Hello everyone, my name is Ryan.
Purchased a Samsung Tab S2 with the intention of using it as a replacement for my phone. The tablet currently has a data share plan on it with my Note 4 for Bell Mobility in Canada.
My plan was to switch the two SIM cards out into one another so my phone has just the data, and my tablet has the data, calling, and SMS. I was under the impression from the sails person that I could replace EVERY function of my phone with the tablet. Unfortunately calling seems to be... less than an option. I didn't realize that they would have disabled the function entirely from the device. Even under "Mobile networks" and "Network mode" I only have the option of using either: LTE/WCDMA (auto connect) or WCDMA. Where my phone (despite now having the tablets SIM card with only data sharing (does that matter?)) has the options: GSM only, WCDMA only, WCDMA/GSM (auto connect), and LTE/WCDMA/GSM (auto connect).
My question is, due to lack of info on Bell website about specifications for the device, does the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 (Model# SM-T817W, Android version: 6.0.1) support GSM calling? It seems to not support it directly through software, or avoids it some how. So, does it have the capability of making/receiving calls? I am NOT looking for a VoIP program, I simply want to use the calling that I pay for on my tablet instead of on my phone.
If it DOES have the capability to do so, but is lacking the software/firmware to do so, how would one go about installiung that? I would prefer if I could, not to install an entire OS, as I saw that the Tab 10.1 I think it was had something that just unlocked calling on it, see link for info.
See: Can't post link because I am a new, sorry.
Thanks
Ryan
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Hello everyone, my name is Ryan.
Purchased a Samsung Tab S2 with the intention of using it as a replacement for my phone. The tablet currently has a data share plan on it with my Note 4 for Bell Mobility in Canada.
My plan was to switch the two SIM cards out into one another so my phone has just the data, and my tablet has the data, calling, and SMS. I was under the impression from the sails person that I could replace EVERY function of my phone with the tablet. Unfortunately calling seems to be... less than an option. I didn't realize that they would have disabled the function entirely from the device. Even under "Mobile networks" and "Network mode" I only have the option of using either: LTE/WCDMA (auto connect) or WCDMA. Where my phone (despite now having the tablets SIM card with only data sharing (does that matter?)) has the options: GSM only, WCDMA only, WCDMA/GSM (auto connect), and LTE/WCDMA/GSM (auto connect).
My question is, due to lack of info on Bell website about specifications for the device, does the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 (Model# SM-T817W, Android version: 6.0.1) support GSM calling? It seems to not support it directly through software, or avoids it some how. So, does it have the capability of making/receiving calls? I am NOT looking for a VoIP program, I simply want to use the calling that I pay for on my tablet instead of on my phone.
If it DOES have the capability to do so, but is lacking the software/firmware to do so, how would one go about installiung that? I would prefer if I could, not to install an entire OS, as I saw that the Tab 10.1 I think it was had something that just unlocked calling on it, see link for info.
See: Can't post link because I am a new, sorry.
Thanks
Ryan
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upon searching i couldn't find the exact version of your device model. are you sure that it supported voice calling and the salesman confirmed this?
Would it be possible to call samsung customer care to confirm the model you have does support voice/gsm
Hello,
I have a Gear S2 3G (ATT) and a Galaxy S7. I havent activated mobile data on the watch (thus no ATT number is associated with S2).
Problem: The watch connects to WIFI automatically when I lose Bluetooth connection with phone (ex: out of range). But, WHEN BLUETOOTH CONNECTION IS LOST, AND WIFI KICKS IN, THE WATCH DOES NOT RECEIVE ANY TEXTS, EMAILS OR NOTIFICATIONS. ALSO, SENDING TEXT DOES NOT WORK IN WIFI EITHER. (All watch functions work flawlessly when connected to phone via Bluetooth , by the way)
To date: I have checked all notification and application settings on watch and phone. Numerous level of restart sequences and resets (light and factory) have been tried. The only unresolved issue is "Remote Connection" cannot be turned on in the Gear app on phone. I have spent several hours with Samsung support and read ALL of the post in the internet about S2 connectivity issues (many posts) . One post suggested freezing overnight!!
