iPhone 3GS keeps asking to set up voicemail

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Inazuma

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Hi,
My iphone 3gs keeps asking me to set up voicemail every time I go to the voicemail tab (although only if the Phone app has been closed or the phone restarted). I'm fairly sure this was a problem before iOS4 too.

Anyone know a solution?
 
Mine started doing it as well, iP4 on O2. But then the other day all my signal dropped when I wasn't even holding the phone. Had to switch it off and on again fully to get signal back and since then it's been fine.
 
TRY THIS WORKED FOR ME !

  • Phone O2 voicemail setup on 1750 and wait till you're told your O2 messaging service has been switched on (this step may not be essential)
  • Then phone O2 voicemail itself on 901 and press "*", then "4" for manage your mailbox settings, "4" again for change your security settings, set a new pin (even if it's the same one you had before), confirm the pin, then in the same menu press "2" to enable the pin (meaning you'll now need to enter it in future to access 901)
  • Now on your iphone4 go into "Settings", then "General", then "Reset", choose "Reset all settings" (this will lose your pin, passwords, wifi, background...) but it will retain all apps in order, photos, text messages etc. NOTE: Tried just "Reset Network Settings" first, but this didn't help.
  • Once the phone restarts after the reset, setup any necessary pins or passwords again and check your voicemail tab in the phone app (for me it went straight in, no more annoying setup screen!)
  • Now just tidy up your phone settings to how you like them and redo wifi passwords etc..... You can also go back into 901 and change the pin and turn pin access for 901 off again if you like. NOTE: May take a while for it to detect any voicemails you leave yourself to test it.
 
Try the "reset all settings", but take a backup first. On my IP4 it fixed the voicemail but broke the auto lock time delay (you could only set it to "immediately" which was very annoying as the phone asked for the PIN each time I unlocked it).

There's a supposed fix for the lock delay using apple's profile manager, but it didn't work for me. After a day of mucking around I threw in the towel and set up the phone from scratch which sorted both.

Incidentally, on my IP4 it did this before I jailbroke, so it's not a jailbreak issue.

If you have the issue, you can reproduce it by going into multitasking and ending the Phone app, then going back into it.
 
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