasia Tel. I had my SIM for over 10 years now, so I think it's a V1 card. anyway, I use *5005*86*123# (123 is the voicemail number) and it works!!! My voicemail button is working now!

Hey aaronliu,

I'm in Taiwan too, were you able to receive proper SMS notifications of new Voice Mail? Or is it like other ppl in this thread that even if there is new Voice Mail, the SMS never shows up? Thanks.

[photoman]

I used *5005*86*121# for vodafone UK and it worked, the voicemail button is now enabled. Another tip for voicemail is to change the notification options (if available) to a non-txt message method, e.g. alert or alert & deliver. On vodafone this means that voicemail calls you when there are messages, no SMS alert needed (the ones that iphone cant deliver)


"Text Message With Icon Alert" works too.

[aaronliu]

Hey aaronliu,

I'm in Taiwan too, were you able to receive proper SMS notifications of new Voice Mail? Or is it like other ppl in this thread that even if there is new Voice Mail, the SMS never shows up? Thanks.

@perfectblue
You are right, I just noticed that when someone left voicemail, I DO NOT receive SMS notification. I just tried type in
"To set SMSC type *5005*7672*xxxxxxxxxx# then CALL where xxxxxxxxxx is your SMScenter number. (7672=SMSC on keyboard); for orange : *5005*7672*+33689004000# then CALL"
it says setting success... but still, I didn't get any SMS notification.
so what should we do???
P.S. My regular SMS works, both sending and receiving works ok.

[dvydra]

"Text Message With Icon Alert" works too.

How can I set this option with Vodafone UK?

[graeme0]

"Text Message With Icon Alert" works too.

Not for me it doesn't!

[perfecblue]

@perfectblue
You are right, I just noticed that when someone left voicemail, I DO NOT receive SMS notification. I just tried type in
"To set SMSC type *5005*7672*xxxxxxxxxx# then CALL where xxxxxxxxxx is your SMScenter number. (7672=SMSC on keyboard); for orange : *5005*7672*+33689004000# then CALL"
it says setting success... but still, I didn't get any SMS notification.
so what should we do???
P.S. My regular SMS works, both sending and receiving works ok.

To aaronliu:

Then I'm afraid it's like what healeydave described at p.7 #65, the carrier's Voice Mail SMS Notification is completely ignored by iPhone. Unless there's an option to change the notification to a different way with TransAsia, I guess that's the way it is for now.

As for as I know:
FarEasTone: No way to change
Taiwan Mobile: SMS or Call Back
CHT: ??
TransAsia: ??

Let's not drift away from the topic, please PM me if you get any success over at TransAsia or CHT.

[refinedmusic]

Whats the number for AT&T? I want to activate this on my AT&T iPhone.

[DeathChill]

I've found a really quick way of getting your voicemail button working at whirlpool.net.au (thanks to Simon K for the tip)

Go to the phone app and enter this sequence of numbers and call it:

*5005*86*xxx# then press CALL

(where xxx is the number you dial to get to your voicemail. On iSim (Optus), it's 321, so I typed *5005*86*321# then pressed CALL).

Voila! Voicemail button should work! Worked for me on Vodafone New Zealand

Anyone get this working with Rogers? I tried using 98 but it just gives me an unknown application error when I try and click the Voicemail button.

[googs]

Anyone got the solution for Tmobile US?

[cariza]

My orange voicemail number is *777

When I enter the following:

*5005*86**777# call

I get a wrong number, then I tried

*5005*86*777# call

Same problem. If i manual just enter *777 in the dial pad and call, I get my voice mail.

Any ideas?

[photoman]

How can I set this option with Vodafone UK?


