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Anybody else having issues with T-Mobile Wi-Fi Calling? Mine connects after a reboot, stays connected, but after a while it disconnects from WiFi calling and more often than not it doesn't want to re-connect again until I reboot the phone.
I suspect it may have something to do with the Doze mode in Android M, but I'm not sure. It feels like once it gets in doze mode it doesn't want to connect to Wi-Fi calling again.
Any known ways to force it to reconnect to WiFi calling, without rebooting?
Not sure what's happening, but I'm not receiving incoming phone calls when connected to WiFi calling. I've turned it off at home (have decent enough voice service) for the time being.
jc monkeyballs said:
Not sure what's happening, but I'm not receiving incoming phone calls when connected to WiFi calling. I've turned it off at home (have decent enough voice service) for the time being.
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I've seen that too, it's definitely flaky.
Came here just to get more info on this issue. Flaky on mine as well. I'm on T-Mobile. Sometimes users will hear me well, sometimes they cannot. It's typically most flaky when I'm right on the cusp of getting a tower signal. I'll receive a WiFi call and all will sound fine, but as soon as I move close to a window the call quality drops and users on the other end can barely make out what I'm saying. Almost like it has a hard time deciding between WiFi or the cell tower.
gokousupasayan said:
Came here just to get more info on this issue. Flaky on mine as well. I'm on T-Mobile. Sometimes users will hear me well, sometimes they cannot. It's typically most flaky when I'm right on the cusp of getting a tower signal. I'll receive a WiFi call and all will sound fine, but as soon as I move close to a window the call quality drops and users on the other end can barely make out what I'm saying. Almost like it has a hard time deciding between WiFi or the cell tower.
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Do you have it set to prefer wifi calling?
First day in office tomorrow on a 6p, will test this.
sirxdroid said:
Do you have it set to prefer wifi calling?
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I've had it set to both at different times in the past few weeks. Right now it's set to prefer WiFi because I have poor to non-existant celluar coverage indoors (both at work and home). My wife's old LG G2 has flawless WiFi calling at home.
I have mine set to "Wi-Fi Preferred". It's worked without any problems that I know of both at home and at work, for both calling and text messaging.
highvista said:
I have mine set to "Wi-Fi Preferred". It's worked without any problems that I know of both at home and at work, for both calling and text messaging.
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This has also been my experience, Connects instantly and stays connected. This is also the first phone I have had that actually hands off to mobile network when leaving a WiFi area without dropping the call. The galaxy s6 advertised this but never once did it work. I get pretty good service at my house and honestly didn't know that I would be able to use WiFi calling when I bought my 6p. Pleasantly surprised.
After a few days, text messages won't send. I get an error -1 code. Had to turn off Wifi=preferred.
Tsuul said:
After a few days, text messages won't send. I get an error -1 code. Had to turn off Wifi=preferred.
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See whether this helps:
Dial *#*#4636#*#* as a "normal" call from the stock phone dialer
You should see a menu
Tap Phone information
Scroll down
Tap "Turn ON SMS over IMS" button (make sure that after the button actually says "Turn OFF SMS over IMS" -- this means it's currently ON)
Based on info from this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus5/comments/1vahlr/fyi_if_youre_on_tmobile_your_sms_is_sent/
I would not touch any other settings in that menu and if it doesn't help, you should probably revert it back.
Now I'm not sure where these settings are persisted and if they get reverted back when a new radio is flashed for example. Does anyone have more info?
It works but I've found that it causes my phone to stay awake, so I've turned it off. I'd rather lose 1-3% overnight and not 8-10%.
sirxdroid said:
See whether this helps:
Dial *#*#4636#*#* as a "normal" call from the stock phone dialer
You should see a menu
Tap Phone information
Scroll down
Tap "Turn ON SMS over IMS" button (make sure that after the button actually says "Turn OFF SMS over IMS" -- this means it's currently ON)
Based on info from this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus5/comments/1vahlr/fyi_if_youre_on_tmobile_your_sms_is_sent/
I would not touch any other settings in that menu and if it doesn't help, you should probably revert it back.
Now I'm not sure where these settings are persisted and if they get reverted back when a new radio is flashed for example. Does anyone have more info?
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Gave it a try and re enabled wifi calling preferred. I'll post an update, but the error usually takes a few days before showing up.
My Wi-Fi calling was working fine, then I flashed the update to 6.0.1 and it doesn't work at all. It's enabled in settings, strong WiFi signal, but it never indicates Wi-Fi calling.
