SO now that the M8 and M9 both have wifi calling, has anyone found a way to port that over to our M7? Sprint service sucks inside my building. I am running a Sense 7 build from the M9 and it has a wifi calling toggle in the quick settings but the internal software isn't there to show the settings. Since wifi calling is essentially software, shouldn't we just be able to run some software to get native wifi calling. (yes yes I know google voice and hangouts dialer will let me do wifi calling but I want it built in through my own phone number)
No. When sprint updated the m7 to lollipop we were supposed to get Wi-Fi calling. At the last minute sprint backed out claiming that the m7 wasn't capable of Wi-Fi calling which is a bunch of bs cause t-mobile has it for the m7
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Does anyone on sprint htc one m8 have texting & calling over wifi with the sprint service ?
Asking because I have very weak service at home with all cell providers including verizon and sprint is even worse and if texting over wifi and calling over wifi works with sprint then I will buy a sprint htc one m8 and get it flashed to boost mobile or some other sprint mvno.
Hopefully someone with a m8 on sprint that knows how to turn their radio off and can turn their radio off somewhere that they have wifi coverage and try sending a text over wifi and see if the text will actually send over wifi.
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Does anyone on sprint htc one m8 have texting & calling over wifi with the sprint service ?
Asking because I have very weak service at home with all cell providers including verizon and sprint is even worse and if texting over wifi and calling over wifi works with sprint then I will buy a sprint htc one m8 and get it flashed to boost mobile or some other sprint mvno.
Hopefully someone with a m8 on sprint that knows how to turn their radio off and can turn their radio off somewhere that they have wifi coverage and try sending a text over wifi and see if the text will actually send over wifi.
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No. If you want that, you need to look at Samsung. http://www.androidcentral.com/sprint-wifi-calling-poised-debut-two-samsung-phones
The other option is contact Sprint and tell them that you have bad Sprint service in your house. Possible that they could "tune" a tower or see if a tower will be upgrade to 800 mhz service, etc. If they can't fix it at the tower level, they always the option of a Airave. I got an Airave for work since I work in a brick building by contacting [email protected].
Since Sprint has chosen for now to leave us out of the WiFi calling update, I decided to jump and use voipvoip with our resident WiFi calling. Seems to work pretty good. If you use WiFi calling, what has been your experience on the HTC one?
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Since Sprint has chosen for now to leave us out of the WiFi calling update, I decided to jump and use voipvoip with our resident WiFi calling. Seems to work pretty good. If you use WiFi calling, what has been your experience on the HTC one?
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I have the HTC One M8 with WIFI calling. It works pretty good. Had an issue and had to reprovision my phone. My office has limited connectivity with brick building and even with the airave, WIFI calling has been super clear and for the most part simple to use. Plan on using on Monday when I go to the doctor's office. My phone and the girlfriends phone didn't have connectivity last weekend while waiting but they have WIFI.
I didn't know the M7 wasn't getting the WIFI update - was looking forward to it for my girlfriend's phone.
We can set up WiFi through sip, but my understanding was Sprint was going to let us do WiFi calling from their sip?
Hi, I know most of you guys are aware that the Moto X doesn't support T-Mobile Wi-Fi calling natively. What are some workarounds you may have to use Wi-Fi calling? I need this feature since my service is abysmal at home. Are there any suggestions? My theory is using Hangouts Dialer, but there's not much of a hand off like native Wi-Fi calling for me.
Someone on Google+ asked this same question on the T-Mobile page and the answer was no, that there are no plans to get the moto X on Wi-Fi calling at this time, but to keep checking or some BS like that.
T-Mobile does offer a signal booster, not the Wi-Fi router for Wi-Fi calling, but a cellular booster. You might want to call and look into that.
For the mean time, there is free "wifi calling" service like Google voice now know as hangouts. There are others but that is the best one i can recommend to use for the mean time.
There's word that T-Mobile is working with Google to get wifi-calling on the nexus phone(s), but I wouldn't hold my breathe. You're best alternative is like the above poster suggested and use google voice for calling.
I have been told that the M9 does not support advanced wifi calling. I'm not sure about my terminology, but what I mean is that it cannot hand a wifi call off to the LTE/HSPA network.
However I have just finished demonstrating that it does hand off without dropping the call, and to the HSPA network. I had noticed this behavior the other day, but in a discussion in an article on fiercewireless, i was told this is technically impossible.
My M9 is set to wifi calling, wifi preferred, and when I make the call in the driveway, the dialer says "wifi call", the call connects and the phone icon in the statusbar is green, and the phone beeps at me with a message that I'm near the edge of the wifi calling area and the call may drop. I drive away, the call never drops, the beeping/message stop, and the green phone icon in the statusbar becomes white. And I'm connected to "4G", not 4G LTE.
Who told you it didn't support it?
I myself, don't like the feature. Especially when I have little to no service, it'll constantly be searching for service(draining my battery) when I'm connected with WiFi calling.
Hoping it'll be able to be disabled in custom ROMs.
I think the screen name was Fabian and it was in the discussion about Sprint offering the international data like T-Mobile. He seems to be knowledgeable and was adamant that this is not possible. I think he said it's only possible on the iPhone 6. Aside from that, I myself thought it was impossible for a WiFi to hspa handoff, yet this is what I'm seeing.
Hopefully they make it official since it does work
I'm pretty sure I read that this was a new feature. . . I'll look for the source I read this from.
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It's a new feature with the S810.
Wish it'd give you the option...
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Have u guys seen the aggressive Wi-Fi to cellular handover setting in developer settings?
not sure what to think I never use Wi-Fi call just thought I'd share. Because it might help those that have calls dropped. Worth a shot to check the box and try.
T-Mobile (re)enabled wifi/cell handoff with Uncarrier 8 several months ago. A decent LTE connection is required for the handoff but nearly every LTE handset can do so (coming to the Nexus 6 Real Soon Now.)
The Sprint person is incorrect, but a their wifi calling implementation is, quite frankly, bizarre, so I'm not surprised at their being clueless over T-Mobile's.
Nothing unique about the HTC One m9's wifi calling except it being on a really great handset.
I recently bought an Unlocked HTC M9 that was originally under AT&T network. While it makes calls and works fine, one thing I do have a problem with is Wi Fi calling. Since this is technically an AT&T phone I can't call on Wi-fi ( which is important because my apartment has no signal in it) with my T-Mobile sim card. I was wondering if there was a way I could download T Mobile software to make such calls, and if so how would I go about doing this.