Does anyone have any resolution suggestions before I send my Gear S2 to Samsung for a hardware/software check?
Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance for your responses.
FLB
When I received my watch last Friday 12st I scanned the sime barcode which came with the E-Sim.
However, I cant make calls or connect to the network without my phone.
The error I get is "Sim is not Provisioned for Voice"
I've googled this and it just says remove the sim and replace but obviously thats not an option on the galaxy watch.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks guys!
Who is your service provider for the Watch?
nunyabiziz said:
Who is your service provider for the Watch?
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O2. Same as my phone contact
DuncanMummery said:
When I received my watch last Friday 12st I scanned the sime barcode which came with the E-Sim.
However, I cant make calls or connect to the network without my phone.
The error I get is "Sim is not Provisioned for Voice"
I've googled this and it just says remove the sim and replace but obviously thats not an option on the galaxy watch.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks guys!
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Hi I having same problem. Also with o2.
I had the same issue with ATT. I called and they properly matched the device to the SIM.
DuncanMummery said:
When I received my watch last Friday 12st I scanned the sime barcode which came with the E-Sim.
However, I cant make calls or connect to the network without my phone.
The error I get is "Sim is not Provisioned for Voice"
I've googled this and it just says remove the sim and replace but obviously thats not an option on the galaxy watch.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks guys!
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I also have the same problem. I'm with O2 on my Phone and Watch eSIM. Did you manage to get this resolved?
I'm from India and I use Airtel as my network, I cannot dial out without the phone and bluetooth, I get the message "cannot connect to network"
Has the UK been able to resolve this issue ? I personally think this must be a network issue / software upgrade ???
Hey all,
I've just been theough 3 months of hell trying to get this resolved through my service provider. Endless factory resets on the watch and clearing all data from the Galaxy Wear app to no avail.
Finally, today after they told me yet again to do a reset, I took the additional step to manually remove the data plan in my watch settings and then selected the option to set up the data plan itself by mirroring what the phone uses.
Finally I had success.
Cheers,
BG
BeeerGutt said:
Hey all,
I've just been theough 3 months of hell trying to get this resolved through my service provider. Endless factory resets on the watch and clearing all data from the Galaxy Wear app to no avail.
Finally, today after they told me yet again to do a reset, I took the additional step to manually remove the data plan in my watch settings and then selected the option to set up the data plan itself by mirroring what the phone uses.
Finally I had success.
Cheers,
BG
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I have the same problem.. Can you explain to us in detail how you did that? Or is it possible to explain to us the video so that it is a reference for us? Or if there is a video on YouTube explaining to us how to set the clock if we encounter this problem
Hello, I want to buy a cheap US phone plan for my Watch4. I am seeking:
- esim capability
- without requiring to have the smartphone plan. I do not want to change my current carrier.
- Could be Prepaid or postpaid
- Since a watch hardly uses any data, even a 500MB per month will be enough.
Any suggestions?
Who's your Carrier?
I'm good with TMobile unlimited plan w/ Digits esim addon ....
galaxys said:
Who's your Carrier?
I'm good with TMobile unlimited plan w/ Digits esim addon ....
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I am on at&t.
I don't think I can have digits without t-mobile phone plan.
sjgoel said:
I am on at&t.
I don't think I can have digits without t-mobile phone plan.
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That sounds correct, But you could go to a T-Mobile store for options...
I hear there are some $5 plans, but did not find one with esim.
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Hello, I want to buy a cheap US phone plan for my Watch4. I am seeking:
- esim capability
- without requiring to have the smartphone plan. I do not want to change my current carrier.
- Could be Prepaid or postpaid
- Since a watch hardly uses any data, even a 500MB per month will be enough.
Any suggestions?
