I am trying to connect to wifi and the use my phone as a router on a upcoming trip while in airplane mode. I know you used to be able to do this but I can not find the option in 5.02. The only option is tethering with my 4g which will not be an option as we will be out of the country. I tried several apps but they all use 4G. Anyone have an idea on how to do this? Thank you
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I posted this in the CoreDroid thread, but no one has given any illumination. I also searched and didn't see anything pertinent. SO, here it is for general consumption:
I didn't see a solution to this issue so, maybe someone can say they've had it too, and maybe help me fix it.
Whenever I enable hotspot, it switches my phone to 3G and it won't switch back to HSPA+ unless I cycle airplane mode to reconnect to the network. Any ideas?
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Thanks for your help. Also, I did confirm in network settings. Usually the network type is HPDSA, but if I use the hotspot it will be UTMS until I cycle airplane to get a fresh network connection.
Does anyone know if it's possible to disable just the cellular network on Windows Phone? I've got an Omnia 7 and all I can do is disable everything or disable 3G. Sometimes I want to be able to ignore all calls and texts but keep Wifi on. Anyone got any ideas?
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The easiest way is to disable everything (Flight Mode: on), and then enable Wifi...
Hope this helps,
Stephen
@sermann is correct. Enabling the Flight Mode will turn off everything, but you can then manually re-enable things like WiFi. The cellular radio will stay off until you exit Flight Mode, though.
I am using Avast on 3 different stock rooted phones and it's anti-theft features are pretty nice. only problem is to get a GPS fix it not only needs the GPS enabled, but also needs a data connection, either connected wifi or 3/4g to recieve the coordinates back at their server (at least in my short testing that seems to be the case). Avast anti-theft has the ability to reboot the phone, so Is there a way I can get my phones to enable 3g by default at startup?
Also, if their is better anti theft with location capabilities please feel free to chime in, but it must be able to give proper location information no matter what the state of the data connection or be able to enable data when pinged for its location.
Any help is appreciated.
Phones (Ting network, a Sprint MVNO):
Samsung Epic 4g Touch SPH-D710 stock rooted
Samsung Epic slider SPH-D700 stock rooted
Lg Marquee LS855 stock rooted
Sorry i didn't simply edit my post. Figured a reply would help to bump it up the threads.
In further testing (on the Epic Touch) it appears avast auto enables wifi, but does not enable 3g. Avast gives me ability to disable/enable a "forced data connection" when it is sent a locate command. When this 'forced data" option is enabled and a command is sent it only enables wifi, not 3g.
I have turned my wifi router off, disabled my wifi and 3g on the handset, sent the appropriate commands and still 3g never enables. I had hoped that when avast triggers the "forced data connection" that since i have no wifi signal available it would enable wifi, never connect to a wifi signal and fall back to 3g but this just isn't the case. wifi turns on, never connects and 3g never enables.
I would presume that if i left the "forced data connection" option of avast disabled i could simply send a command to reboot the phone, the reboot would turn on 3g (provided someone knows how to make it happen), then I could send locate command and this would be an acceptable work around. If anyone understands what I'm getting at and knows how to set up my phone so 3g enables on bootup that would be a huge help.
I have yet to test the avast features on the other phones, but am presuming they will operate in the same fashion and will need the same work around to be implemented. The whole reason for all of this is that I don't have unlimited data and don't want to leave my 3g on all the time to be able to locate my phone in the event of loss. kinda useless if I lose the phone and have no way to engage the features needed to track and recover it.
Again, all help and suggestions greatly appreciated
My provider (O2 Germany) allows WiFi Calling (voice over WiFi) and I have activated it on my P20.
Is there an option to "Prefer WiFi connections when available?"
At home, the mobile networks only work near the windows. Within the flat, mobile calls often get lost so I am glad to finally have a phone that can use the WiFi network.
By default, the phone prefers the mobile network and only switches to WiFi when the mobile network is lost.
Can I set the phone to prefer WiFi and use that when available and only switch to the mobile network when WiFi is out of range?
I have read somewhere that Samsung phones provide such an option, but cannot find it on the Huawei P20 phone.
The only workaround I have found, is to switch on airplane mode and then manually switch on WiFi. That works and I can still make and receive calls that way.
I looked through Developers Options, but could not find any such setting.
Anyone?
I am searching also for that setting. My mobile network signal is to low to live and to high to die......
Would appreciate if that annoying P20 would give me the ability to decide how it should behave....
Thanks on any help!
The only way I found to force WiFi calling is to switch to airplane mode and then switch WiFi on again. Then the phone will remain constantly in WiFi calling mode. You just need to remember to switch off airplane mode when you leave the house.
I just got angry after my post an treated Google.
For the Moment i found a solution, hope that will persist...
If i go to the dual SIM Config Menu there is an option to activate LTE on both SIM Cards. It is, in my German Branded P20, the last option.
When i disable that option as mentioned on the Internet the phone takes 5s and switches automatically and, for the moment, permanent to WiFi Calling...
Crazy. Hope that solves the issue foe me permanent and maybe helps for you also?
I think there is no bigger disadvantage on deactivating the function when WiFi Calling is now working properly
I just received a new firmware update to EML-L29 8.1.0.165(C432) which adds VoLTE and VoWiFi features - I thought we already had those features, but maybe they have improved them. I have not seen any new settings and even with your suggested settings, I am not getting permanent VoWiFi.
Hi Peter,
after some days testing i have to report, that was happy to early...
Just not reliable, also with my "hack", which also caused me some other troubles in regions were i have the issue that the carrier has just build LTE transmitters and no other frequencies.
Also, WiFi Calling works not really reliable on Huawei P20. Annoying!
So we have to hope that Huawei will bring a fix for that....
I used to be able to use Tmo wifi calling on airplane mode before the update. I can't use it now, any fix ?
I have the latest firmware on my T-Mobile edition of the A71 5G:
Check your network preference under Wi-Fi Calling and make sure it's set to "Wi-Fi Preferred"; with that setting I am still able to make calls via Wi-Fi Calling while my phone is in airplane mode.