My phone won't call voicemail

The messages are stored on Verizon hardware (and maybe by some other organizations that keep tabs on everyone). Contact Verizon and ask if they could give you a recording. They may want payment for the service.

call the phone company

Try resetting the all the handsets by removing all the batteries for one minute. Then, put them back in and try it. This may reset the units. Also, check the batteries to make sure they are still good. You don't mention what kind of handset you have, but I think many of the different brands have built in voicemail. Are you sure you are not using the service voicemail instead of the handset voicemail?

You can actually call your voice mail from a home phone and not use minutes. Any time you use your cell phone, whether someone calls you, or you call them, it counts as minutes to your plan. You should be able to see the actual voicemail number in your phone book, and be able to call it on a home phone and listen/delete them at your leisure that way. Your phone also rounds up on minutes. So if you talk to someone for 9 minutes and five seconds, it'll count as ten minutes to your plan.

If your talking about listening to the individual mailbox greetings without calling into the system then you could use feature 980 (leave message)
enter in the mailbox number you want to check and press ok.

I have voicemail through my telephone company. Recently my SAMSUNG SGH-D980 phone system has been answering the calls for voicemail, instead of going to my phone company voicemail. I am being left messages that I cannot retrieve! I would like to "turn off" the voicemail function of my phone system. I'm not sure why the phone changed from working "properly" to now picking up voicemail calls. Thank you for any help you can give me!

Sounds like you might have call forwarding set to go to voicemail immediatley. Check your call forwarding settings on your phone. If that is set correctly call you provider and have then check the forwarding settings on their end.

If you are using a different phone and using the press and hold 1 for voicemail dial the new phone might have the wrong number programmed. Dial your actual number from your phone (call yourself) and see if it works

I had the same problem at one point in time. However, I figured out that when someone calls and leaves a voicemail there is a message that appears saying "1 new voicemail". Try hitting the "listen" option and let it take you to voicemail that way instead of cancelling out of that option to see your missed call. That should make it go away. If not, then I have no idea.

Had the same problemwith my iPhone 3G this is how I fixed it -

1) From the iPhone 3G, I called my own iPhone 3G number.
2) Went through the setup. After finishing the ssetup Hang off the iPhone 3G.
3) Then the voicemail button on the iPhone 3G worked - first time, there was a **** pause, it asked me to enter my voicemail password that I had set in step 2, and that's it.

Good luck.