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Re: How to Deactivate Google Voice Voicemail and Return to iPhone Visual Voice Mail

Veronicat1981 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:04:29 -0000

Hello JT, thank you so much for your help... in my case it´s a little more complicated than that and I wanted to know if you can help me.
I have a GV phone number for my business and a personal phone number with at&t. I forwarded the GV to my iPhone. I would like to have two different voicemails one for my business, one for my personal calls, but if I activate GV voicemail all my calls go there.
Hope you can help, thank you! :-)

Re: My Airport Connection Timed Out

Reba4bob — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:52:55 -0000

Same problem. I went into my router and chose security as none. Then I checked the SSID so nobody could see my network. Nor as safe, but I can get on line.

Bob

Re: Right Size Columns in OS X’s Finder

Esa Juhani Ruoho — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:13:23 -0000

you are a gem. it works. was doing my face in completely..

Re: How to Deactivate Google Voice Voicemail and Return to iPhone Visual Voice Mail

Claudia — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:23:54 -0000

omg thank you sooo much!! There was going to be violence!

Re: How to Deactivate Google Voice Voicemail and Return to iPhone Visual Voice Mail

Ossito_1 — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:32:20 -0000

man, you saved me, been stuck for about a week , lol, thanks

Re: How to Deactivate Google Voice Voicemail and Return to iPhone Visual Voice Mail

SG — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:03:46 -0000

when i try ##61# i get "setting erasure succeeded Fax Call Forwarding when unanswered" and my only option on the iphone is Dismiss, which seems not to do anything.
Please HELP. I HATE GOOGLE VOICE

Re: My Airport Connection Timed Out

Chuckheb — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:33:51 -0000

worked for me. I just dragged the alf file to the trash and restarted and it worked. Thanks!

Re: How to Deactivate Google Voice Voicemail and Return to iPhone Visual Voice Mail

Nazaka145 — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 01:33:16 -0000

Thanks a lot!, many many Thanks

Re: How to Deactivate Google Voice Voicemail and Return to iPhone Visual Voice Mail

peterwknox — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:26:59 -0000

Thank you so much for this. It's saved my sanity. I was stuck with GV for a year until now. I'm FREEEEEE at last!

Re: My Airport Connection Timed Out

Krivas81 — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:31:15 -0000

Ok My friend is having the same problem, I am a PC user and She is a novice mac user, can you provide me step by step instructions on how someone like myself can do this

Re: How to Deactivate Google Voice Voicemail and Return to iPhone Visual Voice Mail

Jonny — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:33:25 -0000

Thanks JT..

Re: Setup MobileMe Alias on your iPhone

JT Ray — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:21:12 -0000

A very good question. I am not sure why it is accepting email from main account. I have been researching, but have yet to find an answer.

Re: Software Review: Perian, a Swiss-Army Knife for Video

reloj swiss army — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:27:02 -0000

Let us all hope that with Swiss Army would be able to meet the expectation of customers. Thanks for posting in here.

Re: How to Deactivate Google Voice Voicemail and Return to iPhone Visual Voice Mail

Mike needs Help — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:58:48 -0000

how about for iphone 4 on verizon?

Re: How to Deactivate Google Voice Voicemail and Return to iPhone Visual Voice Mail

GARY GNU — Tue, 24 May 2011 12:49:00 -0000

you da man JT. i misunderstood when i activated this feature. nothing like friends on the internet. thought it meant something different. google voice is like an aggressive russia secretary that sets new standards in the office (that one must abide by, or else)......

Re: The Apple Store Didn’t Want My Money

JT Ray — Thu, 19 May 2011 20:54:45 -0000

First the EPP was offered on the Apple Store Website the day of the announcement and was available the night of the online launch. I could have purchased then and had no issues, but chose to take part of the launch.

Second if you read the article you should note I called the BTSM Apple Store to verify that 2TB models were available for sale. I was assured there were. This was the issue I had. By no means was my request customer with the exception of the upgraded space. Also if you upgrade memory at the store you can't say a machine is not able to be upgraded.

Re: Setup MobileMe Alias on your iPhone

Jp2rock — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:24:30 -0000

What if we only want mail that comes to the alias address ?The method grabs mail from the main and all other aliases.

Re: The Apple Store Didn’t Want My Money

Thor — Thu, 19 May 2011 14:52:42 -0000

First: There wasn't an employee (EPP) discount on iPads until very recently (within the last week). So if you were purchasing before that was enacted it just wasn't there.

Second: So you wanted a custom configuration and were surprised when they didn't have it? REALLY? There isn't a single retailer in the entire world that stocks custom configurations. None. Be it a car manufacturer or a computer company, none do this. Custom means just that- custom. Unique. One-off.

So why the rant again? :)

Re: How to Deactivate Google Voice Voicemail and Return to iPhone Visual Voice Mail

Jerry Gao — Wed, 18 May 2011 14:24:19 -0000

very useful. followed ##61#, and deactivated Google Voicemail forwarding.
Thanks.

Re: OWC’s Publicity Like Stunt Regarding iMac Hard Drive Upgrades

JT Ray — Fri, 13 May 2011 18:04:23 -0000

If the drive does fail and it is under warranty should I not go to Apple? Also it felt like a publicity stunt. I agree Apple may not be taking the best approach but at the same time it is not as big of a deal. Thanks for the response.

Re: OWC’s Publicity Like Stunt Regarding iMac Hard Drive Upgrades

OWC Grant — Fri, 13 May 2011 15:02:57 -0000

Your information is incorrect...opening the iMac does not void the warranty...never has. AND...the manufacturer has to prove any modification caused the failure of any other component...read Magnuson Moss Act for how consumers are protected from falsely witholding warranty coverage.

Not a publicity stunt in the least...about forced choice. If and when drive dies, you must go to Apple.

Re: The Apple Store Didn’t Want My Money

Kevin H. — Sat, 07 May 2011 19:20:30 -0000

Sadly, this is no surprise.

The fact is that new hires in the Apple retail ecosystem are not on your side as they once were.

I developed a long standing relationship with an Apple retail employee in the late 1990's when CompUSA had their 'store-within-a-store' section. That employee was also a regular member of the user group where I lived. There was never any question regarding discounts based on our membership. He made sure we got them.

I continued my retail relationship with that employee until I was unable to obtain the options I wanted at the retail store level. At that point, I began buying computers from their online store. However, I continued my smaller purchases that didn't require build-to-order specifications.

I'm sad to see that the current employees are trained to avoid providing customers with their legitimate discounts. I had an occasion to trade in an iPod Nano for a current model. The form they handed me to fill out was more complex than getting a license at the DMV! And their floor staff had no experience with the paperwork, requiring management level staff to guide them through the process on my time!

They need a great deal of customer awareness training that they don't seem to get these days. This seems to be just a job to them.

Re: How to Deactivate Google Voice Voicemail and Return to iPhone Visual Voice Mail

JT Ray — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:25:08 -0000

Did you also input ##004# ?

Re: How to Deactivate Google Voice Voicemail and Return to iPhone Visual Voice Mail

Rjwconsultant — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:22:44 -0000

##61## is there something else I need to do...

Re: How to Deactivate Google Voice Voicemail and Return to iPhone Visual Voice Mail

Rjwconsultant — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:21:46 -0000

I have the iphone and it still comes up as an error when I do ##61#