My Samsung Focus S windows phone is going south on me and I'm looking for a replacement phone. I'm considering the Unlocked Amazon Fire Phone for $199. I will be using it with my StraightTalk Sim card.
I use my phone as a local hotspot when my sketchy internet service isn't working at home. Has anyone tried using this phone with StraightTalk and getting the WiFi Hotspot option to work?
I'm open to other phones that can be easily configured to enable WiFi hotspot on the AT&T network via StraightTalk.
Thanks In Advance
You can share your internet conectin, havent use it mutch but it works
The Grand Pooh-Bah said:
My Samsung Focus S windows phone is going south on me and I'm looking for a replacement phone. I'm considering the Unlocked Amazon Fire Phone for $199. I will be using it with my StraightTalk Sim card.
I use my phone as a local hotspot when my sketchy internet service isn't working at home. Has anyone tried using this phone with StraightTalk and getting the WiFi Hotspot option to work?
I'm open to other phones that can be easily configured to enable WiFi hotspot on the AT&T network via StraightTalk.
Thanks In Advance
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I don't know about StraightTalk specifically, but I've used the tether before with T-Mobile (US) and it worked well.
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Hello,
So I have been running the rom below for a few days and it is awesome.
[ROM]▐[22.JAN.12]⁞★★Seanster_GBaxe EX v1.4.1:Taste of ICS★★⁞Android 2.3.6⁞Fauxv0.0.7▐
I tried turning on Wifi calling because my office has the worst coverage. It says my simcard does not work. I called T-mobile and they told me to go into the store and they can switch it out for me. I owned the HTC Sensation and bought the SG2 a week old from a friend and just put my old sim card in. I also found out that T-mobile is charging for Wfi-hotspot.
Moving I am not paying for Wifi hotspot but my phone does it. I don't know if it is because I am running a custom rom, using an old sim card, or because I have the old 5 MB internet plan.
My question is, will I lose the free Wifi Hotspot if I upgrade my sim card?
Also is anyone else paying for the Wifi hotspot ($15) or does a custom rom allow you to have free wifi hotspot?
Thank you
DensoYamaha41 said:
Hello,
So I have been running the rom below for a few days and it is awesome.
[ROM]▐[22.JAN.12]⁞★★Seanster_GBaxe EX v1.4.1:Taste of ICS★★⁞Android 2.3.6⁞Fauxv0.0.7▐
I tried turning on Wifi calling because my office has the worst coverage. It says my simcard does not work. I called T-mobile and they told me to go into the store and they can switch it out for me. I owned the HTC Sensation and bought the SG2 a week old from a friend and just put my old sim card in. I also found out that T-mobile is charging for Wfi-hotspot.
Moving I am not paying for Wifi hotspot but my phone does it. I don't know if it is because I am running a custom rom, using an old sim card, or because I have the old 5 MB internet plan.
My question is, will I lose the free Wifi Hotspot if I upgrade my sim card?
Also is anyone else paying for the Wifi hotspot ($15) or does a custom rom allow you to have free wifi hotspot?
Thank you
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gettin a new simcard wont lose ur wifi hotspot its a hack that the devs have.
btw do u mean 5 gb plan lol
mightymike889 said:
gettin a new simcard wont lose ur wifi hotspot its a hack that the devs have.
btw do u mean 5 gb plan lol
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Thanks. No I am on the 5mb plan from 2001. jk, yeah I meant 5GB.
So has anyone heard about the new 5gb and 10gb plan supposedly being released today?
A really close friend of mine has the Galaxy S II (T-mobile) and is on Walmart's Family Mobile plan. It does come with WiFi Calling, but it says "Invalid SIM Card ERO5".
From what I remember, Family-Mobile runs through T-mobile's network and WiFi Calling does not cost T-mobile anything to provide us with Wi-Fi Calling. Any insights or solutions are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Your sim card must be of a certain kind to allow the WiFi calling feature to work. For example, if a T-Mobile customer bought the s2 when it came out in 2011 and had an old/incompatible sim card, they would have to activate the new sim card that came with the purchased phone in order to be able to use the WiFi calling feature.
So a reasonable conclusion would be that the sim card you have currently in your device is NOT compatible. Unfortunately, I don't know the specifics, such as the name or kind of sim card you need, if u were to ask customer service for one. A description of your issue should suffice to let them know what it is that you need.
Hope I'm clear. Good luck.
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bzlik88 said:
Your sim card must be of a certain kind to allow the WiFi calling feature to work. For example, if a T-Mobile customer bought the s2 when it came out in 2011 and had an old/incompatible sim card, they would have to activate the new sim card that came with the purchased phone in order to be able to use the WiFi calling feature.
So a reasonable conclusion would be that the sim card you have currently in your device is NOT compatible. Unfortunately, I don't know the specifics, such as the name or kind of sim card you need, if u were to ask customer service for one. A description of your issue should suffice to let them know what it is that you need.
Hope I'm clear. Good luck.