Make sure you have Voicemail activated - dial 1211 to activate
Call 121, Select 7, Select 3, Select 2 "Text Message with icon Alert"

If you want to deactivate voicemail at any time dial 1210

[hopach]

do you have a number you can dial to access your voicemail from a landline/different phone? I.e., with my carrier in Germany (eplus), i can dial it with an "inserted" 99: my regular number is +49 177 xxxxxxxx.
To check my voicemail from my iPhone, I dial a shortcut (like 9911).
To check my voicemail from a different phone, I dial +49 177 99 xxxxxxxx.
After entering the latter into the "code" above (not the "shortcut"), my voicemail button on the iPhone finally started working! Yay! So you may want to check with your carrier if there is such a complete number for checking your voicemail.

[ricochet]

Can't find any option for this type of notification via Telstra voicemail in Australia. I tried to set up "callback" to my mobile number, but that seemed to result in some sort of circular voicemail thing where it would try to callback, go straight to voicemail and leave a long silent message asking for a pin, then it would call itself again when THAT message was received! So I turned that off pretty quick.

Can't hear an option for "icon notification" or "simple notification" though, seems like it's either an SMS or a call :( Anyone had any luck with calling Telstra to get this changed?

EDIT: I've also noticed that I can't turn off or on my voicemail for different situations via the iPhone either... using the ##61# type codes give me nice messages saying that the forwarding type was disabled, but I tried this for Busy, UnAnswered and Out-of-range and none of them actually stopped calls going to my voicemail. Weird.

[ginsu]

tmob us

i used the VM number per the instructions on this site. *5005*86*XXX# call

I can see the VM icon, and I can see when missed a call, etc. it works perectly. now I can charge the phone up wiht lots of mins. SMS works great if sent from email or other handheld. problems with web-generated sms from tmob YMMV

[g.c.]

Anyone get this working with Rogers? I tried using 98 but it just gives me an unknown application error when I try and click the Voicemail button.

Yea I had the same issue. Is there another number to access voicemail on Rogers?

[ashraf@samawi.com]

when i type in *5005*7672*+xxxxxxxxxxx# and hit the call button i get

setting succeeded
service Center Address
No Address

what am i doing wrong? (the xxxx's above are only written like that here... i have the actual number when trying it) :)

[healeydave]

when i type in *5005*7672*+xxxxxxxxxxx# and hit the call button i get

setting succeeded
service Center Address
No Address

what am i doing wrong? (the xxxx's above are only written like that here... i have the actual number when trying it) :)


When you are testing sending txt messages afterwards, are you remembering to use the international format, otherwise the sms will fail with an error quite quickly in the progress bar.

[ashraf@samawi.com]

sending sms in both format work...

[hogm]

I have tried both methods, via *5005 and via ssh-minicom and both methods have been unsuccessful, i wonder if it may have somenthing to do with the way the phone was unlocked??? I can not think of any other reason why some people have succided and some others haven't. Any ideas?

[healeydave]

What happens? the VM button still doesn't work?

What number are you trying to enter?

[unicorn]

Try this - it worked for me

To set voicemail type *5005*86*xxx# then CALL where xxx is your voicemail number.

[hogm]

I can confirm the problem had to do with the way the phone was unlocked, i had unlocked it using anysim, i re ran the unloc proces but with iunlock this time and after i am now able to change the voicemail number, however i ran in to another problem in my system to call the voicemail you have to dial *86 but the iphone will give you an error if you try to configure using *, i can now configure any number as long as there are no caracters only numbers. But that only partially resolved my problem since i can still not call my voicemail. :(

[walsh]

I can confirm the problem had to do with the way the phone was unlocked, i had unlocked it using anysim, i re ran the unloc proces but with iunlock this time and after i am now able to change the voicemail number, however i ran in to another problem in my system to call the voicemail you have to dial *86 but the iphone will give you an error if you try to configure using *, i can now configure any number as long as there are no caracters only numbers. But that only partially resolved my problem since i can still not call my voicemail. :(

This has been widely discussed there is no option for configuring VoiceMail box Numbers that beging with "*" as of yet.

So we have to wait for somebody to figure this out!!!

