Hi guys I am trying to make a reocurring tasker profile with airplane mode (cell disabled) BUT wifi ON. The situation in my house is wifi strength is amazingg and radio signal is pretty much zero.
The purpose of this is to manually set your phone in the network state of airplane mode BUT keep wifi on and still receive all your phone calls and texts as you would on radio. For those of us who have bad signal and don't have particularly long voice calls, this would also save a good bit of battery
When I have airplane mode off (RADIO, with or without wifi) I want to receive calls as I normally would.
One big problem I've come across on my carrier/AOKP roms is that in order for my phone to enable call forwarding to google voice/grooveip I must have my radio enabled and go into the contacts settings to enable the call forwarding manually. As far as I know there isn't an easy way to do this in tasker.
I wanted to know if someone could help devise a tasker profile for this. It's very useful and a lot of people could use it.
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Is anyone having a problem where calls go straight to voicemail when data is in use?
This is a serious flaw if its by design!
I'm on o2 with the latest rooted rom. Not the custom modaco one.
Well I've just found out this is a feature of 2g rather than a phone problem. You can only take calls and browse if you have 3g signal.
Maybe on O2, but I get calls coming in no matter what I am doing on my Hero with a 2G signal.
I'm on Orange.
Same on my Nokia's too.
We only have 2G at home so I know its not a 2G / 3G thing (for me at least).
Perhaps I need some different APN settings. Could someone else on o2 UK confirm whether this is a problem or not? Also if you could post your apn details?
My apologies.
You are right and i am wrong.
If browsing on 2G the call is routed to voicemail. Even if you press Home and stop browsing, the call is routed to voicemail.
It seems that only until you have tried to make an outgoing call will it kill something and accept incoming calls again.
No wonder I keep getting missed call texts from Orange.
It would appear that if the Hero is doing anything on GPRS (Weather, Mail, RSS etc) it will not accept calls.
Thats pretty crap.
My old Nokia's were not affected like this I'm sure... maybe they were and I never noticed.
if you can open a Browser window while on a call it will tell you that there is no data connection or to use WiFi.
So is this a 'feature' of the Hero or the 2G network ?
From further investigation it seems to apply to all 2g networks. I've done a bit of googling and there are a few posts about the iphone and similar issues.
I wouldn't mind if I could get a 3g signal in most places. I really hope that radio firmware gets better. Seeing as I can get 3g on o2 in a different phone at home.
Sigh, oh well... looks like people need to learn to SMS me or actually leave a message
This also explains why my TomTom used to crap out whenever I was on the phone (Nokia) sometimes... when it worked I must have been in a 3G area.
it's both phone and network dependent.
many phones do this on 2G, as there is no 2G device in the world that i am aware of that will do voice AND data at the same time.
However, due to this limitation, many networks have set up their network to forcibly terminate a data connection when a call is waiting to be routed to that phone. I don't know if it is a command that is sent to the phone that the phone has to interpret and support, or if it is simply killed from the network end.
some network/phone combos do it, some dont. it just depends on the combination of the two i think.
similar things happen on HSDPA, yet you can see the same HTC phone get forced down from HSDPA to 3G on t-mobile to accept an incoming call, but do nothing and get a voicemail on Vodafone!
Thanks for the response rhedgehog. I think if nothing else its good that people are made aware, I had no idea!
I would be interested to know whether other networks disconnect the data on the hero in order to receive calls. It would also be interesting to know whether other android handsets do the same.
My data habits have now changed. No more exchange push email - only check every 15 mins.
So I'm ready to make the switch to VoIP on a data-only plan.
The only obstacle is that my carrier will charge me an arm and a leg if I make/receive any calls/sms to the phone number assigned to the SIM.
How do I go about disabling these functions while keeping 3G data active?
I'm hoping for a solution that doesn't involve playing with the source (code nublet here)!
ALSO: Please don't suggest enabling air plane mode, as that completely disables the modem.
What I tried: Disabling the phone application, disabling the contacts, disabling the mms application.. Phone still receives calls
I don't know who else has been having this issue, but there are times where I would not be able to send or receive text messages until I restarted my phone. I finally narrowed it down to the main culprit, which is "Smart Network Switch" under the "Wifi" settings. The problem occurs if you are actively connected to wifi and you turn the screen off. Your GS5 is in sleep mode now but still has wifi connected. When the "Smart Network Switch" is off there is no problem, but when it is on it prevents text messages, phone calls and MMS. It happens either the phone is charging or not charging.
What I found to be the fix is to disable the "Smart Network Switch" option, then turn off wifi and go on the internet and load any web page. This usually would kick start the text messages to be sent to my phone. Once you disable the smart switch, you can keep wifi on all the time and you will not have any problems with texts, MMS or calls.
tl;dr
DISABLE SMART NETWORK SWITCH = WORKING TEXT MESSAGES!!!!
Please let me know if this fix works, thanks.
Useless feature IMO, I kept it off since first time I set up my device.
Always had mine off, always had text issues.
I'll try this !
