Wi Fi Calling

[bcso48]

This may have already been asked in here but I couldn't find it.
Yesterday I ran into an old friend who has an S3 on T mobile. We were comparing phones and I told him I love the phone but my call quality wasn't quite as good as with my droid x.
He told me to go into settings and enable WiFI calling. He walked me through the process only to find out my phone didn't offer the option. Is there any Apps that can give me the option ??
If I root the phone will this give me the option ??..The way he presented it his phone still uses his same phone number but the call is WiFI based. This would help me greatly around my house where I have poor signal quality...

 

[Ceetar]

could this be a google voice integration thing?

 

[bcso48]

I don't know but his phone had a WiFi Calling option mine clearly did not.

 

[Blaize19]

No, it's a service that Tmo offers. Not sure if the others offer it, and I imagine there's an extra radio or software that allows it.

On the other hand, using Google voice would give you the same capability, I think.

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[xliderider]

No, it's a service that Tmo offers.

Yes, TMo service:

T-Mobile finally announces UMA (Wi-Fi calling) for Android phones | | DroidDog Android BlogDroidDog Android Blog

 

[dpham00]

No, it's a service that Tmo offers. Not sure if the others offer it, and I imagine there's an extra radio or software that allows it.

On the other hand, using Google voice would give you the same capability, I think.

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you would have to use grooveip or similar to use voip. gv alone can't call over data.

 

[jneusch]

Maybe this would work for you:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vonage.TimeToCall&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS52b25hZ2UuVGltZVRvQ2FsbCJd

3000 minutes per month through Vonage mobile for free.

 

[bcso48]

Just signed up for Google voice and it seems to do the trick. Its pretty cool actually I had heard of it but never used it..

 

[ncc1701p]

My trick is using Groove IP w/ my google voice account.

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...51bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5ndm9pcCJd&token=az8ECeTl

When im overseas with accessable wifi i use this to make/take calls and it works. Sometimes there could be slightly lag but it works very good