Apparently, HD Voice is AGAIN not activated by default (as was the case with the S2). It is beyond me why Samsung choose not to activate a great feature, at least for those markets where it is widely used (as with many carriers in Europe).
The Code to activate HD Voice on the S2 does not work with the S3. Does anyone know how to get this work? The call quality of the S3 is already great, it must be incredible with HD voice
Same here, I am trying to find out how to activate it as it was working on my S2.
Tried to go to service mode by keying "*#197328640#" (notice that its different than S2's *#*#-code-#*#* or other android phones) but the audio menu where WB-AMR can be activated cant be accessed.
I think we need to find a modem version which supports this.
The Telstra page for the S3 (the only telco in Australia that supports it) says that it supports HD Voice. Someone on another forum posted that WB-AMR is enabled on their I9300T. I should see if I can get the modem from that, but the radio portion is different so reception will likely suffer.
http://exchange.telstra.com.au/2012/06/01/samsung-galaxy-siii-vs-galaxy-sii/
I have a separate entry for [8]Wb-amr status
And it says that it is on. I use this rom I9300XXALF5/I9300AUTALE3/I9300XXLF5/I9300XXALF5
Hope that helps
binaryanomaly said:
I have a separate entry for [8]Wb-amr status
And it says that it is on. I use this rom I9300XXALF5/I9300AUTALE3/I9300XXLF5/I9300XXALF5
Hope that helps
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Thanks! I'll try download it now.
the setting is there in LF2 roms . so is this hd voice independent of network provider or our network should support that feature?
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looks like it needs network support...
Active for me. Omega Rom 5.2 siyah kernal and NELE4 modem. (3 UK)
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bala_gamer said:
the setting is there in LF2 roms . so is this hd voice independent of network provider or our network should support that feature?
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looks like it needs network support...
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It needs to be enabled in your CSC and to be supported by your carrier
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It needs to be enabled in your CSC and to be supported by your carrier
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I tried to enable it by the CSC files (the customer.xml specifically, AutoWbAmr setting), then rebooted the phone and nothing happened (still off).
Is it possible that I may require to apply these setting some way before they are enabled??
Thanx for the help Mopral
UAE said:
I tried to enable it by the CSC files (the customer.xml specifically, AutoWbAmr setting), then rebooted the phone and nothing happened (still off).
Is it possible that I may require to apply these setting some way before they are enabled??
Thanx for the help Mopral
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If you still have your modified CSC, try that:
-backup your app or do a nandroid backup in CWM
-use code *#272*YOURIMEI#
-re-apply your CSC (it will do a factory reset of your phone)
-check if HD voice is still disable
I think that CSC settings are just applied once so it need a factory reset to apply...
UAE said:
Same here, I am trying to find out how to activate it as it was working on my S2.
Tried to go to service mode by keying "*#197328640#" (notice that its different than S2's *#*#-code-#*#* or other android phones) but the audio menu where WB-AMR can be activated cant be accessed.
I think we need to find a modem version which supports this.
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Just tried this
and I can see the WB-AMR settings but unable to change it
any tips on how to get this working guys?
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winwiz said:
Just tried this
and I can see the WB-AMR settings but unable to change it
any tips on how to get this working guys?
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It says
WB-AMR SETTING: OFF
GSM WB : OFF
UMTS WB : OFF
unbelievable with all the modding and hacking going on that changing a simple setting seems so impossible.
I think it depends on the ROM first. As far as I read the WB-AMR codec is not part of every ROM.
Second your telco needs to support it.
Third both callers need to have HD voice respectively WB-AMR to use it.
Looks like a marketing feature to me...
binaryanomaly said:
I think it depends on the ROM first. As far as I read the WB-AMR codec is not part of every ROM.
Second your telco needs to support it.
Third both callers need to have HD voice respectively WB-AMR to use it.
Looks like a marketing feature to me...
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I'm with Bell on the i747m. They support HD Voice (iPhone5, Motorola, BB), but not officially on the Galaxy S3. I tried the CSC trick (applying it, resetting everything) and still no luck. So I'm now guessing that my ROM doesn't have AMR-WB (I don't see the AMR-WB status either in the menus).
Is there a i747/i747m ROM that is known to have HD Voice (AMR-WB) ?
Thanks!
Related
I searched everywhere and I am still to come across a ROM with video calling enables as in the i9100 by default without having to use a data plan or loging onto the internet....
If there is please be kind enough to let me know...
I don't understand, video calling always takes data...I've never heard of any instance where you don't need a cellular connection or wifi to video call someone.
If you were talking about how stock TouchWiz I9100 ROMs have video calling enabled natively, without an app, there is one: ShishriROM (see my signature for link). But it doesn't work in the US anyway, because no carrier supports anything but iPhone's FaceTime. In other words, the feature is useless, and to do video calls at all on an Android in the US, you and the person you want to call both need to use an app like Skype or Tango.
Thanks!