I had the opposite experience, I updated to 6.0.1 and now WiFi Calling is a lot more reliable than before. Still not perfect, but much better.
I've seen people with this same issue and I am sure Busybox is the culprit. Just tried installing to a variety of paths like /system/bin and /su/bin and it still breaks Wifi calling. You may ask yourself how I can be so sure this this is the cause. I uninstalled Busybox and immediately Wifi calling was working again.
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I've seen people with this same issue and I am sure Busybox is the culprit. Just tried installing to a variety of paths like /system/bin and /su/bin and it still breaks Wifi calling. You may ask yourself how I can be so sure this this is the cause. I uninstalled Busybox and immediately Wifi calling was working again.
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How are you testing to make sure its a WiFi call? Are you turning on airplane mode while on WiFi? That ensures all radios are off except WiFi.
Also what do you mean its not working? What happens? Do you get an error message? Does it make a noise? Does it do a song and dance instead? (Kidding)
The more details you give the more likely someone will be able to help.
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How are you testing to make sure its a WiFi call? Are you turning on airplane mode while on WiFi? That ensures all radios are off except WiFi.
Also what do you mean its not working? What happens? Do you get an error message? Does it make a noise? Does it do a song and dance instead? (Kidding)
The more details you give the more likely someone will be able to help.
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You're right, my bad. Well, underneath the mobile data toggle in quick settings, it switches to "T-Mobile Wi-Fi Calling" when it's active, and just T-Mobile whenever else. Almost immediately as I remove Busybox, Wi-Fi calling returns. Phone calls also display if it's calling using wi-fi.
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You're right, my bad. Well, underneath the mobile data toggle in quick settings, it switches to "T-Mobile Wi-Fi Calling" when it's active, and just T-Mobile whenever else. Almost immediately as I remove Busybox, Wi-Fi calling returns. Phone calls also display if it's calling using wi-fi.
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No problem, but still I don't know what you mean by it does not work. When trying to call does it say the call is connected or call failed or some other error or what?
Honestly I'm not really sure what the problem or fix is since I'm not super experienced with busy box or unix commands myself. I believe you can manually choose which utilities busy box installs. So the best thing to do first is to narrow down which specific Unix utilities in busy box that might be causing this. Install 1 of the utility in busy box and try to WiFi call, then repeat until wifi calling stops working again. Then come back and report which one it was that breaks WiFi calling.
Can anyone else test this?
Just tested your theory and my WiFi calling still works. Even rebooted in between uninstalling and installing busy box. Was curious because as soon as I read this thread I tested and saw my WiFi calling was not working so I decided to test your theory.. I uninstalled busy box and it still was not working. I rebooted my phone and WiFi calling was working again. I installed busy box and WiFi calling still working. I rebooted again and busy box still installed and WiFi calling still working. Hope this helps.
So I've always thought WiFi Calling was interesting and when I bought this phone I knew there was no WiFi calling. Here is a method to activate WiFi calling. not sure if it works though as I have international data plans + calling.
You do this at your own risk.
1. Download Nova Launcher from the Play store.
2. Once installed add the activities widget to whatever home screen you like.
3. A window will open. Scroll all the way down to settings open it.
4. From there start scrolling until you see WiFi Calling with WiFi Calling settings right under it and long press either of them.
5. Congrats you have made it to the WiFi calling screen all you do now is hit that switch!
Encryption-
1. Do the same up until number 3.
2. click on settings and scroll until you find Encrypt Phone.
3. Do a long click and a screen will pop up and it will say something like make sure you're at 80 percent with the charger plugged in...etc
NOTE- I have not tested this option so proceed with caution.
I'll put some screenshots for those who want to see it first.
This also works to get encryption surprisingly.
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I take no responsibility if you choose to do this and end up damaging your device. You do this at your own risk!
Is this Carrier dependent?
i2000s said:
Is this Carrier dependent?
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If the carrier supports WiFi calling then it should work. I'm not too sure. Give it a try and see if it works if it doesn't then you can just turn it off. It should also work on any model but I only have FRD-L14 to test it with.
Just curious, have you tried to use the default launcher after you enabled wifi-calling in Nova? Will this feature still work in that case? This sounds really interesting...
i2000s said:
Just curious, have you tried to use the default launcher after you enabled wifi-calling in Nova? Will this feature still work in that case? This sounds really interesting...
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I did not activate Nova at all when I used it. In the screenshots above you can see it is the default EMUI Launcher that I used to activate with.
