Hello there!
I'm just thinking about buying a Samsung Galaxy S4 mini (i9192), but I have some doubts about how it uses its SIM cards, and I haven't found the answers even on the owner's manual available on Samsung's website.
For example, let's say that I have both SIM cards active, SIM1 is the default SIM, and I receive a call on SIM2. If I review the call log and search for that SIM2 call, what happens if I call back to that number?
a) Will the phone use SIM2 to place the call because it was received trough that SIM?
b) Will it make the call through SIM1 since it's the default SIM?
Another question is about associating contacts to a particular SIM. Can I specify a preferred SIM for a contact? If so, how does it work? I've seen some screenshots of the contact list from other Samsung Duos series, and they show a little 1 or 2 next to each contact, but I'm not sure what does it mean, or it that feature is available on i9192. Can somebody please clarify this?
Last question is about SMS. If I receive a message to SIM1 (for example), will I always reply from SIM1 too? Or will it let me choose between both SIMs?
Thank you very much for your help.
paquitoERchocolatero said:
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Look here at screens http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49934833&postcount=2
SilviuMik said:
Look here at screens http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49934833&postcount=2
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Hello SilviuMik,
First of all, thank you very much for your quick response.
In the screenshots it looks like you can always choose to call from any SIM, but I’m wondering if there’s a way to call back from the same SIM that received the call (obviously if it's active). Could you please tell me if this is possible?
In one of the screenshots contact "A" shows a pop-up window asking you to select a SIM, but I don’t really know if this means that contacts can be associated to a preferred SIM, or if this window appears after pressing the call button with preferred SIM card for voice calls configured as "Always ask". Would you please clarify this too?
In your screenshots it seems that the each SMS can be sent with any SIM. Isn't that a problem? For cumbersome people like me, you could easily send SMS from the wrong SIM. As you've been using the phone for some time, what do you think about this? Is this feature comfortable/powerful of is it a mess?
Thank you for your patience.
Best regards.
paquitoERchocolatero said:
Hello SilviuMik,
First of all, thank you very much for your quick response.
"In the screenshots it looks like you can always choose to call from any SIM, but I’m wondering if there’s a way to call back from the same SIM that received the call (obviously if it's active). Could you please tell me if this is possible?"
Not without a third party app, or like i said in the next question, if u have 1 SIM always assigned as calls then from that sim
"In one of the screenshots contact "A" shows a pop-up window asking you to select a SIM, but I don’t really know if this means that contacts can be associated to a preferred SIM, or if this window appears after pressing the call button with preferred SIM card for voice calls configured as "Always ask". Would you please clarify this too?"
Instead of Always Ask u can configure SIM 1 or SIM 2 in that menu . Maybe u have one sim for calls only and one for data only If u select SIM1 for example that pop-up won`t appear anymore
"In your screenshots it seems that the each SMS can be sent with any SIM. Isn't that a problem? For cumbersome people like me, you could easily send SMS from the wrong SIM. As you've been using the phone for some time, what do you think about this? Is this feature comfortable/powerful of is it a mess?"
Depends on your fingers i never sent sms from wrong number
Thank you for your patience.
Best regards.
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Hope i was at least a little more clear
If not i will try to make more screenshots Let me know
I`m not so good at explaining stuff
SilviuMik said:
Hope i was at least a little more clear
If not i will try to make more screenshots Let me know
I`m not so good at explaining stuff
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Your explanations were really helpful.
In my opinion, these Samsung dual devices are not mature enough yet, but they will be hopefully better in the future.
Thank you very much!
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Hi Every body I Have Galaxy nexus but Outgoing Call Waiting Notification not work
I mean When I make an outgoing call and if the person whom I am trying to call is already on a call, I don't get any notification to this effect
If any body know how can i solve this problem ???
any app can do it ow what can i do?
Thank you
xieo said:
Hi Every body I Have Galaxy nexus but Outgoing Call Waiting Notification not work
I mean When I make an outgoing call and if the person whom I am trying to call is already on a call, I don't get any notification to this effect
If any body know how can i solve this problem ???
any app can do it ow what can i do?
Thank you
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Isn't that something you have to manage with your provider? Your phone will unlikely be monitoring someone elses phone network availability and thus polling constantly to the other number. I know some providers give you these possibilities (at least I had it once here in the Netherlands) by pressing a number and then hang up and then a call is buing set up between you and the other person as soon as he is available.
Or do you meen something else?
Diger36 said:
Isn't that something you have to manage with your provider? Your phone will unlikely be monitoring someone elses phone network availability and thus polling constantly to the other number. I know some providers give you these possibilities (at least I had it once here in the Netherlands) by pressing a number and then hang up and then a call is buing set up between you and the other person as soon as he is available.
Or do you meen something else?
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Thank you for your reply this is not provider problem when i use another phone like Nokia Symbian s60 i Have outgoing call notification work will with same provider?
