Galaxy watch LTE - disabling eSIM on non supported market - Samsung Galaxy Watch

Hey guys,
I found LTE unlocked variant for the price of BT (30€ more). ESIM is not supported here so I still cant use the full functionality but I'd buy it just for those 1.5gb memory if not anything else.
Does anyone know if its forcing you to "insert" esim because wouldn't like to have constant popups saying insert sim/no network., or can network connectivity be somehow disabled and normally used as BT/wifi edition until the operators support the LTE?
Thanks,

Maybe if you turn on Airplane mode, then switch on BT and WiFi manually.
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Alahdal said:
Maybe if you turn on Airplane mode, then switch on BT and WiFi manually.
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Thanks - I actually didn't know that was possible on either Tizen or Android :good:

Maybe this info is useful....
TizenOS allows you to activate airplane mode, but from what I've seen you still need a SIM card in an LTE unit. There may or may not be a way around this yet; all the Telephony packages seemed pretty concerned about checking the SIM card constantly and throwing errors whenever it was missed. Lucky for us the Telephony is left at Partner level, so with an SDB shell you should be able to just type something like:
Code:
sdb shell uninstall org.tizen.telephony-syspopup*
and the nags should cease to be forever. Not sure if that's exactly the right command string to work, but I'll check when I get the chance to.
Hope this helps.

You can simply disable LTE connectivity in the setup Menu, like Wifi or NFC. Before i activated the eSIM on my watch i didn't get any pop up or message to activate the eSIM. So i would say it is no problem to use the watch without the eSIM. With disabled LTE it works exactly like the BT model.

Big_Balls said:
You can simply disable LTE connectivity in the setup Menu, like Wifi or NFC. Before i activated the eSIM on my watch i didn't get any pop up or message to activate the eSIM. So i would say it is no problem to use the watch without the eSIM. With disabled LTE it works exactly like the BT model.
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Thanks, however I went to the Tmobile store today to try to look through the settings to see how to disable LTE but I couldn't find it and the salesperson didn't know either. Would you be able to post a screenshot of how to disable LTE? Thanks!

redbeard07 said:
Thanks, however I went to the Tmobile store today to try to look through the settings to see how to disable LTE but I couldn't find it and the salesperson didn't know either. Would you be able to post a screenshot of how to disable LTE? Thanks!
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So I bought a LTE watch and found the place to disable mobile networks.
In Settings, go to "Connections" -> "Mobile networks". Anyway, its off by default when I purchased the watch, and I can confirm that I've never had a single pop-up message asking me to activate.
I purchased the LTE version of the watch in the US directly from the Samsung website.

redbeard07 said:
So I bought a LTE watch and found the place to disable mobile networks.
In Settings, go to "Connections" -> "Mobile networks". Anyway, its off by default when I purchased the watch, and I can confirm that I've never had a single pop-up message asking me to activate.
I purchased the LTE version of the watch in the US directly from the Samsung website.
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Have you noticed any change regarding the battery life performance??

iopetja said:
Hey guys,
I found LTE unlocked variant for the price of BT (30€ more). ESIM is not supported here so I still cant use the full functionality but I'd buy it just for those 1.5gb memory if not anything else.
Does anyone know if its forcing you to "insert" esim because wouldn't like to have constant popups saying insert sim/no network., or can network connectivity be somehow disabled and normally used as BT/wifi edition until the operators support the LTE?
Thanks,
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Hi, It is an esim, so techically it is already 'inserted' in your device. You don't have to set up a connection if you don't have to, just use the watch like the BT version. There won't be any popups or errors. Just switch off mobile data completely under settings, as it eats battery like nothing.

djolivares said:
Have you noticed any change regarding the battery life performance??
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I am also interested if there is any difference in battery life between a Galaxy Watch Bluetooth anbd a Galaxy Watch LTE but with "Mobile Networks" off in the setting menu.
I'm basically wondering if there is any additional drain from the LTE services that run in the background even if the setting menu says LTE should be off. If so, I would like to know if I could turn off those background services to extend battery!

