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[FIX][APK][ZIP] DroidFroam - Manage data roaming ( force data roaming always ON )

DroidFroam
Version: 1.1​
UPDATES:
- v1.1 (18/03/2013): Allow disabling data roaming
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DroidFroam keeps data roaming always on.
It is a known problem from the Droid 3 that even if data roaming is set to enabled in settings, it will reset back to disabled after some time, showing the "data roaming is off" notification and you having to enable it again manually.
I'm using a small Spanish carrier that rents the network of another bigger carrier, so I'm on national roaming most of the time, and was sick of this problem. I had to re-enable data roaming maybe 30 times a day. So I made this little app to put an end to it!
How it works
The app listens to android.net.conn.CONNECTIVITY_CHANGE. If you are not on WiFi and the network is roaming, it will enable data roaming whenever there is a connectivity change. It also allows you to manually enable and disable data roaming, useful with Minimoto as there is no interface for doing this in that ROM.
How to install
The app needs the WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS permission, which is only available to system apps, so it needs to be installed as a system app.
If you have a rooted phone, the app will install itself as a system app on first launch (with your authorization of course). If not, you will have to install the zipped version via recovery (i.e. Safestrap), or you can copy it yourself with root explorer if you prefer.
I HAVE ONLY TESTED THE APP IN MY Droid 3 (XT862) WITH MINIMOTO 1.7. Let me know if it works for you!
This is my first android app so use under your own responsibility
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Updated to version v1.1, now you can disable data roaming as well.

hi.. it works on my micromax A110 (Canvas 2).

Query
I have a Motorola Atrix 2 model "EDISON" ME865 running stock Jellybean 4.1.2 with init.d support & rooted. I have read your disclaimers but can it cause serious harm of botching up my internet connectivity for good as it is a system app and mainly if it does cause issue is it possible to rollback to original settings simply by uninstalling the app?? I do have Nandroid but I do not want to do a restore for a small issue. Do reply as even I am fed up of this roaming settings issue. Thanks!

RAD7 said:
I have a Motorola Atrix 2 model "EDISON" ME865 running stock Jellybean 4.1.2 with init.d support & rooted. I have read your disclaimers but can it cause serious harm of botching up my internet connectivity for good as it is a system app and mainly if it does cause issue is it possible to rollback to original settings simply by uninstalling the app?? I do have Nandroid but I do not want to do a restore for a small issue. Do reply as even I am fed up of this roaming settings issue. Thanks!
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Be sure to leave the app with the "force data roaming" setting to "disabled" before uninstalling, just in case. But it should be OK with just uninstalling.
In any case I think it doesn't work in Jellybean, only Gingerbread, but give it a try and let me know!

raymccoy said:
Be sure to leave the app with the "force data roaming" setting to "disabled" before uninstalling, just in case. But it should be OK with just uninstalling.
In any case I think it doesn't work in Jellybean, only Gingerbread, but give it a try and let me know!
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Thanks for the reply and if you say it will roll back to original setting making sure to disable 'force data roaming' if uninstalled then it's ok but since you also mention it works only on GB I am afraid to experiment on JB. No offense but just being cautious. I will try to bump this to my phone developers too to see if they can work this in to JB. Thanks again.

RAD7 said:
Thanks for the reply and if you say it will roll back to original setting making sure to disable 'force data roaming' if uninstalled then it's ok but since you also mention it works only on GB I am afraid to experiment on JB. No offense but just being cautious. I will try to bump this to my phone developers too to see if they can work this in to JB. Thanks again.
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Well according to @roshandes who just wrote a few posts before, it works in his Micromax A110 (Canvas 2). which comes with Jelly Bean, so it MIGHT work in Jelly Bean, just I have never personally tested it so I can't say first hand.
Let me know if it works for you!

raymccoy said:
Well according to @RoshanDoes who just wrote a few posts before, it works in his Micromax A110 (Canvas 2). which comes with Jelly Bean, so it MIGHT work in Jelly Bean, just I have never personally tested it so I can't say first hand.
Let me know if it works for you!
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The canvas 2 is a ICS device and I was unsure if he updated to JB as it was not mentioned. I am tempted to give it a shot but am pensive that it should not screw up my internet connectivity or at least I should be able to revert to normal as before taking care of point mentioned by you while uninstalling. I will advise results when I go through the process. Is there something in particular that I can back up if I need to go back to original configuration?, Thanks!