As long as the bootloader is locked, the phone should already be encrypted.
tekkitan said:
As long as the bootloader is locked, the phone should already be encrypted.
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I had not tried it but when I tried to activate it , it literally just rebooted and that's it. I only put it cause I had seen some posts about people looking for the option in settings.
Atelear said:
I did not activate Nova at all when I used it. In the screenshots above you can see it is the default EMUI Launcher that I used to activate with.
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Turns out, this doesn't work on my phone (FRD-L04) with T-mobile. I followed your instructions to enable the Wifi-calling setting with Nova launcher and then restarted the phone to make sure everything resets as the setting defined. Then I put the phone in the Airplane mode with only wifi signal available. Called a number for a quick test, but it asked me to connect to a cellular signal or turn off the Airplane mode first. T-mobile should have the Wifi-calling enabled on their end, and I am using their prepaid plan right now. I guess the only reason why it didn't work is Huawei has other hidden settings disabled this function at the root (not sure on the software or hardware level, though).
Let me know if anyone can make it work truly. Thanks!
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Turns out, this doesn't work on my phone (FRD-L04) with T-mobile. I followed your instructions to enable the Wifi-calling setting with Nova launcher and then restarted the phone to make sure everything resets as the setting defined. Then I put the phone in the Airplane mode with only wifi signal available. Called a number for a quick test, but it asked me to connect to a cellular signal or turn off the Airplane mode first. T-mobile should have the Wifi-calling enabled on their end, and I am using their prepaid plan right now. I guess the only reason why it didn't work is Huawei has other hidden settings disabled this function at the root (not sure on the software or hardware level, though).
Let me know if anyone can make it work truly. Thanks!
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You can't use WiFi calling while in airplane mode as long as you have bars it should work.
Ex. Say you're in Mexico and you got WiFi then you turn on WiFi and you should technically be able to get calls like if you where in the US.
Atelear said:
You can't use WiFi calling while in airplane mode as long as you have bars it should work.
Ex. Say you're in Mexico and you got WiFi then you turn on WiFi and you should technically be able to get calls like if you where in the US.
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Here is a reddit thread that confirms wifi calling should work on phones that have airplane mode on while wifi is enabled to connect to the T-mobile network: https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/5txjca/how_can_i_know_if_wifi_calling_is_working/
i2000s said:
Here is a reddit thread that confirms wifi calling should work on phones that have airplane mode on while wifi is enabled to connect to the T-mobile network: https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/5txjca/how_can_i_know_if_wifi_calling_is_working/
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Hmm my younger brother has a ZTE ZMAX PRO and it WiFi calling wouldn't work if he had airplane mode activated so I assumed most would work in the same way. He is on MetroPCS which is technically the same as T-Mobile
Atelear said:
Hmm my younger brother has a ZTE ZMAX PRO and it WiFi calling wouldn't work if he had airplane mode activated so I assumed most would work in the same way. He is on MetroPCS which is technically the same as T-Mobile
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How did you test if your wifi calling work or not while posting?
i2000s said:
How did you test if your wifi calling work or not while posting?
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At the top I said I did not test because I have an international data plan so there is no point for me to try and use it.
Atelear said:
At the top I said I did not test because I have an international data plan so there is no point for me to try and use it.
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Gotcha. Your method is similar to what OnePlus One people did before, and yields similar result--not really working. I guess we have to wait for Huawei to implement some function in their future EMUI release. They claimed they had a plan for EMUI 5 but not in this release in reality. Seems Huawei people are not in a hurry, possibly because the Chinese market doesn't have the demand for wifi calling.
i2000s said:
Gotcha. Your method is similar to what OnePlus One people did before, and yields similar result--not really working. I guess we have to wait for Huawei to implement some function in their future EMUI release. They claimed they had a plan for EMUI 5 but not in this release in reality. Seems Huawei people are not in a hurry, possibly because the Chinese market doesn't have the demand for wifi calling.
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That's true. I kinda didn't expect much from it but it will most likely be coming in a future update anyways
Using FDR-L14 with TMobile and enabling the WiFi Calling doesn't seem to do anything here as well.
That said, I am super excited to see that Huawei/Honor working on this!!!!!
My understanding is that Wi-Fi calling functionality is a combination of the radio + kernel. It's why AOSP-based ROMs have never been able to get Wi-Fi calling or SMS working, they don't have the closed-source drivers needed to make it happen. So in essence enabling it via a Menu item is simply toggling a UI switch with no back-end code to actually make the calling work.
