With the fact Verizon purposely drops your coverage from 3/4G to 1x while making a phone call? I've seen in the General G4 forum the "fix" for this is to setup advanced calling (which costs money). Anyone know if there's another fix? Possibly something to edit in build.prop (very highly doubt that)? Perhaps I'll have to wait for custom ROMs to come out in the future and have them enable this along with the Mobile Hotspot.
Advanced Calling does not cost any more money than voice calls, it's a $0.00/mo feature add on that you need to add to your Verizon account. Advanced calling is only a fancy name for VoLTE.
The reason it drops the call is because all Verizon phones this year don't have dual-radios to call and use data at the same time, this is a hardware limitation. With Advanced Calling, you can use voice and data at the same time while on LTE.
Check my thread on enabling the mobile hotspot once you have root.
Dennisg34 said:
With the fact Verizon purposely drops your coverage from 3/4G to 1x while making a phone call? I've seen in the General G4 forum the "fix" for this is to setup advanced calling (which costs money). Anyone know if there's another fix? Possibly something to edit in build.prop (very highly doubt that)? Perhaps I'll have to wait for custom ROMs to come out in the future and have them enable this along with the Mobile Hotspot.
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Hmm I know there was a fix for this on Sammy phones. LTE coverage would drop completely on calls on ports. The fix was editing a line in the build.prop like you mentioned believe it or not lol :silly:. I am new to LG so I would have to take a look and see if the same line exsist (i'm guessing it does but it's prob already set to what it is spouse to be)
geoff5093 said:
Advanced Calling does not cost any more money than voice calls, it's a $0.00/mo feature add on that you need to add to your Verizon account. Advanced calling is only a fancy name for VoLTE.
The reason it drops the call is because all Verizon phones this year don't have dual-radios to call and use data at the same time, this is a hardware limitation. With Advanced Calling, you can use voice and data at the same time while on LTE.
Check my thread on enabling the mobile hotspot once you have root.
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Ahhh thanks! I never bothered to continue with the "purchase" to see it wasn't actually something that costs money.
This still annoys me though lol lowering call quality.
geoff5093 said:
Advanced Calling does not cost any more money than voice calls, it's a $0.00/mo feature add on that you need to add to your Verizon account. Advanced calling is only a fancy name for VoLTE.
The reason it drops the call is because all Verizon phones this year don't have dual-radios to call and use data at the same time, this is a hardware limitation. With Advanced Calling, you can use voice and data at the same time while on LTE.
Check my thread on enabling the mobile hotspot once you have root.
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Just enabled this, and it's still doing it Maybe I need to wait longer..
Dennisg34 said:
Ahhh thanks! I never bothered to continue with the "purchase" to see it wasn't actually something that costs money.
This still annoys me though lol lowering call quality.
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Advanced calling is much better call quality than without it.
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Just enabled this, and it's still doing it Maybe I need to wait longer..
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It takes a couple hours IIRC. Make sure you enable it on your phone as well and restart your phone afterwards.
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Advanced calling is much better call quality than without it.
It takes a couple hours IIRC. Make sure you enable it on your phone as well and restart your phone afterwards.
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Yeah I did after the 5 minutes it told me to as well as shut it down completely then turn it on. I'll give it several hours, figuring it would take that long.
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Yeah I did after the 5 minutes it told me to as well as shut it down completely then turn it on. I'll give it several hours, figuring it would take that long.
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I just made a call while on LTE with my VS986 and Advanced Calling enabled, and I was able to use LTE data while on the call, so it will work it just may take some time.
Lost my volte also I went online and enabled it but had to end up calling in and having them do a refresh to my phone that fixed it! One thing I found out yesterday was that you can't uninstall the my Verizon app if you want advanced calling it seems to run a check through that. Also found this odd the my Verizon app asked me to grant root permission to it! Of course it got denied
This is the build.prop tweak for enabling/disabling 1x:
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ro.config.svlte1x=false
Not sure it works on our phones, but I'll be giving it a try.
edit: Damn, doesn't work.
lacoursiere18 said:
Hmm I know there was a fix for this on Sammy phones. LTE coverage would drop completely on calls on ports. The fix was editing a line in the build.prop like you mentioned believe it or not lol :silly:. I am new to LG so I would have to take a look and see if the same line exsist (i'm guessing it does but it's prob already set to what it is spouse to be)
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The Galaxy S5 was the last Galaxy to have 2 radios, one for voice, one for data. So if you're referring to an S5 or earlier, the situation would have been different. They physically had the ability to voice & data together, without requiring Advanced Calling/VoLTE.
The G4 (and the Galaxy S6) only have a single radio, so they both require Advanced Calling in order to voice & data at the same time.