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I just set this up today. I have a Google pixel phone with Google Fi and wanted a standalone LTE watch with a separate phone number to my phone.
Steps:
- I purchased a Watch 4 LTE at Samsung store then walked to the nearest T-Mobile store. At that point I was not a T-Mobile customer.
- I asked to get the $5 per month Wearables 500mb plan (unlimited talk, messages, 500mb data). They did a trans union credit check and set it up. It took about 15 minutes.
-They took my watch's EID number to connect the watch to my new plan
-I then set up my T-Mobile online account and added the new phone number of the watch
- Once logged in to my T-Mobile account online, I got the esim QR code data from here: https://www.t-mobile.com/support/devices/t-mobile-esim#heading4. The activation code is what the QR code contains, this is what you need to paste into the watch: LPA:1$T-MOBILE.GDSB.NET$
- Next step is to enable access to the watch's esim as standalone is not officially supported by Samsung:
- Open Galaxy Wearables app on your phone; go top left menu and click "About Galaxy Wearable"; tap "Galaxy Wearable" text about 5 times to open the developer options; Tap "Test ESIM Feature"; Tap "Current QR TestMode : off" to turn it on.
- In Wearables App go to "Watch Settings" and tap "Mobile Plans" and tap QR scanner; enter activation code manually - paste the esim qr data obtained in above step
-Watch will connect to T-Mobile and ask to download something to finish setup.
- In Google Messages on the watch I can switch between my pixel phone number and watch number to view, send and receive texts.
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I just set this up today. I have a Google pixel phone with Google Fi and wanted a standalone LTE watch with a separate phone number to my phone.
Steps:
- I purchased a Watch 4 LTE at Samsung store then walked to the nearest T-Mobile store. At that point I was not a T-Mobile customer.
- I asked to get the $5 per month Wearables 500mb plan (unlimited talk, messages, 500mb data). They did a trans union credit check and set it up. It took about 15 minutes.
-They took my watch's EID number to connect the watch to my new plan
-I then set up my T-Mobile online account and added the new phone number of the watch
- Once logged in to my T-Mobile account online, I got the esim QR code data from here: https://www.t-mobile.com/support/devices/t-mobile-esim#heading4. The activation code is what the QR code contains, this is what you need to paste into the watch: LPA:1$T-MOBILE.GDSB.NET$
- Next step is to enable access to the watch's esim as standalone is not officially supported by Samsung:
- Open Galaxy Wearables app on your phone; go top left menu and click "About Galaxy Wearable"; tap "Galaxy Wearable" text about 5 times to open the developer options; Tap "Test ESIM Feature"; Tap "Current QR TestMode : off" to turn it on.
- In Wearables App go to "Watch Settings" and tap "Mobile Plans" and tap QR scanner; enter activation code manually - paste the esim qr data obtained in above step
-Watch will connect to T-Mobile and ask to download something to finish setup.
- In Google Messages on the watch I can switch between my pixel phone number and watch number to view, send and receive texts.
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Thanks for your effort in writing this detailed, lengthy post.
Very helpful.
galaxys said:
That sounds correct, But you could go to a T-Mobile store for options...
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My first smartwatch, GW, I bought a plan on T-Mobile for stand-alone while I was on Sprint. This was way before they merged. I just went into a T-Mobile store and purchased a plan, at that time, for $15.00 a month.
sjgoel said:
Hello, I want to buy a cheap US phone plan for my Watch4. I am seeking:
- esim capability
- without requiring to have the smartphone plan. I do not want to change my current carrier.
- Could be Prepaid or postpaid
- Since a watch hardly uses any data, even a 500MB per month will be enough.
Any suggestions?
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Dent Wireless is perfect for those kind of things
en6ads said:
I just set this up today. I have a Google pixel phone with Google Fi and wanted a standalone LTE watch with a separate phone number to my phone.
Steps:
- I purchased a Watch 4 LTE at Samsung store then walked to the nearest T-Mobile store. At that point I was not a T-Mobile customer.
