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[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] buckshot4:
I appreciate the insight. I sadly have no answers to your questions, but will still hit you with one more to see if you know the answer.

VoLTE in itself isn't really of use to me, but I had heard that to even use Tmobile's special Extended range LTE (band 12), VoLTE E911 must work. So then if VoLTE doesnt work, do we not get band 12 at all? Even if technically both sides are saying VoLTE should work?

This is the site I have been checking too: http://www.spectrumgateway.com/compatible-phones

I am not sure if you have any idea, but I am just really hoping we can at least use this band since it supposedly drastically improves indoor reception and such. (Currently on Verizon and am switching to Tmobile once my phone comes, so I really have 0 idea what to expect reception-wise in comparison to what i currently get)

EDIT: This could be an interesting test if you would be willing to do it for the sake of science :)

https://www.androidcentral.com/new-...-your-phone-supports-extended-range-and-volte

Seeing what Tmobile's automatic checker says about VoLTe and Extended Range LTE could be interesting (or saddening)
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] KevinAce:
I'll check my 2 IMEIs against that and post tomorrow.

I can tell you with certainty that this version of the mate 10 Pro BLA-L29 , supports bands 4 & 12 as I was using an LTE signal analyzer today with the phone and it would bounce between 4 & 12. So yes it works with those 2 bands and per TMobile, 4 & 12 are LTE and support VoLTE if your device supports it.

So you are good on band 12 my friend. But when making a phone call, just realize the signal drops from 4G to 3G, I think I saw HSPA and UMTS show up too sometimes. I hope I spelled those correctly.

The newest hope for T-MOBILE is the 600mhz spectrum which is band 71. I believe the only phone to carry this one is the LG V30 and this is supposed to have the greatest building saturation and would be wonderful in places like Manhattan.

T Mobile also supports Band 2 LTE VoLTE as well. So 2, 4, 12 and 71. This phone has 2,4 and 12 and as I said it worked on 4 and 12 in New York for me today.

Out of curiosity, what did you pay for your BLA-L29? I paid $830 USD.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] KevinAce:
And per T-Mobiles VoLTE checker, the BLA-L29 will not support VoLTE on T-Mobile.

See attached photo.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] buckshot4:
Thank you for all of this info, I really do appreciate it. This is such a great community, it is nice to see everyone so willing to ask and answer these questions that you just can't find or get answers from elsewhere.

I am super happy to hear band 12 works, I was honestly super skeptical about that. And yes, band 71 is really neat too. It is unfortunate that this phone won't support it, but since only the V30 currently does, I've definitely accepted that this will just be a nice perk of the next phone I get in a few years.

I also paid $830 for it (technically it was like $829 since two sellers have a price war going where they drop their prices a few cents to get everyone to go to them lol)

So it's a bit much for a phone, but I pulled the trigger because I have heard that the longevity of this phone is supposed to be very nice (at least 3 years) without slowdowns as the months on it accumulate. They say its because of their AI logic unit in the CPU, but it's pretty tough to tell if that is just marketing sugar or if there is legitimacy to that. Regardless of the cause of the longevity, I've heard only great things about how people's Mate devices have held up over the year, and coming from a Galaxy S6 Edge that has been getting 1.5-2 hours SOT the last 18 months as well as getting taken over by lag and unresponsiveness, I am pretty excited to finally get to hold this thing in my hands.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] KevinAce:
Disappointed in Huawei -- passing the buck

I contacted Huawei and they agreed to assist me with getting my BLA-L29 with VoLTE on T-Mobile in the USA as they agreed the phone is unlocked, it has the correct LTE bands and T-MOBILE has no restrictions. But after providing the IMEI of their device and the current build number, here is the reply, like I said, passing the buck...

"Thank you for contacting Huawei.

We do apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Upon checking your device belongs to Huawei China. The availability of this function depends on the network operators in different countries or regions. Contact your network operator for details.

Should you have further enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us at 800-852-6666. Our lines are open Mondays to Sundays from 9.00AM to 9.00PM, including Public Holidays. Alternatively, and for further support, please visit consumer.huawei.com/sg/support.

Thank you and best regards,

Premaraj

Huawei Support Team.

Huawei Consumer"
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
To clear a few things up:

I had looked into the AT&T firmware, and saw that T-Mobile MCC/MNC value of 310/280 would receive VoLTE support. It turns out that most people on T-Mobile have 310/260 sim cards, which do not receive VoLTE support.

It turns out, however, even with 310/280 cards, VoLTE will work only if it's roaming on AT&T network. At least, as far as I can tell, that is the case.

Rebranding to AT&T will, however, get you VoLTE on some of AT&T's partners in Canada and Mexico, apparently. So there would be value for people using those networks.

If you are on AT&T, rebranding to the AT&T model has been 100% confirmed to enable VoLTE and enable Wifi calling on AT&T network, but not on any others.