For those having trouble with getting Advanced Calling working on Verizon, I went around and around with their tech support for a week. I was running software VS98610B, and could not get it to actually enable. But as a last resort before exchanging the phone (their last suggestion), I upgraded to the current version, 611A, and got it working. So if you're on 610B, and having trouble enabling it, you may need to take the OTA update to 611A.
More info/details on the process I went through to get Advanced Calling working are in my thread over on AC:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg-g4/557860-trouble-activating-advanced-calling-verizon-610b-software.html
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Lost my volte also I went online and enabled it but had to end up calling in and having them do a refresh to my phone that fixed it! One thing I found out yesterday was that you can't uninstall the my Verizon app if you want advanced calling it seems to run a check through that. Also found this odd the my Verizon app asked me to grant root permission to it! Of course it got denied
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Can anyone else confirm that you need that my Verizon app installed to use advanced calling
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Can anyone else confirm that you need that my Verizon app installed to use advanced calling
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Yes you do. I ran into that on my G3.
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Can anyone else confirm that you need that my Verizon app installed to use advanced calling
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You need the Verizon App to be able to get to the settings. Once you activate Advanced Calling, you can disable the Verizon app again.
Yea it really makes me mad that the G4 is doing this. My G2 had Advanced calling turned off and I had 4G while making calls. The Advanced calling caused more problems then it solved. Specifically I only get 1x in the basement at work and my calls were going straight to VM. Also there are tons of reports of lots of Echos and stuttering while using HD Voice.
Your G2 probably had 2 radios, and could therefore do voice + data without needing AC. My Galaxy S3 was like that.
But the G4 and S6 only have 1 radio. So they need AC to do data while also on a call.
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Your G2 probably had 2 radios, and could therefore do voice + data without needing AC. My Galaxy S3 was like that.
But the G4 and S6 only have 1 radio. So they need AC to do data while also on a call.
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The G2 and G3 could, but around last fall all Verizon phones started coming with just one radio and could only do both with Advanced Calling.
Wow. Allow me to explain something here. Any time you make a phone call on ANY Verizon phone, it's going to use 1X. That's CDMA. Verizon 3G (EV-DO) is data only. Advanced Calling allows phone calls over LTE and is the only way to do simultaneous voice and data in a phone that only has one combined CDMA/LTE radio, which is most Verizon phones.
Think of it this way. If you're in LTE coverage and you have Advanced Calling enabled, your call will go out over LTE. Otherwise, it's going out via CDMA, which the phone will show as 1X. It's no more or less complicated than that.
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Dennisg34 said:
With the fact Verizon purposely drops your coverage from 3/4G to 1x while making a phone call? I've seen in the General G4 forum the "fix" for this is to setup advanced calling (which costs money). Anyone know if there's another fix? Possibly something to edit in build.prop (very highly doubt that)? Perhaps I'll have to wait for custom ROMs to come out in the future and have them enable this along with the Mobile Hotspot.
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LOL, it's called CDMA technology, that's how it works. :fingers-crossed:
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LOL, it's called CDMA technology, that's how it works. :fingers-crossed:
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That's how old CDMA tech works but not today. The 4G radio is a separate radio outside of the standard GSM and CDMA radio. We should be able to make calls while retaining a data connection. This is something Verizon users have been doing for years. We have 3 radios but the software is turning them off during a call. If you pay and enable Advanced Calling features, then you will retain the simultaneous voice and data ability. It just sucks because I was able to do this on the G2 with advanced calling features disabled.
This is clearly Verizon trying to get more money out of you.
Hang on
- As I understand it, the G4 (and other 2015 Verizon phones, at least including the S6) has a single radio.
- Advanced Calling is free, and voice calls do not count towards your data allowance. So I'm not sure why you think Verizon is getting more money from AC.
- The older phones (like my GS3) didn't need AC to do voice + data because they had 2 radios, not 1.
I apologize if my understanding of the # of radios is wrong, but your post is inconsistent with what I've heard on that subject elsewhere.
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I'm using T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro 2 on AT&T network and cant receive calls when I'm on data network (read browsing, facebook app, slacker radio app).
I'm on AT&T EDGE. Is there anything that can be done to avoid this? Thanks.
blueguy19 said:
I'm using T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro 2 on AT&T network and cant receive calls when I'm on data network (read browsing, facebook app, slacker radio app).
I'm on AT&T EDGE. Is there anything that can be done to avoid this? Thanks.
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The problem is that when you're using your T-mobile phone on the AT&T network, your data connection is through EDGE, not 3G...and one of the drawbacks to EDGE is that you can't have an active data connection at the same time as an active phone call.
