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I just found out my aging Android doesn't support 4G calling, and will be reduced to a small tablet when 2Degrees turn off 3G later this year;
https://www.2degrees.nz/help/mobile-help/troubleshooting/things-to-know-about-our-3g-shutdown
Does anyone have a disused Android capable of VoLTE calling over 4G, which they'd be willing to donate to a struggling tech activist?
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My Samsung S9 lost the ability to make and recieve calls and messages in Australia last September. Data still works fine.
Not sure about your Telco's in NZ, but here, they switched off the 3G system then and, for some unexplained reason, it took about 55,000 4G/VoLTE phones with it.
An awful lot were fairly recent Samsung's, like mine.
Its not a LineageOS problem, I'm still using it.
It appears my Android can do 4G mobile data, but not VoLTE calling. So ... is that a software support limitation? Could installing LineageOS make it VoLTE capable? There seems to have a LineageOS build for it;
The terrible thing about SIP is that there are about a thousands ways to achieve the same result.
So it's not just about whether the firmware supports VoLTE, it's about whether you have the exact right settings and optimisations to make it work on the network you want to connect it to. I'm certainly not going to say you can't do VoLTE on LineageOS, but I am going to say that on a spectrum of "just works" to "holy shit that was epic" it's probably going to fall more towards the latter.
You're welcome to either of them. Might be best to do a little more research first just to check the
Thanks so much @thomasbeagle!
If I finish figuring out how to get a current OS into my PinePhone, that might help. Depending on whether that supports VoLTE calling over 4G, in a way that's compatible with the 2Degrees network.
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