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Can XOOM 3G make Voice call like a mobile phone

Can any one advise this as its not listen in the 3G Specs..

By default no, but there has been talks about possibly getting it to work and a lot of people have success getting Line2 (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.toktumi.line2&feature=search_result) to work on it but requires you to even find the APK somewhere or download it on another android phone and copy the APK file off it.

I am looking for a core 2 Andriod 3.0 with at least a 7.1 or 10.1 screen...
Have to be able to make call.
Any recommendations..

I don't think you're going to find that anywhere.

Good luck with that, last I checked there were no tablets out there (at least in terms of Android 3.0+) that will allow you to make phone calls with them unless you use Skype (or mod it to allow making phone calls nativity.
I have heard that Samsung Galaxy Tab does allow you to make phone calls but I haven't tested myself and don't know if the newer Tab 10.1 (not sure if it's out yet or not) will support the phone features either since the Tab 10.1 will have 3.0.
I'm sure other members on this forums will step in to correct me if I'm wrong at anything I've said here but this is what I've saw so far.

I had some limited success with nettalk and my Google Talk phone number. Could connect with my home phone but my husband said it was very echo-y. I'm wifi only so it can be done. I'm going to try Line 2.

GrooVe IP works
i downloaded groove IP from the market tonite and it seems to work fine, it uses your Google voice number. No monthly fee like Line 2

mbrought4 said:
i downloaded groove IP from the market tonite and it seems to work fine, it uses your Google voice number. No monthly fee like Line 2
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I got groove IP from market and it works good enough. Thanks for the tip. I haven't been able to figure out how to receive calls with it though. Does it work for you? Anyone have any ideas?
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receiving calls
you have to be logged out of Google talk on your xoom. Also, make sure that in your gv settings you have it set to google chat rather than your mobile number. Not sure if that made any sense, but they explain it step by step in the help section.

is that video calling or just voice?

mbrought4 said:
you have to be logged out of Google talk on your xoom. Also, make sure that in your gv settings you have it set to google chat rather than your mobile number. Not sure if that made any sense, but they explain it step by step in the help section.
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That did the trick! Thanks!
This is for voice calls.
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mbrought4 said:
you have to be logged out of Google talk on your xoom. Also, make sure that in your gv settings you have it set to google chat rather than your mobile number. Not sure if that made any sense, but they explain it step by step in the help section.
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How can I get the google chat to show up rather then the mobile number because I do not have that option. The only options I see are my mobile number and add this phone, nothing else. I can make calls with excellent quality on both ends but cannot get any calls on my Xoom because of this. What am I doing wrong?

diablo2224 said:
How can I get the google chat to show up rather then the mobile number because I do not have that option. The only options I see are my mobile number and add this phone, nothing else. I can make calls with excellent quality on both ends but cannot get any calls on my Xoom because of this. What am I doing wrong?
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That's the same problem that I was having. You have to log on to google voice settings using your web browser for the log in to chat settings.
My problem was that I was logged into google talk on my xoom.
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kyoteqwik said:
That's the same problem that I was having. You have to log on to google voice settings using your web browser for the log in to chat settings.
My problem was that I was logged into google talk on my xoom.
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I forgot about that. Well I am there on the web browser version of voice and I am a bit confused as to what I need to do exactly. Am I setting up a new number? I still don't see anything about google chat. I'm not a noob to technology by any means but never tried to set up calling on my Xoom until now because I never had the need for it. I do appreciate the help a lot.

