Because my cellphone is my only phone, I typically have a few voicemails. I deal with them each evening and delete the vast majority.
Twice I’ve checked my voicemails and found previously deleted, long forgotten voicemails resurrected. Anyone else have this happen? Verizon with Samsung Galaxy S4 phone. I’ll admit to having no idea how voicemail works. I’m imagining a big room filled with micro cassette answering machines.
I’ve had Verizon for at least 15 years, never had this happen. When they are resurrected, do they appear as new messages, or saved messages?
Voicemail for cell phones is handled at the switch (the type of phone is mostly irrelevant). I have not worked on such systems. I would probably save them as BLOBS in a database. In some database designs, records that are deleted from a database are not truly deleted but only marked with a flag that they are deleted, in case they are required for audit or restore purposes. But for digital sound data, this will take up a damn lot of space when you are managing hundreds of millions of phones for years and years. So I am thinking they must either truly delete them immediately or purge them after some time-to-live deadline.
I suppose it is possible that there is some weird bug causing your zombie messages to reanimate but is there any possibility that you never really deleted the message to start with?
Only happened twice for me, both times in the past year. The resurrected messages appeared as previously saved messages, and they were old. So it could not be an accident on my part, as I had deleted them and then received new messages over time and listened to my messages each evening.
NSA tech accidentally pressed Restore. :smack:
At least I read all the responses instead of making exactly the same joke!