WHEN WE TRY TO ACCESS VOICEMAIL IT STATES INACTIVE FEATURE

Hi. Inactive feature often means that there's a problem with your connection to the call pilot. Do you have lights on your call pilot? Did you assign a mailbox to the extension you're working on? Did you remember to connect the call pilot to a station port?

This means the system can no longer communicate with the voice mail. You can try to locate the voice mail and power cycle the unit to resolve the issue, If you still get inactive feature after the reboot you will need to replace the vms.

The inactive feature response means that the phone system and the voicemail are not communicating with each other. I would first check that the voicemail is powered on. If it does have power, I would reboot it by unplugging it for a minute and then plugging it back in(startup can take 15 minutes).StarTalk, Flash, and NAM are some of the names of the voicemail units for small to medium size Norstar phone systems. Occasionally, both the phone system and voicemail need to be rebooted to allow the two to sync up and "see" each other. Occasionally the Norstar voicemails go bad where they will not power up or after powering up they cannot complete the boot up process or after powering on and booting up they will not answer when called. If your unit will not work after trying to reboot a few times, I would recommend you consider having the unit repaired before replacing it. If you need advice on where to send for repair, send a comment and I will help.

That means that the voicemail system is no longer recognized by the phone system. Check the lights on the voicemail to see if its still receiving power.If so try unplugging and plugging the voicemail to reboot it. The voicemail can take up to 6 minutes to totally reboot.

First make sure u r using Voicemail system which is either Star talk or call pilot.
If u r any one of this then only u can use F 981, 982 , 983 or 985. Its a feature code of voice mail.
If u r using either of this and still gettin inactive feature, then try with rebooting The Satr talk or call pilot i.e. switch off from mains wait for few mins and switch it back on.
After rebooting it will take 15-20 mins to boot up the system and after that u can use these feature.

Thanks.
Abhi

Try powering off the voicemail system and and then power it on again. I've had it happen many times that after a power failure they just don't boot up correctly.

When you dial Feature 981 is there anything displayed on the set... something like Inactive?

Sounds like the Call Pilot is failing...

Call in a pro, sounds like the voicemail either took a ****, or just needs rebooting.

Cycle the power on the voicemail system. If that does not work, you may have to replace the voicemail power supply, or send the voicemail system for repair.
Good Luck!

This generally happens from one of two things. Your voice mail system is connected to your phone system through a station port. If it loses connection it will not communicate with the phone system. Loose wire or connection can cause this. or it has just crashed and will need repair or replacement.

First thing you want to do is unplug the unit wait 15 minutes and plug it back in. wait 10 minutes Try feature 981 from a set that has voicemail. if nothing. hit feature 985 from a m7310 set or a m7324 set not a m7208. If it comes back with inactive fearture now your connection between the units is bad or the unit itself is bad. If it comes back with the voicemail intercom # and you cant get into any mailboxes it has lost all programming.Try this first.