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Went to a sprint store (appointment) and they told me that when I am connected via wifi at home, it will not be able to receive text notification and will not be able to see my picture (I have the download button showing but will not open the picture when I click on it). So this means, that when I have wifi connection at home, that disables the 3G connection that I have thus not seeing the Sprint's server where the text are delivered. Aren't the text messages via the 3G or 4G connectivity on the phone. So my wifi connection will not allow the 3G connection on the phone. I tested sending a picture message from my Epic to my Tilt2 (AT&T) windows phone with the same wifi connection and I get the notification and I have to click on the icon to display the picture with no problem. But the epic as I have explained earlier, will give me no notification, it gives me a download button when I open up the text message - but will not do anything at all - not opening the picture. when I disable my wifi - no problem
I need to test this, because if it's true thats bull****, I have Wifi at home on all the time. Heck if Sprint is going to start capping the unlimited plans, why force us to use 3G at all times when there's wifi available? testing this...
yea you're correct, it shows the button if you go into the messages, but it wont notify or let you download it, it says failed. Thats garbage.
Thanks Six-Duece and so I am not the only one. Somehow, if you are connected via wifi, the 3G or even 4G (data connection) is somehow disabled.
Thanks once again.. I am going to return my phone since I am still within the 30-days.
and I notieced even here in Vegas that 4G connection is so flaky and always reverts back to 3G and I pay $10 for something that is not used.
Maybe one day, when 4G connectivitiy is much more stable, then the $120/yr would be worth it. $120 is not joke nowadays
This is a problem for me also. People have told me it has something to do with sprint/android users, which I dont see how thats the case when I have been with sprint for over 3 years now and this is the only phone that has happened to me on.
I have owned the HTC EVO, Touch Pro, Touch Diamond, and Palm Pre on Sprint's network and non had made me turn wifi off in order to recieve pictures. (HTC EVO = Android device)..
Also it seems to let me SEND pictures with wifi on just not RECIEVE.. It sucks & hope someone will figure out a way to get by this non-sense.
yea this could be a deal breaker for me, I think I will weigh my options and decide if I want to keep hanging on to this or say screw it. It bothers me because it makes no sense.
Typically the way things works is like this, calls and text go over the voice network (or on 1x), so you can be disconnected from 3G and still send and receive plain sms.
Now MMS are sent and received (downloaded) over the data network, either 1xrtt or 3G EVDO. Whether you're on wifi or not shouldn't matter as long as you're connected to the cell network.
The issue with the Epic seems to be that if you're connected to wifi it seems to disconnect from the data network (either to save battery or for some other reason INSTEAD OF KEEPING A DORMANT CONNECTION TO THE DATA NETWORK) and as such MMS can't be downloaded or fail to.
Now I don't receive a lot of MMS so I've never really been affected by this enough to annoy me but I can say that other Sprint phones I've had with wifi do receive MMS even on wifi because I assume they keep a dormant connection to the 3G network.
Either way, for heavy MMS folks who conncet to wifi a lot this must be annoying.
Just one more bug we need to alert Samsung and Sprint to for a furure fix. It might be a bug or the phone was just designed that way for some reason.
i will have to try that this is bs
if they wont do anything i may have to get an evo instead but i wish not to have to
The reason I brought this up, is because I connect wifi most of the time (at work and at home), and family sends a lot of picture messages. So this is a big issue for me especially since you don't receive any notification.
Maybe if they fix this issue then I might go back, since I am still in the 30-day return guarantee. I will be monitoring this thread.
Thanks for all for testing and confirming my problem.
Hi,
Has anybody of you who had the same problem as I did, has this issue been addressed and fixed now..
Thank you for taking the time to respond back
I just noticed that my mms pictures are now downloading when on wifi. Maybe Sprint quietly fixed this bug? Anyone else notice the change?
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This is a problem for me also. People have told me it has something to do with sprint/android users, which I dont see how thats the case when I have been with sprint for over 3 years now and this is the only phone that has happened to me on.
I have owned the HTC EVO, Touch Pro, Touch Diamond, and Palm Pre on Sprint's network and non had made me turn wifi off in order to recieve pictures. (HTC EVO = Android device)..
Also it seems to let me SEND pictures with wifi on just not RECIEVE.. It sucks & hope someone will figure out a way to get by this non-sense.
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It was a problem with the hero. Its not exclusive to theepic. Apparently it has something to do with adroid
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No problems here. Just tested on my epic, wifes Evo, and my old Hero. Everythings working fine over wifi regarding mms. I wilk say tho that the Hero and Evo received the mms withing a minute, while my Epic didnt for about 8 minutes.