It's a hardware restriction, caused by the different 3G bands AT&T and T-mobile use. Your only real solution would be to get an AT&T-branded phone so you can use their 3G bands, or start using t-mobile's network with your TP2 so you can use their 3G.
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The problem is that when you're using your T-mobile phone on the AT&T network, your data connection is through EDGE, not 3G...and one of the drawbacks to EDGE is that you can't have an active data connection at the same time as an active phone call.
It's a hardware restriction, caused by the different 3G bands AT&T and T-mobile use. Your only real solution would be to get an AT&T-branded phone so you can use their 3G bands, or start using t-mobile's network with your TP2 so you can use their 3G.
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Agreed that you can't do both at the same time, but it sounds like the phone should still automatically suspend the data session to take the phone call. Sounds like an application is forcing the data connection to stay active, what programs do you have installed?
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Agreed that you can't do both at the same time, but it sounds like the phone should still automatically suspend the data session to take the phone call. Sounds like an application is forcing the data connection to stay active, what programs do you have installed?
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I think it would be nice if it worked that way....but that's not how it's been for me. Maybe there's a registry setting that makes it one way or the other, but on the custom roms I've used it doesn't work the "nice" way. Calls go to voice mail if I'm actively accessing/transferring data (on an EDGE connection).
Are you saying that your TP2 actually does suspend the data session -- from personal experience? Or just that it should be that way?
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I think it would be nice if it worked that way....but that's not how it's been for me. Maybe there's a registry setting that makes it one way or the other, but on the custom roms I've used it doesn't work the "nice" way. Calls go to voice mail if I'm actively accessing/transferring data (on an EDGE connection).
Are you saying that your TP2 actually does suspend the data session -- from personal experience? Or just that it should be that way?
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I can't say for sure on my TP2 as I've generally got 3G coverage everywhere I go. When I was using my 8525 I specifically remember being impressed the first time I was in the middle of a download and it recovered after taking a phone call, was definitely a custom ROM too. Probably was WinMo 6.0 at that time though.
When you are using data and recieve a call it should stop data and allow the call to go thru when you are using EDGE. Since you are using a none AT&T device they probably wont fix the issue unless you reproduce the issue with an AT&T device. Also i tested this on my TMO TP2 by loading a website and making a call to my TP2 at the same time and it stopped my data as the call came thru then when i ignored the call it continued to load the website.
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When you are using data and recieve a call it should stop data and allow the call to go thru when you are using EDGE. Since you are using a none AT&T device they probably wont fix the issue unless you reproduce the issue with an AT&T device. Also i tested this on my TMO TP2 by loading a website and making a call to my TP2 at the same time and it stopped my data as the call came thru then when i ignored the call it continued to load the website.
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It may depend on other factors then -- like maybe what rom you're running. After I posted above I tested this again -- to confirm what I posted, by starting the download of a very large file. I then called my phone from a landline and sure-enough the call went to VM after a few rings. So, maybe just a characteristic of my ROM, but it's definitely true for me on T-Mo USA (on EDGE). When I stopped the download my phone received calls just fine, so it's not a general receiving-calls issue.
Tomorrow when I'm at work -- and have a full-strength 3G connection -- I'll try it again to confirm that it does receive during 3G data. I've done that test before -- I've received calls with my laptop tethered to the TP2 on 3G and kept the data connection and received the call, but I haven't tried with the rom I'm currently running.
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When you are using data and recieve a call it should stop data and allow the call to go thru when you are using EDGE. Since you are using a none AT&T device they probably wont fix the issue unless you reproduce the issue with an AT&T device. Also i tested this on my TMO TP2 by loading a website and making a call to my TP2 at the same time and it stopped my data as the call came thru then when i ignored the call it continued to load the website.
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I experienced the same thing with my EDGE-only Wizard (8125) on AT&T...incoming calls would be routed straight to voicemail if I had an active data connection going. And, whenever I would try to make an outgoing call, I would get an error message telling me that I couldn't make the call until I closed the data connection.
We all agree that EDGE can't multi-task like that, so to speak...but I think the issue of prioritizing or not prioritizing voice over data is handled at the device level, and/or by carrier control, rather than as a function of what the network can/can't do. My guess at this point is that there might be a reg setting that controls giving calls default priority at all times, but I have no idea what/where it is
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but I think the issue of prioritizing or not prioritizing voice over data is handled at the device level, and/or by carrier control, rather than as a function of what the network can/can't do. My guess at this point is that there might be a reg setting that controls giving calls default priority at all times, but I have no idea what/where it is
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking....well, guessing really -- I don't know. But I know what my experiment showed. A registry setting could explain why it would work for some and not others. Or could a different radio-rom possibly make a difference?
