“stutter” dial tone for Google Voice message indication
DrJay:
A little trick to use in Google Voice to bring up all of your unread messages:
In the GV search box, type is:unread. That search will return all (and only) your unread messages. Makes catching up very easy.
Bonus: the same trick works in Gmail's search box. 8)
Supermike:
Hey folks... new Obi fan here. Got everything set up with GV on SP1 and Callcentric for 911 on SP2. Purchased some new Panasonic DECT 6.0 Plus phones (KX-TG6534B) and they are working great, but had the issue with the Voicemail indicator getting "stuck" on, even after the message was deleted. I tried toggling the settings mentioned here and re-setting the Obi, but with no luck.
Finally, I read the tip about unread messages. There were none in my inbox. I searched for "Unread", and it returned nothing. Then I decided to look under the expandable "More" option on the menu, and noticed there were messages in the "Trash". I saw some of these had the green lines next to them. But instead of deleting them or emptying the "Trash", I marked the ones with green lines as "Read". That immediately cleared the indicator on the phone.
So am I to assume that if I call in and listen to a message via Google, and delete it, that it remains "unread" until I permanently mark or delete it by logging in to GV?
Also, I also can't find the aforementioned 'send missed calls to inbox' function of GV. Anywone know where to find that??
Thanks to all for the tips here! This forum was a huge assist in helping me figure out how to get the 911 stuff configured correctly, and now (hopefully) this!
Supermike:
Actually, I JUST found the setting for 'send missed calls to inbox' under the "Calls" section of GV. I un-checked it, since there are no missed-call indicators (callerID) being passed to the phone. So if I want to see if there were any, I can just look in the call history.
Now I just need to figure out, when I call my voicemail, how to ensure the calls are marked as "read". :D
Supermike:
Well... persistance has paid off! When listening to your Google voicemail, you have to hit "7" at the end to mark it as read, which "archives" it. The key to making the VM indicator go off, apparently, was to uncheck the option to send missed calls to the inbox.
After un-checking that option, I called and left a voicemail an the indicator lit up. I then listened through my phone and marked it as read. After hanging up, it took about 30 seconds but the indicator went off. So that's awesome! Thanks to everyone for the info found here! 8)
Also, I found that, strangely, my Obi is recognizing the number calling in -- and I don't have them programmed in the phone, either. It shows on my phone's CID screen, and announces it while ringing. But when I listen to the voicemail, Google says "from an unknown number". So I found it interesting that the CID is working, and the incoming number shows up online, but Google's voicemail couldn't seem to announce it.
obeeonecanoebee:
Supermike, et al:
I was so pleased with your entry, because I also had a lot of GV messages with the green line in the trash. I clicked on them all. Clicked on everything in GV. But still, I have the "new voice mail" indicator on my (also) Panasonic phones.
Question: did you actually change something in the Obi settings, or did you end up leaving them as they had been before you went in there? If you did, how did you get past the login screen? I tried admin/admin as mentioned above, but that fails. If you didn't, then I remain puzzled.
tks
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