It's been asked a billion times, but as of today - April 11, 2014 - is there ANY way - even with an app that I have to BUY/PURCHASE, that I can get WiFi calling to work on a non touchwiz based ROM?
svavrek said:
It's been asked a billion times, but as of today - April 11, 2014 - is there ANY way - even with an app that I have to BUY/PURCHASE, that I can get WiFi calling to work on a non touchwiz based ROM?
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There has always been APPS available to do so. Google Voice, and any VOIP provider. But they don't work with your original number. There is still currently no way to be able to use T-Mobile's WiFi Calling on any CM/AOSP ROM. It must really be a difficult thing to achieve.
Also, howdy neighbor.
Most of the apps that use Google Voice will stop working in the next few weeks too. Been waiting for Google Hangouts to release Wifi calling which should happen soon and make things much easier.
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Does anyone know if T-Mobile WiFi calling can be enabled on the vanilla Android S4 when it comes out. I was wondering if it is technically possible.
This is the only thing that's holding me from getting the stock Android S4 (when it comes out) instead of the T-Mobile S4.
From what I've read, the nexus 4 from Google doesn't support it, so I assume the dev version s4 would be the same since it is a T-Mobile feature. I also believe a lot, if not all, roms does not support this feature. I could be wrong, so someone with more experience pls chime in.
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ferganer said:
Does anyone know if T-Mobile WiFi calling can be enabled on the vanilla Android S4 when it comes out. I was wondering if it is technically possible.
This is the only thing that's holding me from getting the stock Android S4 (when it comes out) instead of the T-Mobile S4.
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If you really value WiFi calling (and I assume you are with T-Mobile now), I don't even know why you don't just go ahead
and buy the T-Mobile S4. There is almost zero advantage the AOSP S4 will have over T-Mo S4.
Maybe you didn't want to root your phone, but then I figure, WiFi probably will not be included on the AOSP version,
and even if there was a way, you would need to root the phone regardless to flash the ROM/MOD.
In the end, I really see the T-Mo S4 as your best bet, as I can guarantee 99% you can flash AOSP ROM with all its features
more easily to a T-Mo S4 than to flash the WiFi calling feature unto an AOSP S4.
I currently have the Nexus S on T-Mobile. My two key features are Wi-Fi Calling and Wi-Fi Hotspot / Tethering. Hotspot/Tethering works great on the Nexus S, and there is no extra charge for it.
Wi-Fi Calling has never been provided for the Nexus S, and nobody has been able to figure out how to add it, so I'm thinking about upgrading to the GS4.
I see two approaches to meet my needs:
1) Buy the T-Mobile version, but have to root it and maybe load new ROMs to eliminate the unwanted carrier apps etc. I'm assuming T-Mobile would not directly offer free tethering like the Nexus S on their phone. I'm aware various apps promise to enable this, but I'm not sure about how well they work. Also, would loading alternate ROMs then cause the Wi-Fi calling capability to be lost?
2) Buy the Google developer version of the GS4. It presumably provides tethering like the Nexus S, but wouldn't have the Wi-Fi calling. Will that be impossible to add later as it was with the Nexus S, or is the GS4 Google version close enough to the T-Mobile version that somebody could port the app?
Advice or suggestions?
Devs have been trying to get WiFi calling going for quite some time. It's closed source and tied into T-Mobile somehow. I know its very complicated. It sucks because I'm used to aosp ROMs but I can't give up WiFi calling because my service is so terrible at home/work.
I know developers are still working on it. If they can get the sensors, ir blaster, and WiFi calling on AOSP I'll never look back. Given the fact that the Nexus GS4 will be Vanilla Android I'm almost positive carrier apps won't be installed. If they don't have the sensors working it'll be a downgrade from tw in my opinion.
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The problem with porting WiFi calling to non stock ROMS is that the APK requires all sorts of libs to be installed with it.
It's been done before though. CM7 and CM9 releases for various devices had WiFi calling once the lib situation was figured out. And it worked great.
For other devices it was a matter of pulling the APK and the associated libs from a stock rom, keeping everything to still be recognized as though it was installed on the stock ROM, and putting it into a CM rom.
It was accomplished before. I'd be shocked if it doesn't get accomplished again.
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I love Infamous Rom. Im still on Verison 5, and it works flawlessly, The problem is, I really want to use this galaxy gear watch I got. But I need an unlocked phone for my AppRadio, and I need wifi calling because I dont get reception/texts/data in the office.
Does anyone know of a 4.3 rom that has wifi tmobile calling, to use until Infamous uses the 4.3 ROM? Thanks!
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I love Infamous Rom. Im still on Verison 5, and it works flawlessly, The problem is, I really want to use this galaxy gear watch I got. But I need an unlocked phone for my AppRadio, and I need wifi calling because I dont get reception/texts/data in the office.