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Anyone try out wifi calling/messaging yet? I just sent an mms and the "G" appeared even though the cell signal is off and it's supposed to be through wifi. It took longer than when I'm on 3G too...
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i think the mms goes through a diff system when get home ill try it
I believe MMS always goes through cellular data.
This is to prevent an exploit of sending free messages over Wi-fi
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I believe MMS always goes through cellular data.
This is to prevent an exploit of sending free messages over Wi-fi
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exactlly what he said lol
Ah great to know thanks
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well since this thread IS called wifi calling... id like to post that it doesnt work for me OR my friend who also lives close to me and got the update...
first let me state that ive tried with root and with out root
im on unlimited everything plan
ive checkd my wifi and it works just fine
i have wpa-psk encryption on my wifi
and i CAN make calls on cellular network
so now thats out there first thing i get is a popup saying do you want to register?
if i click yes then it just closes and sends me to the home screen
i open it again and it says wifi calling: enabling, for like a minute or two then it says connection error W006.15 isp or T-mobile Network Error
any one else get that?
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well since this thread IS called wifi calling... id like to post that it doesnt work for me OR my friend who also lives close to me and got the update...
first let me state that ive tried with root and with out root
im on unlimited everything plan
ive checkd my wifi and it works just fine
i have wpa-psk encryption on my wifi
and i CAN make calls on cellular network
so now thats out there first thing i get is a popup saying do you want to register?
if i click yes then it just closes and sends me to the home screen
i open it again and it says wifi calling: enabling, for like a minute or two then it says connection error W006.15 isp or T-mobile Network Error
any one else get that?
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Something came up for crackberry users that stopped them from using UMA and since WIFI calling hits the same servers as UMA, i.e... they are the same thing, I suspect that your issue might be the same as what they were having. Your ISP's DNS is blocking the service. If you can change your DNS settings to OpenDNS.com and give it another try. This may not fix your issue, but I know it did for a whole lot of crackberry users.
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well since this thread IS called wifi calling... id like to post that it doesnt work for me OR my friend who also lives close to me and got the update...
first let me state that ive tried with root and with out root
im on unlimited everything plan
ive checkd my wifi and it works just fine
i have wpa-psk encryption on my wifi
and i CAN make calls on cellular network
so now thats out there first thing i get is a popup saying do you want to register?
if i click yes then it just closes and sends me to the home screen
i open it again and it says wifi calling: enabling, for like a minute or two then it says connection error W006.15 isp or T-mobile Network Error
any one else get that?
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I get the same error message. Just got off the phone with a tmo rep and she said that there's a signal outage(?) around Atlanta and that's why I can't get ANY cellular connection whatsoever. But I remain skeptical, as my friends on TMO are having no problems and the "outage" just so happened to affect me right after the OTA was installed. My fingers are crossed that everything gets fixed though.
Mines works fine, it depends on what kind of network your on. On my campus it would not work, but when I got to my gf apt it worked perfectly. So check the wifi settings that you haveto make sure there isn't a firewall or something else set up.
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Mine works on my college campus great. I have terrible coverage here. This may be a stupid question but, it only uses minutes when I'm actually calling someone right? Not however long it is enabled? I'm only asking because I'm tired of getting screwed over in ways that I logically shouldn't be.
Yea it only uses minutes when you are calling. Also I don't know what college you go but I go to umiami, so our networks are really strict with regard to using them for gaming or any kind of tethering. So I'm guessing they haven't allowed us access to do that here. But on any other networks like a home network it works perfect.
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I go to Westfield State in MA. I had to get my phone registered on the resnet net work to use the wifi. Can you use wifi at all at school with your phone?
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Crap. I just sorted out my issues with things draining the battery and now Wifi calling is running rampant. It stays running in the foreground even when it is turned off and logcat shows that it is constantly active even when the phone is asleep. Is anyone else seeing anything like this?
well i would like to know why its wifi calling if tmobile still use the mins from your plan thats like stealling it helps tmo they use less data but still charge us for it
Yea genius on their part...even still its not like they're not doing anything. It its still being runs through their network just not through their towers.
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Yea genius on their part...even still its not like they're not doing anything. It its still being runs through their network just not through their towers.
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yea, what he said. Cellular towers are like a gateway to the Tmobile internet. The still pay for all the fiber and backhaul that gets your calls and data where ever it is that you want them to go.
i just updated and i opened up wifi calling and configured it. i dont understand how its wifi calling when it still uses our minutes? whats the point of having it then? what benefit is there to having this app?