diablo2224 said:
I forgot about that. Well I am there on the web browser version of voice and I am a bit confused as to what I need to do exactly. Am I setting up a new number? I still don't see anything about google chat. I'm not a noob to technology by any means but never tried to set up calling on my Xoom until now because I never had the need for it. I do appreciate the help a lot.
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Not really sure. When I go to google voice on my browser and then click on the setting tab in upper right corner and then choose voice settings, I can then click on the phones tab, that is where I am able to choose google chat.
Hope that helps, that's about all I got.
I will add that my calls work a lot better for the other party when I use bluetooth.
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kyoteqwik said:
Not really sure. When I go to google voice on my browser and then click on the setting tab in upper right corner and then choose voice settings, I can then click on the phones tab, that is where I am able to choose google chat.
Hope that helps, that's about all I got.
I will add that my calls work a lot better for the other party when I use bluetooth.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
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Dang... I just remembered a long time ago I deleted the google chat from my registered phones list because I didn't think I would ever need to use it. So that would mean I would have to add it back, but... yeah. If I try to add another phone it gives me the name to choose and I need to set a number for it, and I have no idea what the number would be for google chat. Thanks for the quick responses though! I'll try and figure out what to do next. And I have 2 nice bluetooth headsets and they do work great!

diablo2224 said:
Dang... I just remembered a long time ago I deleted the google chat from my registered phones list because I didn't think I would ever need to use it. So that would mean I would have to add it back, but... yeah. If I try to add another phone it gives me the name to choose and I need to set a number for it, and I have no idea what the number would be for google chat. Thanks for the quick responses though! I'll try and figure out what to do next. And I have 2 nice bluetooth headsets and they do work great!
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No problem.
I would just try to add a new phone and call it google talk, that seems to be the only settings on mine.
Good luck.
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scsa20 said:
Good luck with that, last I checked there were no tablets out there (at least in terms of Android 3.0+) that will allow you to make phone calls with them unless you use Skype (or mod it to allow making phone calls nativity.
I have heard that Samsung Galaxy Tab does allow you to make phone calls but I haven't tested myself
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The legacy Galaxy Tab does let you use a GSM sim card and allow one to make phone calls as well as access EDGE/3G data...i helped a friend set up his tab a couple of weeks ago and can confirm this....im located in Mumbai, India...and the versions available here do allow the ability to also use it as a phone..
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i believe its the kernel that is stopping it from possible.
at the momenet, honeycomb is designed to be a tablet OS, hence it didn't include the Phone's feature in the system.
for galaxy tab, (the older one), it running on Gingerbread which a Phone OS, hence it can be easily enable the phone feature.
i believe we need to wait till Ice Cream where it unite Gingerbread and Honeycomb, so that it has the phone's feature in the system and can be enabled easily.

Hey All
Just thought I'd add to this old topic. I have an Australian 3G Xoom, on the American 3.1 update, with my settings pushed back for 3G etc.
Tonight I installed the UAString/SMS mod, so that I could send SMSes (which work perfectly with Handcent, over the Telstra 3G network - just like any mobile phone would do). Then I tried calling my tablet. This also worked perfectly! The call came up, it connected, etc. I answered and this is where we hit trouble. No sound. Either way. So the Xoom doesn't have a microphone/speaker set up for sound during a call. I even tried setting the Xoom on speaker phone, but still nothing.
Any ideas? Not sure if this has been posted about before, and I thought it was pretty exciting, to be making normal calls, and SMSes (there is all this talk about Google Voice, which is useless outside of the US) on the Xoom, and this was very exciting for me.

[Q] SMS/MMS Alert

I don't know if there is a thread out there already asking this specifically or not but, does anyone know of a good SMS/MMS visual alert? I used to have the app NoLED. But they've changed it up so much that it doesn't work as good on my Samsung Infuse 1997. It used to allow me to (assign a photo) so when I would get a text or phone call the contacts photo would pop up (so convenient!) Now they've changed it, and the whole app sucks! :crying: Does anyone know of something similar?
Thanks in advance!

taiowa72 said:
I don't know if there is a thread out there already asking this specifically or not but, does anyone know of a good SMS/MMS visual alert? I used to have the app NoLED. But they've changed it up so much that it doesn't work as good on my Samsung Infuse 1997. It used to allow me to (assign a photo) so when I would get a text or phone call the contacts photo would pop up (so convenient!) Now they've changed it, and the whole app sucks! :crying: Does anyone know of something similar?
Thanks in advance!
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Why just use the old version of the NoLED that was working before? you have a freedom not to update the software to newest version.

Another message app with keyboard besides Fleksy?