Does anyone know of a 4.3 rom that has wifi tmobile calling, to use until Infamous uses the 4.3 ROM? Thanks!
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I don't believe there is a 4.3 ROM with Wifi calling yet.
A rom with Wifi calling has to be based on a T Mobile release. As of today T Mobile hasnt' released a 4.3 ROM for the S4.
It's expected very soon (Like next week I think...), and you'll see modified T Mobile roms very shortly after that. But as of today, you're out of luck.
There are plenty of 4.2 roms with Wifi calling working. I have no idea if they can be modded to work with the watch.
You could give this one a try
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2523090
Skipjacks said:
I don't believe there is a 4.3 ROM with Wifi calling yet.
A rom with Wifi calling has to be based on a T Mobile release. As of today T Mobile hasnt' released a 4.3 ROM for the S4.
It's expected very soon (Like next week I think...), and you'll see modified T Mobile roms very shortly after that. But as of today, you're out of luck.
There are plenty of 4.2 roms with Wifi calling working. I have no idea if they can be modded to work with the watch.
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Thank you for your response, I appreciate it. I'll keep on the look out.
Kaczman said:
I love Infamous Rom. Im still on Verison 5, and it works flawlessly, The problem is, I really want to use this galaxy gear watch I got. But I need an unlocked phone for my AppRadio, and I need wifi calling because I dont get reception/texts/data in the office.
Does anyone know of a 4.3 rom that has wifi tmobile calling, to use until Infamous uses the 4.3 ROM? Thanks!
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there will not be a stable 4.3 rom with wifi calling until the official update is rolled out, which is supposedly the 18th of this month
The leak posted above has what u want. I would reccomend to wait ~5 more days for the official rom though. Soon..
can't wait
so looking forward to 4.3 coming to tmobile so i can get wifi calling again
I started using ILWT's CM7 rom not really knowing what I was getting into. It works great but 80% of my life is outside of cell range and I rely heavily on wifi calling.
The stock G2 wifi calling app no longer works (which apparently everyone knows). I tried using tmobile's crappy Tmobile bobsled app which was a waste of time.
How do I get my wifi calling/texting back? preferably one that uses my phone number like the stock one did. I've searched around seen people refering to links in their signatures that are no longer there but nothing else.
Please help, I'd rather not go back to stock but will if I have to.
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I started using ILWT's CM7 rom not really knowing what I was getting into. It works great but 80% of my life is outside of cell range and I rely heavily on wifi calling.
The stock G2 wifi calling app no longer works (which apparently everyone knows). I tried using tmobile's crappy Tmobile bobsled app which was a waste of time.
How do I get my wifi calling/texting back? preferably one that uses my phone number like the stock one did. I've searched around seen people refering to links in their signatures that are no longer there but nothing else.
Please help, I'd rather not go back to stock but will if I have to.
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CM7.2 has wifi calling as does a some of the sense 2.1 and sense 3.0. There is a version out there for ICS (I use it all the time), but there is no wifi calling for JB.
What I will do is go back and look on my archive of info and see if I can find a wifi calling add-on that works with ILWT
-brad
**UPDATE** added the file I have might work.
With the latest #uncarrier announcement, T-Mobile phones, that support wifi calling, are supposed to get free SMS texting while on Gogo airplane wifi networks.
See here:
http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/free-in-flight-wifi-texting-uncarrier.html
Per this site, Samsung Galaxy S4 - Software version: M919UVUFNH7 would be compatible. That's the latest Kitkat available on the S4 through T-Mobile.
I was on a flight this past weekend but was not able to get it to run. I do have NH7 as my modem, but I'm still running a 4.4.2 custom ROM. I thought my bootloader was updated to NH7 but apparently it was still on NB4. Not sure if that makes a difference. I didn't futz around with it too much, I only tried it once using chomp and not the Samsung built-in SMS app.
Anyone know what the specific requirements are for the free wifi texting on Gogo, baseband/software-wise? Or if you've had it work, what are you running?
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With the latest #uncarrier announcement, T-Mobile phones, that support wifi calling, are supposed to get free SMS texting while on Gogo airplane wifi networks.
See here:
http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/free-in-flight-wifi-texting-uncarrier.html
Per this site, Samsung Galaxy S4 - Software version: M919UVUFNH7 would be compatible. That's the latest Kitkat available on the S4 through T-Mobile.
I was on a flight this past weekend but was not able to get it to run. I do have NH7 as my modem, but I'm still running a 4.4.2 custom ROM. I thought my bootloader was updated to NH7 but apparently it was still on NB4. Not sure if that makes a difference. I didn't futz around with it too much, I only tried it once using chomp and not the Samsung built-in SMS app.
Anyone know what the specific requirements are for the free wifi texting on Gogo, baseband/software-wise? Or if you've had it work, what are you running?
