Leave yourself a voicemail?

Phibsboro

Strange request this I know, but does anyone know if its possible to leave yourself a voicemail from your own phone on Meteor?

Why? I'm wondering if it might be a simple way to track to-do's when things occur to me in the car...

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Our man in Havana

Easy.

Simply ring your number by putting a 5 after the 08x prefix.

seanybiker

put in your number with a 5 after it. Eg 085'5'12345678. That brings ya into your voicemail. Ring someone else and if they have not changed their password, you just change their greeting then change their password .

Jemmy

If you just ring your own number with no 5 after your prefix it goes to voicemail and you can leave a voicemail like any other person or yourself! :rolleyes:

Phibsboro

Right, but can u leave yourself a voicemail from there? I understand you can check your voicemail etc by adding a 5, but thats just the same as though i dialed 171. I want to *leave* myself a voicemail...

Our man in Havana

Phibsboro wrote: »

Right, but can u leave yourself a voicemail from there? I understand you can check your voicemail etc by adding a 5, but thats just the same as though i dialed 171. I want to *leave* myself a voicemail...

You are confused my friend. It is not the same as calling 171. Ringing 171 takes you into your mailbox direct.

Calling your number with the 5 takes you to what general callers get when you have voicemail on. If you were to press # when your greeting plays it will ask for your password and then it is the same as 171.

seanybiker

try just ring yourself. Its hardly gonna ring so i imagine it will go to voicemail

Phibsboro

Ah lads - I wouldn't be asking without having tried calling myself

I can confirm that calling myself and calling myself with the 5 prefix both go directly to my own voicemail menu.

Anyone other suggestions?

Phibsboro

Bond-007 wrote: »

You are confused my friend. It is not the same as calling 171. Ringing 171 takes you into your mailbox direct.

Calling your number with the 5 takes you to what general callers get when you have voicemail on. If you were to press # when your greeting plays it will ask for your password and then it is the same as 171.

Just to clarify for anyone reading this in the future - this is what happens if you dial your own number with 5 prefix from *another* phone. Or occassionally from your own phone when you are abroad and 171 doesn't work...

butts

I would have thought most phones would now have a voice memo feature as standard - would save you bothering with voicemail. unless you need to be able to access these memos from another phone?

Sam Vimes

Call from a different phone?

Phibsboro

Sam Vimes wrote: »

Call from a different phone?

I'm in my car I seem to always remember things that need to be done or come up with great ideas for future projects while I am driving around. It just seemed to me that an ideal way of capturing the thought would be to leave myself a voicemail

There are loads of voice recorder apps available for my phone, but then i'm rummaging around my pocket for it, have to have it in my hand while driving etc.

I think the answer is going to be to call my home answering machine (I know a few people who do this already!). Same result but costs money:(

c

Ah-Watch

it goes straight to your own mailbox because your phonenumber is displayed and the meteor system just automatically forwards u to your own voicemail. The way u can dial into your own answering machine without listening to voicemail is to dial #31#0855 and your number. The system doesn't know its you ringing yourself. Hope that helps.:)

Phibsboro

Ah-Watch wrote: »

it goes straight to your own mailbox because your phonenumber is displayed and the meteor system just automatically forwards u to your own voicemail. The way u can dial into your own answering machine without listening to voicemail is to dial #31#0855 and your number. The system doesn't know its you ringing yourself. Hope that helps.:)

Arrggggg - I thought you had it there! But it doesn't work, still goes straight to menu Tried blocking caller id completely as well, same deal. Most annoying!

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Ah-Watch

ARG! Meteor must've changed it, it used work if your number was on Private! Sorry:o