I wanted a rom that could make video calls on the cellular network without the use of wifi. And I don't live in the US.
Thanks for all the help!
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I wanted a rom that could make video calls on the cellular network without the use of wifi. And I don't live in the US.
Thanks for all the help!
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Tango and Skype are both capable of video chat and do not require wifi to do so
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Actually what I mean through that was that it to be directly from the phone line and not use any part of the internet... Just the same as the international version of the GS2
nash2018 said:
Actually what I mean through that was that it to be directly from the phone line and not use any part of the internet... Just the same as the international version of the GS2
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Just like karate said. I also have never heard of being able to video chat without data. I suppose i may be missing something but I myself do not know. Let me get his straight you do not live in the US but own an American version of the sgs2?
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Basically I what I need to know is whether there is a rom which has video calling natively like in the i9100...
nash2018 said:
Basically I what I need to know is whether there is a rom which has video calling natively like in the i9100...
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No.
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Pirateghost said:
No.
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What about ShishirROM? I still have all the options to place video calls as if my phone were a I9100.
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What about ShishirROM? I still have all the options to place video calls as if my phone were a I9100.
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Except it wont work.
Seriously the question was already answered. I9100 firmware will put the icons there but its not usable at all. Just buttons that do nothing.
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also the OP is asking about using the cellular network (not mobile data or wifi data) for video calling just like how it uses it for a telephone call
i dont believe thats possible
Pirateghost said:
Except it wont work.
Seriously the question was already answered. I9100 firmware will put the icons there but its not usable at all. Just buttons that do nothing.
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I belive that is not true at all... Carrier Video Calls are allowed on stock SAMSUMG firmware for Galaxy SII i9100 international version. I can enhure that, becouse I have used video calls on my carrier (ICE, Costa Rica) on ICS 4.0.3 for the past 6 months, until I changed to a Custom ROM...
I wonder if there is any Custom ROM that suports video calls on carrier network (no data plan network or wi-fi). I don't know why in US carrier does not allow this service to be accessed by the suscriptors, that is something of United States... but in other many countries arround the world, video calls on carrier network are allowed and used by the suscriptors just like me.
Regards
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I belive that is not true at all... Carrier Video Calls are allowed on stock SAMSUMG firmware for Galaxy SII i9100 international version. I can enhure that, becouse I have used video calls on my carrier (ICE, Costa Rica) on ICS 4.0.3 for the past 6 months, until I changed to a Custom ROM...
I wonder if there is any Custom ROM that suports video calls on carrier network (no data plan network or wi-fi). I don't know why in US carrier does not allow this service to be accessed by the suscriptors, that is something of United States... but in other many countries arround the world, video calls on carrier network are allowed and used by the suscriptors just like me.
Regards
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The reason why we remove it cause AT&T does not offer that only for the iPhone, we all have to use 3rd party apps for video calling (tango, gtalk, etc).
Find a i9100 based Rom on here you like, and just ask the dev to post the stock contacts/dialer and it will have the video call options.
That should make it work unless the dev removed some key files.
Hi All,
I know its a topic which has been addressed differently in different threads. I am a user from India and have a GSM SIM. I have got a Verizon S4 phone. I tried using it with Vodafone SIM and get a problem in using it. Surprisingly a NOTE 2 from Verizon works just fine. I am able to use it for data with 3G but not able to use it for voice. Following steps have been tried already.
- Default Options of using Global Mode and GSM/UMTS ** Doesnt search the network at all.
- Hidden Menu Changes using # codes. ** Shows network but emergency mode only.
- Phone Info app to change the mode. ** Shows network but emergency mode only.
- RF Band change using the hidden menu. ** Shows network but emergency mode only.
It does say that it has GSM radio but cant be used for some software reason I suppose. I checked with Verizon Rep and was told that it cannot be used in India with a GSM SIM and would need the Verizon SIM only to connect with International Roaming.
Can I install a I-9505 ROM on this and then would it pick up the GSM signal for voice and data. Please help.
I don't think your Verizon rep is correct. I bought a Verizon S4 just before going to Europe for 1 month. I used first a gsm SIM card from Germany, and then a gsm card from France. I had to add APN's to get data (I used "offline sim APN database" from the market to help get the necessary APN info), but had no trouble with voice or data for my entire trip. The gps and navigation services on the phone were extremely valuable on a couple of occasions, as was the wifi hotspot. In France, you can purchase 2 GB of data service for 20 Euros. I checked with Verizon global services ( 908-559-4899 outside the US or 800-711-8300 from inside ) before I left, and the Verizon S4 was sim unlocked out of the box. They did not make a big deal of my plan to use other SIM cards either.
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Installed WamanLite I9505 ROM
Hello All,
I found that Wanam Lite I-9505 ROM can be installed on Verizon S4. I installed it and patched it with Loki-Doki patch to boot up as I got the Verizon Software error. Yet my phone doesnt pick up the GSM signal for voice and SMS. It picks up the signal and I am able to browse internet on it but no calls or SMS. Please help...!!
