Getting rid of the voicemail notification without having to dial

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Getting rid of the voicemail notification without having to dial

asked 2017-06-28 11:39:09 +0300

cferr
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The title explains it all. I'm wondering why, in Sailfish like in some mobile OSs, when you've got voicemail, you basically can't get rid of the notification until you dial the voicemail number and listen to all the messages.

There are two things here:

Usually, the voicemail I receive is just unwanted. Plus, I get charged for dialing the voicemail number (and I have to wait for the messages to be listened to for at least 5 seconds per message to have them marked as "read", but this is operator-dependent).
I also receive my voicemail via e-mail as an attachment. There, it's free to listen to it -and I can filter my e-mail as I like.

Would there be a trick that helps me getting rid of this voicemail icon ? Or any rationale that explains the developers' choice not to let users clear it ?

Cheers,

CF.

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answered 2017-06-28 20:20:46 +0300

cferr
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I received some comment indicating that no phone (to its author's knowledge) was providing such a functionality. Perhaps this is true, I don't remember how it was on other phones. For an unknown reason, this comment isn't shown here.

However, this icon is an UI element, that somehow is controlled by the phone's UI code. After some lookup it seems it's triggered by a SIM flag obtainable through

dbus-send --system --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.ofono /ril_0  org.ofono.MessageWaiting.GetProperties

(cf. here https://together.jolla.com/question/8779/no-notification-when-new-voicemail/)

A smart idea would be the ability to clear the notification, and have it pop up again when the message counter increases... wouldn't it ?

Things like this do exist for android phones: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=inflames.com.removedor

Unless there's a standard that imposes having this icon laying around, I don't see so far why it should be treated unlike other notifications -and with the user having no control over it, do you ?

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I'm in a situation where I can't call my voicemail but I would like to delete the notification anyway. is there a way to ask the commandline to reset the "voicemailWaiting" boolean to false manually ? I can't find it any infos on this =(

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