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Bartholomew Diogenes

SteveHC, I don't fiddle with the device as such; the problem has occurred when I move the laptop or touch the dongle, perhaps to straighten it if it momentarily looks crooked. I never plug anything else into that port so that won't apply as a test. I would think it might be a cracked solder point ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

^I've always had it plugged into that port; it isn't practical to switch for long. More likely the dongle plug has been damaged.

Bartholomew Diogenes

SteveHC, thank you for replying. The device does still ring, but it has become hypersensitive to being touched and will often disconnect a call if I touch it and sometimes if I move the laptop it will interrupt my service and then reboot itself. Not normal. I still have voicemail since the last ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

It might be damaged from bending where it plugs into the laptop. If it no longer rings when I get a call, wouldn't that mean damage? Would I have to get a new one if it's been more than a year since purchase? Worst of all, I've been missing calls, i.e., messages from folks who are unable to leave ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

I have an RCA four-headed vcr, model VR546 (made in South Korea), the last one RCA made. After using some Fuji videocassettes which were defectively difficult to rewind, the vcr motor was weakened so it would not rewind readily in general. After I got some old videocassettes of miscellaneous brands ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

Thanks for the replies, but this was my fault yesterday. I failed to opt for home versus Google Talk. Feb. 13 it actually wasn't working, though. I'll keep your ideas in mind.

Bartholomew Diogenes

The next day GV was back to normal, but today it isn't working again. Not even a recorded weather number locally will it function for. This is very upsetting as I use this service as an alternative to blocking the call id of my number from going out to untrustworthy callees. Without GV I can't call ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

Just today I couldn't get it to phone me back 6pm and later or if it would there was a very long delay. Could it be pre-Valentine's Day overload or just a hitch? Has it worked for you immediately like normal?

Bartholomew Diogenes

nailgunner, yes,, obviously you were not the poster I referenced in my opening. You are so knowledgeable that I figured you had joined before Mar. 2010 (more than a few months before me ,still) so I didn't think I needed to make this distinction. Just explaining.... Still don't agree with you about ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

nailgunner, thank you. I did confirm with two of my three possible callers that they had not called me Mon. so that agrees with your results. I have asked someone to make test calls for me but not on the spot, to make the task more convenient, but not for the setting about which I just asked. Have ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

If so, please mention your setup and why the calls were missed if you can surmise. I refer to calls where the caller does not get your voicemail and so cannot leave a message and there is no other indication anyone called at all. That is what I suspect sometimes happens for me, depending on the ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

After holding on for 20 min. at 281-404-1551 a foreign female jerk named Raine hung up on me, at least was no longer there, before I got all my questions answered. I went ahead and renewed, but the price was 20.91, not 19.95. Nothing has happened as far as the service - it's still off, but I never ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

Bought it Oct. 1 from a store but didn't connect and use the service until Oct. 18 when my existing service ran out so I think that should be the operative date. Later then, those who read my first posts know I had mJ problems due to interference from the pending closure of my CenturyLink isp ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

rednova, I hope you and others with problems call the number, not just use the chat. Direct talk sometimes avails.

Bartholomew Diogenes

schatham, do you know what the motive for the attack(s) was? Do these foreigners have nothing better to do as they await the next batch of aid?
Matt9876, doesn't one want interaction with other programs, e.g., an e-mail acccount?

Bartholomew Diogenes

nailgunner, what I reasonably believe happened is that by muting the sound on my computer last night I did so for all operation within my computer so when my caller spoke no sound occurred for the voicemail system to pick up and no message occurred for the e-mail system to register; the soft-phone ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

Not time for a full reply. Now someone has left me a voicemail, which I haven't gotten today, this morning. The soft-phone shows time to have left message, but there's nothing when you by phone and asterisk check or in e-mail; no record of said call, not even mistakenly as an "old" message. We had a ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

Thank you, nailgunner, I will implement what you said. I've been sick in the last 24 hours, and trying to finish an overdue book. I thought of turning off the mJ ringer and am wondering if that stops the phone from ringing, which would be great. If I must do this many days, a one-step process is ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

nailgunner, thank you. The ring does seem to come from the mJ device, but I wasn't sure about that. First, the phone rings, then the computer, then the phone...almost as if there is a reverberation; it's a terrible cacophony. To be specific about my registry, outgoing calls (mixed in with incoming ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

When the computer is on and you receive a call, the phone will ring and the mJ device will also ring. If you turn off the phone ringer, the dongle will still ring. If the computer is off, nothing will ring; your caller in that case will get your voicemail, but if they do not leave a message or let ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

The page comes up but it doesn't function and is missing history. Yours?

Bartholomew Diogenes

I'm looking at myglobalconference.com with Google Talk for details. GV, no.

Bartholomew Diogenes

Is there any way to do such a call? I've had both now for 45 days, have faxed on both, and am pleased except for this issue (and no *67 of course, but I knew blocking could not be part of the deal).

