I've been told that if you activate Verizon's Advanced Calling feature that it only works on VoLTE, and if you are on a call in a 4G coverage area and for example, say you're driving and your coverage area switches to 3G, the call will drop. Has anyone had serious issues with the Advanced Calling feature dropping calls? Is it worth activating this feature or is it better to leave it off until VoLTE technology makes some advances? Thanks in advance for any input!!
I have it on all the time and It seems fine, but yes if it drops to 3G it will drop the call. So if you are on an important call and driving outside a city or somewhere you know it drops to 3G then go into the setting and turn off HD Voice just for that call.
P.S. Just because you enable it on your account doesn't mean it is always on, or needs to be always on. You can change it on your phone.
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Ok,
We all know that turning on Advanced Calling 1.0 on your account is free, includes HD voice to other callers that are similarly enabled, and most of all - it gives us back voice and data at the same time.
But are there negatives to go with the positives?
I've scanned the threads and wanted to consolidate this here.
I've heard if you are on adv calling and move out / drop off 4G your call may get lost. I haven't heard how one makes a call, or if it will make a call if out of a 4G area or on wifi out of a 4G area and you try to place a call.
So, that said, what are the experiences from our vast userbase here?
Has turning it on caused any issue for you? either with making/receiving calls, data use, or even other issues with the N6 once you enabled it? (I'm stock right now, what about ROM's? )
(for purposes of streamlining this thread, the conditions are that you got the phone from Verizon, or have it established on Verizon and have been able to enable the option)
I turn on day 1 but I don't have anyone to call that has that option so nothing really changed for me I don't find my coverage any better or worse. I do notice I have voice and data now (at the same time I mean)
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VZW Volte
When I go to Verizon website to select volte in my plan a pop up says 1 or more of my other selections i already have is not compatible with volte and must be unselected to get volte. It is saying Ringback Tones needs to be unselected.
Has anyone else experienced this?
So I'm rooted. I'm using 1.4b from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/dro...xt1254-21-44-12-quarkrootwifihotspot-t3064908
I'm noticing that whenever I make a voice call while tethering, it kills my tethering. I've also noticed that when I'm not tethering and I make a phone call, my signal goes from 4G LTE to 1X. I assume these issues are related.
Anyone have a solution?
I could be wrong. But wouldn't this be due to VoLTE?
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I could be wrong. But wouldn't this be due to VoLTE?
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Maybe? The thought crossed my mind.
However, I never activated "advanced calling" either through vzw.com or on my phone. In fact, looking at the option on my phone, it's just completely greyed out. Can't select or unselect it.
To simultaneously be on a call and use data you must activate advanced calling. This phone cannot activate more than one antenna at once, so when you call it calls over the 1X signal and has to disconnect from the 4G you're using to tether. If you activate advanced calling it will call over 4G, and therefore allow you to use data as well. It's kind of stupid, but since they got advanced calling fixed it's not so bad.
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...
just wondering
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'm finding that when I'm on a WiFi call and leave the house, the phone dosent switch to cellular. The phone drops the call and I have to call the person back. Is there any setting to enable smooth handoffs or is this an inherent issue with WiFi calling?
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I'm finding that when I'm on a WiFi call and leave the house, the phone dosent switch to cellular. The phone drops the call and I have to call the person back. Is there any setting to enable smooth handoffs or is this an inherent issue with WiFi calling?
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Have you tried going into developer options, and ticking aggressive WiFi to cellular handoff?
I'll give that a try. Thanks
If you are on T-Mobile, I don't think it will do a WiFi-Cellular hand off, will it? I thought T-Mobile still uses IMS technology.
The older wifi calling tech, UMA, does handoffs nicely. The older Blackberrys and Nokias have it.
Enabled the aggressive wfi to cellular handoff and that seems to work now. Thanks.
I did a search, found a few threads in the non-Turbo forums. I've done some research, and some of the data is confusing. As I just got the Droid Turbo a few days ago, thought I'd pose a couple of questions here -
What I do know is voice goes over data network (VoLTE). I assume when in a 3G area, it reverts to CDMA? From the reading I've done, if in a 3G area and move into a 4G area, the call is not dropped. However, going from a 4G area to a 3G area, the call is dropped?
If I have it enabled, does the receiver on the other end have to have Advanced Calling? If not, is there still an advantage to using it?
From other reading, if both ends are on 4G and have Advanced Calling enabled, the sound quality is supposed to perfect. True?
Thx
You are correct about the call dropping going from 4g to 3g. The network cannot switch between volte and 1x, it works going from 3g to 4g because the phone stays on 1x. The person you are calling does not need to have advanced calling but if they do not have it the only benefit is the ability for talk and data at the same time.
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You are correct about the call dropping going from 4g to 3g. The network cannot switch between volte and 1x, it works going from 3g to 4g because the phone stays on 1x. The person you are calling does not need to have advanced calling but if they do not have it the only benefit is the ability for talk and data at the same time.
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Thx for the reply. After a bit more digging, found this -
http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/advanced-calling-faqs/