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[Q] Switching between 3G and H is such an annoyance... Any help?

I've read up on this and understand it is supposed to be normal, but man does it make my phone so much worse. Every single time a page loads it has to switch from 3G to H. My reception seems like it sucks so bad because of this. Sometimes it doesn't switch. I get good bars everywhere I go, but it feels like I have terrible reception.
I've never understood radios and such. I'm rooted with the stock rom. Would this be better if I tried cyanogenmod with a different radio? There has to be a fix for this issue.
If you solve this for me, I'll kiss you through the internet.

I don't think kissing anyone over the internet would make them want to help you any more
Its how the phone works, its supposed to switch to 3G to H. H comes on when data is more active.
What radio are you using?

IPxSynergy said:
I've read up on this and understand it is supposed to be normal, but man does it make my phone so much worse. Every single time a page loads it has to switch from 3G to H. My reception seems like it sucks so bad because of this. Sometimes it doesn't switch. I get good bars everywhere I go, but it feels like I have terrible reception.
I've never understood radios and such. I'm rooted with the stock rom. Would this be better if I tried cyanogenmod with a different radio? There has to be a fix for this issue.
If you solve this for me, I'll kiss you through the internet.
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the bars are for your gsm radio, telephone calls. they dont give you an idea on data speeds. do a speed test to see how good of a data connection you have.

simms22 said:
the bars are for your gsm radio, telephone calls. they dont give you an idea on data speeds. do a speed test to see how good of a data connection you have.
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I knew the bars are for phone calls, but I'm in the city of Chicago and have a hard time believing my data is as bad as it seems. I'll have plenty of times where it shows 3G connection and doesn't switch to H, therefore no data comes through. I've had plenty of times where I didn't believe I wasn't getting data, so I reset my phone and sure enough - data!
I do believe something could be wrong with my specific phone. I might need to try a full reset or flash cyanogenmod. I just didn't want to do that. Especially without checking with you genius's beforehand!

zephiK said:
I don't think kissing anyone over the internet would make them want to help you any more
Its how the phone works, its supposed to switch to 3G to H. H comes on when data is more active.
What radio are you using?
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How can I check radio version?
I'm running 4.2.2. Baseband version M9615A-CEFWMAZM-2.0.1700.48 Kernel version 3.4.0-perf-g7ce11cd [email protected] #1
Build number JDQ39
Sorry for the delayed response. It is making me wait 5 minutes between posts, even though I'm not a new user and this is MY post. I haven't posted much, but I'm not new Maybe the mods will see this and lift my restriction

IPxSynergy said:
How can I check radio version?
I'm running 4.2.2. Baseband version M9615A-CEFWMAZM-2.0.1700.48 Kernel version 3.4.0-perf-g7ce11cd [email protected] #1
Build number JDQ39
Sorry for the delayed response. It is making me wait 5 minutes between posts, even though I'm not a new user and this is MY post. I haven't posted much, but I'm not new Maybe the mods will see this and lift my restriction
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The radio is .48.. Baseband is Radio. You can go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2087227 and try out other radio to see if you get better reception.
If you're in a TMO 4G LTE area you can try activating LTE to see if you'd like it any more.

zephiK said:
The radio is .48.. Baseband is Radio. You can go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2087227 and try out other radio to see if you get better reception.
If you're in a TMO 4G LTE area you can try activating LTE to see if you'd like it any more.
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I can do that, but I'll first have to figure out how to do it. For some reason my drivers say they don't work and it won't let me flash clockwork mod. I was going to make another post about it after I figured this out. Do you think radio could be the issue?
Also, I am on Tmobile, but I thought LTE didn't really work since it was ATT band 4 or something and only very specific areas had it?

zephiK said:
The radio is .48.. Baseband is Radio. You can go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2087227 and try out other radio to see if you get better reception.
If you're in a TMO 4G LTE area you can try activating LTE to see if you'd like it any more.
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Well, I just found out my APN was the one used when you are on LTE. I changed it to the non LTE version and will test over the next few days. If that was my problem, I'm going to be upset at the Tmobile lady who put in that info.

