How To: Set Up Visual Voicemail on your Sprint TP for Free(Working soon!)

04orgzx6r · #1 (**permalink**) 01-06-2009, 10:22 PM

Short vesion, this is free the way I set it up but try it at your own "risk" ....

How do you think they do it on the instinct?

Different program same concept...

groovdafied · #2 (**permalink**) 01-06-2009, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by 04orgzx6r

Short vesion, this is free the way I set it up but try it at your own "risk" ....

How do you think they do it on the instinct?

Different program same concept...

More like different service same concept... They lease their Visual Voicemail from someone else.

peerless · #3 (**permalink**) 01-07-2009, 02:06 AM

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Originally Posted by 04orgzx6r

Short vesion, this is free the way I set it up but try it at your own "risk" ....

How do you think they do it on the instinct?

Different program same concept...

I'll echo what you've just posted, it is just like the VVM on the Instinct in terms of function, the difference is the UI and Phonefusion has more options than VVM on the Instinct. I don't understand why Sprint won't make Phonefusion a native application on Windows Mobile. In my opinion Sprint is wasting money paying Licensing fees to Klausner Tech for VVM which the Instinct uses. I had the Instinct the VVM rarely worked, to my understanding the VVM is still plagued with problems.

orwellian · #4 (**permalink**) 01-24-2009, 01:24 PM

I cant seem to find how to do this on my VERIZON Touch Pro?
Please and thanks

typester · #5 (**permalink**) 01-26-2009, 07:05 PM

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.

rschup74 · #6 (**permalink**) 08-21-2009, 10:27 AM

looks like ill have to call t2 till I win the lottery. sprint claims "LEGAL ISSUES" Cuz ppl were using other ppl cell nums to get their messages...

railslave · #7 (**permalink**) 08-21-2009, 01:39 PM

thats why i love google voice. visual vm and transcript

**p-slim** · #8 (**permalink**) 10-06-2009, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by railslave

thats why i love google voice. visual vm and transcript

how do you get your sprint voicemail to work with google voice for free, or is it still .20 per minute?

cchris81 · #9 (**permalink**) 10-28-2009, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by p-slim

how do you get your sprint voicemail to work with google voice for free, or is it still .20 per minute?

Sprint had a press release specifically talking about google voice. Check it out

http://newsreleases.sprint.com/phoen...107&highlight=

**shaggylive** · #10 (**permalink**) 10-28-2009, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by cchris81

Sprint had a press release specifically talking about google voice. Check it out

http://newsreleases.sprint.com/phoen...107&highlight=

Thanks! thought I'd post the important section.

Quote:

Application Development Addresses Voice Services and Data
Voice services continue to play a central role in mobile communications, even as data grows. Application developers have created a number of voicemail and messaging services that take advantage of call forwarding capabilities. Sprint announced today that it will not charge customers for certain types of call forwarding. Conditional call forwarding for busy calls or calls not answered using the customer’s wireless phone will be free, beginning mid-November. (Standard charges will continue to apply for immediate call forwarding.)3 This change will give Sprint customers the opportunity to access third-party voice services, including the new voicemail feature in Google VoiceTM.

well, a guy named david was helpfull in setting this up for me, but now that I pasted that quote, I realized it said mid-Nov. so I'm not sure what he did, or if i'll be charged.

i'll report back after some testing.

yea, I was told what I wanted to hear so he could get me off the phone.. nothing changed (that I can tell)
oh, well, guess we gotta wait to see what they have up their sleve come turkey time.