Atelear said:
So I've always thought WiFi Calling was interesting and when I bought this phone I knew there was no WiFi calling. Here is a method to activate WiFi calling. not sure if it works though as I have international data plans + calling.
You do this at your own risk.
1. Download Nova Launcher from the Play store.
2. Once installed add the activities widget to whatever home screen you like.
3. A window will open. Scroll all the way down to settings open it.
4. From there start scrolling until you see WiFi Calling with WiFi Calling settings right under it and long press either of them.
5. Congrats you have made it to the WiFi calling screen all you do now is hit that switch!
Encryption-
1. Do the same up until number 3.
2. click on settings and scroll until you find Encrypt Phone.
3. Do a long click and a screen will pop up and it will say something like make sure you're at 80 percent with the charger plugged in...etc
NOTE- I have not tested this option so proceed with caution.
I'll put some screenshots for those who want to see it first.
This also works to get encryption surprisingly.
If this helps you make sure to hit Thanks!
I take no responsibility if you choose to do this and end up damaging your device. You do this at your own risk!
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1.) I bought Honor 8 with Nougat
2.) Called my service provider Ultra Mobile (piggy backs on T-Mobile) to enable WIFI calling, they took my E911 address and enabled it.
3.) Installed Nova
4.) Turned the WIFI calling switch to ON
5.) It didnt work in Airplane mode, it didn't work when I have WIFI and no cell reception. Not able to make calls.
This was already discussed in another thread a few weeks ago and no it definitely does not work it's just a toggle switch in settings Wi-Fi calling is not enabled on this phone. I personally tested it on AT&T sim using wifi in my basement where I can't receive a signal and multiple people tested it on T-MOBILE.
Hello Everyone,
Does anyone know if this phone supports Wifi-Calling via T-mobile?:cyclops:
It does. I tried it last night. Turned to airplane and turned back on wifi, made a call just fine over wifi on T-Mobile.
I had no idea it could do that, but since my house is a bit of a Faraday Cage my G5+ starts the call as a provider call (T-Mobile) & jumps over to WiFi as soon as the connection is made. Totally threw me for a loop, I've wanted this feature on an OON phone for several years... way to go, Moto... oops, I mean Lenovo
Dave in San Jose
I might be missing something but it doesn't say WiFi call when set to WiFi preferred and I'm on WiFi. I try turning airplane mode on and WiFi on and get a message that I have to connect to a network. In TMobile.
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Hello Everyone,
Does anyone know if this phone supports Wifi-Calling via T-mobile?:cyclops:
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It works fine for me!
jrc2 said:
It works fine for me!
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Does not work for me. Brand new 2gb ram version from Fry's.
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radoste said:
Does not work for me. Brand new 2gb ram version from Fry's.
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Did you enable it in settings? I've found it to be a little finicky sometimes, but it usually works pretty well.
It works but for me caused SMS/MMS delivery issues with the wifi router i was on. So i turned it off. I can turn it on when i need it for now, no need.
Get an sms app that supports forcing sms over cell even if you are on wifi like textra.
Sorry to bother, but it doesn't work for me. I have wifi preferred and wifi calling enabled, but it doesn't work when I do airplane mode-with-wifi on.
Any chance this could be due to APN settings? Can someone with this working share their APN? I know on my previous phone (Nexus 6), the T-Mobile APN settings were confusing and tricky. Thanks in advance!
Turning on airplane mode got wifi calling and SMS to work for me no problem. I have "wifi-calling preferred" selected in settings - is there any good way to get it to switch over automatically when cell service is poor? would like to not have to hit airplane mode every time.
rogueleader25 said:
Turning on airplane mode got wifi calling and SMS to work for me no problem. I have "wifi-calling preferred" selected in settings - is there any good way to get it to switch over automatically when cell service is poor? would like to not have to hit airplane mode every time.
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Actually, you shouldn't need to turn on airplane mode. That seems to just be a way to confirm it is actually using wifi since it ensures cell radios are turned off. It will automatically switch if you do not turn on airplane mode. If you look at the phone when a call is connected, it will confirm that it is a wifi call. This is a small drawback to the Moto G5 Plus software. Unlike other phones that actually tell you that the phone will use wifi in the notification area, this phone only acknowledges the wifi calling after the call is made or received. It would be nice if they would change that.
