So since we can flash an international rom on our phones...could there be a flashible mod that will allow us to take advantage of wifi calling and volte?
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No, there won't be.
Why not? There is one for edge features. Couldn't the WiFi calling be pulled from stock firmware or is it more complicated than that? Just curious
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Why not? There is one for edge features. Couldn't the WiFi calling be pulled from stock firmware or is it more complicated than that? Just curious
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It's much more complicated. In addition to the configs and APKs, there are certificates that can't be copied amongst other things. It may get easier in the future now that Google has Project Fi going and they more tightly integrate all of the settings for the carriers that offer Wi-Fi calling, but we'll see.
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Just picked up my new Note II this week and was wondering if wiped out my tmo stock ROM.. would I be able to load an international stock ROM of X language/country region?
What I am aiming for is basically a fresh clean installed ROM without the tmo bloatware and etc. Also, would my Note II have any wifi calling issues being on a non-tmo stock ROM?
Any advice is appreciated and thank you in advance.
There should be a stock debloated rom floating around in the android dev sections. I used it untill jedi x7 came out and roms were becoming stable.
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Wifi calling only available in TMobile roms. You will lose wifi calling if you install international roms or any roms that is not base on TMobile.
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Wifi calling only available in TMobile roms. You will lose wifi calling if you install international roms or any roms that is not base on TMobile.
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Yeah, I was afraid of that.. losing wifi calling. My area lacks coverage so I depend on wifi calling.
Hm.. is there a way to extract the wifi calling feature from stock tmo roms and install with other custom or international roms.
niuyue said:
Yeah, I was afraid of that.. losing wifi calling. My area lacks coverage so I depend on wifi calling.
Hm.. is there a way to extract the wifi calling feature from stock tmo roms and install with other custom or international roms.
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Well, in the sense that anything could be possible... sure. But it would be a huge undertaking much more involved then an extract-and-install scenario. My gut says the juice isn't worth the squeeze on that one... but I've been wrong on such things before so don't take my word for it.
My current ROM is Tweaked 1.5 I can confirm that Wi-fi calling works.
Should you choose to flash this rom (Tweaked 1.5) In Aroma installer, make sure you tick "install all t-mobile apps"
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brickinphoneslol said:
My current ROM is Tweaked 1.5 I can confirm that Wi-fi calling works.
Should you choose to flash this rom (Tweaked 1.5) In Aroma installer, make sure you tick "install all t-mobile apps"
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Fwiw - installing all t-mobile apps is not necessary for wifi calling to work on tweaked.
This phone is basically the same as the AT&T i727 varient of the S2, we can even share radios and we used to share themes and stuff before I swapped to CM10.1
Anyways, I'd like to use my phone on Tmo now, and from what I can tell we share pretty much all the same bands and everything. Is there a way I could use WiFi calling on my phone?
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_ii_skyrocket_i727-4303.php
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_ii_t989-4129.php
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This phone is basically the same as the AT&T i727 varient of the S2, we can even share radios and we used to share themes and stuff before I swapped to CM10.1
Anyways, I'd like to use my phone on Tmo now, and from what I can tell we share pretty much all the same bands and everything. Is there a way I could use WiFi calling on my phone?
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_ii_skyrocket_i727-4303.php
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_ii_t989-4129.php
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If you have the SIM card, and you will need to flash a T-Mobile ROM with Wi-Fi calling
I don't have this phone with T-Mobile so idk if it will work
You can try installing T-mobile firmware and see if that works.. You may also need to contact T-mobile and get them to enable wifi calling for your SIM.. If that doesn't work you're probably out of luck
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Does your version of CM10.1 have wifi calling enabled? Is it a feature that is possible to port to any rom? like say even an i727 rom via a flashable zip or something? Really unsure how complicated enabling that feature is.
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Does your version of CM10.1 have wifi calling enabled? Is it a feature that is possible to port to any rom? like say even an i727 rom via a flashable zip or something? Really unsure how complicated enabling that feature is.
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It is not realiscally possible to have wifi calling on CM10. Aint gonna happen.
To enable wifi calling the following things must be true:
You use TMobile
You've got a wifi calling enabled SIM (if you dont get it from a store).
Wifi calling must be enabled on your Tmobile acct (call customer service).
You must have TMobile firmware.
Just use Magicjack free unlimited calling with or with wifi
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Just use Magicjack free unlimited calling with or with wifi
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In using Infamous right now and am really happy with it except for a few hangups here and there, but I was wondering if there was any other yet that I should know of.
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T-Mobile feature only. I have seen no other carrier incorporate that into their roms.
You would have run TMO carriers roms to get that feature, and I think all have that feature.
Right, and I was asking in terms of custom ROMS that integrate that feature. As in designed for the t-mo model specifically since I am a T mobile customer the ROM I'm using now, .Infamous, supports WiFi calling. I was just wondering if there's others, or maybe a way to add it into other ROMS.
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Right, and I was asking in terms of custom ROMS that integrate that feature. As in designed for the t-mo model specifically since I am a T mobile customer the ROM I'm using now, .Infamous, supports WiFi calling. I was just wondering if there's others, or maybe a way to add it into other ROMS.
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wicked v4... check the development forums. should be easy to find the others as well.
any tmobile base touchwiz rom
RC Cola said:
Right, and I was asking in terms of custom ROMS that integrate that feature. As in designed for the t-mo model specifically since I am a T mobile customer the ROM I'm using now, .Infamous, supports WiFi calling. I was just wondering if there's others, or maybe a way to add it into other ROMS.
