iPhone 3G, upgrade to 3.1 now no visual voicemail

I too lost my VVM after the 3.1 upgrade, but after deleting the benm file (man, that was nice while it lasted! Maybe a new one will come out...), I seem to have lost all of the VVM's that were stored :-/ Anyone else have this happen or know how to get them (or the messages that people supposedly left over the past few days) to show up? Thanks!

Thanks Kevon. That worked perfectly.

rockstars solution is what worked for me. Thanks! Glad I didn't have to go through a full restore and that whole nonsense

I did all of this. Updated the with the .ipcc file.

VVM restored... but NOW... I the device becomes a zombie intermittently... no VVM, no incoming calls...can't sent sms, can't make outgoing calls...

a hard restart fixes it for a time, but, eventually it gets zombified again.

Any of you have this problem as well?

there is a discussion here:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2151766&tstart=0

but, I didn't find a clear answer there either.

I tried to reset the network settings and still no VVM. So I did a full restore with iTunes 9. But I did not do it as a NEW PHONE. I restored it from my backup. Still no VVM. So I tried to to reset the network settings on the phone and it worked. Now I have visual VVM!

Keveon Thanks it worked great!!!!!

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mgoldsworthy wrote:
rockstars solution is what worked for me. Thanks! Glad I didn't have to go through a full restore and that whole nonsense

Glad it worked for you. It worked on mine and a friend's iPhones great. I was quite happy we didn't have to restore, either.

Karth Vahlnar wrote:
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Responding to your unedited post - AT&T charges $0.01/KB for data usage without or in excess of plan coverage. 100MB, likely as small fraction of what many have used with tethering hacks, generates a fee of $1024 (1 GB = $10,487.76) - well into the felony theft range. Whether they would criminally prosecute, bill/sue you for what you owe, and terminate your service altogether would be up to them.

I am absolutely sure that is related to firmware 3.1. I hacked my phone and my wife does not. After 3.1 upgrade both have the same problem.

tangucho wrote:
I am absolutely sure that is related to firmware 3.1.

How do you "absolutely" explain the 10s of millions of iPhones that +didn't lose VVM+ with the 3.1 update?

I too have this problem of no visual voicemail after I upgraded to 3.1. Also my phone doesn't show I missed a call. I have not added any tethering hack or any other type of hack to my phone. This had happened to two iPhones of ours in the past couple of days. I went to the apple store and the guy there said it was probably an At&t problem since they were getting their system reading for mms, I do not remember his exact statement.

I've done the reset and full restore as a new phone, and it works for awhile and then I get a voicemail two days late. And the only reason I got the voicemail was because i had switched from 3g to EDGE before I wentto bed.
It would be nice if AT&T/apple would just acknoledge there is a problem. Right now I'm just waiting til the 25th to see if what the guy at the apple store said is true. Until then it's manually checking voicemail for me

Maybe with just some serial numbers affected?? (very common with apple)

Perhaps they did not have the incompatible bit of software that caused a conflict with the 3.1 update resulting in loss of VMM. The fact that not all iPhones were affected does not by itself negate the possibility that the loss of VMM is nevertheless still related to application of the 3.1 update.

Karth Vahlnar wrote:
Perhaps they did not have the incompatible bit of software that caused a conflict with the 3.1 update resulting in loss of VMM. The fact that not all iPhones were affected does not by itself negate the possibility that the loss of VMM is nevertheless still related to application of the 3.1 update.

It may be "related" to the update, but does not appear to be a 3.1 bug. When you say "not all..." your glossing over the fact that this has happened in an extremely minute fraction of iPhones. The great majority posting in this thread (and not very many at that) had installed a tethering hack. The remaining few positing here who claim that their phones have never had unauthorized alteration, even if they represent only 1% of those actually affected, still represent <0.001% of iPhones upgraded to 3.1.

VVM is a feature controlled by the cell carrier, and is installed in the phone via the carrier profile file. If VVM is lost, it's undoubtedly due to curruption of that file, or a local carrier issue.