I have no idea.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking....well, guessing really -- I don't know. But I know what my experiment showed. A registry setting could explain why it would work for some and not others. Or could a different radio-rom possibly make a difference?
I have no idea.
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Now that you mention it, my money is on the radio (don't know why I didn't think of that).
blueguy, what radio are you using? And for that matter, what ROM? ATT, Tmo, or...? I'll test it on mine just like MCbrian did, since I have a different radio (.14), once I recall how to force my toy into EDGE-only mode. so, tomorrow morning
EDIT: sik96teg, same question to you...what radio/ROM are you using?
right now im on 4.49.25.57(i believe this is the stock tmo 6.5) radio and i have tried a few other radios over the last few monthes(never really tested them but dont recall this issue). i use to be on an energy rom and now im on leo cell evo rom. Also when i did have this issue a long time ago i called tmobile and they stated at the time it was a known issue and it was suppose to be resolved in a few days and a few days later it started to work. I also made about 10 calls and only one of them didnt come thru to the phone. My home phone rang for about 30 secs then went to vm but no indicator on the device but that only occured 1 out of 10 tries.
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Tomorrow when I'm at work -- and have a full-strength 3G connection -- I'll try it again to confirm that it does receive during 3G data. I've done that test before -- I've received calls with my laptop tethered to the TP2 on 3G and kept the data connection and received the call, but I haven't tried with the rom I'm currently running.
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Just confirming what I thought: On a 3G data connection, data-transfer continues and the voice call is received simultaneously, as it should.
Thanks for your inputs and my answers
I'm using Tmobile ROM which upgraded me from WinMo 6.1 to WinMo 6.5. I'm not sure what was the radio on it. But I flashed it with Hard-SPL and then with 4.49.25.88 Radio.
Even then the issue still persists
I read somewhere it happens due to NOM1 and NOM2 kind of EDGE network. NOM1 has capabilities to suspend data connection and give preference to phone call, NOM2 doesnt support this behavior. It seems AT&T is using NOM2 in my area. I'm not sure though if this is causing the issue that I'm experiencing.
I called AT&T Technical Support and they said they see my phone as Unkown device and can' support it.
Please this is really annoying, any help is appreciated.
Same here, I am currently with the new official (ok better leaked) ROM and the Radio that was provided (the latest).
The point is that when I am on 3G i can receive both data and calls which is obvious. Now after reading this thread I noticed that when I am on standard GSM and someone calls me, they get notified that my phone is switched off.
What is weird is the fact that there should have been an option to state Call over Data or the opposite for that matter. I think my old Nokia N95 had a similar option.
So, yeah, is that a bug or a feature?
i'm just guessing...but, I believe the simultaneous data/call is a function of 3G .....EDGE is the bare-bones basic thing....
at least that's how they make it sound in the commercials
....i should have read the replies in the thread...
stormrain said:
when I am on standard GSM and someone calls me, they get notified that my phone is switched off.
What is weird is the fact that there should have been an option to state Call over Data or the opposite for that matter. I think my old Nokia N95 had a similar option.
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When I tested this (on EDGE) by calling my TP2 from landline it went to voicemail. Another time I was on EDGE and someone tried to call me and they had your experience: "Out of area/unreachable". And this was within 24 hours, on the same rom without changing any setting (at least, not on purpose).
I've never seen an option to set data/voice priority.
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I flashed Energy ROM with .88 radio, it did improve download speed. But still don't receive calls while using data.
Is there any other ROM which allows this?
The Rhodium isn't capable of simultaneous data and voice.
You should have a GPRS Class A phone, but that should have 2 antennas. (See link)
So only one of them is active, data OR voice.
But normally it should pause the data connections and give priority to the voice connection.
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The Rhodium isn't capable of simultaneous data and voice.
You should have a GPRS Class A phone, but that should have 2 antennas. (See link)
So only one of them is active, data OR voice.
But normally it should pause the data connections and give priority to the voice connection.
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I believe it IS capable, if you are on 3G data. Not if you are EDGE / GPRS.
ronh said:
The Rhodium isn't capable of simultaneous data and voice.
You should have a GPRS Class A phone, but that should have 2 antennas. (See link)
So only one of them is active, data OR voice.
But normally it should pause the data connections and give priority to the voice connection.
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I believe it IS capable, if you are on 3G data. Not if you are EDGE / GPRS.
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Yes -- it absolutely is, as stevedebi states, on 3G. So the limitation on EDGE isn't the phone, really, it's the nature of EDGE/GPRS.
Looks like Sprint has posted on their device RDF Page that they are now testing ZVE. Any input or leaks on what is to come? Hopefully WiFi Calling?!
