Samsung Message Waiting Light

So, you have a Samsung phone on your desk and the message waiting light is blinking. You check for new voicemail messages, but the system says you don't have any new messages.

What's the deal? Try dialing 43 on your phone. It's likely that someone called you from their phone, and saw a softkey on their phone that said message. They pressed it of course because they wanted to leave you a message. It's a different kind of message though. Dialing 43 will call that person back and once you do (and he/she answers), your light will shut off. If it doesn't shut off, this probably happened to you more than once. Dial 43 again and call back the next person that did this to you. Repeat until the message waiting light clears.

If you dial 43 and your display says "No Messages" check to see if you have set DND on your phone. You can just dial 400 to be sure it is not in Do Not Disturb.

There's another reason why that light will light. I have my test phone on my desk with the light blinking away, and neither of the reasons I listed is the culprit. So far I don't know what the deal is yet, but I'll find out and get that on here too. It might be that I need to review my new calls in the caller ID log.

The codes I've listed for you to dial assume that they haven't been changed in main system programming. It isn't likely they have been changed, but sometimes it is necessary. If you dial these codes and wind up talking to someone down the hall, they've been changed. Find out from your phone guy what the new codes are.

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