Just seeing of anyone knows of another messaging app with a keyboard. I saw a video of tablet talk but that was on the gear. Fleksy is good but no Swype and only let's you respond to contacts. Doesn't even show unnamed contacts in the inbox.

quickbird144 said:
Just seeing of anyone knows of another messaging app with a keyboard. I saw a video of tablet talk but that was on the gear. Fleksy is good but no Swype and only let's you respond to contacts. Doesn't even show unnamed contacts in the inbox.
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Nothing else exists at the moment, sorry man.

quickbird144 said:
Just seeing of anyone knows of another messaging app with a keyboard. I saw a video of tablet talk but that was on the gear. Fleksy is good but no Swype and only let's you respond to contacts. Doesn't even show unnamed contacts in the inbox.
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Have you tried 1C SMS Sender or calliGEARaphy and Fast SMS personally I liked the 1C SMS one, but it seems to interfere with the "OK Google" command on the phone. Otherwise I thought it was the best of the bunch.
Chris

quickbird144 said:
Just seeing of anyone knows of another messaging app with a keyboard. I saw a video of tablet talk but that was on the gear. Fleksy is good but no Swype and only let's you respond to contacts. Doesn't even show unnamed contacts in the inbox.
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Try short messenger. It has the numpad keypad similar to oldschool phones.

Isnt he speaking of apps that are on the watch?

McGuigew said:
Isnt he speaking of apps that are on the watch?
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The ones I listed above are all available for the Gear 1 & Gear 2 Tizen. If you can't find them it's Samsungs fault. You have to do some trickery with either the build prop or the files on the Gear.
Chris

Yeah I was just about to ask if those were for the watch. Couldn't find some of them and one charges you per message or something? I'll just stick with Flesky.

Man you have to explain to me how to access all these apps! Is it tricky ?

McGuigew said:
Man you have to explain to me how to access all these apps! Is it tricky ?
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download build.prop editor and you can change a line to make your NoteII look like an S5, I'm out and about, but search the gear forums on Gear 1 and Gear 2, there are a couple of posts that describe how. But the line should read SM-G900T for S5 or SM-N900T for Note 3. S5 seemed to show more in the past for me. After you change the model number, reboot and check the app store again. Then you can change it back.
Chris

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download build.prop editor and you can change a line to make your NoteII look like an S5, I'm out and about, but search the gear forums on Gear 1 and Gear 2, there are a couple of posts that describe how. But the line should read SM-G900T for S5 or SM-N900T for Note 3. S5 seemed to show more in the past for me. After you change the model number, reboot and check the app store again. Then you can change it back.
Chris
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Trying that right now, thanks a lot buddy

Gear S3 screen timeout - Altimeter

Hi All
I want to use my Gear S3 for paragliding. Does anyone know of anyway to have the Altimeter stay on screen without timing out? I need to have it on screen for the duration of the flight which could be 1-2hrs.
Many Thanks
Myles

not without interacting with the app every 30 seconds.
I've requested the ability to keep an active app open until manually closed, and i suggest you do the same.
more people requesting it means a bigger chance they'll change it.
you can suggest changes here: https://help.content.samsung.com/csweb/ticket/createQuestionTicket.do

http://apps.samsungapps.com/gear/appDetail.as?appId=suQANKUenM
This app keep your gear active. I dont try in s3 but in s2 works fine
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http://apps.samsung.com/gear/appDetail.as?appId=suQANKUenM
this is the correct link.
it does exactly what is expected, thanks.
it also gives you true AOD, it won't even allow the screensaver clock to appear.