Kris:fingers-crossed:
KD8JBF said:
Looks like Sprint has posted on their device RDF Page that they are now testing ZVE. Any input or leaks on what is to come? Hopefully WiFi Calling?!
Kris:fingers-crossed:
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That'll be nice if they finally being wifi calling that they've been promising for a while. Signal isn't the best where I live.
Hopefully they'll fix the ongoing LTE issues i've been having on ZVD as well. Sometimes the phone will drop to 3G and just stay there until I meddle with the settings.
Anyone know how upgrading goes if you've got it rooted? I haven't been on stock long with this phone and would rather not lose all of the customizations that i've done. (namely, replaced nearly all of LG's customized apps with stock looking ones)
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Sometimes the phone will drop to 3G and just stay there until I meddle with the settings.
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I have the same problem with mine, but I don't think it's necessarily an issue with the phone directly. I just got my wife the Galaxy S5 Sport and the lady I dealt with at the Sprint store started to explain "This is a tri-band phone, and since we don't have Spark here, it may get stuck in 3G occasionally. To fix that just put it in airplane mode for a few seconds and then back out". I told her I'd been having the same issue with my G2 and she said it's common on all their Tri-band phones.
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I have the same problem with mine, but I don't think it's necessarily an issue with the phone directly. I just got my wife the Galaxy S5 Sport and the lady I dealt with at the Sprint store started to explain "This is a tri-band phone, and since we don't have Spark here, it may get stuck in 3G occasionally. To fix that just put it in airplane mode for a few seconds and then back out". I told her I'd been having the same issue with my G2 and she said it's common on all their Tri-band phones.
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Well, I never had this problem with the phone while I was on CM11 so it's not the hardware, it's got to be an issue with their spark enabled radio firmware. (had ZV8 radio on the phone until I used the zvc .tot file to restore it to stock)
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I have the same problem with mine, but I don't think it's necessarily an issue with the phone directly. I just got my wife the Galaxy S5 Sport and the lady I dealt with at the Sprint store started to explain "This is a tri-band phone, and since we don't have Spark here, it may get stuck in 3G occasionally. To fix that just put it in airplane mode for a few seconds and then back out". I told her I'd been having the same issue with my G2 and she said it's common on all their Tri-band phones.
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The problem and solution you describe are related to the eCSFBbug which has been fixed. It was an issue at the tower level and caused triband phones to stay on 3g. This should not be an issue any longer, so your Sprint rep needs to update their support knowledge.
Anyone who is able to return to LTE after being stuck on 3g for more than a few minutes by toggling airplane mode probably needs to perform the BSRtimer fix (G2 only)
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The problem and solution you describe are related to the eCSFBbug which has been fixed. It was an issue at the tower level and caused triband phones to stay on 3g. This should not be an issue any longer, so your Sprint rep needs to update their support knowledge.
Anyone who is able to return to LTE after being stuck on 3g for more than a few minutes by toggling airplane mode probably needs to perform the BSRtimer fix (G2 only)
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Yeah.. good luck with that, I saw the procedure to get one's MTR, annoying looking and potentially "interesting" in a bad way.
Everyone says just use this dialer code except it doesn't work on ZVD and the alternative is the bad looking one.
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Yeah.. good luck with that, I saw the procedure to get one's MTR, annoying looking and potentially "interesting" in a bad way.
Everyone says just use this dialer code except it doesn't work on ZVD and the alternative is the bad looking one.
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All you need is your MSL which isn't hard to get. Sprint gives it to you anytime you activate a phone, and if you didn't save that record then just go to Sprint chat and ask for it. If they ask why tell them you are doing a hands free activation.
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All you need is your MSL which isn't hard to get. Sprint gives it to you anytime you activate a phone, and if you didn't save that record then just go to Sprint chat and ask for it. If they ask why tell them you are doing a hands free activation.
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MSL.. riiight, no idea where I got MTR from. I'll see what ZVE does when it's out, it's not a problem I run into too frequently but it is slightly annoying when I do.
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MSL.. riiight, no idea where I got MTR from. I'll see what ZVE does when it's out, it's not a problem I run into too frequently but it is slightly annoying when I do.
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Waiting for ZVE is certainly another valid option. My wife also has a G2 and I simply advised her to ignore the ZVD update knowing there would be a fix released eventually.
Any update I this update guys?
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Any update I this update guys?
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source code has been posted on lg website. OTA should be within the next week or two. (at least thats what i am thinking)
For those complaining about WiFi calling (I was one of them), just use Hangouts as it now has Google Voice integrated. No need for Sprint's crappy apps. Merge your Sprint number with GoogleVoice and install the Goigle Dailer app and Hangouts will give you a WiFi calling tab/Dialer.