[zineattitude]

f you have successfully unlocked your iPhone, you may have discovered already that the voicemail button doesn't do anything at all. It won't give you visual voicemail, but you can easily get the voicemail button to work using any carrier following these steps:

1. First, take note of what your voicemail number is with your current provider (for example, in Spain the Vodafone voicemail number is 177).
2. Click on the phone button in your iPhone.
3. Click on the keypad tab.
4. Tap the following code:

*5005*86*xxx#
The xxx is the voicemail number, in our example it will read: *5005*86*177#

5. Tap call.
6. After a second, the code will have been set.
7. Tap now on the voicemail button and it will automatically call your usual voicemail service.

[Jose_manuel]

Im from El Salvador and my voice mail number is *80. What can i do?

Please Help!!!

[eddy68]

*5005*86*xxx#
The xxx is the voicemail number, in our example it will read: *5005*86*177#

Fantastic zineattitude, the button works fine now, how about VM notification does this fix it?

Thanks!!!

[flyingcarlo]

Am on Telstra network. 3G sim removed from Blackberry Pearl
PROBLEM IS
Anyone got a clue as to why I get all sms but I don't get a msg from my VM when someone leaves me a msg.
Also how do you send MMS using Iphone on Telstra
Many Thanks:confused:
Just remembered another thing which may help. if you send a sms to 101 it calls you back from 0101300101 not sure if this info can help someone discover how to unlock the VM notification.

[gaz919]

no alpha sms or short reciever no sms eg "121" get through hopefully fixed in 1.1.1
no mms on iphone just email attachments , steve jobs said "mms is bad security"

[zetex]

that worked a treat here in the UK.

just typed in *5005*86*901# for O2 in the UK and pressed the call button. and now when i press my voicemail button on my dock it automatically dials my voicemail...

the only problem i have found with it which is purely cosmestic is when you press the voicemail button it doesn't change colour like the others do.

any idea's

thanks alot

Ian

[reserves]

just typed in *5005*86*121# for Vodafone in the UK, nice!

[DanCT]

Well, I'll just keep bumping the thread until someone figures out a solution for users with their voicemail numbers starting with an asterisk (*).

[cyberface]

Well, I'll just keep bumping the thread until someone figures out a solution for users with their voicemail numbers starting with an asterisk (*).
Did you try the Minicom method (i.e. issuing the AT+CSVM=1,"xxxxxx" command directly to the modem) ?????

Incidentally that's how I got mine working on UK Vodafone, even though the voicemail number is a simple number (121)

But it may work better than the keypad dial job given that there's likely to be no translation when sent via the AT modem command, compared to putting it through the keypad as a 'number'...

[mr_]

Configure your VoiceMail button as per these instructions:
[...]
If your voicemail access number is a long code international number (e.g. Orange UK = 447973100123), type the command:

AT+CSVM=1,"447973100123",145

confirm its been taken with:

AT+CSVM?

Exit Minicom with Ctrl A Z x
[...]


I am getting the AT+CSVM command to execute and return OK, but then the AT+CSVM? command still shows the same (unchanged) number. How can that be? No SIM lock code or anything like that (and in any case it would cause AT+CSVM to return ERROR)

Here is the session transcript:
# minicom -s

Welcome to minicom 2.2

OPTIONS:
Compiled on Jul 21 2007, 05:09:51.
Port /dev/tty.baseband

Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys

AT S7=45 S0=0 L1 V1 X4 &c1 E1 Q0
OK
AT+CSVM?
+CSVM: 1,"18056377243",145

OK
AT+CSVM=1,"17142043114",145
OK
AT+CSVM?
+CSVM: 1,"18056377243",145

OK
AT+CSVM=1,"17142043114",145
OK
AT+CSVM?
+CSVM: 1,"18056377243",145

OK

:confused: :confused: :confused:

(by the way, I tried to do this the easy way with *5005 etc, but it didn't work either. I am on T-Mobile USA and I am trying to repoint the default VM number to a custom service. I did stop CommCenter.)