Mine was off by default, but I do not have service on my watch, so that may be why. As people have already said its a eSim(embeddedSim), so its not able to be removed, and wont hurt anything by being there.

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Wifi calling galaxy s9 unlocked t mobile

I wanted to let everyone know that Wi-Fi calling works on the Galaxy S9 unlocked lock version with T-Mobile
thanks but how do you know... i have unlocked s9 that i got from samsung but i can not tell if wifi calling is working. i am with t-mobile.
bobwal70 said:
thanks but how do you know... i have unlocked s9 that i got from samsung but i can not tell if wifi calling is working. i am with t-mobile.
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Because I turned it on after I put in m t mobile sim card and used it.
How do I turn it on/off. I havent found it yet, but it is fixed to my notifications bar, and I don't want it there.
Thank you for confirming. Are you able to confirm a couple of other things?
VoLTE?
RCS Messaging? (I think there should be an advanced setting to enable this).
Band 71 available?
I am trying to figure out if I buy and unlocked phone from Samsung, and flash the TMO ROM, or buy the carrier version and clean up the bloatware (I keep my phones so resale value doesn't matter so much for me)
aqj123 said:
Thank you for confirming. Are you able to confirm a couple of other things?
VoLTE?
RCS Messaging? (I think there should be an advanced setting to enable this).
Band 71 available?
I am trying to figure out if I buy and unlocked phone from Samsung, and flash the TMO ROM, or buy the carrier version and clean up the bloatware (I keep my phones so resale value doesn't matter so much for me)
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I don't know about Volte,The phone does not let me select LTE alone. I can not tell RCS messaging don't know anything about that. Ban 71 is supported
tcabrino said:
How do I turn it on/off. I havent found it yet, but it is fixed to my notifications bar, and I don't want it there.
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I have found the only way to turn it on or off is through the notification bar an then it opens the window to change wifi call settings, I am still looking.
This is what I also found: go into the dialer, top right hand corner are three buttons touch that go to settings, and you will see wifi calling listed and you can turn it on and off in there, too.
uzupan said:
I have found the only way to turn it on or off is through the notification bar an then it opens the window to change wifi call settings, I am still looking.
This is what I also found: go into the dialer, top right hand corner are three buttons touch that go to settings, and you will see wifi calling listed and you can turn it on and off in there, too.
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Thanks! Was just trying to find something like this as now that I turned it off so it's not on the notification bar, I still know how to turn it on.
Is there any chance you could post a screen snaps of your unlocked S9 with T-Mo SIM on the *#2263# band support screen? On the T-Mo phone at least they turn down LTE Band 28 and UMTS Band 8 whenever you pop in a T-Mo SIM but open it up when you insert another carrier SIM. Since I can flash the unlocked firmware on my T-Mo device, this would be a great work around if those two bands persist!!
Apparently without those bands, roaming sucks in AUS and NZ, and without B8 UMTS parts of Europe (esp. South France) loses coverage.
Thanks in advance, as well as for the Intel! I do know you lose native digits support and video calling from the dialer, but those features don't matter to me as long as WiFi calling works which you proved.
Attaching my band list, as you can see no B28 or B8 UMTS
Regards,
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hofopds said:
Is there any chance you could post a screen snaps of your unlocked S9 with T-Mo SIM on the *#2263# band support screen? On the T-Mo phone at least they turn down LTE Band 28 and UMTS Band 8 whenever you pop in a T-Mo SIM but open it up when you insert another carrier SIM. Since I can flash the unlocked firmware on my T-Mo device, this would be a great work around if those two bands persist!!
