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Enhanced Wifi Calling vs. Personal Cell Spot

What's better? A galaxyS4 w/ Enhanced WiFi Calling or w/o WiFi calling and Personal Cell Spot?
I've read the Enhanced WiFi calling solves the network handoff problem between VoLTE & VoIP/SIP-based WiFi calling over myhome network.
From what I understand, the Personal Cell Spot is essentially a router with the same enhanced WiFi calling SW, but has a low power LTE signal so the phone doesn't need to have or use WiFi calling? Because of this, it seems to also handle the network hand off problem.
So, if I have a Galaxy S4 that is updated to NH7 with Enhanced WiFi calling, do I go with that, or do I get a free personal cell spot and get 5bars in my home?
If they're about the same, any other pro & cons? LTE is more power hungry than WiFi right? But you'd be offloading some VoIP/SIP stuff to the personal cell spot too?
Thoughts? I'm looking for a technical discussion. Thanks.

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Wifi Calling?

Any way to activate the wifi calling feature for the Sprint S6?
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I've tried on every build so far on my GS6 and haven't been able to get it to turn on, but it sounds like a few people have gotten it to work. I've spoken with Sprint multiple times about it and the only remaining test they want to try is to factory reset the phone...which is funny since the first day I also couldn't enable WiFi calling. They recommended I take it into a Sprint store so someone else can look at it, and probably factory reset it. I just don't want to spend the next 6 hours customizing everything on my phone again. I've also heard that the battery life isn't very good with WiFi calling (maybe incorrectly), so that's been another reason for me to not take the plunge and factory reset.
Sprint did mention, during all those phone calls and chats that WiFi Calling must be enabled on your account/line for it to work, which they say they enabled for me, but it still doesn't work. Maybe that's your hang-up....

Works for me on stock OH1. Took awhile for the red line to disappear from the icon but when it did I made and received several calls using wifi calling.
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I am able to use wifi calling fine. I was just in Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia where I used wifi calling constantly to call and text people in the US. I am on stock OH1. When you enable wifi calling go to the wifi calling options and make sure the wifi access point you are connected to us enabled in the wifi calling. To the point above, yes it does often take 30 seconds to a minute to enable wifi calling on any access point. If it starts to take longer I toggle wifi calling off then on again.

balistic2 said:
When you enable wifi calling go to the wifi calling options and make sure the wifi access point you are connected to us enabled in the wifi calling.
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How do you tell the phone that a particular wifi network is able to use wifi calling? Whenever I try to enable wifi calling it sends me straight to "Self Service".

ggross01 said:
Any way to activate the wifi calling feature for the Sprint S6?
rooted and xposed installed
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Wanam Xposed module (note module not framework) breaks the ability to access WIFI calling feature. I reported it here in module thread.

I might recommend doing an RTN reset...I know you said you don't want to set everything up all over again. But I had issues when I first got the device. This completely reprovisions everything and in my case fixed WiFi calling not even being an option. I would make sure it shows in your account and then do the RTN reset.

Will it support T-Mobile WiFi Calling?

Will it support T-Mobile Wi-Fi Calling? I know Android M supports WiFi calling natively but will the carriers (T-Mobile in particular) need to do anything to allow it?
WiFi calling is very useful to me at home where cell signal is very poor.

sirxdroid said:
Will it support T-Mobile Wi-Fi Calling? I know Android M supports WiFi calling natively but will the carriers (T-Mobile in particular) need to do anything to allow it?
WiFi calling is very useful to me at home where cell signal is very poor.
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Out of the box, at this moment, I don't think it does. However T-Mobile got it working on the Nexus 6 so I don't see why they couldn't add it with an update either before or after they ship. Think positive :thumbup:
Edit: found this from another thread in general section
"It’s also worth mentioning that*T-Mobile has already said*that the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P should have Wi-Fi Calling support at launch. While it’s expected to be turned off by default, T-Mo has said that after you pop in your SIM and hook onto the network, you should be able to turn the feature on."

Google or T-Mobile said via Twitter or the AMA or somewhere that it does support WiFi calling out of the box, but you need to set it to be on when you get your device - it isn't on by default.
The TBD support is for T-Mobile VoLTE/Band 12, which Google said they hope will be ready to go by ship day.

Ajfink said:
Google or T-Mobile said via Twitter or the AMA or somewhere that it does support WiFi calling out of the box, but you need to set it to be on when you get your device - it isn't on by default.
The TBD support is for T-Mobile VoLTE/Band 12, which Google said they hope will be ready to go by ship day.
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Excellent. Both will help.

