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Does the M8 have wifi calling like the M7? Thanks.
Legaleye3000 said:
Does the M8 have wifi calling like the M7? Thanks.
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The T-Mobile branded version will have WiFi calling. The GPE version direct from the PlayStore will NOT have WiFi calling.
Yeah it has WIFI calling. I used it multiple times
I'm sure it will.
Currently use a Nexus 5 and waiting to see if Android L brings native T-Mobile Wi-Fi calling. Also thinking of the Nexus 6 if that might include wi-fi calling on T-Mobile. I know hangouts will do wi-fi calling through GV, but I'm not interested in that at the moment. I think the next best option for me if Android L doesnt bring native wifi calling to the N5 or N6, would be the G3 on T-Mobile but I hate the carrier bloat. Are there any stock roms that remove all of this and keep the wi-fi calling?
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Currently use a Nexus 5 and waiting to see if Android L brings native T-Mobile Wi-Fi calling. Also thinking of the Nexus 6 if that might include wi-fi calling on T-Mobile. I know hangouts will do wi-fi calling through GV, but I'm not interested in that at the moment. I think the next best option for me if Android L doesnt bring native wifi calling to the N5 or N6, would be the G3 on T-Mobile but I hate the carrier bloat. Are there any stock roms that remove all of this and keep the wi-fi calling?
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No. The G3 has nearly no bloat...just need to kill CarrierIQ with a flash. Wifi calling is a TMO exclusive and you must buy the TMO version of the phone.
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Id also like to get rid of the skin and just use something like an AOSP rom. Is that possible?
I'm looking for ROMs for the Samsung GS4 (SGH-M919)
I understand that any ROM with Wi-Fi Calling support is going to be TouchWiz based, and pretty close to stock. That is OK, I'm just trying to create a list of the available options.
Is there any way to formulate a search on this board that would identify candidate ROMs that support Wi-Fi Calling? Or has anyone compiled a list? It would be great if there was some type of tag (like WFC) that was universally used that could help with searches.
I am aware of WarpDrive <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2682608>. Are there any others?
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I'm looking for ROMs for the Samsung GS4 (SGH-M919)
I understand that any ROM with Wi-Fi Calling support is going to be TouchWiz based, and pretty close to stock. That is OK, I'm just trying to create a list of the available options.
Is there any way to formulate a search on this board that would identify candidate ROMs that support Wi-Fi Calling? Or has anyone compiled a list? It would be great if there was some type of tag (like WFC) that was universally used that could help with searches.
I am aware of WarpDrive <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2682608>. Are there any others?
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If you just want to get rid of bloat you can uninstall almost every app without root. Just a fyi gs4 roms will not work and tmobile has had native wifi calling for quite some time.
I've got mine rooted and have removed all the bloat. Very minimal skin imo and with a little theming the g3 looks pretty close to stock. They have their features but I feel as if they aren't as intrusive and don't change the overall feel. Get the Tmobile based g3 and you've got something very close to stock and wifi calling. I love it and like the g3 skin with the speedscript, g3 tweak box, and an android L theme. Like it better than aosp surprisingly. But that is just one man's opinion.
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Currently use a Nexus 5 and waiting to see if Android L brings native T-Mobile Wi-Fi calling. Also thinking of the Nexus 6 if that might include wi-fi calling on T-Mobile. I know hangouts will do wi-fi calling through GV, but I'm not interested in that at the moment. I think the next best option for me if Android L doesnt bring native wifi calling to the N5 or N6, would be the G3 on T-Mobile but I hate the carrier bloat. Are there any stock roms that remove all of this and keep the wi-fi calling?
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I don't think you know how wifi calling works. Wifi calling comes exclusive with all t mobile phones. You don't need android l to get wifi calling, what you need is a t mobile phone. Doesn't matter what t mobile phone you pick they all come with that feature
I researched this a while back. Wifi calling as a term is a confusing one with a variety of interpretations. However, the TMO interpretation is key here and unfortunately for the OP, it's not good news:
T-Mobile's flavor of wifi calling is a proprietary add-on. Put simply, if you are on TMO and want wifi calling, you need the official TMO ROM on that phone. Maybe this will change as we see more carriers introduce this tech next year.
