Resurrect the Voicemail button
Waaaah! My Voicemail button does nothing!
Of course I wasn’t expecting Visual Voicemail to magically work in Australia, but surely hitting the button would just call my normal Voicemail, no?
Thanks to the chaps over at hackint0sh, now it can! And the best news is that you don’t even need to enter the firmware (those who have restored to factory default for reasons of stability like me, breath a sigh of relief)!
Punch this into your ‘last century’ dialer:
*5005*86*xxx# (where xxx is your Voicemail number).
So, on Virgin (cough) that is *5005*86*212# and viola! Hello Voicemail!
Think of all the taps hackint0sh just saved us! Now we don’t have to put Voicemail in our favourites.
Handily, accessing Voicemail this way automatically enables the in-call keypad. Hats off to you, Apple!
Now, if only I could figure out why I’m not receiving the new Voicemail notifications from Virgin? All other SMS’s come through fine, so surely I don’t have to mess around with this, do I?
October 4th, 2007 at 4:02 am
I am suing an unlocked phone in Panama. My carrier is Cable and Wireless. The hack won’t work for me. Voicemail number is *111. Any ideas?
October 4th, 2007 at 4:03 am
I meant “using”…. not “suing”.
October 5th, 2007 at 1:11 am
I was going to say!
My guess for you would just be *5005*86*111# but that’s not working?
Did you type the entire string in without pressing delete at any point? Sometimes with these things they require the exact order to be entereed in correctly.
Additionally, you could try trawling the forums over at hackint0sh for some ideas. I’m afraid I’ve lost the exact link, but I know it’s over there!