RAD7 said:
The canvas 2 is a ICS device and I was unsure if he updated to JB as it was not mentioned. I am tempted to give it a shot but am pensive that it should not screw up my internet connectivity or at least I should be able to revert to normal as before taking care of point mentioned by you while uninstalling. I will advise results when I go through the process. Is there something in particular that I can back up if I need to go back to original configuration?, Thanks!
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You can always make a nandroid backup if you want to be extra safe

Issue
I installed apk & gave it root access & to install as a system app and enabled force roaming but the tabs were non functional for enable roaming & disable roaming & now all of a sudden it wont open up and throws a message " com.cactilio.droidfroam has stopped. I cleared the setting in SuperSU and tried again but no luck. So supposedly since I was successful in enabling the 'force roaming' tab but the moment phone went in to roaming now the data got disabled and I went to normal system settings & enabled roaming and data works then. Now I cant even click the disable tab close 'force data roaming' before uninstalling as advised by you. Next steps??

RAD7 said:
I installed apk & gave it root access & to install as a system app and enabled force roaming but the tabs were non functional for enable roaming & disable roaming & now all of a sudden it wont open up and throws a message " com.cactilio.droidfroam has stopped. I cleared the setting in SuperSU and tried again but no luck. So supposedly since I was successful in enabling the 'force roaming' tab but the moment phone went in to roaming now the data got disabled and I went to normal system settings & enabled roaming and data works then. Now I cant even click the disable tab close 'force data roaming' before uninstalling as advised by you. Next steps??
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Sorry i have been travelling and didn't have internet, just read this. You can just uninstall DroidFroam and restart your phone, it shouldn't mess with your data roaming settings anymore.

hello sir, can you please give me source code for enable data roaming?

raymccoy said:
Sorry i have been travelling and didn't have internet, just read this. You can just uninstall DroidFroam and restart your phone, it shouldn't mess with your data roaming settings anymore.
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can you please send the source code, or better, can you tell us if there is a specific file we can edit manually if we have root access to change that setting?
i want to enable data roaming, my phone doesnt have that option because sprint blocks that option unless i am activated on their network, but i am using a different carrier, so i cant get all the settings enabled. and i dont want fancy rom, so i am using a rooted stock rom since i know everything works (gps, wifi, bluetooth...etc)
so again, is there a way to either
A) force all configurations to be availing in the setting without sprint activation or prl update
B) change the enable disable of data roaming directly through editing a file

T-Mobile WiFi tether?

I have the unlimited plan and with my nexus 5 and my OnePlus I never had any problem with wofi tether now it restricts me. Anyway to get my unlimited tethering back?
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DualSportDad said:
I have the unlimited plan and with my nexus 5 and my OnePlus I never had any problem with wofi tether now it restricts me. Anyway to get my unlimited tethering back?
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with the unlimited plan at tmobile, they give you a max of 3gb for tethering(unless you buy more). do you have root or are you stock?

simms22 said:
with the unlimited plan at tmobile, they give you a max of 3gb for tethering(unless you buy more). do you have root or are you stock?
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Yeah I know but in the past I have never been stopped at ³gb.
I am stock Rom, rooted.
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DualSportDad said:
Yeah I know but in the past I have never been stopped at ³gb.
I am stock Rom, rooted.
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if you have root, theres an app called wifi tether router that when you use, tmobile doesnt know that you are tethering. theres also a system mod that changes some files thatll keep tmobile away as well.

Yeah I'd like to find out the way to use the stock hotspot and not have T-Mobile find out.
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DualSportDad said:
Yeah I'd like to find out the way to use the stock hotspot and not have T-Mobile find out.
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then there is a thread here about editing some system file that will help you out. i dont know where it is, so youll have to search(its probably within 4 pages of the n6 general/q&a sections.

