On 07/06/2025 19:24, micky wrote:
The description on my phone is "Use VoLTE to improve the quality of
voice calls" because, I think, at the time the phone was made, 4, 5
maybe 6 years ago, 3G was everywhere, and now it's nowhere, and now the
phone doesn't work at all unless you turn on VoLTE.
But for newer phones there might not be such a choice because VoLTE is
always on.
Did I get that right?
More or less. Back in the day, making a voice call on a 4G phone meant stepping back to 3G (or lower). Then VoLTE was phased in. Most phones
should just use it. On an older 4G phone you may need to explicitly set the phone to use VoLTE.
The description on my phone is "Use VoLTE to improve the quality of
voice calls" because, I think, at the time the phone was made, 4, 5
maybe 6 years ago, 3G was everywhere, and now it's nowhere, and now the
phone doesn't work at all unless you turn on VoLTE.
But for newer phones there might not be such a choice because VoLTE is
always on.
Did I get that right?
On 2025-06-07 21:26, Jason H wrote:
On 07/06/2025 19:24, micky wrote:
The description on my phone is "Use VoLTE to improve the quality of
voice calls" because, I think, at the time the phone was made, 4, 5
maybe 6 years ago, 3G was everywhere, and now it's nowhere, and now the
phone doesn't work at all unless you turn on VoLTE.
But for newer phones there might not be such a choice because VoLTE is
always on.
Did I get that right?
More or less. Back in the day, making a voice call on a 4G phone meant
stepping back to 3G (or lower). Then VoLTE was phased in. Most phones
should just use it. On an older 4G phone you may need to explicitly set the >> phone to use VoLTE.
I just looked on my two phones, Motorola G52 (4G) and G62 (5G).
Searching for volte in config finds nothing.
I just looked on my two phones, Motorola G52 (4G) and G62 (5G).
Searching for volte in config finds nothing.
Carlos E.R. wrote:
I just looked on my two phones, Motorola G52 (4G) and G62 (5G).
Searching for volte in config finds nothing.
On my Pixel it appears within SIMs as "4G calling" rather than "VoLTE",
but it doesn't show in a search for either phrase.
On 2025-06-07 21:51, Andy Burns wrote:
Carlos E.R. wrote:
I just looked on my two phones, Motorola G52 (4G) and G62 (5G).
Searching for volte in config finds nothing.
On my Pixel it appears within SIMs as "4G calling" rather than "VoLTE",
but it doesn't show in a search for either phrase.
There is one entry on SIM preferences to activate WiFi calls, with the >warning to ask first the provider. As I get as many calls as I want for >"free", I see no advantage to try wifi calls.
On 2025-06-07 21:51, Andy Burns wrote:
Carlos E.R. wrote:
I just looked on my two phones, Motorola G52 (4G) and G62 (5G).
Searching for volte in config finds nothing.
On my Pixel it appears within SIMs as "4G calling" rather than "VoLTE",
but it doesn't show in a search for either phrase.
There is one entry on SIM preferences to activate WiFi calls, with the warning to ask first the provider. As I get as many calls as I want for "free", I see no advantage to try wifi calls.
On 07/06/2025 19:24, micky wrote:
The description on my phone is "Use VoLTE to improve the quality of
voice calls" because, I think, at the time the phone was made, 4, 5
maybe 6 years ago, 3G was everywhere, and now it's nowhere, and now the >>phone doesn't work at all unless you turn on VoLTE.
But for newer phones there might not be such a choice because VoLTE is >>always on.
Did I get that right?
More or less. Back in the day, making a voice call on a 4G phone meant
stepping back to 3G (or lower). Then VoLTE was phased in. Most phones
should just use it. On an older 4G phone you may need to explicitly set the phone to use VoLTE.
In comp.mobile.android, on Sat, 7 Jun 2025 19:26:13 -0000 (UTC), Jason H ><[email protected]> wrote:
On 07/06/2025 19:24, micky wrote:
The description on my phone is "Use VoLTE to improve the quality of
voice calls" because, I think, at the time the phone was made, 4, 5
maybe 6 years ago, 3G was everywhere, and now it's nowhere, and now the >>>phone doesn't work at all unless you turn on VoLTE.
But for newer phones there might not be such a choice because VoLTE is >>>always on.
Did I get that right?
More or less. Back in the day, making a voice call on a 4G phone meant
stepping back to 3G (or lower). Then VoLTE was phased in. Most phones
should just use it. On an older 4G phone you may need to explicitly set the >> phone to use VoLTE.
After I left my friend with the broken phone on Thrusday evening, when I
got home, my phone started to have the same problem, like it was
contagious. I couldn't call or get calls (although unlike hers, for me
the web worked all right) I tried resetting connections and running
mobile network diagnostics and the first didn't help and there
apparently were't any diagnositics, and the only one I hadn't tried was
"use VoLTE" and it fixed everything. And I don't know how it got turned
off.
And it hadn't sounded important: improve quality. Now if they
said "Make it work when it won't" that would have sounded important..
So I thought it might do the same for her (I'd forgotten about her web >browswers not working.) But her phone is newer and probably uses it all
the time.
On 07.06.2025 22:29, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2025-06-07 21:51, Andy Burns wrote:
Carlos E.R. wrote:
I just looked on my two phones, Motorola G52 (4G) and G62 (5G).
