Audible voicemail notifications

I need my stupid phone to make a sound when I have a voicemail. And it needs to make the sound every few minutes, not just once every few weeks. Am I the only person in the world who wants an audio voicemail notification? How can I cause my phone to alert me to voicemail on its own, without me having to pick up the phone and mess around with it? I'm getting dam sick of answering calls from people who say they've been trying to reach me, and only after hanging up with them do I finally get the audio voicemail notification informing me of the four voicemail messages they left me YESTERDAY.

Same thing with texts too. I've gone more than a week without it alerting me that I have a new text, or several. I use a tablet for Internet so I'm not constantly checking my phone. I need it to do something to alert me to a message. Yes I've checked the settings, yes they are on. I need an app or something but they don't seem to exist. WTF.

 

As noted previously, I don't want to have to mess with it. I want it to make a sound.

The volume is turned up and the phone is less than three feet from my head. Plus I had to pass a hearing test to get my CDL. I am here with my phone, whereas you, on the other hand, are not. So I'm pretty confident that your confidence is misguided.

 

Alcatel pixie glory. I did find one app that claims to do what I want but I haven't tried it out yet.

 

Status update:

Apparently this is an android issue, not the phone. Android only alerts when the message arrives and apparently also sometimes after the phone is used, and there is no way to set it to give periodic alerts. But I just installed an app which claims to do exactly what I want and not much else, and it's now set to give the alert every five minutes instead of one-and-done. Oh and it was much easier to find on play store once I started using "notification" in my search terms, instead of "alert". The app is simply called "missed notification reminders" and was very easy to set up.

 

WOOHOO! I just got back from having lunch and within about a minute of me getting in my truck, my phone chirped about an unread text message that was 35 minutes old. I'm smiling now. Victory is at hand.