Its great because now I get SMS messages on my laptop in Chrome browser as well as calls routed from my Sprint number.
T-Mobile supports only Google Voice "Lite", I just switched to them, but it works just as well. Despite my Sprint sim being deactivated (Ported to T-Mobile) , my G2 can make calls why WiFi calls.
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For those complaining about WiFi calling (I was one of them), just use Hangouts as it now has Google Voice integrated. No need for Sprint's crappy apps. Merge your Sprint number with GoogleVoice and install the Goigle Dailer app and Hangouts will give you a WiFi calling tab/Dialer.
Its great because now I get SMS messages on my laptop in Chrome browser as well as calls routed from my Sprint number.
T-Mobile supports only Google Voice "Lite", I just switched to them, but it works just as well. Despite my Sprint sim being deactivated (Ported to T-Mobile) , my G2 can make calls why WiFi calls.
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Google hangout calls sound horrific on every connection I've used it on except for my PC and my PC and phone are both on 802.11ac router running Shibby Tomato.
Really
darkpoe said:
Google hangout calls sound horrific on every connection I've used it on except for my PC and my PC and phone are both on 802.11ac router running Shibby Tomato.
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Flamer!
darkpoe said:
Google hangout calls sound horrific on every connection I've used it on except for my PC and my PC and phone are both on 802.11ac router running Shibby Tomato.
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That is odd, it was crystal clear for me compared to Sprint's network, new motto; "Sprint, disconnecting America"
Anyway try disabling SIP ALG on your router, some have a bad implementation of it. With my Netgear R8000 no issues here. It could also be due to wireless interference as it will be worse for the G2 as it only has one antenna unlike laptops which usually have 2. I live in a 2.4 congested neighborhood so I use the dual 5Ghz bands on my router as Im the only one here with a 5ghz supporting router.
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That is odd, it was crystal clear for me compared to Sprint's network, new motto; "Sprint, disconnecting America"
Anyway try disabling SIP ALG on your router, some have a bad implementation of it. With my Netgear R8000 no issues here. It could also be due to wireless interference as it will be worse for the G2 as it only has one antenna unlike laptops which usually have 2. I live in a 2.4 congested neighborhood so I use the dual 5Ghz bands on my router as Im the only one here with a 5ghz supporting router.
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Yeah, Shibbys tomato is why I specified my firmware. I am 15 feet from my 802.11ac router and am connected 5g on all my supported devices. It sounds like **** at work as well.. I have a SIP dialer on my phone for my work VOIP and it is crystal clear compared to hangouts on my phone.. It isn't Facebook messenger bad, but it isn't good. I have an airrave at home hooked up via a wireless bridge since I have no windows in the area near my router downstairs. It sits upstairs and all my calls using airrave are fantastic. Again I personally find that the hangouts voicecalls suck either in Stock or AOSP (tried both) My Brother has the same phone as does my sister in law and they quite agree. I have tried the sprint wifi calling on a friends phone and it sounded fantastic compared to my g2 in hangouts
Wow, I am sure they would update it get rid of any quirks in the future. Just curious, what router do you use? I used to have Netgear WNDR3800 but Netgear gave me an R8000 for free as a beta tester, range and VoIP are better.
I am not claiming to be 100% correct on this. But from what I have understood. ZVE will not bring wifi calling. The update is going to be minor ui enhancements dealing with lockscreen and a couple of widget updates. The update also addresses some minor bug fixes. Dont hold me to it. Just passing it aloing. I asked about LG G3 Ui and was told only lockscreen and widget enhacments. No launcher or new apps of any sort.
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I am not claiming to be 100% correct on this. But from what I have understood. ZVE will not bring wifi calling. The update is going to be minor ui enhancements dealing with lockscreen and a couple of widget updates. The update also addresses some minor bug fixes. Dont hold me to it. Just passing it aloing. I asked about LG G3 Ui and was told only lockscreen and widget enhacments. No launcher or new apps of any sort.
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G3 UI will only come with the Lollipop update.
Its official, ZVE just dropped today! If anybody gets the update...please upload!!
Hello,
I just got this phone yesterday. Upgrading from HTC Evo 4g LTE.
Today I was on a conference call and tried to access the web and could not. I noticed I did not have the LTE or any indication of mobile data networking ( associated icons). Does this phone handle voice and data at the same time ( not on wifi ).
If not I will have to return this in disbelief.
Thanks
Mike
Please close this thread. After searching i found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-sprint/help/simultaneous-voice-data-t2893885
Doesn't seem like you can use data and voice together. A work around looks like hangouts dialer. I just downloaded it. Error " phone calling is not supported for this account with this version of hangouts ". Guess i'll have to use the search field to see what/if anything can be done.
