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Problems with BBC on the Tilt

Hi everybody,
I'm really struggling with the BBC for the Tilt. I would MUCH rather use ActiveSync, but it's against company policy so I'm SOL on that. I'm forced to either buy a Blackberry and give up my Tilt or install BBC. I chose the later.
I've been having problems with it ever since and I've had trouble finding resources to help out (mainly because most people don't use BBC on Tilt).
Here are the problems:
1. BBC often will randomly say "suspended by user" (even though I haven't), which prevents me from getting new messages, and unless I'm always looking to see if the service is running, I'll never know if I'm not getting email or if it suspended itself
2. BBC will just as often randomly say, "blocked - radio in use".
3. I can't get any integration going with the calendar at all. And when I receive calendar/meeting requests, it comes to the Tilt as email messages, not as meeting requests, so I can't accept them and add it to my calendar
Now, the limited amount of information I was able to find suggests that problem #2 may have something to do with interference with ActiveSync. I've tried the technique where I add a fake server source then make the schedule manual, but ActiveSync still won't go away permanently. I use it to access my Tilt files through Windows, so I can't uninstall it altogether. Also, when I tried to uninstall it before, it deleted all of my non-SIM contacts from the Tilt along with it, because all of my contacts were imported from Outlook.
Anybody have any ideas or solutions?

I think these are common issues, especially if you are using the Tilt on AT&T.
1) I'll go days without losing connection to blackberry services then it seems like it will lose it every night for 2 or 3 days. It may be related to activesync or it may be related to network issues. I always check the blackberry icon. If there's a "!" there, I know I need to reconnect.
2) At least with AT&T, you can only have one active data connection. Either it's the blackberry service or it's something else. The something else is active and keeping the blackberry service from connecting.
3) Check your pim options screen and make sure the calendar box is checked. If I remember correctly, when I first installed it was not checked by default. Contacts, tasks and notes are also configured in this screen.
You may have a point about activesync. I always kill it when I can but it auto starts. If I understand correctly, it is checking or setting the network time?

mitchrl said:
I think these are common issues, especially if you are using the Tilt on AT&T.
1) I'll go days without losing connection to blackberry services then it seems like it will lose it every night for 2 or 3 days. It may be related to activesync or it may be related to network issues. I always check the blackberry icon. If there's a "!" there, I know I need to reconnect.
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Yeah, that's what I usually have to do, but I hate that I have to do it - it defeats the purpose of push email if you have to always check to see if it's still pushing, lol.
People have recommended uninstalling ActiveSync when using BBC, but I can't possibly see how that's practical because I use ActiveSync to maintain my contacts and to add music and files to my Tilt. Is there some other way of doing this without using ActiveSync?
2) At least with AT&T, you can only have one active data connection. Either it's the blackberry service or it's something else. The something else is active and keeping the blackberry service from connecting.
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That's what I've read. But there have been times when I've done a Stop All on all services, and I still got a radio in use message. Strangely, there have been times when both ActiveSync and IE were running and I was able to get BBC running no problem. The inconsistency is maddening because it becomes impossible to isolate and cause and solve it.
3) Check your pim options screen and make sure the calendar box is checked. If I remember correctly, when I first installed it was not checked by default. Contacts, tasks and notes are also configured in this screen.
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Whatever is being maintained by ActiveSync (contacts) is greyed out on my Tilt, but everything else (calendar, notes and tasks) is checked, so I should be OK. But calendard items are still arriving in my inbox as regular email.
You may have a point about activesync. I always kill it when I can but it auto starts. If I understand correctly, it is checking or setting the network time?
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Interesting. I thought I was doing something wrong since people swear by that technique as a way to get ActiveSync to go away permanently. But it always comes back for me.

It says "radio in use" when Media.Net is active possibly through a IE or weather type program.
Some of the NEWER ROMS allow dual connections for BBConnect & Media.net. I saw a thread yesterday that showed the precise registry entry to make to allow this without burning a new ROM.

