How To Fix AT&T iPhone Visual Voicemail Notification Alerts
iPhone Visual Voicemail Notification Fix
One of the most frustrating and surprisingly under reported issues is with AT&T and iPhone Visual Voicemail notifications. When you receive a voicemail on your iPhone, an alert appears and you can play your voicemail as if its a song. There is now a solution!
Since the iPhone 3GS was released, some customers experienced lack of alerts for voicemail (me being one of them). I recently found a fix for it while I was researching tethering for 3GS. Apparently, tethering your iPhone may cause this issue.
So here’s the fix. Navigate to Settings → General → Network → Cellular Data Network and within the Visual Voicemail section add “acds.voicemail” into the APN field. Your visual voicemail will now work once again.
CAUTION: This fix does break the tethering. You can’t have voicemail notifications and Internet tethering work at the same time.
Via Apple Blog
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Can you simply put back wap.cingular when you want to use tethering under 3.0 or does changing the voicemail text to acds break the tethering once in for all?
I don t mind having to manually type wap.cingular everytime I need tethering…I just don t want to update to 3.1 since it breaks 3.1
I am already paying for a data plan I don t see why I should pay another $60+ per month to enable tethering.
Do at your own risk
My 3GS doesn’t have a Celluar Data Network option under Network. Is there another way to do this fix?