Even though I got that error message I was able to make a call. Worked on Wifi and LTE network....this might work out.....
mike929 said:
Even though I got that error message I was able to make a call. Worked on Wifi and LTE network....this might work out.....
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This is a Sprint Spark limitation. All Sprint Spark phones are limited to 1 radio at a time, so you can't have 1 channel running voice and another running data. When you are making a voice call your phone drops down to 1xRTT. The up side is better battery life and the ability to use 800mhz, 1900mhz and 2500mhz LTE (one at a time), the down side is no Simultaneous Voice and Data (unless you are on WiFi).
In the long term everyone will move to Voice over LTE, which will allow data and voice simultaneously again. There is no time frame for this yet with Sprint and the Note4 was listed in the FCC specs as not supporting VOLTE.
Do all new sprint phones have spark? Any time frame for volte?
I had heard whether it's true or not Intel late 15 early 16 for the start of roll out of volte.
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Thanks everyone. Guess i will have to see if i can do without data while using voice.
Get a note3 pretty close to the same phone ya I know there are some major difference but if u really need date and voice that will be way more important than any lil difference between phones
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Thanks @sliverr7x, I would do that, but i want the newest available phones.
This has been a frustrating issue I've been having pretty much since starting up my T-mobile service about a month ago.
To start off, my G3 is unrooted and on the latest stock software version, 20e.
I use Wifi calling often because I get 0-1 bars of reception at work. All seems to work well until I go outside and try to make a phonecall over the voice network. I'll have plenty of signal bars, be connected to 4G even, yet when I try to use the phone dialer to make a call it will say "Not connected to Mobile Network." or something along those lines.
I haven't done extensive testing, but I believe the other day I toggled the "Mobile Data" off then back on and was able to make calls.
Has anyone else had this trouble? Is it something possibly to do with Wifi and/or Wifi calling?
I believe I could make a phonecall using Hangouts when I was off of wifi, which tells me that the data part is working, but not the voice network.
I contacted T-mobile support, but they just had me do the "typical" things, like shut down the phone, remove the battery/SIM, start everything back up. And sure enough, it worked after that, but I'd rather not have to restart my phone or toggle stuff to get it to work as it should without any hassle.
Thanks!
My wife has the same problem after the 20E update. Her mobile is stock as well. It did not happen on 20B.
thewalkingdude said:
My wife has the same problem after the 20E update. Her mobile is stock as well. It did not happen on 20B.
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Interesting.... so is there a known solution for it?
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Interesting.... so is there a known solution for it?
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Off the top of my head no. I'll dig around a bit and see what if anything I come up with.,
From the digging I did I can't seem to find any help. The only thing I can think of is to factory reset it thing and see if it helps. I am going to do do it on my wifes phone tonight.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking too... I'm not really in the mood to deal with restoring all of my apps and whatnot, so I'll hold off on the factory reset for now.
If you remember, could you let me know the results? If I know for fair certainty that a wipe will fix the issue, I might do it.
Thanks!
It's a network problem and it is worst on Samsung phones. I recently went and got a new sim card and it seems to have fixed it. I read it is because if you live in a area where there is poor coverage it causes your sim to where out fast.
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It's a network problem and it is worst on Samsung phones. I recently went and got a new sim card and it seems to have fixed it. I read it is because if you live in a area where there is poor coverage it causes your sim to where out fast.
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This started happening before my first month of T-mobile service was even up with a brand new SIM. I'm not saying that it's definitely not a SIM issue, just would seem unlikely that it's worn out that fast.
Mobile out of Network-Tmobile - Android
I;m having the same issue, turned phone off and on, checked Network connections everything looks fine, but now able to receive and send texts or make calls.
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This has been a frustrating issue I've been having pretty much since starting up my T-mobile service about a month ago.
To start off, my G3 is unrooted and on the latest stock software version, 20e.
I use Wifi calling often because I get 0-1 bars of reception at work. All seems to work well until I go outside and try to make a phonecall over the voice network. I'll have plenty of signal bars, be connected to 4G even, yet when I try to use the phone dialer to make a call it will say "Not connected to Mobile Network." or something along those lines.
I haven't done extensive testing, but I believe the other day I toggled the "Mobile Data" off then back on and was able to make calls.
Has anyone else had this trouble? Is it something possibly to do with Wifi and/or Wifi calling?
I believe I could make a phonecall using Hangouts when I was off of wifi, which tells me that the data part is working, but not the voice network.
I contacted T-mobile support, but they just had me do the "typical" things, like shut down the phone, remove the battery/SIM, start everything back up. And sure enough, it worked after that, but I'd rather not have to restart my phone or toggle stuff to get it to work as it should without any hassle.
