Now that I have my MT4G I have an MT3G lying around with an inactive sim card in it. I keep it on the wifi at my house so I can play with it while my other phone is charging.
It would be awesome if I could find a way to make free VOIP calls with this phone.
I've played with google voice and skype, but gv requires an active line and skype costs money.
Has anyone found a better solution?
What would be even cooler is if there is a way to use the wifi calling on my old phone and have it connect with the sim card that's inside the new phone.
Thanks!
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Hi all,
I have an odd problem. It started when having lost my phone I asked my sim card provided to suspend my mobil number in case of theft. Thankfully I found it and asked my provider to remove the suspension. Now I apparently have no signal and I'm unable to make or recieve calls or messages, but I can surf the net? My phone was directly from htc via handtech and can use any sim from any supplier. I've tried my sim in an old phone and it works fine and I also have a pay as you go sim which I use to benefit from free calls between mobils an land lines on the same network. I've looked at all the setting and can't see anything obviously wrong.? Can anybody help please
So where I reside I am limited to one bar of connectivity that fades in and out. Because I have a wireless router in my room, I am looking/asking to see if there's an application or a way that can solve my problem by making mobile to mobile calls normally without having to be dependent on skype calls, gtalk calls etc. I researched and tried using this technique that involved gizmo5 and google voice,however, google ended buying gizmo5 and has thus put an end to this method. Your help will be MUCH appreciated! My phone is an HTC EVO(2.2)
You can use Tango or Skype...are you looking for a free solution?
I visit the US regularly and always pop my trusty TMO SIM into my current phone and take advantage of the data plan to make SIP calls and get over the 100 minutes limit.
I might use one of Vonage, Google Voice Callback (with a Callcentric SIP account as the callback number) Localphone or GrooveIP.
This worked fine on my last trip in August last year on my GN.
This time I found I could not make any SIP calls over the 3G network (no LTE because my phone is the international version of the N5). Calls would be placed only to be greeted with silence and GV callback would never call me back. The only method that worked was GrooveIP but apparently that's going to stop soon because of the way Google manages some API with Google Voice.
All the processes worked fine over WiFi.
Just to check I tried my daughter's N4 on the same plan and she could make all those calls without any problem.
I see TMO has blocked tethering on the N5 which can be overcome through Root and modifying some file but does anybody know if TMO has also blocked SIP calls on the N5 also?
Might have to take my GN with me next time as my US phone and keep the N5 with the home SIM card in it.
Thanks
lchiu7 said:
I visit the US regularly and always pop my trusty TMO SIM into my current phone and take advantage of the data plan to make SIP calls and get over the 100 minutes limit.
I might use one of Vonage, Google Voice Callback (with a Callcentric SIP account as the callback number) Localphone or GrooveIP.
This worked fine on my last trip in August last year on my GN.
This time I found I could not make any SIP calls over the 3G network (no LTE because my phone is the international version of the N5). Calls would be placed only to be greeted with silence and GV callback would never call me back. The only method that worked was GrooveIP but apparently that's going to stop soon because of the way Google manages some API with Google Voice.
All the processes worked fine over WiFi.
Just to check I tried my daughter's N4 on the same plan and she could make all those calls without any problem.
I see TMO has blocked tethering on the N5 which can be overcome through Root and modifying some file but does anybody know if TMO has also blocked SIP calls on the N5 also?
Might have to take my GN with me next time as my US phone and keep the N5 with the home SIM card in it.
Thanks
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tmobile didnt block tethering on the n5, i tether my other devices and tablet to it frequently. but tethering is a paid service with tmobile(free unlimited on all plans except the completely unlimited high speed data plan, 2.5gb of tethering comes with that plan). but tmobile wifi calling does not work on the n5.
Dear friends,
I want to buy i tablet for my mom, who is really a newbie
I thought of buying her a wifi tablet. Much cheaper and will do the trick for her. as she only uses the internet for some facebook and communication
The problem is: She needs to deal with contacts for using Whatsapp and Viber, even if she doesn't actually need a sim card or traditional dialing
It seems that I have to pay for a 3G tablet just for this matter, because i don't thing there's a way to make a wifi tablet deal - exactly - with numbers and contacts and sync with google contacts the same way a 3G tablet does.
So I wanted to ask this: is it really impossible to have phone and dialer the usual way on these devices (just like when you use a regular tablet with no SIM card)? Is it totally software oriented or it really can't do without a SIM card slot?
So I bought my husband a cheap smart watch without knowing the first thing about them (first mistake), and I asked the seller if it could be used WITHOUT a sim card - just using Bluetooth to connect to the phone. They said yes it could so I bought it (apparently 2nd mistake lol).
Do any of you know - can it be used without a sim card and still access messaging and Facebook? He can make and receive calls fine but can't access Facebook or messaging at all. If he needs a sim card we'll probably just have to get rid of it because his phone service does not use sim cards (straight talk - non BYOD plan) so he would have to get a separate plan and phone number just to use the stupid thing. I mean he can always just use it for phone calls only but it seems kind of pointless if you don't have messaging.
Any advice would be appreciated
Thanks!