is there an android app that makes the phone think you are on wifi when on 3g? with the new wifi calling coming i would like to be able to do it via 3g. is there a way to do this?
What in the world are you talking about? The wifi calling app will use your T-Mobile phone number and minutes, emulating your cell signal. Why would you want to emulate something that's emulating what you're trying to emulate with?
I hope you aren't asking about how to falsify your usage, but even if you are it isn't possible through T-Mobile's wifi calling app.
let me explain i want to know wether or not it is possible to make your phone think that its 3G/4G signal is wifi? there is an app that does for the iphone and i was wondering if we could get this also. i asked because if so would it be possible to do the wifi calling over the 3/4G network?
Again... why would you want to do this? If you have 3G/4G use your regular cell radio.
The WiFi calling isn't free... it uses your minutes on your plan. So essentially you would be hurting yourself twice... using minutes as well as eating away at your 5GB limit.
I can see that concept being useful in other situations, such as using skype or frostwire, or something to that effect over 3G, but the man has a point. You use your minutes and your data just to make a phone call? Plus you also get sub-par quality due to the large amount on extra latency introduced?
There are only two situations I can think of that WiFi calling over 3G may be useful. One, you have the [email protected] feature ($9.99/mo) on your plan, making WiFi calls free and unlimited, or two, you have a non-T-Mobile SIM in the phone, and you are, hypothetically, out of the country, and would like to use your cell phone as a cell phone, and not have to be near a WirelessAP.
Lol....wow
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I was jsut using wifi calling as an example. it currently bugs me that we have frostwire working on the phone yet we need to have wifi active to use it. i was just wondering if doing something like that is possible? it would make my life a whole lot easier.
rumitg2 said:
I was jsut using wifi calling as an example. it currently bugs me that we have frostwire working on the phone yet we need to have wifi active to use it. i was just wondering if doing something like that is possible? it would make my life a whole lot easier.
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I saw a cracked Skype app that will call over 3G, but I'm not sure about frostwire.
Another benefit I could see, is that I think if you leave the wifi area you drop the call. But if it would treat the cell signal as still wifi you wouldn't drop the call.
Victor
rex450se said:
Another benefit I could see, is that I think if you leave the wifi area you drop the call. But if it would treat the cell signal as still wifi you wouldn't drop the call.
Victor
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unforgiven512 said:
I can see that concept being useful in other situations, such as using skype or frostwire, or something to that effect over 3G, but the man has a point. You use your minutes and your data just to make a phone call? Plus you also get sub-par quality due to the large amount on extra latency introduced?
There are only two situations I can think of that WiFi calling over 3G may be useful. One, you have the [email protected] feature ($9.99/mo) on your plan, making WiFi calls free and unlimited, or two, you have a non-T-Mobile SIM in the phone, and you are, hypothetically, out of the country, and would like to use your cell phone as a cell phone, and not have to be near a WirelessAP.
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thats what i mean but is this possible?
rumitg2 said:
thats what i mean but is this possible?
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Nope, cell handoff is the technology that UMA provides, and at a hardware level. The T-Mobile wifi calling app is a software solution and not true UMA, and is not capable of this.
Also if you want to use frostwire or skype or whatever over 3G, you will have to mod the app itself (if it is even possible, but it's more likely T-Mobile has a filter on this sort of traffic)
tehtide said:
Again... why would you want to do this? If you have 3G/4G use your regular cell radio.
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One example: NFL app. If you use 3G it won't let you play videos (probably because they can tell you're not on Verizon).
Apparently per the NFL app thread, it's only T-Mobile users that are getting no video over cell networks. I've seen multiple other carrier users say it works fine for them there. Which kinda sucks...
rumitg2 said:
is there an android app that makes the phone think you are on wifi when on 3g? with the new wifi calling coming i would like to be able to do it via 3g. is there a way to do this?
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Yes. Google Voice. However, you'll be assigned a different number.
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Nope, cell handoff is the technology that UMA provides, and at a hardware level. The T-Mobile wifi calling app is a software solution and not true UMA, and is not capable of this.