Is there any way that I can install or flash a regular GSM radio over the phone ? Or tweak it in someway to use the GSM signal as primary for voice and sms.
phrozenwire said:
Hello All,
I found that Wanam Lite I-9505 ROM can be installed on Verizon S4. I installed it and patched it with Loki-Doki patch to boot up as I got the Verizon Software error. Yet my phone doesnt pick up the GSM signal for voice and SMS. It picks up the signal and I am able to browse internet on it but no calls or SMS. Please help...!!
Is there any way that I can install or flash a regular GSM radio over the phone ? Or tweak it in someway to use the GSM signal as primary for voice and sms.
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I have also Verizon's S4 (i545) and use it in GSM network with only one small problem - it will not send SMS with in-ROM SMS apk to international-formatted numbers (+380-XX-XXX and so on), but send without problem to local-formatted numbers (XX-XXX...) All the rest is working good.
Could you tell me please - how did you get to install i9505's ROM on your device? I have also Verizon's error after installation, and don't know how to run it...
Hi I too have the vzw s4 in india.. and niether voice nor sms is functioning on it.
By rooting it and installing apn manager I was somehow able to get the data 3g working for vodafone ind.
I too am struggling to find a solution to this.
Ive haventvyet flashed it. I came across a guy who said he will be able to get it working but somehow I havent yet been abke to follow up with him.
Guess we both are on the same boat.
Lets keep in touch and update if any of us finds a solution to this.
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You all can try to flash my port of ARHD 2.0 ROM, that can be found it this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2346365
It is fully GSM and as international as regular GSM-version of S4. CDMA can be turned on only on hidden test application. Everything else is working and was tested in different networks.
I too created a post seeking help in this regard but didn came across anything concrete yet.
Everyone out here believes it to be a world phone and some have even been using the gsm network in europe but its not working in india.
Ive failed to understand that how come its detecting signals with functioning data is not working on either voice or sms.
Tmobile and atnt gs4 guess have this service menu from where they can be network unlocked explicitly..but unfortunately I havent yet come any such thing for vzw gs4.
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ashroh said:
I too created a post seeking help in this regard but didn came across anything concrete yet.
Everyone out here believes it to be a world phone and some have even been using the gsm network in europe but its not working in india.
Ive failed to understand that how come its detecting signals with functioning data is not working on either voice or sms.
Tmobile and atnt gs4 guess have this service menu from where they can be network unlocked explicitly..but unfortunately I havent yet come any such thing for vzw gs4.
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Zer0r said:
You all can try to flash my port of ARHD 2.0 ROM, that can be found it this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2346365
It is fully GSM and as international as regular GSM-version of S4. CDMA can be turned on only on hidden test application. Everything else is working and was tested in different networks.
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I tried installing the ARHD 2.0 ROM but still the same issue persists. The phone picks up the signal for data but when tried selecting network manually or automatic using the GSM / UMTS option, it says disable data to search networks, when data is disabled, the phone shows available networks says phone registered to network but the status still says Emergency Calls Only. Also if tried dialing a phone it says no network available. There has to be something in the modem settings which can be tweaked through the service menu which will change the use of GSM for voice and data and not use CDMA.
phrozenwire said:
I tried installing the ARHD 2.0 ROM but still the same issue persists. The phone picks up the signal for data but when tried selecting network manually or automatic using the GSM / UMTS option, it says disable data to search networks, when data is disabled, the phone shows available networks says phone registered to network but the status still says Emergency Calls Only. Also if tried dialing a phone it says no network available. There has to be something in the modem settings which can be tweaked through the service menu which will change the use of GSM for voice and data and not use CDMA.
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Did you do a full wipe when flashing ROM? It is mandatory. You will lose all your data though. If there will be no changes after full wipe - then try to install this card into another phone and ckeck if voice calling is working.
Zer0r said:
Did you do a full wipe when flashing ROM? It is mandatory. You will lose all your data though. If there will be no changes after full wipe - then try to install this card into another phone and ckeck if voice calling is working.
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I did a full wipe. I have 2 Galaxy S4's and also an Optimus G. The card that I am using is my regular SIM card so its not an issue with the card for sure. The ROM was installed on both the phones and neither of them picked up the signal for voice and SMS.
phrozenwire said:
I did a full wipe. I have 2 Galaxy S4's and also an Optimus G. The card that I am using is my regular SIM card so its not an issue with the card for sure. The ROM was installed on both the phones and neither of them picked up the signal for voice and SMS.
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Ok. To go and chose type of radio-band you may install Battery Monitor Widget from Google Play (well, the main purpose of this app is different, but it is what comes first in my mind). Put it's widget on the desktop, open it and go for bottom right button, named Test. There you can first menu (Device Info) and there you will be able to change all variations of the radio bands and their combinations, available for i545. If non of the combinations will help - mosty probably your operator works on unsupported for this phone cellular format.
