Hey guys,
I have the T-Mobile SGS3 and I want to install a custom rom but I am afraid to lose the Wifi T-Mobile Calling and Text messaging. I go overseas a lot and I need this feature to avoid roaming.
Does anyone know of a custom rom that I can use that will still support his feature that only T-Mobile has? I have been able to save a few hundred $ in roaming fee's by switching to T-Mobile when I am in Asia or Europe.
Thanks in advance for any help!
-DC
The stock roms based on official releases have WiFi Calling working. I'm on Xquizit v70 and it works perfectly. I'm not sure about the JB leaks. I was wondering if it was functional on those yet.
I know that the CM9/10 builds do not have WiFi Calling functional.
Everything with touchwiz has WiFi calling. Everything else does not.
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So I'm going to buy a T-Mobile Galaxy S4 tomorrow. I'm locked onto AT&T for a few more months (so I'll unlock this new one and buy it out right). When done I'm going T-Mobile (or Straight Talk).
Either way, there's a ROM developer over there who's ROM I really like that he's developing for the AT&T S4 (ShoStock) and I'd like to know since it's essentially similar hardware should it be a simple flash over?
I'm coming from an AT&T S2 and I know it was simple "hellraising" the International ROMs and they'd work on the AT&T variant. Can we do the same with the S4 (since they are essentially similar hardware minus additional radios on the T-Mobile variant).
Thanks!!! :laugh::good:
re: AT&T rom on Tmobile
Nosferatu. said:
So I'm going to buy a T-Mobile Galaxy S4 tomorrow. I'm locked onto AT&T for a few more months (so I'll unlock this new one and buy it out right). When done I'm going T-Mobile (or Straight Talk).
Either way, there's a ROM developer over there who's ROM I really like that he's developing for the AT&T S4 (ShoStock) and I'd like to know since it's essentially similar hardware should it be a simple flash over?
I'm coming from an AT&T S2 and I know it was simple "hellraising" the International ROMs and they'd work on the AT&T variant. Can we do the same with the S4 (since they are essentially similar hardware minus additional radios on the T-Mobile variant).
Thanks!!! :laugh::good:
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As soon as you get your Tmobile Galaxy S4 Unlocked you will be able to flash the AT&T ShoStock rom without any problems.
It will not need hellraiser or anything else and it can be flashed just like any other custom rom using CWM or TWRP recovery..
The only thing you will loose by flashing any AT&T rom on an Unlocked Tmobile phone is the free wifi calling feature.
All the Tmobile Galaxy S4 custom roms have the wifi calling feature in them.
If you flash any of the AT&T custom Galaxy S4 roms none of them will have the wifi calling feature.
Misterjunky said:
As soon as you get your Tmobile Galaxy S4 Unlocked you will be able to flash the AT&T ShoStock rom without any problems.
It will not need hellraiser or anything else and it can be flashed just like any other custom rom using CWM or TWRP recovery..
The only thing you will loose by flashing any AT&T rom on an Unlocked Tmobile phone is the free wifi calling feature.
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Gotcha. What's the free Wifi calling feature? I won't be a T-Mobile customer for a few months and still on AT&T's network so I don't think I'd benefit from it.
Nosferatu. said:
So I'm going to buy a T-Mobile Galaxy S4 tomorrow. I'm locked onto AT&T for a few more months (so I'll unlock this new one and buy it out right). When done I'm going T-Mobile (or Straight Talk).
Either way, there's a ROM developer over there who's ROM I really like that he's developing for the AT&T S4 (ShoStock) and I'd like to know since it's essentially similar hardware should it be a simple flash over?
I'm coming from an AT&T S2 and I know it was simple "hellraising" the International ROMs and they'd work on the AT&T variant. Can we do the same with the S4 (since they are essentially similar hardware minus additional radios on the T-Mobile variant).
Thanks!!! :laugh::good:
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I've been flashing AT&T AOSP based roms on it... I've been flashing AT&T sense roms on my T-mobile HTC One.. I haven't flashed AT&T TW ROMs on my Tmobile galaxy s4, but as I mentioned, I've been flashing AT&T AOSP based roms on my tmobile galaxy s4 with no issues at all.
I have ALSO been flashing TW i9505 ROMs with no issues at all. (which is probably more applicable to your question)
I'm on AT&T but have these tmobile devices for complicated reasons.
Best results i've had with my HTC is flashing international roms and selecting T-Mobile as my device type in AROMA, then once in the ROM, i just fix the APN to "ATT Phone" for full LTE speed, etc.
Same goes for i9505 TW ROMs on the GS4. The reason I bring this up is that I could never get WiFi hotspot (internet connection sharing) to work on either t-mobile phone when choosing AT&T as my carrier in AROMA (well that's not entirely true, it seems radio-related. older roms were fine, but then with a recent base-change, I encountered this issue with hotspot). I found by choosing T-MOBILE in AROMA, and then disabling wifi calling when in-ROM (to avoid the nags about invalid SIM type) and changing APN to ATT Phone, I have everything working perfectly.
I hope this helps you.
This is the WiFi calling feature:
http://t-mobile-coverage.t-mobile.com/4g-wireless-broadband-service
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Nosferatu. said:
Gotcha. What's the free Wifi calling feature? I won't be a T-Mobile customer for a few months and still on AT&T's network so I don't think I'd benefit from it.
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If you have any tmobile plan you have a certain amount of anytime minutes, with free wifi calling whever you use it, it does not
subrract from those anytime minutes. I am usually home which means that 90% of the time that I use my phone I use wifi calling
and it does not reduce the number of minutes I have on my plan.
Wifi calling is really great, even if you leave it on all the time the phone switches automatically to normal cellular mode if it looses
the wifi connection.
Then when a wifi is connection is within reach, it starts using that again automatically which makes it really easy to use.