What thread was this? And when you say "newer ROMS" are you referring to official ROMs like the one on the HTC website or the XDA ROMs?

Demigawd,
Make sure the wireless calendar service (cical) is running properly. What version of bbc are you running? I'm running 4.0.0.97. It's behavior is a bit different than previous versions. It seems to block other data connections instead of bb getting blocked.
The only other suggestion I have is to remove and reinstall bbc. I would also have bes sync everything including contacts until you are sure calendaring is running correctly. If it's still not working correctly, maybe check your bes for a non-standard it policy.
I think the registry entry for multiple data apns is volatile and gets overwritten after every soft reset. A custom rom is probably the only way around that.

[Q] SGH-T599N Network Mods?

I've had the SGH-T599N since October, and, coming from the Samsung Admire with all its roms and mods and support, I've found having this phone to be, well, not as great.
My 2 main gripes with using internet on this phone, are that some sites I go to just don't quite work right with however MetroPCS/T-Mobile has their network setup, which I'll sort of elaborate on, and as of late, the, for lack of better phrasing, the peaking and subsequent slowdown of my internet speeds.
I'll start with the latter, since it's easier to explain, and because I tend to ramble, I'll state the question again before explaining:
1. Is there any way I can mod this phone to bypass automatic network speed capping?
I have MetroPCS's unlimited 4G plan, which ran at satisfactory speeds always at hundreds of KB/s until recently, which I assume is due to my speeds being capped out of over-usage. Considering I use USB tethering daily, this is not shocking. The thing is, I could get around that with my Samsung Admire thanks to this mod: http://androidforums.com/admire-all-things-root/563714-mod-data-governor-remover.html and by extension, this mod: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=888372
Considering that was a 2.3.4/Gingerbread OS phone, this is a 4.1.2 phone, and I've looked around both of these forum sites long enough to know not to do any phone modding without extensive research and to wait for the bugs to be sorted out by others, I dare not even get my hopes up about being able to do that with this phone unless there's a confirmed forum post saying I can. Before that, I also found ways around the limits of my 3G network area that's bogged down by the sheer number of users, as thanks to QPST, but falls under the same situation. I don't even want to try modifying the build.prop, much less those deeper settings on my own for risk of breaking/bricking the one and only phone I have and still need to have functioning fully for many more months. So far, I've only gotten around all this by turning my phone and maybe the mobile network on and off, because the slowdown lock takes a couple minutes of use to kick in.
2. Can I change the network settings of this phone in a productive/significant manner, via APN changing, QPST, ROMs, or other such mods?
I've done all of these before on my Admire without any permanent errors. I found that APN Manager Pro is too outdated for this OS, and have yet to try similar APN programs for risk of permanent network damage. I cannot currently recall any significant mention of using QPST on this phone, or even this OS, so I've not tried that. The only ROMs I know of are Unjustified Dev's, both of which break the video camera functionality, which I have to have working. The only thing I've even done to this phone is root it and put ClockWorkMod from this page http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2421743. I haven't even bothered with the odexed files, bloatware, and such yet because I mostly use this phone as just a camcorder, an internet modem, and of course, a phone.
I wonder about this because it may indirectly solve the first problem, but there's different issues as well...I'll just explain:
Now, I notice that some sites I try to use with this phone simply fail to work as properly as they would if I were using a Wi-Fi network, something that also happened with my Admire. Unfortunately I don't have many examples that I can share for one reason or another other than these following two, which luckily involve big name websites. However, they may or may not prove useless in the end, so I'll put them in spoiler tags to be easily skipped over to go on to the more important part.
When I tried to access Tumblr with my old phone's network, whether I'm on my phone or USB tethering to my laptop, it always refused to let me log in, meaning I had to go to a Wi-Fi network and log in from there first, and then, if I wanted to "ask a question" aka submit a message to any of the blogs/pages I'm following/subscribed to, they would always say that that function is not available "at this time", which basically means forever since it seems to involve some error on Metro's side that'll never be fixed. I know it's not some kind of script error on the browser end, because if I stop the page from loading at the right moment, the text input field would actually display and maybe even work, rather than be dummied out by some eternal error message that doesn't even come up if I were using any other network.
Also, on my current phone, when I try to upload a video to Youtube on an associate's account while tethering to my laptop, it refuses to upload, much less even recognizing that I'm trying to upload, as it stays at 0 percent. This is also circumvented by just using a different internet connection. This does not ever happen when I'm using my own account, however, and I've managed to circumvent by changing the browser's user agent or switching browser completely.
Now, I said that the above two examples may not even be relevant, because these may be issues only I can reproduce. For some sites, I manage to get around the issues with different web browsers and/or user agent or proxy settings, but I sometimes get Gateway Timeout messages and other such unavoidable errors on sites that imply server side problems, but don't come up when I use other internet connections. Because the issues vary from site to site, I'm only asking for a verified method I can test directly on the phone, on my own, to get around these problems.
That's should explain enough of, if not all of the issues I'm having network-wise. It might seem like rambling, but it's better for me to explain it all now than for someone that actually has the answer to come by only to be missing one crucial bit of info. In case it is just rambling, to reiterate:
I have the 4.1.2 OS phone SGH-T599N, the Samsung Galaxy Exhibit from MetroPCS, which has been rooted along with CWM, but no other modifications. I'm trying to modify the network settings, and need a confirmed method, not a guess, on how to go about it.

