Comments on: Sherpa, Visual Voicemail Land On Android Market

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:32:27 +0000

I downloaded VVM the other day.

When I spoke to the TMO rep she transferred my text plan over with no problem (but then I have only had my G1 for a few months and I may not have been on the original G1 plan).

I have the sneaking suspicion it’s a battery sucker. My battery life today is way down on what it should have been. In addition I realized that I don’t really get that many voicemails so it’s not worth keeping if it is going to be a battery killer in my case (maybe it’s better on the myTouch which has a better battery?).

By: Denny

Denny — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:27:07 +0000

Anyone know when Rogers will get off there ass and release VVM for the Magic??

And for those of you who do not know. DOwnload the latest beta of Market Enabler and select t-mobile.

You might need to go into applications – manage apps- market and “clewar cache” first.

By: Maury

Maury — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:00:58 +0000

I called T-mo and they upgraded me to visual voicemail no problem. I still keep everything I had on my old plan and there was no upgrade charge.

In fact, the T-mo guys spent a considerable amount of time looking at my phone call history to see if there was a plan that could save me a bit of money… Nicest guy and great customer service. (Unlike my previous experience with AT&T.)

Love T-mo…

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:31:42 +0000

I downloaded the VVM App, and logged onto t-mobile.com to upgrade data services. All that’s available for me is a 34.99 unlimited android plan that includes unlimited messaging, only problem is I already have unlimited messaging because of our family plan. Should I just give t-mobile a call?

By: Felix M

Felix M — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:39:28 +0000

Can anyone tell me if i have unlimited text will this effect my plan???

PLZZZ I want to know if shud call them so i can finally use VVM!!!! :D

By: Justin2

Justin2 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:50:16 +0000

After downloading the VVM app, I called to “activate” the service. I wasn’t informed of anything about dropping my 400 SMS. I called back, and chalk one up for TMO customer service being #1 again, the service rep was kind enough to keep me on the Android plan, and give me 400 SMS free. So if you do call to change because you want the VVM, try to talk it out with the rep, and you should be able to keep it with no problem.

Part 2 of this post explains an issue I already ran into with VVM. When I first installed the app, I noticed that anything I did outside of VVM, the sound would come out the earpiece. Checked settings and the like, but sound would still only come out of the earpiece. Turns out that VVM has a speakerphone setting that overrides all sound playback in or outside the program, even my ringtone would come through the earpiece instead of the external speaker. Called TMO and asked them to get a bug report to the engineers, so this is getting escalated to them. Just wanted anyone else who has the problem now to know the fix. Just open up VVM, hit menu, go to settings, and put a check in the use speaker option. Your sound should work properly again.

By: Meridyth

Meridyth — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:32:10 +0000

If you keep phone fusion, your account gets charged 1 minute for every voice mail you retrieve. That’s because they have to call Tampa to get your voice mail.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:26:20 +0000

I switched to the android data plan and the operator told me that because I had the 400 included text messages he is able to keep that on the new android plan with no charges. They did this for my phone and my wifes. Not sure if I got lucky with my service rep or what, but it didn’t cost me anything and I kept all of my plan features.

By: Felix M

Felix M — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:02:00 +0000

Sheeeerrrrrpppppaaaa is way to slow.

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:46:38 +0000

Sherpa is pretty cool but similiar to Where as someone said. The switch to visual voicemail was easy and fast. Its not a whole lot of frills but it works well and I’m happy with it

By: doom

doom — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:27:08 +0000

chris, you need to format your ext.3 partition, then do a wipe and flash again. it should work fine.

idk about sherpa but i already have all these features on other applications. youmail works fine as visual voicemail, but no voice to text. gv works well if they call my google voice number. i guess sherpa also has search functionality? i use where, and places. seem to work ok, but could be better i guess.

By: bummer

bummer — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:58:59 +0000

Sherpa is great! Havnt tried vv yet. I’m in US.

By: tim

tim — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:52:32 +0000

is the vvm app a battery killer like youmail?

By: happyface

happyface — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:11:04 +0000

I downloaded this in Canada, and I get no results :(
It just stays at “Discovering your surroundings”
Is this all upkept by users (like urbanspoon) or from Tmobile?

By: Chris Longenecker

Chris Longenecker — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:10:02 +0000

Does anyone else with a rooted phone have problems with My Account 2.0? I’m running Cyanogen 3.6.8.1 and it’s force closing immediately.