So for all practical terms, I leave my wifi calling on all the time. If I drive away from home the regular GSM/3G/4G etc. turns on.
Best of all the quality of the incoming and outgoing call audio is exactly the same using wifi or using the cellular network.
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sneef said:
I've been flashing AT&T AOSP based roms on it... I've been flashing AT&T sense roms on my T-mobile HTC One.. I haven't flashed AT&T TW ROMs on my Tmobile galaxy s4, but as I mentioned, I've been flashing AT&T AOSP based roms on my tmobile galaxy s4 with no issues at all.
I have ALSO been flashing TW i9505 ROMs with no issues at all. (which is probably more applicable to your question)
I'm on AT&T but have these tmobile devices for complicated reasons.
Best results i've had with my HTC is flashing international roms and selecting T-Mobile as my device type in AROMA, then once in the ROM, i just fix the APN to "ATT Phone" for full LTE speed, etc.
Same goes for i9505 TW ROMs on the GS4. The reason I bring this up is that I could never get WiFi hotspot (internet connection sharing) to work on either t-mobile phone when choosing AT&T as my carrier in AROMA (well that's not entirely true, it seems radio-related. older roms were fine, but then with a recent base-change, I encountered this issue with hotspot). I found by choosing T-MOBILE in AROMA, and then disabling wifi calling when in-ROM (to avoid the nags about invalid SIM type) and changing APN to ATT Phone, I have everything working perfectly.
I hope this helps you.
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LTE is now available for both AT&T and Tmobile LTE capable phones. Even an unlocked Tmobile S3 can now get LTE data
in a lot of the larger cities.
One of my friends has an unlocked AT&T S3 phone and he is on the Tmobile network so he always flashes tmobile custom
roms, when he flashed a tmobile rom which came with the aroma installer he selects "Tmobile" since he is a tmobile customer.
If he would select AT&T in the aroma installer he would not get LTE data or 4G unless he changes his APN to tmobile's APN.
In fact, next time you flash a Tmobile rom without the aroma installer to an unlocked AT&T phone with an Tmobile sim card
you will see that it will automatically display the proper Tmobile APN after flashing without the need to change it.
Same thing holds true if you have a unlocked Tmobile phone and a AT&T sim card and flash a AT&T rom without the
aroma installer when it gets done flashing and reboots the phone when you check the APN it will have the AT&T APN
displayed automatically too.
Before I got my Tmobile S4 I had a AT&T Unlocked S3 I747 phone and when I switched to the Tmobile network and put
the Tmobile sim card in the phone while I still had a AT&T custom rom flashed in the phone everything worked fine and
when I checked the APN it displayed "T-Mobile US" without the need to change the apn.
So from then on, when I flashed any custom tmobile rom with the aroma installer and selected "Tmobile"
and the phone always had the correct APN in it after flashing without the need to manually change it.
When I flashed a tmobile custom rom without aroma installer after flashing it also displayed the proper tmobile apn.
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Hi I love flashing roms but I have one big issue im very limited to the roms I can flash because i live in a basement where the reception sucks or is never any. So wifivcalling is a must for me. I was wondering if there is any applications out there that will work like wifi calling yet though keep my same number and receive calls also?..
Thanks in advance
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egren58 said:
Hi I love flashing roms but I have one big issue im very limited to the roms I can flash because i live in a basement where the reception sucks or is never any. So wifivcalling is a must for me. I was wondering if there is any applications out there that will work like wifi calling yet though keep my same number and receive calls also?..
Thanks in advance
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There are no apps for wifi calling which uses your cell number to make and receive calls.
If you have a M919 Tmobile Galaxy S4 or an Unlocked Galaxy S4 and you have a tmobile
sim chip then you are in luck. (your carrier must be tmobile no other carriers offer wifi calling)
All of the M919 Tmobile Samsung Galaxy S4 Touchwiz 4.2.2 stock based custom roms have wifi calling built-in.
Just flash a Samsung Galaxy Touchwiz S4 4.2.2 based Tmobile rom like the Wicked v7 custom rom (which is excellent) and it has wifi calling built-in.
I have a Verizon S4 sch-i545 running Hyperdrive RLS 19. I plan to switch to T-Mobile in December to save money. One cool feature of T-Mobile is WiFi calling but that's not included with hyperdrive.
I believe I can get T-Mobile service if I put in a tmo sim card and change the APN settings.... But can I flash a T-Mobile rom that has wifi calling on my Verizon s4? Thanks!
I think you might have to port the ROM, or flash a Verizon kernel.. Successfully flashing a T-Mobile ROM will give you Wi-Fi calling so try to search the Verizon forums if anyone has flashed a T-Mobile ROM and what their procedures were
Thanks serio22!
I own a att note 4 already unlocked but I am thinking of going with tmobile for the wifi calling feature. This is where my problem lies ...is there any way to install tmobiles wifi calling features over the stock rom? I've been out of the rom scene for a long time and would very much appreciate any help that could be offered I'm at my wits end on this one.
If I am thinking correctly, the Wi-Fi calling feature is part of the ROM. You may be able to install a t-mobile rom on the phone, if you have a NON AT&T phone, as I believe that the boot-loader on the AT&T phone is still locked and there is no workaround yet.
I am currently running a t-mobile note 3 on AT&T and the Wi-FI calling feature is not possible on AT&T service.
xtantaudio said:
If I am thinking correctly, the Wi-Fi calling feature is part of the ROM. You may be able to install a t-mobile rom on the phone, if you have a NON AT&T phone, as I believe that the boot-loader on the AT&T phone is still locked and there is no workaround yet.
I am currently running a t-mobile note 3 on AT&T and the Wi-FI calling feature is not possible on AT&T service.
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That's correct, eventually att will do wifi calling