Have you tried using a different browser? Opera will usually do things that chrome/stock can't. There are also YouTube uploader apps out there.
I think that if there was a magic hack to circumvent metro throttling out there it would at least have a sticky.

DevilDogg said:
Have you tried using a different browser? Opera will usually do things that chrome/stock can't. There are also YouTube uploader apps out there.
I think that if there was a magic hack to circumvent metro throttling out there it would at least have a sticky.
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Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Stock, no matter what browser I use, it fails to load. It's a network problem, not a browser problem. I also don't quite see any such app allowing me to schedule video posting, when even the Youtube app doesn't have this account specific function. What I do see is bunch of Youtube player apps and downloader apps, but no uploaders. Even if there was one with the option, I'd still have to go back to my laptop for it anyway, because there's a lot of information and tags I have to add to the videos, most of which is automatically loaded from Youtube's settings when using a comp, none of which shows up on a mobile.
As for the hack, considering the one I linked worked for me, but not for others, a mod that works only for certain networks isn't really the kind of thing that should be stickied. If this thread turns into a discussion on that, I'll never get a legitimate answer.

Suppose I need to bump this thread, since it got moved, and is over taken by the other threads.

Sony spying on us?

http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperi...eated-on-starting-phone-each-time/td-p/819877
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2kjrev/sony_xperia_phones_come_preloaded_with_baidu/
Well this isn't good. I don't use the Sony services and can confirm I have an outbound connection to China.

pm block com.sonymobile.mx.android
Reboot
Delete the "baidu" folder manually
Reboot
I just did this but baidu is still created after reboot.

If that makes you feel better. If people want to spy you, they can do it without a problem and without you ever noticing.

Hardly a justification. It's been found. I know about it. I want it to stop. Most people who are affected seem to want it to stop.

Better than an inbound connection from China Nobody would have cared if this was connection to Google US, but China = evil. Interesting.

I trust the devil I know more than the devil I don't.

The same problem on Nexus 5: http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/baidu-folder-t2545185
I looked on my Galaxy S2 CM11, there is a Baidu folder too.
I don't think its a Sony problem, because: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55041302&postcount=28

Some people are saying the phones report to Baidu servers are done so this "find my phone" feature can work.
https://myxperia.sonymobile.com/signin
if that's true, i have no issues. it's cheaper to use servers in china than amazon or google servers in the western world. my company deals with this issue all the time.

Why does Enterprise Services automatically get checked as on in Security/Device Administrators on each reboot?

jamesey10 said:
it's cheaper to use servers in china than amazon or google servers in the western world.
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I guess they're using more than one path, but internet access in China ist just too restricted for some services to work reliably so they're using something they can rely on.

