I think that everyone here or that has ever flashed a CM rom will agree that one thing they hated above all is the persistent Ghost voicemail icon that can only be removed by either clearing data in the phone app (and after every reboot), or the fix in which you can call Sprint to activate a dumb phone, leaving yourself a message and then clearing the voicemails, then reactivating your smartphone.
As you guys know, i search every devices sections, testing and trying out different mod's/apk's/zip's in hope that it would benefit us all, today i'd like to bring to you......a modified Phone.apk which will get rid of the notification altogether, both the Icon and Notification in the pulldown menu.
*For those of us who have the Sprint VVM installed, it wont mess up the notifications for them.
Screenshot
1. The modified Phone info
2. Showing that Sprint VVM notifications still show up after the Modified phone.apk is applied.
3. Took a screenshot right after a Reboot to show no notification at boot.
(Obviously i guess i cant prove this was right after a reboot but take my word for it, feel free to flame if you think otherwise)
Make a Nandroid Backup just in case, I'm not responsible if something messes up your phone.
TESTED AND WORKING ON Jokers CM9 3.3
EDIT: Not working on MIUI
Instructions
1. Go to 'manage apps' / Navigate to 'Phone' and press "Clear data'
2. Download modified Phone.apk
3. Using Root Explorer with 'R/W' set (or similar app), go to your 'system/app' folder and backup the phone.apk or rename with '.bak' extention.
4. Move downloaded Phone.apk from the download location to your 'system/app' folder.
5. Make sure to change the permissions to match the other apps in the folder.
6. Close Root Explorer and reboot into Recovery
7. Go to 'Advanced' and press on 'Fix Permissions' and then reboot phone.
8. Enjoy not having that $%$*&# notification anymore
Big thanks to
JusticeAA for the Mod
tbob18 for making it into an .APK
Happy Modding
As you guys know, i search every devices sections, testing and trying out different mod's/apk's/zip's in hope that it would benefit us all, today i'd like to bring to you......a modified Phone.apk which will get rid of the notification altogether, both the Icon and Notification in the pulldown menu.
*For those of us who have the Sprint VVM installed, it wont mess up the notifications for them.
Screenshot
1. The modified Phone info
2. Showing that Sprint VVM notifications still show up after the Modified phone.apk is applied.
3. Took a screenshot right after a Reboot to show no notification at boot.
(Obviously i guess i cant prove this was right after a reboot but take my word for it, feel free to flame if you think otherwise)
Make a Nandroid Backup just in case, I'm not responsible if something messes up your phone.
TESTED AND WORKING ON Jokers CM9 3.3
EDIT: Not working on MIUI
Instructions
1. Go to 'manage apps' / Navigate to 'Phone' and press "Clear data'
2. Download modified Phone.apk
3. Using Root Explorer with 'R/W' set (or similar app), go to your 'system/app' folder and backup the phone.apk or rename with '.bak' extention.
4. Move downloaded Phone.apk from the download location to your 'system/app' folder.
5. Make sure to change the permissions to match the other apps in the folder.
6. Close Root Explorer and reboot into Recovery
7. Go to 'Advanced' and press on 'Fix Permissions' and then reboot phone.
8. Enjoy not having that $%$*&# notification anymore
Big thanks to
JusticeAA for the Mod
tbob18 for making it into an .APK
Happy Modding
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