I've been trying to figure out a way to use my smarty phone keep in touch with my kids while in Jamaica this fall. Was hoping I could do a push to talk or walkie talkie app to talk to my kids via wifi. This on Metropcs. Now that I'm here at Tmobile and the G2X, will I be able to call home using the wifi calling via the resorts wifi? Will it work to make a call to the states?
Still really loving this phone!!
I don't see why not. I could call back home using it while in St. Maarten a couple months ago.
I haven't done this personally, you lucky SOB, but I've heard lots of reports that it will work as long as you have an active wifi connection.
I think it is pretty cool. I travel nationally and sometimes I don't get great service if at all but WiFi calling will come in very handy.. I also use it for work... *thumbs down*
@player911 said "you lucky SOB"
I know right...Couples resort Ocho Rios...420 all day everyday!
Yeah Mon!
I'm glad to hear I may be able to comminicate with home.
Yes, you can make and receive calls just like you were in the states via wifi calling. One of the neater things about being on Tmo
The walkies talkies work fine over , WIFI. No matter where You are.
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Yes just did something similar from a resort in Turks and Caicos. Worked perfectly.
ickster said:
I've been trying to figure out a way to use my smarty phone keep in touch with my kids while in Jamaica this fall. Was hoping I could do a push to talk or walkie talkie app to talk to my kids via wifi. This on Metropcs. Now that I'm here at Tmobile and the G2X, will I be able to call home using the wifi calling via the resorts wifi? Will it work to make a call to the states?
Still really loving this phone!!
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T-Mobile doesn't run a check to see if you're on a WiFi network outside the states? I'm surprised.
mobilehavoc said:
Yes just did something similar from a resort in Turks and Caicos. Worked perfectly.
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Something similsr meaning walkie talkie or PTT app? Or wifi calling?
There was a rumor in the blogsphere that we were getting minuteless wifi calling within like the next week.
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There was a rumor in the blogsphere that we were getting minuteless wifi calling within like the next week.
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No rumor....fact.
so say i'm in canada or something and use wifi to call back to california, is that consider long distance or just takes it off regularly from my minutes?
im in jamaica and it doesnt work for me
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im in jamaica and it doesnt work for me
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Thanks for letting me know this....what resort? So the wifi is working but wifi calling isn't? Are there any settings you can check? Did you have a confirmed wifi connection when you tried? Not calling you stupid I promise, just would love some details. I have never even messed with wifi calling yet. I do appreciate you replying. Gives me time to research why it doesn't work and my options.
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im in jamaica and it doesnt work for me
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Have you tried rebooting? Once in a while I'll come home and my phone doesn't enable Wi-Fi Calling, even though it works most of the time, and rebooting fixes that.
The only other thing I can think of is signal strength; it won't enable Wi-Fi Calling unless you have quite a strong wifi signal, although it will hold it once started if the signal strength doesn't get too low.
Turning on my phone with wifi on there has been a few times I tried to use wifi calling in my home and it said I wasn't registered on the network yet. I had to turn off wifi and saw the 4g icon flashing then I turned wifi back on and the wifi calling would work.
I am not sure if T-Mobile will require you to register on the network first prior to using the wifi app. I am curious as I travel out of the country sometimes.
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I hooked up my new MT4G to wifi and it prompted and notified me of wi-fi calling.
Take a look at the picture attached
Pretty sweet finally a android with wifi calling!!!
Edit: This is not uma
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excellent, wrong forum
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Wrong sub forum
I'm gonna go against the grain and say right forum.
Wrong descriptor though, it's not uma.
Technically it's not uma because it doesn't hand off to.and from the tower like blackberry... But I'm equally excited.. Tested and confirmed on mine as well
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Technically it's not uma because it doesn't hand off to.and from the tower like blackberry... But I'm equally excited.. Tested and confirmed on mine as well
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Sorry for the wrong sub forum post. OOPS I forgot where I was.