[flyingcarlo]

To those of you using telstra VM 101 Optus VM 321
Go to the phone icon. enter the following *5005*86*xxx# as though you were dialing a phone nbr
xxx being the 3 digit VM nbr you use to call ur VM.
Your voicemail button is now programed
Problem I have found with telstra, it does not notify you when someone has left you a msg. ie. you have 1 voicemail dial 101 to listen etc.

[wildsearch]

To those of you using telstra VM 101 Optus VM 321
Go to the phone icon. enter the following *5005*86*xxx# as though you were dialing a phone nbr
xxx being the 3 digit VM nbr you use to call ur VM.
Your voicemail button is now programed
Problem I have found with telstra, it does not notify you when someone has left you a msg. ie. you have 1 voicemail dial 101 to listen etc.

Hi,

I'm with ATT (US) but without the data plan or visual voicemail, so my voicemail icon does not work. What is the "xxx" voicemail number for ATT? and will this method works on my case?

Thanks

[G_Squared]

This is really easy.
Go to the dialpad and simply type *5005*86*xxx# and then hit call. xxx represents the 3 digit code to dial your local voicemail, ie with Vodafone in the UK it is 121

[screege]

Please help I putted *5005*86*86# where 86 is my voice mail number and all I get when I type the voice mail button is unknown application. Can anyone help me?

Thanks

[ftb32]

Hi How put + ???

[iAlex]

You do not have to go the way to the minicom try this:

*5005*86*xxxx# (xxxx is your voicemail number) press Call. After this your Voicemail Button can call your Mailbox.

[screege]

Hi I putted *5005*86*xxxx# and putted my mailbox number which is *86 and when pushing the voice mail button I still get unknown application I have tried this both ways

*5005*86*86# and *5005*86**86# with the same result can anyone help me?

Thank you

[bigspoody]

To those of you using telstra VM 101 Optus VM 321
Go to the phone icon. enter the following *5005*86*xxx# as though you were dialing a phone nbr
xxx being the 3 digit VM nbr you use to call ur VM.
Your voicemail button is now programed
Problem I have found with telstra, it does not notify you when someone has left you a msg. ie. you have 1 voicemail dial 101 to listen etc.

Have you been able to fix the voicemail alert sms?

[kkanuck]

Is there a way to add your voicemail password in to the number of your voicemail access, so that once you press the voicemail button on the dock, it dails voicemail, plus enters the passcode with a delay I think by entering a few commas between passcode and access number.

End result would be on touch of tab, and it starts giving you voicemail without havine to enter passcode too?


I am on ATT USA charter plan,


Cheers,

[jsalva]

Hi I putted *5005*86*xxxx# and putted my mailbox number which is *86 and when pushing the voice mail button I still get unknown application I have tried this both ways

*5005*86*86# and *5005*86**86# with the same result can anyone help me?

Thank you

screege,

Are you from Movistar Panama? if you are you need to use 186 as your voice mail number since the iphone will not accept *86 as voicemail.

so the code you need to dial is *5005*86*186# and then Call

[kickbike]

To all Movistar customers in Venezuela to set up the voicemail buttom on your unlocked iPhone, the number is 133 so you need to input *5005*86*133# and then call.

Para los clientes movistar en Venezuela, que ya tengan su iPhone y quieran programar el boton de voicemail en su telf. ingresen el codigo en el keypad *5005*86*133# y apreten call, y les quedara grabado el numero de conexion a su correo de voz, ya que el *2 no va funcionar con este truco.

[sgwarez]

Hello,
Where in Portugal with Optimus operator work fine!
Just input :

5005*86*133# --> for Optimus

*5005*86*200# --> for TMN

*5005*86*123# --> for Vodafone

thanks

[screege]

screege,

Are you from Movistar Panama? if you are you need to use 186 as your voice mail number since the iphone will not accept *86 as voicemail.

so the code you need to dial is *5005*86*186# and then Call

Nope movistar Mexico

[pixanim]

para movistar mexico es:

*5005*86*186#

funciono excelente para mi :D

[kkanuck]

Is there a way to add your voicemail password in to the number of your voicemail access, so that once you press the voicemail button on the dock, it dails voicemail, plus enters the passcode with a delay I think by entering a few commas between passcode and access number.

