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Voicemail issue w/unlocked G1 on AT&T

I've had an unlocked G1 for a while now and its been going great. Calls, wifi, tethering, mms, all of it works just fine.
The only issue I'm having is with my voicemail. When I call the AT&T voicemail number, it says it needs more information from me, it then gives me the option to enter the 10 digit number to leave a message, or press pound to access my voicemail. If I try entering my number to leave a message, it says it isn't set up and cannot leave a message. If I hit pound and try to access my voicemail, it says the mailbox number does not exist.
Anybody know how to fix this issue?

mattbollenbach said:
Anybody know how to fix this issue?
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Use YouMail. It's really nice, has it's own app and you can personalize messages for everyone in your phonebook.

borodin1 said:
Use It's really nice, has it's own app and you can personalize messages for everyone in your phonebook.
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Thank you for the reply!
I actually had a friend who had an extra invite for Google Voice, so I got signed up for that and am using it for all of my voicemail needs.

Good to hear that your problem is solved.
Remember to edit the title of your new thread with FIXED or SOLVED so people like me don't stop by just to read that you fixed your own problem.

Me image in Messaging app

Right so I know this question has been asked many times before, but none of the answers I find work for me.
Problem: is that in the messaging app (sms) there is no picture of "Me". Its just a grey rectangle with a white border.
Things I've tried:
Pressing the grey box to bring up menu: Pressing the box does nothing other the simply changing the border color from white to orange.
Clicking menu >> more >> add contact: no such option is available for me
Add myself as a contact in the phonebook: Done this with my number with and without country code and with email.
Add a picture to my profile in GTalk ('Talk'): I've had a picture there for ages, same one as was set on my google account online before I even got this phone. No luck here
I think that's all ive tried, but I may be forgeting something.
Possible explenations:
burnduck said:
I have tested it, and that "unknown" is the cause of greyed out picture.
I have 2 sim cards, one is 3UK, and the other one is one2free from Hong Kong. The phone recognises the 3UK phone number but not the one2free (it shows up as unknown).
I have both numbers under the same contact with a avatar / picture.
Nexus one shows up profile pics correctly with my 3UK sim card plugged in, but it greyed out all those pictures when I've plugged in the one2free sim card.
FYI all those messages were sent and received on the one2free (hk) number.
I know (at least in Hong Kong) there are a lot of carriers who don't put the phone number in SIM cards. It wasn't a big problem until now. :/ I wonder if there will be a solution addressing this problem.
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What burnduck is refering to is in 'Settings>>About Phone>>Status>>My phone number'. This slot just says 'Unknown', has been this way in 2.1 as well.
All in all that seems like a plausible answer untill Rusty commented the following:
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My phone number is unknown and all contact pictures are fine.
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For the record in 'Settings>>Location & security>>Set up SIM card lock' the option to 'Lock SIM card' on/off does not work for me either. I can change the sim pin, but not disable it entirely.
Im wondering if some1 has any clever suggestions or work-arounds I can try. Im using a stock n1 with froyo 2.2. Any help would be greatly apprechiated.
This has now been solved! The problem is that your phone number is not stored in your sim. You need to put your sim in a phone that allows you to alter you "personal phone number". Its usually a setting found under 'special numbers' then something like 'my phone number'. Many people have been using their old phones to do this, some have used iphone. But this has been confirmed to work! Good luck all!

I also have this issue. only 1 SIM card.

i added myself to my contacts. then goto contacts and click add to cantacts. didnt change how number was displayed and didnt add any name and it works fine.

