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

[rpmccormick]

#1 Call:
Said I want to change "Default Voicemail". The tech said "are you using a 3rd party voicemail service?" I said "yes." He said no problem, put me on hold for 4 min, then asked for the new number, then over the next 10 min he repeatedly "tested" it by calling me and he couldn't get it to work (still answered by SprintVM). He wanted me to reset my phone, but I was on it, so he said "oh, thats why it isn't updating. If it doesn't work after you hang up, call back when you are on a land line." (He obviously didn't know what he was doing -lol)

#2 Call:
Said I want to change "Default Voicemail". He said "no problem" and immediatly asked for the new number. Put me on hold for 1 min, then said his supervisor said they can't do that because it circumvents their $0.20/min forwarding charge. I said the other guy tried to do it and asked what it was currently set to. It was 11+my-phone-number still, so the first tech didn't change a thing. (???)

#3 Call:
Said I want to change "Default Voicemail in your ESM system". They guy said no problem and immediatly asked for the new number. Put me on hold for 1 min, then said "I can't change the default voicemail, I can only change conditional or unconditional" (did not mention the word "forwarding" or any charge). I said "conditional I guess, but I was told to have you change the default". He said "sorry, I can only change conditional." I said "ok", and 30-seconds later he said "done, is there anything else I can help you with?" I said "nope, thanks" and hung up.

I hope I don't get charged. If I do, I can honestly say the tech said absolutly nothing about any charge or even the word "forwarding". We will see.

I think I will though, because it is not the default. The "default voicemail" is not called conditional or unconditional... it is a 3rd type... right?

Anyway, it's working and I love it. I set the Home-Tab left softkey to "Voicemail" and had it run the app instead of "Phone" which is the same as pressing the hardware talk key. I hope I don't get charged.

PS: I'd love it more if...
1) It showed contact name and picture, plus had an internal player with progress bar instead of launching Windows Media Player Mobile
...does any one know how to make it at least launch a different player?

or 2) It just forwarded to GMail and I could some how tell the phone to only auto-download attachments from FVM.

or 3) It just simply sent an MMS with the voice mail from the callers number. That would be awesome!

[rpmccormick]

Just sent the following to FVM Sales/Marketing support...

Thanks for providing your awesome free VMplus service.

My idea is this: If your service simply sent an MMS with an attached voicemail that appeared to be from the caller, your service would automatically have the following benefits over the current implementation.

1) You would not need to install any custom software on your phone.
2) Messages would simply appear under "messaging" along with TXT and other voice/picture/video MMS messages.
3) Messages would automatically show contact name and picture along with the attached voicemail.
4) Messages would have built in MMS notification icons on the top of the screen.
5) Messages could be played back inside the MMS viewer instead of having to launch icky Windows Media Player.

You would have to allow messages to be deleted from your server with the following options:
1) User could enable Auto-Delete upon sending the MMS.
2) With auto-delete off, either reply to the MMS with a blank message to delete, or delete using your web interface.

In the mean time or if you cannot implement this way for some reason, here are some app suggestions:
1) Please add contact name and pic to your app.
2) Please add an internal player with a progress-bar instead of launching WMP.
3) Please allow a custom background image instead of just black.

In the mean time of that request, is it possible to somehow tell it to launch the sound file in some other player besides WMP?

[rpmccormick]

Ok, sorry for 3 in a row, but I just wanted to say that FVM+ using WMP is ok with me now that I found this awesome WMP skin:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...54&postcount=1

[04orgzx6r]

^^ LOL glad you like it, hope it works out alright for you...

[brooklyn z]

when i dial my number from another line it never goes to voicemail, all i get is a busy signal. wsup wit that.

[04orgzx6r]

Originally Posted by brooklyn z

when i dial my number from another line it never goes to voicemail, all i get is a busy signal. wsup wit that.

Do you mean your phone number or your new VM number, if you mean your new VM number, you can't call that from another line...
If you mean you are calling your phone number, then you/sprint screwed something up while forwarding calls?

[brooklyn z]

when i dial my old voice mail number busy. when someone calls me it rings 6 or 7 times, and then they get a busy signal. no voice mail nothing

[04orgzx6r]

Originally Posted by brooklyn z

when i dial my old voice mail number busy. when someone calls me it rings 6 or 7 times, and then they get a busy signal. no voice mail nothing

Then sounds like someone at sprint disabled your sprint VM and didn't reenable the new one...

My guess is that they put in the wrong number so I would call back to verify, the other possibility is that you may have messed something up when you sent it in to phonefusion, but I would call sprint first...

PS sorry for the late reply

[blankd3ckskat3r]

this is bull**** i called 15 times and even called retentions and they wonr do it

[Hafrust]

Why is it BS? It has been stated many, many times in this thread that changing this default vm number is against Sprint policy. The fact that some people have got some reps to do it doesn't make it a right for everyone to have it.