Do texts go over wifi as well with wifi calling enabled? At work I only have access to wifi or Sprint (because I am in a basement of a building) and it has a Sprint DAS antenna system installed. I was thinking of switching to Project Fi due to it being on Sprint's network but if texts can go over wifi with T-mobile I would probably go with them since it would open me up to a huge choice of phones in the future (I kind of want to try a windows phone sometime)

Evo_Shift said:
Do texts go over wifi as well with wifi calling enabled? At work I only have access to wifi or Sprint (because I am in a basement of a building) and it has a Sprint DAS antenna system installed. I was thinking of switching to Project Fi due to it being on Sprint's network but if texts can go over wifi with T-mobile I would probably go with them since it would open me up to a huge choice of phones in the future (I kind of want to try a windows phone sometime)
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Yes, texts will go over wifi. Hurry with that Windows phone, before the platform dies completely

Here's the Twitter post where I saw confirmation from T-Mobile on Wi-Fi calling: https://twitter.com/TMobile/status/648919023158206464
The initial question was on band 12 support (hoping we get this soon), but below there's a question on Wi-Fi calling to which they said yes. This was one of the main reasons I'm switching to one of the new Nexus phones - most phones support it on their stock ROMs, but once you get sick of stock and switch to a custom ROM you have to give up Wi-Fi calling.

Question for those of you on T-Mobile...
We all know WiFi calling is enabled, BUT, has anyone seen or regularly sees any kind of indicator that they're actually connected through WiFi calling when on a call?
I have seen twice on the signal tile, it say "T-Mobile WiFi calling". But that's it. I have the setting set to WiFi preferred and I even have the T-Mobile WiFi calling Asus router, but I don't know if it's actually using WiFi calling it not.
If I have zero signal indicated on the signal tile, but WiFi on, I'll get a message telling me to connect to a wireless network when I try to place calls.
I'm also assuming that means the signal indicator tile serves a dual purpose in regards to also showing WiFi signal strength. Because when I'm on WiFi, if I switch on " cellular preferred" (in WiFi calling settings), I'll see the LTE symbol next to the signal icon in the tile, but If I switch to "WiFi preferred", any cellular symbol (LTE, H, 3G) goes away.
On a side note, if you're in airplane mode, you can't make a phone call, even with WiFi on. On my S6 edge, I could, as long as I was connected to T-Mobile WiFi calling. But the phone would let you know with a status bar icon.
I really need WiFi calling in some places at work and I dumped the S6E partly because of the 5X utilizing WiFi calling, so that's why I've wasted all you folk's time in reading this long post. ☺

Well, son of a *****, look what finally popped up...

It was enabled by default as soon as I booted with the TMO sim and ran the update.

Great to read...looking forward to trying it out when it arrives.

minnemike said:
It was enabled by default as soon as I booted with the TMO sim and ran the update.
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As was mine, but it didn't seem to want to work. I had "cellular preferred" set, but it seemed to hold onto the cell signal too much and not want to switch over. I set it to "WiFi preferred" but it still wasn't connecting yesterday. Today however, it's been all good with WiFi preferred. So it might have just been my work's network yesterday.
I still got to see if the phone will hand off the call to cellular before I leave it on WiFi preferred. I'm guessing it only will if I'm on band 12, but I'll test it anyways.

Question WiFi calling working for anyone on Pro or regular?

Is wifi calling working for anyone on pro or regular P6? For myself, and quite a few others in some reddit threads it is not.
I've checked all my settings, and they all appear to be correct. But when I try to make a wifi call, I keep getting told that the network is not available. I'm able to browse the net over wifi on the phone w/out any problems. I'm also able to use google voice to make a call over wifi, but not the regular phone app.
I'm on GoogleFI with the FI variant of the phone -- have contacted support and was told the issue has been escalated. Has anyone run into a similar issue on the P6/P and found any fixes?

I got an unlocked pro and wifi calling is working for me on AT&T

WiFi calling working on Verizon with unlocked Pro for me.

Guess I should make this more specific -- I have the FI variant, on GoogleFI. It appears that everyone else who is also having this issue is also on FI

Wifi calling works great on TMobile with unlocked Google variant.

I'm on Google Fi, bought mine unlocked from Google Store. I have one spam call answered by Call Screen on WiFi.
EDIT: Just placed a call to a movie theater and it used WiFi.

Guess I'll pickup a normal unlocked one from BB and see if that works any better. Have basically 0 reception at home, so wifi calling is a must.

6 & 6 Pro both working with Wi-Fi Calling here (UK BT Mobile)

Sounds like an issue with Google fi.
Working flawlessly here on ee-gb

6 & 6p WiFi calling fully functional (UK EE)

Unlocked 6P on Verizon Wifi calling 100% fine.

No issues with WiFi calling for me on the Google Fi on P6P.

It works for me but not on every wifi network. When I'm at home I never see the wifi calling in the top left but when I'm at work I see wifi calling in the top left.

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Question Verizon prefer wifi calling?

I was using the note 20 ultra prior to this and had wifi calling enabled. In my home, even if the call started on the network it would handoff to wifi as the connection is far better.
On this pixel 6 pro it does not handoff and my call always drop when at home. I have toggle airplane mode then turn on wifi to use wifi calling. In the settings verizon defaults the phone to prefer mobile calling which defeats the purpose. Is there any way to prefer wifi calling. The previous adb method seems to be patched. Also both the note 20 ultra and this phone are unlocked bought from their respective companies.