I'm just wondering why the "Device Usage" service always keeps running, eventhough I unchecked the checkbox to send anonymous usage data to Sony. And then there's also that "User Data Logging" service. Vague stuff.

degraaff said:
I'm just wondering why the "Device Usage" service always keeps running, eventhough I unchecked the checkbox to send anonymous usage data to Sony. And then there's also that "User Data Logging" service. Vague stuff.
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Well, one is for collecting the data and the other is for sending the data. The phone (hopefully) only sends data once you allow it. Don't get me wrong, I disable as much as possible of the (apparently) not needed stuff on my phone always, and that before I enable any WiFi or put in my SIM, I'm just trying to look at it from the programmers point of view.

Odd issue with DRParser and mDNS services

I have been going through and optimizing my T813 by disabling stuff that doesn't need to be running, firewalling off anything that does need network access, etc. However, I've run into a couple odd issues.
The first is DRParser.apk (DRparser Mode). It is marked as safe to disable on the Galaxy S6/S7, and I have. Or at least I tried. Even when it is frozen, it is somehow getting started because it is banging at the firewall like nuts. I have AFWall+ setup to show toasts from the logger, and it is constantly showing DRparser Mode has been denied access to a half dozen IP addresses. I double checked, and yes, it really is disabled in Titanium Backup. There is some serious WTH going on here, as it persists after a reboot. I have used TiBu to successfully freeze other services, so I'm not sure what is so special about this one.
The other weird one is mDNS, which I believe is part of the "find stuff nearby" functionality. I don't actually have a problem with it, but I can't find a specific service to enable in the firewall. I'm guessing it's bundled with something else, but I'm not sure what. It's also getting flag by AFWall, but not nearly as often.
The last one is the game optimizer service. I'm not sure why it is trying to access the network, but it is. I'm tempted to freeze it, but I'm not sure what it actually does.
Anyone have any ideas on these?

jshamlet said:
I have been going through and optimizing my T813 by disabling stuff that doesn't need to be running, firewalling off anything that does need network access, etc. However, I've run into a couple odd issues.
The first is DRParser.apk (DRparser Mode). It is marked as safe to disable on the Galaxy S6/S7, and I have. Or at least I tried. Even when it is frozen, it is somehow getting started because it is banging at the firewall like nuts. I have AFWall+ setup to show toasts from the logger, and it is constantly showing DRparser Mode has been denied access to a half dozen IP addresses. I double checked, and yes, it really is disabled in Titanium Backup. There is some serious WTH going on here, as it persists after a reboot. I have used TiBu to successfully freeze other services, so I'm not sure what is so special about this one.
The other weird one is mDNS, which I believe is part of the "find stuff nearby" functionality. I don't actually have a problem with it, but I can't find a specific service to enable in the firewall. I'm guessing it's bundled with something else, but I'm not sure what. It's also getting flag by AFWall, but not nearly as often.
The last one is the game optimizer service. I'm not sure why it is trying to access the network, but it is. I'm tempted to freeze it, but I'm not sure what it actually does.
Anyone have any ideas on these?
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I can't even find anything via google that even explains what this apk does. But I did find that the app associated with it is com.sec.android.app.parser. You might want to look for that in /Setup/apps. Once you open apps, you might have to click the settings and choose "show system" for it to appear in the list. I'm running the RR ROM on my T810 and that app isn't installed with the Pico gapps, so I can't test it.
edit: After a little more research, it appears that the apps function is to decode "special codes" that you dial on your phone. Without it, you won't be able to dial those codes. But I have no idea why that would require access through your firewall. But it would explain why it isn't found on my T810, which doesn't have a cellphone function.

