![]() Then check to make sure that your voicemail icon is displaying correctly. Start by Clearing your Phone ApplicationĪccess your phones Settings (you can do this by going to your phones Home page and then clicking the Menu Key), once your Settings are open find and open the Application manager, scroll to ALL, tap on Phone, and then tap Clear data. Note: voicemails should be stored by your wireless service provider and you shouldn’t lose any important voicemails by clearing the phone or voicemail app data. This next suggestion will reset the settings and data on the application(s) and should not cause you to lose any voicemail messages that are stored on your wireless carrier’s server. A quick cleaning can often be very effective at resolving this issue on your Android cell phone. This might be a small hiccup on the Phone or Voicemail application itself. Thanks again for the suggestion Milton! Note: Milton’s post can be read HERE. ![]() If it solves the problem, enjoy, if not then proceed with the advice below. ![]() I suggest leaving a test voicemail and rebooting your cell phone if necessary. Then go back to your home page and make sure that your voicemail notification is functioning properly. Just make sure that “Show notifications” is check marked again as you’ll want to know when you get new voicemail messages. Press Ok which will remove the checkmark and disable this setting once it’s disabled press the option again to enable it. You may get a warning letting you know that if you do this then you may miss important alerts for this app. To access the “Show notifications” setting in your voicemail application you need to access your cell phones Settings, find and open the Application manager (sometimes located under the “More” tab on many Android smartphones), make sure that all of the apps are showing (you may need to scroll over a few pages if the current apps displayed are under the list of “Downloaded” apps), once you see the list of ALL your apps scroll down and find the Voicemail application, tap to open it and then deselect the Show notifications option. Re-enable the voicemail notificationsĭisabling and then re-enabling the “show notification” option under the voicemail app settings was a wonderful suggestion submitted by Milton (a site visitor) and I liked this suggestion so much that I felt I needed to add it to this guide as one of the first things to try when troubleshooting the voicemail notification on an Android cell phone. If your phone is still showing a voicemail message and there is no voicemail waiting in your inbox then proceed to the next step. You have probably done this a hundred times already, but triple check after power cycling (powering off and on) your phone. This will help keep your phone running smoothly. Keeping your phone on indefinitely can cause some funny issues, especially false notifications, so don’t forget to power your phone off every couple of days for a few minutes and let it rest. Sometimes we forget that our phones need to rest too. Has the Voicemail icon on your Android phone been showing a new voicemail notification when there is no new voicemail or any voicemail messages in your inbox? This can be a pretty annoying issue so here are some tips to get your voicemail notifications working correctly again.
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