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Voice Mail Quick Guide
Based on your location, you can view and print a Quick Guide that assists with setting up voice mail, retrieving your messages, changing your settings, and navigating the voice mail system.

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Maybe try hitting "77"?

Or fast forward "3" or "33" and then "7"?
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-23-2005, 02:53 PM:
 
Hitting 3 skips to the end of the message, thus giving me the option of 7 for delete.

Thanks!
 

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Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 08-23-2005, 02:58 PM:
 
Like Brad, I was having to wait until the end of the message too. Thanks for the info!
 

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Posted by Mike Fitzgerald (Member # 1304) on 08-23-2005, 05:49 PM:
 
I have Cingular and I had the same problem but I found hitting the 77 works anytime during the message.
 

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Posted by John Westlund (Member # 913) on 08-23-2005, 05:58 PM:
 
Interesting, on my cingular phone, pressing 3 deletes the message. It doesn't matter if I am half way through the message or at the end.
 

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Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 08-23-2005, 07:08 PM:
 
Cingular is a little schizo since they're still part Cingular and part AT&T. Their former AT&T customers (like me) are handled separately, probably due to the AT&T contracts we originally signed or something. Anyway thanks for the tips on how to delete msgs.
 

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Posted by Matt Fields (Member # 3211) on 08-23-2005, 07:15 PM:
 
I have CIngular and hit "33" to delete a message in the middle.
 

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Posted by Don Furr (Member # 1469) on 08-23-2005, 09:17 PM:
 
In Atlanta Cingular like this: push 3 at anytime during a voice mail and it's gone. 7 repeats the message.
You would think that EVERY Cingular phone would work the same way
 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 08-23-2005, 09:27 PM:
 
I have had cingular for the last 2 years. It used to be 3, now I just have to hit 7 once to instantly delete the message.
The voicemail system here was recently changed and has vastly improved. Before, you had to call from your actual phone and dial in a PIN. Now, you can call from any phone and dial in the PIN or set it up so that you can call from your phone without a PIN.
That is much better. You can listen to your messages by just pressing 1 button, without having to fumble around to enter your PIN.
What really sucked before was that, since you had to call from your phone, when roaming to our locations in Mexico, I couldn't check messages at all even though we had international roaming activated. But the voicemail system wouldn't recognize the number of your phone because of the international prefix, and that was the end of it.
Or if you are out of battery, now you can check messages from another phone.
That's a much better system.
 

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Posted by Oscar Neundorfer (Member # 458) on 08-24-2005, 06:17 AM:
 
Off topic but still cingular related.

Has anyone on the forum in the Atlanta area had the problems over the last few months with Cingular that I have had? The coverage seems to be getting worse and worse. In areas like my house where I used to have rock solid signal, I now have to move outside in the driveway to get a just barely useable signal. I have also found that in general around the Atlanta area the coverage is spotty at best. Going down an interstate like I-20 on the east side of Atlanta, one would expect reasonable coverage, but I drop in and out so often I might as well not even try to carry on a conversation. One day recently in the space of about 6 miles the phone dropped out at least 4 times and I had to re-dial.

I have talked to other Cingular customers with much newer phones than mine and they are reporting the same exact problems. Cingular seems to have no answers when I call their customer no-service department. They tell me to switch my phone off, wait a couple of minutes, and then turn it back on. They also say not to leave the the phone turned on all the time, for example, to turn it off at night when I am not using it. These sound like answers they have cooked up to just stall their customers because they can't fix the real problems.

It was NOT this way in the past. I have been a Cingular customer since long before they were Cingular, over 10 years now, and it has gotten so bad that I am ready to close my account. Problem is, I am not sure if any other provider is any better.
 

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Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 08-24-2005, 06:47 AM:
 
In our area (Annaoplis, MD), it seems that SPRINT has gotten better and better. Most notably in the last 6 months or so. Also, with their free&clear plans...no more roaming charges...so if I'm on analog in the boonedocks...doesn't matter same price.
 

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Posted by Don Furr (Member # 1469) on 08-24-2005, 09:06 AM:
 
Oscar,

Up here in Kennesaw I've noticed NO change in signal. We've had the service like you since the early 90's. I think it's actually gotten better. No complaints here.

Don
 

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Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 08-24-2005, 10:40 AM:
 

quote: Oscar Neundorfer

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Has anyone on the forum in the Atlanta area had the problems over the last few months with Cingular that I have had? The coverage seems to be getting worse and worse. In areas like my house where I used to have rock solid signal, I now have to move outside in the driveway to get a just barely useable signal. I have also found that in general around the Atlanta area the coverage is spotty at best. Going down an interstate like I-20 on the east side of Atlanta, one would expect reasonable coverage, but I drop in and out so often I might as well not even try to carry on a conversation. One day recently in the space of about 6 miles the phone dropped out at least 4 times and I had to re-dial.

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