Searching for volte in config finds nothing.
On my Pixel it appears within SIMs as "4G calling" rather than "VoLTE",
but it doesn't show in a search for either phrase.
There is one entry on SIM preferences to activate WiFi calls, with the
warning to ask first the provider. As I get as many calls as I want for
"free", I see no advantage to try wifi calls.
VOLTE is something completely different. That describes the technology
that is used for voice calls. It is standard and newer ones use 5G.
Wifi calling is activated to have better connections in buildings. It is
the fall back in case the connection in the public network cannot be sustained like in large office buildings or in rural areas with weak coverage. It is not particularly clever to deactivate wifi-calling.
On 2025-06-07 22:55, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
On 07.06.2025 22:29, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2025-06-07 21:51, Andy Burns wrote:
Carlos E.R. wrote:
I just looked on my two phones, Motorola G52 (4G) and G62 (5G).
Searching for volte in config finds nothing.
On my Pixel it appears within SIMs as "4G calling" rather than "VoLTE", >>>> but it doesn't show in a search for either phrase.
There is one entry on SIM preferences to activate WiFi calls, with the
warning to ask first the provider. As I get as many calls as I want for
"free", I see no advantage to try wifi calls.
VOLTE is something completely different. That describes the technology
that is used for voice calls. It is standard and newer ones use 5G.
Wifi calling is activated to have better connections in buildings. It is
the fall back in case the connection in the public network cannot be
sustained like in large office buildings or in rural areas with weak
coverage. It is not particularly clever to deactivate wifi-calling.
It was never active in my phones. I would have to manually activate, and
the toggle warns me to ask my provider first.
Andy Burns wrote:
On my Pixel it appears within SIMs as "4G calling" rather than
"VoLTE", but it doesn't show in a search for either phrase.
There is one entry on SIM preferences to activate WiFi calls, with the warning to ask first the provider.
As I get as many calls as I want forFor me, it's not about free calls (my contract has unlimited calls/sms)
"free", I see no advantage to try wifi calls.
Carlos E.R. wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
On my Pixel it appears within SIMs as "4G calling" rather than
"VoLTE", but it doesn't show in a search for either phrase.
There is one entry on SIM preferences to activate WiFi calls, with the
warning to ask first the provider.
<http://andyburns.uk/misc/android-4G-calling.png>
As I get as many calls as I want forFor me, it's not about free calls (my contract has unlimited calls/sms)
"free", I see no advantage to try wifi calls.
it's about better signal in certain places.
On 2025-06-07 22:55, J�rg Lorenz wrote:
On 07.06.2025 22:29, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2025-06-07 21:51, Andy Burns wrote:
Carlos E.R. wrote:
I just looked on my two phones, Motorola G52 (4G) and G62 (5G).
Searching for volte in config finds nothing.
On my Pixel it appears within SIMs as "4G calling" rather than "VoLTE", >>>> but it doesn't show in a search for either phrase.
There is one entry on SIM preferences to activate WiFi calls, with the
warning to ask first the provider. As I get as many calls as I want for
"free", I see no advantage to try wifi calls.
VOLTE is something completely different. That describes the technology
that is used for voice calls. It is standard and newer ones use 5G.
Wifi calling is activated to have better connections in buildings. It is
the fall back in case the connection in the public network cannot be
sustained like in large office buildings or in rural areas with weak
coverage. It is not particularly clever to deactivate wifi-calling.
It was never active in my phones. I would have to manually activate, and
the toggle warns me to ask my provider first.
In comp.mobile.android, on Sun, 8 Jun 2025 03:30:42 +0200, "Carlos E.R." <[email protected]d> wrote:Exactly!
On 2025-06-07 22:55, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
On 07.06.2025 22:29, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2025-06-07 21:51, Andy Burns wrote:
Carlos E.R. wrote:
I just looked on my two phones, Motorola G52 (4G) and G62 (5G).
Searching for volte in config finds nothing.
On my Pixel it appears within SIMs as "4G calling" rather than "VoLTE", >>>>> but it doesn't show in a search for either phrase.
There is one entry on SIM preferences to activate WiFi calls, with the >>>> warning to ask first the provider. As I get as many calls as I want for >>>> "free", I see no advantage to try wifi calls.
VOLTE is something completely different. That describes the technology
that is used for voice calls. It is standard and newer ones use 5G.
Wifi calling is activated to have better connections in buildings. It is >>> the fall back in case the connection in the public network cannot be
sustained like in large office buildings or in rural areas with weak
coverage. It is not particularly clever to deactivate wifi-calling.
It was never active in my phones. I would have to manually activate, and
the toggle warns me to ask my provider first.
Isn't that mostly to find out if the provider supports it, especially
since that the start, few did.
Carlos E.R. wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
On my Pixel it appears within SIMs as "4G calling" rather than
"VoLTE", but it doesn't show in a search for either phrase.
There is one entry on SIM preferences to activate WiFi calls, with the
warning to ask first the provider.
<http://andyburns.uk/misc/android-4G-calling.png>
As I get as many calls as I want for "free", I see no advantage to tryFor me, it's not about free calls (my contract has unlimited calls/sms)
wifi calls.
it's about better signal in certain places.
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