Other than the alpha CM7--I ran that for a while but really need Wifi calling as well.
According to the posts here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1379524 it looks like the SIP stack is still in place but that Samsung just crippled the settings menu options. It would be fantastic if all it took to restore the SIP calling features was to add back the menu items for setting up the accounts! I have no idea if that is something that is doable or not.
On my MT4G there were a number of ROMs, CM7 and Sense-based, that supported both Wifi Calling as well as SIP calling and I am really missing this ability.
No one else uses this awesome capability?
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No one else uses this awesome capability?
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Which app would you use? Since many ROMs already do WiFi calling, not sure there's a need for SIP calling. Or maybe I misunderstood the question?
Not an app, the native SIP calling built into Gingerbread. It's there in CM7 and it was there on my MT4G on multiple ROM's, along with Wifi calling.
Wifi calling is great if (a) you are using your T-Mo SIM and (b) you are calling the US. For example, my territory is Asia, so I have a VOIP service I use in Singapore and need to be able to connect to it while in the US so that I can call there cheaply. Right now I fall back to Google Voice, but that doesn't give the proper caller ID, etc.
Then, when I travel I put in a local SIM, so Wifi calling doesn't work anymore. So, I need to connect to a VOIP service in the US in order to call home cheaply.
Wifi calling and SIP calling are not mutually exclusive, but work well in tandem. Right now I still travel with my MT4G in order to do this, but it's on its last legs and needs to be retired quickly!
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Not an app, the native SIP calling built into Gingerbread. It's there in CM7 and it was there on my MT4G on multiple ROM's, along with Wifi calling.
Wifi calling is great if (a) you are using your T-Mo SIM and (b) you are calling the US. For example, my territory is Asia, so I have a VOIP service I use in Singapore and need to be able to connect to it while in the US so that I can call there cheaply. Right now I fall back to Google Voice, but that doesn't give the proper caller ID, etc.
Then, when I travel I put in a local SIM, so Wifi calling doesn't work anymore. So, I need to connect to a VOIP service in the US in order to call home cheaply.
Wifi calling and SIP calling are not mutually exclusive, but work well in tandem. Right now I still travel with my MT4G in order to do this, but it's on its last legs and needs to be retired quickly!
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Very interesting. Didn't realize that was available in other Android builds. Sounds like it would be good to have if you were international.
Curious, though, aren't international data rates really high?
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Curious, though, aren't international data rates really high?
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Not when using a local SIM. In Singapore 500Mb is about $12 and a month to use it in. That's actually plenty for me when I'm out as I have it on Wifi when in my hotel.
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Very interesting. Didn't realize that was available in other Android builds. Sounds like it would be good to have if you were international.
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SIP native calling included into stock ROM of SGS2 i9100 (international version)
Native SIP client
I am also looking for NAtive SIP Client but I can't find anyway to include it... I tried all the MODs available and only CM7 gave me the ability to use Native SIP Client...
I am back to Stock ROM but still trying to find a way to include Internet Calling Menu under Call Settings...
Earlier this week I noticed that the Paradox ROM mentioned that they re-enabled the SIP Settings in their ROM. I haven't tried it yet as it was mentioned that they would be releasing an update by this weekend, so I will probably download and try that ROM out this weekend. I hope that SIP is working properly as it is a major pain for me without it. I keep my old Vibrant around just for SIP.
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Do people in Canada have that option? I mean, whenever I goto my CM 6.1 wifi calling app, its a t-mobile one and it wont work. I really dont know much about it except that Fido charges an add-on for using it. Isn't wifi calling supposed to be free? Can someone explain what It really means and how I can take advantage of it?
I don't know too much about it, except I presume there must be some sort of support from your carrier on it - e.g. when your phone is trying to make a call via wifi, then somehow the call needs to go from the Internet into your carrier's phone systems.
I know Fido doesn't have wifi calling (at least for free).
Why not get skype. I pay 2.99 a month for UNLIMITED wifi (and 3G) calling to landlines and mobiles in North America. I reduced my phone voice plan but bumped my data to take advantage of this. The only crappy thing is we can't get an incoming number because the CRTC blocked this in Canada for obvious reasons.
But you can use it for all your outgoing calls and you can also set the outgoing caller ID as your cell number so people will know it is you when you call.
does anybody know package name of wifi calling? I'd like to uninstall it, but can't find package name.