Regarding bloat wear, I have to say I don't think LG has put much bloat on this phone and what crap there is, is minimal compared to the power of the phone itself. But that is subjective and based on my experience of several custom ROMs and always going back to stock.
how can i get these toggles? i have tried that quickpanel restore app from samsung and nothing. also tried that multiwindow mod thing and nothing.
Who is your cell provider. I'm updating the hotspot flash to fix *all* carriers in one shot (it currently only fixes up Sprint), so interested in your situation.
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Who is your cell provider. I'm updating the hotspot flash to fix *all* carriers in one shot (it currently only fixes up Sprint), so interested in your situation.
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Hey man. When I used your installer, tethering works great on LTE, but fails to work on 3G. Any ideas?
elesbb said:
Hey man. When I used your installer, tethering works great on LTE, but fails to work on 3G. Any ideas?
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Ideas I have, and fixes I have. The issue (hopefully) is the fact that the hotspot fix is not updating all possible APNs. I rewrite the init.d script to update all APNs that have MMS capability to allow tethering. I'm testing, will upload and update my hotspot thread tomorrow assuming all goes well.
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Ideas I have, and fixes I have. The issue (hopefully) is the fact that the hotspot fix is not updating all possible APNs. I rewrite the init.d script to update all APNs that have MMS capability to allow tethering. I'm testing, will upload and update my hotspot thread tomorrow assuming all goes well.
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So I can just add the "dun" to all the APNs? I will try that right now actually. I have Sqlite3 Editor app. I love it!
Oh I also felt this was the issue, but wasn't sure which APN to edit.
I don't get it. I thought that you couldn't hotspot your data if you had unlimited data from Sprint. Im rooted and have been looking for apps to allow me to create a wifi hotspot so I can use my chromecast in the car. I was thinking I needed to change my rom. Is that not the way to go?
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Who is your cell provider. I'm updating the hotspot flash to fix *all* carriers in one shot (it currently only fixes up Sprint), so interested in your situation.
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im on sprint. whats your hotspot flash? ill give it a try.
Has anyone else experienced slow download speed when using wifi tether? I can do a speed test on my phone and get 40mb/s then connect to the OP3 tether from my laptop and it will not even get 1mb/s. Max I got this morning was .69
I am as well. I just noticed this and haven't been able to figure it out just yet.
What carrier and OS are you on? I'm on T-Mobile and running the initial CM13 Unofficial build from 07/03.
I've been messing with my APN settings, but I don't think that's the issue. I wonder if it has to do with T-Mobile not recognizing the OP3 as an allowed device or something like that.
Were you able to figure it out?
OK, so I restored to the Stock OOS 3.2.1 backup I had made, and tethering is fast and working as it should. So maybe it's a CM13 thing. I'm going to download the latest official nightly and see if that fixes it or not. I'll report back once I do.
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OK, so I restored to the Stock OOS 3.2.1 backup I had made, and tethering is fast and working as it should. So maybe it's a CM13 thing. I'm going to download the latest official nightly and see if that fixes it or not. I'll report back once I do.
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Update: I installed the latest cm13 nightly 07/31 and immediately enabled my hotspot after initial setup and still experienced extremely slow tethering speeds.
Anyone else on cm13 that can test?
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Rather than try to discuss this in the Offical CM thread, I'll try to keep any related info in this one. Here's what I found out recently:
OK, so far I have tried the latest builds of CM13 Official, BlissROM, Dirty Unicorns, and RessurrectionRemix, and they all exhibit extremely slow WiFi tethering speeds between 0.01Mbps - 1.5Mbps, The only ROM that returns expected WiFi tethering performance is the Stock Oxygen 3.2.2 (between 20-50Mbps).
It would be really nice if anyone here could run some quick speedtests while tethering to Hotspot to let us know what you get and what carrier!