ROBIN50N said:
i added myself to my contacts. then goto contacts and click add to cantacts. didnt change how number was displayed and didnt add any name and it works fine.
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can u please explain this in a little more detail as I didnt quite understand what u did. Did u add urself to contacts threw the Contacs app? then u went to contacts again and added urself again? And u didnt add a name when u added urself to contacts?
im sorry lol that was just really confusing

helfone said:
can u please explain this in a little more detail as I didnt quite understand what u did. Did u add urself to contacts threw the Contacs app? then u went to contacts again and added urself again? And u didnt add a name when u added urself to contacts?
im sorry lol that was just really confusing
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long press the greyed out pic in sms app then add to contacts.
then it will cgo to contacts page at the top just click add to contacts. dont change name or add number.
once added go to contacts select the contact, your number, and add a photo.

I'm having the same issues as described by the OP. Tried everything but still no picture.
I've sent a mail to my provider asking whether it is possible to remotely update my simcard information.

ROBIN50N said:
long press the greyed out pic in sms app then add to contacts.
then it will cgo to contacts page at the top just click add to contacts. dont change name or add number.
once added go to contacts select the contact, your number, and add a photo.
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thx for the answer. But long pressing the picture does nothing for me unfortunately.

i have the same problem.. i hope there will be solution for this

helfone said:
thx for the answer. But long pressing the picture does nothing for me unfortunately.
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in the sms app are you long pressing the andorid grey pic? should work.

ROBIN50N said:
in the sms app are you long pressing the andorid grey pic? should work.
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I originally tested going into the messaging app then into an existing conversation between me and some1 else on my contact list. Long pressing the grey pic then did nothing.
Now I just deleted myself and then sent an sms to myself. In this conversation with myself I now have 'Me' and 'my number(in numbers of course)'. I can't do anything with Me, but I can add 'my number' to my contact list as myself with my number and email. But still wont do anything to 'Me'.
Confusing but hopefully u understand.

helfone said:
I originally tested going into the messaging app then into an existing conversation between me and some1 else on my contact list. Long pressing the grey pic then did nothing.
Now I just deleted myself and then sent an sms to myself. In this conversation with myself I now have 'Me' and 'my number(in numbers of course)'. I can't do anything with Me, but I can add 'my number' to my contact list as myself with my number and email. But still wont do anything to 'Me'.
Confusing but hopefully u understand.
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yes just add you number to contacts. it wont show in contacts as ME.

I'm having the same issue and my number is showing as unknown. I'm on Telecom in New Zealand.

ROBIN50N said:
yes just add you number to contacts. it wont show in contacts as ME.
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I know it wont show in contacts as 'Me'. Buts its not showing as 'Me' in the messaging app. In the conversation between me and me, me will be grey and the contact I saved will be the name I save it as. Get the difference?

helfone said:
I know it wont show in contacts as 'Me'. Buts its not showing as 'Me' in the messaging app. In the conversation between me and me, me will be grey and the contact I saved will be the name I save it as. Get the difference?
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i give up then i can only tell you what i did.

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i give up then i can only tell you what i did.
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yeah and im glad u did, thx for the effort. I think it has something to do with the sim card, as everything else should be the same i presume. I have sent an email to my provider, hopefully they will have some insight to come with tomorrow.

yeah, same here, think it has to do with the sim card. which is weird,why dont it just use the google pic instead of using something connected to the sim. weird.

drsmisk said:
yeah, same here, think it has to do with the sim card. which is weird,why dont it just use the google pic instead of using something connected to the sim. weird.
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Yeah, I agree. Really strange. I mean the fact that you have to manually add yourself and your number in your own phone book is just kind of funky in my opinion.

piloe said:
Yeah, I agree. Really strange. I mean the fact that you have to manually add yourself and your number in your own phone book is just kind of funky in my opinion.
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Well I wouldn't say its too funky, adding myself to the phonebook is something I've been doing, so that I can trade contact with others, but I think google could have gone with an easier option which is to use the picture of the google accounts. After all, its associated with the phone isn't it?

burnduck said:
Well I wouldn't say its too funky, adding myself to the phonebook is something I've been doing, so that I can trade contact with others, but I think google could have gone with an easier option which is to use the picture of the google accounts. After all, its associated with the phone isn't it?
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Yeah, exactly the point I was trying to make.

i added my phone number to my google voice contact number, then i dragged a photo of myself onto the sd card, then edited my contact picture to use that photo. a long drawn out work around, but now it isn't blank at least.
i agree, it's a little stupid that it doesn't just grab your photo from either google or facebook, seeing as how it's totally synced up with those.