Please do let us know if it's any better after using the epc APN.
If you flash to the .33 radio, the LTE will turn on and it's very good at holding a data connection. It's just when it's not available and my phone connects to hspa+. I have similar problems as you. My signal indicator works great and its blue but no internet. I'm wondering if i'll need to keep switching apns. I hope not.

thfreedumb said:
Please do let us know if it's any better after using the epc APN.
If you flash to the .33 radio, the LTE will turn on and it's very good at holding a data connection. It's just when it's not available and my phone connects to hspa+. I have similar problems as you. My signal indicator works great and its blue but no internet. I'm wondering if i'll need to keep switching apns. I hope not.
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Hmm. Some good points. I'll let you know in a few days. If it works better, then I might just leave it. It is interesting that you are in Chicago and LTE works. Makes me want to try it. I'll see how this goes first.

thfreedumb said:
Please do let us know if it's any better after using the epc APN.
If you flash to the .33 radio, the LTE will turn on and it's very good at holding a data connection. It's just when it's not available and my phone connects to hspa+. I have similar problems as you. My signal indicator works great and its blue but no internet. I'm wondering if i'll need to keep switching apns. I hope not.
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Well, I did my commute this morning and there really was no change. It could be a combination of poor data reception areas and slow switching. I'd like to try to flash a new radio, but I don't know how. I can start a new thread about this, but I'll at least mention my problem here. I installed the Nexus 4 Toolkit and went through all the steps to make sure the drivers were installed correctly and such. I did this a long time ago when I rooted the phone. But something is wrong and it doesn't let me flash clockworkmod. It tells me to go through the steps again, which I have tried.
Is there a way to flash a new radio without clockwordmod?

IPxSynergy said:
Hmm. Some good points. I'll let you know in a few days. If it works better, then I might just leave it. It is interesting that you are in Chicago and LTE works. Makes me want to try it. I'll see how this goes first.
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I've been tempted to try messing with lte on my nex 4 as well...live in chicagoland...just worried about how good the coverage is and how well the phone would perform outside lte coverage since I drive all over the tri state area and need my phone to be stable for work.

g0rge said:
I've been tempted to try messing with lte on my nex 4 as well...live in chicagoland...just worried about how good the coverage is and how well the phone would perform outside lte coverage since I drive all over the tri state area and need my phone to be stable for work.
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Lte is amazing in Chicago but not as strong in Chicagoland. However, hspa+ is garbage in Chicago but better in Chicago land.
As for cwm, I prefer twrp. You can just download goo manager from the app store and it will install twrp for you. As far as I know you need to use a custom Rom that supports the older radios or else your calling might mess up. I use aokp.
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Lte is amazing in Chicago but not as strong in Chicagoland. However, hspa+ is garbage in Chicago but better in Chicago land.
As for cwm, I prefer twrp. You can just download goo manager from the app store and it will install twrp for you. As far as I know you need to use a custom Rom that supports the older radios or else your calling might mess up. I use aokp.
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Well, I tried to use goo manager to install aokp. It seemed like it would work, but nothing happened when I flashed it. It reset and seemed like it was installing something, then I rebooted with no change. Strange.

g0rge said:
I've been tempted to try messing with lte on my nex 4 as well...live in chicagoland...just worried about how good the coverage is and how well the phone would perform outside lte coverage since I drive all over the tri state area and need my phone to be stable for work.
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Just wanted to let you know... I flashed Cyanogenmod and the 33 radio. Everything is so much better. Connection is quicker when switching, but also the 4G is fast! I should have done this a while ago. Been testing for 2 days. I'm in the city, so not sure about the burbs.

IPxSynergy said:
Just wanted to let you know... I flashed Cyanogenmod and the 33 radio. Everything is so much better. Connection is quicker when switching, but also the 4G is fast! I should have done this a while ago. Been testing for 2 days. I'm in the city, so not sure about the burbs.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2358931&page=10 you might find this thread interesting, might throw this on this morning before work and give it a shot...

g0rge said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2358931&page=10 you might find this thread interesting, might throw this on this morning before work and give it a shot...
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I actually tried that a few weeks ago, before I knew what I was doing. I wasn't able to flash it because I didn't have a custom recovery. I'm glad I went to CyanogenMod though. It seems to be faster and there are little things that make it better than stock.

IPxSynergy said:
I actually tried that a few weeks ago, before I knew what I was doing. I wasn't able to flash it because I didn't have a custom recovery. I'm glad I went to CyanogenMod though. It seems to be faster and there are little things that make it better than stock.
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Yeah I was running paranoid android for awhile, currently running stock for the 4.3 update, contemplating cm 10.2 when that gets solid or PA again once they get everything sorted out from the 4.3 hijinks.

g0rge said:
Yeah I was running paranoid android for awhile, currently running stock for the 4.3 update, contemplating cm 10.2 when that gets solid or PA again once they get everything sorted out from the 4.3 hijinks.
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I didn't think it would be worth it to switch, but it is. Stock is great, but CM is better. I haven't used paranoid android.