Thanks for the replies everyone. Downloaded the app in the link and it works great. Thank you, this has solved my issue. Now I can use my S3 for flying.

thedicemaster said:
http://apps.samsung.com/gear/appDetail.as?appId=suQANKUenM
this is the correct link.
it does exactly what is expected, thanks.
it also gives you true AOD, it won't even allow the screensaver clock to appear.
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Your link doesn't work for me. I'm in Spain, and the link just brings up a page with a message in Spanish offering to redirect me to Galaxy apps. No other option, so I accept that and it does indeed open the Galaxy Apps store on my phone - but just at the home page. I need to know the name of your app so I can search for it on there. Can you please therefore confirm the name of your app?

it's called "I Am Alive"
most likely the app isn't available for your region, so your galaxy apps app opens the main page instead.

thedicemaster said:
http://apps.samsung.com/gear/appDetail.as?appId=suQANKUenM
this is the correct link.
it does exactly what is expected, thanks.
it also gives you true AOD, it won't even allow the screensaver clock to appear.
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thedicemaster said:
it's called "I Am Alive"
most likely the app isn't available for your region, so your galaxy apps app opens the main page instead.
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Thanks. I searched for "I Am Alive" in the Galaxy appps store and found it without difficulty, and have downloaded it. Thanks heaps. Just shows, for marketing and practical reasons it's always a good diea to state the actual name of your app whenever you refer to it.

Hi everyone,
The main reason I got this watch was to use as a secondary alti whilst skydiving. I chose it based on the fact that I could use the app to keep the app open.
I tested it during a jump today and unfortunately the watch was still going back to sleep after 2 or 3 minutes. Have Samsung updated the OS to prevent wakelock of any type or something? Has anyone got a workaround or an alternative app?
Alternatively, does anyone know of an android wear OS app method to do this? I may have to refund the S3 and switch to the Huawei watch 2 if I can't get this working unfortunately. It would be a shame if I had to, its a beautiful smart watch (although I have found it to be very limited in certain ways).
Thanks

S-voice appears on Galaxy Store

Hi,
If you open Galaxy App Store, you will see that yesterday, samsung has updated S-Voice.
Did you guys see it?
It may be a start for Bixby Voice?
Lorenzo

I updated but it didn't help Bixby.
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Cant seem to find s voice in the galaxy app store. Can you possibly tell me how to find it?

Here you go:
http://www.samsungapps.com/appquery...eserviceplatform&cntyTxt=262&equipID=SM-G950F
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supergrobi94 said:
Here you go:
http://www.samsungapps.com/appquery...eserviceplatform&cntyTxt=262&equipID=SM-G950F
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Says not supported on my device and/or region. On T-Mobile S8+.

Strange, here in Germany it's working fine on a Galaxy S8 without branding.
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However it su***s. It's not Bixby..

Not for me
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rsfinsrq said:
Says not supported on my device and/or region. On T-Mobile S8+.
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Same here.
Which means we with T-Mobile devices don't get to use voice commands to answer or reject calls. One of my favorite features has been left out! WTF?!

Really REALLY not happy here... I use S-Voice CONSTANTLY.... I have (or had) the ICON on my desktop front and center... for years. Seriously use it 4 or 5 times a day to directions, to make calls, to make appointments. WTF ????
However... and this is the wierd part... It WAS on the phone until the latest update. I bought the phone Saturday.... migrated with switch from my S5... USED S-Voice Saturday evening... noticed an update had been postponed... did the update.... then S-Voice was gone. Again... I repeat... WTF????

I may be dead wrong and talking out of my a** here, but isn't Bixby supposed to replace S voice?

oriondream said:
I may be dead wrong and talking out of my a** here, but isn't Bixby supposed to replace S voice?
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I believe that is what Samsung intends to do.

No S-Voice on Galaxy S-8+ which affects Gear Neo smart watch
I noticed that when I went to reply to a text on my smart watch, a Gear S2 NEO, there was no option to voice text, in fact S-Voice is no longer there at all. I could not find in the Galaxy Store or Play Store. This is a very valued feature on the smart watches to answer your text messages vs templates or emoticons. Please let me know if there are any other options or please bring it back!

I went to the previous link and a message appeared saying I could not download. I went to apk mirror and found this
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/samsung-electronics-co-ltd/s-voice-2/s-voice-2-4-0-00-17-release/s-voice-4-0-00-17-android-apk-download/download/
I was able to download and install. After the install it said it had to update the voice service framework which it automatically downloaded and installed.