End result would be on touch of tab, and it starts giving you voicemail without havine to enter passcode too?


I am on ATT USA charter plan,


Cheers,


I was wondering if anyone has this problem too? I have the VM button working okay, but am still forced to enter a 4 digit passcode to access my voicemail once it dials after I press the voicemail button.

I spoke with ATT, and as I am on the old Blue sim, on the charter plan, I was told by them that passcode request cannot be turned off like the newer ATT sims, so I have to press voicemail, wait a few seconds, then enter on the keypad the 4 digit passcode, and was hoping to be able to modify this somehow and only have to press the voicemail button once, (no passcode) and I could then be inot my voicemail portal, no extra steps.

please let me know if there is a way around this. ATT tells me NO.


Cheers

[screege]

para movistar mexico es:

*5005*86*186#

funciono excelente para mi :D

Sip gracias ya quedo el mio tambien.

[hal]

Is there a way to undo the 5005 code? The reason I ask is that I am on O2 in the UK, and I was wondering whether filling in the blanks for the APN and password on the carrier plist might enable visual voicemail for UK unlocked O2 iPhone customers.

I wanted to undo the 5005 fix so that I can see if my carrier.plist edits worked.

Any help?

[viatik]

Is there a way to undo the 5005 code? The reason I ask is that I am on O2 in the UK, and I was wondering whether filling in the blanks for the APN and password on the carrier plist might enable visual voicemail for UK unlocked O2 iPhone customers.

I wanted to undo the 5005 fix so that I can see if my carrier.plist edits worked.

Any help?

Just type *5005*86*# call
This will wipe out the programming

[hal]

Thanks. I'll give that a try and see if I have any luck!

[vomer]

here is a sure way to configure voice mail : http://www.haklabs.com/2007/iphone-voicemail-button-fix/

have fun

[PmgR]

Another way to set configure your voicemail dialing (if it doesn't work with the voice mail button, or if you want to change the number that it dials), is as follows:

1. Download the program sendmodem from: http:// code . google . com /p/iphone-elite/downloads/list (remove the spaces and download the file sendmodem.zip)

2. Put the file sendmodem in /usr/bin on the iPhone and change it to executable with chmod +x sendmodem

3. Then execute the following command on the iPhone from /usr/bin

sendmodem "AT+CSVM=1,\"yournumberhere\""

where your number is e.g. +15551239999

PmgR

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[cartman13]

Does anyone know if you can but a chain dial string in the xxx spot? trying to get my phone to automatically dial in my password when i hit the voicemail button for tmo usa.

thanks.

------ okay, please ignore, i just realized all i have to do is disable password security... duh!

[Bodum]

Click on your iPhone's phone button.
Then click on the Keypad tab.
You need to then add the following code: *5005*86*xxx#.
Here xxx would be your voicemail number. (UK vodafone 121)
After entering the code you tap call.:D

[vineetmanghani]

Is there any way to enter a pause while dialing? I want the iphone to be able to dial my voicemail, wait till it connects and then enter the password, when I press the voicemail button....does anyone know how this could be possible?

[zolly]

a coma in AT commands donates a pause

[egyptfixer_ramy]

here is a sure way to configure voice mail : http://www.haklabs.com/2007/iphone-voicemail-button-fix/

have fun

It is actually working,,

I can't believe it..

Thanks dude,, that was easy smooth and well put..

Cheers,
Ramy

[Shokoladniu]

Hi! Does anybody now the solution for those, who have voicemail numbers starting at "*" and ending at "#" ????

[pakal]

Hi! Does anybody now the solution for those, who have voicemail numbers starting at "*" and ending at "#" ????

You may want to try to set your OWN NUMBER as the voicemail number. It worked in my case !!!! :D :D :D

Pakal