3G on Rogers/Canada ; How to increase #of rings before voicemail answers

From my experience with cell providers. The cell provider was always able to change these settings on the back side. Ranging from go right to voicemail, to setting it to the longest ring-time of on average 30 seconds.


Not sure why Rogers is not able to do this. Could be due to hardware limitations on their end and may or may not be a feature added at a later date.


You can attempt to email their support or maybe be asked for another department.

try this it works with Fido maybe Rogers.

*61*3436*25# for 25 sec you can change this number 5 10 15 20 25 30 sec



Then dail 0043436#

If this doesn't work 3436 has to be change call rodger.
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My bad - though I didn't know until I read your post that Rogers must have changed their system since I left Nelson. Standard GSM codes worked for me a few years ago - I heard rumors then that Rogers might change to a backline system, and they likely have. I called up Rogers WS services a minute ago and they've got a bunch of services they didn't have before - I'd love to have unlimited voicemail-to-text for $6 and WhoCalled? for $3! - that would make sense with a backline server setup. Bummer, eh?

From what I read of your post, it seems as though you didn't miss any part of the code. A quick chat with a friend got me up to date, it's been that way for a bit and it sounds like that there's more than a few people not too happy about it... Sorry about the bum lead! According to my buddy, there's no damage you could have done to your set up.

I'll stay on subject but get off the topic - have you considered a different ringtone? Stay with me. I use a custom ringtone, a Garageband sound called "Cell Phone Ringing" in the Library>Audio>Apple Loops>iLife Sound Effects>Work-Home directory. But, I was missing a few calls - I noted that the ringtone was starting a few seconds after the line started ringing - but it's one sound I can hear from anywhere in the house!

I solved my dilemma by creating a new ringtone from that Apple Sound by cropping the white space at the beginning of the copy of the Sound file I imported into Garageband, and cropped out the second part of the Sound file - the original sound file had two "rings" with white space before the first "ring", in between all three "rings" in the original Sound file, and after the second and third "rings", creating a 4-second new ringtone from the original 17 second Sound file. I've seen a few variations on what I've done, and there's a ringtone that's close that you can try out at the following link (I saw it in another thread I posted in a while back):

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/11293/iPhone_ringtone.m4r - it's still active, however, there's a tiny bit of a delay at the beginning that isn't in the file I created. That's all I've got for you, aside from switching to Fido...
Take care and good luck!

Heinz, the new ringtone didn't extend the period of time, however, think of what I did this way:

The phone receives a prompt to ring.
*The ringtone I created has no delay from the beginning of the sound file to the time that it begins making sound, therefore, the iPhone starts ringing as soon as possible.
*The ringtone I created has a fairly loud initial "burst" of sound; the default ringtone on my iPhone was "Marimba", which progressively gets louder as the sound file is played by the iPhone - I sometimes wouldn't hear the iPhone until halfway through the second "ring".
*The ringtone I created has about 4 seconds of dead air space after the sound terminates - for each ring, I have about 4 to 5-odd seconds counting against me. The ringtone is loud enough so I can hear it from quite some distance away and has a "response time" optimized so that I have enough time to get to it (if I want to, that is?)

I custom-edited the ringtone (and a couple of others) so that I know that I have 6 rings before my caller gets voicemail. Still with me?

With AT&T, I get a period of time - 5-30 seconds. I set my ringtones to 5 seconds - 1 second of noise, 4 seconds of air: 6 rings and I miss the call.

What I don't know about Rogers - if its actually four ring signals to the phone, I'd work with that. Why not a 16-second-long ringtone? More to the point, call Rogers and find out what the period between ring signals is, then set up your custom ringtones to exactly that period, minus 1/2 second for each ring. In other terms, if Rogers tells you that each ring signal sent to the phone is 6 seconds, create one or more custom ringtones about 5-1/2 seconds long - you'll know right about when you'll miss your call and it's gone to VM. Work the system!

I'm checking out a docking setup - http://www.phonelabs.com/prd05.asp - a couple of good write ups are around the web, a few - meh.

One tip I can offer. I learned with my VZ Treo, with it's speaker on its back, I leave the phone's speaker facing out when it's in my pocket. The iPhone? Always in my pocket upside-down now - the speaker's facing up and toward my ears when it's in my pocket! About that belt clip? You're on your own there, Heinz!

Have a two-four of Molson (or your choice) with some friends. You're in Lotus Land! Good luck, hoser!
Chris

Heinz, read my post at:

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7995985#7995985

*61 codes work for Fido and Rogers - they're standard GSM codes and worked for me.

sounds like you are getting the run around...perhaops they just arent capable of doing it, since AT&T(USA) can

that not true call rogers 5 times you will get 5 answer. My friend has 5 rings on this 3G phone. It works on Fido and Rogers is the same company. Call and ask for the tech department.