I have a Samsung Galaxy fold z3 unlocked with a cricket plan I am trying to get my hotspot unlocked it's restricted need help
You don't say whether you have a carrier locked device or if it's unlocked.
But I suspect that this is not controllable on your device. It's more likely that your carrier restricts Hotspot usage by their policy. Why not check the rules for your plan?
Just because your device is unlocked, the carrier may not allow hotspot using their sim. So I'd call the carrier.
spart0n said:
Just because your device is unlocked, the carrier may not allow hotspot using their sim. So I'd call the carrier.
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I have hotspot but when I connect there's no internet
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See my previous post below here
spart0n said:
Just because your device is unlocked, the carrier may not allow hotspot using their sim. So I'd call the carrier.
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Pr730 said:
I have hotspot but when I connect there's no internet
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Ok, so you have hotspot and it's not working. Have you tried to call Cricket to see what's going on? That would be my FIRST step before coming here.
Once you do that, let us know what they did/said and then maybe we can help more.
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I have Just updated my phone to marshmallow hoping to get wi-fi calling but it still asks to activate advanced calling.
Is there any chance that i can bypass this to get wi-fi calling?
Also in case if i ask my friend to activate it using his SIM and later insert my T mobile sim will i still be able to use it?
Thanks in advance
garyKA said:
I have Just updated my phone to marshmallow hoping to get wi-fi calling but it still asks to activate advanced calling.
Is there any chance that i can bypass this to get wi-fi calling?
Also in case if i ask my friend to activate it using his SIM and later insert my T mobile sim will i still be able to use it?
Thanks in advance
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Some people here have had to get Verizon to set HD calling up for them, especially if they've had it turned off. T-Mobile may be the same way.
If I recall, Verizon users were able to turn the feature on online.
douger1957 said:
Some people here have had to get Verizon to set HD calling up for them, especially if they've had it turned off. T-Mobile may be the same way.
If I recall, Verizon users were able to turn the feature on online.
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I tried T mobile but they were asking me to buy a T Mobile phone
garyKA said:
I tried T mobile but they were asking me to buy a T Mobile phone
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Then I'm afraid you're stuck. It looks like HD calling is a prerequisite for wifi calling. Both, while sharing the same technical standards, are run by the carriers.
Dear sir,
Please give me step by step solution for this issue.
4G working fine but hotspot and usb tethering not working in India.
You mean you can't turn on hotspot on the phone? Does your cell company need to add hotspotting to your account?
audit13 said:
You mean you can't turn on hotspot on the phone? Does your cell company need to add hotspotting to your account?
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yes, I mean that. when i tap on Wifi hotspot ON-OFF it says no network or invalid sim. same in usb tethering option. but sim is working fine in 4g network in mobile and internet working fine also in mobile. if still i am unable to make you understand then i can send error screen shot.
Does your carrier have to enable hotspotting? I'm in Canada and some carriers need to turn on the tethering for the account.
audit13 said:
Does your carrier have to enable hotspotting? I'm in Canada and some carriers need to turn on the tethering for the account.
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No, I am in India and using JIO 4G network - Indian sim (not AT&T) and they don't required to enable hotspotting from their network.
lovenet said:
No, I am in India and using JIO 4G network - Indian sim (not AT&T) and they don't required to enable hotspotting from their network.
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I am too facing this problem with Indian JIO network. Is there a way to enable WiFi Tethering ? Can flashing CM helps overcome this issue ?
Hi,
I am trying to get the wifi calling option to appear and work on my 960U1. Here is what I've done so far.
1. Utilized Odin 3.12.3 (not patched version that I've seen on some forum posts) to flash AIO firmware G960U1UEU1ARBG (which i'm pretty sure is the only cricket CSC from updato.com, Sammobile has nothing listed for AIO )
2. During flash I made sure to select the CSC (not HOME CSC)
3. The flash looks like it was successful and the phone was automatically factory reset.
3. I am still missing the wifi calling option (i checked both settings-> connection menus, and the Dialer. I also tried making a call in airplane mode with wifi and it said i needed to turn on cellular.
Does anyone have any ideas what I need to do? Only thing I can think of is I'm missing a firmware or I need to change how I'm flashing the phone.
Here is a link to the cricket website saying wifi calling is supported on the S9 https://www.cricketwireless.com/sup.../wifi-calling/customer/compatible-phones.html
Thank you
Update:
So I was realized what I was missing was the AIO (Cricket) User Data. Once I located that and flashed it along with the Firmware using Odin I know have the Wifi-Calling button added to my phone. Now when I attempt to turn it on wifi-calling I get the "Please try again later" message.
