Originally Posted by Boxer

HA, impatience is your enemy (well mine anyway).
So following your info that "hold" works, I tried again... for a long time... and it worked. Nearly 3s.
Same for voice mail.
Battery pulled fairly frequenty, but software update long overdue; its a company phone and the policy does not make this easy. But maybe now I'll try and see if an update sets the time a bit shorter.

Thanks!