Zer0r said:
Did you do a full wipe when flashing ROM? It is mandatory. You will lose all your data though. If there will be no changes after full wipe - then try to install this card into another phone and ckeck if voice calling is working.
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Zer0r said:
Ok. To go and chose type of radio-band you may install Battery Monitor Widget from Google Play (well, the main purpose of this app is different, but it is what comes first in my mind). Put it's widget on the desktop, open it and go for bottom right button, named Test. There you can first menu (Device Info) and there you will be able to change all variations of the radio bands and their combinations, available for i545. If non of the combinations will help - mosty probably your operator works on unsupported for this phone cellular format.
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I have the Phone Info app which allows band select. Tried on all possible modes. Same issue persists. Strangely the Note 2 purchased from Verizon works flawlessly without any mods or changes. I am thinking of giving to some professional phone guy who may have code level flashing or modding tools to try and fiddle around with settings of the modem or the radio to pick up the signal here.
phrozenwire said:
I have the Phone Info app which allows band select. Tried on all possible modes. Same issue persists. Strangely the Note 2 purchased from Verizon works flawlessly without any mods or changes. I am thinking of giving to some professional phone guy who may have code level flashing or modding tools to try and fiddle around with settings of the modem or the radio to pick up the signal here.
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Hey phrozenwire, I am able to use both voice n sms now in my VZW GS4.
And I literally did nothing to make the voice n sms functional. I too had troubles for like 2 weeks and it didn work for me then.
I rooted the phone to add apn settings and the data got activated. But today morning when I woke up ... surprise surprise .. it began to work.. rcvd sms and calls and I was so happy. . Last I remember I switched on the power save mode and my cell fell down twice and guess it did the trick for me.
Thanks all for your help and comments.
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Hello Folks,
I was planning to by VZW S4 to use in India & by looking at all your comments it makes me not to buy. Any further updates after so much of discussion on this phone to make it work in India's cellular service. I see the last post was on July 2013 & now any further lucks/success in making this phone work over there in India??
Tx,
Naraynar
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Hello Folks,
I was planning to by VZW S4 to use in India & by looking at all your comments it makes me not to buy. Any further updates after so much of discussion on this phone to make it work in India's cellular service. I see the last post was on July 2013 & now any further lucks/success in making this phone work over there in India??
Tx,
Naraynar
So I have an S6 Edge running on EE but bought from the carphone warehouse. As such, I have recently found out that I cannot use WiFi calling as that is only available on handsets that have come directly from EE.
My first question is why is this? Is it something to do with IEMI numbers of trusted devices to make sure that only known phones can access that part of the network? Or is it that they put a different software build on the phone?
The 2nd question is that if it is a software difference, do we think it will ever be possible to enable this ourselves?
I'm quiet annoyed that I was told that I could use WiFi calling by the Carphone Warehouse when I bought the phone. Apparently it is only iPhones that are on EE that can use it if they haven't come directly from EE
You will be able to flash EE software via odin when released or in the short term you could get a refund from carphone as you have been miss sold if they guaranteed you wifi calling
Assuming that it is software that enables it then yep, I guess flashing is an option unless anyone can find where the difference is in the phone application (assuming that's where it is). Maybe its just a switch somewhere....
Damn, that's annoying. I was looking forward to having that feature, my parents house is in the back of beyond so I never get signal when I visit them.
If anyone has an EE supplied device, maybe you can check your build number to see if it matches my Carphone Warehouse one and maybe identify if there's just a build difference or something on EE's side that enables WiFi calling.
My build no: LRX22G.G925FXXU1AOCV
tomallen35 said:
If anyone has an EE supplied device, maybe you can check your build number to see if it matches my Carphone Warehouse one and maybe identify if there's just a build difference or something on EE's side that enables WiFi calling.
My build no: LRX22G.G925FXXU1AOCV
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Got my phone from EE and the build number is:
LRX22G.G925FXXU1AOCY
Is the WiFi calling option completely missing or does it just not work?
The toggle in the phone application isn't there. Not sure how big the change set is between the 2 builds, I don't know much about decompiling android stuff either or where the configuration settings would be stored. Maybe someone here can shed some light on it...
I have exactly the same issue. My phone was bought from the Samsung Store in London (Carphone Warehouse in disguise) and I have no wifi calling option either.
Have any of you guys who want WiFi Calling rooted yet?
I ask because there are some files in the CSC folder that mentions WiFi Calling being enabled and such, so it may be either missing or set to False on other models and may just need changing.
I think flashing this EE firmware should enable this feature. I'm in same boat, EE from car phone warehouse. I can test if you want but it. Won't be for a few days as our Internet is out. I'm not really intrested in this feature as i get good coverage but it would be cool to try It.
tiboric said:
I think flashing this EE firmware should enable this feature. I'm in same boat, EE from car phone warehouse. I can test if you want but it. Won't be for a few days as our Internet is out. I'm not really intrested in this feature as i get good coverage but it would be cool to try It.
