This guide explains how to enable Sprint Visual Voicemail for CyanogenMod 6. If you’re one of the many people who miss Sprint Visual Voicemail on your HTC Hero, then just follow the simple steps below and get it back!
- First, you’ll need to download the Sprint_VVM and place it inside your Android SDK directory. Ours is C:\Android\tools, so that’s the instructions we will give.
- Use one of the following installation methods:
- Via Email – Send this APK to yourself in an email to the GMail account attached to your phone. Open the email on your phone, and press Install.
- Via ADB – Place the Sprint_VVM.apk inside your C:\Android\tools folder. Open up a command prompt, and type the following commands, one per line:
cd C:\Android\tools
adb install Sprint_VVM.apk - Via File Manager – Place the APK onto your SD Card, and open a file manager on your Hero, such as Astro FIle Manager, and install the application from your SD Card that way.
- Open Settings, select Call Settings, select Voicemail Settings, then select Voicemail Number.
- Change the *86 to your phone number, then press “OK”.
Note: This will get your Voicemail working, but you will receive text messages from 9016, becuase those are required for the Voicemail to work.
To hide the 9016 text messages, you can download Handcent SMS from the Market, and long-press the thread that has been created from the text messages from that number. In the menu that opens, you can blacklist the number, so your phone will still receive the texts but not show them. This method may work with other messaging apps, but hasn’t been tested. So, if you find out this will work with a different messaging app, please let us know so we can add it to our guide!
The Voicemail app also comes with a widget you can use, if you desire.
Note: Handcent may still show an unread message every now and then. Just open the app, press “Menu” then “Mark All As Read”, which will make the notification go away!
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