- I asked to get the $5 per month Wearables 500mb plan (unlimited talk, messages, 500mb data). They did a trans union credit check and set it up. It took about 15 minutes.
-They took my watch's EID number to connect the watch to my new plan
-I then set up my T-Mobile online account and added the new phone number of the watch
- Once logged in to my T-Mobile account online, I got the esim QR code data from here: https://www.t-mobile.com/support/devices/t-mobile-esim#heading4. The activation code is what the QR code contains, this is what you need to paste into the watch: LPA:1$T-MOBILE.GDSB.NET$
- Next step is to enable access to the watch's esim as standalone is not officially supported by Samsung:
- Open Galaxy Wearables app on your phone; go top left menu and click "About Galaxy Wearable"; tap "Galaxy Wearable" text about 5 times to open the developer options; Tap "Test ESIM Feature"; Tap "Current QR TestMode : off" to turn it on.
- In Wearables App go to "Watch Settings" and tap "Mobile Plans" and tap QR scanner; enter activation code manually - paste the esim qr data obtained in above step
-Watch will connect to T-Mobile and ask to download something to finish setup.
- In Google Messages on the watch I can switch between my pixel phone number and watch number to view, send and receive texts.
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You have one number on your mobile and another on watch. Are they connected together in some way, ie a call on phone can be answered from the watch?
Are you connected through digits or not?
sjgoel said:
You have one number on your mobile and another on watch. Are they connected together in some way, ie a call on phone can be answered from the watch?
Are you connected through digits or not?
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-My phone has a google fi number. My watch has a separate t-mobile number
-With 2 separate lines like I have, ideally you'd want to forward phone calls to the watch number when the phone is off, out of range or doesn't pick up; and similarly watch calls to the phone number when off, etc
-Text messages for watch and phone just work. They only need a data connection and are both routed to the watch via bluetooth tether, wifi or LTE data. With watch bluetooth and wifi disabled, I receive text messages to both numbers, and when I reply they show as coming from the number they were sent to. However, watch 4 notifications only seem to work for the watch number with only lte enabled (I get all phone texts, just not notified about them, still testing this one)
-Not sure what digits is. To set this up, the store employee added my watch's EID number to my account, then at home I pasted t-mobile's esim activation code (LPA:1$T-MOBILE.GDSB.NET$) into the watch at "enter activation code manually" step. You don't need the QR code once you know what it contains.
- My use case:
In the "phone" app on the watch 4, Settings -> Preferred number -> "Always ask"
In the "phone" app on the watch 4, Settings -> Supplementary services -> Call waiting enabled
On the watch: Settings -> Connections -> Mobile Networks -> set to "Auto"
I have conditional forwarding enabled for the watch number: with watch LTE on, in the "phone" app on watch, dial *004*phone's number#, and select watch number to dial from (more details on MMI codes here: https://www.androidauthority.com/call-forwarding-android-870778/)
Google Fi does not support conditional call forwarding. When I type the *004* MMI code I get an error saying not supported by google Fi.
Google Fi does have unconditional forwarding, however. I have this enabled (setting in their app).
When watch and phone are paired (LTE off):
I receive calls sent to both phone or watch numbers
I can place a phone number call, but not a watch number call (LTE is off)
When I'm out without my phone (LTE on):
I receive calls sent to both phone or watch numbers
I can place a watch number call, but not a phone number call
When the watch only has wifi on (so LTE and bluetooth disabled)
I cannot receive any calls
I cannot place any calls
Looks like VoWifi is not working
CrazyCypher said:
Dent Wireless is perfect for those kind of things
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Seems that wearables are not supported by esim.
https://www.dentwireless.com/esimpossibilities
sjgoel said:
Seems that wearables are not supported by esim.
https://www.dentwireless.com/esimpossibilities
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I'm using it right now on my Galaxy Watch 4
If you have issues with connecting contact support they are super friendly.