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I would imagine that would work.
For those of you who do get the option don't forget to text "Wifi calling" to 150 to get it activated on EEs side
Currently downloading both the EE firmware and my original firmware (just in case) and will see what happens on my S6 Edge. I see Kies is no longer supported so I guess I should use Smart Switch to do this rather than Odin?
Need my phone this morning for some development work so will try and flash that firmware this afternoon with Odin and will report back.
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Need my phone this morning for some development work so will try and flash that firmware this afternoon with Odin and will report back.
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I flashed it, but no extra options appeared, but checking EE's website , they say you just make the call with no signal and it will connect via wifi instead , not sure how reliable this information is....
anybody else have any luck?
tiboric said:
I flashed it, but no extra options appeared, but checking EE's website , they say you just make the call with no signal and it will connect via wifi instead , not sure how reliable this information is....
anybody else have any luck?
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I would expect you to see the toggle for it in the phone application as per these setup instructions. Did you register by texting "wifi calling" to 150 also?
tomallen35 said:
I would expect you to see the toggle for it in the phone application as per these setup instructions. Did you register by texting "wifi calling" to 150 also?
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Those are much better instructions. Lol. But my menu only goes as far a vibrate. But I only dirty flashed. I'll give it another go tomorrow as I've got family coming round in a bit.
Did you flash the EE baseband too? Maybe it has something to do with the modem?
Download a Root Explorer and have a look in the CSC folder in System and post what the files in there contain?
IakobosJ said:
Did you flash the EE baseband too? Maybe it has something to do with the modem?
Download a Root Explorer and have a look in the CSC folder in System and post what the files in there contain?
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Yeah.
but there is no CSC in my system folder. Any other ideas youd like trying.
Sorry I couldn't help you guys out more. buthe like i said if you have anything else you like me to test I don't mind. Anything for this community
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Yeah.
but there is no CSC in my system folder. Any other ideas youd like trying.
Sorry I couldn't help you guys out more. buthe like i said if you have anything else you like me to test I don't mind. Anything for this community
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In the phone type *#1234# and see what the CSC code is.
There are apps in the Play Store that let you change the CSC for the device, but I don't know whether they work for the s6 or not.
It's probably something to do with CSC though. You could try copying the CSC files from an EE firmware into the System Folder, but I have no idea if this will work or not.
CSC.zip (This is the CSC folder from my System Folder on EE s6 Edge)
Root.Zip (These 2 files were in the system folder, not in the CSC folder)
IakobosJ said:
In the phone type *#1234# and see what the CSC code is.
There are apps in the Play Store that let you change the CSC for the device, but I don't know whether they work for the s6 or not.
It's probably something to do with CSC though. You could try copying the CSC files from an EE firmware into the System Folder, but I have no idea if this will work or not.
CSC.zip (This is the CSC folder from my System Folder on EE s6 Edge)
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Bravo. That did it. Now have wifi calling enabled. Not that I'll use it but. It might come in handy one day.
and i have no way of testing it actually functions but the option is there in phone setting now
This just needs to be made in to a flashable zip to make it a little bit easier For some peole.
P.s just realised I'm not even on EE firmware any more reflashed this morning to stock u.k. so this should work for anyone.
the amazing thing we can do when we all work together. Really do love this community . Hope this helps someone out. If it does remember to give lakobos a big thank you.
The phone is relatively new and since it's not mainstream most carriers don't support it yet. Some people say they have VoLTE enabled and it works but I personally switched to Singapore EX and it seems VoLTE isn't detected at all so I started digging and it seems this issue is present in most Chinese phones. (https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-activate-volte-and-vowifi-simple-and-clear.4116051/) In this thread they used the Qualcomm tool and exploit the bug in EngineerMode on OnePlus phones which we don't have an access to and since we can't root or unlock the bootloader we can't modify build.prop or change any system files.
-----Maybe it's my carrier, maybe it's the Singapore ROM so please if VoLTE and VoWifi works for you could you post here which country you're on, which ROM version and if you changed region before or not.------
First a warning: If you aren't tech-savvy, experiencing issues or want to potentially turn your phone in a paper weight do NOT try this at the moment. We do not have the tool to restore your phone back (wiping data might work but idk). You can send your phone to Oppo for repair but you might have to wait for a month or two.
I don't know if you need to unlock your phone from the other thread to have access to this mode(I did have it all decrypted during this test) but in addition to the *#808# engineer mode and *#*#4636#*#*(Where you can check if you have VoLTE enabled) I found we have access to *#36446337#.
In *#36446337# I managed to enter "Protocol test switch" -> "MBN TEST" and switch my profile from Common-Commercial(I think it was this one) to Commercial-DT-VOLTE. The phone rebooted and everything is fine but "MBN Validate" is giving me an error when I run it and I can't test if it works because I'm currently out of the country and my temporary SIM provider doesn't support VoLTE.
