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Extend ring time before caller is sent to voice mail

As most of you’ve noticed the Samsung Epix forces “increasing ringtones” which can make it difficult to hear your Epix ring, causing you to scramble to answer your phone, only to have it go to voicemail before you can pick up.

Here’s a trick to extend the ring time before the caller is sent to voice mail, which will hopefully give you the extra seconds needed to answer your phone.

  • Start > Settings > Personal tab > Phone > Services tab
  • Select “Call Forwarding” from the list and press “Get Settings…”
  • In the “No answer” section, change the value of the “Foward after” to “30 seconds”

Now you have an extra 10 seconds of ring time before incoming calls are forwarded to Voicemail – its not much, but its better than the default 20 seconds!

Thanks tooreamnos and tvuong for noticing this!

7 Responses to “Extend ring time before caller is sent to voice mail”

  1. groltz Says:
    June 23rd, 2009 at 4:22 pm

    My wife keeps telling me I’m wasting my precious time on games, then I just tell her to shut up =D

  2. RJ Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    I’ve tried this a few times and I keep getting an error message telling me

    Cannot save your changes to the network. Try changing settings later, or disconnect data connection and try again. Please advise.

    Thanks!

  3. Video Sharing Script Says:
    October 17th, 2009 at 9:29 am

    Hi,

    I have just read your post and would be grateful if you could tell me where the information came from ?

    Thanks and keep up the good work.

  4. Anonymous Says:
    November 7th, 2009 at 4:25 am

    Hi,

    Thanks! This worked for me without a problem.

  5. burke Says:
    November 23rd, 2009 at 8:06 pm

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  6. Stan Says:
    January 9th, 2010 at 7:34 pm

    I have the same problem as RJ above…

    The message “Cannot save your settings to the network. Try changing settings later, or disconnect data connection and try again” comes up after clicking OK.

    Any advise would be appreciated…

  7. David Says:
    May 16th, 2010 at 1:36 pm

    Not only DID this work, I put my family’s other sim cards in my Epix and changed their network settings to the 30 sec. option.

    Then I put their sim cards back in their flip phones and the settings remained at 30 sec. in their devices.

    I love it! I think AT&T made a mistake for themselves by not disabling this utility.

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