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  • 05-17-2015, 08:34 PM
    Nicole Maloney
    hi, I just stumbled across this thread while trying to figure out what's wrong with my iPhone 4s. We use straight talk and hadn't problems until I messed with the phones. Last week I had both mine and my husbands phones unlocked thru AT&T. Since the unlock we no longer receive voicemail notifications. When I go to my voicemail button where I would normally dial in, I just get a plain window and no option to call into it. The only way to check it is to dial my own # and log in that way which is a pain.




  • 05-16-2015, 11:05 PM
    rhfavors
    The voicemail icon stopped working on the I Phone 5c. Therefore, the only way to get voicemails is to hold down the "1" key and put in the passcode. Prior to today, voicemails were accessed by pressing the voicemail icon and entering the passcode.The service provide is Straightalk and they have been no help. Apple referred me to Straight Talk. Any idea how I can get he icon to work again?
  • 08-11-2014, 10:48 AM
    Heath Simpson
    I had tried the steps that you mentioned above to do this and ended up having to exchange my phone in a apple store. Bad thing is I still do not have voice mail notification and I had to drive 2 hrs to the store.
  • 06-09-2013, 10:04 PM
    JenFree2013
    What you have here are great information. Yes, I tried Google Voice and it also works great.
  • 04-19-2013, 05:25 PM
    helper1
    I was having the same problem of no notifications. I realized very recently that i had not completed the final step of unlocking my phone. After you get the unlocking approval email from at&T, you need to backup your iphone on itunes, then go the "erase all contents" under settings->general->reset. Then you will see a message on itunes saying your phone has been successfully unlocked. Then you can restore backup. Previously, I had not erased all contents and hence, my phone was never really unlocked.

    Once i did this, i went to a t-mobile store and they tried their sim in my phone to confirm that the phone has been unlocked. After that, i put my straighttalk sim back in and now started getting voicemails.

    So I dont know what did the trick for me, but i guess here's information about a couple of things you can try.
  • 02-28-2013, 07:59 PM
    avenue
    Quote Originally Posted by John Heyer View Post
    Oddly it fixed itself a few days ago. I did not change anything on the phone. Only thing that happened recently was updating iTunes.
    I'm glad it is working properly now.
  • 02-25-2013, 07:22 PM
    John Heyer
    Oddly it fixed itself a few days ago. I did not change anything on the phone. Only thing that happened recently was updating iTunes.
  • 01-31-2013, 06:51 PM
    avenue
    Quote Originally Posted by John Heyer View Post
    OK, read the Apple thread you linked to and found the solution: Dial *5005*86xxxxxxxxxx# where xxxxxxxxxx is the 10-digit US number (remove the '1' prefix).
    The post I quoted had a star that shouldn't have been there, that was probably messing it up.

    Did it fix the problem?
  • 01-31-2013, 06:22 PM
    John Heyer
    OK, read the Apple thread you linked to and found the solution: Dial *5005*86xxxxxxxxxx# where xxxxxxxxxx is the 10-digit US number (remove the '1' prefix).
  • 01-31-2013, 05:58 PM
    avenue
    Quote Originally Posted by John Heyer View Post
    Should I hit "Call" after entering the string? I entered it, but nothing appeared to happen.

    Also, any way to do this without resetting all the settings?
    It would think something would come up on the screen automatically without hitting the call button, but if it doesn't, try hitting it. If it tries to dial the number, hang up.

    Make sure you don't put in quotation marks when dialing. You should just enter: *5005*86*NUMBERHERE#

    Replace NUMBERHERE with the number from step 1.

    I would think you need to follow the instructions and reset all settings, but you can experiment and see if you can avoid that.
  • 01-31-2013, 05:06 PM
    John Heyer
    Quote Originally Posted by avenue View Post
    Now you go to the keypad and input:

    *5005*86*"copied number from step 1"#
    Should I hit "Call" after entering the string? I entered it, but nothing appeared to happen.

    Also, any way to do this without resetting all the settings?
  • 01-31-2013, 02:39 PM
    avenue
    Quote Originally Posted by John Heyer View Post
    I'm having the same problem, oddly it started a few days ago. I have voicemails and can access them by dialing my number, but the "voicemail" icon on the iPhone shows visual voicemail and an empty list. Makes sense, since Straight Talk does not support Visual Voicemail, to my knowledge.

    Is there any way to disable visual voicemail? Seems like that would fix the issue.

    Using a jailbroken iPhone 4.S, 5.1.1
    After doing some research, I found this:

    "I had this problem and my carrier is StraightTalk which doesn't support visual voicemail. What is worse, is that I did not have any indication that voicemail's were being left for me. I had to piece together some other instructions along with those up above to get mine back to normal. Here is what I did.



    Step 1: The first thing you want to do is discover the number of your voicemail box. You can do this by typing *#61# and pressing "call." The iPhone will now tell you if voicemail is enabled and the number of your voicemail box. Copy down this number.



    Step 2: go to Settings - General - Network - now turn off cellular data.



    Go back and look at your voice mail it should now give you some sort of nasty message about how Visual Voice Mail does not work without a cellular data connection.



    Now you go to the keypad and input:



    *5005*86*"copied number from step 1"#

    hit home button

    hit settings

    hit general

    hit reset all



    The Phone reboots and visual voicemail is no longer showing on the Voicemail tab. Additionally my message count now shows for voicemail's waiting."

    Source: https://discussions.apple.com/thread...art=0&tstart=0
  • 01-31-2013, 01:42 PM
    John Heyer
    I'm having the same problem, oddly it started a few days ago. I have voicemails and can access them by dialing my number, but the "voicemail" icon on the iPhone shows visual voicemail and an empty list. Makes sense, since Straight Talk does not support Visual Voicemail, to my knowledge.

    Is there any way to disable visual voicemail? Seems like that would fix the issue.

    Using a jailbroken iPhone 4.S, 5.1.1
  • 07-22-2012, 07:24 PM
    avenue
    Quote Originally Posted by mirumoD4 View Post
    Google Voice does not work in countries beyond the US if I remember correctly.
    That might be correct, I'm not sure, but Straight Talk is in the United States and I believe that is what this thread is about.

    Hopefully there are alternatives to Google Voice that are available in other countries. If you're aware of any, please share them.
  • 07-22-2012, 02:47 AM
    mirumoD4
    Google Voice does not work in countries beyond the US if I remember correctly.
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