Don't Back Down

Not actual voice mail, mind you, but a persistent voice mail indicator. To those who are familiar with it, it's a stutter-tone when you pick up the line. Many phones (including our Uniden) have a voice mail indicator on it that apparently interacts with that signal somehow.

There are two pieces here. One is if you have a stutter tone and one is if you don't. If the former, then Vonage thinks you have voice mail, and apparently it does so pretty regularly - even if you don't. The most common occurence of this that I have seen is if I listen and delete messages through the web.

Often, simply visiting the Trash folder after the first deletion, and deleting them again, will have the desire effect and you will have no more stutter tone.

Unfortunately, sometimes it continues. In this case, the only reliable solution I have found is to leave myself a new voice mail, then use the phone to listen to the message and delete it. At this point, the stutter tone will invariably go away (it has for me, at any rate).

If the problem is that you don't have a stutter tone, but have an indicator on the actual phone, you'll need to visit your friendly user manual. In the case of our Uniden phone, holding in the flash/find hs button for a few seconds actually resets this indicator. Unfortunately, doing this only resets your phone - and if the stutter tone is still there, it will come right back on shortly.