My signal at home is sometimes cellular and other time wifi for calling. Is there a way to better force wifi other then going to airplane
Probably not since, as far as I know, wifi calling depends on having no cellular signal.
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Probably not since, as far as I know, wifi calling depends on having no cellular signal.
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Wifi calling doesn't rely on having no service.
This screen shot of the first FAQ says "if cellular service is not available". If you have any connection to the VZW network, wifi calling does not take precedence.
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Trust me wifi works but when cellular levels are deemed low enough to the phone.
Say what you will but I'd rather provide the information directly from Verizon so as not to set expectations. If you say WiFi calling will kick in when there's no cellular network and it does then great. It worked like it was intended to. If you say it'll kick in when you have a lower signal and it doesn't then you set an expectation that it will and you'll have people upset at you. If it DOES kick in when you have marginal signal then it's a bonus. Under-promise and over-deliver.
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Hi everyone,
I have noticed that my when my wifi is on, phone drains much less battery. Does that just simply implies that my phone service provider sucks with bad signal quality? Or anyone have any insights on this problem?
Thanks
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Not at all, and attributing wifi being on as "improving" your battery life may be a faulty assumption... your drain looks fairly good? its just the awake time that is draining it, would likely have little to no difference on if your on WiFi or not. Looks really good to me LOL I wouldn't be able to get 20 hours on a single charge the way I use mine!
Well, I beg to differ. I am on 2.3.5 and for me also the drain is significantly less if I leave the phone on wifi. I think its because when you are on the network, there is a periodic ping to the tower and also as the signal quality keeps changing depending on the load on the tower you are hooked to, it keeps downgrading/upgrading between H+ and EDGE. I may be completely wrong but I think you always save on wifi so long as we have pethatic network operators.
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Under mobile network, there's an option for Domestic voice and data. Just curious if they actually do anything. Tried with on and off and they work just fine. Everytime your select it though, it states that it may incur charges.
So any ideas on what it means or does?
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Under mobile network, there's an option for Domestic voice and data. Just curious if they actually do anything. Tried with on and off and they work just fine. Everytime your select it though, it states that it may incur charges.
So any ideas on what it means or does?
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Those are for roaming in the usa. Unchecked means you cant make calls or txt when roaming.
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Those are for roaming in the usa. Unchecked means you cant make calls or txt when roaming.
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Figured as much. Thanks
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This morning I had an issue where the LTE speeds (AT&T) were very poor with 3 bars. Generally I get 10meg down but when running speed test I encountered a network error. Restarted the phone and everything is working great.
Anyone else experience an issue where rebooting the phone helped with the wireless speeds?
Have Verizon. 4G speeds get bad, power down for a minute, back on. Fixed.
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Have Verizon. 4G speeds get bad, power down for a minute, back on. Fixed.
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Strange, wonder if there is something going on with the phone itself since both of us are on separate carriers.
I did this LTE reset this morning in an area I visit. And sure enough I got full strength 4g on Sprint where I had no 4g at all but great Network Vision 3g. The tower just went online right next to where I frequent.
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I have the Verizon SIII and noticed the same thing. A reboot seems to fix it. Not sure what causes it though.
Has anyone else encountered a problem using the T-Mobile My Account app while connected to Wi-Fi? If I go into the app and tap on "Account Info", this is the screen I get. Any thoughts?
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yep i get that too, turning off my wifi and exclusively using data connection works
I fixed it. Go into Settings - More Networks - Access Point Names. Create a new one called "T-Mobile", then use all the same settings as the default APN (the one called T-Mobile US LTE) , except change APN Protocol from "IPV6" to "IPV4/IPV6". Save it, then select it as the active APN, and reboot. At that point, My Account will work over wifi.
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That fixed worked for me, thanks!
Also, just as a point of interest, I called T-Mobile about this yesterday, and they are aware of the limitation. They claim that it's deliberate, because "connecting from their network is more secure" or something like that. They said that they're working on a new version of the app which will allow connectivity over wifi, too, but this works for me
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I want to know why the 5G icon disappears when i open WIFI but when i turn off WIFI the 5G icon shows again.
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View attachment 5709815View attachment 5709813I want to know why the 5G icon disappears when i open WIFI but when i turn off WIFI the 5G icon shows again.
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You better find out what is 5G.
I don't know if it's a troll or not but i will try to give an explanation anyway. When you aren't using wifi and you need to connect to internet you use a wireless connection that connects you to a signal tower, usually owned by your phone operator. This is called "data connection" on your phone, and it depends on your operator and it usually has a limited amount of gigabytes. When you are using "5G" you are using the latest iteration of this technology, is faster than 4g and 3g but the concept it's the same, you use it to connect to internet.
When you use wifi, you simply don't need it, because the connection to internet is given by your router.
That's why the icon disappears, when you use one, you don't need the other and viceversa.
sorry for my mistak.