Also if you want to use frostwire or skype or whatever over 3G, you will have to mod the app itself (if it is even possible, but it's more likely T-Mobile has a filter on this sort of traffic)
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There is a cracked version of skype that works over 3G/4G. I used it on a 30 min. phone call with a friend in China and the call quality was as good or better than most cell calls I've had within the US
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i got the same question,
i need it for my phone company software,
it can do calls only through WIFI and i whant to use it with 3G.
someone can help?
thanks..
About my3g
Hi everyone, so the issue is why I need to simulate a wifi conection, well there several good reason, but the important one maybe it's the possibility of download app from the PlayStore that requare a wifi signal (my need for speed Shift for example), and everyone knows the 3g network it's faster the wifi, the app my3g it's famous for the iOS users so we where wating for solution.
Thanks
oh man, i wish there was a My 3G for android..... i cant believe guys cant figure out why it would be good to have as well? some apps, like iCam only work over wifi, but with my3g, i could view my webcams at home, from my iPhone, without a wifi connection. awesome.... and nettalk, a voip app that works on wifi, worked great on my 3g!
Anyone found a way yet ?
An app that could simulate a wifi connection would be really usefull ... My3g on iphone is great . Im also thinking about going back with apple . The limitless possibility of android are limited by what I think is way too much dev on ios and not enough on android . So ios have everything and we dont . I dont have internet at home but I have unlimited data on my cell . So with no wifi I cant backup my cell on the cloud because its wifi only . Many games like modern combat 4 doesnt allow to play on cellular data . And someday someone gonna work to crack the game instead of making a my3g equivalent and resolve the problem once and for all . I would pay for that and so would a lot of ppl .
Seb855 said:
An app that could simulate a wifi connection would be really usefull ... My3g on iphone is great . Im also thinking about going back with apple . The limitless possibility of android are limited by what I think is way too much dev on ios and not enough on android . So ios have everything and we dont . I dont have internet at home but I have unlimited data on my cell . So with no wifi I cant backup my cell on the cloud because its wifi only . Many games like modern combat 4 doesnt allow to play on cellular data . And someday someone gonna work to crack the game instead of making a my3g equivalent and resolve the problem once and for all . I would pay for that and so would a lot of ppl .
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It would be very useful. It doesn't matter what someone wants to use it for but what matters is they want to know if there is an app for this. The iPhone has 2 jailbroken apps for this so why doesn't android have it? Or do they have one?
I've got the speedtest.net broadband app on my SGS2. When I had my 10mb virgin media connection on my PC, I was getting 9.5mb wi-fi download speed on the phone's speedtest app when the phone is right next to my PC. VM have now switched me over to 60mb on my PC and the phone is now giving me 15.9mb wi-fi with speedtest. Is that the maximum the phone can do via wi-fi or should it be capable of closer to 60mb? Or am I meant to switch off wi-fi and go to wi-fi direct?
I've had close to 40 on mine are you using their superhub by anychance?
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I've had close to 40 on mine are you using their superhub by anychance?
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Hi matey, yes I am, it was just installed this morning. Took a while for my 10mb speed to actually switchover to 60mb.
Are you using normal wi-fi or wi-fi direct?
Lots of problems with those superhubs squire.. it's recommended if possible to set it up in modem mode and use your own router. Im just on normal wifi at the moment nothing special hub is on modem mode got my router set up pretty standard after much research on the virgin forums mind! It's worth having a look there for configurations but beware there is hundreds of posters complaining Also i did notice that various s2 modems determine the speed of your broadband through your wifi and i use the kh3 as i find it the quickest of all the ones i've tested.
Juan Kerzhoff said:
Lots of problems with those superhubs squire.. it's recommended if possible to set it up in modem mode and use your own router. Im just on normal wifi at the moment nothing special hub is on modem mode got my router set up pretty standard after much research on the virgin forums mind! It's worth having a look there for configurations but beware there is hundreds of posters complaining Also i did notice that various s2 modems determine the speed of your broadband through your wifi and i use the kh3 as i find it the quickest of all the ones i've tested.
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Hmm, interesting. How do I switch it to modem mode? I can setup my router again like I did with my previous VM cable modem and use the wi-fi from my own router if the superhub wi-fi is not up to the job. Having said that, I just did some wi-fi speed tests between my PC and laptop. Downloads speeds vary between 49 and 60mb, and one site reported my upload speed, but all the others couldn't read the upload speed.