I contacted Cricket Wireless Chat support, told them I have a S9 with cricket Firmware and they asked me to provide the IMEI, when I provided the IMEI they stated that it was for an unbranded S9 and that I would be unable to get wifi-calling to work on their network because of that.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I could get them to authorize my phone to get access?
It is not going to work no matter what. You have to be using an iPhone or their Cricket Branded Android phones.... -_-
Orthok said:
Update:
So I was realized what I was missing was the AIO (Cricket) User Data. Once I located that and flashed it along with the Firmware using Odin I know have the Wifi-Calling button added to my phone. Now when I attempt to turn it on wifi-calling I get the "Please try again later" message.
I contacted Cricket Wireless Chat support, told them I have a S9 with cricket Firmware and they asked me to provide the IMEI, when I provided the IMEI they stated that it was for an unbranded S9 and that I would be unable to get wifi-calling to work on their network because of that.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I could get them to authorize my phone to get access?
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Even if Crickett wanted to, their agreement with AT&T would probably prevent it. Even AT&T requires an iPhone or one of their branded phones for wifi calling. You can give up this fight.
Orthok said:
Update:
So I was realized what I was missing was the AIO (Cricket) User Data. Once I located that and flashed it along with the Firmware using Odin I know have the Wifi-Calling button added to my phone. Now when I attempt to turn it on wifi-calling I get the "Please try again later" message.
I contacted Cricket Wireless Chat support, told them I have a S9 with cricket Firmware and they asked me to provide the IMEI, when I provided the IMEI they stated that it was for an unbranded S9 and that I would be unable to get wifi-calling to work on their network because of that.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I could get them to authorize my phone to get access?
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If you had another Cricket branded Android that is wifi calling capable you could have them hard set that IMEI in the system, and that should get your S9 working.
ajairola said:
If you had another Cricket branded Android that is wifi calling capable you could have them hard set that IMEI in the system, and that should get your S9 working.
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Thank you,
I've considered this option, but now I'm weighing another consideration. It looks like mobile hotspot is disabled on the cricket firmware with user data. So unless I pay for the service maybe i should stay on a generic firmware so that it will give me mobile hotspot vs wifi calling...
\Again, FYI and maybee everyone already knows this.
The idea behind the "unlocked" handset and Android was that each carrier would have its own app to use for these handsets to enable these IMS features. As usual, the wireless US carriers have perverted the concept to tell then end user to f*ck off because you did not pay a premium for the carrier branded/bloated handset.
Man....MINT SIM is looking good.
Just FYI, Wi-Fi Calling will work fine on U1 flashed to Cricket's firmware. You just need to provision your SIM card for Wi-Fi Calling, to do that you need to insert your SIM into iPhone (SE or 6/7/8/x) and activate Wi-Fi Calling on that phone and test it out, once you see it active - remove SIM card and put it back to your S9. After you put the SIM back into your S9 - do a network settings reset, after that the Wi-Fi Calling should work. This is how I made my S9 work. If you don't have anyone to borrow iPhone from - go to your local Apple store, buy one then return it next day
Orthok said:
Update:
So I was realized what I was missing was the AIO (Cricket) User Data. Once I located that and flashed it along with the Firmware using Odin I know have the Wifi-Calling button added to my phone..
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Where did you find the User Data file? I've been looking high and low and just can't find any. Thanks
Also would like to know where you got the UserData.
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Just FYI, Wi-Fi Calling will work fine on U1 flashed to Cricket's firmware. You just need to provision your SIM card for Wi-Fi Calling, to do that you need to insert your SIM into iPhone (SE or 6/7/8/x) and activate Wi-Fi Calling on that phone and test it out, once you see it active - remove SIM card and put it back to your S9. After you put the SIM back into your S9 - do a network settings reset, after that the Wi-Fi Calling should work. This is how I made my S9 work. If you don't have anyone to borrow iPhone from - go to your local Apple store, buy one then return it next day
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I've been attempting to get this working on my ATT (carrier unlocked) S10+, but since Cricket only supports the S10 (not +) I'm unable to find an appropriate userdata. Do I have any options?
Wifi calling will work on non cricket device under one condition. You activate wifi calling on a cricket device. With your sim in it. Then put the sim in your phone. I also flash any multi csc firmware. And place cricket sim in the device so it auto personalizes. so then you have cricket firmware so to speak. I'm using a g950u xfinity right now on cricket with bit 7 even though cricket has only bit 6 out. And he calling and wifi calling work great
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jdawgg21 said:
It is not going to work no matter what. You have to be using an iPhone or their Cricket Branded Android phones.... -_-
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This is not true
I have a new Sprint unlocked Samsung S9 SM-G960U1 and am trying to get the wifi-calling to work with Cricket Wireless. Currently the wifi calling option doesn't even show up. I was wondering if flashing an after market ROM would enable me to access the wifi-calling feature. Cricket supports wifi-calling, but only on Android devices purchased from Cricket (a note I didn't see before I bought the phone). If there is please letr me know which ROM would help me achieve this.
