Voicemail sounds like crap?!

Don't know, how good of a connection did the person leaving the message have when they left it?

Have you tried calling yourself from a landline phone and leaving a message?

Is it all messages? Sound equally as bad on headphones as on speaker?

Then get your phone serviced.

you're not alone. I noticed that my voicemail audio quality decreased a lot around 2.0.2 or 2.1. I just assumed that it was a purpose made tactic on behalf of ATT to save money on storage and transfer costs of voicemail by using a higher data compression on it. I really wish they'd give me an option though. i think I'd prefer to be able to keep 20 good sounding voicemails vs 50 crappy sounding ones.

i think it was around that time that i started getting "your voicemail is 90% full" warnings. i don't know how many minutes of VMs i have, but it seems to tell me it's full a lot more frequently than it used to, so my guess is that they nerfed the mailbox capacity a little too. meh.

I get the same thing and I typically keep my voicemail near empty. I also have been told that my greeting is really soft even when I try yelling into the recording.

Has voicemail always sounded bad or did it just start? It is possible it had a defect when you got it since the voicemail on mine is clear.

while it's certainly a possibility that there is a manufacturing defect at play here which could be further investigated, i'm going to go out on a limb and say that it seems unlikely if other audio, ie: calls sound ok, and only voicemail has quality issues. especially since there seem to be at least a handful of us experiencing it. (it's like my calls are 256k encoded mp3s, but voicemails are only 64k or something)

my guess is still that it's an ATT backend operation, and it may be a decision on a regional basis, or is maybe even more random like the new version of whatever they use to encode VMs just does a crappier job.

Perhaps we should ask where the people experiencing this issue are located. I'm in central indiana.

Have you tried VVM with the 2.2 update? I can't tell any difference but I haven't tried a new call yet.

2.2 update fixed it for me.