[Q] Sprint Galaxy Tab 3 Missing Phone Icon

Rare Reef · Feb 22, 2014

Ok my question is this.

Deep inside my apps manager there is a phone ICON and no phone icon on the tablet anywhere else and no where to access this green icon.

How do I get the Icon from the manager and onto the phone somewhere ?

Its not in any of the trays or apps page etc. Its no where to be found but it exists deep in the apps manager. I dont want to use Voice and all the other BUL$&%T voice over IP junk apps.

I want the green phone Icon that is hidden deep in the device accessed some how

Again
It doesnt let me hard press and move the icon from the manager and its NOT anywhere else on the device.

If you have a real answer that I havent covered above then help me out !!!!

Ripshock · Feb 22, 2014

You must be rooted first and if you want to delete it use no bloat free and if you want to move it use root explorer and system apps are under /system/app or you just go to app manager and turn off anything you want but beware what are you doing

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Rare Reef · Feb 22, 2014

No no
I want to get this button from deep inside the device and access it.

I want to turn the Tab 3 into a phone... Without using the junk apps to do voice over IP

I want it as a direct mobile device

Ripshock said:
You must be rooted first and if you want to delete it use no bloat free and if you want to move it use root explorer and system apps are under /system/app or you just go to app manager and turn off anything you want but beware what are you doing

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Ripshock · Feb 22, 2014

Rare Reef said:
No no
I want to get this button from deep inside the device and access it.

I want to turn the Tab 3 into a phone... Without using the junk apps to do voice over IP

I want it as a direct mobile device

Oh ok, I misunderstood this.
What is your device model?

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Rare Reef · Feb 22, 2014

Sprint Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (7.0)

Ripshock said:
Oh ok, I misunderstood this.
What is your device model?

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Ripshock · Feb 22, 2014

Rare Reef said:
Sprint Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (7.0)

You don't seem to understand I said device model like sm-t210r t110 there is more than one device named with galaxy tab 3 (7) but different models

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Rare Reef · Feb 22, 2014

What a dumbass I am
That completely went by me sorry

SM-T2175

Ripshock said:
You don't seem to understand I said device model like sm-t210r t110 there is more than one device named with galaxy tab 3 (7) but different models

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Ripshock · Feb 22, 2014

Rare Reef said:
What a dumbass I am
That completely went by me sorry

SM-T2175

Watch the language, you meight get banned and it's okay, don't worryl, sadly enough I am not that expert with that device, just try googling the answer, you meight get lucky

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Rare Reef · Feb 22, 2014

I have been googling ALL DAY lol

Ripshock said:
Watch the language, you meight get banned and it's okay, don't worryl, sadly enough I am not that expert with that device, just try googling the answer, you meight get lucky

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12manytimes · Mar 3, 2014

Rare reef did u find an answer? If I use shortcut maker I can see the phone app but I dont know which one 2 use

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jsimonson0 · Mar 4, 2014

12manytimes said:
Rare reef did u find an answer? If I use shortcut maker I can see the phone app but I dont know which one 2 use

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Sprint doesn't enable phone calls on the tablets. The closest to tablet Sprint provides with phone functions is the Galaxy Mega.

Until recently you could use Google Voice and a number of other products for data-based voice services, but Google is disabling that in May 2014.

12manytimes · Mar 4, 2014

This tab has voice capabilities for sure...In CDMA ws it reads MIN/MDN...just need to figure out what APKs need to be placed in /system folder ..

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dbpaddler · Mar 5, 2014

what happens if you install a dialer app from the market?

jsimonson0 · Mar 5, 2014

12manytimes said:
This tab has voice capabilities for sure...In CDMA ws it reads MIN/MDN...just need to figure out what APKs need to be placed in /system folder ..

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The carriers can also enable and disable voice capabilities by line. This issue has been raised with data-network enabled tablets in the past. If the line isn't voice-enabled, no APK is going to change that.

But as always, YMMV.

Tab3guy SM-T217S · Apr 7, 2017

Round and round nobody really has an answer just where we started before wasting time on this blog....

HotRodV6 · Jan 28, 2021

Has anyone ever found a solution to get this working? I have an sim-t217t that is unlocked, using a voice enabled sim on t-mobile and everything works fine except the phone app isn’t showing on the home screen and can’t get it to show and have tried several dialer apps that don’t work either.

I understand Samsung disabled the phone function on the US based tablets, but I’m sure by now someone has figured out a way around it?

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