I was unsure of the cellular handoff. Has it been confirmed that it doesn't hand off?
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Sorry for the wrong sub forum post. OOPS I forgot where I was.
I was unsure of the cellular handoff. Has it been confirmed that it doesn't hand off?
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Yes it has been. Can't find the source right now but Tmonews.com is where it was hottly discussed and proved to be right.
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I hooked up my new MT4G to wifi and it prompted and notified me of wi-fi calling.
Take a look at the picture attached
Pretty sweet finally a android with UMA!!!
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Please stop calling this UMA. It's not the same thing at all.
Wi-fi calling is a clever way to push people on to their own wifi infrastructure. Rather than continue to use cell tower bandwidth, you use your own broadband connection for both data and voice traffic. The best part (for them) is you still use your minutes.
Most people never bother setting up wifi on their phone, because they simply don't have to. The mobile network is available 24x7, and wifi eats battery life. Now, get to charge you *and* get you off their network at the same time.
Brilliant strategy, but I'll pass - I'm not paying T-Mobile to use my own bandwidth.
You would if you were somewhere you didn't have coverage. Or even better if you were out of the country and wanted to call back to a US number and only use your normal minutes and not pay for international roaming.
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The app works great for me with crappy service in my house been waiting for it. Once you get close to the wifi range limit u get a pop-up warning you your call will be lost.
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The app works great for me with crappy service in my house been waiting for it. Once you get close to the wifi range limit u get a pop-up warning you your call will be lost.
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The only problem I had was whsn walking away from work or my house it would drop the call vs the hand off like the blackberrys uma calling feature.
I also think we are all aware this is not a true uma. I will try to edit my op to correct.
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Well if you do not want to use the service then dont or let me guess you are a Apple fanboy so will find something wrong with everything other than iPhone and ATT
I wonder if the txt messages will be routed via wifi as well ?
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I wonder if the txt messages will be routed via wifi as well ?
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i read through the frequent questions in the wifi calling app... Confirmed that it does send messages through wifi!
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i read through the frequent questions in the wifi calling app... Confirmed that it does send messages through wifi!
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It is supposed to do mms sms calls as well as the usual internet and email.
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This is a great feature, i'm just confused why they wouldn't build it to allow it to seamlessly handoff to cell towers.
That would b a hardware requirement and raise the cost.
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You would if you were somewhere you didn't have coverage. Or even better if you were out of the country and wanted to call back to a US number and only use your normal minutes and not pay for international roaming.
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I used WiFi overseas for calling on my BB, and TMo came after me with a bunch of international calling minutes anyway. So unless they have changed their policy - be careful.
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I used WiFi overseas for calling on my BB, and TMo came after me with a bunch of international calling minutes anyway. So unless they have changed their policy - be careful.
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Were you calling US numbers?
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I used WiFi overseas for calling on my BB, and TMo came after me with a bunch of international calling minutes anyway. So unless they have changed their policy - be careful.
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I used my BB overseas this summer, mobile network off, wifi on. No extra charges.
I know I'm going to probably get my ass chewed for doing this (yes i know the answers are out there) BUT...
I'm overseas right now with my useless G2x (cause the phone doesn't work for wifi calling).
Ok, i'm looking to;
get the latest push of software (coolest setup) that will let me wifi call again, and also is there a way to download apps on my laptop then push them to my phone?
I've been out of the loop for quite a while being overseas and all (maybe since CM7 build 70's or so)... so any help on the latest devs would be great!
If you really need wifi calling get a stock 2.3 rom, weapon would be my choice wifi calling should work perfect, but if you use wifi calling why would you need to dload apps to laptop, just use wifi to dload from market to phone.
You can download any apk file and transfer it to your phone via usb. Then install the apk straight from ur phone.
Which rom are you using that wifi calling doesn't work?
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Wifi calling is a T-Mobile feature. I am over seas too! In Germany on o2. I just froze wifi calling cuz when I tried it, it said invalid sim.
