speeding up voicemail

Is there a way to skip listening to the precursor of each voicemail
message that the Sprint lady reads off to me (time, phone number, etc)?
I would much rather just hear the message and then punch a button to get
this extended information for the few times I want to know it.

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Isaac Wankerl
www.iwankerl.com

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When in your voicemail box, and at the main menu, listen to the choices.
Choose 3-Personal Options | 2-Administrative Options | 3-Message Date
& Time. When date & time is off, press 1 to hear it.

And if you're in a hurry, you'll like 3-Personal Options | 4-Expert Mode.

Other timesavers off of 2-Administrative Options are 1-Skip Passcode and
2-Autoplay.

Isaac Wankerl wrote:
> Is there a way to skip listening to the precursor of each voicemail
> message that the Sprint lady reads off to me (time, phone number, etc)?
> I would much rather just hear the message and then punch a button to get
> this extended information for the few times I want to know it.
>

--
Frank Harris in San Francisco with an A680

What is Expert Mode?


Frank Harris wrote:
> When in your voicemail box, and at the main menu, listen to the choices.
> Choose 3-Personal Options | 2-Administrative Options | 3-Message Date &
> Time. When date & time is off, press 1 to hear it.
>
> And if you're in a hurry, you'll like 3-Personal Options | 4-Expert Mode.
>
> Other timesavers off of 2-Administrative Options are 1-Skip Passcode and
> 2-Autoplay.
>
> Isaac Wankerl wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to skip listening to the precursor of each voicemail
>> message that the Sprint lady reads off to me (time, phone number,
>> etc)? I would much rather just hear the message and then punch a
>> button to get this extended information for the few times I want to
>> know it.
>>
>

Expert mode has one-word prompts instead of verbose, sentence-long
prompts. Try it yourself. If you don't like it, switch back.

M. S. wrote:
> What is Expert Mode?
>
>
> Frank Harris wrote:
>
>> When in your voicemail box, and at the main menu, listen to the
>> choices. Choose 3-Personal Options | 2-Administrative Options |
>> 3-Message Date & Time. When date & time is off, press 1 to hear it.
>>
>> And if you're in a hurry, you'll like 3-Personal Options | 4-Expert Mode.
>>
>> Other timesavers off of 2-Administrative Options are 1-Skip Passcode
>> and 2-Autoplay.
>>
>> Isaac Wankerl wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to skip listening to the precursor of each voicemail
>>> message that the Sprint lady reads off to me (time, phone number,
>>> etc)? I would much rather just hear the message and then punch a
>>> button to get this extended information for the few times I want to
>>> know it.
>>>
>>
>

--
Frank Harris in San Francisco with an A680

Frank Harris wrote:
> Other timesavers off of 2-Administrative Options are 1-Skip Passcode and
> 2-Autoplay.

I would recommend against skip passcode though. Caller ID these days is
rather easy to spoof, and skip passcode keys off that. And while you
might not think your voice messages are important, do consider that if
the voicemail system believes you have called in on your cell phone (and
there's no password required to log you in), it allows the user to make
outgoing calls via the voicemail interface.

Sprint has also issued some warning about this as well. Rather dumb of
them really to use caller ID, when ANI would've been a much more secure
option.

--
E-mail fudged to thwart spammers.
Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply.

This is poor design on the part of the voice mail interface. It should be
possible for the user to DISABLE the ability to make calls from the voice
mail interface. The password should be required to disable outgoing calls
from VM. This is Sprint's problem and they should fix it. I like bypassing
the passcode so that voicemail can be received "hands-free" without entering
a passcode.


"Isaiah Beard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Frank Harris wrote:
>> Other timesavers off of 2-Administrative Options are 1-Skip Passcode and
>> 2-Autoplay.
>
> I would recommend against skip passcode though. Caller ID these days is
> rather easy to spoof, and skip passcode keys off that. And while you
> might not think your voice messages are important, do consider that if the
> voicemail system believes you have called in on your cell phone (and
> there's no password required to log you in), it allows the user to make
> outgoing calls via the voicemail interface.
>
> Sprint has also issued some warning about this as well. Rather dumb of
> them really to use caller ID, when ANI would've been a much more secure
> option.
>
> --
> E-mail fudged to thwart spammers.
> Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply.

"Mij Adyaw" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:fUfte.1853$Lr4.40@fed1read03...
> This is poor design on the part of the voice mail interface. It should be
> possible for the user to DISABLE the ability to make calls from the voice
> mail interface. The password should be required to disable outgoing calls
> from VM. This is Sprint's problem and they should fix it. I like bypassing
> the passcode so that voicemail can be received "hands-free" without
entering
> a passcode.


Whether the design is defective is moot. The fact is though that SPCS has
provided a warning about bypassing the pass code. It's not that hard to plug
in those four digits.

Bob

Isaac Wankerl wrote:
> Is there a way to skip listening to the precursor of each voicemail
> message that the Sprint lady reads off to me (time, phone number,
> etc)? I would much rather just hear the message and then punch a
> button to get this extended information for the few times I want to
> know it.

I press "5" to skip the announcements I don't want to hear. OTOH, when I
had the announcements set to "skip" I wasn't able to figure out how to
hear them, on a per-message basis (so I turned them back on and just
press "5"). I use "7" (delete) or "9" (save) to move through my VM
messages. I do have my VM set to Expert Mode (with announcements on).
Works for me.


--
Mike

Here's a PDF of the tree of voicemail commands
http://www1.sprintpcs.com/media/Asse...l03_1fe38f.pdf

Or from www.sprintpcs.com, click on the Help tab, the Browse help
topics, then look at the several Voicemail items.

Isaac Wankerl wrote:
> Is there a way to skip listening to the precursor of each voicemail
> message that the Sprint lady reads off to me (time, phone number, etc)?
> I would much rather just hear the message and then punch a button to get
> this extended information for the few times I want to know it.
>

--
Frank Harris in San Francisco with an A680