Verizon and Voicemail

I've been dealing with having to call my cellphone from another telephone to check my voicemail.  This is because I screwed something up and somehow forwarded my voicemail shortcut to another number.  I am writing here because tonight I solved my problem.

I forward several numbers.  My personal cell phone is currently forwarded to my personal business line, and my work mobile was forwarded to a Blackberry device I'm testing.  I know it's retarded, but it beats carrying four phones now, doesn't it?

Before I got the forwarding figured out, I pressed the wrong sequence to initiate the forward.  Instead of * 7 2 and the number, I pressed * 7 1 and the number.  This made it so when I called my voicemail, it simply called that number.  I was on the phone with Verizon for 30 minutes that night.

And then I did it again.  And Verizon was no help, especially because I did it on my work mobile, for which I do not have the account number or any other credentials.

And my boss left me a voicemail tonight and I finally got fed up with it.  I hacked it until I got something changed, and it only took two tries (which probably does not constitute hacking).

The screwup was * 71,
To forward is * 72,
To cancel forwarding is * 73,
So the next logical step is to ask what does * 74 do?

That fixed it.  So if you screw up your voicemail access with * 71, * 74 fixes it.  In case anyone asks.  

And because I didn't find the solution with Google.

                

I Did It

After seven years of putting it off, I finished both 90-minute exams in under an hour. I had a feeling that the study material was going to be harder than the exam, but I didn't trust myself.

But I was right.