Apparently without those bands, roaming sucks in AUS and NZ, and without B8 UMTS parts of Europe (esp. South France) loses coverage.
Thanks in advance, as well as for the Intel! I do know you lose native digits support and video calling from the dialer, but those features don't matter to me as long as WiFi calling works which you proved.
Attaching my band list, as you can see no B28 or B8 UMTS
Regards,
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Attached is the screen shot of my hidden menu on my unlocked Galaxy s9 with the TMobile sim card inserted, hope this helps.
uzupan said:
Attached is the screen shot of my hidden menu on my unlocked Galaxy s9 with the TMobile sim card inserted, hope this helps.
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That's strange--the unlocked model is showing one less band than T-Mobile, LTE 46 which is for LTE LAA on the unlicensed 5GHz band. Thank you for the snap, much appreciated!
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Are you able to enable "Cellular calling preferred" in the wifi calling options? After enabling this option while on wifi instead of "Wifi Calling Preferred" the phone reverts back to wifi calling turned on even though I had chosen "Cellular calling preferred".
Does this happen to you? It still happens to my S9 unlocked and also the Note 8. Called Samsung about it but doesn't seem like anyone bothered to fix this.
hofopds said:
That's strange--the unlocked model is showing one less band than T-Mobile, LTE 46 which is for LTE LAA on the unlicensed 5GHz band. Thank you for the snap, much appreciated!
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Yes, there are a few bands not showing that the unlocked version supports. Samasung tech told me it is SIM specific, if I had an attitude SIM in the phone it should show the bands that ATT uses such as band 30.
The unfortunate thing is that TMobile SIM is disabling B28 and UMTS/WCDMA band 8 which are valid roaming bands for other carriers that TMobile can roam on. The AT&T SIM actually enables those bands, as do international SIMs. It seems like a strange oversight / mistake?
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Are you able to enable "Cellular calling preferred" in the wifi calling options? After enabling this option while on wifi instead of "Wifi Calling Preferred" the phone reverts back to wifi calling turned on even though I had chosen "Cellular calling preferred".
Does this happen to you? It still happens to my S9 unlocked and also the Note 8. Called Samsung about it but doesn't seem like anyone bothered to fix this.[/n .
I do have that option and I just tried it and it turned my Wi-Fi calling off.
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I do have that option and I just tried it and it turned my Wi-Fi calling off.
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Yea let me know in 10-15 minutes if it goes back to Wifi calling. My phone will do the same. It'll switch to cellular calling but switch back to wifi calling in a few minutes on its own
It has not switched back yet.
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I just turned mine on 5 minutes ago. My notifications now shows Calls will be made over Wi-Fi.
If I toggle wifi calling on and off again it'll go away and go back to cellular calling.
Do you have Keep Cell Data on enabled in developer settings? I don't have developer settings enabled at all so maybe that has something to do with it?
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Just tried again same thing. Wifi calling gets enabled on its own, this time 3 min after I retoggled it to Cellular preferred
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Wow, that is weird. I just rebooted my phone, wifi calling is still turned off. I did not change it in developer settings.
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No data during call after oreo update

