This afternoon all is well with my Hero and in the Notification box comes a little reel to reel notice. I scroll it down and it it says "A mandatory update is not available" for voice mail. When you click it the download automatically starts and you get a new voice mail application on your phone advertising a free one month voice mail to text service. Before I could cancel it, it was done. So I poke through it to see what I have now and it's a big advertising push from Sprint giving you a 30 day free trial and after that you have to cancel it if you don't want it. Well I don't want it NOW! Plus there is an advertising banner NOW on your voice mail screen that you CAN NOT get rid of! I spent 40 minutes with Sprint tech support and the bottom line was reset my phone and loose everything and rebuild the phone from scratch. This is NEVER and option for me. I accidentally pressed the activate button with the tech trying to get rid of this and now my phone will do a day by day 30 day count down. Lucky for me as my phone is rooted and I restored to an earlier version. But still I can't get rid of this icon in the notification area unless I install this download.
Be very careful. If this is what you want then go after it but if you want Sprint putting more junk on your phone then beware.
I don't have a solution for this but just putting the warning out there..........
Be very careful. If this is what you want then go after it but if you want Sprint putting more junk on your phone then beware.
I don't have a solution for this but just putting the warning out there..........