This is on a T813, which also has no LTE functionality. I'm guessing Samsung puts a largely "standard" image on these devices, as it also has the Phone services as well. (from poking around, this thing feels a bit like a gigantic Galaxy S6). However, it's a moot issue, as it is lumped under a bunch of other stuff, at least a couple of which do require network access. So, whatever it is, I have to let it through. :|
I did, however, come across some info on the mDNS issue:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63977673&postcount=2742
Apparently that is a strange AFWall+ issue, and there is a custom script to resolve the issue.

jshamlet said:
This is on a T813, which also has no LTE functionality. I'm guessing Samsung puts a largely "standard" image on these devices, as it also has the Phone services as well. (from poking around, this thing feels a bit like a gigantic Galaxy S6). However, it's a moot issue, as it is lumped under a bunch of other stuff, at least a couple of which do require network access. So, whatever it is, I have to let it through. :|
I did, however, come across some info on the mDNS issue:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63977673&postcount=2742
Apparently that is a strange AFWall+ issue, and there is a custom script to resolve the issue.
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It may be "lumped with other stuff" but I would think that "the stuff" would all be phone related and therefore removable. It isn't there in the custom ROMS. Did you look for the app I listed in your app settings?

Yes, it's there. DRParser.apk in /system/app. I can, if I need to, delete it now that I have a full system backup on the SD card - which I suppose is the next step. I usually disable services rather than deleting them, though.

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Yes, it's there. DRParser.apk in /system/app. I can, if I need to, delete it now that I have a full system backup on the SD card - which I suppose is the next step. I usually disable services rather than deleting them, though.
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Renaming or deleting the apk is an option, but I was talking about disabling com.sec.android.app.parser in the app settings.

Invalid teleservice ID error when trying to send SMS or MMS

I recently bought a Verizon Note 9 (first Samsung phone) so I'm not well versed on things. I have noticed from time to time when I am not receiving carrier signal (still connected to wifi) my texts will start failing with the error "Invalid teleservice id".
After some digging I noticed that my phone number in "About Phone" was incorrectly set to an invalid number 1-265-000-000.
I have cleared all caches and reset all settings I can think of. This problems occurs on all SMS applications. So far I have tried: Google Messages; Samsung Messages; Verizon Messages+.
Where does the "About Phone" page get populated from?
My hunch is the internal number of the phone is getting set by some screwy logic and that is throwing off everything that relies on it.

