Voicemail Password?

[ThirstyTurtle]

Make this a sticky!
Thanks man!

 

[Mohawk3]

Thanks for the tip! This helps a lot!

 

[ericatomars06]

This is awesome!!! Thank you so much

 

[modmandan#AC]

WOW....works like a charm!!!

 

[thejammy]

I don't know why this is not in the easter eggs,tips section.

Also, thanks for the tip.

 

[doll]

Gracias!! So helpful

 

[fyrman49]

Works Great!!!!

Ok. So I found a way to make it a little better.

Settings > Call Settings > Voicemail Settings
With keyboard close tap the text box which opens the on-screen keyboard. If you click the far lower-left "* # (" you'll notice there is also "Wait" which turns out to be ";" and "Pause" which is ",".

So if you change the number to "*86;XXXX#" when you dial your voicemail it will immediately popup with a confirm window asking when to send the tone XXXX#

If you make it "*86,,,XXXX#" it will send the tone XXXX# on it's own. I believe each comma is a second and I remember I used to use 3 on my palm treo (windows mobile) with verizon wireless. This seems to work best.

The only thing I don't like is that it shows the password on the screen.. but I suppose it would do that when typing it manually as well.

Let me know if this helps anyone or has a better way or suggestions.

P.s. In case it wasn't obvious the XXXX is your voicemail password.

 

[Fly]

????

So which way works the best

*86;####
or
*86,####

 

[prometheus]

by the way, this also works for calling your bank, credit card company, utility... anything that says, "press 1 for this, 2 for that, enter zip code, PIN" whatever... the point is, if you routinely press the same options every time you call - program those options in.

 

[bconley007]

i use the commas,,,then the pin

 

[lunglady]

Awesome! Thanks.

 

[99droid2]

works with 1 comma.

 

[swannick]

I've tried this on my Incredible......it doesn't work.

 

[theslacker]

On my Incredible, Voicemail Settings is grayed out? Is there a way to change this?

 

[Chillout]

Ok. So I found a way to make it a little better.

Settings > Call Settings > Voicemail Settings
With keyboard close tap the text box which opens the on-screen keyboard. If you click the far lower-left "* # (" you'll notice there is also "Wait" which turns out to be ";" and "Pause" which is ",".

So if you change the number to "*86;XXXX#" when you dial your voicemail it will immediately popup with a confirm window asking when to send the tone XXXX#

If you make it "*86,,,XXXX#" it will send the tone XXXX# on it's own. I believe each comma is a second and I remember I used to use 3 on my palm treo (windows mobile) with verizon wireless. This seems to work best.

The only thing I don't like is that it shows the password on the screen.. but I suppose it would do that when typing it manually as well.

Let me know if this helps anyone or has a better way or suggestions.

P.s. In case it wasn't obvious the XXXX is your voicemail password.

This worked like a charm, thank you!!! I thought for a second it wasn't going too but then it automatically input my code after the required wait and my VM's came up. Thanks!!!

 

[xLwoodx]

On my Incredible, Voicemail Settings is grayed out? Is there a way to change this?

you have to click on voicemail service first. then voicemail settings

 

[jeffreynye]

Ok. So I found a way to make it a little better.

Settings > Call Settings > Voicemail Settings
With keyboard close tap the text box which opens the on-screen keyboard. If you click the far lower-left "* # (" you'll notice there is also "Wait" which turns out to be ";" and "Pause" which is ",".

So if you change the number to "*86;XXXX#" when you dial your voicemail it will immediately popup with a confirm window asking when to send the tone XXXX#

If you make it "*86,,,XXXX#" it will send the tone XXXX# on it's own. I believe each comma is a second and I remember I used to use 3 on my palm treo (windows mobile) with verizon wireless. This seems to work best.

The only thing I don't like is that it shows the password on the screen.. but I suppose it would do that when typing it manually as well.

Let me know if this helps anyone or has a better way or suggestions.

P.s. In case it wasn't obvious the XXXX is your voicemail password.

This is the system I used on my old BB, but on my Droid X the problem I have is that I cannot change the default button the dialer screen -- it just uses *86, rather than the Voicemail contact.

In other words, if I wanted to set up a speed dial for a VM contact using this method, I could do that. But there's already a VM button on the bottom left of my dialer screen, and I can NOT change that to use this method.

Anyone have any thoughts?

 

[Dubbin1]

Sweet I was hoping the Droid would have an option to do this.

Why isn't this a sticky yet???

 

[Dubbin1]

Ok. So I found a way to make it a little better.

Settings > Call Settings > Voicemail Settings
With keyboard close tap the text box which opens the on-screen keyboard. If you click the far lower-left "* # (" you'll notice there is also "Wait" which turns out to be ";" and "Pause" which is ",".

So if you change the number to "*86;XXXX#" when you dial your voicemail it will immediately popup with a confirm window asking when to send the tone XXXX#

If you make it "*86,,,XXXX#" it will send the tone XXXX# on it's own. I believe each comma is a second and I remember I used to use 3 on my palm treo (windows mobile) with verizon wireless. This seems to work best.

The only thing I don't like is that it shows the password on the screen.. but I suppose it would do that when typing it manually as well.

Let me know if this helps anyone or has a better way or suggestions.

P.s. In case it wasn't obvious the XXXX is your voicemail password.

After getting my droid I found that this does not work for me BUT I found a much easier way to do this. just go into your contacts and edit the number for voicemail. Should look something like this *86,,yourpassword

 

[Spacetoast]

Friends i found this method works well for me. I use the htc incredible with 2.2 firmware
Settings>Call>Voicemail service>My carrier>Voicemail number
After *86 type pXXXX#
the full number should look like this *86pXXXX#
XXXX being your password
Now just speed dial your voicemail and it should auto dial your password. I think this will also work on previous firmware issues.