Hello. I'm hoping that someone can help me out. I have a Verizon note 8 that i use on straight talk for the longest it never would update to oreo but then i cracked the screen and purchased another used verizon note 8 from ebay. It came to me with a cricket sim card in it. I turned it on and connected it to wifi just to check it out before i transferred anything and it immediately wanted to update so i let it and it updated to oreo. I swapped over my ST sim into the new phone and stuck the cricket sim into the old phone and it updated too. But now my problem is that I keep getting the message that data is unavailable during calls. When i check the settings it says i am on CDMA/EVEDO/GSM/WCDMA. And there is no option to edit my APN. If i click on the mobile network i have the option for LTE/3G/2G but if i choose this nothing works and i have no option to go back to the CDMA/EVEDO/GSM/WCDMA and thus have to do a factory reset. I have tried texting APN to 611611 but it states my APN is already setup. I called tech support for ST and they told me to call back from another phone which i cant do until this evening when i get off work. So i thought in the mean time i would reach out to the real pro's on here and see if anyone else has had this issue. Did i mess up by updating with the cricket SIM inserted? Or could it be that i just didnt call straight talk when i swapped phones? i just took the sim card out of one phone and stuck it in the other. I really appreciate any advice anyone may have. Oh and I've tried finding the settings for HD calling to enable them, not there.
Thanks,
Amy
I'm having this same issue with my Verizon branded note 8 that I manually updated to Oreo. I called my carried, Red Pocket and they stated that this is enabled for my account. In Oreo the hidden menus seem to be disabled and I've tried other things. I may have to see if I can go back to Nougat. The dialer hidden menu I tried was *#2683662#. On the Verizon forums, other were able to get to the menu using *#4636# and enable VoLTE but that seems to be disabled for me. I tested from my coworkers note 8 and it seems to work fine on their phone.
sixtythreechevy said:
I'm having this same issue with my Verizon branded note 8 that I manually updated to Oreo. I called my carried, Red Pocket and they stated that this is enabled for my account. In Oreo the hidden menus seem to be disabled and I've tried other things. I may have to see if I can go back to Nougat. The dialer hidden menu I tried was *#2683662#. On the Verizon forums, other were able to get to the menu using *#4636# and enable VoLTE but that seems to be disabled for me. I tested from my coworkers note 8 and it seems to work fine on their phone.
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I reflashed CRID and the CSC but my Service Provider SW ver. still says VZW/XAA/VZW. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Has anyone figured this out? I am having this very issue and Straight Talk has no clue what I am talking about.
I found this on the Samsung website and it looks promising but nothing has changed. I was able to see that the radiobutton/checkbox for LTE Enhanced is checked.
To enable HD Calling, download Shortcut Master (Secret Codes) Lite from developer vndnguyen. You will need to find the apk as it does not appear to be in the play store any longer.
1) From the option menu located in the upper right hand corner, choose Search.
2) There is a search field at the bottom of the screen. Type lte then hit the Search key.
3) Scroll down to Mobile Networks. Choose the one that show EnhancedLteServices. Then click Launch. Then click the box to enable HD Calling.
I was also able to set the APN settings to Bearer: unspecified using Shortcut Master lite but this made no difference whatsoever.
Finally, you don't need to do a factory reset each time you go from CDMA/EVEDO/GSM/WCDMA to LTE/3G/2G (auto connect), simply search in settings for reset network and then reset the network settings and reboot.
I was able to get the SIM card trick to work for me on my Note 8 as well. I have redpocket and prior to doing the sim card trick I did not have VoLTE. Now I do. It's too bad that this is majorly inconvenient and it won't stick after a reboot, by the sounds of it. I haven't tried yet. I may just tape the sim to the back of my phone or inside my case. Also, on my Note 8 prior to this, I was seeing vzw/xaa/vzw and now it has the vzw/vzw/vzw CSC with the RP sim in. I'm hoping that there is another way to fix this but at least I have a work around.
I updated to Oreo on my verizon note 8.
I dont have any options for advanced HD Calling, Wifi calling.
When I go to ims settings it says denied.
Any ideas
dpoverlord said:
I updated to Oreo on my verizon note 8.
I dont have any options for advanced HD Calling, Wifi calling.
When I go to ims settings it says denied.
Any ideas
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Wifi Calling, Verizon Pixel 2XL, using Straight Talk AT&T Sim no option

