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How to Extend Your Ring Time On Your Smartphone.

April 25, 2021 3 min read

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The Best Trick to Extend Your Ring Time on Your Smartphone

When you miss calls from your loved one's personal alarm quite often, it can be a frustrating experience. That’s why we recommend extending the ring time on your smartphone, so you have a lot more time to answer.

By default, your phone rings for 15 seconds before it diverts the call to voicemail (if you have the voicemail feature switched on). The good news is that you can change the length of your ring time by increments of five seconds, up to 30 seconds.

Depending on your smartphone provider (mobile carrier), the steps will be slightly different. In this guide, we show you step-by-step how to extend the ring time on your mobile phone! Use the following code to extend ring time on your smartphone.

How to extend the ring time on TELSTRA Mobile

On your mobile phone, tap on the Call function (like making a new call)
Using the keypad on your mobile phone, dial the following sequence: **61*101** number of seconds: 15, 20, 25, 30, finish with #
Example: Code to extend ring time to 30 seconds, dial: **61*101**30#
Press the call or send button.

A message will pop up to let you know that the code is successful.

How to extend the ring time on OPTUS Mobile

On your mobile phone, tap on the Call function (like making a new call)
Using the keypad on your mobile phone, dial the following sequence **61*321** number of seconds: 15, 20, 25, 30, and finish with #
Example: Code to extend ring time to 30 seconds, dial: **61*321**30#

4. Press the call or send button.

A message will pop up to let you know that the code is successful.

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How to extend the ring time on VODAFONE Mobile

On your mobile phone, tap on the Call function (like making a new call)
Using the keypad on your mobile phone, dial the following sequence **61*121*11* number of seconds: 15, 20, 25, 30, and finish with #
Example: Code to extend ring time to 30 seconds, dial: **61*121*11*30#

Press the call or send button.

A message will pop up to let you know that the code is successful.

How to extend the ring time on BELONG Mobile

Please note Belong uses the Message2Text service, not voice mail services.
On your mobile phone, tap on the Call function (like making a new call)
Using the keypad on your mobile phone, dial the following sequence.
Message2Txt service number **61*+61418707111** or a user-defined number, plus number of seconds: 15, 20, 25, 30, and finish with #
Example: Code to extend ring time to 30 seconds, dial: **61*+61418707111**30#

Press the call or send button.

A message will pop up to let you know that the code is successful.

* Voicemail is now being rolled out and will be available to new and existing Belong mobile customers as of August 2022. You’ll know it’s switched on when you get your first SMS saying you’ve received a voicemail message.

To verify the amount of time the phone rings (in seconds), dial *#61# and press 'call' or 'send'. To reset back to default settings, simply dial ##004# and press 'call' or 'send''. Source (whirlpool.net.au)

How to extend the ring time on ALDI Mobile

On your mobile phone, tap on the Call function (like making a new call)
Using the keypad on your mobile phone, dial the following sequence **61*101** number of seconds: 15, 20, 25, 30, and finish with #
Example: Code to extend ring time to 30 seconds, dial: **61*101**30#
Press the call or send button.

A message will pop up to let you know that the code is successful.

Please check out the links below:

Aldimobile managing your service How do I enable or disable call waiting?

Telstra mobile devices Message Bank.

Optus call diverts to voicemail

22 Responses

COLIN

April 11, 2025

Tried Ali suggestions also rang Aldi twice still only rings 3 times then goes to voicemail any other suggestions on IPhone 11

John Roberts

April 11, 2025

After THREE calls to Optus Technical Support, I was told they need to change it at their end first, then I enter the above code. Had them change it twice, entering the code then switching off and on after each time. Huawei and Samsung phones.

The MAXIMUM I could extend it to is 18 seconds, regardless of whether a mobile or landline calls it. Obviously the system doesn’t allow you to do it. Hopeless.

Tim

October 13, 2024

Thanks this worked great to turn on my message bank for Catch Connect using the optus code.

John

April 06, 2024

Thanks, I was trying the telstra fix until I came on to your site :)

Anonymous

April 02, 2024

@summerflood
Thanks for asking; we really only deal with Australian Telcos, but I have hopefully an answer for you.
This is for T-Mobile only in the USA: https://www.t-mobile.com/support/plans-features/self-service-short-codes

To change the call forwarding delay time,.

