Dedicated WiFi Home Phone
Can you believe people still pay for a home phone service? Well they do and they're getting ripped off. Phone companies will shamelessly sell your grandparents a dedicated home phone and charge up to $50 a month for the service! That is outrageous. The reason this still happens is because many people like to stick with what they're familiar with. Convincing someone to give up their landline can be more trouble than it's worth. Instead, I'm going to show you how to take an old Android phone or tablet and set it up as a landline replacement. This will cost you nothing since we are going to be using Google Voice via WiFi.
Step 1: Get a Retro Phone Handset
You can get either a Bluetooth handset or a regular corded option. If you are going to be setting this up for someone who is technically challenged, then just go with the corded phone. No need to add the complication of Bluetooth pairing to the mix.
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Step 2: Setup Google Voice With Hangouts
Use this guide here to setup a Google voice account that can make and receive calls over WiFi.
Then just delete anything that is unneeded off of the phone. Set it somewhere that will be convenient for phonecalls and you're all set! You don't need a recent phone to do this. Any old android device will work.
You mean, use a phone as a phone?! Amazing.
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But it's not the 3d.
I got the evo view tablet instead. I was 1 of 2 people in the sprint store this morning who was there for the evo view and not the 3d. Honeycomb should be available for this tab by the end of this year but until then it runs plenty fast enough for what it would be used for. After playing with it for the past 5 hours I went to take a call on my evo and I literally said "Holy sh** my evo got smaller". I'm liking it and that's all that matters.
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Nice! Root it and then Honeycomb it.
Is it really just like the iPad was to the iPhone? A bigger one that can't make phone calls (without skype)?
Yeah its just like an overgrown evo lol.....
It doesn't make calls but my tablet has its own number so I can send/receive sms/mms.
The s-off flyer (evo view without 4g) was modded to make phone calls from it. Unfortunately there is no root method for these tabs...yet.
I'm still playing with it and I'm thinking of turning my evo into a bare-bones phone (sms/mms/phone calls) and use my tab for everything else (e/gmail, facebook, movies, etc.).
I added a 32GB sdcard to it and total storage space is around 59GB (minus the space for android).
For me it's worth the money. For others they would probably say other tablets are better but the thing is this is what I want not what anybody else wants.
I'd get this if there were a hack to enable calls via bluetooth.
Swyped from my EVO
I have both devices and am wondering how to make the best use of them.
Hardware wise, there is a USB cable that can use the tablet to charge the phone.
http://www2.elecom.co.jp/avd/cellphone/cable/tb-mambz03bk/
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Software wise, there is Xperia Link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonymobile.xperialink&hl=en
With Xperia Link, you can get your tablet or computer to connect to the Internet by using the tethering function of your Xperia™ phone. From your tablet or computer, you can remotely turn on and off the tethering function of your phone. When out and about, by tossing your phone in a pocket or bag, you can still connect to the Internet even when a Wi-Fi is unavailable.
Currently only on Xperia™ Tablet Z, you can receive call notifications and view phone’s text messages. You will not miss a phone call or SMS while you are tethering with your phone in your pocket or bag. You can also reply to text messages that you received on your phone directly from the bigger screen of your tablet.
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Was hoping to reply my WhatsApp (phone) using my tablet? Any ideas?
Wondering that else can be done too...
I heard something about spoofing your Mac address to use whatsapp on other devices but I haunt tested it. Try searching Google for it if your interested. I don't know if there are any side affects to other apps with this but guess you can always change it back if there is.
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Okay so im still sort of new to this whole forum and so far I've talked to some great people who have helped me understand how to root, and theme haha thanks.
But this is a serious matter. My mother has Verizon wireless their tech support can't figure out whats going on with her phone and shes getting death threats and lawsuits.
She has switched out her phone 2 times, changed her number twice and it still sends out messages of spam, like to random numbers, Pretty much she's spoof'd. I have looked at her phone and I've yet to see any strange apps, I've ran scans, she doesn't even have an SD card anymore. While she was transitioning to a new phone tho, they gave her a loaner phone, before she got out of the store she had 13 new messages sent out to random people.
I'm stumped, Verizon is stumped my moms freaking out etc.
I have also updated her phone to 5.0 here are the screen shots and the actual model of the device.
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funny thing also my dad is on the account as well, But he has no problem do you think maybe its something to do with the account?
Any sort of anti virus thats really good, shes done resets and new flashes etc.
Please help.
This has been happening for over 2 months btw this is her new phone and it's still doing it.
Change account password and set up 2 step verification
Make a new account and set up 2 step
Become A SECRET SPY! (GPS Tracker)Being a Father of 17 children with 5 more on the way, I can get lost when trying to keep track of what everyone is up to. Several of my children have cars and are gone to wherever they go most of the time. I've thought about picking up one of those GPS trackers that I can stick to their car. These are fine, but they don't have all of the features that I need. You know what does? Any Android phone! The phone doesn't even need to have service to work the way I want it to. Let me explain.
So I need a device that can track and log the GPS data of a moving car. I also want it to be able to connect to open WiFi networks and send me the data once it has the connection. So first thing we need is to find some apps that will help us out with this.
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Download GPS Tracker
Download WiFi Automatic
Start by downloading these two apps. WiFi Automatic will help your Android device connect to any open network. Then GPS Tracker will upload the data to a website where you can login and take a peep on what's going on.
Make sure to set the phone on silent and turn off anything that could drain the battery. Kill your Bluetooth, NFC, Notifications and uninstall any apps that might try to sync data once you've got a connection. We don't need facebook soaking up all of the bandwidth.
Now grab some duct tape and smash this DIY FBI CIA BLACKWATER GPS device onto the bottom on the target car. Then go to your computer, login to the GPS Tracker website and wait for the secret data to start flowing in.
in which countries it is coming
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:angel: wanna use it in India :silly: first Oreo has to come
I fear all this money control things... All this big company already have all us data, now they get a % of every money we spend... Weird..
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I fear all this money control things... All this big company already have all us data, now they get a % of every money we spend... Weird..
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If you use a credit or debit card they already get that %. LG pay isn't really changing that. It can however help with fraud. I travel a LOT and use one card almost 100% of the time when traveling. Hotels, meals, rental cars, restaurants, etc.... That card would get compromised and have fraud charges every 30-60 days. These issues were nearly eliminated once I started using Samsung pay. In the 2.5 years since I have only had two fraud charges on that card. Probably skimmed at a gas pump or restaurant. Unless I have no other option I will not hand over or swipe my physical credit card. I can't wait for LG to enable the same feature.
Even if you don't want to use it all the time it might end up getting you out of a jam if get somewhere and realize you lost or forgot your wallet. No problem. Just pay with your phone (assuming you didn't forget that too).