That thread was for Verizon. I got it tho. Added "dun" to APN type and I'm good.
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DualSportDad said:
That thread was for Verizon. I got it tho. Added "dun" to APN type and I'm good.
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thats it, just dun?

simms22 said:
thats it, just dun?
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Nope turns out you have to modify the build prop as well. I took that last line out and rebooted and I lost tether again. Added it back just now and I got tether back.
So add dun in the APN type and add the no provisioning line to the end off the build prop.
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DualSportDad said:
Nope turns out you have to modify the build prop as well. I took that last line out and rebooted and I lost tether again. Added it back just now and I got tether back.
So add dun in the APN type and add the no provisioning line to the end off the build prop.
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net.tethering.noprovisioning or dalvik.vm?
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DualSportDad said:
Nope turns out you have to modify the build prop as well. I took that last line out and rebooted and I lost tether again. Added it back just now and I got tether back.
So add dun in the APN type and add the no provisioning line to the end off the build prop.
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never mind, the line starts with net.tethering. very interesting though.

Needs the two for sure but it does work. I'm currently tethered now posting this.
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Thanks, Hopefully I can get this to work on my Nexus 6 for T-Mobile.

1a. Use a VPN on connected devices. 1b. Search xda for an app called dnsqache, and follow the github readme on how to set it up, I will warn you though that your MMS messages might not transmit if you do not have dns2 set as what you get when you run the terminal command "getprop net.dns2" and use a browser with a user agent switcher set to your browser except showing a Linux OS

I've added the net.provision whatever and added ,dun to APN type. Running euphoria and my tethering is working fine
Most important is the build.prop change and adding ,dun to APN type. Then you shouldn't have any problems
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So I'm currently having issues trying to enable Wifi tether as well.
I added net.tethering.noprovisioning
And added ,dun to the APN
Im on T mobile and have unlimited data. Rooted and running cyanogenmod on the nexus . Any ideas on what I did wrong?
****edit****
Nvm found issue, wasnt with phone but with computer intel software. All fixed. Thanks for the info!

would one of you lovely people give me turn by turn direction on how to achieve this?
many thanks will come your way for assisting me

Krayvon said:
would one of you lovely people give me turn by turn direction on how to achieve this?
many thanks will come your way for assisting me
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I was able to work around the issue by modifying the following sqlite database (you'll need root):
/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
You need to add a new entry to the global table called "tether_dun_required" with a value of 0.
It looks like you need to do this because some configuration data was added to Android for T-mobile that forwards tethered data to this APN: pcweb.tmobile.com
T-mobile is probably checking to see if your account has tethering enabled when you go through this APN.
After I made this change I also needed to change my APN settings so that it uses ipv4 instead of ipv6. It seems like tethering with ipv6 does not work 100% yet.

PaisanNYC said:
I was able to work around the issue by modifying the following sqlite database (you'll need root):
/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
You need to add a new entry to the global table called "tether_dun_required" with a value of 0.
It looks like you need to do this because some configuration data was added to Android for T-mobile that forwards tethered data to this APN: pcweb.tmobile.com
T-mobile is probably checking to see if your account has tethering enabled when you go through this APN.
After I made this change I also needed to change my APN settings so that it uses ipv4 instead of ipv6. It seems like tethering with ipv6 does not work 100% yet.
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That's correct I used SQLite editor because I'm lazy sometimes and its easy when you flash a fresh ROM. I have a screenshot below of what it looks like.
I also added " ,dun " to the end of my APN type in the APN settings. No issues so far.

Pilz said:
That's correct I used SQLite editor because I'm lazy sometimes and its easy when you flash a fresh ROM. I have a screenshot below of what it looks like.
I also added " ,dun " to the end of my APN type in the APN settings. No issues so far.
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stop stealing my thunder, mister!! wait till i get home later :silly::laugh::laugh::laugh::silly:

PaisanNYC said:
I was able to work around the issue by modifying the following sqlite database (you'll need root):
/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
You need to add a new entry to the global table called "tether_dun_required" with a value of 0.
It looks like you need to do this because some configuration data was added to Android for T-mobile that forwards tethered data to this APN: pcweb.tmobile.com
T-mobile is probably checking to see if your account has tethering enabled when you go through this APN.
After I made this change I also needed to change my APN settings so that it uses ipv4 instead of ipv6. It seems like tethering with ipv6 does not work 100% yet.
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Pilz said:
That's correct I used SQLite editor because I'm lazy sometimes and its easy when you flash a fresh ROM. I have a screenshot below of what it looks like.
I also added " ,dun " to the end of my APN type in the APN settings. No issues so far.
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thank you! i downloaded one of the free sql lite editors i found, it tells me i don't have root even though i'm rooted on purity rom right now. did i miss something?