Thanks!
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Is Wi-Fi calling not turning on for any one else? Trying to turn it on a get a screen flicker and it stays off. The unhelpful Sprint person tried to say the G5 didn't have wifi calling, then changed her story to a outage in my area...
I've done the usual dialer codes trying to fix it with no luck. :/
I get the same thing with my Sprint G5. It just flickers when trying to turn on wifi calling. Frustrating since I get no service at my house. It's the one feature I really need.
I'm having the same problem.
On the phone with Sprint tech now.
Update:
Doing factory data reset now.
Glad to know it's not just me.. :/
A factory reset didn't fix it for me. Hopeful. you have better luck.
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Glad to know it's not just me.. :/
A factory reset didn't fix it for me. Hopeful. you have better luck.
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I'm sad to report that Sprint Tech Support is receiving multiple support requests for G5 owners who are unable to turn on Wi-Fi calling.
Sprint service is terrible in my area and unusable without WiFi calling.
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I'm sad to report that Sprint Tech Support is receiving multiple support requests for G5 owners who are unable to turn on Wi-Fi calling.
Sprint service is terrible in my area and unusable without WiFi calling.
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Might see if they will give you a free AIRAVE. Only good at your home but better than nothing. and you might have to set the network to CDMA only when at home so it grabs that signals.
Hopefully with multi reports they get an update out quick.
I talked to 2 separate Sprint techs who tried many different combination such as reseting their back end info, hard resting my phone, turning off and on many settings, etc. WIFI calling still doesn't work. I had an AIRAVE before WIFI calling existed and will never go back to that. The AIRRAVE slowed my FIOS speeds down tremendously. Hopefully they'll release an update to fix this issue sooner than later. It seems to me like a software issue because of the way the wifi calling screen behaves....
Same issue, try to enable it, the screen flickers for a sec and cannot be enabled.
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Is Wi-Fi calling not turning on for any one else? Trying to turn it on a get a screen flicker and it stays off. The unhelpful Sprint person tried to say the G5 didn't have wifi calling, then changed her story to a outage in my area...
I've done the usual dialer codes trying to fix it with no luck. :/
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Same issue. I did a factor data reset as well. Did not resolve the issue. Sprint and LG tech support were unaware of the issue when I chatted with them. LG opened up a ticket though.
Any updates on this? Also, dang, the LG G5 Sprint forums are a ghost town....
Stopped by a store today because I wanted them to physically inspect my G5 and note my account.
The tech wouldn't even touch my G5.
Just said 'We are aware of the issue".
So, can someone please provide a fix or let me know what carrier/MVNO I should move to?
I'm ready to jump to Verizon pre-paid, as long as the service is 100% as good as Verizon post paid.
Wifi calling still not working after new update
Got a update to zv3 still didnt fix wifi calling issue
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Got a update to zv3 still didnt fix wifi calling issue
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Where you on something other than ZV3 out of the box?
Mine came with ZV3
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Where you on something other than ZV3 out of the box?
Mine came with ZV3
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Hello all..Well here's what I have found speaking to a few Sprint technical support representative and customer service agents. Apparently the Wi-Fi calling is not available for the lgg5 as of yet, it is supported the LG G2 G3 G4. The Sprint representative assured me that it would be available in the near future as that system got updated. What completely baffles me is that I have an Galaxy 6 Edge on the account and the Wi-Fi calling works out of the box. My request to one of you guys is can you guys call Sprint support and verify that you have Wi-Fi calling add to your particular mobile number account and if so does the Wi-Fi calling work.
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Hello all..Well here's what I have found speaking to a few Sprint technical support representative and customer service agents. Apparently the Wi-Fi calling is not available for the lgg5 as of yet, it is supported the LG G2 G3 G4. The Sprint representative assured me that it would be available in the near future as that system got updated. What completely baffles me is that I have an Galaxy 6 Edge on the account and the Wi-Fi calling works out of the box. My request to one of you guys is can you guys call Sprint support and verify that you have Wi-Fi calling add to your particular mobile number account and if so does the Wi-Fi calling work.
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I should get mine this afternoon and can try to check. I would guess they're trying to sound cool about it when it's actually a SNAFU.
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I should get mine this afternoon and can try to check. I would guess they're trying to sound cool about it when it's actually a SNAFU.
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Thanks kindly let us know how it goes.
Also..Im with you on the SNAFU theory.. Sprint released the G5 phone with out thinking it all the way through...
Mine seems to work fine.
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Mine seems to work fine.
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What software version are you on?
Android 6.0.1, Software version LS992ZV3. Let me know if you need more info.