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As far as CM and other's of that nature, not a single one. Also, don't expect it to be incorporated into non-TouchWiz ROMs any time soon.
I may be way off base, but I just upgraded to a new 4.4.2 CM based ROM and the dev believes WiFi Calling is exclusive to Samsung. I am under the impression it is exclusive to T-Mobile firmware. Does that even make a difference?
And can WiFi Calling be integrated into CM based ROMs?
Thanks for the help in advance!
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I may be way off base, but I just upgraded to a new 4.4.2 CM based ROM and the dev believes WiFi Calling is exclusive to Samsung. I am under the impression it is exclusive to T-Mobile firmware. Does that even make a difference?
And can WiFi Calling be integrated into CM based ROMs?
Thanks for the help in advance!
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Short answer - WiFi calling is only for T-Mobile and only for Touchwiz Roms. Period.
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Thank you for the reply.
Now, I guess the question is why can't the WiFi calling script be implemented into an AOSP source?
Is it a matter of no dev feeling the motivation? It looks like the WiFi calling SDK is available...
code.google.com/p/the-ims-op...t-for-android/
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WiFi Calling is something integrated deep into the OS. The SDK likely is for allowing apps to work with that closed source OS system, not to duplicate it. It would have to be completely reverse engineered by studying network packets generated by the phone during WiFi calling, figure out the protocol and any encryption used, find any encryption keys needed, and rewrite everything from scratch based around those findings. Not an easy task, and for the most part it's of fairly low reward to most users as normal calling works fine. That said I was reading a discussion recently on /r/linux about the Antrax kernels (forget what device it was for) and the developer witholding source code (which is illegal under the GPL if you distribute binaries). It looked like one of the sources that might be witheld is an open source WiFi calling implementation.
http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?93124-AnthraX-Linux-Kernels-Remain-Closed-Source&p=385801
If he really does have WiFi calling working at the kernel level then we should be pressuring whoever is entitled to make him release code to do so. By the nature of the GPL license anything at all that goes into a kernel binary released to the public MUST be released under the same license (GPLv2) and thus those people who received the binary are entitled to his source code which they can then redistribute.
Wow. Really good info. Thank you for sharing.
I do happen to be in the minority group that has shoddy coverage, so wifi calling is a godsend.
It's unfortunate firms like the one discussed in that post don't have to be 'resolved' quickly, given the volatile responses. Either make them share it asap, or figure out the price points and let everyone know how the game is going to be played...
Here's to hoping a dev feels compelled to go through all the hard work you mentioned nonetheless. Cheers!
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corwest said:
Short answer - WiFi calling is only for T-Mobile and only for Touchwiz Roms. Period.
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Don't forget HTC sense has wifi calling as well
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Don't forget HTC sense has wifi calling as well
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My wife has an LG optimus l9 (I think that's what it is anyway) with wifi calling - it's a T-Mobile-variant phone thing more than a particular android skin (TW, Sense, ...whatever LG calls its thing..., etc.).
Isn't wifi calling just on t mobile regardless of the phone
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WiFi calling is on many T-mo phones, but not all and it's not only Samsung and it doesn't have to be smart phone either. My father has it on some older flip phone, not sure what it is running but I'm sure it's not touch wiz, probably not even Android. I think even some old Nokias had it under Symbian?
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Don't forget HTC sense has wifi calling as well
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In reference to the Note 3 it is only Touchwiz.
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Is it fair to assume that if a developer's ROM is TW-based, Wifi calling is implemented as 'standard', or would the developer need to specifically build it in?
I'm curious because I see TW-based ROMs for the Note 3 that don't say anything about Wifi calling as a feature.
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Is it fair to assume that if a developer's ROM is TW-based, Wifi calling is implemented as 'standard', or would the developer need to specifically build it in?
I'm curious because I see TW-based ROMs for the Note 3 that don't say anything about Wifi calling as a feature.
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It has to be both TW-based AND TMo(carrier)-based (meaning the international TW bases won't have the native Wifi Calling feature).
Please forgive my ignorance, if this has been asked already. I recently converted from VERIzon to finally be able to unlock my phones!
Just got AOSP running, do any of the ROMs incorporate the wifi calling features on the stock ROM......Im guessing no, but I couldn't find a definitive answer.
Thanks
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No.
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It's unfortunate. Hoping that hangouts/GV will eventually integrate this feature in the future. But here's to hoping! :fingers-crossed:
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It's unfortunate. Hoping that hangouts/GV will eventually integrate this feature in the future. But here's to hoping! :fingers-crossed:
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Hangouts/GV is something entirely different from wifi calling. Wifi calling is baked in by tmo and requires touchwiz and some propriety libraries. Hangouts/GV is completely independent of this and should work fine on AOSP
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Short answer: 100% impossible. The Wifi Calling app itself has been open-sourced by T-Mobile, but how to completely implement it into the device framework, as well as the SIM authentication method (I believe) is still a mystery. Well, we know HOW it's done, but not how to implement it. I'm not a developer, just stating what I've read.
On older devices, when T-Mobile used UMA instead of SIP (two different protocols) for Wifi Calling, it was possible to do. But as of now, there are huge bounties to try and implement it in AOSP ROMs because no one has been able to do it.