Hey all, I've been pouring over the forums here and other places trying to find a solution to my issue. I just got a Pixel 2XL the verizon version and I'm using it on Straight Talk with an AT&T sim card. So far so good except I cannot get wifi calling. I'm pure stock, android 9/Pie, no bootloader unlocks/rooting etc. The wifi calling option does not exist in the phone app nor in the settings anywhere. Even when you search for wifi calling, it simply takes you to the network and connections section of settings but wifi calling is no where to be found. I've tried the adb command (the one that apparently used to work on Oreo but not longer does on Pie) and that didn't work (though I didn't expect it to since many people said it no longer works on Pie). I have an Unlocked Note 9 as well and its wifi calling works perfectly fine so does anyone have a way to make this work? Reception at my home is somewhat lacking and I really need wifi calling.
Thanks!
mtweisenbarger777 said:
Hey all, I've been pouring over the forums here and other places trying to find a solution to my issue. I just got a Pixel 2XL the verizon version and I'm using it on Straight Talk with an AT&T sim card. So far so good except I cannot get wifi calling. I'm pure stock, android 9/Pie, no bootloader unlocks/rooting etc. The wifi calling option does not exist in the phone app nor in the settings anywhere. Even when you search for wifi calling, it simply takes you to the network and connections section of settings but wifi calling is no where to be found. I've tried the adb command (the one that apparently used to work on Oreo but not longer does on Pie) and that didn't work (though I didn't expect it to since many people said it no longer works on Pie). I have an Unlocked Note 9 as well and its wifi calling works perfectly fine so does anyone have a way to make this work? Reception at my home is somewhat lacking and I really need wifi calling.
Thanks!
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Could you attach a screenshot with the WHOLE section of "Mobile Network", found inside of "Network & Internet" in the Settings -- make sure that you click on the drop down menu next to "Advanced Calling" -- this will help make sure that wifi calling is really missing as well as might point something out that may help with a solution. Moreso, personally, because I can't even imagine what the settings menu looks like missing this...
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Could you attach a screenshot with the WHOLE section of "Mobile Network", found inside of "Network & Internet" in the Settings -- make sure that you click on the drop down menu next to "Advanced Calling" -- this will help make sure that wifi calling is really missing as well as might point something out that may help with a solution. Moreso, personally, because I can't even imagine what the settings menu looks like missing this...
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I have attached a screenshot of the mobile network section with the advanced section expanded.
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I have attached a screenshot of the mobile network section with the advanced section expanded.
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It might be a long shot but try checking the settings in the Google phone app. There should be a place that says configure IMS calling. I have this setting here and in the network settings. If you have it that's where you can enable wifi calling.
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It might be a long shot but try checking the settings in the Google phone app. There should be a place that says configure IMS calling. I have this setting here and in the network settings. If you have it that's where you can enable wifi calling.
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Been there done that. I have no options for setting up IMS calling. I only have SIP options. Also, I have tried the phone dialer trick (where you dial *#*#4636#*#*) and that shows the wifi calling option as a toggle but its greyed out and cannot be enabled. I even tried an adb trick that used to work on the 1st gen pixels, but to no avail.
What happens when you enter your information here?
I'll have to initiate a chat with Straight Talk. Like you I have a Pixel 2 XL with a Straight Talk AT&T SIM. The only difference is that mine is unlocked. I just ran my phone number and the IMEI of the SIM through the linked site and it tells me my device is not compatible. Since I have a BYOP SIM and the IMEI is of the SIM itself, chances are high that the SIM needs replacing with one that includes WiFi calling support.
EDIT: According to the representative I just spoke with, there's no guarantee that changing to a newer AT&T SIM will enable the feature. The only guaranteed method according to tech support is switching to a T-Mobile SIM.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
What happens when you enter your information here?
I'll have to initiate a chat with Straight Talk. Like you I have a Pixel 2 XL with a Straight Talk AT&T SIM. The only difference is that mine is unlocked. I just ran my phone number and the IMEI of the SIM through the linked site and it tells me my device is not compatible. Since I have a BYOP SIM and the IMEI is of the SIM itself, chances are high that the SIM needs replacing with one that includes WiFi calling support.
EDIT: According to the representative I just spoke with, there's no guarantee that changing to a newer AT&T SIM will enable the feature. The only guaranteed method according to tech support is switching to a T-Mobile SIM.
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Hey thanks for the help. I tried that link as well (before I posted here; sorry I should have mentioned it) and it said my device is also not compatible. I initiated a chat with them and they told me the same; switch to T-Mobile. I am tempted to do so but the one thing holding me back is my home is already a place I get poor signal and T-mobile's coverage while much improved still isn't as good at AT&T's. I realize that having wifi calling would fix any lingering signal issues but I do manage to get 1-2 bars of 3G at my house with AT&T, I figure I won't even get that with T-Mobile. So I am weary of the switch. I'll have to consider it though. I could also wait for the full rollout of the latest google voice (since it finally is bring VOIP without the need of hangouts) and just use that number instead.
So I contacted Straight Talk and ordered a T-Mobile sim card. It'll be here in a few days. I will post my findings after it arrives. Straight talk support says wifi calling works with all T-Mobile sim cards so we will see.
Hello all,
Okay, so I finally got switched over to a T-Mobile sim card (again still with straight talk). It took a while cause I had to buy a new one (the old one I had expired; who'd have thought?). Anyways, switching to T-Mobile solved all my problems and then some. Not only do I have Wifi calling, but also HD voice, VOLTE, Tethering, and 3-4 bars of LTE (previously on AT&T, I got 1-2 bars of 3G). I realize the signal issues is merely a coverage thing but I can say with certainty that switching to a T-Mobile sim card will give you all the advanced features. I hope this helps others who might experience this problem. I've been using AT&T (in one form or another) for the better part of a decade and can now honestly say, AT&T sucks.
Is your download speed throttled?