Froyo sms threads - how do I set my own photo

I can't seem to find a way to set my own photo/avatar. Anyone?

www.google.com/profiles/
Log into the main account you have setup for your phone and set it there. You can also log into gtalk or gmail and chance the display picture, it'll pull it from there.

I changed the picture, and added my phone number into the details area.
What happens now?

Thanks JCopernicus, I did that and nothing happens even after sync. My display picture is still empty

Didn't work for me either...even added myself in my contacts

Click on your gray image and click on the second icon. Hit the menu button, then edit contact, then change the image.

Bet your phone number reports as 'Unknown' under the settings!
You need to program then number into your SIM before you can sort out the 'Me' picture.
EDIT: see here.

When I click the grey image it does not do anything.

That's because the phone doesn't know your own number, you have to program your SIM in another handset.

I'm not on Frodo but anyhow... Mine was pulled from my Facebook account, didn't ask it to but it did anyhow.
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there is a thread for this already.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=687011&page=7
dont need duplicate threads...

jimlad said:
I'm not on Frodo but anyhow... Mine was pulled from my Facebook account, didn't ask it to but it did anyhow.
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Does your Facebook profile contain your phone number? If so then it just matched it to the number on the SIM would be my guess.

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That's because the phone doesn't know your own number, you have to program your SIM in another handset.
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I can't add my number using my phone. I have to take the sim card out and program the sim card to know its own number using another handset?

Yeah annoyingly enough.
Even then programming my own SIM in my spare WM phone has failed me, I need to find another one to try.

I just posted a solution using a Vio FoneMate SIM card reader that can be had for next to nothing and using DeKart Sim Softare Shareware.

MMS

Hello, I've been using this device for several months now, just realized I don't have mms. The SMS app is Android messages and it's missing the option in settings to switch to mms. It's the international variant, using it on T-Mobile in the states. Anyone else notice/find a solution to this? If this is already discussed, please point me in the right direction.

I can see the 'add photo' seems to be missing from the messaging app.
But you can still go into the gallery and share via messaging, choose you contact and then it's ready to send.

Didgesteve said:
I can see the 'add photo' seems to be missing from the messaging app.
But you can still go into the gallery and share via messaging, choose you contact and then it's ready to send.
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Just click the + sign at the left hand side of the text input box.
Then you get all kinds of options for MMS messages.

Yes, lots of options. But not mms. I can start group conversation, and then add multiple ppl, but they get mass SMS, which is not mms. Individuals receive txt from me but not a group conversation mms.
Can you confirm that you have intl version on T-Mobile and also have mms option?

Seriously, no one else has this issue?

flintfirewalker said:
Seriously, no one else has this issue?
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The + sign to the left of the area where you enter text in a text message opens up a dialog with many different options. If you select a picture, then the message type changes to MMS for that particular response. This is the USA firmware on an AT&T MVNO. Don't know about any other firmware variant.

Hmmm, so this must be due to the fact that I have intl firmware (which I kept to use finger print sensor). When I click on the + sign, I can choose every option except for mms.
In the settings, advanced, there's no option to toggle mms on (my friends on various devices using Google messages have this option.) Very strange.

flintfirewalker said:
Hmmm, so this must be due to the fact that I have intl firmware (which I kept to use finger print sensor). When I click on the + sign, I can choose every option except for mms.
In the settings, advanced, there's no option to toggle mms on (my friends on various devices using Google messages have this option.) Very strange.
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Which region firmware are you using?
The reason I ask is because the OEM partition contains overlay APKs which control access to a number of features.
MMS/SMS is controlled by the "com.android.carrierconfig-res-305.apk" which has config options like:
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<boolean name="enabledMMS" value="true" />
<boolean name="groupChatDefaultsToMMS" value="true" />
<boolean name="enableGroupMms" value="true" />
It's possible that the values in your region are set to "false".
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I'm using the UK firmware with the US OEM sin because I want fingerprint AND T-Mo VoLTE.

