Help Sending DTMF Tones

[Zekeman]

I make a lot of conference calls where you have to log into a conference using a conference code. On my old phone (Droid Maxx HD), I had these calls setup to dial automagically by placing a semi-colon after the phone number, then the code.

For instance: 800-555-1212;123456 would dial 123456 when I said ok. Saved me a ton of effort, especially when driving.

On my Turbo, this no longer works. When you say ok, it dials the tones so fast as to come out as one tone. Setting the tone length in dialer does nothing. Putting comma's (,) between each number causes the tones to take too long. Does anyone know if there is a fix for this - now, or coming? Is this a dialer issue or the phone?

It's almost as annoying as the inability to simultaneously have voice and data at the same time. Verizon (or Motorola) please fix this.

Thanks,
Zeke

 

[Thom]

To check voicemail I use *86,8888#1 where 8888 us my code. It always works. It dials (*86), enters the code (8888), then requests new voicemails (#1).

... Thom

 

[Zekeman]

Tried that. Didn't work either. 8888 gets sent so fast it comes across as 1, maybe 2 tones.

 

[Thom]

I would not stake my life on it but how about something like ...

*86,8,8,8,8,#,1
or
*86,,8,,8,,8,,8,,#,,1
or
*86,,,8,,,8,,,8,,,8,,,#,,,1

... Thom

 

[Zekeman]

Using comma's will work, but it adds a ton of time between tones and times out if the number being sent is too long.

 

[Thom]

*86,123456

*86,12,34,56
or
*86,123,456

perhaps?

... Thom

 

[doogald]

I haven't tried this myself, because I have no automated systems to try it on, but what happens if you use "w" rather than a semicolon? Does that work?

If not, there may be a third party dialer app that works.

 

[hansangb]

I just tried it on the stock dialer, with the "add wait" which adds the ";" and it worked. But even if you cut and paste the number with a semi-colon, it works for me just fine.

On Verizon Build Number SU2-12 System Version 21.44.12 quark_verizon.verizon.en.US

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