Verizon voice mail

[2oldman]

"You have.. 7.. new voice messages. First message, left..yesterday..Tuesday.. September 26th... at.. ten..thirty..eight..a..m....from seven...zero...two.. eight...eight.. four.. seven..six..five.. three. Duration, one minute and forty-two seconds. "

Verizon, do you think you could make this process any slower? I wish it worked like it does in the movies.

[enblethen]

Confirmed today by Verizon that they are in the process of changing equipment and software to start phasing out 3G-4G systems to the newer 4G_5G systems.
New system has less power then the old.
Expect down grade of reception in fringe areas.

[monkey44]

First, I had Sprint - and when my original flip-phone quit working, I went in to get a "free replacement" ... the guy at the desk said "I've never seen a phone this old."

Second time, when I switched to Verizon, bought a flip-phone, still have it. It takes calls and text - I care nothing about all the other things a phone can do ...

Genie and the kids and grand kids all have those fancy do everything phones, and spend half their time punching buttons instead of actually talking ... Not an effective communication medium anymore, like it once was.

[mr__ed]

Can't swear if this is true, but I read that a flip phone is more reliable than a smart phone since it works off a single tower, whereas a smart phone uses two towers. Again, don't know if that's true.

[mr__ed]

"Your flip phone will be working in fewer and fewer places over the next several years as Verizon and other carriers continue rolling out VoLTE (Voice over LTE) voice service, replacing deprecated CDMA and GSM voice services. "

Well, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. 😉

[bucky]

Even Jitterbug has a smart phone now.

[Dutch_12078]

mr. ed wrote:

enblethen wrote:
You should be able to go into voice mail *86 and listen and erase voice mails. Should be able to remove by pushing "7" key while listening.
What is wrong with a flip phone?

Thanks for the suggestion. I was hoping to be able to erase the whole lot at one time, as I do with text messages and calls. I may just contact Verizon for help (shoulda done that 1st, but decided to post here instead).
What is wrong with a flip phone? Nothing. Works fine for me and I like the small size. I don't care about all the features of a smart phone. I can send and receive calls as well as any other cell phone.

Your flip phone will be working in fewer and fewer places over the next several years as Verizon and other carriers continue rolling out VoLTE (Voice over LTE) voice service, replacing deprecated CDMA and GSM voice services.

[mr__ed]

enblethen wrote:
You should be able to go into voice mail *86 and listen and erase voice mails. Should be able to remove by pushing "7" key while listening.
What is wrong with a flip phone?

Thanks for the suggestion. I was hoping to be able to erase the whole lot at one time, as I do with text messages and calls. I may just contact Verizon for help (shoulda done that 1st, but decided to post here instead).
What is wrong with a flip phone? Nothing. Works fine for me and I like the small size. I don't care about all the features of a smart phone. I can send and receive calls as well as any other cell phone.

[enblethen]

You should be able to go into voice mail *86 and listen and erase voice mails. Should be able to remove by pushing "7" key while listening.
What is wrong with a flip phone?

[Bill_Satellite]

Flip Phone. Now that's funny!

[mr__ed]

I still haven't found a way to empty my voice mail saved messages on my LG flip phone (Verizon)

[2oldman]

I spent a half-hour with V tech trying to fix this. Now, when I dial *86 (vm) it just gives a busy signal. That was the best she could do, and never called back to see if it was fixed.

What is it about some 3rd party apps where they can completely disable Verizon's services??

[2oldman]

I think I'll just let it fill up or decommission it. I rarely use vm for anything.

[larry_barnhart]

Don't answer the phone and wait for a voice message. Works for us.

chevman

[Gdlow]

2oldman wrote:
I'll try that.. thanks! Are you both talking about the same thing?

Another thing to try is after the message starts hit 3 ...that will skip to the message.