Reset Orange Answerphone, Mission Impossible?

Hmm,

All I want to do is have a default message, and NO recorded name. Seems that
according to OCS this isn't possible. I have rang twice, the first time I was
fobbed off completely being told that is the new message for all Orange
customers. I could have sworn it wasn't. But checked my other Orange phone to
make sure I was not talking a crock. I wasn't.

When I called back, the bloke on the line said he would reset it by terminating
my answerphone and then re-enabling it. So far that has not happened.

All I want is "Welcome to the Orange answerphone, Sorry but the person you
called is not available, please leave your message after the tone"

All I get is "Welcome to the Orange answerphone..<pause> is not available,
please leave your message after the tone".

Why isn't it a user setting to remove the recorded name completely? I did a
google search and the odd person has been trying to do this for years.

Mike

"Mike Myers" <mike.myers@baes> wrote in message
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> Why isn't it a user setting to remove the recorded name
> completely? I did a google search and the odd person has
> been trying to do this for years.
>
> Mike

I have switched between standard and recorded messages several times over
the years and haven't had a problem. Mind you, I have never recorded my
name..!

Ivor

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Mike Myers <mike.myers@baes> wrote:

> Hmm,
>
> All I want to do is have a default message, and NO recorded name.
> Seems that according to OCS this isn't possible. I have rang twice,
> the first time I was fobbed off completely being told that is the new
> message for all Orange customers. I could have sworn it wasn't. But
> checked my other Orange phone to make sure I was not talking a crock.
> I wasn't.
>
> When I called back, the bloke on the line said he would reset it by
> terminating my answerphone and then re-enabling it. So far that has
> not happened.
>
> All I want is "Welcome to the Orange answerphone, Sorry but the
> person you called is not available, please leave your message after
> the tone"
>
> All I get is "Welcome to the Orange answerphone..<pause> is not
> available, please leave your message after the tone".
>
> Why isn't it a user setting to remove the recorded name completely? I
> did a google search and the odd person has been trying to do this for
> years.
>
> Mike

Why not record your name as "the person you called" - in as close a voice to
the rest of the message as possible?
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"Ivor Jones" <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote in message
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> I have switched between standard and recorded messages several times over
> the years and haven't had a problem. Mind you, I have never recorded my
> name..!

Its the recorded name which is the problem, I can reset the greeting ok. Looks
like Orange have totally disabled my Answer Phone now. LOL.

Its probably not a bad thing! )

Thanks,

Mike

"Tiscali Tim" <tele@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> Mike Myers <mike.myers@baes> wrote:
>
>> Hmm,
>>
>> All I want to do is have a default message, and NO recorded name.
>> Seems that according to OCS this isn't possible. I have rang twice,
>> the first time I was fobbed off completely being told that is the new
>> message for all Orange customers. I could have sworn it wasn't. But
>> checked my other Orange phone to make sure I was not talking a crock.
>> I wasn't.
>>
>> When I called back, the bloke on the line said he would reset it by
>> terminating my answerphone and then re-enabling it. So far that has
>> not happened.
>>
>> All I want is "Welcome to the Orange answerphone, Sorry but the
>> person you called is not available, please leave your message after
>> the tone"
>>
>> All I get is "Welcome to the Orange answerphone..<pause> is not
>> available, please leave your message after the tone".
>>
>> Why isn't it a user setting to remove the recorded name completely? I
>> did a google search and the odd person has been trying to do this for
>> years.
>>
>> Mike
>
> Why not record your name as "the person you called" - in as close a voice
> to
> the rest of the message as possible?

That would just be weird....he'd be as well saying the whole thing himself.

mike.myers@baes declared for all the world to hear...
> All I want to do is have a default message, and NO recorded name. Seems that
> according to OCS this isn't possible.

Dial answerphone > 3 > 1 > 2 which selects a standard greeting.

Recorded name > 3 > 1 > 3 > 2 however there doesn't appear to be an
option to un-record your name.

> When I called back, the bloke on the line said he would reset it by terminating
> my answerphone and then re-enabling it. So far that has not happened.

That sounds like the most likely method to work.
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Regards
Jon

"Jon" <spam@jonparker.plus.com> wrote in message
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> mike.myers@baes declared for all the world to hear...

> Recorded name > 3 > 1 > 3 > 2 however there doesn't appear to be an
> option to un-record your name.

Yeh, this is the problem.

> > When I called back, the bloke on the line said he would reset it by
terminating
> > my answerphone and then re-enabling it. So far that has not happened.
>
> That sounds like the most likely method to work.

It didnt, the answephone is just re-enabled now after being dead for a couple
of hours, back with the original "blank" name recording. Grrr.

Looks like I am going to have to sample the original message from my other
Orange phone and play it back in to the phone as a custom greeting.



I honestly can't believe this isnt a user option in the answephone.

Thanks anyway.

Mike

mike.myers@baes declared for all the world to hear...
> I honestly can't believe this isnt a user option in the answephone.

It does seem like a bit of a glaring omission.
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Regards
Jon