I really need to know what the solution for this issue
i have the same problem.i need to turn on somehow the Call Waiting Notification
Any solutions please...i need this option....
Outgoing call waiting notification
walidhiphop said:
Any solutions please...i need this option....
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i also need this option for LG nexus 4
it works with cm 11
but i cant get it work with stock
anyone know how to do that
pls
pls
Am still searching too ... I know that no nexus or iPhone have this feature thus its coded into some Roms I used before but I was looking for a mod or something that can configure this easily without flashing a full ROM
Hello ,
No provider issues , on galaxy S3 short 1 sec notification. But u have to glance into the display for that.
Is there no app that can enable a sound notification also on Anrdoid for calling somebody who is already in a call
so we can detect that we are in call waiting ??
Thank you
Hi,
Obviously am new to this forum and new to dual sim phones.
I have got one question:
I see that we can have all calls be either on one default sim or the phone ask you to choose. My question is whether we can somewhere assign a number to one sim, i.e. each time calling this number it will use this sim.
If anyone knows how this can be done please send me the info.
I have tried to look from the sim card manager and into contact for the different options but can't find it.
Thanks
Sorry if this is not the correct place for this.
One thing I miss from the Motorola dual sim is the smart sim selection integration into dialer/contact list screens.
This feature will automatically learn which is the preferred sim to use for each contact and this can be changed at dial time. It can't be set on the contact edit screen and is really not needed to, isn't a hassle you have to go thru and usually helps a transparent dual sim operation.
When you choose to dial someone for the first time it will ask which sim to use, the next time you'll dial it will automatically select that sim for that contact BUT on the calling screen you'll have a switch sim button for you to change, which is also useful when you are in a place where signal for the current selected sim is not good, pressing this will re initiate the call but thru the other sim.
This function can be disabled on the dual sim settings screen for those that use some per time of the day or any other different reason.
Thanks.
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Nice indeed, hope it will be implemented soon
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Really great
this would really be a great feature
I have to use an APP called Dual Sim Selector, playstore has, it do what you want.
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Hi guys
I'm using 2 sims (one personal and one for work)
For me it's crucial to know from which sim am I getting call right now (for new numbers that are not in my contact list)
Thу problem is that in MIUI ROM you can't assign color to a sim card, so the only way to know which sim card is receiving call is a small icon with sim number. Even in a normal state it's to hard to see the number. It gets ten times harder while driving, for example. In AOSP there is an option to assign a color to a sim card so when i am getting a call from specific sim the call screen is colored by the sim color.
The question is, how can I change the dialer of MIUI to a standard AOSP dialer?
I also have tried another ROMs, like resurrect - this is very good but I lack the "dual apps" from MIUI. I tried different "dual apps" solutions from the play market but they all are just bad and can't be compared to MIUI dual apps (for example in whatsapp - where i need to whatsapp account to run simultaneously)
This is pretty interesting. If it's possible to change the default dialer/contacts, how would one go about it? Also, what dialer app would you folks recommend?
Hi, I think the easiest solution for you is just need to setup different ringtone for each SIM
dinhvtai said:
Hi, I think the easiest solution for you is just need to setup different ringtone for each SIM
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For me it's not a solution, as most of the time my phone is on vibration (to not disturb my wife or other people on the meetings)
tanfilov said:
For me it's not a solution, as most of the time my phone is on vibration (to not disturb my wife or other people on the meetings)
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oh I see, so you can try to use pixel phone dialer on GG Play.
dinhvtai said:
oh I see, so you can try to use pixel phone dialer on GG Play.
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Nope, it doesn't help - on incoming calls it's the same.
First of all change ur dual SIM name, Suppose A & B, now u can easily check which sim is receiving call from another no. Incoming call, miss call, everthing
Hello, can someone help me with this one...i had until now a rn5 pro with 2 sim cards inserted (private and business number). When incoming call arrives it says number and sim2logo on display and i know that call is coming on my business number inserted in sim2 tray. On note 8pro when someone calls me i can see just a number displayed, not sim1/sim2 information. Even my old note 3 pro had that info displayed (and5pro as stated above) but this one doesnt have it? It was important to me because if i see someone calls on my business number i can choose to not accept call if i dont want to, but now i cant see which sim card is receiving call. Anyone knows anything about it? Thanks
Hey. How about installing the Google Phone APK... That displays the SIM as far as i can remember...
It is no problem to install something....but every dual sim including xiaomi until now has that option so i was wondering did they forget it?
davor-ri said:
It is no problem to install something....but every dual sim including xiaomi until now has that option so i was wondering did they forget it?
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Yeah well who knows what's going through XIAOMI's mind these days.... The entire OS is a bunch of bad decisions in my opinion. I'm not at all surprised about what you said to be honest. Your best bet is to install a third party dialer. Try it and see.