Too long for me to wait. Switched my eSIM over to another phone tonight. Thanks for looking that up @kirkmahoneyphd. Time to put the Kompackt into storage.
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Thanks for clarifying. Yes, I always assume that when a company references any quarter to delivery anything, it’ll be at the 11th hour.
For now, I’m really holding myself back switching my sim back to my smart phone. The MK just won’t stfu. The mystery ding dong sounds are driving me batty. I find myself turning the volume off completely, which means I miss SMS/Signal messages.
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New Kompakt user here. Given this thread and others like it, I was fully shook when I received a new voicemail notification today. My carrier is a T-Mobile MVNO (US Mobile), and I’m running KompaktX which handles notifications. Clicking the notification from the KompaktX notification tray opens the dialer and calls my voicemail number. This is great. Does this not work for others?
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I have never understood the fixation of voicemail notifications.
The Kompakt tells you when you have a missed call, and you dial your carriers number to check for any messages and listen / respond accordingly. I have been doing this since I’ve owned a mobile phone. I really don’t see it as an issue
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Because it eliminates unnecessary calls to check for non-existent messages.
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I am with you. I mean, it is nice to have and I am looking forward to the release BUT…I just check my voicemails in the evening. It is nice not to feel ‘rushed.’ I get the voicemails. I can also see who tried to call. If I see my father called, I will check voice right away - but he is the exception.
At first, I was more annoyed. Over time, I’m 100% calm. Just to say, nice to have but once you realize it is not a must have, life is pretty good.
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Exactly my point, if you have a call from a key person in your life, you check for a message, you have the number in your contacts, it takes maybe 5 seconds. if you get more than one call from an unknown number you check for a message. It really is that simple. Some people will never shake the smartphone mindset
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Using text message as a notifier sounds like a good solution . How did you set that up? It may help those who are unhappy with the way the Kompakt works at present
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I will admit, when I was trying to figure out LP3 v Kompakt during the early days, circa April 25, I found lack of notification off putting and for a while that made me tilt 3. It wasn’t until after the summer of 2025 that I found myself always reaching for the Kompakt and the “stress” brought on by lack of notification went away.
Now I only use the Kompakt and got rid of my iOS device. Life is much calmer.
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One of the things that I’ve noticed, after moderating the forum all these years, is that we all have different habits when it comes to phone use.
The GREAT thing is that VM notifications are coming in the next update 
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One of the goals of the MK was to reduce the amount of time people spend on their phone. If I have to unlock my phone, dial my voicemail, and check my messages every time I get a missed call instead of just seeing if I have a voicemail notification, that means I’m spending more time on the phone, not mention how incredibly annoying that is.
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I get a tone and an sms informing me I have a voicemail, the sms includes a link to the voicemail service, there is no need for me to have phone notify me also …. It has always been this way on all the phones I have owned and all the cell providers I have used including my iPhone. This would indicate it’s a problem with your service provider not the Kompakt
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Hi! I got the update and voicemail works just fine for me! I am notified now, and when I tap Voicemail in Recent calls, my voicemail server is called, just like with old dump phones. Thank you so much for having implemented this!
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Given the number of complaints about this issue in the forums, it seems this isn’t a one provider issue, it’s a widespread problem, especially in the US. You saying that you don’t experience it so therefore it’s not a problem is basically like saying you ate dinner yesterday so world hunger has been solved.
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I am still trying to figure out the new VM method on the Kompakt - I only use the Kompakt for outgoing calls but I have another phone number SIM… Less annoying VM solution I found is to forward my calls to my flip phone number - the flip phone is only for forwarded incoming calls.
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I didn’t say because it works for me there isn’t a problem. I said every mobile phone I have owned works exactly the same way as the Kompakt does for me now.
I’m not in the USA, so I’m not using the same networks as you. What I’m suggesting is you contact your provider and ask why it works for other providers in other countries and not yours.
There seems to be a few quirks in the way USA phones work that we don’t have Europe.
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@bone_naga: You do NOT have to contact your U.S. cellular-service provider to “ask why it works for other providers in other countries and not yours.”
All U.S. cellular carriers have followed voicemail-notification and -access standards in the USA for more than two decades.
Here is more about how the notification standard works and what Mudita had to implement in MuditaOS K 1.6.0 to meet this standard:
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You do not have to do anything, it was a merely a suggestion, that the provider may be able to help at their end. I once had an American palm pre which wouldn’t work properly in the UK, my service provider were able to change a setting and get it working for me.
As I said in my post USA as with many things, are different, ie like insisting on clinging to imperial units of measure, when the rest of the world are metric.
Not sure if you saying Mudita has made the changes to meet the US standard or that should have, I’ think I saw someone in the US posted that they had voicemail notifications. if it’s the case that changes were made for the latest update it didn’t work for all, and people are still complaining on this forum about no VM notification.
Either way I really don’t see the harm in calling the service provider and asking if they can help it’s ten minutes from your life.
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