It's probably nothing and the error is because of the lack of developer files on the ROM but I need people who can test if these profiles act like the flashing from the Qualcomm tool in the thread mentioned above.
So once again if you don't have VoLTE enabled and are feeling a bit courageous - give it a try.
I think the problem maybe for those that changed to Pakistan build on Android 10 and then switched to Singapore ex to get ColorOS 11 and dual SIM meant that things like VoLTE do not work on those builds.
I did it a different way as wasn't bothered about dual SIM. I was on A.46 UK , waited for EU to get ColorOS11 , then switched to EUEX on sec5 and downloaded ColorOS11 c.57 through Belgium VPN.
VoLTE is working for me. it's not present in SIM settings( WiFi calling is) however when I look at my call log there is a VoLTE HD icon next to all my calls, so is working.
Since being on ColorOS11, I have tried several different regions on SEC tool, EUEX dual SIM, Singapore EX, back to GB CPW to check still works and now back to EUEX. Build number always changes to different region in about phone when I have made any changes and check however VoLTE has always remained working for me and is showing as provisioned in engineer mode.
I am from Germany and have a phone with Vodafone FW originally. I switched region to Singapore EX, than installed the Pakistan FW and got C.5 and C.6 via OTA. I switched the region to EUEX (DUAL SIM) and didn't receive the update to C.57, so I switched back to Singapore EX and got the update to C.57 when using VPN Hongkong, which was quite funny.
VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling is working fine with Vodafone, but you can't toggle it in the hidden service menu, it's just active! You can activate or deactivate Wi-Fi calling in the regular settings, but VoLTE is just there, you can't deactivate it.
Both Wi-Fi calling and VoLTE are shown in the bar on the top. With the former Vodafone FW, VoLTE was not shown with an icon, but it was nevertheless working.
Hy here T-Mobile shown volte and Vodafone don't shows but on the status bar there is the volte symbol
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The phone is relatively new and since it's not mainstream most carriers don't support it yet. Some people say they have VoLTE enabled and it works but I personally switched to Singapore EX and it seems VoLTE isn't detected at all so I started digging and it seems this issue is present in most Chinese phones. (https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-activate-volte-and-vowifi-simple-and-clear.4116051/) In this thread they used the Qualcomm tool and exploit the bug in EngineerMode on OnePlus phones which we don't have an access to and since we can't root or unlock the bootloader we can't modify build.prop or change any system files.
-----Maybe it's my carrier, maybe it's the Singapore ROM so please if VoLTE and VoWifi works for you could you post here which country you're on, which ROM version and if you changed region before or not.------
First a warning: If you aren't tech-savvy, experiencing issues or want to potentially turn your phone in a paper weight do NOT try this at the moment. We do not have the tool to restore your phone back (wiping data might work but idk). You can send your phone to Oppo for repair but you might have to wait for a month or two.
I don't know if you need to unlock your phone from the other thread to have access to this mode(I did have it all decrypted during this test) but in addition to the *#808# engineer mode and *#*#4636#*#*(Where you can check if you have VoLTE enabled) I found we have access to *#36446337#.
In *#36446337# I managed to enter "Protocol test switch" -> "MBN TEST" and switch my profile from Common-Commercial(I think it was this one) to Commercial-DT-VOLTE. The phone rebooted and everything is fine but "MBN Validate" is giving me an error when I run it and I can't test if it works because I'm currently out of the country and my temporary SIM provider doesn't support VoLTE.
It's probably nothing and the error is because of the lack of developer files on the ROM but I need people who can test if these profiles act like the flashing from the Qualcomm tool in the thread mentioned above.
So once again if you don't have VoLTE enabled and are feeling a bit courageous - give it a try.
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I am in the same boat as you. I rebranded to Singapore to get ColorOS 11 update, to use 2 SIM and Call Recording, along with Theme Store, etc.
While on my previous phone (Xiaomi Mi9) I had VoLTE and VoWiFi and my carrier supports them and my SIM has that activated by my carrier, on Oppo Find X2 Pro it seems for them to work is needed special Modem Profile for the concrete carrier you use.
My Carrier is not listed at MBN Test Menu, I tried all the profiles available there, all Commercial ones and all Volte Branded ones and they are not giving me VoLTE and VoWiFi options available in Menu or VoLTE or VoWiFi functionality.
This method used to work on Xioami and Commercial EU Carriers profiles gave me the VoLTE and VoWiFi functionality with just Activity Shortcut access to this menu on Mi9 and simple dialer code to activate VoLTE and VoWiFi switch in Settings.
Oppo Find X2 Pro is not sold officially in my country and by all carriers here and that is why there is no Carrier Volte Profile for carriers from my country and thus it is not possible to activate VoLTE and VoWiFi with other Carrier Profile from MBN Test Menu.
