Visual Voicemail on Speakerphone Only?

[athenssmile]

I have the Eris and I signed up for the Visual Voicemail through the widget (?) on the home screen. When I listen to my voicemails, they play through the speakerphone. I have tried to turn off the speakerphone by pushing the menu button when I am in Visual VM. I looked in options and preferences and can't find a way to set the phone so the voicemail doesn't play for everyone to hear. Any ideas?

Also, what exactly are the benefits of paying an extra $2.99 a month for this service?

 

[UncleMike]

While I haven't used Verizon's visual voicemail, I do use Google Voice as a substitute (I hear it essentially gives the same functionality). However, Google Voice is free.

The reason I popped into this thread in the first place is that I have a related problem with listening to Google Voice voicemail. Aside from reading the transcribed message, my choices are to listen to the voicemail over the speaker, or through the earpiece. Listening via the speaker presents a privacy issue, as well as the issue of being inconsiderate to those around me. Listening via the earpiece often results in unwanted things happening while the phone is pressed against my cheek, since the proximity sensor doesn't disable the screen (or maybe just Google Voice doesn't tell it to). Maybe this is just an issue on the Droid?

My point is that if you do get this figured out, you may not like listening via the earpiece anyway.

BTW, a drawback of voicemail in Google Voice is that unless you have notification sent to you via email or SMS, you don't get immediately notified - Google Voice will poll for it at a frequency you select.

 

[michaelkueter]

Hi there,

Yeah, I too used Google Voice for better online voicemail service. I suggest try porting to Google voice and you do not need to pay a fee.

 

[athenssmile]

I called *611 and asked about how to turn the voicemail off of speakerphone. There is no way to do it. The only way to hear your voicemails with Visual Voicemail is through the speakerphone. She understood someone may not want everyone in the room to hear their voicemails and said she would mention this to her supervisor to see if there is some way to fix this problem. Until then, I have discontinued that service.

 

[Mortgage_It]

bump...anyone figure a way to get visual voicemail to play on handset earpiece and not speaker? thanks.

 

[athenssmile]

See my response right before yours. From what I was told, there is no way to change it to the earpiece. Speakerphone is currently the only option.

 

[Mortgage_It]

Is it confirmed that you can not listen to Verizon Visual Voicemails in the handset earpiece? Only Speakerphone? Thanks.

 

[jeffyo]

jeffyo is suggesting that staff look at the post

http://androidforums.com/showthread.php?p=172077#post172077

They have given the following reason:

seems the updates for Eris are happening too.

 

[joker84]

Yep. Should be fixed with the December 11 update. It is in the leaked documents at least.

 

[joker84]

BTW

If you want the audio in the ear piece you can still call your voicemail and listen that way. It is a bug that the speakerphone is all that works for VVM, but that will be fixed soon.

 

[Sketchee]

You could switch to Google Voice for voicemail and listen to voicemail in the Google Voice app.

 

[JayPaulie]

So are u guys saying that you are using GV visual voicemail or Verizon visual voicemail?

If GV, how do I make it work with my droid? I dont wanna pay 3 bucks a month for something I have for free