IPxSynergy said:
I didn't think it would be worth it to switch, but it is. Stock is great, but CM is better. I haven't used panandroid
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Yeah CM has a lot of nice additions, Paranoid is pretty slick...been a fan of that one on multiple devices. It's built around swapping ui dpi...so you can set your phone to act like a phablet or tablet per app...ie...make gmail look like it does on your tablet on your phone. Let's you drop out the soft keys and replace them with a pop up slide wheel/etc and has a lot of the AOSP and CM features like the quick notification toggles etc.

I9505 or most international roms losing signal ?

Hello all I have had this phone since launch date and love it.However when flashing international roms like i9505 or tmobile roms etc... there roms seem to loose signal in and out every so often like maybe once every 15 mins or so.. it only happens to international roms.I am on the latest base running Battery king @ the moment BGA base flashing different kernels made no difference in fixing this issue.Wondering if you guys have any input on this problem ? APN is on ATT LTE

What baseband are you on at the moment?

I have found my dl speeds are 25-40% lower on i9505 roms than US ones. But, they are still very high so not an issue for me. ATT/PTA. LTE didn't get me anything.

tokoam said:
Hello all I have had this phone since launch date and love it.However when flashing international roms like i9505 or tmobile roms etc... there roms seem to loose signal in and out every so often like maybe once every 15 mins or so.. it only happens to international roms.I am on the latest base running Battery king @ the moment BGA base flashing different kernels made no difference in fixing this issue.Wondering if you guys have any input on this problem ? APN is on ATT LTE
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Yes I have noticed that with the GE 4.2.2 ROM and the GE 4.3 leak that is out.
My phone sometimes would randomly just lose signal and then come back in maybe 30 seconds. Also I would get a new voice mail and the phone didn't even ring.
So I didn't lose signal as much as you are saying, I just lost it every once in awhile, but I still can relate to your problem.
Currently this afternoon I am working on putting on my phone the latest MF3, pre-rooted and I debloated by myself, so as I don't lock myself out of flashing in the future. I'm just putting in the finishing touches and flashing the MF3 baseband as well.
My take on all this, is the GE ROM is great and has none of the crap that the carrier ROMs have, but the problem is I think that the GE roms aren't optimized for specific carriers, that may be where the performance issues are. Plus I think Samsung is more capable of optimized the OS for their own phone's hardware than Google is.

Pfft that's an at&t thing I flash all roms that are compatible and I never lose any kind of signal and my dl speeds are the same too. Poor guys on at&t keep getting that pole rammed up a little bit further!!!

TheAxman said:
What baseband are you on at the moment?
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AMDL

tokoam said:
AMDL
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Did you try ATT/PTA not LTE

rugmankc said:
Did you try ATT/PTA not LTE
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No I have not but I suppose it's worth a shot.

tokoam said:
No I have not but I suppose it's worth a shot.
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OK, when I changed to LTE I had no data. Now maybe I could have re-registered on network or rebooted. But, didn't get that far. Just went back to PTA and got LTE back--don't know why

Constantly losing data connection

Test results:
I can confidently say after 24 hours running 2.50 radio on latest March update with T-Mobile I have not had a single data drop. Weird thing is with 2.50 I actually saw the phone downgrade to H in locations it should have. The latest March radio never went to H, it was either lte or no data.
Happens at random all day long on latest stock build. Absolutely bs. Any Ideas

same for me. After updating to the Match update, I've been having data drop out randomly.

Did a fresh factory image install. Let's see what happens. Ran the n update for a day and didn't have the problem.

It's the radio, install 2.50

sapphirecoupe said:
It's the radio, install 2.50
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Flashing 2.50 now will report back

I have the same issue now with the March update.

Turntabl1st said:
I have the same issue now with the March update.
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It's the March update and T-Mobile. Happens at random and some how settings get changed to wcdma preferred in *#*#4636#*#*. Only way to fix is reboot as airplane mode does nothing. I'm flashing 2.50 radio tonight after work to see if it fixes it.p

Flashed 2.50. So far so good. Needs a full day of testing

12 hrs no drop!

davwman said:
12 hrs no drop!
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Same thing happened to me so many times, mch19i, just thought about the radio thing today.
Flag to see it working for you.
Tmobile, LTE drops to wcdma, restoring stj fixes but comes back eventually. Hope this works

razrlover said:
Same thing happened to me so many times, mch19i, just thought about the radio thing today.
Flag to see it working for you.
Tmobile, LTE drops to wcdma, restoring stj fixes but comes back eventually. Hope this works
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It will work. Currently running sinless with AK kernel and have zero issues. I used so many Roms thinking it was a ROM issue and haven't had a drop in 24 hrs. Also speeds but 90mbs down and 40 up today with this radio. I was lucky if I hit 40 down with the March update radio.

