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Re: How To: Set Up Visual Voicemail on your Sprint TP for Free
As previously stated throughout this thread, no matter if it is conditional or unconditional, Sprint charges $.20/minute. No way around it. You were misinformed.
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Re: How To: Set Up Visual Voicemail on your Sprint TP for Free
Just got off the phone for the 3rd time with sprint. Per the supervisor can't change voicemail number only forward and @.20 per minute.
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I just got off the phone with sprint every time I call I get the same response my voice mail # cannot be deleted I would have to change my number. The Tech who goes by the name Chris said that the vmail# is the same as the phone # and there is nothing he can do. they can foward my vmail but thats about it. Maybe the reason why you dont see any charges is because of your plan? |
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Nah...the people who got this working without being charged had 2 things going for them to make it happen. A rep who knew exactly what they were talking about, and also either didn't know/care about the policy of not changing the default vm number. Not much point in furthering this discussion. I think until Sprint changes the policy, it's going to be a repeat of information already posted.
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I have followed the instructions laid out in this thread and have hit a snag. When you call my phone you get a message stating the 813 # and then it says that this is an invalid voicemail account. Can someone tell me what I did wrong?
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I got charged
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how much on average are people getting charged in total
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That depends on how many calls were forwarded to voicemail. No way to get a real average b/c everyone has different usage. $.20/minute.
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as a warning to all. the OP statement about call forwarding is wrong, you will be charged. you can look it up on thier website. actually in the same place he found his quote, this is quoted "
Call forwarding charges apply, except in the case of Sprint Nextel voicemail or SMS numbers. " this means if you aren't supposed to do it, you shouldn't and this is what happens. |
Re: How To: Set Up Visual Voicemail on your Sprint TP for Free
if you didn't get charged you are lucky. but this is not free.
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The reason people like me aren't getting charged is because its not actually forwarding. People who set this up when the op did (which was before he even posted this on ppcgeeks) sprint would actually change our voicemail numbers for us. Now when you try to call in and have them do that they won't change the # at all and only set it up as forwarding. I tried to have my girls phone set up like mine and I ran into the same problems as everyone else, they won't change voicemail numbers anymore. |
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Nah...might as well keep it open. There's a lot of good information throughout this thread, and if it closes someone else will inevitably open up another one. Personally, I think this one should remain open and all other threads regarding the matter be pointed here. Who knows, if people lay off of these requests and wait a month or two, they might start seeing success in getting it done. Most call centers go through employees like toilet paper, so just because people are in the know about the policy now doesn't mean they will be in a couple months.
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They just released one for the android so I e-mailed them to see if they had one planned for windows mobile devices soon, they said.... "We do not have an update for Windows Mobile available. There is no firm date for a future release. " O well.... |
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I just called and Cliff (the sprint employee) told me that he is changing the voicemail number and that it is set to conditional forwarding. this sounds exactly like what everybody said should happen if it is setup correctly. however, he did say that he was told that he must tell me (and document that he told me) that it will cost me $.20/minute. I wasnt sure if he was told incorrectly or not, so i decided to let him make the change and i will turn it off if i see charges.
He actually said he had multiple calls about this tonight alone, even knew the number i wanted to change the voicemail to before i told him. So i am sure that sprint is aware that this is going on. He called and left me a voicemail, so if anybody can tell me how to check up to the minute billing (if this is possible, i see on the website how to check minutes, but i do not see anywhere about call forwarding billing), i can verify if i was charged for this voicemail |
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Hmmm, I had read pages 1-7, and then 17 and 18 (it got to be rather redundant so i skipped a lot of the middle). maybe I should go back and read the rest, but from what i read, i believe i did what people were saying needed to be done in the early posts. I have conditional forwarding. he confirmed that i was changing my voicemail number.
Does anybody know how to check if I actually am being charged for this? is there a place where i could look up this kind of fee in real time on my account? Also, is there a way to limit voicemail time? I am worried that i might get the situation where someone calls me and is leaving a message when i call them back and they switch over and it leaves a voicemail the whole time im on the phone which could end up in an hour+ voicemail if im on the phone that long. I think that's the only way i could get really screwed with a huge bill. |
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Took a few attempts with sprint and being told no a couple times but, I finally got them to set this up as described in the first post. It works pretty good too. Yet to see if sprint will charge me anyway. we shall see.
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well, I've been using GotVoice for this since it calls into the vm, no fwding required. they did however just merge with YouMail, so now it's $3/mo if you can't fwd. not great, but atleast I don't have to have another app running and it's better than .20/min.
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I woudnt want another app to give me Visual Voicemail. That is P.I.T.A. Wht I cant understand is that Sprint spent a ton of money advertising the and helping to develop the the TP and Diamond. If they rewrote the softare (so to speak) to give the Instinct Visual Voicemail, why the hell didnt they do it for WM phones, which out sell the Instinct?
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Is this a visual voicemail program, it sounds like they send a text with the words, or the mp3 file with the voicemail goes to your email, but it doesn't seem like actual visual voicemail, can we get some screen shots? |
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no screen shots, with the switch to YouMail, I have to pay 3/mo and I haven't set it up yet. when it was gotvoice (free version) it would only check like 3 times a day, and you had to listen via web page. it would just send a txt &or email notification.
but yes, with youmail it should send the mp3 in email, and you can have it translated to text for a few more bucks. I don't have any idea what "visual voicemail" is like, I'm allergic to apples |
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Finally got the Visual Voice Mail thing going, the tech that I spoke to said that it wasn't free because PhoneFusion charges Sprint $0.20 a call and they pass that on to the customer, I'll see what happens after my first billing cycle!!! Thanks for the great hint on getting visual mail, much better feature than calling everytime to check your voice mail just so you can hear someone say "Call me back" DUH!