Maybe if we find a way with a Dialer Code or some menu to activate the VoLTE and VoWiFi switch in Settings first this profiles from MBN Test menu will work...
I am out of ideas for now.
ytgbg said:
I am in the same boat as you. I rebranded to Singapore to get ColorOS 11 update, to use 2 SIM and Call Recording, along with Theme Store, etc.
While on my previous phone (Xiaomi Mi9) I had VoLTE and VoWiFi and my carrier supports them and my SIM has that activated by my carrier, on Oppo Find X2 Pro it seems for them to work is needed special Modem Profile for the concrete carrier you use.
My Carrier is not listed at MBN Test Menu, I tried all the profiles available there, all Commercial ones and all Volte Branded ones and they are not giving me VoLTE and VoWiFi options available in Menu or VoLTE or VoWiFi functionality.
This method used to work on Xioami and Commercial EU Carriers profiles gave me the VoLTE and VoWiFi functionality with just Activity Shortcut access to this menu on Mi9 and simple dialer code to activate VoLTE and VoWiFi switch in Settings.
Oppo Find X2 Pro is not sold officially in my country and by all carriers here and that is why there is no Carrier Volte Profile for carriers from my country and thus it is not possible to activate VoLTE and VoWiFi with other Carrier Profile from MBN Test Menu.
Maybe if we find a way with a Dialer Code or some menu to activate the VoLTE and VoWiFi switch in Settings first this profiles from MBN Test menu will work...
I am out of ideas for now.
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I'm pretty sure they force disable most of this stuff with region profiles (/etc/oppoRegion* folders)
At this point I honestly care more about GDPR protection,VoLTE and removing tencent/heytap crap than call recording and theme store which I don't use anyway.
So my plan atm is to wait for Oppo to release android 11 .57 .ozips so that I can flash back to european firmware then I'll see if changing region to EUEX Dual-SIM works and it's limitations.
This method might help people on EU roms with VoLTE, and I'll test it myself in the future, but at least for now *#36446337# lets us adjust MTU, 4G bands and some other smaller network optimizations.
Okay I don't know where to post this but I found *#649010# and this is where it gets into the spooky territory. I never tried toggling any of the options but I think "Full-port switch" option lets us connect our phone to the qualcomm diagnose tool just like the OnePlus phones from the Carrier profiles thread. I'm just documenting this code here so we know we have an alternative to the OnePlus LogKit.apk option in our Oppo phones.
MeTheRebel said:
Okay I don't know where to post this but I found *#649010# and this is where it gets into the spooky territory. I never tried toggling any of the options but I think "Full-port switch" option lets us connect our phone to the qualcomm diagnose tool just like the OnePlus phones from the Carrier profiles thread. I'm just documenting this code here so we know we have an alternative to the OnePlus LogKit.apk option in our Oppo phones.
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Interesting to find out what these options do.
For some reason, non of these codes work for me now after doing the region change a couple of times.
lukeaddison said:
Interesting to find out what these options do.
For some reason, non of these codes work for me now after doing the region change a couple of times.
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We keep telling people - you gotta unlock every time you change region and even then the unlock lasts a fixed amount of time ex. 24 hours before it locks itself again
MeTheRebel said:
We keep telling people - you gotta unlock every time you change region and even then the unlock lasts a fixed amount of time ex. 24 hours before it locks itself again
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Unfortunately, the tool no longer works for me to unlock, the codes don't work. I'm stuck.
lukeaddison said:
Unfortunately, the tool no longer works for me to unlock, the codes don't work. I'm stuck.
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Works for me no issue. Try adding cloudflare dns to your setup, tether your phones connection to your pc while disabling your main connection and adding the number values from the original thread, fiddle with the loopback driver, disable firewall in windows or your router. Everyones connection and setup is different you just gotta find a way to make it work on yours.
Tl;dr it works you just got to tinker with it
ytgbg said:
I am in the same boat as you. I rebranded to Singapore to get ColorOS 11 update, to use 2 SIM and Call Recording, along with Theme Store, etc.
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Did you have the call recording option right after you switched region? I changed to Singapore Ex right after I got the phone, didn't see that option. Then I upgraded to ColorOS11, still did not find that option.
Jennifer000 said:
Did you have the call recording option right after you switched region? I changed to Singapore Ex right after I got the phone, didn't see that option. Then I upgraded to ColorOS11, still did not find that option.
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You have to give permissions to 'Recording' app, then open enable it in 'Call Settings'
Mitar00 said:
You have to give permissions to 'Recording' app, then open enable it in 'Call Settings'
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Do you mean recorder App?
Already given all permission but still no call recording option, and the recorder only has cloud sync on its setting
Jennifer000 said:
Do you mean recorder App?
Already given all permission but still no call recording option, and the recorder only has cloud sync on its setting
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Look in your Oppo Dialer settings, should be there somewhere .
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Look in your Oppo Dialer settings, should be there somewhere .
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No luck, but thanks anyway.
