Voicemail

[kmsgli]

Hey recently my pinphone stopped sending me text messages when I get a new voicemail and I have not taken an update or anything. Anyone else having this issue?

I am running Manjaro/Phosh on a pinephone 3gb
T-Mobile service.

I used to get an sms from a strange number like 127 anytime I received a voicemail or called my voicemail to listen to / delete messages.

Thanks.

[wibble]

That's a function that normally happens at the service provider's end, not on the phone itself.

[kmsgli]

That's a function that normally happens at the service provider's end, not on the phone itself.

Agreed but nothing with my service has changed, it was working on my PinePhone a few weeks ago and now it does not.

Not sure what to even trouble shoot?

[wibble]

So if you put the SIM in a different phone you still get the sms notifications?

Do you still receive normal SMS on the PinePhone? Did you do any software updates, or make any other changes to the PinePhone?

[kmsgli]

So if you put the SIM in a different phone you still get the sms notifications?

Do you still receive normal SMS on the PinePhone? Did you do any software updates, or make any other changes to the PinePhone?

Well my other phone has google voicemail (pixel) and that will take over presumably. My old phones never sent voicemail sms notifications they have voicemail apps. The pinephone was the only phone I ever received voicemail sms notifications and my assumption was most carriers sent sms from a specific number or in a specific way that  voicemail apps are able to intercept and generate something better looking then the sms message?

My pinphone receives and sends sms/mms normal. I daily drive my pinephone and have been pretty much since MMS became stable.  I have taken updates as they come out I would imagine I did not notice the voicemail issue until later as not that many people leave voicemails anymore.

Maybe related to the call waiting issue? Maybe no.

[wibble]

ModemManager is the intermediary between the modem and the messaging and voice call apps. The instructions for enabling its debug logs are here:
https://modemmanager.org/docs/modemmanager/debugging/
That should let you see whether it's receiving the voicemail sms notifications at all, and possibly whether the apps are ignoring or deleting them. I've not tried it myself.

There's an open improvement request related to the Visual Voicemail signalling for ModemManager.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-br...issues/429

[kmsgli]

ModemManager is the intermediary between the modem and the messaging and voice call apps. The instructions for enabling its debug logs are here:
https://modemmanager.org/docs/modemmanager/debugging/
That should let you see whether it's receiving the voicemail sms notifications at all, and possibly whether the apps are ignoring or deleting them. I've not tried it myself.

There's an open improvement request related to the Visual Voicemail signalling for ModemManager.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-br...issues/429

That is a very usefully trick, I tested it and did not see anything come in after I left the voicemail but I am not sure because after the call a ton of code happens that I can not make heads or tails of, do you know what specifically I am looking for?

[kmsgli]

ModemManager is the intermediary between the modem and the messaging and voice call apps. The instructions for enabling its debug logs are here:
https://modemmanager.org/docs/modemmanager/debugging/
That should let you see whether it's receiving the voicemail sms notifications at all, and possibly whether the apps are ignoring or deleting them. I've not tried it myself.

There's an open improvement request related to the Visual Voicemail signalling for ModemManager.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-br...issues/429

That is a very usefully trick, I tested it and did not see anything come in after I left the voicemail but I am not sure because after the call a ton of code happens that I can not make heads or tails of, do you know what specifically I am looking for?

So this ones on me. I did not realize at some point the visual voicemail app got deleted and as soon as I reinstalled and ticked the visual voicemail setting on in the app all is working as it should be now.

Thanks for the help not sure when I deleted it but I assume thats when my voicemails stopped.

[bcnaz]

I would like to see an App for on the phone Voicemail, -- and leave the carrier out of the voicemail loop.

[wibble]

I would like to see an App for on the phone Voicemail, -- and leave the carrier out of the voicemail loop.

Back in the openmoko days people did this with asterisk, but that route needed all the telephony to run through asterisk - the 'phone' app would be a SIP client rather than accessing the modem. I'm not sure there's a suitable asterisk channel - we could do with something like chan_modemmanager which I don't think exists. There's chan_domgle for some Huawei USB devices, and chan_mobile for bluetooth connections. but neither are quite what we's need.

It's probably easier to add an auto-answer and recording capability to the phone app.

Of course this won't help if your phone is off, or you've got no signal - in that case only the carrier is in a position to record voicemail.