Yea we can but we are literally forced to just web browse lol
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T-mobile has had the "charging for minutes via wifi" policy now for YEARS going back to the first Blackberrys that supported UMA. Minutes were deducted unless a customer paid for the @home service per month. You can complain all you want, but if you consider the other carriers and their options---T-Mobile does NOT charge for HSPA+ (4G) access while other carriers do, and some charge even if there isn't 4G in that city just based on the phone! Wifi calling can also prevent you from incurring roaming charges by allowing you to make calls from almost anywhere you can get wifi access a feature that other providers just don't have. T-Mobile gives more minutes for less money, offers more data download than other carriers, and offers some truly awesome features that others just can't compare to.
Although WiFi calling uses up our plans minutes, if we have unlimted weekend minutes, use it on the weekends, is it free or does it take away from the anytime minutes?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYS8Gxvo9f0
wifi calling apk on the link below:
http://www.4shared.com/get/PCd_a-oA/WiFiCalling.html
real or fake? someone tested?
doesnt work... says invalid SIM.
tried with vodafone and tmobile sim but both no success
Works for me, downloaded to sdcard, installed via ASTRO, no problem
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Works for me, downloaded to sdcard, installed via ASTRO, no problem
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the app works.. but the calling not.. says invalid sim at the app. so cant do anything.
can you call via wifi?
but wth do you want to call via wifi?
it costs money too. and extra connection.
why will you use wifi when you can call 24/7 with your sim all day ?
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the app works.. but the calling not.. says invalid sim at the app. so cant do anything.
can you call via wifi?
but wth do you want to call via wifi?
it costs money too. and extra connection.
why will you use wifi when you can call 24/7 with your sim all day ?
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i just called my house using it, im assuming it called using wifi because it skipped over "Call With Google Voice?" pop up that i set it to do everytime i call. I dont even use all my minutes so i probably wont be all over this app but atleast i have it
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i just called my house using it, im assuming it called using wifi because it skipped over "Call With Google Voice?" pop up that i set it to do everytime i call. I dont even use all my minutes so i probably wont be all over this app but atleast i have it
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wifi calling costs many though?
i read on that app it just costs as much as cellulair data.
so why in earth will people use wifi calling? they can just call without wifi. its called a PLAN
I get invalid sim as well I am on vodafone and not |T-Mobile..
Maybe you could change it to work on Vodafone?
i have tmobile, maybe thats why? might have to do with the APN or something
yay this is good but the thing I see is that if you are calling it may be going to the t-mobile servers ofc if thats the case only t-mobile sims may be able to get unless we edit the apk or spoof our sim but then also im guessing the wifi calling costs so not sure how this would work xD nice though
totally non sense. how can someone call using wifi or whatever internet source you may have to any cellular or telephone number untill you don't have some service provider etc... if this wifi calling is working over the internet, what application is it using?
seems totally fake or irrelavent
This apps works because i put the phone in airplain mode and use wifi only.
If you guys having problem then maybe it your phone. But, my phone is working, be glad that you have wifi calling.
This an oct 22,2008 phone not even the iphone 3g has this feature.
I have t-mobile usa provider phone.
add119 said:
This apps works because i put the phone in airplain mode and use wifi only.
If you guys having problem then maybe it your phone. But, my phone is working, be glad that you have wifi calling.
This an oct 22,2008 phone not even the iphone 3g has this feature.
I have t-mobile usa provider phone.
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i find this hard to believe since when i put mine into airplane mode to test it it said "wifi calling not available in airplane mode". Ive been trying to edit the .apk and see if i can get rid of that but no luck so far, so how are u doing it?
My bad it doesnt do wifi calling on airplane mode my bad. It does wifi calling on wifi though..
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My bad it doesnt do wifi calling on airplane mode my bad. It does do wifi though..
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quite right, you think we can get a workaround?
I dont know im going to buy a new phone because i miss adobe flash content so much. I know this is out of topic but i miss my original droid before it got messed up.
G1 is nice when it was a backup phone in 2010. My main phone in 2008/2009 most of the time, until i sold my cliq. But, now i just want a phone with higher specs.
I try playing gameloft games HD/3D games that isnt working because of processor we have.
This developer now a days is coding their apps to make it work with 3.5 inches and beyond, with higher frame,Power vr ship specs.
I love my g1, but im going to buy either g2 or hd 7.
