| Galaxy Nexus - Can get phone connection through Wifi in room I have a Verizon Fios router in my basement. I cannot get my Galaxy Nexus to make or receive phone calls when in the basement. I can access the web, but when I attempt to dial out,. it just sits in dialing and rarely connects. When I leave the room and go to the second level it can make calls. I have tried to bridge a Netgear router and it makes no difference. I tried to make calls at a friends house through his FIOS router in the basement and it worked. |
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Max SignalPremium
join:2008-03-07
Buffalo, NY
kudos:1 | Your phone cannot make phone calls over wifi only surf the web . You must have had better cellular signal at your friends then you thought . To make phone calls through your internet connection you would need a femtocell . Verizon calls them Network extenders . They are made for Verizon by Samsung
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said by bogeydog:I have a Verizon Fios router in my basement. I cannot get my Galaxy Nexus to make or receive phone calls when in the basement. I can access the web, but when I attempt to dial out,. it just sits in dialing and rarely connects. When I leave the room and go to the second level it can make calls. I have tried to bridge a Netgear router and it makes no difference. I tried to make calls at a friends house through his FIOS router in the basement and it worked.
only Tmo, to my knowledge, allows u to make cell calls via wifi. you can do it with google voice and a sip app. ive dont it a few times, but it requires creating 1-2 new accounts and 1-2 new apps from the market plus a handy step-by-step guide b/c it's pretty confusing. |
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 CptGeminiInside your computerPremium
join:2004-11-29
Corpus Christi, TX
kudos:6
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| said by Somnambul33t:only Tmo, to my knowledge, allows u to make cell calls via wifi. you can do it with google voice and a sip app. ive dont it a few times, but it requires creating 1-2 new accounts and 1-2 new apps from the market plus a handy step-by-step guide b/c it's pretty confusing.
Correct T-mo has an app for their android phones thats simply called something like wifi-calling.
There may be a way though to get a working wifi-calling app for verizon android phones but I am not too sure on where to find it. I am an admin on an android support site and I do recall it being talked about but thats about the extent of what I can remember this morning lol. |
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| said by CptGemini:said by Somnambul33t:only Tmo, to my knowledge, allows u to make cell calls via wifi. you can do it with google voice and a sip app. ive dont it a few times, but it requires creating 1-2 new accounts and 1-2 new apps from the market plus a handy step-by-step guide b/c it's pretty confusing.
Correct T-mo has an app for their android phones thats simply called something like wifi-calling. There may be a way though to get a working wifi-calling app for verizon android phones but I am not too sure on where to find it. I am an admin on an android support site and I do recall it being talked about but thats about the extent of what I can remember this morning lol. you can use Google Voice in combination with SIP droid. i configuring it a long time ago and dont remember how i did it. works fine, but i have to put the phone in airplane mode to ensure it uses wifi and not cdma or w/e |
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CptGeminiInside your computerPremium
join:2004-11-29
Corpus Christi, TX
kudos:6 | I'll have to look in to trying that with mine sometimes. I can disable the mobile data connection on mine and have wifi still work, not sure if its because I got my phone rooted and rommed or not though lol. |
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| smart phones (at least on verizon) connect via data if available and 1x if not. disabling your data connection wont ever prevent you from taking or receiving phone calls or sending/recing texts. the only way to ensure you're making a data call aka voip is to put the phone on airplane mode and then enable wifi. |
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