Invalid teleservide id soulution found
I need people to test this solution to make sure it works across all devices as the error seems to affect all android devices under certain conditions. If you would like to read how I came to this solution to help me check my work or you are just interested please keep reading, If you just want the solution feel free to skip to the bottom paragraph beginning with SOLUTION. If you try this solution, which I actually believe to be a solution and not a hotfix, please respond with 3 pieces of information: 1) Did it work. 2) What Android device you use and the version of Android you are using and 3) Your ISP (Internet Service Provider).
This data is very important.
STORY:
So, last month I switched to Android for a couple of reasons after having used iPhones since the iPhone 5. The two most important things to me were being able to stream music using the LDAC Bluetooth codec and having a crack at Samsung Dex to see if I could avoid buying a laptop next year. I was immediately happy with these features that had been the impetus for switching, but then something unexpected happened: the thing that I have always taken for granted, i.e. my phone sending/receiving calls and texts, was incredibly unreliable on this phone (Galaxy S20 Ultra). After doing some googling and finding the official forums (there seem to be 2 devoted to this issue and I will post this both places) I found the incredibly disheartening ‘hotfix’ of disabling WiFi calling to be completely unnaceptable. Not only because I don’t actually get cell service in my apartment but because a $1400 flagship smartphone should certianly not have less functionality in any area that an iPod Touch circa a decade ago.
Normally I would just take my faulty device down to a Verizon store because although I am in IT I specialize in computers more than phones, however since we have been in isolation this began an approximately 20 hour saga via the phone over the span of May 25th to June 19th. After trying everything I could glean might work from google, and following every step that Verizon tech support asked me to try and actually convincing them to update the carrier settings on my account I was finally given the OK to get a replacement device. It is important to note at this point that I had only been searching this error for my model phone and mistakenly had the idea that it was an incredibly rare issue that was a problem with a select few devices.
So, you can imagine my complete and udder shock after getting the replacement phone, setting it up, and getting the Invalid Teleservice ID Error 4 on the second text message I tried to send on the device. It took me about an hour to really get my wits together because at this point I was trying to come to terms with the very possible reality that I was not going to be able to use my phone at home reliably because I don’t have good reception over WiFi. When my faculties returned, I resolved to read every post I could find on this issue.
What I found is that this problem has been around since certain people started installing Android 8 on their phones and that they have been trying to get Verizon to offer an actual solution since 2017. So here we are 3.5 years later and almost 4 generations of Android later and “the best network” has so far failed to offer any sort of real solution to this problem. However, from getting the error on my new phone and seeing that the error was effecting essentially every model device Verizon sells (that runs Android) gave me a key piece of data: the problem has nothing to do with the device.
After getting deeper and deeper into some forums I noticed that one person reported that this problem only occurs for them when they use an Xfinity WiFi hotspot. That was my lightbulb moment. I am also an Xfinity customer. I then started searching the problem from that perspective and found that most of the people reporting the error and mentioning their ISP were either Xfinity or Spectrum customers, and now I was starting to feel like I might be onto something.
In terms of IT, networking is my weakest area. Nevertheless I dove into some forums that have tried to approach this problem from a networking perspective and although a lot of it was over my head I started to suspect there was something about the firewall on Xfinity and Spectrum routers that is causing the problem. After 72 hours of exhaustive testing ( not only is 24 hours approximately my previous record for not having the error, but I used that time to send out as much information via text messaging as possible to try to cause the error) I am ready to posit a hypothesis as to what is actually causing the problem and post the solution that is currently working for me.
As I have noticed that the problem is most likely to crop up for me when I am using Dex and a physical keyboard and have tried to send many texts in quick succession, the idea came to me that somehow trying to send a large volume of data exacerbates a problem that Xfinity and Spectrum routers have reliably delivering packets in the right order and format over the internet to the Verizon network. So, this is what I decided to try, and it has now worked for approximately 84 hours straight and has performed flawlessly under stress testing (Spamming 500 word texts and hi res photos to multiple people in quick succession using copy/paste).
SOLUTION:
I’m sure many of you who play video games have used a function on your routers to get around NAT issues called the DMZ. The DMZ allows you to put a device using a specific IP address on your personal network outside of the firewall and connect it directly to the internet. For a device that exists on this network wirelessly there is a simple step you must take first. You must assign your device a static IP. If you go into your router settings you will likely find that all devices on your network are assigned IP addresses via a system called DHCP. This essentially means your device will probably have a new IP every time you leave the house and return, so we need to make it the same every time so that the DMZ will function the way we want it to. Every router is going to have a slightly different settings menu, but you should be able to find a tab that lists the CONNECTED DEVICES on your network. What you need to do is change your phone from being a DHCP connected device and assign it a STATIC IP address. Finding the option to do this may be harder than actually doing it, all you need to do when you find the option is change the connection type from DHCP to Static and pick and IP address that will work for you. My network uses 10.0.0.XX for the devices on my home network so I assigned my phone to 10.0.0.99. Then I placed the 10.0.0.99 in the DMZ. In my router menu, the DMZ is under ADVANCED SETTINGS and when you select the DMZ tab, simply enter the IP address you chose for your phone.
To recap:
1) Set your phone to a static IP
2) Put that IP in the DMZ
That’s it. A valid criticism of this solution is that your phone is less secure, however I would respond that the likelihood of your phone being hacked is much smaller that that of a PC and if this slightly loosened security really bothers you, just use a VPN. A VPN will keep you safe in a Starbucks on their free public WiFi and it can protect you here (I actually had a VPN when I got my device and originally I thought it was the cause of the Invalid Teleservice error). CAUTION: There has been a crop of predatory VPN services lately that provide working VPNs, but will charge you a ridiculous amount. I use NordVPN (I found a code on YouTube that gave me 70% off six devices on a 3 year plan, that ended up costing about $100) but there are plenty of good services that will allow you to connect to the internet via a VPN on one device for approximately $2-3 a month.
So please, try this and report back. This error has been the bane of my existence since switching to Android and it is completely unacceptable that Verizon has had literally years to do figure out a solution to this problem and yet they have not. My end goal is not to receive credit but to make sure that in the future Verizon Tech Support actually knows how to help people solve this problem, and their techs don’t take your calls and then look the problem up on google, proceeding to be completely transparent in terms of having no actual knowledge of this issue and literally reading the same forums I have already been over and suggesting the non-solutions posted there in order, i.e. turn off WiFi calling and if that doesn’t work turn off ‘Advanced Calling’.
REMEMBER: If this solution does not work for you, please double check that your changes the router you use have stuck. I have previously had routers that will for reasons I don’t understand change the DMZ domain or switch a device back to DHCP from static or simply fail to save your changes properly.
I await responses eagerly.