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Wifi calling is a T-Mobile feature. I am over seas too! In Germany on o2. I just froze wifi calling cuz when I tried it, it said invalid sim.
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Correct its a T-Mobile feature. But for T-Mobile customers its a great way to save $$$ when traveling over seas. Once you connect to wifi calling, from anywhere in the world, calls and texts to/from US numbers are counted as domestic calls. The OP Didn't say he was on tmobile or not. If he is then wifi calling should work. If not T-Mobile then of course, as you said, it wont work.
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I used wifi calling without trouble on my locked g2x in London in August, with Froyo. It might have made a difference that tmo if a carrier in Britain, but then again there's tmo all over Europe.
Jeffrey
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Why not use CM7.... that seems like the best solution.
WiFi Calling works on just about every rom except MIUI. I know because I use it almost every day.
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I used wifi calling without trouble on my locked g2x in London in August, with Froyo. It might have made a difference that tmo if a carrier in Britain, but then again there's tmo all over Europe.
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As long as you're a T-Mobile subscriber (meaning you have a T-Mobile SIM in your phone) you can use wifi calling, regardless which carriers operate in the area where you're traveling. Once you connect to a wifi network the wifi calling app connects to T-Mobile's network.
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i'm not rooted, totally stock. got this as a replacement thru phone insurance for my g2. is it just me or does wifi calling on this phone suck? on my g2, anytime i was near wifi and connected, i would have a perfect call every time. on this phone, calls over wifi break up so bad i can't hear the other person and have to hang up, disconnect from wifi, and then call them back. more than half of my calls on wifi are like this, but not all. i generally haven't had any problems with calls on the regular network, but i tend to be on wifi at all times at work and at home, so you can see how this would be annoying.
any ideas?
Idk maybe the other devices on the network are taking up too much bandwidth, i have a linksys E1500 and i dont have any problems with wifi calling. What router d you have?
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Back in December I used Wi-Fi calling extensively without any problem. I was even surprised that a call I was on that originated on cellular network got handed off to Wi-Fi seamlessly. I didn't think it would do that, but it did. It was only after I hung up from the call that it dawned on me what happened as I got back home and walked into the house.
it really shouldn't be a bandwith problem.. i have a linksys wrt160n here at work with just 2 laptops connected. at home i have an asus rt16 i think its called... i forget the exact model number. but yea, same setup i had just a couple weeks ago with my g2 before it broke and wifi always made for perfect calls. i feel almost like theres something wrong with this mytouch4gslide becuase the signal over wifi calling is THAT bad. completely garbled. again not every time but at least 50% of my calls over wifi calling.
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it really shouldn't be a bandwith problem.. i have a linksys wrt160n here at work with just 2 laptops connected. at home i have an asus rt16 i think its called... i forget the exact model number. but yea, same setup i had just a couple weeks ago with my g2 before it broke and wifi always made for perfect calls. i feel almost like theres something wrong with this mytouch4gslide becuase the signal over wifi calling is THAT bad. completely garbled. again not every time but at least 50% of my calls over wifi calling.
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Idk that's weird, try clearing the data for the wifi calling app
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Idk that's weird, try clearing the data for the wifi calling app
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i'll give it a shot today and try it thru the weekend...
I too had an g2 and I get the same reception on wifi calling as I did with the g2. I guess they are handing these mt4gs out like candy when you send in g2's with problems. Makes ya wonder???
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My wife's slide works flawlessly on WiFi calling. The only problems we have had was with the regular mt4g.
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Was in France, used T-mobile WiFi calling feature and got billed just like I haven't used it at all..... THIS IS NUTS....Is T-Mobile trying to rip me off or did WiFi calling not work on CM ROM. I obviously know how to use it and even showed my friend who by the way did NOT get charged.
So yes, WiFi calling icon showed its active and connected while I made the calls....