Try a different text app like Textra. If that has the same problem, then you know it is something wrong with the phone.

My version must be Taiwan or HK, it was in Chinese when I first turned it on (so glad my colleague knew how to read and change the language immediately).

I have noticed that I am unable to send group messages, but only if there is an attached image. Anyone else?

Confirmation: If I use USA firmware, I have true Group messaging option with all messages going to all parties. Also can send image to group. If non-USA firmware, I have only Mass-text message, which is one initial broadcast to group (with no option to include images), and all subsequent messages in thread are only one-to-one.
Standard messaging to single party is fine regardless of firmware; can include images, etc.
Hope this clears up any lingering doubts.

pseudonym58 said:
Confirmation: If I use USA firmware, I have true Group messaging option with all messages going to all parties. Also can send image to group. If non-USA firmware, I have only Mass-text message, which is one initial broadcast to group (with no option to include images), and all subsequent messages in thread are only one-to-one.
Standard messaging to single party is fine regardless of firmware; can include images, etc.
Hope this clears up any lingering doubts.
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Okay... I received my XZ1C this weekend and this is one thing I am struggling with: can't figure out how to enable Group MMS.
I do have the International Firmware with fingerprinting ( :victory: ) but I also need the MMS Group Messaging.
Any chance that this is related to AT&T ? Some posts about saying the carrier controls this. Any truth in this?
What is the final word on this? How to enable the group messaging?
Running XZ1X with Android 8.0.0 and latest updates from Sony.

I'm not sure, but I do use AT&T as carrier (through Consumer Cellular MVO).

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Okay... I received my XZ1C this weekend and this is one thing I am struggling with: can't figure out how to enable Group MMS.
I do have the International Firmware with fingerprinting ( :victory: ) but I also need the MMS Group Messaging.
Any chance that this is related to AT&T ? Some posts about saying the carrier controls this. Any truth in this?
What is the final word on this? How to enable the group messaging?
Running XZ1X with Android 8.0.0 and latest updates from Sony.
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Just press the '+' in the bottom right corner of the screen then 'start group converastion' on the next page.

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Just press the '+' in the bottom right corner of the screen then 'start group converastion' on the next page.
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This creates a "group" message which sends individual SMS texts to each participant in the group. It says right in the message body, just as described by the OP in the first page.
What we are not seeing, is the option to send group MMS messages.
Anyone with International Firmware able to verify if they have Group MMS messages?

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Anyone with International Firmware able to verify if they have Group MMS messages?
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We are talking about the stock Messages app, right?
I have a setting in the overflow menu > Advanced > Group Messaging, to switch between chat mode and mass text.
How about trying another messaging app? Textra has a similar setting.

BetaLyte said:
We are talking about the stock Messages app, right?
I have a setting in the overflow menu > Advanced > Group Messaging, to switch between chat mode and mass text.
How about trying another messaging app? Textra has a similar setting.
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Yes, I am talking about the stock Messages app, which on my previous Z5 Compact, was a Sony app and now on the XZ1C seems to be a Google app.
And I would like to have this working on the stock app instead of adding yet another app to patch things that should be working but are not.

It appears that you might have to choose between the fingerprint sensor (non-USA) and the ability to use full group messaging (USA only?). This also assumes that you use AT&T, or an MVO on AT&T towers, unless other carriers in the besides AT&T (in the USA) also have full group messaging enabled. Perhaps another XZ1C firmware variant has the best of both worlds?

