Mid-afternoon gripe: delayed voice mail on the iPhone
It's happened to me twice in two days now: a voice mail shows up on my iPhone 30 minutes to an hour after someone tried to call me. Though the call never initially came through.
Yesterday, a delivery person called me to say he was waiting in front of my house, and he sounded irritated that I wasn't there. "I left you a voice mail," he said. Well I didn't get it, I shot back. Did you call this number? I asked.
Ten minutes later, while driving to the house, I got the voice mail. And I felt sheepish.
Then, just now, at 3:20 p.m., I got a sudden iPhone flash that I missed my wife's call and a voice mail popped up. The call was timed at 2:19 p.m. But I got the voice mail an hour later.
Apple and AT&T forums are rife with discussion on this topic. So, is this an AT&T problem or an Apple problem? Maybe someone from each of the companies can help clear this up for BaltTech readers??
(Hehe. Yeah, and monkeys will fly out of my ... whatever. You know.)
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Comments
I have had a grip with them for the past week. There have been two days now after getting a new phone that I recieve text messages hours after they are sent, cannot send out text message and no email is being pushed when i manually go to retrieve it.
I am hoping all these problems are only due to the fact that they are working "hard" i hope on getting Multimedia support to work bu the 25 and smoothly. From what I have interacted with the last week I hope it is smooth!
Posted by: Javier Rios | September 16, 2009 4:00 PM
I believe it's an AT&T problem, because I had that same issue with my old phone (which wasn't an iPhone).
Posted by: Daniel | September 16, 2009 4:15 PM
I have that problem, but it comes in fits and spurts. It'll be off for a day or three, and then fine for five weeks. I've also had my phone not ring a few times and go straight to VM, which is equally as annoying.
Posted by: Mary | September 16, 2009 5:06 PM
I have the same irritating issues. Looks like we're all in this together, at least until we can choose a carrier other than AT&T, whenever that day comes.
Posted by: Jeff Davis | September 17, 2009 6:21 AM
I'm glad to hear it wasn't just me. I work in a steel building that blocks most of my signal so I tend to associate issues with that. However...
I've had the problems you've described intermittently for a few weeks now.
Posted by: bryanintimonium | September 17, 2009 8:25 AM
This is an AT&T issue. I called Apple tech support when it started happening a month or so ago in Georgia. We troubleshooted through all of the related systems. No luck.
Then I called AT&T tech support. They told me they were in the process of doing upgrades to the network and I needed to restart my phone every hour or so to "resync" with the network. It seemed to work, but for about 2 weeks there, communication with me was nearly impossible. AT&T issued me a refund accordingly.
Posted by: Grant Sinclair | September 17, 2009 6:23 PM