Turn off VoLTE

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jrock79

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May 2, 2017 at 1:01 AM
Dovigoldberger said:
I need to turn off VoLTE since it makes my phone calls sound crap out.
Cant seem to find the setting on the s8.

Thanks

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Download Nova launcher. Create activities widget. Scroll down till you see phone. Look for the one that has 129. Press it. Scroll down till you see enhanced lte services. Uncheck
 
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May 3, 2017 at 3:41 PM
How do i use this nova launcher

cc92260 said:
It worked. Thank you so much jrock!

Couldn't take another day off not being able to manage calls.
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Im having the same issue. I tried following the steps listed.
after installing the Nova launcher on my s8 i'm not sure what to do next.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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jrock79 said:
Download Nova launcher. Create activities widget. Scroll down till you see phone. Look for the one that has 129. Press it. Scroll down till you see enhanced lte services. Uncheck
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Download Nova launcher. Check
Create activities widget. check
Scroll down till you see phone. check
Look for the one that has 129. check
Press it. Scroll down till you see enhanced lte services. check
Uncheck ?????i dont see an option to check or uncheck. if i select it it just goes back to the desktop...


update......i figured out i have to press the icon for a second or 2. Now im able to uncheck the lte...

thanks for the init instructions. it worked
 
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jrock79

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May 3, 2017 at 4:11 PM
chegel said:
Im having the same issue. I tried following the steps listed.
after installing the Nova launcher on my s8 i'm not sure what to do next.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Download Nova launcher. Check
Create activities widget. check
Scroll down till you see phone. check
Look for the one that has 129. check
Press it. Scroll down till you see enhanced lte services. check
Uncheck ?????i dont see an option to check or uncheck. if i select it it just goes back to the desktop...
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Sorry, but did you click enhanced LTE services? It should bring up a icon to your desktop. Click it then it should take you to a additional page where you can check/uncheck the option.
 
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May 7, 2017 at 8:35 AM
jrock79 said:
Sorry, but did you click enhanced LTE services? It should bring up a icon to your desktop. Click it then it should take you to a additional page where you can check/uncheck the option.
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Life-saver...mine was *disabled* by default. Probably something with my account, but I have my VoLTE again! Thanks.
 
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May 23, 2017 at 12:38 AM
Originally Posted by jrock79
Download Nova launcher. Create activities widget. Scroll down till you see phone. Look for the one that has 129. Press it. Scroll down till you see enhanced lte services. Uncheck
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Nice trick. I wonder why this isn't available in the regular menu anymore. Any other hidden settings like this we should be aware of?

Does VoLTE make any difference in call quality? HD Voice with T-Mobile users seems exactly the same, and calls with other carriers sound terrible with VoLTE to begin with. It does not seem worth leaving VoLTE enabled, since you lose out on conference call management features.

Edit: I just tested a call with someone on a different carrier with VoLTE turned off, and the call quality was significantly better than when VoLTE was enabled. Seems like there is no advantage to VoLTE except maybe signal availability in areas where there is no GSM signal?
 
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unkellsam said:
Nice trick. I wonder why this isn't available in the regular menu anymore. Any other hidden settings like this we should be aware of?

Does VoLTE make any difference in call quality? HD Voice with T-Mobile users seems exactly the same, and calls with other carriers sound terrible with VoLTE to begin with. It does not seem worth leaving VoLTE enabled, since you lose out on conference call management features.

Edit: I just tested a call with someone on a different carrier with VoLTE turned off, and the call quality was significantly better than when VoLTE was enabled. Seems like there is no advantage to VoLTE except maybe signal availability in areas where there is no GSM signal?
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HD voice is volte man.... Hence the HD part. It's using your data network to make the call. If you call someone that doesn't have volte capability, it's going to sound a lot worse, but they use to have it baked in to not use volte if the other person didn't have it. I guess now they just re convert the signal instead
 
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May 24, 2017 at 4:08 PM
HD Voice and VoLTE are not the same thing. VoLTE is merely the carriage of voice over LTE. It's use is mandated by the GSM Association, and it uses the HD Voice codec to turn your words into a digital signal. HD Voice is what has become the trade name of a particular voice codec, AMR Wideband (AMR-WB). HD Voice operates over UMTS and GSM, it is not unique to LTE.

Even with VoLTE turned off, we still get HD voice calls between T-Mobile users and it sounds generations better than other calls.
 
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May 24, 2017 at 4:35 PM
unkellsam said:
HD Voice and VoLTE are not the same thing. VoLTE is merely the carriage of voice over LTE. It's use is mandated by the GSM Association, and it uses the HD Voice codec to turn your words into a digital signal. HD Voice is what has become the trade name of a particular voice codec, AMR Wideband (AMR-WB). HD Voice operates over UMTS and GSM, it is not unique to LTE.

Even with VoLTE turned off, we still get HD voice calls between T-Mobile users and it sounds generations better than other calls.
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Turning off volte also turns off HD voice in tmobile phones.
 
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Jun 16, 2017 at 9:28 PM
se1000 said:
Not all, and even then for the ones that behave that way, if you drop down to 3G (HSPA+) you still retain HD-Voice (AMR-WB)

HD-Voice is not VoLTE
VoLTE is not WiFi calling
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No I know that. But while I was in the settings menu for it, whenever I turned off VOLTE, it auto turned off HD voice and grayed it out
 
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