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Last year I flew to Alaska from Fla, and used GoGo on Delta. You probably already know, but that is the slowest damn internet Ive ever experienced in my life. But anyways, youd have to use the stock mms app and have the stock dialer, contacts and phone installed as well. Meaning no i9505 versions. Their all tied together when it comes to wifi calling/texting. 3rd party apps wouldnt work either.
Flash the firmware to get nh7 bootloader and everything else nh7 which I suggest doing to avoid stoopid issues
Ahh, so the trick is to use the stock MMS app then. Next time, will try it more fully. Updated to NH7 fully also.
I was more curious as to the requirements for using the free-service, as without paying for the full gogo, I'm sure they block everything except for the T-Mobile messaging ports.
Hello, I would like to preface this post by saying I'm a complete noob to XDA Forums and custom ROMs as well. I've know about XDA Developers for years, just never been much of a tinkerer when it comes to Android, I just prefer stock.
Well recently, I bought a used LG G3 because the deal was just to good to pass up. It was my first time using a ROM other than stock and it was utterly disgusting in comparison. I hated it so much I installed my first ROM ever, and it was Candy5 for I heard CynogenMod stopped supporting the LG G3 is some capacity. Well, I've been using it for a while now and made it look as close as I could to stock, there's just one problem.
I recently enabled Wi-Fi calling on Ting. The device was a Verizon model, but I purchased it unlocked, and activated it on the MNVO Ting. Well, it wasn't working so I was wondering what's up. I read that you had to enable it within the devices settings, but all guides were not specific to the custom ROM I had installed, and even following along as closely as I could, the option for Wi-Fi calling wasn't there. I've read that if Wi-Fi calling doesn't appear, your device doesn't support it. But, everywhere I've read, has been consistent that Wi-Fi calling is supported on the LG G3.
So, I ask you long time tinkerers, do you know how to enable Wi-Fi calling within the Candy5 ROM? Does it just not support it? I even used the neat search feature within the settings app and couldn't find a switch for it. Please help!
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Hello, I would like to preface this post by saying I'm a complete noob to XDA Forums and custom ROMs as well. I've know about XDA Developers for years, just never been much of a tinkerer when it comes to Android, I just prefer stock.
Well recently, I bought a used LG G3 because the deal was just to good to pass up. It was my first time using a ROM other than stock and it was utterly disgusting in comparison. I hated it so much I installed my first ROM ever, and it was Candy5 for I heard CynogenMod stopped supporting the LG G3 is some capacity. Well, I've been using it for a while now and made it look as close as I could to stock, there's just one problem.
I recently enabled Wi-Fi calling on Ting. The device was a Verizon model, but I purchased it unlocked, and activated it on the MNVO Ting. Well, it wasn't working so I was wondering what's up. I read that you had to enable it within the devices settings, but all guides were not specific to the custom ROM I had installed, and even following along as closely as I could, the option for Wi-Fi calling wasn't there. I've read that if Wi-Fi calling doesn't appear, your device doesn't support it. But, everywhere I've read, has been consistent that Wi-Fi calling is supported on the LG G3.
So, I ask you long time tinkerers, do you know how to enable Wi-Fi calling within the Candy5 ROM? Does it just not support it? I even used the neat search feature within the settings app and couldn't find a switch for it. Please help!
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Yeah WiFi calling won't be an option on AOSP ROMs... Its cooked into the stock software (for at least t mobile) and only works on stock based ROMs. There was a developer that tried to use the code from I BELIEVE the nexus 6 and adopt it to our devices but it never got pushed through. If you want WiFi calling/VolTE, stick with stock ROMs.
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Yeah WiFi calling won't be an option on AOSP ROMs... Its cooked into the stock software (for at least t mobile) and only works on stock based ROMs. There was a developer that tried to use the code from I BELIEVE the nexus 6 and adopt it to our devices but it never got pushed through. If you want WiFi calling/VolTE, stick with stock ROMs.
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Ah, I see. Hopefully some day it would be available on custom ROMs. Using the stock ROM is not even worth the gloriousness of Wi-Fi calling, and that's really saying something, because my room is a complete dead zone for reception. I have to walk out on my porch every time I want to place / receive phones calls or SMS texts.
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Ah, I see. Hopefully some day it would be available on custom ROMs. Using the stock ROM is not even worth the gloriousness of Wi-Fi calling, and that's really saying something, because my room is a complete dead zone for reception. I have to walk out on my porch every time I want to place / receive phones calls or SMS texts.
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Yeah I completely feel your problem. Over at my house (which is in the maybe 10 minutes from the main bay area) there is NO reception, only when you walk down the street is there reception. When I was on Verizon I got their WiFi booster thing... Now that I'm on T mob, I use WiFi calling bakdd info their ROMS