What is the kh3 exactly?
Wow. In my country, 10Mbps is only by fibre... Average 3g connection is only 2Mbps
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Apologies for late reply squire. If your speedtests are reporting good speeds at your laptop then your hub sounds like its working ok so good news there However if you wanted to boot into modem mode you can access the hub by typing http://192.168.0.1 into your ie search bar and logging in with the standard username - admin and pass wich is set at -changeme these can be changed from within.. once switched to modem mode the address changes to http://192.168.0.100.
The KH3 is a modem for the S2 which seems to work very well for me you can read a bit more about it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1656005 page 3 has a direct download. It is worth trying a few different ones though as whats great for one maybe not so for another! Hope this helps.
Thanks Juan, great info. Yes, download speeds to laptop are great, but all but one of the speed test sites are not able to report my upload speed. They report them fine on my desktop though, and that's connected via ethernet cable. I suppose it might be the superhub or possibly my laptop causing the error. But anyway, since this a phone forum, I'm probably going too much off topic.
I can't download anything big over my mobile network. If I connect to wifi, it works fine, and additional game data downloads (when you run a game and it asks you to download more data) work fine over carrier, but anything else through the market or from the browser doesn't work. It just hangs and says "Waiting for network". Now, I have a hunch this is some sort of limit imposed by tmo, but if that's the case, how do I get around it? I am paying for unlimited data, I want to be able to use it effectively!
That's weird, I also have the unlimited plan and I can download anything. The market does give me a warning that I am about to download a large file but it still let's me download using my 4g. Are you on a custom rom?
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I am wondering if anyone has found a way to hide hotspot data traffic on OOS from a carrier. On custom roms my carrier doesnt know the difference between hotspot and normal data the hotspot usage never shows any in my account. I am supposed to get capped at 15gb of hotspot data and I am afraid if I go back to OOS they will see that usage and it will get capped again. Wouldnt be a huge issue but I live in an area where satellite or cellular internet are really the only options. Thanks
I would stay on the custom rom's that works. If you had Samsung Dex that give you another potential work around. The carrier may eventually get wise and modify their protocols.
It seems this battle of wits has been going on for years. Hotspot apps are released, work for a while then fail.
My solution was to use Android to do everything on the internet, my laptop stays safely isolated from the outside world. I even do any downloads I need with my N10+. My Android superceded my PC years ago. Even has more ram
This is an interesting problem and is in part dependent on the carrier. I understand Verizon is one of the worst to hack like this. My unlimited data plan is grandfathered but my hotspot data is limited to 15gb as well. I can burn that up in a day or two without even trying
It's ridiculous.
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I am wondering if anyone has found a way to hide hotspot data traffic on OOS from a carrier. On custom roms my carrier doesnt know the difference between hotspot and normal data the hotspot usage never shows any in my account. I am supposed to get capped at 15gb of hotspot data and I am afraid if I go back to OOS they will see that usage and it will get capped again. Wouldnt be a huge issue but I live in an area where satellite or cellular internet are really the only options. Thanks
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Yep, download VPN Hotspot and have all your traffic run through it. I haven't had an issue and never gotten throttled.
GitHub - Mygod/VPNHotspot: Share your VPN connection over hotspot or repeater! (root required)
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Yep, download VPN Hotspot and have all your traffic run through it. I haven't had an issue and never gotten throttled.
GitHub - Mygod/VPNHotspot: Share your VPN connection over hotspot or repeater! (root required)
Share your VPN connection over hotspot or repeater! (root required) - GitHub - Mygod/VPNHotspot: Share your VPN connection over hotspot or repeater! (root required)
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+1 for this
Android 10 and before was easy with adb/terminal or modules but since Android 11, I use Hotspot VPN.
You need root, enable it and turn on wlan0. If you add it to quick toggle tiles, you can just tap the tile twice and it'll start and turn wlan0 on for you.
It removes the speed limit throttle of 600kbps on tmo as well.
I use the playstore version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.mygod.vpnhotspot
Edit2: you may NEED to turn off "Tethering hardware acceleration" in developer settings