I have a metroPCS unlocked Snapdragon S9, and I have my WiFi calling set to cellular preferred, but my WiFi calling keeps turning itself on and off all the time. I like WiFi calling and find it useful, but I have had problems with latency and poor call quality, so I don't want to use WiFi calling unless the cellular network isn't available. But my phone just keeps turning WiFi calling on and off by itself when I have the preference set to use the cellular network by default. I get excellent reception at home and most places I go to, so I don't understand why WiFi calling is on when I have it set to use the cell network by default.
Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know a solution short of disabling WiFi calling entirely?
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So, noticed when I walked from one Wifi zone to another, if I left my wifi activated, I would only get Edge, never 3G. With Wifi off, 3G appeared again. Long story short:
Without wifi, menu (*#*#4636#*#*) shows GSM auto (PRL)
With wifi and WITHOUT wifi calling... same.
With wifi and WITH wifi calling GSM only.
Interesting only in that if you keep your wifi active you have to kill wifi calling if you want to also be able to detect 3G. FWIW.
Searched for other threads but didn't find anything that specifically addressed this. It's probably old news to many but I hope this helps out other noobs.
In Galaxy S2, enable wifi-calling and you can change the connection preferences to
1. Wifi preferred
2. Cellular preferred
3. Wifi-only.
Options 1 and 2 are self-explanatory, but I didn't quite understand why anyone would want to select 3 over 1, until I tried it out.
When I selected wifi-only, the cellular voice signal bars are dark. I think this setting essentially disable cellular voice radio.
This is important if you travel abroad and want to use the wifi calling feature because wifi-calling cannot be enabled with airplane mode on. Also I don't think wifi-calling works with a non t-mobile sim card.
I'm on Wifi-Preferred and my radio is always disabled automatically
From the company that makes the wifi-calling tech for T-mobile
http://www.wificalling.net/help/
It is possible to configure the Wi-Fi Calling Application to enable calls over Wi-Fi only, essentially keeping the phone off the cellular network. If you set the Connection Preference to Wi-Fi ONLY, the application will work over Wi-Fi and, when you go out of range of a Wi-Fi signal, will NOT accept or make calls on the cellular network. This is similar to putting the phone into AIRPLANE mode with Wi-Fi Calling.
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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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Greetings,
Nexus 5x, running stock. WiFi calling is on and setup, but every time I am in a weak signal area with good wifi, I am getting an error/message "register with carrier in order to use wifi calling".
Any idea why and how to fix this?
Thanks.
E911, that is what solved the problem for me
I have terrible cell signal at home, so rely on wifi calling to make my phone function as, well, a phone. However, recently something has changed where WiFi calling no longer appears to work even though I have it enabled. Actually, that's not strictly true, it works, but only randomly and seems to not be available the majority of the time.
Previously, as I could often get 1 bar of signal, what I would do is enable airplane mode, then turn wifi back on to get wifi calling working. However, this no longer works. I have reset network settings, re-enabled and registered Wifi calling, checked with my provider that Wifi calling is available, used the Samsung Band Selection app to set to prefer using Wifi calling over cell data. I'm sure there are other things I have tried, ultimately, nothing seems to work.
Wifi speeds are good, I'm at the end of my rope with it.
It's a Sprint (T-Mobile) phone, still on a Sprint SIM here, spent an hour with support yesterday and they basically had me repeat everything I have already tried before telling me they will have to escalate it.
Anyone else having issues? Any idea what to do?
Thanks.
Not sure if this will help, but you might want to look into what port wifi calling uses and make a port forwarding entry in your modem. I just remember long ago when tmobile had their TM-AC1900 router,something about it having certain ports open to allow for wifi calling. This was before they released their 4g lye personal cellspots.....this was a wifi cellspot
Wi-Fi Calling on a corporate network
Find the technical details to set up a corporate environment for T-Mobile Wi-Fi Calling.
www.t-mobile.com
Archived - NETGEAR Communities
community.netgear.com
These may help.....
P.s i have Xfinity for home internet and tmobile for a carrier.....my wifi calling has been weird at times out of the home while connected to Xfinity hotspots......and long story short, now that Xfinity has their own cell service they may be crippling ports....just a thought....manually forwarding those wifi calling ports should fix that if that's the case....