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And one user in the CM thread ran a test and had steller performance:
Notebook: Lenovo Thinkpad X220
Carrier: O2 Germany
32 Mbps over Wifi Tethering
Phone is on 3107 official CM
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So...without additional results from other users/carriers/ROMs, now I am thinking that maybe it is related to T-Mobile somehow. I wonder if maybe T-Mobile isn't recognizing 3rd party ROMs (and somehow is aware of Oxygen OS), and then throttles the tethering. I tried changing my device on their website to my previous HTC m9 with no change in tethering performance.
Anyone else care to test WiFi tethering speedtest for us (me)? Please also list your ROM and carrier.
TIA.
bryanus said:
Rather than try to discuss this in the Offical CM thread, I'll try to keep any related info in this one. Here's what I found out recently:
OK, so far I have tried the latest builds of CM13 Official, BlissROM, Dirty Unicorns, and RessurrectionRemix, and they all exhibit extremely slow WiFi tethering speeds between 0.01Mbps - 1.5Mbps, The only ROM that returns expected WiFi tethering performance is the Stock Oxygen 3.2.2 (between 20-50Mbps).
It would be really nice if anyone here could run some quick speedtests while tethering to Hotspot to let us know what you get and what carrier!
And one user in the CM thread ran a test and had steller performance:
Notebook: Lenovo Thinkpad X220
Carrier: O2 Germany
32 Mbps over Wifi Tethering
Phone is on 3107 official CM
So...without additional results from other users/carriers/ROMs, now I am thinking that maybe it is related to T-Mobile somehow. I wonder if maybe T-Mobile isn't recognizing 3rd party ROMs (and somehow is aware of Oxygen OS), and then throttles the tethering. I tried changing my device on their website to my previous HTC m9 with no change in tethering performance.
Anyone else care to test WiFi tethering speedtest for us (me)? Please also list your ROM and carrier.
TIA.
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Same problem here. Switched to AICP and problem appears to be resolved.
FredRed said:
Same problem here. Switched to AICP and problem appears to be resolved.
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Thanks for the tip. Were you on t-mobile by chance?
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Thanks for the tip. Were you on t-mobile by chance?
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Yes. Tmobile
FredRed said:
Yes. Tmobile
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Thanks.
Just tried aicp and still had slow tethering. Only got about 1Mbps down. What speeds do you get?
T-Mobile does seem to be a common denominator though.
UPDATE: There are actually two AICP roms, and I had originally tried the 'KRYO" version, with slow tethering results. I just tried the "Unoffical" version and the speeds were better, at about 3.5Mbps. It's usable, but not great compared to OOS.
Interestingly, I only started using the [then] Unoffical CM13 rom on July 18, and my data usage shows about 1.5GBs of tethering usage. I didn't notice any issues with slowness until the end of last month, so I feel like it was working for a while in order for me to rack up so much usage.
My thoughts are that T-Mobile is throttling me, but I am on the 6GB plan (with full tethering allowance), and so far this month have only used ~2GBs of data.
I may try to call them later if I can and report back.
Any other T-Mobile users noticing wifi tethering slowness when using a custom rom?
It's almost the only thing with this phone that I really hate is, wifi tethering...it just does not work, atleast not properly...couple of times even random bootups...really annoying....it just that I need it with my laptop. I've had no problems with Huawei Mate 7 and the download speeds are superb...
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It's almost the only thing with this phone that I really hate is, wifi tethering...it just does not work, atleast not properly...couple of times even random bootups...really annoying....it just that I need it with my laptop. I've had no problems with Huawei Mate 7 and the download speeds are superb...
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What ROM and carrier are you using?
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What ROM and carrier are you using?
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It's not only the tethering which is working poorly it's also keeping up with the lte or 3g connection. It is changing too easily from lte to gsm only (edge)..As I said it's good with my other phone but not with this. I live in Finland and I have telia-sonera carrier. Elisa (carrier) is selling the phone here , it shouldn't matter(or maybe it should), but all the apn and others are configured fine.