WiFi calling on unlocked p2XL on vzw

I have been trying to figure this out since I got this phone in late 2017. How do I get the wifi calling to work on vzw with my unlocked 2xl? Reading on the internet seems to indicate that there is some software missing for this feature to work with vzw. This 2xl may have wifi calling on T-Mobile for example, but not vzw because it isn't "carrier branded" for vzw. I'm assuming that's some piece of software.
Does anyone know what this is and is it a shareable file that someone could provide and explain where I need to put it in my phone via solid explorer to get the wifi calling working on this phone? I was so excited for that feature when I upgraded from my s4, and have never had it yet. It's one downfall for the unlocked phone.
Anyone? Do I just need to flash a Verizon radio image or something like that?
I have also been trying to do this as well, in that menu, it is not provisioned, does that mean my carrier needs to do something?
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I have also been trying to do this as well, in that menu, it is not provisioned, does that mean my carrier needs to do something?
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After setting up android 10, I went to settings>Network & internet > Mobile Network > Advanced, and tapped wifi calling, turned the toggle on and a screen popped up "activate wifi calling;" it required me to enter the emergency location information address.. I pressed save, and wifi calling was activated.
Are you on Verizon with an unlocked pixel 2XL I take it? Were you too unable to get Wi-Fi calling working on Verizon before the Android 10 update?
Is there anyone out there that has information on this? How is vzw locking out bring your own devices from their WiFi calling and several other services? What identifier on the phone are they using and how can it be tricked with root? Are there any Xposed modules that could make this work?
Schroeder09 said:
Is there anyone out there that has information on this? How is vzw locking out bring your own devices from their WiFi calling and several other services? What identifier on the phone are they using and how can it be tricked with root? Are there any Xposed modules that could make this work?
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I have my pixel 2xl from google and it's working without issue.
Go to settings, network and internet tap on mobile network and scroll down to advanced and it's at the bottom (above apn settings). That's all I had to do. Nothing special even though I'm rooted it still had nothing to do with root.
Let me know if this helped
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Schroeder09 said:
Are you on Verizon with an unlocked pixel 2XL I take it? Were you too unable to get Wi-Fi calling working on Verizon before the Android 10 update?
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Yes, see my post down below
I have been reading and reading and reading on this. I can't find a way to make these carrier services work. What can I do? Here is what I see when I dial *#*#4636#*#* in my dialer.
The options are turned out turned on but greyed out for Wi-Fi calling, video calling, and UT interface. It tells me my IMS registered and voice over LTE is available. Do I need to change any settings in this section of my phone app? Do I have to change my preferred network type to something other than LTE / CDMA automatic, or change my radio band? What about the SIP server?
No one knows of a work around?
Schroeder09 said:
I have been reading and reading and reading on this. I can't find a way to make these carrier services work. What can I do? Here is what I see when I dial *#*#4636#*#* in my dialer.
The options are turned out turned on but greyed out for Wi-Fi calling, video calling, and UT interface. It tells me my IMS registered and voice over LTE is available. Do I need to change any settings in this section of my phone app? Do I have to change my preferred network type to something other than LTE / CDMA automatic, or change my radio band? What about the SIP server?
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This has happen to me a couple times when I was using an essential phone and tried to get WiFi calling to work on it. Once I went back to my unlocked pixel 2xl I had to call the help line and get my "video calling" turned back on. Which in turn re activated my WiFi calling. Just have them check i bet something got turned off on their end.

Question APN Settings?