Unlimited hotspot tethering on sprint samsung galaxy s7

A alternate way of unlocking your hotspot on your galaxys7 without the need of root:good:
You are going to need the MSL code for you phone
Which can be obtained by calling customer service and asking them (this is the way i did it) or just go to you nearest sprint shop and ask them for the code.
(If they ask why you want the code, just say its for your personal info or interest)
Once you have your code, go to your phone dialer and dial the following: ##3282#
Than you will prompted to write your MSL code
After typing your code, you will be presented to a menu, on that menu you are going to search for "APN SETTINGS" than you are going to search for APN2 EHRPD Internet APN2 LTE internet, and on both you are going to search for the following: "default,mms"
And once you found the "default,mms", you are going to edit it to : default,mms,dun (just add: ",dun" at the end).
Once you have finished editing, just reboot your phone
And you just unlocked unlimited hotspot and tethering

THEBLACKHOUSEPR said:
A alternate way of unlocking your hotspot on your galaxys7 without the need of root:good:
You are going to need the MSL code for you phone
Which can be obtained by calling customer service and asking them (this is the way i did it) or just go to you nearest sprint shop and ask them for the code.
(If they ask why you want the code, just say its for your personal info or interest)
Once you have your code, go to your phone dialer and dial the following: ##3282#
Than you will prompted to write your MSL code
After typing your code, you will be presented to a menu, on that menu you are going to search for "APN SETTINGS" than you are going to search for APN2 EHRPD Internet APN2 LTE internet, and on both you are going to search for the following: "default,mms"
And once you found the "default,mms", you are going to edit it to : default,mms,dun (just add: ",dun" at the end).
Once you have finished editing, just reboot your phone
And you just unlocked unlimited hotspot and tethering
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On the new updates the APNs are grayed out and you can not edit them
So root is option.
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sml2004 said:
On the new updates the APNs are grayed out and you can not edit them
So root is option.
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I did this method this mourning WITHOUT ROOT
so root is not a necesery option.

sml2004 said:
On the new updates the APNs are grayed out and you can not edit them
So root is option.
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Unless there is a update that im not aware of, and cuases the APN to be grayed out. Then that explains your situation to be correct
Im on 6.0.1
What update you on?

THEBLACKHOUSEPR said:
Unless there is a update that im not aware of, and cuases the APN to be grayed out. Then that explains your situation to be correct
Im on 6.0.1
What update you on?
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PF2. Which I'm rooted now so I can change now. Its been like that for last 2 updates.
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sml2004 said:
PF2. Which I'm rooted now so I can change now. Its been like that for last 2 updates.
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Really thats wierd , because yesterday i called customer service for my msl, and than i proceeded to unlock the hotspot without no problem.
Also before i did recieve my msl code, i did try to unlock the hotspot feature just using SHORTCUT MASTER, but couldn't becuase it was grayedout and unable to be interactive.
But when i tryed using the methods that sprint technicians use (the msl code method) i was able to unlock the feature.

THEBLACKHOUSEPR said:
A alternate way of unlocking your hotspot on your galaxys7 without the need of root:good:
You are going to need the MSL code for you phone
Which can be obtained by calling customer service and asking them (this is the way i did it) or just go to you nearest sprint shop and ask them for the code.
(If they ask why you want the code, just say its for your personal info or interest)
Once you have your code, go to your phone dialer and dial the following: ##3282#
Than you will prompted to write your MSL code
After typing your code, you will be presented to a menu, on that menu you are going to search for "APN SETTINGS" than you are going to search for APN2 EHRPD Internet APN2 LTE internet, and on both you are going to search for the following: "default,mms"
And once you found the "default,mms", you are going to edit it to : default,mms,dun (just add: ",dun" at the end).
Once you have finished editing, just reboot your phone
And you just unlocked unlimited hotspot and tethering
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You deserve more notice for this. It works great. Thanks man

or use shortcut master lite and you don't need your msl or to be rooted
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canynballa said:
or use shortcut master lite and you don't need your msl or to be rooted
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Yeah I mentioned that over in another post. Real easy