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This is correct though the newer SIMs have been out since the first Samsung galaxy (vibrant) hit tmobile. I will say sometimes when I used to use ics ROM with Wi-Fi calling that some times it would throw an error and I would have to restart to get it running. You also need to usually login to the customer portal or call customer service and set the E911 address before it fully enables on the phone.
Wi-Fi calling is not that great, plenty of lag and other issues that make the call quality pretty bad even on great internet connections.
Especially with tmobile doing the $50 everything unlimited with no contact plan (and similar plans for contract phones), it's worth just going that way (tmobile even accepts customers with pretty bad credit so don't let that stop you).
If you want to stay with Wallys World for whatever reason I bet they also have a similar deal.
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Hello, I am a former Family Mobile service user and i am sorry to inform you that Family Mobile does not offer WiFi calling.
I had a Galaxy S 4G with wifi calling, and when I upgraded to the T989 a couple months ago, wifi calling wouldn't work with my sim card (though everything else worked). I went to the Tmo store and they gave me a new SIM for free, and now everything works.
So if FM does support wifi calling, you may just need a newer sim card.
and wifi calling works great for me. clear, and no echo. It's actually better than every other voip app I tried on the market. I'm on unlimited, but I have a very weak signal at home, and therefore must use wifi calling
I have WFMobile and it seems to keep ER05 on my phone beeps and rings it's annoying. I have WiFi calling turned off. I don't know how to get away from it.
Many retail mobiles have "Wifi Calling" function but not any menu entry to enable , There is a APP can check the hidden function and enable it if can use.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.widget7.wifi.calling
I was a Verizon subscriber until February & switched to AT&T. Had Unlimited Data with Verizon as I do now with AT&T. Used FoxFi on a Verizon Samsung Note 4 to create a hotspot and it worked beautifully. I am using the same Verizon Note 4 on AT&T & the FoxFi Hotspot still works, do not have 4G/LTE just H+ speed. My Verizon Note 4 is dying. I need to keep my hotspot feature. Have a few options listed below.
1. Verizon Internation CDMA GSM Dual Mode Device. Will I be able to get 4G/LTE using GSM?
2. Am I able to enable a hotspot on unlocked AT&T device. Partial to Samsung but not married to it.
3. Need to avoid Rooting, my Lyft Beta App will not operate on a rooted device & neither will the Uber Driver App.
4. Any suggestions that you know that works.
If you don't want to root, then you will have to get a new verizon phone in order to use the Foxfi hotspot feature. I have been dealing with the ATT unlimited data and working around ways to hotspot on it. As of now due to the verizon phones being CDMA the best speeds you will receive will be H+
I don't know why ATT phones cannot use the hot spot feature through Foxfi, I due know you can tether and use a bluetooth connection with an ATT phone using Foxfi, however for now to hotspot keep using a verizon phone with Foxfi. As of now I know all Verizon phones can hotspot through Foxfi, not just the note 4.
Hope that helps!
I was thinking about getting an LG G5 to use with Tmobile. What is the status of being able to tether with LG G5 on tmobile? Do you need a separate subscription to tether? is there a hack to hide tether data? is the tether setting accessible on tmobile lg g5 or do you need some sort of hack?
sorry for the basic question as i am coming from sprint .. thanks.
I have a few of them for the kiddos on T-Mobile postpaid family plan. Tethering and hotspot work fine for me. I've used them to tether on the PC without issue when the internet has gone down or for troubleshooting. Hotspot works well too. I bought them all used from ebay awhile back. Most if not all were T-Mobile G5's.
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I have a few of them for the kiddos on T-Mobile postpaid family plan. Tethering and hotspot work fine for me. I've used them to tether on the PC without issue when the internet has gone down or for troubleshooting. Hotspot works well too. I bought them all used from ebay awhile back. Most if not all were T-Mobile G5's.
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So do you have to pay additional fee for tethering or is there a hack to get it working? I am paying $55/month on sprint and they want another $30 for the hotspot. Luckily, thanks to this formum, i was able to get the tether hack working on my phone so don't have to subscript to their hotspot plan.
No fees but I don't use it heavily either. I'm on a postpaid plan not a prepaid so there might be a difference.
This will determine if I buy this phone, have been eyeing OnePlus 7 for a few months but haven't seen anybody attempt to use wifi calling on AT&T Network.
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This will determine if I buy this phone, have been eyeing OnePlus 7 for a few months but haven't seen anybody attempt to use wifi calling on AT&T Network.
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I just got me an AT&T sim, and wifi calling and all other features such as texting works fine.
matt1733 said:
Has anyone heard if the oneplus 7t will have voice over LTE on AT&T they dont play nice with unlocked phones and hold back features like volte and wifi calling if its not At&T branded.
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Everything works great, including call forwarding codes etc. This phone is basically a turd on Verizon, no wifi calling, and no texting. My plan is to give the AT&T pay as you go plan a 2 month trial, I will forward my VZW phone to it, and put it through the paces, if all works out, I will get rid of VZW and move to At&t.
I found out, while you can enable Wifi calling on AT&T, it does not actually work when there is no network. OnePlus support says that plan on fixing it on a future update. It does however work on Google Fi.