You need to take your device to your local high street retail branch of your cell provider and ask them to check your SMS/MMS settings

I would love to be able to actually go into a brick and mortar Verizon store but that's currently not possible in WA state. I had to have a tech walk me through checking those settings myself (after doing my own research as well) and had somebody at level 3 of tech support at Verizon manipulate my carrier settings. That's pretty much all I can do during the pandemic.
My solution is still working for me though, however 33 min after I put the same post on the official Verizon forum they closed the thread which had had regular posts over the last 3 years so now I'll never know if it works for anybody else. Additionally, there was somebody on the forum who approached the problem from SMS/MMS settings perspective and it had to do with deleting server settings and whatnot. It was so complicated that I doubt many end users could follow the same steps.

K_A_Beausoleil said:
I would love to be able to actually go into a brick and mortar Verizon store but that's currently not possible in WA state. I had to have a tech walk me through checking those settings myself (after doing my own research as well) and had somebody at level 3 of tech support at Verizon manipulate my carrier settings. That's pretty much all I can do during the pandemic.
My solution is still working for me though, however 33 min after I put the same post on the official Verizon forum they closed the thread which had had regular posts over the last 3 years so now I'll never know if it works for anybody else. Additionally, there was somebody on the forum who approached the problem from SMS/MMS settings perspective and it had to do with deleting server settings and whatnot. It was so complicated that I doubt many end users could follow the same steps.
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Thanks for your efforts. I've had this same issue on my Note 9 for 2 years... Your solution did not work for me.
However, I found a solution this morning. My ISP is not Xfinity or Spectrum. But my network which is spread across a small community blocks some IPsec ports that are required for wifi calling. Enabling those ports on my router does not fix the problem since it is a network/modem setting that I don't have access to.
What does work is having a vpn profile that implements IKEv2/IPsec VPN tunnels on your Android device. I have a NordVPN subscription and downloaded the StrongSwan VPN client from the Play Store. This client only uses IPsec encryption. Using a NordVPN server that has this encryption with the StrongSwan VPN client has allowed me to bypass this network restriction and my wifi calling phone calls and texts go through just fine now.
Hoping this helps someone else...
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hkjxda said:
Thanks for your efforts. I've had this same issue on my Note 9 for 2 years... Your solution did not work for me.
However, I found a solution this morning. My ISP is not Xfinity or Spectrum. But my network which is spread across a small community blocks some IPsec ports that are required for wifi calling. Enabling those ports on my router does not fix the problem since it is a network/modem setting that I don't have access to.
What does work is having a vpn profile that implements IKEv2/IPsec VPN tunnels on your Android device. I have a NordVPN subscription and downloaded the StrongSwan VPN client from the Play Store. This client only uses IPsec encryption. Using a NordVPN server that has this encryption with the StrongSwan VPN client has allowed me to bypass this network restriction and my wifi calling phone calls and texts go through just fine now.
Hoping this helps someone else...
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Scratch this... Wifi calling uses it's own IPsec VPN tunnel, VPN clients only encrypt internet traffic, not cell service. Back to square one...