I've been getting the same issues, now reading that radio 2.5 is helping, can you tell me where I can find it please.

I just went back to radio 2.50 on my MHC19I phone (T-Mobile). We shall see if it helps. As my cellular has been terrible since I flashed MHC19I (the build everyone is raving about).

juancaperez2000 said:
I've been getting the same issues, now reading that radio 2.5 is helping, can you tell me where I can find it please.
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4qYa0JLAsBGWlVsODg1T0FIMjA/view?usp=docslist_api

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4qYa0JLAsBGWlVsODg1T0FIMjA/view?usp=docslist_api
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I guess this need to be done from fastboot, or can I do it on recovery? Thanks

juancaperez2000 said:
I guess this need to be done from fastboot, or can I do it on recovery? Thanks
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Rename to radio, fastboot flash radio radio.img

On t-mobile in the LA area, and after updating to the March patch, was getting data drops randomly throughout the day. never had a problem with any of the other builds, and after flashing the old radio it works again, and no more data drops (been 2 days now).

OT question, im new on TMobile, and not sure if this is related to the radio or is because Tmobile just throttle my data, im on unlimited plan and after Flash the radio my speed was reduced dramatically not even getting 5Mb download speed, just check my usage and has 11.5Gb so far, thanks for your help

I'm a UK user on an EE 4G plan. Coverage isn't great in my area so my phone has always switched accordingly between 2G/HSDPA/LTE networks.
I recently updated to the latest March release of Pure Nexus and updated the bootloader and radio accordingly as was advised. Since then I have not noticed any improvement or decrease in signal level. However, it has been randomly reporting no data connection in apps when the phone is obviously displaying a strong connection in the status bar. I highly suspected the latest radio had something to do with it, but after hearing so many people raving about 3.61 fixing all their LTE issues I was a bit confused.
I'm about to flash back to 2.50 radio to see if it fixes the problem whilst staying on MHC19I release. Perhaps the updated radio only helped those with LTE problems in the USA?

List of ROMs that support WiFi Calling?

Would anybody happen to know off the top of their head which custom ROM's support WiFi Calling? I've been holding off on unlocking and rooting my Axon 7 because the stock image has everything I need including the most important feature, WiFi Calling. Any help would be great. Thanks!

brian117 said:
Would anybody happen to know off the top of their head which custom ROM's support WiFi Calling? I've been holding off on unlocking and rooting my Axon 7 because the stock image has everything I need including the most important feature, WiFi Calling. Any help would be great. Thanks!
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you can unlock and root the stock ROM

brian117 said:
Would anybody happen to know off the top of their head which custom ROM's support WiFi Calling? I've been holding off on unlocking and rooting my Axon 7 because the stock image has everything I need including the most important feature, WiFi Calling. Any help would be great. Thanks!
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I have tried dozens of custom ROMs for Axon 7. I don't believe any of them support WIFI calling - no one mentions that explicitly as well as i dont see any settings to disable/enable. I may be wrong...

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you can unlock and root the stock ROM
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Yeah I'm aware, but the customizable aspect is very minimal. Since there doesn't seem to be any custom ROMs I might just have to stick with rooted stock. Meh.
srr71 said:
I have tried dozens of custom ROMs for Axon 7. I don't believe any of them support WIFI calling - no one mentions that explicitly as well as i dont see any settings to disable/enable. I may be wrong...
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Yeah I noticed that too which is why I made this thread to see if anybody had any information. I think I read the Bad Boyz ROM is based on stock and has WiFi Calling, but it's outdated.

brian117 said:
Yeah I'm aware, but the customizable aspect is very minimal. Since there doesn't seem to be any custom ROMs I might just have to stick with rooted stock. Meh.
Yeah I noticed that too which is why I made this thread to see if anybody had any information. I think I read the Bad Boyz ROM is based on stock and has WiFi Calling, but it's outdated.
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There have been some new Roms out there, I've tried a couple and have had zero results as well. Trying to rez this thread because I need wifi calling but I HATE having basically a rom from August '17

ShiverStorm said:
There have been some new Roms out there, I've tried a couple and have had zero results as well. Trying to rez this thread because I need wifi calling but I HATE having basically a rom from August '17
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Yeah it's unfortunate but no devs have found interest in beefing up stock ROMs for the Axon 7. They're all AOSP based and ported which I've learned a long time ago will never support WiFi Calling. I've had to run plain stock rooted since owning the phone and never had the chance to try out all the good stuff that's available now.
But yeah as of now I think the outdated BadBoyz ROM is the closest anybody will get to a custom stock ROM and have WiFi Calling.

