[Q] how to ban outgoing international calls? - EVO 4G General

Sprint says it cannot be done, although I probably need to call during business hours when more knowledgeable reps are there. Is there any way for me to do it? I just want to avoid dialing an international number when I do not want to - and I never want to, as I use calling cards for that.

They can definitely block international calls from your account. They did it to my account after someone "cloned" my account and was calling Cuba and the Dominican Republic. All the calls originated from New York, while I live in suburban Detroit.

I work for at&t and I know there is a no cost feature that blocks international calls.
I would ask to speak to the international department.

Sprint did ban outgoing international calls on my account. Thanks to all who responded.

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[Q] calling international numbers, htc magic vodafone

has anyone else had problems calling international numbers since rooting their phones? ive rooted and installed a few different roms and have had this problem that i cannot call numbers with a different country code. i can make local calls no problem and can send text messages to international numbers but cannot dial them. its not call barring, i did check that. if i log into my vodafone account and set it to international call barring and try make an international call i get the "this call has been barred" message.with international call barring off the call drops before ringing
this appears to have been a problem with my sim after playing with sim tools

[Q] Conference Call on EVO 4G Sprint

Conference Call on EVO 4G Sprint:
The only time I'm allowed to connect two calls if I've dialed both the calls from my phone but I don't get an option to merge received calls. Thus, my question is, how do you make a conference call when you are talking with someone and a third person calls you?
Any help on this matter will be appreciated.
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You can't: the only way to make it work is exactly as you describe, you must be the caller on both for the conference to work.
Is there a work around this annoyance? Like an app from the app store or rooting my phone? Does this problem exist with every Android phone or only with Evo 4G?
Incomming CDMA and outgoing CDMA are different. You can only conference outgoing CDMA.
Rather sure this is the same with all CDMA phones. But, I have never tested on any other phone I had with verizon or sprint.
Have you tried Google Voice?

GV integrated account, double charged for international

Not sure where to post this, but if you make international calls using GV, triple-check your bills. I just received mine and it shows that I was double-charged, both by Google and Sprint for the call.

[Q] How to recieve texts on T-Mobile Prepaid...?

I've recently unlocked my Atrix 4G, talked to AT&T support and they easily gave me a code free, and I am on rooted stock gingerbread.
I just ported my number over to the $30 100mins talk/unlimited text/data T-mobile prepaid plan. I can send texts and the other party gets them, but I cannot see any calls texts anyone sends me unless its a media message, such as a picture.
I've tried multiple APN edits, searching for hours on this forum and others, none of them seem to change anything.
I can call other people, but they can't call me. If they call me, it rings for about 30 secs then goes to voicemail.
What am I missing here? Anyone else on the T-mobile prepaid plans using Atrix 4g?

Galaxy S8 Unlocked + ATT Prepaid.. Conditional forwarding not working? Google Voice e

