Who in their right mind would want to get rid of their voicemail button? Apparently, at least a few people, that's who.
That's because a new jailbreak tweak recently showed up on the Cydia store entitled NoVoiceMail, and I'm betting some of you have already downloaded it.
What a perfect tweak for those of you who never check their voicemail, for those of you who never return Auntie May's repeated phone calls…
Yesterday my iPhone notified me I had 14 voicemails within the last 6 days. Why didn't it notify me of the new voicemails as they came? I have no idea. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't really pissed at my iPhone. Not only had I missed important voicemails that I should have received days ago, but it wasn't the first time this had happened to me.
Like every normal person of the 21st century, I went to Twitter and started bitching about it. Within a few minutes I received replies from people telling me I should let Google Voice take over my iPhone. I already use Google Voice but I don't want it to completely replace my normal line. Then someone told me I could actually replace my iPhone voicemails with Google Voice voicemails by forwarding my iPhone voicemails to Google Voice.
After doing a bit of research, this made complete sense to me and I decided to give it a go...
Yap is a new application available in the App Store that will turn your iPhone voicemails into a readable text. If you think listening to voicemails is a waste of time (I do), then Yap will be the perfect companion for you.
Google Voice already offers the option of receiving transcribed voicemails but not everybody has a Google Voice account. Yap is available in the App Store for free. Give it a try.
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article that highlighted the iPhone Visual Voicemail delays some users reported. Basically the problem was that your iPhone stopped alerting you of new voicemails. The only way to find out you had new voicemails was to reboot your iPhone, or by dialing "1" + Call to get your voicemails the old fashioned way.
My fellow Twitter friend @HifiSamurai shared a link to a ZDNet article this morning that explained why some of us don't have Visual Voicemails anymore and how to fix it.
The problem started when we installed the iPhone tethering hack. The .ipcc file (carrier settings hack) also changed an option that disables Visual Voicemail. The solution is actually very simple.
On your iPhone, go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings. This will reset your carrier settings but it will leave the tethering hack untouched.
Isn't this a life saver? If you have little know iPhone tips or hacks, feel free to share :)
It all started last week when I got a phone call from my dentist's secretary. The first thing she asked was if I had listened to the voicemail she had left me the day before. I hadn't seen any voicemail and I really thought she actually never left a voicemail in the first place. I didn't think about it anymore until the next day, when I received her voicemail as well as a few others that were from the last 5 days.
Apparently my iPhone is not delivering voicemails on time anymore, which is not a big deal to me as I am not much of a phone person, but it can be extremely important to businesses, and it can even be vital for people. I looked around on Twitter and it seems that a few people are experiencing the problem too.
It's not really clear where the problem is from as it appears on jailbroken and non jailbroken iPhones as well. Apparently it started after 3.0. I haven't installed 3.1 yet so I don't know if this has been fixed or not. I'm not even sure it's a firmware problem. I'd rather think that the problem is from AT&T but I'm not positive about that.
--- UPDATE ---
There is a fix for this. Please read my article called how to fix iPhone's visual voicemail delays.
As usual in these cases, one of the first things to do is to reset all settings and maybe even restore. I'm not going to go as far as restoring my iPhone but you may want to consider this option if you find the voicemail delays annoying.
Have you guys experienced such problem? If so, do you know where it might come from?
A new application is available on Cydia today called Voicemail Forwarder. This cool new app allows you to forward your voicemail to an email address, right from the voicemail application.
Instead of only being able to listen to your voicemails on your iPhone, you can now share those important messages by forwarding them to an email address with a single tap.
Voicemail Forwarder gives you a new button that fires up an email with the current voicemail attached to it. You can then send the email to any email address.
Voicemail Forwarder is the second application to be available in the Cydia Store. You can download it from the store for $2.49.