Can you point us to the post for details on how to use shortcut master for hotspot?

matg55 said:
Can you point us to the post for details on how to use shortcut master for hotspot?
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1. Download Shortcut Master Lite
2. Look for com.test.LTEfunctionality
3. Scroll down to LTE APN Setting
4. You can now edit your APN settings
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canynballa said:
1. Download Shortcut Master Lite
2. Look for com.test.LTEfunctionality
3. Scroll down to LTE APN Setting
4. You can now edit your APN settings
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canynballa said:
1. Download Shortcut Master Lite
2. Look for com.test.LTEfunctionality
3. Scroll down to LTE APN Setting
4. You can now edit your APN settings
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This is where mines located.
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Thanks, looks like my settings are grayed out.. I imagine being on the latest build, its not going to work.

Just search lte and it will come up man. It won't be grayed out

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Just search lte and it will come up man. It won't be grayed out
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Here is the screenshot

Well **** didn't know that. What version are you running with U firmware

PG1 ..most recent

Shortcutmaster is easy, just type "Apn" in th he search engine, than look in the options that it provides you, tap on the apn option that end in the word settings ( ex. Apn................settings). And than you will be prompted to press " launch" (it a menu bar that says: launch,home,ect.) After that its the same procedure as if using a msl code
The only down fall to this, is that you need root for it to work ( to ungray the options need to fix). The things needed to unlock the apn's grayed.
But if it works for you without encountering any problems just share the info with others

Even the msl code method is showing up to some people grayed.
I tryed using both method on my fathers s7, and i encounterd this issue.
My guess is that it has to be with something with the build or serial number or some thing distinguish them from each other. Cuz for some it both methods work, but for others they need root to acomplish this.

sml2004 said:
PF2. Which I'm rooted now so I can change now. Its been like that for last 2 updates.
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Yo its true what you where saying about the apns being grayed out.
My guess is that its not in all samsung s7.

That's apparently sprint catching wind and doing something. Glad I don't take updates with new phones like that

TMobile visual voicemail

Not sure if it was my imagination or not, but when I was first setting up the phone (tmo version) I noticed two visual voicemail apps open. Has this device got it's own visual voicemail?
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Not your imagination, I had it also, that's until I reset my phone and then I lost the native visual voicemail accessible from the phone dialer.

Icemsn4149 said:
Not your imagination, I had it also, that's until I reset my phone and then I lost the native visual voicemail accessible from the phone dialer.
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Thanks. Here's a screenshot of what I'm talking about. One is obviously T Mobile but the other?
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I just uninstalled the T-Mobile VVM app. I use the one that is built into the phone. If I want to go back into it it's button is on the dialer.
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Thanks fella, appreciate it
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Tidbits said:
I just uninstalled the T-Mobile VVM app. I use the one that is built into the phone. If I want to go back into it it's button is on the dialer.
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Mine disappeared after a reset. The button now just dials the voicemail number.
Also, you might want to test that your voicemails will show up there, because mine never did.

Icemsn4149 said:
Mine disappeared after a reset. The button now just dials the voicemail number.
Also, you might want to test that your voicemails will show up there, because mine never did.
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It does show up for me. I actually deleted 3 before I took that screenshot. Some people also had that problem with the S8/S8+ but it works on my S8+ too
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What is the verdict here? I have the T-Mobile Note 8 and when I use the dialer to access voicemail it just calls. When I go into settings there is a greyed out "Voicemail Settings" that I cannot access. All I'm looking for is integrated Visual Voicemail, I never liked having another app.

