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Author Topic: Deleting voicemail on Cingular Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-23-2005 01:30 PM                     I used to have a cell phone with Sprint and when someone would call and leave one of those half hour long droning messages I could just hit "7" once I had enough of the rambling to cut it off and delete it, but last week I switched over to Cingular and found out that you have to listen to the entire damn thing before you can delete it! I understand Verizon is like this too. Does anyone know of a workaround?  |  IP: Logged John Westlund Expert Film Handler Posts: 204 From: Burney, CA, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 08-23-2005 02:07 PM                     I also have cingular and at any time during the message I hit 3, the message is deleted.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-23-2005 02:22 PM                     I have telus and 7 will delete mid message on the office voice mail 33 jumps to the end of the message then I hit 7  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-23-2005 02:31 PM                        From the Cingular website for phones used in Texas: http://www.cingular.com/download/3961_Lucent_VM_QuickGuide.pdf http://www.cingular.com/customer_service/common_voice_mail quote: Voice Mail Quick Guide Based on your location, you can view and print a Quick Guide that assists with setting up voice mail, retrieving your messages, changing your settings, and navigating the voice mail system. Maybe try hitting "77"? Or fast forward "3" or "33" and then "7"?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-23-2005 02:53 PM                     Hitting 3 skips to the end of the message, thus giving me the option of 7 for delete. Thanks!  |  IP: Logged Wolff King Morrow Master Film Handler Posts: 490 From: Denton, TX, USA Registered: Feb 2004 posted 08-23-2005 02:58 PM                        Like Brad, I was having to wait until the end of the message too. Thanks for the info!  |  IP: Logged Mike Fitzgerald Expert Film Handler Posts: 224 From: Castle Hayne, NC, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 08-23-2005 05:49 PM                     I have Cingular and I had the same problem but I found hitting the 77 works anytime during the message.  |  IP: Logged John Westlund Expert Film Handler Posts: 204 From: Burney, CA, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 08-23-2005 05:58 PM                     Interesting, on my cingular phone, pressing 3 deletes the message. It doesn't matter if I am half way through the message or at the end.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-23-2005 07:08 PM                        Cingular is a little schizo since they're still part Cingular and part AT&T. Their former AT&T customers (like me) are handled separately, probably due to the AT&T contracts we originally signed or something. Anyway thanks for the tips on how to delete msgs.  |  IP: Logged Matt Fields Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 545 From: Ohio, United States Registered: Jun 2005 posted 08-23-2005 07:15 PM                     I have CIngular and hit "33" to delete a message in the middle.  |  IP: Logged Don Furr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 509 From: Sun City, Ca USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 08-23-2005 09:17 PM                     In Atlanta Cingular like this: push 3 at anytime during a voice mail and it's gone. 7 repeats the message. You would think that EVERY Cingular phone would work the same way  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 08-23-2005 09:27 PM                        I have had cingular for the last 2 years. It used to be 3, now I just have to hit 7 once to instantly delete the message. The voicemail system here was recently changed and has vastly improved. Before, you had to call from your actual phone and dial in a PIN. Now, you can call from any phone and dial in the PIN or set it up so that you can call from your phone without a PIN. That is much better. You can listen to your messages by just pressing 1 button, without having to fumble around to enter your PIN. What really sucked before was that, since you had to call from your phone, when roaming to our locations in Mexico, I couldn't check messages at all even though we had international roaming activated. But the voicemail system wouldn't recognize the number of your phone because of the international prefix, and that was the end of it. Or if you are out of battery, now you can check messages from another phone. That's a much better system.  |  IP: Logged Oscar Neundorfer Master Film Handler Posts: 275 From: Senoia, GA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-24-2005 06:17 AM                        Off topic but still cingular related. Has anyone on the forum in the Atlanta area had the problems over the last few months with Cingular that I have had? The coverage seems to be getting worse and worse. In areas like my house where I used to have rock solid signal, I now have to move outside in the driveway to get a just barely useable signal. I have also found that in general around the Atlanta area the coverage is spotty at best. Going down an interstate like I-20 on the east side of Atlanta, one would expect reasonable coverage, but I drop in and out so often I might as well not even try to carry on a conversation. One day recently in the space of about 6 miles the phone dropped out at least 4 times and I had to re-dial. I have talked to other Cingular customers with much newer phones than mine and they are reporting the same exact problems. Cingular seems to have no answers when I call their customer no-service department. They tell me to switch my phone off, wait a couple of minutes, and then turn it back on. They also say not to leave the the phone turned on all the time, for example, to turn it off at night when I am not using it. These sound like answers they have cooked up to just stall their customers because they can't fix the real problems. It was NOT this way in the past. I have been a Cingular customer since long before they were Cingular, over 10 years now, and it has gotten so bad that I am ready to close my account. Problem is, I am not sure if any other provider is any better.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-24-2005 06:47 AM                     In our area (Annaoplis, MD), it seems that SPRINT has gotten better and better. Most notably in the last 6 months or so. Also, with their free&clear plans...no more roaming charges...so if I'm on analog in the boonedocks...doesn't matter same price.  |  IP: Logged Don Furr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 509 From: Sun City, Ca USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 08-24-2005 09:06 AM                     Oscar, Up here in Kennesaw I've noticed NO change in signal. We've had the service like you since the early 90's. I think it's actually gotten better. No complaints here. Don  |  IP: Logged

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