I just switched our phones from post paid to prepaid with ATT.. it seem, i'm pretty sure at least, that conditional forwarding for things like google voice do not work on ATT Prepaid (this all worked fine on att post paid and the same equipment a day ago).
If you go to the phone settings.. more settings.. call forwarding you get a network or sim card error and all the entries are blank and do not save (where you can enter a different phone number for things like what to do if busy or on another call).
Is there a known workaround by chance?
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance
Prepaid plans generally don't allow conditional call forwarding, at&t certainly never has on their prepaid plans, and probably never will.
The only prepaid plans I know of that do allow it are from Cricket & MintSIM. There may be a few others but those two I've actually used and I can confirm they allow conditional call forwarding.
I've got a MintSIM card in my S8 now using Google Voice, conditional call forwarding works fine.
Fiasco said:
Prepaid plans generally don't allow conditional call forwarding, at&t certainly never has on their prepaid plans, and probably never will.
The only prepaid plans I know of that do allow it are from Cricket & MintSIM. There may be a few others but those two I've actually used and I can confirm they allow conditional call forwarding.
I've got a MintSIM card in my S8 now using Google Voice, conditional call forwarding works fine.
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In a different forum someone wrote that they are able to use conditional forwarding, but i think on an unlocked phone.. mine was unlocked..
At least it was originally "unlocked".. not an ATT unlocked, but unlocked in general.. recently i firmware flashed it with the ATT bloatware to enable certain things to work like HD voice and wifi calling..
So at this point its ATT firmware flashed.. so i guess this is why its not working then from other reports. I'm not sure that i can undo the firmware.. i mean i think its possible but dont know the method.
I dont have access to an unlocked phone to try the sim swap trick i read about either.
markm75 said:
In a different forum someone wrote that they are able to use conditional forwarding, but i think on an unlocked phone.. mine was unlocked..
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I can pretty much guarantee you that it wasn't an at&t prepaid sim if they had conditional call forwarding working.
It has nothing to do with the phone or firmware, it's that at&t blocks conditional call forwarding on their prepaid plans. There isn't really any hack or workaround to make it work.
Fiasco said:
Prepaid plans generally don't allow conditional call forwarding, at&t certainly never has on their prepaid plans, and probably never will.
The only prepaid plans I know of that do allow it are from Cricket & MintSIM. There may be a few others but those two I've actually used and I can confirm they allow conditional call forwarding.
I've got a MintSIM card in my S8 now using Google Voice, conditional call forwarding works fine.
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Yeah i'm not sure why they are succeeding..
Probably unrelated but my sim is still the post paid att sim card.
Fiasco said:
I can pretty much guarantee you that it wasn't an at&t prepaid sim if they had conditional call forwarding working.
It has nothing to do with the phone or firmware, it's that at&t blocks conditional call forwarding on their prepaid plans. There isn't really any hack or workaround to make it work.
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The one user with success is using a TracFone AT&T SIM card they couldn't forward with the MMI code until swapping it from a AT&T Prepaid to a GSM unlocked phone - then back into the AT&T Prepaid phone and forwarding held
markm75 said:
The one user with success is using a TracFone AT&T SIM card they couldn't forward with the MMI code until swapping it from a AT&T Prepaid to a GSM unlocked phone - then back into the AT&T Prepaid phone and forwarding held
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Tracfone is an MVNO, so that user is using a Tracfone SIM card on a Tracfone plan. Tracfone allows conditional call forwarding, that's why it works for them.
This has been a point of frustration for AT&T Prepaid users for as long as I can remember them having Prepaid cell service.
And now, AT&T allows MVNO's like Tracfone and h2O, that operate on the AT&T network to offer conditional call forwarding, but AT&T themselves still won't allow it on their own prepaid plans.
Fiasco said:
Tracfone is an MVNO, so that user is using a Tracfone SIM card on a Tracfone plan. Tracfone allows conditional call forwarding, that's why it works for them.
This has been a point of frustration for AT&T Prepaid users for as long as I can remember them having Prepaid cell service.
And now, AT&T allows MVNO's like Tracfone and h2O, that operate on the AT&T network to offer conditional call forwarding, but AT&T themselves still won't allow it on their own prepaid plans.
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Makes sense but someone with an ATT branded Note 8 also had success.. unless their sim card is something different
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Makes sense but someone with an ATT branded Note 8 also had success.. unless their sim card is something different
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I don't think you're getting the point. The device itself is irrelevant. The SIM card is the crucial element here.
With an AT&T SIM card on an AT&T Prepaid plan it is not possible to have conditional call forwarding. Anyone that tells you they had success is not on an AT&T Prepaid plan.
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I don't think you're getting the point. The device itself is irrelevant. The SIM card is the crucial element here.
With an AT&T SIM card on an AT&T Prepaid plan it is not possible to have conditional call forwarding. Anyone that tells you they had success is not on an AT&T Prepaid plan.
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Ah ok i see your point.. so in theory if i had one of those alternative MVNO sim cards, it might work in the S8 then enable the feature?
markm75 said:
Ah ok i see your point.. so in theory if i had one of those alternative MVNO sim cards, it might work in the S8 then enable the feature?
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Yes it would work on one of those MVNOs I mentioned earlier. I'm doing that now.
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Yes it would work on one of those MVNOs I mentioned earlier. I'm doing that now.
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So i would have to drop the att prepaid alltogether and find one of these that "works on att" per say, not just use one of their sim cards as that wont work if using att prepaid services right?
I dont know too much about those other offerings, guessing there could be other drawbacks to switching.
My main goal was to be able to do google voice for voicemail transcribing.. if att prepaid voicemail had this built in then I would have been set.
markm75 said:
So i would have to drop the att prepaid alltogether and find one of these that "works on att" per say, not just use one of their sim cards as that wont work if using att prepaid services right?
I dont know too much about those other offerings, guessing there could be other drawbacks to switching.
My main goal was to be able to do google voice for voicemail transcribing.. if att prepaid voicemail had this built in then I would have been set.
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Right. I haven't used AT&T for a while, but I'm pretty sure they had visual voicemail with text transcription. Is that not available on their prepaid plans?
Fiasco said:
Right. I haven't used AT&T for a while, but I'm pretty sure they had visual voicemail with text transcription. Is that not available on their prepaid plans?
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I didnt see it.. not as an addon anyway.
Looks like they do offer Visual Voicemail on their prepaid plans. Maybe that will work for you.
https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/wireless/KM1009160
Fiasco said:
Looks like they do offer Visual Voicemail on their prepaid plans. Maybe that will work for you.
https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/wireless/KM1009160
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Yea but unfortunately not voice to text or email transcription. Just a way to avoid dialing the number to listen
I had originally posted a question over at the ATT help site here.
Seems this ATT rep claims that conditional forwarding is not disabled for att prepaid.. (very skeptical that they know what they are talking about).. however i did see in the one other thread someone mentioned they have it working with an "Att Go phone" on att Prepaid.. maybe the go phones are different in some way.
At any rate the rep wants to do a chat at some point to figure out why its not working, but we will see if this gets resolved.. given what I now know, I highly doubt it.
markm75 said:
I had originally posted a question over at the ATT help site here.
Seems this ATT rep claims that conditional forwarding is not disabled for att prepaid.. (very skeptical that they know what they are talking about).. however i did see in the one other thread someone mentioned they have it working with an "Att Go phone" on att Prepaid.. maybe the go phones are different in some way.
At any rate the rep wants to do a chat at some point to figure out why its not working, but we will see if this gets resolved.. given what I now know, I highly doubt it.
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That rep is talking about call forwarding, not conditional call forwarding.
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That rep is talking about call forwarding, not conditional call forwarding.
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Yeah i took another look at what they wrote.. you'd think because i titled it conditional and mentioned it 15 times they would have understood lol
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Yeah i took another look at what they wrote.. you'd think because i titled it conditional and mentioned it 15 times they would have understood lol
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Well they are working off a script so they just find the closest thing to the question in the script and run on the assumption that it's the right answer. lol

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