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mclarenross
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I dropped Verizon like a bad habit last night and today Im wondering if I did the right thing. At my desk at work I have zero service but we have good wifi so I figured no issue, ill use Wifi calling. Except for some reason I dont have the wifi calling options in setting anymore..... Reading online and it seems that the wifi calling wasnt enabled in the first release of the VZW Note 7 firmware but Im on the second release v2 Green Battery firmware and still dont have it. Im pretty sure I had wifi calling before I switched to T-Mobile but Im not 100% as I had good VZW service and didnt need the wifi calling.

Second, can I flash this 930V with the 930T firmware and get rid of all the Verizon crap?
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Does this help? It's for the S7, but I thought it still may work?

https://support.t-mobile.com/community/ ... id_1376315
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mclarenross
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Yea that was my first try. There is no WiFi Calling option under advanced options at all.
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with my Straight Talk sim in my Verizon Note 7, I cannot activate it either. I do see it, but it's grayed out under "Activate Advanced Calling". I tried accessing it directly by using Quick Shortcut Maker and creating an icon for wi-fi calling, but it said I was denied permission.

So, my next try for you would be install Quick Shortcut Maker, and under Activities, search for wi-fi calling (you must use the dash in wi-fi, not wifi) and create a shortcut on one of you home screens. Then try to launch it from there... Any luck?
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mclarenross
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Tried that and it doesn't even show it as being there. What firmware version are you on?
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This is what I'm on.
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This is what I'm on... I also have a T-Mobile SIM card, in addition to the Straight Talk SIM card. I figured at least this way I would have options...

I will try to put it in the T-Mobile SIM card again tomorrow and see what I can do. Initially, for me, even though I was not happy with the Straight Talk service I was even less happy with T-Mobile... I'm waiting to get up the nerve to just put my new Verizon SIM card back into my device for an extended period of time...
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mclarenross
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Damn we have the exact same everything it seems. Yea let me know if you have the setting options with the T-Mobile SIM please.
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All tbis in central Florida area, mainly around Tampa....I've been running an app called opensignal...i hate that verizon is truly the best coverage in my area... I ran mobile for 1 day....enough issues i went to at&t the next day. The app tracks signal availability for the day. I work on computers for businesses and travel around about the same areas each day. Tmobile I had 24% of the day without signal, that same day my note 5 I had with me the entire time had no signal 0% of the time.

Day 2 switched to at&t I had 2.8% of the day woth no signal and verizon 0.1%, this was about the same locations as with tmobile.

With T-Mobile i regularly dropped calls and couldn't make calls or had super slow to no data....

With At&t I had some (I cant hear you you're breaking up) and in some buildings I normally have data, no data... but it was much closer to verizon....

I will say VZW seems far superior in coverage..

All that being said, I'm going to live with At&t for a little longer then switch SIMs back to be in March...

Side question, anyone had luck porting their number to good voice and later back?
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