CrazyCypher said:
I'm using it right now on my Galaxy Watch 4
If you have issues with connecting contact support they are super friendly.
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Ok. just that it was not in the list of supported devices. Thanks.
sjgoel said:
Ok. just that it was not in the list of supported devices. Thanks.
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Yes I know, I tried it anyway and it worked so this is why I'm telling this
Interesting. I am glad I someone finally made this work. I have been trying to find a way to get on T-Mobile $5 watch plan while my phone is on AT&T.
mbze430 said:
Interesting. I am glad I someone finally made this work. I have been trying to find a way to get on T-Mobile $5 watch plan while my phone is on AT&T.
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I am in the same boat.
On my watch4, LTE internet works fine with $5 T-mobile plan, but calling/SMS does not. Call or SMS does not go through. Have tried lot of options, while spending hours on phone with tech support.
en6ads said:
I just set this up today. I have a Google pixel phone with Google Fi and wanted a standalone LTE watch with a separate phone number to my phone.
Steps:
- I purchased a Watch 4 LTE at Samsung store then walked to the nearest T-Mobile store. At that point I was not a T-Mobile customer.
- I asked to get the $5 per month Wearables 500mb plan (unlimited talk, messages, 500mb data). They did a trans union credit check and set it up. It took about 15 minutes.
-They took my watch's EID number to connect the watch to my new plan
-I then set up my T-Mobile online account and added the new phone number of the watch
- Once logged in to my T-Mobile account online, I got the esim QR code data from here: https://www.t-mobile.com/support/devices/t-mobile-esim#heading4. The activation code is what the QR code contains, this is what you need to paste into the watch: LPA:1$T-MOBILE.GDSB.NET$
- Next step is to enable access to the watch's esim as standalone is not officially supported by Samsung:
- Open Galaxy Wearables app on your phone; go top left menu and click "About Galaxy Wearable"; tap "Galaxy Wearable" text about 5 times to open the developer options; Tap "Test ESIM Feature"; Tap "Current QR TestMode : off" to turn it on.
- In Wearables App go to "Watch Settings" and tap "Mobile Plans" and tap QR scanner; enter activation code manually - paste the esim qr data obtained in above step
-Watch will connect to T-Mobile and ask to download something to finish setup.
- In Google Messages on the watch I can switch between my pixel phone number and watch number to view, send and receive texts.
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Finally LTE works with $5 T-mobile plan, but calling/SMS from watch does not (when not paired with phone). Any suggestions? Thanks.
sjgoel said:
I am in the same boat.
On my watch4, LTE internet works fine with $5 T-mobile plan, but calling/SMS does not. Call or SMS does not go through. Have tried lot of options, while spending hours on phone with tech support.
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guess I will wait for you to figure out that part then I will head down to T-mobile lol
mbze430 said:
guess I will wait for you to figure out that part then I will head down to T-mobile lol
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ha ha .... It took TMO a week to get here, despite the wonderful guide provided by en6ads
Hope another week!!
I use a Realme GT Master Edition as my primary device, got a Galaxy Watch 4 LTE today after pairing it up tried setting up the mobile plan and got an error
My network is Jio (India)
When on 5g the wearable app gives error code 5000
When on 4g it gives error code 4001
Any fix for this issue? Messes up the whole functionality of the lte version
Insomniac05 said:
I use a Realme GT Master Edition as my primary device, got a Galaxy Watch 4 LTE today after pairing it up tried setting up the mobile plan and got an error
My network is Jio (India)
When on 5g the wearable app gives error code 5000
When on 4g it gives error code 4001
Any fix for this issue? Messes up the whole functionality of the lte version
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Turns out you need a galaxy device to set-up the cellular plan
1. Put your sim in a galaxy mobile then pair your watch to it
2. Setup the watch and activate your cellular plan on the watch
3. Wait to get the full network functionality on the watch then take a backup and reset your watch
4. Put your sim back to your original mobile and pair the watch with it
5. Setup the watch and restore your backup
Cellular plan should be working now