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MMS/SMS is controlled by the "com.android.carrierconfig-res-305.apk" which has config options like:
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<boolean name="enabledMMS" value="true" /><boolean name="groupChatDefaultsToMMS" value="true" /><boolean name="enableGroupMms" value="true" />
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Ok, enuff time without mms.
How do I edit the apk mentioned above?

Question How to get +1 to stop showing up on phone numbers from text messages.

I am having a interesting issue with my phone that I cannot figure out. When I receive a text message the system adds a +1 to the start of the phone number it is coming from, I am using the Samsung Messages application but this does the same thing apparently with the Google SMS app and the Verizon messenger app (as I have\ tried these as well), this only happens with a text and if I get a phone call or look in the address book no numbers have a +1.
The reason this is an issue is because my car imports my phonebook as it appears in the contacts and when I get a text it comes up as Unknown Caller because of the added +1 but phone calls do not have the +1 so they show up just fine.
While working on this I have discovered that if I go to the text by going to my contacts then clicking on the persons name it will remove the +1 and it will stay removed as I text them but the second I get texted back the +1 is added. I called Verizon eventually and was told reset settings, reset network settings, turn off assisted dialing. None of these work and there next solution was to factory reset, I don't think this will help because it isn't just my phone but my wife and son who also got the same phone have the same thing happen.
Has anyone experienced this and know how to fix it. I have been through all the phone and dev settings looking for something. I cannot find any other threads online for this except for a couple from AT&T users from different samsung phones years ago with no answer. Previous to this we were using Note 9's and did not have this issue. Any help is appreciated.
edit: The phone is not rooted or modded and is on Android 11 One UI 3.1, sorry forgot to add that.

I think it's under: Settings -> Call Settings -> Other call settings -> Roaming assistance

rufus15 said:
I think it's under: Settings -> Call Settings -> Other call settings -> Roaming assistance
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That is assisted dialing I turned off already and it didn't affect it. It's also just on text messages phone functions don't have this happen for some reason.

The +1 is your coumtry code prefix (USA).
While you can change this in your messaging app you can't change it from eveyone else's phone.
From using it in your car radio might be somethng in your car settings or else in your contact list add the +1 to all your contacts.

spawnlives said:
The +1 is your coumtry code prefix (USA).
While you can change this in your messaging app you can't change it from eveyone else's phone.
From using it in your car radio might be somethng in your car settings or else in your contact list add the +1 to all your contacts.
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I understand that the +1 is the country code.
It isn't from other people's phones it is the way the Ultra is handling the information when it comes to text messaging. I did the following test. I removed my son as a contact in my phone and called my phone from his. The phone number shows up as (xxx) xxx-xxxx. I then sent a text message to myself from his phone while he still was not in my contacts. I have 3 different text applications on my phone right now for testing purposes (default Samsung, Google's SMS app, and Verizon Messeages) and all 3 shows the phone number as +1 (xxx) xxx-xxxx.
The car isn't adding the the +1 to contacts, when my phonebook syncs to the car and I go into it the phonebook on my cars display they show the same as in my contacts "Contacts Name" (xxx) xxx-xxxx but when a text comes in it shows Unknown +1 (xxx) xxx-xxxx.
The issue solely lies with text messages being received on the S21 Ultra as this happens when people on Apple phones or Android phones (multiple brands) text me.

In regards to text messaging in general, i live not far from you ( about 9500 miles ) and I have a different device then yours. Receiving text messages from someone in my contacts list shows up contact name. Receiving other text message not in my contact list will show as country code and phone number. There are exceptions to this in regards to texts from government agencies and google which will show up who are not in my contacts list. I think texts messaging work around the international standard ie: country code + phone number while phone calls may not (unless making international calls). So i don't think it's device specific as it more to do with the networks that you connect to.
In regards to talking to you car ( text wise ) i may be of little help as i don't have a android 11 device and a car to talk to.
Since your note 9 works, and as far as i know latest version is android 10, it could be an issue with android 11. From your test using your son's phone have tried to add the +1 to his number to your phone and see if it's make a difference.