Hi folks. I bought the Magic Jack a few days ago and have tried everything to get it to work properly. For some reason it would not install on my main computer and I had some other problems to come forth, but got that fixed back as before. Finally got the Magic Jack to install on my laptop only to find out it had already been purchased and registered by another user. The folks at Magic Jack wouldn't reset the user name, number, and password. Carried the jack back to Radio Shack and told them what had happened and that I needed a new jack and not a used one. I got home and installed it on the laptop. Now, I get the display pad and all, but there is no dial tone on the phone. I've tried three different phones and none will work. I can dial a number from the keypad on the computer screen and it will ring at the other end, but I can't hear it ringing from my end. I have checked the settings and it is set to phone and not headphone. If you call the number to the new jack, it rings on the phone that you are calling from and will ring through to the voice mail and you can leave a message and the message is sent to my email. Any ideas as to why I can't get a dial tone with the Magic Jack?
Any help very much appreciated!
No Dialtone
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Re: No Dialtone
Is the blue light on the dongle on?Cindy S wrote:Hi folks. I bought the Magic Jack a few days ago and have tried everything to get it to work properly. For some reason it would not install on my main computer and I had some other problems to come forth, but got that fixed back as before. Finally got the Magic Jack to install on my laptop only to find out it had already been purchased and registered by another user. The folks at Magic Jack wouldn't reset the user name, number, and password. Carried the jack back to Radio Shack and told them what had happened and that I needed a new jack and not a used one. I got home and installed it on the laptop. Now, I get the display pad and all, but there is no dial tone on the phone. I've tried three different phones and none will work. I can dial a number from the keypad on the computer screen and it will ring at the other end, but I can't hear it ringing from my end. I have checked the settings and it is set to phone and not headphone. If you call the number to the new jack, it rings on the phone that you are calling from and will ring through to the voice mail and you can leave a message and the message is sent to my email. Any ideas as to why I can't get a dial tone with the Magic Jack?
Any help very much appreciated!
Hello. Yes the blue light is on. After I made the initial post I was reading where someone was having audio problems. The reply was to check and do an entire list of things. I have done all the things mentioned in that particular reply. Let me see if I can find that post again and I'll bring the link here. But I've done everything that I can think of. I'll BRB with the link to the reply that I'm referring to.
Here is the topic with the list to try.
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Now, this is really puzzling. I've just turned on the laptop, inserted the Magic Jack, tried the phone and it worked! Same phone, same plug and same computer. I worked hours with the Magic Jack team trying to get this to work on Friday and Saturday.
Now that it is working on the laptop, does anyone know why it may not be working on my desktop? It won't install and nothing happens. The keypad doesn't display at all. I am running AVG anti virus and Windows firewall.
Now that it is working on the laptop, does anyone know why it may not be working on my desktop? It won't install and nothing happens. The keypad doesn't display at all. I am running AVG anti virus and Windows firewall.
same here.
I had nearly the same problem. Except MJ froze up my WinXP desktop. Actually, it wasn,t frozen, it was just taking hours to install, load, etc, and never finished. While it was doing that, my desktop was useless.
After several chats with customer service, I'm told there are a bunch of programs that, if installed on your computer, must be removed in order for MJ to work. These are anything by ROXIO, NERO, MUSICMATCH, and also a yahoo music program (not messenger) that I cannot recall. Thing is, all these programs sort of take over control of external drives from Windows, for things such as burning cd's and dvd's. The MJ dongle is incorporated as an external drive. So, it's my guess that, if the Windows o/s is not the only thing controlling drives, MJ just won't work. (Of course, the list of programs SHOULD be on the package, and on page one of their website!!)
So, either find out if your desktop has one of these competing programs and totally uninstall it, or do what I do--just keep using the laptop instead.
After several chats with customer service, I'm told there are a bunch of programs that, if installed on your computer, must be removed in order for MJ to work. These are anything by ROXIO, NERO, MUSICMATCH, and also a yahoo music program (not messenger) that I cannot recall. Thing is, all these programs sort of take over control of external drives from Windows, for things such as burning cd's and dvd's. The MJ dongle is incorporated as an external drive. So, it's my guess that, if the Windows o/s is not the only thing controlling drives, MJ just won't work. (Of course, the list of programs SHOULD be on the package, and on page one of their website!!)
So, either find out if your desktop has one of these competing programs and totally uninstall it, or do what I do--just keep using the laptop instead.
Cindy S wrote:Now, this is really puzzling. I've just turned on the laptop, inserted the Magic Jack, tried the phone and it worked! Same phone, same plug and same computer. I worked hours with the Magic Jack team trying to get this to work on Friday and Saturday.
Now that it is working on the laptop, does anyone know why it may not be working on my desktop? It won't install and nothing happens. The keypad doesn't display at all. I am running AVG anti virus and Windows firewall.