I think i speak for everyone having an phone for to long loses it power in long run.
And, wifi calling on this app only work with T-mobile sim card and wifi of course.
There is a wifi app.
it was ripped off the G2 and ported to the vibrant, so it is possible.
however its not that good.
it was taken out of most roms on the vibrant because of its buggyness/uslessness.
it drains battery pretty bad even when not running.
it uses minutes even when calling through wifi (the only purpose of the app is to get clear signal in places where there is none for tmobile customers and not to save on minutes)
Its just kinda buggy overall.
hopefully they'll release a cleaner app in the future, but for now its pointless if you get decent signal at home.
Honestly, this apps work fine to me. Im just disappointed that the developer now a days isnt supporting older device by coding the apps to higher specs phone.
Wanted to get an android phone with wifi calling capability for a friend who is currently in Iraq. My budget will not allow me to a buy a g2/mt4g, and a g1 seems like the cheapest option so this is where I began looking. So if I added an extra line on my family plan, grabbed a g1, rooted and installed this app would my friend be able to make calls as long as he has a wifi connection? Can anyone confirm this works without any access to the tmobile network?
zielin said:
Wanted to get an android phone with wifi calling capability for a friend who is currently in Iraq. My budget will not allow me to a buy a g2/mt4g, and a g1 seems like the cheapest option so this is where I began looking. So if I added an extra line on my family plan, grabbed a g1, rooted and installed this app would my friend be able to make calls as long as he has a wifi connection? Can anyone confirm this works without any access to the tmobile network?
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I'm not sure about on the g1, but on other phones it works, but it still uses t-mobile minutes.
so you can be away from the t-mobile network, but you still need to have a t-mobile plan and minutes.
its basicaly for those who have horrible signal at home, but do have a wifi connection.
I'm currently getting W006.25 "ISP or T-Mobile Network" errors. Is this happening to lots of others too? Maybe too many MT3G Slides are now connecting? I get 61ms ping times for the default ip address in the "Ping Network" advanced setting menu item, which seems high to me. (but pinging google.com is 108ms, so this isn't THAT bad.)
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I have had that same exact error before. The fix is easy and worked for me. First thing, turn off wi-fi calling, then toggle off the wi-fi itself. Reboot your phone, make sure you have at LEAST a nominal signal so your phone is recognized by the network. Then toggle wi-fi back on, then the wi-fi calling app. Should fix that problem. I had called tech support over this, who told me wi-fi calling was out in my state, then ran across this fix in another forum.
No such luck. Still getting those errors.
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Wireless @ home: My phone fails, wife's freshly-froyo'd phone works.
Wireless @ work: wifi calling on my phone works.
Wireless @ church: wifi calling on my phone works.
So, something about my phone and my home net.
Found out that the kineto app on the mt3g is newer than the one on the g2 (not surprisingly). So if we can find an …-A0-11.3 version of kineto for this thing...
Tmo support went radio silent. But someone from kineto hinted at a possible ota for wifi calling stability. More if I hear anything...
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I received a new pixel 4a 5g on Friday. I have spectrum mobile and I can't get wifi calling to work. I have called spectrum twice and have gone to the local spectrum store. I have also chatted with a Google tech. No one can get it to work.
No issues with WiFi calling. Have you tried switching to airplane mode and re-eanable Wifi only? This switches on Wifi calling quickly on my 3a and 4a5g
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No issues with WiFi calling. Have you tried switching to airplane mode and re-eanable Wifi only? This switches on Wifi calling quickly on my 3a and 4a5g
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Yes, I tried that. It didn't work.
It just started working this morning.
There seem to be problems with WiFi Calling on T-Mobile:
T-Mobile WiFi Calling one way audio
After the connection switches between mobile and Wifi Calling, there is only one way audio, the other party can hear me but I cannot hear the other party. The only fix seems to be to reboot the phone, but after a while the problem is back. It...
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There seem to be problems with WiFi Calling on T-Mobile:
T-Mobile WiFi Calling one way audio
After the connection switches between mobile and Wifi Calling, there is only one way audio, the other party can hear me but I cannot hear the other party. The only fix seems to be to reboot the phone, but after a while the problem is back. It...
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Yes, I had this exact issue. Fix was to reset Wi-Fi, mobile & Bluetooth. Hope it doesn't return, but we'll see.
Hello all,
I also have a 4a 5g phone that I've been trying like hell to get working. Started with just seeing if I could find it myself. Found something in the settings (gone now), but it said something about WiFi calling. It happened to be grayed out.
