Returned the droid

[johninbigd]

When I make changes to my voice mail account (delivered by email) the computer automatically sends a computer-generated voice mail confirming the changes. These digitally generated WAV change notifications play without any problems when they come into my droid attached to an email.

BUT: when a human person leaves me a regular voice mail and it delivers into my email as a wav attachment it will not play. I get the "not supported format" message. Can anybody explain why one plays & the other does not?

This wav problem is a big deal. Like many other folks, I get my messages nationwide and worldwide by this widely used STANDARD method of delivery.

My guess is that they are two different WAV formats for some reason. There is an older WAV format that many systems still use for voicemail that keeps the files pretty small. Android doesn't support that format. It is an enhancement request, so hopefully they'll add it soon for those that need it.

Blackberry and Apple had to add support for that format because so many people still use it. I'm sure Android will get it soon, too.

 

[webpros]

The only solution at the present is found at Voicemail Conversions - Home .. The iPhone also experienced the problem in the beginning and this site was the only solution until a fix was out. But I'm using this service now and it works great.

 

[BillySurfs]

I went to Voice mail conversions: Voicemail Conversions - Home
Signed up for a free account and changed my delivery instructions with my voice service to deliver my email to iphoneconvert. They immediately auto-convert the wave file to a usable format and forward the message to my email address, where I play the message on my Droid. I don't need to take any extra steps, no time hassles, and it works perfectly.

 

[Maverick0984]

Are you KIDDING me? LMAO

All Audio formats have containers and then within the containers can be encoded in several upon several methods. Saying "wav" or "mp3" or even "avi" or "mkv" for that matter, does not tell the whole story.

Things can be much more complicated then the files you download off your favorite music client to get your mp3's...

Please scale back the rudeness. You're clearly in a bit over your head with some of this.

 

[jfritzs2]

DANG IT!!!! The Droid doesn't have a slot for my Zip Disk!!!! I bought 4 Droids for everyone in my family because I thought that we could finally use all of these blank Zip Disks I bought back in 95! Why would a phone so advanced not have such technological hardware in it?!?! This phone sucks, I hate it, I would rather die than have to keep this phone, I'm having a long talk with Motorola and Verizon after this!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sure that you could work around this. Get a quick mp3 converter on your computer or phone, or a .wav app on your phone. If all else fails, go buy a T-mobile Mytouch, beautiful phone, supports WAV files.

I'm sorry for your loss, but I don't think that its as big a problem as you're making it. Maybe it is. Maybe you also need to upgrade your phones at work, because WAVs are outdated, they are huge files, and no one uses them.

Good luck, sorry for the sarcasm.

 

[bruceo]

DANG IT!!!! The Droid doesn't have a slot for my Zip Disk!!!! I bought 4 Droids for everyone in my family because I thought that we could finally use all of these blank Zip Disks I bought back in 95! Why would a phone so advanced not have such technological hardware in it?!?! This phone sucks, I hate it, I would rather die than have to keep this phone, I'm having a long talk with Motorola and Verizon after this!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sure that you could work around this. Get a quick mp3 converter on your computer or phone, or a .wav app on your phone. If all else fails, go buy a T-mobile Mytouch, beautiful phone, supports WAV files.

I'm sorry for your loss, but I don't think that its as big a problem as you're making it. Maybe it is. Maybe you also need to upgrade your phones at work, because WAVs are outdated, they are huge files, and no one uses them.

Good luck, sorry for the sarcasm.

Actually that is just a stupid comparison. .wav is not even close to being an outdated container at all. Ringcentral is one of the most current feature laden voicemail systems and it uses the compressed .wav container.

Moto lists it for the droid on their online spec sheet AAC, H.263, H.264, MP3, MPEG-4, WAV, WMA, eAAC+, OGG, AMR WB, AMR NB, AAC+, MIDI

So stop making excuses for a device that doesn't make compromises...... at least that's what the multimillion dollar ad campaign tells you...