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Is your visual voicemail working?

Is your visual voicemail working?

  • Yes

    Votes: 111 81.6%

  • No (I'm using the tethering hack)

    Votes: 8 5.9%

  • No (I'm not using the tethering hack)

    Votes: 16 11.8%
  • Total voters
    136
M

mqt

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Original poster
Jul 12, 2008
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A recent TechCrunch post is claiming that visual voicemail has been down for weeks for some customers and AT&T didn't bother to tell anyone. They're quoting a twitter search as their source.

My visual voicemail has been working fine and I suspect that everyone who claims that theirs is down has used the tethering hack and failed to realized that it often breaks visual voicemail.

Is your visual voicemail working? Are you using the tethering hack?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/18/att-is-a-big-steaming-heap-of-failure/

In my mind, the most recent AT&T failure is completely inexcusable. Its visual voicemail system — which is the only way to be notified of voicemails on the iPhone — has been down for many users for days, if not weeks. And AT&T apparently didn’t bother to tell anyone. What does this mean? Thousands, or hundreds of thousands or maybe even millions of missed connections, that could be vital for personal lives, business and a host of other things. I’m simply dumbfounded by the failure.

Here’s how I found out about it. While I was coming home from the office yesterday, I all of a sudden got bombarded by visual voicemails. It was only then that I realized that I had not received one in a while. How long? Since sometime before July 3, apparently. Yes, 2 weeks without a single voicemail.

Even better is that not only did I get bombarded by these weeks old voicemails at once, but I still cannot listen to them. It has been over a day since the notifications finally came in, and visual voicemail is still down. I’ve had to manually call the AT&T voicemail service — not a huge deal, except that I’ve never done it before, so I didn’t know how, and that I didn’t receive any kind of notice that I had to do that.
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Of the three phones I updated to 3.0, all of them had to have the VVM passcode reset. Only one of them had edit carrier files.
 
My visual voicemail did stop working around July 3rd, but started working again on the 7th. I'm on OS Version 3.0, not using any hacks, and my phone has never been unlocked or jailbroken.
 
szark said:
My visual voicemail did stop working around July 3rd, but started working again on the 7th. I'm on OS Version 3.0, not using any hacks, and my phone has never been unlocked or jailbroken.
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mine was down for 4 days as well but I don't recall if it was during the same period. I have no tethering or MMS hacks.
 
Was working fine with the tethering hack on 3.0 and first 3.1 beta. B2 apparently had different plans.

I restored to 3.1 b2 without a modified ipcc and all is well so far.
 
Oh well, to each their own. I've enjoyed everything iPhone since 2007, and despite the pitfalls of AT&T, I managed to keep my head above water and move on with my life and the iPhone. I've done a Jailbreak on each of my iPhones, so I don't feel limited by AT&T in anyway; I've recently acquired tethering and MMS on my 3GS and even completed a five-minute Purplera1n jailbreak...:cool::cool::cool:
 
well

Yada Yada Yada like this is anything new and we don't see it posted everyday! I am still also looking for the indication of a Network that can handle all the iphones. who is to say Verizon can handle the load any better plus Verizon is a GSM network meaning that Apple needs to build a whole new phone for them. You either like the Iphone or you Don't you either like AT&T or you don't! over I had Verizon it sucked! ;)
 
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