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Was in France, used T-mobile WiFi calling feature and got billed just like I haven't used it at all..... THIS IS NUTS....Is T-Mobile trying to rip me off or did WiFi calling not work on CM ROM. I obviously know how to use it and even showed my friend who by the way did NOT get charged.
So yes, WiFi calling icon showed its active and connected while I made the calls....
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Was your phone in Airplane Mode?
I don't think WiFi calling works in air plane mode
If you turn your phone in airplane mode, then turn on WiFi, it should work.
Just call up t mobile. They usually sort those things out for you.
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Just call up t mobile. They usually sort those things out for you.
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I did. They say they cannot guaranty free Wifi-calling roaming....and the only thing they can offer is $80 credit with 2-year contract extension.\
I am just too tired to argue.....it says on Tmobile website NO ROAMING CHARGES, I asked to see Terms and Condition for Wifi-calling where they dont guaranty it and rep says they dont have it.....
I have no proof that I used Wifi calling and all they see are my calls without any Wifi-calling.....
The Wi-Fi calling does not work in airplane mode... Skype, text plus work strictly in Wi-Fi with ap mode on. Wi-Fi calling requires a cell connection to register. I just finished a deployment in the middleast and used the Wi-Fi calling feature, no extra charges. I'm rooted using weapon gingerbread.
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The Wi-Fi calling does not work in airplane mode... Skype, text plus work strictly in Wi-Fi with ap mode on. Wi-Fi calling requires a cell connection to register. I just finished a deployment in the middleast and used the Wi-Fi calling feature, no extra charges. I'm rooted using weapon gingerbread.
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I know 110% that I was on active Wifi-Calling. Does this feature need some sort of activation besides the already included Wifi-Calling app ?
Lol you should say that it's a software issue that t mobile ignored and you expected the phone to function without extra charges.
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And I though they never know. LOL
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Well, at least we all will know in case of travel abroad: either bring a US VPN account or do without.
oh well, i extended my contract and got my $80 back. i figured i am probably gonna get One S anyway, so now I dont have a choice and will be buying One S when it comes out since i am already under contract.
I don't have WiFi calling because I am not with T-Mobile. Instead, I use airplane mode with WiFi turned on and use Skype which gaurantees that there's no roaming charges. That will work for any phone which has WiFi and Skype anywhere in the world.
WiFi calling uses your plan's minutes, unless you strictly went WiFi with the Groove IP+Google Voice route. I'm not surprised they whooped you with an extravagant phone bill from you "roaming" internationally.
I've used WiFi calling in Australia, Brazil, Canada, and the Philippines. I've never got a single charge from T-Mobile.
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I've used WiFi calling in Australia, Brazil, Canada, and the Philippines. I've never got a single charge from T-Mobile.
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thats how its supposed to be. i have NO idea what happened to me. i only see 2 reasons: 1. problem with custom ROM or 2. T-mobile has to actually enable Wifi-calling on their side in order to avoid roaming charges.
of course maybe its just a glitch in the system. after all how many people use this to avoid roaming fees....very few, so i really have ZERO proof.
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thats how its supposed to be. i have NO idea what happened to me. i only see 2 reasons: 1. problem with custom ROM or 2. T-mobile has to actually enable Wifi-calling on their side in order to avoid roaming charges.
of course maybe its just a glitch in the system. after all how many people use this to avoid roaming fees....very few, so i really have ZERO proof.
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One way to figure it out without costing you $$$ is to take your phone to T-Mobile and use one of their store's SIM cards to try out the setup you used for WiFi Calling. If you discover the cause for being charged while using WiFi Calling, post it here.
That's why I'm always careful to not enable any roaming with data, hits you hard. :/
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Was in France, used T-mobile WiFi calling feature and got billed just like I haven't used it at all..... THIS IS NUTS....Is T-Mobile trying to rip me off or did WiFi calling not work on CM ROM. I obviously know how to use it and even showed my friend who by the way did NOT get charged.
So yes, WiFi calling icon showed its active and connected while I made the calls....