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Originally Posted by p-slim http://67.228.199.237/forum.ppcgeeks...s/viewpost.gif The reason people like me aren't getting charged is because its not actually forwarding. People who set this up when the op did (which was before he even posted this on ppcgeeks) sprint would actually change our voicemail numbers for us. Now when you try to call in and have them do that they won't change the # at all and only set it up as forwarding. I tried to have my girls phone set up like mine and I ran into the same problems as everyone else, they won't change voicemail numbers anymore. Exactly, as others have said it seems sprint has sent a memo out to there reps saying that they are not supposed to do this anymore, it did work but now that so many have tried it it seems that it doesn't anymore. |
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I cant seem to find how to do this on my VERIZON Touch Pro?
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This Is No Longer Free
The idea of this working is pretty much DEAD! I've spent the last week, calling in and trying every conceivable idea to make the forwarding work without charges to no avail. my latest try was to actually change the Voicemail Default number...which was my own number at the time to the Phonefusion.com number(i spoke to at least 6 reps before i found one to do this!). great service and it worked great with Youmail.com, callwave.com, and phonefusion.com, but with the forwarding charges I was getting billed anywhere from $3-10 per day! YIKES. this is a serious flaw to sprint service for all of us technical users out there but I think sprint doesn't really care since the general population don't really care(or know) about services like these. Sorry to be so doom and gloom, I hate it too since I'm a new sprint dealer and I just switched from AT&T. I now save $59/mth so if I wanted I could probably just pay the forwarding fees to sprint and be about the same as AT&T but I switched to save money! I will be getting a dealer account soon also so then I will save even more money.
Please if anyone has the silver bullet to solve this PM me and let me know otherwise I think the thread should be either closed or re-titled to NOT WORKING ANYMORE! or IF YOUR NOT ALREADY IN THE PROGRAM DON'T TRY CAUSE SPRINT CAUGHT ON AND IS NOW CHARGING. |
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typester:so people leave over 15min of voicemail a DAY for you? Just curious wondering what my charges would be..I'd be fine with $1-2 a day
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Re: How To: Set Up Visual Voicemail on your Sprint TP for Free
I called sprint at the number you advised and i selected option 2. the tec I spke to advised me there is no vm # to change.
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Unfortunatley YES, by the end of the day' sometimes i have around 30-40 vm's. i use my phone for business, and i'm self employed so i use around 5000 minutes per month, usually during the day time and then a few 1000 more during nightime and weekends(i need to start using my VOIP line more often). Sprint really just needs to get with the program and in-order to stay competetive they need to change this. there are no other carrier that charge this...even Helio by Virgin Mobile who uses sprint towers doesn't charge for forwarding. If Sprint wants business users they need to make forwarding free or they are going to slowy loose them 1 by 1. also as people begin to use cellphones as there home phones they are going to start comparing features, and Forwarding for pretty much every Landline is also free! anyway's not trying to persuade anyone eitherway, believe me i want people to use sprint...but when pitching business' about the service forwarding always seems to come up with me. |
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just putting in my 2 cents. I am a sprint tier 2 tech btw and when I heard about youmail I actually went into the system and changed my own vm number. It did not work. I was still charged. I'm willing to try again with fusion, but I don't doubt it will be the same deal. Lots of time people slide by in the system with features they're not supposed to have. So if one or two people in 100 make it work, again I would not be suprised.
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I just tried signing up, figured I would give it a whirl. If I get charged I'll figure it out then.
I get this error, I e-mailed support I will let you know what they say. Sorry - We've encountered an error! We're sorry, but we are unable to process your request for signup at this time. Please contact Customer Support at support@phonefusion.com for more details. Reference ID: 1484542 |
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I have had this a few months and I have not seen aditional charges.
My question is how do I get Phone Fusion to stay open all the time? |
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wait...you are actually using the service and you have searched your bill, and you are not getting charged?? are you sure...not trying to call you out or anything, i'm just desperate to get this working! the service is amazing and i'm addicted. i have to save money right now so cant really switch but this would be a life saver!! did you do *72 and *74 or call in and have conditional forwarding set up? or did you have your default VM number changed to the Fusion number? please elaborate! also any questions on Phone Fusion should probably be posted on their blog too, as they respond very quickly to questions over there! http://support.phonefusion.com/index...kets&_a=submit this is the link to submit a ticket.
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This prgram works fine with alltel, no additional charges. just dial *71813-200-0200 to activate.
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yeah its too bad sprint is the only provider who charges for this. i guess we cant have our cakes and eat them too.
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I guess I am one of the lucky ones. :) |
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Well I received my bill and guess what... I was charged over $32.00 for call forwarding charges. I called Sprint and the tech was a real.. PITA, she stated that she could not find any notes in my plan that I shouldn't be charged for this feature. She agreed to remove the fees once and would transfer me over to tech support who could look into this issue more. The tech I spoke with said their was no way to switch the number because if the routing number does not match my phone number I would be charged for call forwarding regardless. She spoke with another tech who confirmed this issue as well. They ended up switching my VM back to the stock system. Looks like all you's who are not getting charged are lucky!
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