**61*18056377243**seconds# (You can choose a 5, 10, 15, or up to a maximum 30 second delay.

Example: Dialing **61*18056377243**10# would be a 10-second delay

Summer flood

April 02, 2024

I’m wanting to change to less amount of rings on .t phone from landline phone…less rings how do j do that I’m with t mobil

Katherine

March 21, 2024

I cannot get my phone to ring for 30 seconds IV tried everything.
Katherine

Kev

June 21, 2023

Trying to extend the ring time from 15 seconds to 30 seconds on my ALDI mobile. Dialled **61*101**30#. Message states “MMI code started”. About 15 seconds later, error message states "Call forwarding when no reply for All Basic Services Connection problem or invalid MMI code. " Any suggestions ?

Anonymous

April 22, 2023

Thanks Marilyn
Yes 1 * Certanly makes or breaks the code.

Marilyn Short

April 22, 2023

“How to extend Vodaphone ring time:”
Beware: the directions give an incorrect sequence (**61*121**11* etc)
BUT the example shows the correct sequence. (**61*121*11* etc)
What a difference one star makes!
Once I had noticed the difference (after 1st failing the intelligence test) it worked for me.
Thank you!

Gordon Rose

February 15, 2023

I am having trouble extending the ring time on an android galaxy S7. When I enter **61*101**30# I get a message saying “Registration was successful”. I then enter *#61# to check and it tells me it is set to 30 seconds. when I ring the phone to goes to voicemail at 15 seconds. I would be grateful for any help.

Tom M

August 15, 2022

For ALDI Mobile:
**61**101** (15, 20, 25, 30)#
Fail

There should only be 1 * after the 61
**61*101** (15, 20, 25, 30)#
Success

Anonymous

June 11, 2022

Hi Roland and Mario, on your Aldi mobile service try the following

Check call waiting status – *#43#, send/call

Enable call waiting – *43#, send/call

Seconds before call waiting diverts to voicemail – **61**101** (15, 20, 25, 30)#, call/send

Disable call waiting – #43#, send/call

Hopefully, that helps you out.

Mario

June 11, 2022

I tried the Aldi one twice, both times it didn’t work.

Roland

June 11, 2022

On ALDI service , iPhone **61*0418707111**30# does not work , always error message !
Any updates most welcome
Cheers in advance

Anonymous

March 14, 2022

The above code for belong can work for Android phones.
Belong mobile plans have voice2Txt service instead of voicemail.

Voice2Txt converts compatible voice messages, up to 10 seconds long, to text and sends them straight to your mobile as a text message.
You could raise a support request via your belong account to extend the ring time.
There are pit fall in extending the ring time though, callers might not be able to leave a voice message on the voice2text service. Hopefully they realise this is not ideal for customers sooner reather than later but i can’t see them changing it any time soon. Belong is owned by telstra, there budget brand but you get what you pay for.
You can verify the amount of time the phone rings for by dialing *#61# then press send, or you can reset back to default 15 seconds by dialing ##004# then press send.

Anonymous

March 13, 2022

Please try these settings these are direct from Aldi Mobile FAQ
https://www.aldimobile.com.au/blogs/using-and-managing-your-service/how-do-i-enable-or-disable-call-waiting

Check call waiting status – *#43#, send/call

Enable call waiting – *43#, send/call

Seconds before call waiting diverts to voicemail – **61**101** (15, 20, 25, 30)#, call/send

Disable call waiting – #43#, send/call

Bernie paine

March 13, 2022

Changed over to Aldi from Telstra and have checked on line to extend ring time but is not accepted i.e **61*+61101**30#
Any help?

Ian Christie

March 13, 2022

Tried this for an Aldi mobile. I just get a series of error messages all of which refer to call forwarding. I tried a similar code described as for an iPhone with the same result. Any suggestions?

Paul

March 13, 2022

Belong have chosen to alter or disable the ability to change the ring time before it diverts to message to text. According to Belong it’s either on at 15 seconds of off completely.
I believe it’s more likely they have just hidden the feature but will not release any information or change the time for you these days.

What can I say??? How does a service provider survive by not providing service. Time will tell I guess.

Anonymous

December 13, 2021

Thanks Ian
Sorry yes your right with the # i have now fixed the code for Telstra mobile network.

Ian Willett

December 13, 2021

There should be a # at the end…e.g. **61*101**30# otherwise will not work… as I found out!

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