I recently purchased a refurbished phone Samsung Galaxy S21 5G. I just got it yesterday, and found that I am not able to use my mobile network. The sale said it is factory unlocked, and according to the descriptions, it should work just fine with my US Mobile SuperLTE network as well. When I switched on the phone, I see Verizon on the screen and so, I assume that it was locked to Verizon in the past.
When I tried to change the network settings, specifically the APN settings, I get the message "Access Point Name settings are not available for this user." The three dots on the top with reset to default is also greyed out along with Network mode in the previous page. When I click Network Operators and try to connect to the network manually, I am only able to connect to Verizon Wireless and no other. But, calling and messaging seems to work fine. Is it that the unlock process has not been completed properly? Did any of you face the same problem before? It would be great if there is something that I could do to unblock the APN settings as the rest of the phone works really well. The specific model is SM-G991U.
Thanks!
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I recently purchased a refurbished phone Samsung Galaxy S21 5G. I just got it yesterday, and found that I am not able to use my mobile network. The sale said it is factory unlocked, and according to the descriptions, it should work just fine with my US Mobile SuperLTE network as well. When I switched on the phone, I see Verizon on the screen and so, I assume that it was locked to Verizon in the past.
When I tried to change the network settings, specifically the APN settings, I get the message "Access Point Name settings are not available for this user." The three dots on the top with reset to default is also greyed out along with Network mode in the previous page. When I click Network Operators and try to connect to the network manually, I am only able to connect to Verizon Wireless and no other. But, calling and messaging seems to work fine. Is it that the unlock process has not been completed properly? Did any of you face the same problem before? It would be great if there is something that I could do to unblock the APN settings as the rest of the phone works really well. The specific model is SM-G991U.
Thanks!
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So, you need to go into the settings menu and find about phone, software info. What you want to find is the CSC information.
It will basically look something like this: XAA / XAA-XAA / XAA (or some other letters like VZW or ATT or TMB etc etc.
What taht will tell you is very helpful in determining what rom the phone is running and what kind of device it was originally. Find that in your device and post it and people will help you to figure out what it means.
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So, you need to go into the settings menu and find about phone, software info. What you want to find is the CSC information.
It will basically look something like this: XAA / XAA-XAA / XAA (or some other letters like VZW or ATT or TMB etc etc.
What taht will tell you is very helpful in determining what rom the phone is running and what kind of device it was originally. Find that in your device and post it and people will help you to figure out what it means.
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Thank you so much for your reply. I looked through the software section in the about section. I found the following codes about the rom.
Aisp said:
Thank you so much for your reply. I looked through the software section in the about section. I found the following codes about the rom.
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So the csc info is complicated, I'm no expert on it. But it does look like the OYN indicates it's a multi csc rom. It does have XAA as a part of the code, and that indicates it's 'open' for that specific part. But all the others are VZW. So it's running a vzw rom, obviously.
Your sim US Mobile uses both verizon and t-mobile networks. So it working for calls and texts makes sense, as a vzw phone. You could use patched Odin and flash a different (open) rom, but first you should verify that the device really is unlocked from vzw.
Best way to do that would probably be to insert another carriers sim card and see if it can make calls / texts. If not, it's not unlocked. But are you saying everything works now except mobile data? IOW, no internet access?
I had an international sim card at hand and I put it in. Interestingly the APN settings are no longer blocked. But, I do get a notification from setup wizard saying the inserted sim is not from Verizon and some services may not be available. But, messaging still seemed to work and I was also receiving 4G.
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I had an international sim card at hand and I put it in. Interestingly the APN settings are no longer blocked. But, I do get a notification from setup wizard saying the inserted sim is not from Verizon and some services may not be available. But, messaging still seemed to work and I was also receiving 4G.
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Oh then yer okay. That message from verizon can be gotten rid of a couple of ways; 1) use adb commands to disable the specific packages 2) use patched Odin and flash a different rom
VZW is the only rom I think that does that, and it's very annoying. I don't remember exactly which packages have to be disabled, but search google and use xda and vzw in keywords and u should find it.
The 2nd option would be my choice. It would do away with vzw crap and with an open rom you may find volte and vowifi will work also.
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Thank you so much for your reply. That sounds great! To just give it a try, I tried putting in a TMobile sim and phone restarted to install software for TMobile. After that the APN settings were unlocked and now I am also able to connect to the internet using my US Moblile sim. The only problem is the the network mode is greyed out.
This rom I think only recognizes network from major telecom providers. So, just flashing with an unlocked rom would just help to unlock all the features and also remove telecom specific crap. I will try to flash it today.
Thank you again!
I also just flashed the stock firmware which is fully unlocked. And there is no bloatware from telecom OEM's. I am now able to use the network and set the APN's, but the Network Mode is still greyed out. Is it possible to know why? I am guessing that if the phone is fully unlocked, I should be able to change the Network Mode. Is there any other info that I can give you to help understand what is happening? I do not see vowifi as well.