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Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voicemail

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:54:16 GMT

O2's FAQ for iPhone has the following topic:

"Can I increase the length of time the iPhone rings before diverting to voicemail?

Yes, just like any other handset you can change the length of time the iPhone rings before diverting to voicemail by entering **61*901*NN# SEND (NN is the number of seconds in increments of 5 and a maximum of 30 seconds)."

This code is incorrect. It should be "**61*901*11*NN# SEND"

Hope this helps anyone.

Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voicemail

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:47:19 GMT

Good tip - is there a way of finding out what it is set to right now?

Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voicemail

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:30:01 GMT

Short of ringing the phone and timing it, I have no idea! Sorry...

Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voicemail

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:45:03 GMT

there is a way to make it longer, but i dont know how,....

Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voicemail

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:36:29 GMT

I tried the above code to try to change it to 30 seconds but it wouldn't have it. When I changed it to 25 seconds, the code went in fine. Great help, thanks.

Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voicemail

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:01:16 GMT

I had a go at the code and also tried 25sec - it went to voice mail after 13 sec.

Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voicemail

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:09:56 GMT

I had a go at the code and also tried 25sec - it went to voice mail after 13 sec.

I think you mis-counted the "second".. I believe you've counted 1 ring for 1 second, but in fact, 1 ring = 2 seconds... So in your case, your call forwards to voicemail after 13 rings, just about 25 seconds, right?

Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voicemail

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:36:44 GMT

The above code does work. **61*901*11*nn# increments of 5 and then press call. you can only do it on the phone section not by text message.

Tev32

How do I turn voice mail off completely?

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:32:08 GMT

Don't want to divert to voice mail at all.

Can I enter a code to turn it off for good?

Al.

Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voicemail

jonsie — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:38:35 GMT

Just dial 1760 and that will turn off voicemail. Its a free call. Call 1750 if you want to turn it back on.

Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voicemail

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:41:40 GMT

Cheers for that quick response, watching iRobot, every #### thing is "i" something now.

Al.

Thank you!

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:35:33 GMT

Thanks this has been driving my wife mad on her phone.

Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voicemail

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:05:11 GMT

Just dial 1760 and that will turn off voicemail. Its a free call. Call 1750 if you want to turn it back on.

Ahh steve.. you forgot the poor forgotten call alert service. Dial 1710 from your phone. That turns your voicemail off then turns on a text alert service. Whenever you miss a call if your phone is off for example, you'll have a text waiting for you to let you know who it was.

Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voicemail

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:13:37 GMT

Hi to all...
I am new here my name is Allen and i have new i phone...
Thanks for sharing tip...

Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voicemail

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:19:51 GMT

Jdwilsh... Thanks for the tip about turning off voicemail. You say o2 will send you a text with your missed calls? Is this done after every call even if your phone is switched on?

Also have you any idea how long iPhone will ring for before cutting off (with voicemail turned off)

thanks for your help!

Re: Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voice

Anonymous — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:18:43 GMT

Magic code is great but where on earth do you enter it? Is it on phone keypad, a text message or a code you enter after dialling 901 or something else entirely?

O2's FAQ for iPhone has the following topic:
"Can I increase the length of time the iPhone rings before diverting to voicemail?

Yes, just like any other handset you can change the length of time the iPhone rings before diverting to voicemail by entering **61*901*NN# SEND (NN is the number of seconds in increments of 5 and a maximum of 30 seconds)."
This code is incorrect. It should be "**61*901*11*NN# SEND"
Hope this helps anyone.

Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voicemail

Anonymous — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:55:10 GMT

type it in using the keypad as if you was dialing a number to call

Code increments must be 5 seconds.

Anonymous — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:25:39 GMT

finally got it to work. You have to use 5 second increments of seconds. ie 25 not 29 which is what I tried to start & got a completely uninformative error message.

Re: Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voice

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:01:06 GMT

The code **61*901*11*NN# sort of worked for me, but does not seem to extend the number of rings to more than 6 or 7. I tried entering 20 seconds and 30 seconds, and still only got 6 or 7 rings. However, I think this is to do with the delay between the caller getting the ringing tone, and the mobile phone actually ringing. With NN set to 30 seconds, as a caller to my own mobile I got 30 seconds of ringing before it went to voicemail, but the phone itself only rang for 20 seconds (7 rings, preceeded by the vibrator going off). Still, 7 rings is far, far better than the measly default three rings, which made me miss so many calls.
By the way, does anyone know what you actually are setting if you miss out the 11 from the code (as per the post at the top of this trail of posts)? I accidentally did that first, and set NN to 20. I got a message that I had successfully set "Sync data circuit call forwarding when unanswered", "Async data circuit call forwarding when unanswered" and "Packet access call forwarding when unanswered". What does this mean in practise? What is the default setting for me to set it back to?

Re: Increase time the iPhone rings before diverting to Voice

fourqtwo — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:21:29 GMT

I use ##61# Divert on No Answer which give a longer ring time and ##02# to cancel.
These work fine for me rather than the **61*901*11*NN#