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Yeah it's unfortunate but no devs have found interest in beefing up stock ROMs for the Axon 7. They're all AOSP based and ported which I've learned a long time ago will never support WiFi Calling. I've had to run plain stock rooted since owning the phone and never had the chance to try out all the good stuff that's available now.
But yeah as of now I think the outdated BadBoyz ROM is the closest anybody will get to a custom stock ROM and have WiFi Calling.
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I appreciate the response! Same for me on stock. This is the first time I've run stock since 2009 and the fact that I can't clean/dirty flash every couple weeks or months (or days lol) when I feel like it is driving me crazy..

ShiverStorm said:
I appreciate the response! Same for me on stock. This is the first time I've run stock since 2009 and the fact that I can't clean/dirty flash every couple weeks or months (or days lol) when I feel like it is driving me crazy..
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Same! The Axon 7 has an awesome Dev community which I'm thankful for seeing, but the lack of stock ROMs leaves us WiFi Calling fanatics out of luck. If I knew anything about dev'ing ROMs I'd jump right into that shizz haha.

@raystef66 could you look into porting some of those old ROMs' modifications? I have no idea how easy or hard that would be, but maybe with the APKs it would be enough

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@raystef66 could you look into porting some of those old ROMs' modifications? I have no idea how easy or hard that would be, but maybe with the APKs it would be enough
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I'll look into that and contact someone i know and see if i can implement that as default into any rom.
Keep you updated

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I'll look into that and contact someone i know and see if i can implement that as default into any rom.
Keep you updated
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I was just going through our rom, Im not sure but i think a lot of it is that your carrier needs to support WFC. I know TMO does and AT&T. What base are you using US Model or for the G ?

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I was just going through our rom, Im not sure but i think a lot of it is that your carrier needs to support WFC. I know TMO does and AT&T. What base are you using US Model or for the G ?
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It depends on the carrier but also if its implemented onto the rom. U models have it and works on TMO. Perhaps AT&T too. But as other carriers provide it too and having a G version i just wondered. But you wrote to me it could only be an extra apk for wfc ? If so ill dig up your rom and look for it. Perhaps ill find a way.

Digging up an old thread so I don't post a duplicate.
Does anyone know if ROM creators have been able to get Wifi Calling working yet? My phone is driving me nuts with random slowdown and hanging. I know I can just wipe it and start fresh, but if I'm going to wipe the phone I want to move up to Oreo.

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Digging up an old thread so I don't post a duplicate.
Does anyone know if ROM creators have been able to get Wifi Calling working yet? My phone is driving me nuts with random slowdown and hanging. I know I can just wipe it and start fresh, but if I'm going to wipe the phone I want to move up to Oreo.
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Unfortunately most, if not all custom ROM's for the Axon 7 are still AOSP based and don't include WiFi Calling. The most recent Lineage 15.1 has the option for it under settings, but nobody, not even the dev, have answered if it truly works or not yet. It's like anything regarding WiFi Calling gets ignored.
Your best bet is to download NFound's release of the Oreo B12 Beta which is perfectly stable and will offer everything stock has like Dolby, and more importantly WiFi Calling.

Questions before Rooting

Hey everyone! This is the first time I ever get an unlocked phone. I am moving from a samsung s5 and when I rooted it, I saw that with certain roms (cm 13) had issues with data not working on Boost Mobile. I would always have to stick with stock rom variants which was sometimes annoying. Now that I got this phone though, does anyone know if there are problems like this on certain roms? Been awhile since I've done this since there was a lot of issues on boost

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Hey everyone! This is the first time I ever get an unlocked phone. I am moving from a samsung s5 and when I rooted it, I saw that with certain roms (cm 13) had issues with data not working on Boost Mobile. I would always have to stick with stock rom variants which was sometimes annoying. Now that I got this phone though, does anyone know if there are problems like this on certain roms? Been awhile since I've done this since there was a lot of issues on boost
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I have cdma as well (Verizon towers through straight talk) and have no issues on any ROM. I'd say give it a try and I bet they work.

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I have cdma as well (Verizon towers through straight talk) and have no issues on any ROM. I'd say give it a try and I bet they work.
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Think I might as well do it and test it. Any ROM you'd recommend?

Lineage is a great basic rom, and RR is based on LOS, but has a TON of customization.
something i did notice, is that you lose a lot of the sprint specific things on LOS roms (Update PRL, Set to Global Mode, and some dial codes)
something to think about.
Either way, you can always just trwp backup the stock, and go bac if needed