I've only found apk name (ms-htcvision-knt20-02.apk)
Download free aps Root System Free, run as root, run Terminal and write:
cd System
cd App
rm ms-htcvision-knt20-02.apk
Reboot system and wifi calling is gone.
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Do people in Canada have that option? I mean, whenever I goto my CM 6.1 wifi calling app, its a t-mobile one and it wont work. I really dont know much about it except that Fido charges an add-on for using it. Isn't wifi calling supposed to be free? Can someone explain what It really means and how I can take advantage of it?
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You'd have to be in the US and using a T-mobile SIM/Number in order to take advantage of it. Its a T-mobile app to run on the T-mo network.
i didn't see any wifi caling in the phone, do you guys know why.
Thank you
alibox87 said:
i didn't see any wifi caling in the phone, do you guys know why.
Thank you
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Its under wifi settings
simply ginger
tennandcoz1 said:
Its under wifi settings
simply ginger
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what where?
I didn't see it ?????????
I went to the store this morning and they said if you have the newest sim which comes with the phone, then you will see it in settings.
There is no wifi calling at launch, you do need to use the new sim in order to support a new wifi calling feature later this year
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There is no wifi calling at launch, you do need to use the new sim in order to support a new wifi calling feature later this year
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Where is this information coming from?
Yea I didn't see wifi calling either. I am disappointed.
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I Havent got mine yet but my wife works there and supposedly you have to use the sim card that comes with the phone
Can someone who has the phone actually try to initiate a call with wifi calling?
You have to have the new sim that came with the phone. This will not work with an old sim from your previous phone.
I'm using the new sim that was in the box, and i'm not seeing how to initiate wifi calling.
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I am using the new SIM. I am connected to Wifi. I don't see any Wifi calling options anywhere...
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I am using the new SIM. I am connected to Wifi. I don't see any Wifi calling options anywhere...
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There should be a check box in the same screen wifi was initiated in.
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There should be a check box in the same screen wifi was initiated in.
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Nope... I see only two checkboxes... Wifi (Enable/Disable) and Network notification... below that is WPS button conneciton and then the list of wireless networks.
I appreciate you looking onto it. That sucks if that option isn't or doesn't become available.
i took mines back because of this and hotspot being blocked.. grrrrr
Okay back i called t-mobile a couple of times. They thought the people were talking about sip, skype, voip calling. Not the wifi calling that t-mobile made. The one that seem to most tech savy rep said there will be a patch to add it but don't know when it will come. The amaze 4g already has it build in under wireless settings.
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Okay back i called t-mobile a couple of times. They thought the people were talking about sip, skype, voip calling. Not the wifi calling that t-mobile made. The one that seem to most tech savy rep said there will be a patch to add it but don't know when it will come. The amaze 4g already has it build in under wireless settings.
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Not enough for me to return the phone but really need that option. Oh well....now we wait
For kicks I installed Kineto (Wifi Calling app) and tried to run it... immediately FCs. Oh well. Perhaps this feature can be "unlocked" with a custom ROM that re-adds SIP support to the device. I thought I read somewhere that it is excluded by default.
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For kicks I installed Kineto (Wifi Calling app) and tried to run it... immediately FCs. Oh well. Perhaps this feature can be "unlocked" with a custom ROM that re-adds SIP support to the device. I thought I read somewhere that it is excluded by default.
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we would have to wait till samsung makes a wifi calling as the one we have now uses htc libs. Sip support is there just not wifi calling for t-mobile sip comes with all gingerbread phones.
i want to know can wifi calling make free international calling... can someone explain to me how it work
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i want to know can wifi calling make free international calling... can someone explain to me how it work
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WiFi calling uses a tech called IMS which was helped through development by T-Mobile. It DOES use your anytime minutes and DOES NOT give you free international calling or unlimited minutes, you must already have international and unlimited minutes on your T-Mobile plan. The WiFi calling is just taking your phone off the cellular networks and putting everything possible, internet, calls, and texts through your internet connection, nothing more. If you're looking for international calling via WiFi, you're going to have to find a VoIP service provider that provides unlimited international calling (good luck) and use a softphone (VoIP phone application) in order to get what you're after.
I won't go into detail how to set that up or possible VoIP carriers you can get, that's what Google is for.
