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?
I am thinking about just keeping the data plan on tmobile and canceling the voice plan and text plan and use gv to make calls and texts. What you guys think?
If someone texts you, they will charge you. Get unlimited data and text, I think that's better. I wouldnt just rely on data. No data means your phone is an expensive brick.
leyvatron said:
If someone texts you, they will charge you. Get unlimited data and text, I think that's better. I wouldnt just rely on data. No data means your phone is an expensive brick.
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i said keeping the data..and just the data no voice service. is that possible?
You can I am thinking about this myself you would need to set up a SIP account and something at pbx.org
Google Voice is not a VOIP service. Google Voice forwards calls dialed to your GV number to some other phone number(s), be they cell, land or sip/voip lines.
Your solution would only work if you have an active and functional sip/voip connection up and running on your phone full time.
GV text messages will work on data only accounts, though.
distortedloop said:
Google Voice is not a VOIP service. Google Voice forwards calls dialed to your GV number to some other phone number(s), be they cell, land or sip/voip lines.
Your solution would only work if you have an active and functional sip/voip connection up and running on your phone full time.
GV text messages will work on data only accounts, though.
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i have vonage for home phone service is that good?
2012iawait said:
i have vonage for home phone service is that good?
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No, that won't work. Your problem is that the phone has to have some way for the Google Voice server to send it a phone call. This is done by sending it to a phone number (or a gmail web account on a laptop/sesktop with the appropriate browser plug-in).
The phone number can be any phone number (land, cell, voip, sip, whatever).
If you cancel your voice service on the phone, the only way GV has to contact the phone is the data connection, which means you'll need a working SIP account.
The Nexus S does support SIP calling out of the box (but I'm not sure if it's over WiFi only). The setup for it is done in Settings, Call settings, Accounts. You'll need a server and account info. Then tell Google Voice to forward calls to that account, and they should forward to the phone that way (in theory).
Note the warning that having the phone receive internet calls (SIP) comes with a warning that it "reduces battery life." The reason for this is that to ensure you don't miss a call, a full time data connection will have to be maintained; this will be a serious battery drain on the phone I believe.
The point I was trying to make was that Google Voice is not really a VOIP solution the way traditional VOIP services are. It's more like one than it used to be now that you can actually make and receive calls from a web browser, but that won't work on the cell phone, especially for the incoming.
I may try setting up a SIP account on my phone to test this out sometime this week; but frankly, T-Mobile's 3G service is so spotty, especially inside buildings, that it would never serve as an acceptable voice service replacement. YMMV.
I use Google Voice with a data plan but no text plan. I do have a voice plan. You need to give out your GV number to everyone for texts, and then you can block texts through T-mobile and not worry about charges. GV doesn't support picture messaging and if someone sends you a picture message at your GV number it just disappears into the aether and doesn't notify you or the other person that it wasn't received.
There are ways of using GV without paying anything (detailed on this forum). Using a gizmo5 account allows for free incoming calls, and using an app to have your outgoing calls "call you back" on your gizmo5 account allows for free outgoing calls.
I have to disagree about the battery life and GV not being a true VOIP solution. With the addition of a SIP carrier of some kind (preferably gizmo5 for free calls) then it works well. Battery life is fine having my phone constantly registered with gizmo5 servers over data to accept incoming VOIP calls. No need to use a web browser.
But I have to agree with distortedloop about needing a high quality data connection. Unless you spend all your time near a 3g tower you're going to find plenty of times when you have no 3g data and therefore no good calling. You don't want to use VOIP over EDGE. It is nice that when I'm at home or office where I have my own reliable WIFI that I can use my cell without using any minutes. But I wouldn't trust it to be available when your car breaks down on some rural road.
Belarios said:
I use Google Voice with a data plan but no text plan. I do have a voice plan. You need to give out your GV number to everyone for texts, and then you can block texts through T-mobile and not worry about charges. GV doesn't support picture messaging and if someone sends you a picture message at your GV number it just disappears into the aether and doesn't notify you or the other person that it wasn't received.
There are ways of using GV without paying anything (detailed on this forum). Using a gizmo5 account allows for free incoming calls, and using an app to have your outgoing calls "call you back" on your gizmo5 account allows for free outgoing calls.
I have to disagree about the battery life and GV not being a true VOIP solution. With the addition of a SIP carrier of some kind (preferably gizmo5 for free calls) then it works well. Battery life is fine having my phone constantly registered with gizmo5 servers over data to accept incoming VOIP calls. No need to use a web browser.
But I have to agree with distortedloop about needing a high quality data connection. Unless you spend all your time near a 3g tower you're going to find plenty of times when you have no 3g data and therefore no good calling. You don't want to use VOIP over EDGE. It is nice that when I'm at home or office where I have my own reliable WIFI that I can use my cell without using any minutes. But I wouldn't trust it to be available when your car breaks down on some rural road.
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I agree with this.
GV is something I wouldn't rely on 100%.
I have the cheapest voice plan with unlimited data and text. When I make calls, I use GV and when I receive I have my voice. That works for me and I pay 67 a month.
I have a Galaxy S10+ and Tab S4 Wifi (both US models unlocked). I have the call and message continuity feature enabled on both devices.
Regarding calls, Incoming calls work perfectly fine.
When I make an outbound call from the tablet, the call gets dialed out successfully from the phone but the audio shifts to phone and no longer stays on the tablet. So, I can only dial the number out on the tablet, but I have to use the phone to talk. Is this behavior expected (or) a software bug?
Both devices are running the latest patches.
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I m running the latest LineageOS Version and I can't use the phone function on my Yoga Tab 3 Plus LTE YTX703L any more. I checked my simcard in another phone, its ok. There is no mobile network for phone calls on the Yoga, but I do have a mobile data connection on it. So i guess its a software problem. I could make phone calls some versions before, can anybody help me?
Hey guys! I'm hoping someone here can help me. I just recently got a Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus (Verizon) and it will only connect to 4G LTE (data only) I can't access my SIM card's phone number or messaging services. Which is kind of fine because I use Google Voice for my calls and messages, but my banking app won't use my GV number for verification reasons and fraud alerts.
I'm on Straight Talk Verizon towers, and the phone will only connect to data. I can't use the phone number that is assigned to me through S.T. which normally I wouldn't care because like I said I use Google Voice for everything. But my banking app will not recognize my Google Voice number to verify things, so that's what I use the number assigned to me from Straight Talk for. This phone has had all kinds of connectivity issues since I got it.
It says "searching for service" while connected to 4G LTE. All I get is data. No phone calls or text messages from the number assigned to me through Straight Talk. If I pop my SIM card into a different phone, I don't have these issues. I can access that phone number, calls & messaging as well.
I'm hoping someone here can help me.
Thank You!