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How to forward or save already-saved voicemails to land line or computer or email?

I'm desperately trying to solve this problem: I have about 20 saved voice mails on my HTC Thunderbolt. They're important and need to be saved as some kind of voice file that another person can hear (either a WAV file or MP3 or whatever). If I could find a way to forward them to my Verizon home phone, I could email myself the voice files from Verizon's online system. But nothing has worked so far.

It's possible that Verizon's Visual Voicemail (which I have not yet subscribed to) would solve this problem. However, I do not want to lose the already saved voicemails! If I subscribe now, will my saved voicemails be saved?? It appears that Visual Voicemail would allow me to send a voicemail to my email address... but I haven't found confirmation that I'll be able to do that with already-saved messages.

Here's what I've already tried: I tried to forward a call I want to save (from my Thunderbolt) to my Verizon home phone. It refuses to forward. I'm doing everything correctly, but after talking to a Verizon rep., they said it appears you can only forward from a mobile phone to a mobile phone!! This seems very odd... it seems the technology should be available to forward a message to a land line! If so, I haven't yet found it. If I find it, that would most likely solve my problem. I was successful in forwarding the call to my spouse's mobile phone, so that info. may indeed be correct. It seems rather crazy though.

I have also looked into voice recording apps. They only appear to work with future calls, not saved messages. So again, I would simply try Visual Voicemail, but I'm very fearful of losing these important messages. I need them for a relative's medical reasons. I hope someone can help me out! Thanks in advance if so... (P.S. I also looked into a company Verizon suggests that will save voicemails to mp3 or CD for you, but it's very expensive! It would cost me upwards of $60.)

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Ann154

This is the company who is authorized by Verizon Wireless to make copies of voicemails for their customers.

http://cbwproductions.com/

tikibar1

alilabasc wrote:
(P.S. I also looked into a company Verizon suggests that will save voicemails to mp3 or CD for you, but it's very expensive! It would cost me upwards of $60.)

An alternative provided by is in this thread:

https://community.verizonwireless.com/message/946375#946375

alilabasc

Yup. It's not cheap though. Kinda ridiculous, actually.

alilabasc

Yup, his second suggestion is the same company I and the first replier mentioned, CBW. I could try his first suggestion, using my headphone jack & going to computer, although it didn't sound ideal when I read about that elsewhere. I guess at this point my main question is, "IF I opt to get Verizon's Visual Voice, will that make me lose my already-saved voicemails?" and secondly, "Will Verizon's Visual Voice allow me to send already-saved voicemails to my email?"

tikibar1

Yes, I knew you already knew about CBW ... I was referring to his first suggestion.

Others more familiar can chime in here, but I would imagine that if you switch to Visual Voicemail, that you'd either lose your currently saved voicemails or they wouldn't be accessible via Visual Voicemail. You may want to contact Customer Service and ask.

rcschnoor

I agree with tikibar1 that you will most likely lose all of your saved voicemails if you now subscribe to Visual Voicemail.

srsellstrom

I have several saved voicemails to my phone number. I installed Visual Voicemail and did not lose any saved messages. I have voicemails dated back for YEARS that are still saved and I've had half a dozen phones in the process, all of which I've installed Visual Voicemail and never lost a single one. My problem is STILL that I cannot get them saved to a computer either. I've tried using a 3.5mm auxiliary cord plugged into the headphone jack of my phone and microphone jack of my computer and using Window's sound recorder, which works...BUT the sound quality is definitely construed and sounds like an electronic voice rather than how the voicemail originally sounded. I'm still searching for a better way to store these important voicemails.

srsellstrom

Once you get Visual Voicemail you will be able to forward them to an email address. However, I use Gmail and for some reason it doesn't allow me to use Gmail to forward the messages.

mnkywp

I was not about to pay CBW. No way.

After trying three different free methods (phone to phone, aux cord, jambox) I came across the VOIP method using Skype. It cost me 6 cents (Skypes makes you buy credits). Passing along this post for a step by step detailed how-to http://stuarte.co/2013/save-voicemails-mp3-verizon/

Essentially you need to install skype, install a free sound recorder for skype, call your voicemail and record. Wham bam slam It spits it out as an MP3.

lghkiwi

I found a this way to save my voice mail to my computer.

And it was all free and worked great.

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57449803-285/transfer-memorable-voice-mails-to-your-computer-with-a-simple-audio-trick/

It is a c-net video. I just had to install Audacity a free audio recording and editing program, and buy a mini to mini aux cable. Before I had bought the aux cable I even followed the video instructions by playing the voice mail out loud for my computer mic to pick up the sound and record it into Audacity. I followed the instructions and it worked perfectly and I can now listen to the voice mail on my laptop.

I only had one voice mail to save, it was the excited voice of my son telling me he had been accepted into MIT.

TheNuttyProfessor

This was very easy. I just did a Google search. You have to buy a memory card "MicroSD" of reasonable size, say 16GB now less than $10 (or whatever card your phone takes). When you download and activate Visual Voice Mail all your currently SAVED messages are downloaded onto your phone on the MicroSD card automatically (alternately, they may download onto your phones built-in memory). You then use a USB cable to connect your computer to the phone, and select on the phone "USB DRIVE" to mount the MicroSD card as a hard drive. Then Click on "My Computer" and look for the mounted hard drive ("Blackberry" "Droid" etc) look for a hidden(shaded) folder "vvm" this has QCP files in it on a CDMA phone (not sure what they are on GSM phone). Drag the whole vvm folder onto your hard drive and all sound digital files will copy over. Then go to Qualcomm site and download "PureVoice" player, install it and then you can hear the QCP files. You can save them as WAV files, or download free programs to convert QCP to MP3 files. Also you can select "Archive" and save vvm directory files to another "non-hidden" folder on the MicroSD card, but that is just the same file. Hope I didn't forget any steps!

TheNuttyProfessor

The above procedure may not be the same in all coverage areas or with different versions of software. Also the Qualcomm engineers evidently did not include "envelope information" as metadata in the QCP file spec (as is done in MP3 files) so there is no record of when the voice mail file was sent, or the caller ID from which it came. You must transfer this info to the name of the sound file manually from the Visual Voice Mail screen for each message.

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