Bartholomew Diogenes

^Just to be clear, GV would call my fax machine and the destination number and conference them together, the two machines, but that would not work even if I hung around and manually pressed the start key while my machine was on speaker? If the GV connection is technically insufficient, I guess it ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

I finally did it and made my first call, to someone with caller id so they could confirm my GV number showed. The last step did not appear as dz20854 said, and I had to play to get to the result. Maybe they changed it, but I saw no way to access chat from GMail; the left option of "chats" does not ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

nailgunner, thanks. I posted this because of concerns even in the media over privacy with Google, although those didn't relate specifically to phones. The people I'm worried about are not hackers. I merely don't want loopholes. Has crackerjack ever helped (spoon-fed, he would say) anyone on this ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

I am very close to subscribing based on dz20854's thread, "GoogleVoice Makes MJ Obsolete...", but some members have expressed that Google (and therefore GoogleVoice) is loose about customer data. I am asking your opinion. If I got a number and hooked it into GV for outbound calls only, what info ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

For me the malfunction began at 3:32:34pm EST when I was on a call that had lasted 1:00:13 and I got one loud tone then a disconnect. My callee probably can't get back to me either as I believe he would've tried. This is why I visited. dslreports had no thread yet.

Bartholomew Diogenes

Darkman90808, what's delaying me is that I want to check some alternatives first which might enable me to ditch mJ entirely and all the angles if I don't. Some posters think Google is a sieve for personal information. I've been burned by one small telco so I'm being careful. Right now I'm examining ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

Putting together what speaker2112 and VaHam wrote above, could I not get GV and point it to my mJ number at least to make outbound calls displaying the GV number as my caller id appearance? Has anyone tried this? Then the only issues would be how long GV will be free and is magicTalk or Skype better ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

Yeah, I meant to say mJ as your only service. If you combine it with GV, then you can display that number and, hopefully, you never search for it on-line. Of course GV is unexplored territory: will it be free and what kind of number will one get? Also, not thrilled about having to get Gmail and the ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

nailgunner, yours is one of the greatest replies I've ever gotten. I knew you were a great guy! And I'm going to give you and amigo_boy kudos at that other site if I'm still welcome there. The good news: I haven't given my mJ number to anyone who might wish me ill. The bad news: this makes mJ ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

tony, sorry, I would've posted last night, but I'd been logged off for some reason. My thread title was cut off for some inexplicable cause even though it fit into the field as I had shortened it. It should've continued, "Data". I was referring to the third paragraph, where he complains of ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

Written by Steve Irvine in 2008. I solicit comments on the accuracy of what he said on those two topics. Here is the link:
www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/magi ... 94285.html

Bartholomew Diogenes

Let me be concise. When you call someone with your magicJack you can never block your number from appearing on the callee's id. There is at least one firm which is selling info about phone numbers, including mJ numbers and including the computer signature of any computer which has ever searched for ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

This thread needs to receive more attention, and I thank Megamixer56 for posting it. It arrived just before the hacking and may have been overlooked. I did read the article and have gone to the website cited, 800notes.com, but I can't find complaints about mJ readily though I used an advanced Yahoo ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

Thank you for your help. I will be following the suggestions in dz20854's thread. Step one will be trying to send a fax via mJ. I shall check and bear in my mind all the advice given anywhere.

Bartholomew Diogenes

To use Skype, the other person must also have it, right?

Bartholomew Diogenes

^Yes, but I mean speak into a laptop without a webcam since I don't have one.

Bartholomew Diogenes

dz20854, your post is tremendously helpful. Question: can you speak into the average laptop? I don't know how to make a call from my mJ softphone. I can't get a dialtone or hear one and don't know what I might be doing wrong, if someone could explain. dz20854, do you know that your thread has to be ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

admin, if it helps, the site was still okay at 9:52pm last night when I posted in Alternatives but may have been hacked as early as 10:30pm or as late as midnight, but I lean toward earlier. Can you report this crime? The perpetrator might think themselves ingenious, but to me they are just a ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

Darkman90808, did you get to read my post last night to you at 9;52pm before the hacking? It was about GV and faxing mostly. I read yours from 9;23pm and replied quickly for once. I find the loss of five posts quite annoying. I mean to look at GV next.

sabresfan, in that same post 9:52pm, I ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

Everyone, I forgot about Vonage. They are very forgettable because they hounded me with calls after I almost signed up. Vonage Lite is 9.99 a month for 200 minutes and $.05 a minute if you exceed. No charge for incoming calls. I would reserve those 200 for calls where I need to block my number and ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

^Thanks again. Unfortunately, NetTalk does not have *67 (caller id block), so it's useless to me. In fact, luv2uallday posted a thread on Aug. 15 that they should get it, with a poll that overwhelmingly favors it (on that board). Their tech support confirms they still don't have it. Ooma is probably ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

I can't specifically comment on your calls, but I can say that after I reported a malfunction (which probably was not caused by mJ) I got interruptive calls which said something like "This is a YMAX solutions test - the test was successful", and the call would disconnect me from whatever call I was ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

^Thanks. I mentioned you on another board about Duo but got your handle wrong and then had to correct myself once I found one of your threads. I searched there for simply Connie and got a result and wondered if that's how you started.
_ _ _ _I agree about faxing, and the other thing I want is *67 ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

Please give the price you paid and the quality of the product you got without technical language and if you had to add other items not sold with the product to achieve that quality. Respectfully, I have read the technical threads and don't know half of what is being said.

Bartholomew Diogenes

johnlvs2run, on Oct. 25 I didn't know of the CLink aspect, and it's too soon for a response, but I am unhappy with a number of isp's. There has been talk of a 120-minute limit on calls in recent threads, at least the one where a Californian was calling Canada.
_ _ _ _ Is there a glossary of terms ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

The malfunction seems over. No further e-mail from Henok, and his phone number was disconnected on Wed. after I left two more voicemails the prior day. I believe the malfunction was caused by my discontinuation of CLink internet service during the 5-day pendency period of the cutoff. Another user ...

Bartholomew Diogenes

See my thread. Qwest is now owned by CenturyLink.

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