Hey,
I've successfully added an unsupported eSIM to my Pixel Watch.
My issue is that my carrier requires custom APN settings, so currently I can only make phone calls, but have no data..
When I go to the mobile data settings on my PW, I can see an entry for APN, but it's just an empty menu.
Any way of customizing those settings?
Could you
Shebee said:
Hey,
I've successfully added an unsupported eSIM to my Pixel Watch.
My issue is that my carrier requires custom APN settings, so currently I can only make phone calls, but have no data..
When I go to the mobile data settings on my PW, I can see an entry for APN, but it's just an empty menu.
Any way of customizing those settings?
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Could you elaborate on how you added an unsupported eSim?
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Could you elaborate on how you added an unsupported eSim?
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Ordered an eSIM from Vodafone Germany online. After adding the eSIM I was able to add a plan to my watch via the app.
Same eSim now in the watch but no APN and I can't edit or add one.
A long time ago I had problems with APNs for my prepaid carriers not being in android's APN database and would have similar problems (calls only, no data).
At that time, Android stored a list of "all" know APNs in an XML files like this: /system/etc/apns-conf.xml
I was able to download an app on the phone itself, open this file and add whatever APNs I wanted. Then later in the phone settings, my newly added APNs would be available to choose from.
Of course, the main issues being the probable differences between android back then and today...plus differences with Wear.
Back in those days, I found that if I put in an AT&T sim card, android would automatically force the settings from the XML or .db file. If you could find out what APN is being used in that file, you could modify it's details. Does anyone know if Wear uses a similar APN file format as android in the past?
Actually, I just found another post where someone was able to access/modify the telephony database in Wear OS 2.0, but requires root.
How to modify your APN to support an MVNO (FreedomPop, etc)
This guide will cover enabling a custom APN to support MVNO's (FreedomPop, Ting, etc) on your LG Urbane 2 for Android Wear 2.0. Prerequisites: Root watch (I recommend this thread) ADB minimal and fastboot Linux system A little bit of SQL...
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Have you tried turning of WiFi and bluetooth for awhile on the clock to make it get the apn? I have an unsupported carrier on my watch and everything loaded just fine when you disconnected the watch from the phone
lxrable said:
Have you tried turning of WiFi and bluetooth for awhile on the clock to make it get the apn? I have an unsupported carrier on my watch and everything loaded just fine when you disconnected the watch from the phone
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Does your carrier require custom APN settings?
On my phone i also have to manually enter them.
Shebee said:
Ordered an eSIM from Vodafone Germany online. After adding the eSIM I was able to add a plan to my watch via the app.
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Did this require using eSIM on phone as well? how did you switch to local eSIM?
Shebee said:
Hey,
I've successfully added an unsupported eSIM to my Pixel Watch.
My issue is that my carrier requires custom APN settings, so currently I can only make phone calls, but have no data..
When I go to the mobile data settings on my PW, I can see an entry for APN, but it's just an empty menu.
Any way of customizing those settings?
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Hi @Shebee
I've exactly your same issue, I've add my no supported eSim to my Pixel watch using a VodafoneDE esim.
That was tricky but has worked!
The issue is that I found the apn setting page that is blank... have you find any solution in this weeks?
Regards
styno89 said:
Hi @Shebee
I've exactly your same issue, I've add my no supported eSim to my Pixel watch using a VodafoneDE esim.
That was tricky but has worked!
The issue is that I found the apn setting page that is blank... have you find any solution in this weeks?
Regards
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Nope, seems they just haven't implemented that feature in wear os...
Shebee said:
Nope, seems they just haven't implemented that feature in wear os...
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Have you abandoned this task? Or maybe you have choice a carrier that may work without any apn settings?
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Have you abandoned this task? Or maybe you have choice a carrier that may work without any apn settings?
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Yes i have abandoned this for now. I don't want to bother switching just for the smartwatch.
Hello. I activated LTE on the watch. But the APN is incorrect. LTE works partially. Notifications come, YouTube music works (without connecting to the phone and wifi of course). But google assistant does not work, writes: "No internet connection". Why can this be so?
I think I understand why the Internet is so bad. In the APN settings, a proxy server is specified, which is no longer used by the provider. Is there any way to edit the APN?

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