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It's not only the tethering which is working poorly it's also keeping up with the lte or 3g connection. It is changing too easily from lte to gsm only (edge)..As I said it's good with my other phone but not with this. I live in Finland and I have telia-sonera carrier. Elisa (carrier) is selling the phone here , it shouldn't matter(or maybe it should), but all the apn and others are configured fine.
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Thanks for the update. Yours is the first in this thread that is not using T-Mobile and are experiencing the slow tethering issue.
I ended up calling T-Mobile and they were not able to resolve the issue. They escalated the issue to a higher level of technical support and said I should be hearing back from them in a few days. I'm not counting on anything, though.
I'm on Vodafone in NZ as well as on 2 Degrees in NZ and both have slow tethering speeds. My old LG G2 was much faster while tethering
Fixed it! (for T-Mobile at least)
It's an APN issue, at least for T-Mobile USA.
Just go into the SIM Card settings and edit the Access Point Names (i.e. APN) for the T-Mobile US LTE
Change the APN from fast.t-mobile.com to epc.tmobile.com (no hyphen). Use the menu option to Save the settings, then test the hotspot. For me, this worked instantly and without a reboot. Got 20Mbps down on my first Speedtest!
Yay!
bryanus said:
It's an APN issue, at least for T-Mobile USA.
Just go into the SIM Card settings and edit the Access Point Names (i.e. APN) for the T-Mobile US LTE
Change the APN from fast.t-mobile.com to epc.tmobile.com (no hyphen). Use the menu option to Save the settings, then test the hotspot. For me, this worked instantly and without a reboot. Got 20Mbps down on my first Speedtest!
Yay!
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This worked! Thanks a bunch!
bryanus said:
It's an APN issue, at least for T-Mobile USA.
Just go into the SIM Card settings and edit the Access Point Names (i.e. APN) for the T-Mobile US LTE
Change the APN from fast.t-mobile.com to epc.tmobile.com (no hyphen). Use the menu option to Save the settings, then test the hotspot. For me, this worked instantly and without a reboot. Got 20Mbps down on my first Speedtest!
Yay!
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I wanted to chime in and say Thank you for this. I changed my APN and am getting upwards of 26Mbps via hotspot. It does appear that I lost IPv6 but I'm not too worried about that right now.
Again, Thanks a lot!
Aluatis said:
I wanted to chime in and say Thank you for this. I changed my APN and am getting upwards of 26Mbps via hotspot. It does appear that I lost IPv6 but I'm not too worried about that right now.
Again, Thanks a lot!
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Awesome. Glad I could help!
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bryanus said:
It's an APN issue, at least for T-Mobile USA.
Just go into the SIM Card settings and edit the Access Point Names (i.e. APN) for the T-Mobile US LTE
Change the APN from fast.t-mobile.com to epc.tmobile.com (no hyphen). Use the menu option to Save the settings, then test the hotspot. For me, this worked instantly and without a reboot. Got 20Mbps down on my first Speedtest!
Yay!
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This worked! you are a serious life saver dude!! woo hoo
This is what I found lately. When I received the OnePlus 3 last week, I tested the Hotspot functionality and it worked only with epc.t-mobile.com APN. However, after couple of days, the tethering became very slow on my other devices even though the speeds are of D/U 100 Mbps/20Mbps respectively.
Even though the tethering is slow, when I test for Speedtest.net on my laptop it still shows good speeds but no other website works. Then I filed a ticket with OnePlus thinking that hotspot tethering is not working. But then, I called up T-Mobile to check with them. They said I crossed the 5GB hotspot tethering limit and so they are automatically gets throttled. They said since they use speedtest.net for most of the testing purposes, that website is allowed automatically even through tethering and so it works.
In order test if it is the limit or a defect with the device, I requested T-Mobile to add little more bandwidth to my 5GB hotspot cap so that I can test it again before my billing cycle ends and they helped with the request. Voila, now the hotspot tethering works again super good. I have been testing on and off for the past few days and it is working pretty good since I did not cross the additional bandwidth yet. I am looking for a proper solution though so not to use the native hotspot which counts against the hotspot limit.