Next step was calling tech support. They could help me and they convinced me that I have to change the sim card. OK change the sim card for using wifi calling. Whatever, the sim card arrived today and I swapped it out. Now I don't have phone service and I still can't get wifi calling.
My question is where is the setting for turning wifi calling off and on? I follow these directions;
How to Enable WiFi Calling on Android 11 Stock OS
Step 1: Pull down the notification panel at the top and touch the “Settings gear (Cog)” icon.
Step 2: Touch on “Network and internet”.
Step 3: Touch “Mobile network”.
Step 4: Scroll down and touch on “Advanced”.
Step 5: Tap on “Wi-Fi calling” in the calling section.
I follow the steps and it states my wifi calling is on. Yet when I call, it's is calling tech support. I've spent way too much time with dodgy tech support. Not sure what I can try at this point. Fortunately I have other telephone options, but not my main.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Us3r_1,
I followed your steps 1-5 on my 4a5G and on T-Mobile and Vodafone it works for me.
What do you mean by
> Yet when I call, it's is calling tech support.
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Us3r_1,I followed your steps 1-5 on my 4a5G and on T-Mobile and Vodafone it works for me.What do you mean by> Yet when I call, it's is calling tech support.?
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Sorry for the confusion here. and thanks for the reply. OK it shows that my wifi calling is on, I don't have any phone service at the moment. Regardless of what number I call, it goes to the step through for getting to different options, like activate phone, change number, and so on. It seems like I have to turn off the phone connection to get wifi calling to step in. BTW, this SafeNet which I think they use Tracpone.
EDIT: My service is not SafeNet, nor SafeLink, but is Net10 on Tracpone. Not for long though.
You're welcome.
BTW: On my 3a I had to restart the phone from time to time. Perhaps this helps in your case.
Double check with your provider that WiFi is switched on for your account.
Yeah I reboot several times through all this. Just did now too. I did see an option to preference wifi calling over phone service. I did that and still it goes to stepping through to options in the phone service when I try to make a call.
You could try switching to airplane mode and then enable wifi only. Keep airplane mode, don't switch it off. Try calling then. This forces Wifi calling.
Finally got the option and my phone working. You are not going to believe what the problem was. It ended up that the service, BTW the service is Net10 Wireless, anyways they had the old sim card number on my account and they were using the the old number! The directions on the new sim card sent, stated to put the new card in the phone and call the number provided, which I did. I gave them the new sim card number and I assumed everyone was working with the new sim card. After well over 6 hrs with "tech support", some with a roster clearly calling out in the background. At the end I was demanding upper management right when I contacted someone. Finally had this tech support go through all the records and she figured out the sim card number was screwed up with the parties.
I'm pissed, it shouldn't take over 6 hrs and 2 days to get this resolved. I pointed out that this was the stupidity of "tech support" that caused practically this whole delay and I would say this people started the whole thing! I called up to get wifi calling up and running. The "tech support" stated that I need a new sim card. Which was the start of this mess. More than 23 calls to them regarding this!
In the end, I put the old sim card in and everything works! Even wifi calling works!
Great!
Looks as if I was close when I wrote:
>Double check with your provider that WiFi is
>switched on for your account.
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Great!
Looks as if I was close when I wrote:
>Double check with your provider that WiFi is
>switched on for your account.
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Sure would like to learn and know how and why the sim card plays a roll when you are trying to get wifi calling working. In my simple world, it's a working unlocked phone, a wifi connection, and the software on your phone to get this working.
Holly crap! Been using wifi calling successfully for the last day. OK so now I want to go back to regular phone service with phone providers. And you would think you could follow the steps at #7 and stumble your way to getting regular phone service, right. Nope, following the steps laid out will not do the trick. Now I got to figure out how to do it.
Any help on this? The Mobile Network option in Network & Internet is grayed out. Also the + sign does nothing. Turning off Wi-Fi does nothing to.
(Hoping the Hotspot & tethering is easier than wifi calling. I'll be in trouble if it's not.)
i don't have wifi calling on this phone but do on my note 10 plus,is it just in usa?
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.OK so now I want to go back to regular phone service with phone providers. And you would think you could follow the steps at #7 and stumble your way to getting regular phone service, right.
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All I had to do was enabling Wifi-Calling in my phone and call the phone company to enable Wifi-Calling.
As soon as I am out of reach of my Wifi, it switches automatically to GSM or LTE (my contract does not provide me with 5G).
In other words: No need to change any settings.
Same if I disable Wifi manually. The phone shows LTE the same second.