More phone help please

[Piglet]

I'm passing my Orange Nokia 6230i onto my Dad as he doesn't qualify for any upgrades.

Currently if I get voicemail, it brings up the indicator, I press the button and it goes straight into my voicemail account. Does anyone know how I can reprogramme this so that it goes into his voicemail?

(he's using my last old nokia and spends quite a lot of time going into my voicemail rather than his because he can't work it out! He is 72!)

Cheers

[road2ruin]

Its been a long time since I have seen one of these but it can be done. You need to go into settings and either message setting or call settings. You will find a space that says voicemail number, go into that and change it to his service providors voice mail number.

[Podie]

road2ruin is correct. Might be worth digging out the Nokia manual (on their site?) as this will have the menus all listed...

[Piglet]

Ah ha good thinking. I've printed all the manual - all 114 pages of it so will peruse it.

Thanks chaps - hopefully this'll work - he has enough trouble working new phones anyway bless him!

[Piglet]

Ahh actually I've just re-read your response.

He's also on Orange so it's the same number to call voicemail but at the moment it goes straight into my voicemail and I want to be able to point it as the voicemail for his phone number rather than mine (does that make sense?)

[Podie]

Piglet said:

Ahh actually I've just re-read your response.

He's also on Orange so it's the same number to call voicemail but at the moment it goes straight into my voicemail and I want to be able to point it as the voicemail for his phone number rather than mine (does that make sense?)

That's determined by the SIM card, not the phone. You need to put HIS SIM into the phone.

[Piglet]

Ahh OK, he's using his existing SIM in my previous old phone and it still phoned my voicemail....I wonder if he needs a new SIM his is probably years old as we just hand phones down to him.

I'll give his SIM a go in the phone this weekend and see how it works out this time.

[Podie]

Piglet said:

Ahh OK, he's using his existing SIM in my previous old phone and it still phoned my voicemail....I wonder if he needs a new SIM his is probably years old as we just hand phones down to him.

I'll give his SIM a go in the phone this weekend and see how it works out this time.

Might well be the case. Each time I've upgraded I've been given a new SIM...

[road2ruin]

I would say the best thing to do in thsi case is to hit the factory reset on the phone because it is obviously remembering some kind of old setting. If you go into settings again you will find (somewhere) it says master reset. Hit this and confirm and all should be well. Get a new sim anyway as they can get a bit twitchy after time.