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WiFi calling uses a tech called IMS which was helped through development by T-Mobile. It DOES use your anytime minutes and DOES NOT give you free international calling or unlimited minutes, you must already have international and unlimited minutes on your T-Mobile plan. The WiFi calling is just taking your phone off the cellular networks and putting everything possible, internet, calls, and texts through your internet connection, nothing more. If you're looking for international calling via WiFi, you're going to have to find a VoIP service provider that provides unlimited international calling (good luck) and use a softphone (VoIP phone application) in order to get what you're after.
I won't go into detail how to set that up or possible VoIP carriers you can get, that's what Google is for.
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thank you for the quick reply and your right google does the job
Actually, once you sign up on your tmobile account for free wifi calling, the minutes do NOT count toward your monthly minute total.
It's a special option for certain phones, the S4 included. Look under plan add-ons or something like that. It is free to add.
That being said, no, you cannot call from the US internationally for free.
However, you can call internationally, on wifi, to the US, for free.
Hey guys, I've been trying to figure out how to Add T-Mobile Wifi-Preferred calling VOIP to non tmobile ROM as I just copied/pasted the title lol. My ROM is DN3 by electro-team.com & they already told me they didn't have it. I've found a wifi-preferred.apk on this xda but it was from a pretty old post & it crashes on launch.
Somewhere I read where it calls on code in the tmobile stock ROM's system partition or something like that. I live in a valley at the bottom & I get zero or 1 bar by my window but no service in most of my house. I didn't realize that T-Mobile was the only phone provider that offered true VOIP wifi-preferred calling....I have been with them for 8 years lol. I'd get calls through my internet router's connection even when I was out of cell tower 4G LTE range! Man if I would have known that I would never have flashed a non-Tmobile ROM. Plus to top it off I had a defective microSD card so even though my NANDROID backup said it saved, it was gone on reboot...ugh bad luck.
I just got this ROM set up the way I want it....I'd hate to hafta flash another. Let me know PLEASE if anyone of you smart ladies & gents knows how I can get Tmobiles "wifi-preferred" calling back on my phone.
Thanks guys!
Unless I'm mistaken (but I don't think I am), you can't have native WIFI Calling on non-Tmobile Roms. For that, you will have to flash a stock Rom.
I use this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2564430
You can also use 3rd party apps to make VOIP calls. Google Voice is also a good alternative.
Sorry for the bad news and good luck.
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wifi-preferred not wifi calling
I have a $60.00 a year skype plan & number that works well. But I want to use my "carrier" number. I have google voice & google hangouts but with hangouts dialer it still only calls phone numbers on LTE networks...doesn't work over wifi internet connection, unless ur calling someone by hangouts username. All phone number calls go out through LTE only on google hangouts/voice dialer thing.
I'm talking about "WIFI-Preferred calling" not wifi-calling....they have the terminology all confusing when you google it. There's got to be a way. I know non-stock ROMs that say they have it. I've found 2. I'll look up what they are called.
Hey all, I've been pouring over the forums here and other places trying to find a solution to my issue. I just got a Pixel 2XL the verizon version and I'm using it on Straight Talk with an AT&T sim card. So far so good except I cannot get wifi calling. I'm pure stock, android 9/Pie, no bootloader unlocks/rooting etc. The wifi calling option does not exist in the phone app nor in the settings anywhere. Even when you search for wifi calling, it simply takes you to the network and connections section of settings but wifi calling is no where to be found. I've tried the adb command (the one that apparently used to work on Oreo but not longer does on Pie) and that didn't work (though I didn't expect it to since many people said it no longer works on Pie). I have an Unlocked Note 9 as well and its wifi calling works perfectly fine so does anyone have a way to make this work? Reception at my home is somewhat lacking and I really need wifi calling.
Thanks!
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Hey all, I've been pouring over the forums here and other places trying to find a solution to my issue. I just got a Pixel 2XL the verizon version and I'm using it on Straight Talk with an AT&T sim card. So far so good except I cannot get wifi calling. I'm pure stock, android 9/Pie, no bootloader unlocks/rooting etc. The wifi calling option does not exist in the phone app nor in the settings anywhere. Even when you search for wifi calling, it simply takes you to the network and connections section of settings but wifi calling is no where to be found. I've tried the adb command (the one that apparently used to work on Oreo but not longer does on Pie) and that didn't work (though I didn't expect it to since many people said it no longer works on Pie). I have an Unlocked Note 9 as well and its wifi calling works perfectly fine so does anyone have a way to make this work? Reception at my home is somewhat lacking and I really need wifi calling.