Enviado desde mi SM-G900T
Had mine off from day one.
fanatik229 said:
I don't know who else has been having this issue, but there are times where I would not be able to send or receive text messages until I restarted my phone. I finally narrowed it down to the main culprit, which is "Smart Network Switch" under the "Wifi" settings. The problem occurs if you are actively connected to wifi and you turn the screen off. Your GS5 is in sleep mode now but still has wifi connected. When the "Smart Network Switch" is off there is no problem, but when it is on it prevents text messages, phone calls and MMS. It happens either the phone is charging or not charging.
What I found to be the fix is to disable the "Smart Network Switch" option, then turn off wifi and go on the internet and load any web page. This usually would kick start the text messages to be sent to my phone. Once you disable the smart switch, you can keep wifi on all the time and you will not have any problems with texts, MMS or calls.
tl;dr
DISABLE SMART NETWORK SWITCH = WORKING TEXT MESSAGES!!!!
Please let me know if this fix works, thanks.
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WiFi calling is the culprit with text messages not reaching the phone. sends okay but until I turn WiFi calling off, I get no text messages with the latest nf6 upgrade.
Ok,
After reading the forms and after asking questions here (and experimenting) I finally figured this gear s out! Forgive me if you all knew this...but to me it was a process to figure out. For all my talk below...assume BT on and WIFI off.
I am on verizon: not sure if same on other carriers...but my mobile settings are
gear network ON/OFF/Auto (this is confusing...should be called GEAR PHONE RADIO
if OFF- disables mobile network (see below) and cannot recieve text on GEAR number OR Calls on Gear number
IF AUTO- on BT:can only use phones number for text/calls...but off BT can use gears phone number for calls/text
if ON- can always use gear phone for text/sms EVEN if on BT...(can use both at all times).....but see below...lose 10% battery per hour
Mobile network: check box for on or off ....should be called (mobile network)- it is what either connects you remotely if not withing bt range OR uses mobile network to stream/download if away from phone. when ON you can get text/alerts from phone even if phone left home (and on)
SO:
Today- had BT on paired to phone and had gear network auto (which means its OFF since was on BT)- 7 hours 20% battery with lot of use!!!!!!!!!!!
Today- had BT on paried to phone and had GEAR network ON (always was on BT)- lost 20% in 2 hours with light use
I recommend: keep gear network on auto (and mobile network checked).....if you step away from phone and dont need alerts...change gear net off. If you are ever somewhere where you MUST be reachable (2 methods): leave gear network ON always......but you will max get 9-10 hours on your fully charged gear.
hope this helps....sorry if was obvious to you all
I seem to get different results to you.
I have network always on, but have set it to GSM only (2G) - not sure if you have that option? Some of the network operator provided Gear S have that option removed I believe?
I can run for 24+ hours easily, I have set calls to dial out from the Gear S but I respond to SMS messages via the link to my mobile. I was out tonight and I was getting SMS messages from my phone sat at home on my desk and responding via the return link to it on the mobile network.
If i switch on the 3G networks it does suck the battery though as you suggest, but 2G is plenty fast enough for sms, emails and notifications.
I have have had the permanent clock on today too for testing, not many messages and no calls from the watch, but I did get almost 20 hours before I had to put it on charge at 2%
Clock it quite bright though in a dark theater - but does look very cool
I am in the UK and have the latest firmware, did you get the update? Some are saying this helps with battery life.
bisto321 said:
I seem to get different results to you.
I have network always on, but have set it to GSM only (2G) - not sure if you have that option? Some of the network operator provided Gear S have that option removed I believe?
I can run for 24+ hours easily, I have set calls to dial out from the Gear S but I respond to SMS messages via the link to my mobile. I was out tonight and I was getting SMS messages from my phone sat at home on my desk and responding via the return link to it on the mobile network.
If i switch on the 3G networks it does suck the battery though as you suggest, but 2G is plenty fast enough for sms, emails and notifications.
I have have had the permanent clock on today too for testing, not many messages and no calls from the watch, but I did get almost 20 hours before I had to put it on charge at 2%
Clock it quite bright though in a dark theater - but does look very cool
I am in the UK and have the latest firmware, did you get the update? Some are saying this helps with battery life.
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Verizon won't have the 2g/gsm option as it is cdma. Same with the latest firmware... our carriers here get in the way and slow down updates.
I'm having issues with voice calls on my Verizon Pixel 6. I live in a wooded area with not great 5G/LTE reception and rely heavily on WiFi calling as such. I had no issues with my P4xl. After upgrading to the P6, I am having constant issues when I receive or make a voice call to a friend or family member.
Their voice becomes echoed and incomprehensible. Sounds like you are talking to a robot.
The only workaround I've found so far is to disable the WiFi manually in the settings while you are on a call. Then I am on the network (either 5G or LTE) with not great reception - one bar.
I have a feeling it is an issue between the WiFi calling hand off and the network. I've tried adjusting the setting in the developer options turning off Mobile Data Always Active. No luck.
Also changed my WiFi preferences to Use Device MAC and that did not help either.
I'm concerned because if someone else needed to use my phone in an emergency, they would run the risk of not being able to make a clear and successful call.
Any help appreciated!
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