Has anyone tried to disable voicemail?

[canyon]

I don't want to use MJ's voicemail. My dumbassed answering machine will pick up on 2 rings (too soon) or 4 rings (too late - goes to MJ voicemail). Short of buying a new answering machine that will answer on 3 rings, is there any way to disable voicemail?

[az2008]

I don't want to use MJ's voicemail. My dumbassed answering machine will pick up on 2 rings (too soon) or 4 rings (too late - goes to MJ voicemail). Short of buying a new answering machine that will answer on 3 rings, is there any way to disable voicemail?

There must be variations betwen MJ voice mail servers. Mine rings six times before MJ voice mail answers. You might go to chat support and ask them if they can fix your voice mail, letting them know others have reported they get six rings.

Mark

[JohnnyFreightTRAIN]

There is no way of disabling voicemail at this time.

[icebluebox]

try recording a blank greeting 2 seconds long, it worked for me
but was difficult to get back with technical support from magicjack.

[tradertx]

Silly question--if recording a blank voicemail about 2 seconds long worked to disable the MJ's voicemail system, wouldn't the same thing happen every time somebody accidentally misdials and gets your MJ number by mistake, does not hear your voice (or whatever message you might have put on it, but doesn't hang up right away. He effectively records a blank message. Would this shut off your voicemail notification to e-mail every time?

[mberlant]

That comment talked about recording a 2 second blank greeting in your own voice mail box. It wasn't talking about leaving yourself a 2 second blank message.

[nimbus]

try recording a blank greeting 2 seconds long, it worked for me
but was difficult to get back with technical support from magicjack.

Are you saying that you can still pick up the phone call while someone is listening to the blank greeting on the MJ voicemail server?

I would have thought the call would get transferred to the voicemail server and is gone. Much like a transferred call on a PBX.

[mberlant]

No, rather it seems to be a bug (sorry, a feature) of MJ's voice mail system that when you record a very short greeting message it corrupts the mailbox and prevents that mailbox from answering the ringing phone.

[sabresfan]

I was having the same problem. My answering machine would not pickup before the voicemail. I put a two second blank message as my voicemail greeting and now my answering machine will pickup before the voicemail. It seems by doing this I now get like four and a half rings before voicemail picks up. Thanks for the simple fix I prefer to use my answering but its also nice having the voicemail as a backup.