Visual voicemail on Mint Mobile

indusvo

As some of you know I lost my P6P and bought a P7P and trying to setup visual voicemail with Mint Mobile.

I remember tweaking my P6P to setup VVM and MMS with GrapheneOS. I thought that was partly due to remanence of TMobile settings on my GrapheneOS.

Does anyone use Mint Mobile with GrapheneOS and have VVM enabled?

spammerofspam

indusvo Are you trying to use the visual voicemail feature on the dialer, or does Mint Mobile have a separate app?

If you're using the dialer, it doesn't work for many people, because it tries to use a deprecated authorization method that some providers reject. There's a long discuss about this on the GitHub, in which other users report it not working on Mint. https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1951

H7oUt

Are you behind a VPN? I can't ever get visual voicemail when behind any VPN.

indusvo

H7oUt No, I am not on VPN when I tried to setup the VVM (I was able to get VVM behind VPN on my old Graphene phone)

indusvo

spammerofspam Thanks! I will check this out.
I am using the Phone app that came with the OS.

spammerofspam

indusvo No problem!

I'm in the same boat, though I'm on T-Mobile. My solution has just been to use T-Mobile's VVM app. I switched to GOS a little over two years ago, and VVM from the dialer has never worked for me. But the carrier app works fine (if a bit crummy).

5rlyn

spammerofspam this was also my solution. There definitely WAS a time where I used VVM in the Dialer app on Graphene, but it hasn't worked for some time.

indusvo

5rlyn Yep. I used VVM on dialer app for little over two years until my P6P gave up and died. Now that I have a new phone P7P, the VVM is not working on dialer.

indusvo

5rlyn is there any VVM app for Mint Mobile? I don't seem to find one on Aurora store.

DirtyDan

Maybe not the most ideal privacy choice, but you can also setup conditional call forwarding so that voicemails get redirected to another service such as Google Voice, YouMail, etc. Google Voice does Visual voicemail and it's very convenient to have voicemails backed up rather than having to figure out how to move them whenever I change phones or SIM cards.

If anyone knows of a privacy respecting alternative, please chime in. I've been using Google Voice both for voicemail and as a backup line for 2FA codes where I'm forced to use SMS. It works really well, but one less google spp in my life is usually a good thing.

ironuckles

DirtyDan Can you please share information about how you set up Google Voice as the VVM option on a Mint Mobile phone with Graphene OS? I am facing the same scenario and cannot figure out how to use any Visual Voicemail option on a Pixel 9a with Graphene OS and Mint Mobile.