Disabling voice mail

bitstopjoe · Post by **bitstopjoe** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:42 am

IcedDog wrote:Hi all, I just got a MJ and I've tried the registry fixes in this thread to tweak the MJ voicemail, but to no avail. I even tried the skin maneuver, but that simply causes the MJ app not to appear at all after restarting. I'm thinking perhaps these registry hacks don't work with the current generation of MJ...does anyone have any suggestions? I tried the MagicRingForever app and that seemed to work, but I figured I'd ask here first before I fork over $10 when the trial period ends.

RingForever is the only way to go at the current time......

IcedDog · Post by **IcedDog** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 3:04 pm

OK, thanks for the reply. Although this begs another question, why is MJ so hung up on forcing their voicemail on everyone and making it so inflexible? It just seems like bad business.

bitstopjoe · Post by **bitstopjoe** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 3:20 pm

IcedDog wrote:OK, thanks for the reply. Although this begs another question, why is MJ so hung up on forcing their voicemail on everyone and making it so inflexible? It just seems like bad business.

You mean like blocking a gazilion exchanges?? Blocking the WHOLE state of Alaska? Or limiting our outgoing calls to 90 min?? Sneaking in an AUTO RENEW a year or so ago and NOT letting anyone know? In the grand scheme of what MJ does?? Their VM is the least of their bad business practices...

nibs123 · Post by **nibs123** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:11 pm

Hi all,

I have tried pretty much everything to try to disable the voicemail but no luck so far. The registry edits don't seem to work and deleting the skn files results in a failure to start magicjack so I never have the chance to try to edit the information.

Seems like the newer versions don't support such tampering?

bitstopjoe wrote: RingForever is the only way to go at the current time......

Any advice or tricks anyone knows that will work now? or is Ringforever still the only option?

Much obliged

nailgunner · Post by **nailgunner** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:49 pm

nibs123 wrote: is Ringforever still the only option?

It's not the answer you're really looking for, but the fine folks that sell Ringforever also sell MagicFeatures, which I use. It has many useful options like speed dial and caller id with name. If you end up going for Ringforever, I might do MagicFeatures instead, despite the extra cost. It somehow makes use of my answering machine instead of MJ's voicemail. I'm not sure if it would use MJ voicemail if I didn't have an answering machine on my phone, but it is another option.

nibs123 · Post by **nibs123** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:09 pm

nailgunner wrote:
nibs123 wrote: is Ringforever still the only option?

It's not the answer you're really looking for, but the fine folks that sell Ringforever also sell MagicFeatures, which I use. It has many useful options like speed dial and caller id with name. If you end up going for Ringforever, I might do MagicFeatures instead, despite the extra cost. It somehow makes use of my answering machine instead of MJ's voicemail. I'm not sure if it would use MJ voicemail if I didn't have an answering machine on my phone, but it is another option.

Thank you for your prompt reply.

I was hoping to get a solution that was more of a workaround as opposed to purchasing another program as I am a starving student and could use that extra money on a great deal of other things

I guess I will just deal with it for now.