This is getting really weird. I deleted T Mobile visual voicemail but now I don't have any visual voicemail lol
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Limeybastard said:
This is getting really weird. I deleted T Mobile visual voicemail but now I don't have any visual voicemail lol
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I am in the same boat. Super frustrating. I'm on the phone with T-Mobile now and they have a Samsung Representative on the line. Waiting to see if they can give me any info. I'm going to try hard resetting the phone if they can't come up with a solution and just never set up T-Mobile VVM.
Edit* T-Mobile and Samsung were obviously no help whatsoever. I spent 30 minutes on the phone and they transferred me without asking to a "Samsung Support Specialist" who told me they transferred me to him for "further clarification on the issue" all he told me was "Samsung has nothing to do with voicemail that's a carrier issue" Thanks for wasting my time. So tired of this carrier specific BS.

milkeeway said:
I am in the same boat. Super frustrating. I'm on the phone with T-Mobile now and they have a Samsung Representative on the line. Waiting to see if they can give me any info. I'm going to try hard resetting the phone if they can't come up with a solution and just never set up T-Mobile VVM.
Edit* T-Mobile and Samsung were obviously no help whatsoever. I spent 30 minutes on the phone and they transferred me without asking to a "Samsung Support Specialist" who told me they transferred me to him for "further clarification on the issue" all he told me was "Samsung has nothing to do with voicemail that's a carrier issue" Thanks for wasting my time. So tired of this carrier specific BS.
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Sorry to hear about that. Frustrating to say the least.
I'm trying to remember how I setup my Note 8 and wife's initially. As I don't think she had that dual visual voicemail notifications like I did.
Memory is vague, but one of devices was setup with no sim card present during initial setup screens.
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Just an observation, could it be possible that the T Mobile version like ours has the visual voicemail baked in?
Just took another look and posted the following. It doesn't show my old stored voicemail messages. screenshot.
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Limeybastard said:
Sorry to hear about that. Frustrating to say the least.
I'm trying to remember how I setup my Note 8 and wife's initially. As I don't think she had that dual visual voicemail notifications like I did.
Memory is vague, but one of devices was setup with no sim card present during initial setup screens.
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Ok well I had a reddit post as well and I've gotten a little closer but still have not figured it out.
"The following only works with Nova Launcher"
What a user recommend I do is press and hold on the home screen -> add a widget -> under Nova Launcher go to activities -> drag and drop activities on the home screen -> then search for visual voicemail at the bottom.
Now I have a shortcut on the home screen to the baked in Visual Voice Mail (I currently do not have the T-Mobile one installed and I just performed a hard reset) the issue is now when I go to settings in the integrated VVM is there is an option to enable VVM and it says "Select a Line" and there is no number to select. I'll upload the photos.

Limeybastard said:
Just an observation, could it be possible that the T Mobile version like ours has the visual voicemail baked in?
Just took another look and posted the following. It doesn't show my old stored voicemail messages. screenshot.
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I replied to another user right below yours. It does appear it's baked in. There's a way with Nova Launcher to create a shortcut for it. My issue is I still cannot get it working.
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Edit* My Voice Mail Icon is different than yours https://imgur.com/ADt9icE

I was able to get the Native VVM App working. I made a thread about it on Reddit with instructions for anyone interested.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/71fo0s/how_to_get_native_visual_voicemail_working_on_the/

Awesome! Up and running again.
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Having trouble getting this working. I followed the steps yet I don't have the native visual voicemail icon in the dialer and the shortcut I created for it doesn't pull my info. I enabled digits for my line but nothing works.
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The T Mobile hard programmed vvm app seems to work well on my TMO Note 8.
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Rydah805 said:
Having trouble getting this working. I followed the steps yet I don't have the native visual voicemail icon in the dialer and the shortcut I created for it doesn't pull my info. I enabled digits for my line but nothing works.
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You also have to enable multi Line settings on the phone, that will get it working.
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Icemsn4149 said:
You also have to enable multi Line settings on the phone, that will get it working.
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I actually figured it out Saturday night but thanks. The trick was to enable digits via the web and select the unlock option for my line. Then I was able to get the multi line option working. After setting it up, I was able to sign out of multi line and still receive native vvm. (I signed out due to it showing multi line options everywhere.)
So to everyone who hates seeing multi line options everywhere, you can sign out after setup. What really bugged me about it was in messages with my wife, it listed her device model which took up a line for each message in our thread. Signing out of multi line fixed it for me.
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Dialer codes not working

I have an unbranded (unlocked) Note 8 straight from Samsung. None of the dialer/hidden codes work. Any idea how to enable them?