However, I am having a problem with mine not working properly on wifi. It seems that calls will not always go through to my phone. The phone will ring, but won't let me answer the call. It will quite often show the same call repeatedly even though I cannot answer the call. The caller tells me they hear nothing the entire time it should be ringing and eventually gives a busy signal. It doesn't even go to voice mail so they can leave a message. Sometimes it works perfectly, but there is no way to know when it's not going to work. I used to be able to get it to work again if I switched off wifi and connected to LTE, then made a test call before turning wifi back on. Now I can't seem to get that to work any more. Anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
Hi brothers,
Please, can you share some screenshots of these VoWIFI options in settings?
I feel the "reteu" (european) version doesn't have enabled VoLTE and VoWIFI.
WiFi calling was working fine with nougat, it doesn't work after I upgraded to Oreo. I have OB4 installed on the phone with T-Mobile USA. I am in remote place without T-Mobile signal. I put Sim card into my Nexus 6, Wi-Fi calling works fine.
So Oneplus team breaks Wi-Fi calling on Oreo?
I have TMobile and I'm on OOS 5.0.1, no issues with WiFi calling here.
Occasionally I will have to toggle airplane mode for it to work, but I had that issue before Oreo.
Still doesn't work on beta 5
HTC_FUZE said:
Still doesn't work on beta 5
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Have you enabled WiFi calling in the Sim & Network settings?
If you are using Magisk v15.3 get module VoEnabler v1.1 created by Toucan.
I did not even seen option in the sim and network until I install this module...
I have no problems with US T-Mobile, although it does not work with German T-Mobile. In another thread it was explained that Oneplus and the respective carrier need an agreement to make it work. If your carrier doesn't have one, it will not work.
I don't have the option in Sim&Network for WiFi calling until I did fresh installation. Now it is working.
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I have no problems with US T-Mobile, although it does not work with German T-Mobile. In another thread it was explained that Oneplus and the respective carrier need an agreement to make it work. If your carrier doesn't have one, it will not work.
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That's true, without the agreement of German T-mobile no volte or vowi won't work. They want you to buy a galaxy s8 for example which is enabled for both...
It is really strange. WiFi calling option disappear after I switch on the cellular and then switch back to airplane mode.
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Still doesn't work on beta 5
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If you are using magisk with OB5, flash VoEnabler and it works.
I know why. The t-mobile sim card must be selected for data.
HTC_FUZE said:
I know why. The t-mobile sim card must be selected for data.
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You read answer / reply from other people? You talk alone and don't answer to users try help you. In XDA there a "Thanks" button or "Quote/Multi-Quote", i advise to use that.
Pho3nX said:
You read answer / reply from other people? You talk alone and don't answer to users try help you. In XDA there a "Thanks" button or "Quote/Multi-Quote", i advise to use that.
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I am not talking alone, I am sharing my finding for all people so every one reading the topic can find the clues if they faces similar problem.
atistang said:
I have TMobile and I'm on OOS 5.0.1, no issues with WiFi calling here.
Occasionally I will have to toggle airplane mode for it to work, but I had that issue before Oreo.
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i know this is a crazy old thread, but have you ever been able to fix this? i'm still having this issue even after ditching OOS and going to a custom ROM. this has to be a bug in the modem firmware, but i've reported it to OP and they seem uninterested in fixing it...
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i know this is a crazy old thread, but have you ever been able to fix this? i'm still having this issue even after ditching OOS and going to a custom ROM. this has to be a bug in the modem firmware, but i've reported it to OP and they seem uninterested in fixing it...
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Nope. I even installed enterprise networking equipment in my home since and it seems to be better (probably placebo). I have also done a factory reset which didn't help.
It seems like I can always receive a call, but can only make a call 75% of the time. There has been times where I tried to call people I know several times when it was acting up, then I would message them telling them to call me and my phone rings minutes later.
What usually works (but not always) is to reboot the phone, then turn airplane mode on, wait a few minutes, then turn it back off.
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Nope. I even installed enterprise networking equipment in my home since and it seems to be better (probably placebo). I have also done a factory reset which didn't help.
It seems like I can always receive a call, but can only make a call 75% of the time. There has been times where I tried to call people I know several times when it was acting up, then I would message them telling them to call me and my phone rings minutes later.
What usually works (but not always) is to reboot the phone, then turn airplane mode on, wait a few minutes, then turn it back off.
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that may be a different issue then...mine always works when it's turned on, but seems to just stop working randomly for no reason. the vowifi and volte icons disappear, and the only way to get them back (and get it working again) is to toggle airplane mode or reboot the phone...
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