[Q] Wifi calling app question - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So im kinda confused about the wifi calling app. Does it use your minutes? if so why not turn wifi on and use your phone? whats the purpose of the app? Thanks

It does uses your minutes,its usually use when you have no coverage and with is available
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But why do you need an app? Why not just turn wifi on thru the drop down bar?
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Wifi calling is not the same as just turning on wifi.
Think of it as replacing your regular phone signal (not data) with your current wifi connection. This app does just that, without using some voip thing, and your phone is still identified by your sim card. Just, you have wifi as your signal instead of some cell tower.
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WiFi Calling handle Texts?

Does the WiFi Calling app also handle text messages?
Yes
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Confirmed.
I use WiFi Calling at one of the buildings at work due to lack of service.
Phone operates no differently than normal. Texts and voice just fine.
It does need to be a solid wifi signal to use wifi calling though...
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Atrix wifi switches off

Ever since I've had my Atrix, the wifi randomly switches off. My question is: should I exchange my Atrix, or is there a way to fix this?
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I am on the ATT network with no modifications done to my Atrix.
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Have you got any power saving stuff enabled?
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Unless it was enabled by default; no.
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I think the Atrix's WiFi radio is just weak. My mom's iPhone gets 3 bars of WiFi across the house from my router, but my Atrix drops to two bars if I just go into the next room. My Atrix struggles to hold one bar across the house. It sucks, but then again, I am using the crappy router that comes with U-Verse.
I exchanged some PMs with a moto dev about this a few weeks ago. I have a weak wifi signal at work and it will drop if I start using marketplace or facebook extensively. Part of his/her PM:
The "bars" shown by the UI have pretty big margin of error but RSSI reading less then -80 pretty much puts link at the lowest end of the budget. Also that does not account for interference really because Wifi is simple technology. So if you are at -80 at a workplace that has tons of 2.4 RF you will have disconnects and many retransmissions. This is why using of the market place probably triggers something in IC because you have lots of data and error counters go up a lot.
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If you're talking about a weak signal, there is nothing to do for that unless you increase your router's transmit power. If it drops, then go to wifi settings > menu capacitive button > wifi sleep policy > never.
I changed the wifi sleep policy and it still switches off randomly. The wifi will still switch off randomly even if I'm sitting right next to my wifi source.
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Bump?
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What battery settings are you using? Is it power saver? Set it to performance, if so.
Yeah the wifi still dies
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For the sake of testing, try disabling all security to see if the wifi connection is ok or not while sitting next to your wireless router. Also, could you let us know what kind of wireless router you are using (make and model#), and the type of securtiy you aare using, e.g. WEP/WPA/WPA2&TKIP, etc?
I have tried on 3 different modems, the current one I'm using is a wireless router WGR614 V9 with wpa security, I tried switching it off and I still had the same problem. The other 2 where in encrypted and still disconnected me. I also have the problem at ATT hotspots.
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that's not good. If you're up for it, reflash with stock and try wifi with nothing installed. If you still get the disconnects then get a replacement.
What does reflashing to stock entail? Is it as easy as ODIN?
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download from moto here. I haven't done it, but it looks more safe/less painful than an SBF flash.
I'm already at the latest version, through all the updates I've always had the same problem. I'm not seeing a stock firmware download.
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[Q] Turning Modem/Radio off

I just started a Masters of Geology program and needed to make money cuts everywhere.... the cell phone was an easy choice since I have wifi almost everywhere I go.
In the interest of battery life, does anyone know if there is a way to turn the cellular modem/radio off and leave the bluetooth, gps, and wifi modem on?
Thanks
Battery monitor has a setting to only disable cell tower you won't be able to get call either but Bluetooth and wifi will still work
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There should be a setting to disable data under mobile netwerks settings
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Battery monitor has a setting to only disable cell tower you won't be able to get call either but Bluetooth and wifi will still work
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Which Battery Monitor is this? A market search yielded many apps.
kawika said:
There should be a setting to disable data under mobile netwerks settings
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I don't have a setting for that, at least not under Mobile Network Settings.
I suppose I should mention that I am running Bionix Frost 2.2.1 with kernal 2.6.32.9; I don't know if that would make a difference.
Thanks for the replies.

Wifi Tethering Tmobile Tracking

hi everyne,
Im using a rooted vibrant (vanir rom) with unlimited data plan for almost a year now but 75 percent im using a home wifi per month.
1.Can Tmobile detect from my account if i suddenly use a wifi tethering service from a 3rd party app for my tablet?
2. whats a good wifi tethering app that is noy detected by tmbobile?
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The only thing they can detect is that you use much data traffic in short time and has many connections opened. I don't know if they use normally a sniffer. If they do it, they could see depends on the data and signature, that it is not from a mobile phone.
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tmobile tethering on sense 6

the wifi hotspot app in sense 6 detext me using wifi hotspot data and is blocking me I can still get connection if I used user-agent: spoofer and clockworkmod USB tethering but I need it to be on wifi does anyone have any apps they can recommend that will not use the stock wifi app cuz that's how they are detecting me, I'm on tmobile and insert coin, thanks
Ok found one already it'd called barncle WiFi tether, it's free but after a few minutes the wif signal drops to almost nothing and it has slow speeds after so the search continues
Does foxfi work?
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