What have you tried? I have the same and they work. There's no setting to enable/disable

I don't know what to try to be honest. They just don't work. I've tried the usual ones *#1234#, *#*#4636#*#* etc. None work, the phone just does nothing.

You can use a shortcuts app to do the hidden codes. A bunch of them work. I accidentally enabled some stupid on-screen display thing so when I do power off it displays some messages that tell me it is sending a shutdown command. Now I can't remember which one it was to turn that thing off....

Kalm_Traveler said:
You can use a shortcuts app to do the hidden codes. A bunch of them work. I accidentally enabled some stupid on-screen display thing so when I do power off it displays some messages that tell me it is sending a shutdown command. Now I can't remember which one it was to turn that thing off....
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I believe you want *#9900# then scroll down to the shutdown option

me2151 said:
I believe you want *#9900# then scroll down to the shutdown option
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That has a similar setting, this time the culprit was me changing the build.prop to say my device type was userdebug instead of just user. Changed it back and voila, no more shutdown text!

Still not working for me. I even did a factory reset and tried the dialer codes before even inserting a SIM card (thought Verizon provisioning played a trick on my unbranded N8). Any idea why they aren't working?

What are these codes for, again?

roaduardo said:
What are these codes for, again?
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hidden menus for adjusting or testing various settings, as far as i can tell.

These work (unlocked note 8)
*#011# service mode
*#9090# diagnostic information
*#0*# hardware diagnostic
*#7353# quick test menu
This is not exhaustive, just me trying stuff out.

SteelPicori said:
These work (unlocked note 8)
*#011# service mode
*#9090# diagnostic information
*#0*# hardware diagnostic
*#7353# quick test menu
This is not exhaustive, just me trying stuff out.
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Yeah.... none of these work for me. None at all. I'm kinda fed up with all the small nagging issues. The phone is going back to Sammy. I'll just go get one from Verizon store.

odesskiy said:
Yeah.... none of these work for me. None at all. I'm kinda fed up with all the small nagging issues. The phone is going back to Sammy. I'll just go get one from Verizon store.
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Got a Verizon branded phone. These do not work str8 from vzw either. But vzw phones are unlocked either way. Verizon has disabled the ability to enter in codes from dialer.
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LpSk8r said:
Got a Verizon branded phone. These do not work str8 from vzw either. But vzw phones are unlocked either way. Verizon has disabled the ability to enter in codes from dialer.
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This is exactly why I as well as others are questioning why there aren't carrier specific forums for the Note 8 as there have been for every other note. There is too much confusion when we're all on the same forum to solve these problems. You have people posting how to do this or that but it doesn't work for every model/carrier.
You have to go to
/efs/carrier/HiddenMenu
And change the setting from off to on... but root is needed.

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This is exactly why I as well done others are questioning why there aren't carrier specific forums for the Note 8 as there have been for ever other note. There is to much confusion when we're all on the same forum try to solve these problems. You have people posting how to do this or that but it doesn't work for every model/carrier.
You have to go to
/efs/carrier/HiddenMenu
And change the setting from off to on... but root is needed.
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Didn't OP specifically state he has unlocked, unbranded phone?

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Didn't OP specifically state he has unlocked, unbranded phone?
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I sure did.

I have an OEM unlocked unbranded 950f and can't use dialer or phone info *samsung* app to launch codes. I tried efs/carrier and it doesn't exist.
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(Almost) No secret/dialer codes
When I try to use the phone info app to use secret codes I get a whole bunch of errors and can't access any of the secret codes any help would be appreciated

Try entering them manually in dialer. *#77467# takes me to ims settings. On Tmobile. Other carriers lock theres so root is needed.

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What have you tried? I have the same and they work. There's no setting to enable/disable
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flash this firmware 1000000% will work:good:

This is a struggle ive been working with since switching to Vzw. I did the same thing. I started the phone without a SIM and the dialer codes work. Once I put the SIM in, the phone said it needed to restart to apply carrier settings. Once it restarted, the dialer codes no longer worked. Samsung must have special coding to lock this down once a Vzw SIM is inserted.