So, the native hotspot feature counts against the T-Mobile hotspot cap limit.
Hope this explanation helps.
Just wondering if by chance if anyone is still getting that issue where you drop to 3g while on call post Nougant update??????
Working fine for me
Masterx9 said:
Just wondering if by chance if anyone is still getting that issue where you drop to 3g while on call post Nougant update??????
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What network you are using?? & on which ROM
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What network you are using?? & on which ROM
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T mobile and pretty much I've tried every nougant ROM all the way up to the recent 7.1.1 beta. If I roll back to marshmallow everything is fine which led me to believe that something got tweaked in the nougant update that killed VoLte
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T mobile and pretty much I've tried every nougant ROM all the way up to the recent 7.1.1 beta. If I roll back to marshmallow everything is fine which led me to believe that something got tweaked in the nougant update that killed VoLte
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Here everything works fine for me. As I am an Indian so using JIO network which supports VoLTE and I can make and recieve the calls using the network.
Have you tried to enable enhanced 4G LTE mode in the SIM settings.
qasimtb said:
Here everything works fine for me. As I am an Indian so using JIO network which supports VoLTE and I can make and recieve the calls using the network.
Have you tried to enable enhanced 4G LTE mode in the SIM settings.
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Yep and i even went as far as to go into the secret menu and tell it to grab only lte, which it does but as soon as a call is initiated from reason its drops the 4g connection and sticks to 3g/hsdpa. Then takes its sweet time to reconnect to lte after said call if it does it at all.
Masterx9 said:
Yep and i even went as far as to go into the secret menu and tell it to grab only lte, which it does but as soon as a call is initiated from reason its drops the 4g connection and sticks to 3g/hsdpa. Then takes its sweet time to reconnect to lte after said call if it does it at all.
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Maybe a firmware issue cause even after you are selecting LTE only then also it is switching to HSDPA. Weird.... You can try to flash the firmware file again & check if the issue is resolved. You can find the firmware from Jamal's thread.
qasimtb said:
Maybe a firmware issue cause even after you are selecting LTE only then also it is switching to HSDPA. Weird.... You can try to flash the firmware file again & check if the issue is resolved. You can find the firmware from Jamal's thread.
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Tried that too, I ever redid the apn's. At this point i just left it on 6.0, in all honesty i may trade this phone eventually anyway starting to miss having a lot of storage space. Especially with the job and all.
Masterx9 said:
Tried that too, I ever redid the apn's. At this point i just left it on 6.0, in all honesty i may trade this phone eventually anyway starting to miss having a lot of storage space. Especially with the job and all.
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If you want to use 6.0 then go for Sultan's CM. It's best of all. Very much stable with latest updates.
qasimtb said:
If you want to use 6.0 then go for Sultan's CM. It's best of all. Very much stable with latest updates.
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yep thats what ive been running.
Masterx9 said:
yep thats what ive been running.
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Perfect ROM....
Masterx9 said:
Yep and i even went as far as to go into the secret menu and tell it to grab only lte, which it does but as soon as a call is initiated from reason its drops the 4g connection and sticks to 3g/hsdpa. Then takes its sweet time to reconnect to lte after said call if it does it at all.
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I'm sure in there you seen that the voLTE provisioning is toggled on. I have only been able to get voLTE to work on official oxygenOS post Nougat and not any modded ROMs based on OOS such as experience or freedomOS. Toggling the voLTE in the status bar settings can tell you if it is working because the icon will show up there when it is. Turning that on and off seems to make it turn on at least for me after flashing the open betas which are the only OOS Nougat that I have tried.
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I'm sure in there you seen that the voLTE provisioning is toggled on. I have only been able to get voLTE to work on official oxygenOS post Nougat and not any modded ROMs based on OOS such as experience or freedomOS. Toggling the voLTE in the status bar settings can tell you if it is working because the icon will show up there when it is. Turning that on and off seems to make it turn on at least for me after flashing the open betas which are the only OOS Nougat that I have tried.
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Could you provide a screenshot​ of how it looks. So could you still retain root on the official image ?