One Touch (ok, Press) Voicemail on CDM8900

[Danariel]

Hey, all. I just figured out how to program Speed Dial #2 to call my voicemail, and dial my password for me. Here's what I did:

I created a Phone Book entry for myself. In the Mobile Telephone Number I put *86TTT#XXXXTT1 (the Xs being your password.)

The 3 Ts are Timed Pauses. You press the left Softkey to get to the menu to chose that, and I just chose it 3 times (I couldn't figure out how to di it with a hard pause, but this works better, anyway) then did #and my password. So what I get is it dials VM, pauses for 3 seconds until I can hear my voice start to speak, then you hear the next 5 key presses (#XXXX) and a pause, and then the last 1 which takes you straight into new voicemails.

I had to use multiple timed pauses to get mine to work, if you can get it to work with 1 timed pause between, do that instead.

One other thing...for those who actually use the voice dial function, this can also be programmed with a voice tag. My voice tag for it is "Voice Mail." You have to set your voice tag, then key all the above functions in, but it works.

[shimo]

WOW GREAT FIND! I didn't know you could enter timed pauses using the menu. Never figured that out!

Thanks! I also made my voicedial for voicemail and it works perfectly!!!

[WorkFurlough66]

That's cool, but has anyone figured out how to do that to speed dial #1........ I could do it with every other phone I've ever had. The problem is that you can't edit the voice mail number, like in voice mail setup. Anyone got any thoughts?

[Danariel]

Glad to be able to help! I've even got the number to my bank to check my account set up to dial automatically, so I can check my bank balance. I know, I've thought that putting my acct# in there isn't a good idea, but I'll deal with it if I lose the phone, or it gets stolen.

No, unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out how to key it to SD1. I have no idea why they did it this way. My CDM9500 didn't, you could program the V+ key perfectly.

[WorkFurlough66]

Isn't technology great! who would have ever thought that these phones could do so much. I forgot about the bank thing.... I had it on my T720 but I feel lazy programming all those numbers back in, if you know what I mean. Has anyone used bitpim to access the phonebook or speed dials yet... I wonder if you can change sd1 from there. How about a cheap data cable that works. I noticed that the connector is the same as the lg vx6000.

[shimo]

Originally posted by: Danariel
Glad to be able to help! I've even got the number to my bank to check my account set up to dial automatically, so I can check my bank balance. I know, I've thought that putting my acct# in there isn't a good idea, but I'll deal with it if I lose the phone, or it gets stolen.

No, unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out how to key it to SD1. I have no idea why they did it this way. My CDM9500 didn't, you could program the V+ key perfectly.

I suggest if you must put your bank number in your phone, don't label the number + account number something obvious like "BANK". Label it something misleading. That's scary though, I would never put that as a speed dial. If you lose your phone, the thief will have your account number.

[Danariel]

Originally posted by: WorkFurlough66
Isn't technology great! who would have ever thought that these phones could do so much. I forgot about the bank thing.... I had it on my T720 but I feel lazy programming all those numbers back in, if you know what I mean. Has anyone used bitpim to access the phonebook or speed dials yet... I wonder if you can change sd1 from there. How about a cheap data cable that works. I noticed that the connector is the same as the lg vx6000.

According to howardfurums.com the LG VX6000 works just fine. There are even links to drivers posted. See this thread:

vx6000 USB Cable (for CDM8900) $19.95