Thanks!
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Could you attach a screenshot with the WHOLE section of "Mobile Network", found inside of "Network & Internet" in the Settings -- make sure that you click on the drop down menu next to "Advanced Calling" -- this will help make sure that wifi calling is really missing as well as might point something out that may help with a solution. Moreso, personally, because I can't even imagine what the settings menu looks like missing this...
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Could you attach a screenshot with the WHOLE section of "Mobile Network", found inside of "Network & Internet" in the Settings -- make sure that you click on the drop down menu next to "Advanced Calling" -- this will help make sure that wifi calling is really missing as well as might point something out that may help with a solution. Moreso, personally, because I can't even imagine what the settings menu looks like missing this...
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I have attached a screenshot of the mobile network section with the advanced section expanded.
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I have attached a screenshot of the mobile network section with the advanced section expanded.
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It might be a long shot but try checking the settings in the Google phone app. There should be a place that says configure IMS calling. I have this setting here and in the network settings. If you have it that's where you can enable wifi calling.
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It might be a long shot but try checking the settings in the Google phone app. There should be a place that says configure IMS calling. I have this setting here and in the network settings. If you have it that's where you can enable wifi calling.
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Been there done that. I have no options for setting up IMS calling. I only have SIP options. Also, I have tried the phone dialer trick (where you dial *#*#4636#*#*) and that shows the wifi calling option as a toggle but its greyed out and cannot be enabled. I even tried an adb trick that used to work on the 1st gen pixels, but to no avail.
What happens when you enter your information here?
I'll have to initiate a chat with Straight Talk. Like you I have a Pixel 2 XL with a Straight Talk AT&T SIM. The only difference is that mine is unlocked. I just ran my phone number and the IMEI of the SIM through the linked site and it tells me my device is not compatible. Since I have a BYOP SIM and the IMEI is of the SIM itself, chances are high that the SIM needs replacing with one that includes WiFi calling support.
EDIT: According to the representative I just spoke with, there's no guarantee that changing to a newer AT&T SIM will enable the feature. The only guaranteed method according to tech support is switching to a T-Mobile SIM.
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What happens when you enter your information here?
I'll have to initiate a chat with Straight Talk. Like you I have a Pixel 2 XL with a Straight Talk AT&T SIM. The only difference is that mine is unlocked. I just ran my phone number and the IMEI of the SIM through the linked site and it tells me my device is not compatible. Since I have a BYOP SIM and the IMEI is of the SIM itself, chances are high that the SIM needs replacing with one that includes WiFi calling support.
EDIT: According to the representative I just spoke with, there's no guarantee that changing to a newer AT&T SIM will enable the feature. The only guaranteed method according to tech support is switching to a T-Mobile SIM.
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Hey thanks for the help. I tried that link as well (before I posted here; sorry I should have mentioned it) and it said my device is also not compatible. I initiated a chat with them and they told me the same; switch to T-Mobile. I am tempted to do so but the one thing holding me back is my home is already a place I get poor signal and T-mobile's coverage while much improved still isn't as good at AT&T's. I realize that having wifi calling would fix any lingering signal issues but I do manage to get 1-2 bars of 3G at my house with AT&T, I figure I won't even get that with T-Mobile. So I am weary of the switch. I'll have to consider it though. I could also wait for the full rollout of the latest google voice (since it finally is bring VOIP without the need of hangouts) and just use that number instead.
So I contacted Straight Talk and ordered a T-Mobile sim card. It'll be here in a few days. I will post my findings after it arrives. Straight talk support says wifi calling works with all T-Mobile sim cards so we will see.
Hello all,
Okay, so I finally got switched over to a T-Mobile sim card (again still with straight talk). It took a while cause I had to buy a new one (the old one I had expired; who'd have thought?). Anyways, switching to T-Mobile solved all my problems and then some. Not only do I have Wifi calling, but also HD voice, VOLTE, Tethering, and 3-4 bars of LTE (previously on AT&T, I got 1-2 bars of 3G). I realize the signal issues is merely a coverage thing but I can say with certainty that switching to a T-Mobile sim card will give you all the advanced features. I hope this helps others who might experience this problem. I've been using AT&T (in one form or another) for the better part of a decade and can now honestly say, AT&T sucks.
Is your download speed throttled?