Thanks
Stormer99 said:
I have a new Sprint unlocked Samsung S9 SM-G960U1 and am trying to get the wifi-calling to work with Cricket Wireless. Currently the wifi calling option doesn't even show up. I was wondering if flashing an after market ROM would enable me to access the wifi-calling feature. Cricket supports wifi-calling, but only on Android devices purchased from Cricket (a note I didn't see before I bought the phone). If there is please letr me know which ROM would help me achieve this.
Thanks
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Wifi calling and volte do not work on byod there is no roms for this phone. You can root but I can assure you this isnt gonna work either. All you can do is buy a cricket wifi calling enabled device
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Wifi calling and volte do not work on byod there is no roms for this phone. You can root but I can assure you this isnt gonna work either. All you can do is buy a cricket wifi calling enabled device
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incorrect. it merely needs to be provisioned by cricket on the back end by someone who isnt the typical moron with a headset. the reason byod devices have trouble is due to the IMEI not being listed in their system and it takes a ticket to be sent to the telephony dept and have it added. They dont like doing it, but they will when pushed. Unlocked A8 and A6 on cricket both had wifi calling and VoLTE after provisioning was complete.
you also have to have the right csc on the phone.
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incorrect. it merely needs to be provisioned by cricket on the back end by someone who isnt the typical moron with a headset. the reason byod devices have trouble is due to the IMEI not being listed in their system and it takes a ticket to be sent to the telephony dept and have it added. They dont like doing it, but they will when pushed. Unlocked A8 and A6 on cricket both had wifi calling and VoLTE after provisioning was complete.
you also have to have the right csc on the phone.
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I have a method with imei from a good cricket wifi calling phone. And have it working. But I have to give them another imei once I have it provisioned. Once their system updates with my imei I lose my wifi calling. But after provisioning I give them my actual cricket devices imei and tell them the system is still showing my byod imei they need to change it back to the other device. It works. But imei in their system is wrong.
Not imei switching or anything like that. I physically own a stylo 5 from cricket I dont use. So they think I'm on that and not my g9650. So I know it's possible just a real pain
Has anyone discovered a workaround for the message "to use mobile hotspot you will need to subscribe to a hotspot service"? I have unlimited data on this line and I would like to use it. Thanks a ton!
Billyb_lscp said:
Has anyone discovered a workaround for the message "to use mobile hotspot you will need to subscribe to a hotspot service"? I have unlimited data on this line and I would like to use it. Thanks a ton!
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That will depend on your carrier. Have you tried the USB route?
Carrier is Verizon. Was hoping not to use USB. Any idea if root / unlocked android will fix the issue?
Try pda net. Some carriers in their infinite power to be an ass block it on the play store. But pda net devs don't give a **** and put it on their website.
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Carrier is Verizon. Was hoping not to use USB. Any idea if root / unlocked android will fix the issue?
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do you have the play more/do more plan? The basic plan does not include hotspot. I am also on verizon and my hotspot works fine.
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That will depend on your carrier. Have you tried the USB route?
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What about with T-Mobile? Ever since switching from Sprint SIM to T-Mobile SIM, adding ",dun" to APN doesn't work anymore. Currently using S8+ on Android 9, if that matters
ParadroidX said:
What about with T-Mobile? Ever since switching from Sprint SIM to T-Mobile SIM, adding ",dun" to APN doesn't work anymore. Currently using S8+ on Android 9, if that matters
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I don't know about T-mobile. I'm on Verizon. I get 25GB of hotspot data with my plan.
crazytiki said:
do you have the play more/do more plan? The basic plan does not include hotspot. I am also on verizon and my hotspot works fine.
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The basic unlimited plan now has 5GB of hotspot data.
Billyb_lscp said:
Carrier is Verizon. Was hoping not to use USB. Any idea if root / unlocked android will fix the issue?
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Rooting won't help and it's probably not worth the effort. I've used PDANet back when I had my original Verizon unlimited plan. I could connect via USB.
I used to flash the U1 firmware to bypass this when I had a plan that didn't support mobile Hotspot. Before that I used PDAnet for usb tethering or even a different APN setting to prevent blocking.