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just a few days ago my wife's g2x wifi was on, and showed connected, but it wasn't. I had to reboot the phone for it to be truly connected to my wifi. She was using carrier data and didn't even know it!
I'm just sayin!
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just a few days ago my wife's g2x wifi was on, and showed connected, but it wasn't. I had to reboot the phone for it to be truly connected to my wifi. She was using carrier data and didn't even know it!
I'm just sayin!
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my data and data roaming was disabled. < thats another lol story how i decided to do some web browsing in Switzerland and got billed about $70 bucks. i had no idea that 1MB of data could cost $15 bucks, while calls are very reasonably priced.
another word of advice while abroad, NEVER use pay phones in airport or hotels ! Use you Tmobile phone instead. Many if not most of those are scam businesses not controlled by any FCC
can you talk and surf on photon q without using wifi or 4g access like the sgs 3 i think its S-evdo that allows this
anyone that has this phone already confirm this ?
TIA
Don't know about this 'S-evdo' thing, but none of the CDMA/EvDO phones I've ever had were able to do this. I just tried it on my Photon Q and still no.
It probably works on LTE, but I can't test that since Sprint doesn't have LTE coverage where I live yet. WiFi still operates fine.
Hope that helps!
Whats weird is that i tried this on my photon the other night and it didnt work. Tonight, i was able to make a call AND pull up the internet while on 3G. Connected to Airave if it matters. During the call the 3G icon never left like it used to do on all my other phones.
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Whats weird is that i tried this on my photon the other night and it didnt work. Tonight, i was able to make a call AND pull up the internet while on 3G. Connected to Airave if it matters. During the call the 3G icon never left like it used to do on all my other phones.
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Don't trust the icon. lol
Edit: Just called a 1-800 number to test this and ran a speedtest.... I can confirm that 3G does work while in-call; 500kbps which is impossible over 1xRTT.
Evo lte can do it
And it depends if the towers have been upgraded for jt
Wonder why this wasnt pushed as a feature. I got over 2 MBits doing this connected to my Airave. I have noticed a slightly longer delay in voice when using data at same time. Could just be my imagination i guess.
Does this really have something to do with the tower or more to do with extra radios in the phone itself?
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Wonder why this wasnt pushed as a feature.
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Maybe because if you're connected to one of these Airave things, you're near an internet connection and could probably just use wifi. Doesn't really seem like a very appealing feature.
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Maybe because if you're connected to one of these Airave things, you're near an internet connection and could probably just use wifi. Doesn't really seem like a very appealing feature.
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What? I dont believe the Airave is what makes the voice / data at the same time possible. I simply stated the speed I got to show how well the simultaneous services work under great conditions.
So then it is possible just as long as the tower your phone is connected to has been upgraded to allow this and this phone does support it???
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So then it is possible just as long as the tower your phone is connected to has been upgraded to allow this and this phone does support it???
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I think it only has to do with the phone itself. More than one radio in it is the deciding factor. Actually, I have my phone set on CDMA/LTE mode, I wonder if i set it to CDMA only if this would still work.
holy **** !!!! it works... I'm on the phone with my gf... and surfing the net without wifi or lte !!! and it's quick as hell !!!
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holy **** !!!! it works... I'm on the phone with my gf... and surfing the net without wifi or lte !!! and it's quick as hell !!!
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I used it today and while data was being transmitted during a call the other party said they could barely hear me. Did you notice this or were you using a bluetooth ear piece or something?
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I used it today and while data was being transmitted during a call the other party said they could barely hear me. Did you notice this or were you using a bluetooth ear piece or something?
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Hmm going to have to check that out. I I was using a wired headset at the time. I rarely use my phone without some kind of headset. Blue tooth or otherwise.
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holy **** !!!! it works... I'm on the phone with my gf... and surfing the net without wifi or lte !!! and it's quick as hell !!!
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I can confirm that this works too. its awesome to be able to use wifi tether and talk on the phone at the same time for work purposes