I will be looking into this when I travel to the US later this month, and have an actual T-Mobile sim card. Hopefully I will be able to find a solution, but there will not be a clean, easy solution to enable VoLTE on T-Mobile, unless there is an appropriate branding of the device which Huawei releases later, which looks, unfortunately, unlikely. Enabling it will either require root or a new tool from FH, which, because of the way it would need to work, would be expensive. So there won't be, unfortunately, a solution as easy as just rebranding to another branding.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] KevinAce:
Thank you and look forward to finding out what you figure out. I spoke with T-Mobile and they mentioned they no longer support 310/280, only 310/260. So they do not offer 310/280 sim cards as 280 is turned off according to the T-Mobile "Advanced" technical support folks I spoke with.

And if you find a work around to that, it seems you'd have to somehow force roaming on AT&T and at that point, it would just make more sense to switch to AT&T if this is a must have phone for anyone, well a must have phone with VoLTE support as it seems to work fine on T-Mobile just without VoLTE or WiFi calling.

Not having VoLTE is a deal breaker for me and I'm sticking with T-Mobile. One can only hope they eventually release an unlocked US version or other US carrier versions after AT&T's exclusive.

This phone really excited me due to the Kirin 970 AI processor. The 48 hour battery life claim seems true and it truly is a beautiful phone. I'm saddened that I have to return it...

One other interesting thing to note is when I was using LTE discovery on my S8+, within the span of 1 hour, the Galaxy S8+ stayed on band 4 for about 45 minutes and band 12 for about 15 minutes. Just one band switch.

On the Huawei Mate 10 Pro.... In the span of 1 hour, it must have hopped between band 4 and band 12 at least 30 times. I'm not sure if that means the phone just was always looking for and choosing the band with the stronger signal or if it was having trouble maintaining a solid signal...

Last note, my gut tells me when this phone is released on AT&T, it will cost a lot more than the $829 International 128GB storage/6GB RAM version. I'm guessing $900 for a 64GB and $1050 for 128GB and with only 4GB of RAM and likely 1 Sim slot instead of 2...
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] KevinAce:
BLA-L29 C432 vs C636 - what is the difference?

Hi. So I have the BLA-L29 with build number: 8.0.0.127(C432).

I'm in the US. What is the difference between the phones I'm reading that are running with build number: 8.0.0.x(C636)?

Will the 432 or the 636 work better in the USA on T-Mobile especially from a 4G LTE speed perspective?

FunkyHuawei helped me get VoLTE working on T-Mobile with the .127(C432) build and an unlocked bootloader which I'm extremely happy about but my LTE speeds are slow. Like 10Mbps up and down whereas I'm used to seeing about 50/80 up and down on my US based Galaxy S8+.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] KevinAce:
Build Differences?? 8.0.0.127(C432) vs 8.0.0.x(C636)

Hi. So I have the BLA-L29 with build number: 8.0.0.127(C432).

I'm in the US. What is the difference between the phones I'm reading that are running with build number: 8.0.0.x(C636)?

Will the 432 or the 636 work better in the USA on T-Mobile especially from a 4G LTE speed perspective?

FunkyHuawei helped me get VoLTE working on T-Mobile with the .127(C432) build and an unlocked bootloader which I'm extremely happy about but my LTE speeds are slow. Like 10Mbps up and down whereas I'm used to seeing about 50/80 up and down on my US based Galaxy S8+.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] gm007:
Have you enabled cat18 lte in the settings?

Try maybe it makes some difference.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] KevinAce:
Yes that's been enabled. I tried disabling it and I don't see a difference with it on or off.

What I did figure out was I was in a bad coverage area. When I got home, the signal was better. And yes WiFi turned off. And it was fast as I had hoped.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] juscallmemickey:
I'm on the AT&T Branding and VoLTE doesn't work for T-Mobile.

Did you have to do anything else besides flash to C432 to get VoLTE working for T-Mobile?
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] KevinAce:
Yes - There is a carrier file (which basically says VoLTE and WiFi Calling are OK for these carriers with all the carrier MPN/MCC ( I think) settings and he uploaded that file in several different places. You have to unlock the bootloader in order to get it to work. It works perfectly. VoLTE on T-Mobile.

I would get in touch with FH - Throw him a couple of credits and he will help you out. He was a tremendous help for me and I could not believe the amount of time and generosity he spent with me getting it to work.

Support Funkyhuawei: funkyhuaweihelp@gmail.com
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] TGUY25:
I rebranded my L29C636 (dual sim) to the AT&T prerelease software. I am on AT&T in the US and can confirm that LTE, VoLTE and Wifi Calling all work (with the caveat that I give AT&T the IMEI of a cheapo Samsung I bought from AT&T to serve as my "surrogate" on the AT&T network. I can also still use both SIMs though I haven't yet figured out how to switch the Data between SIM1 & SIM2 (as the menu options are gone and it seems to just default to SIM1). That said, since it's still "beta" software and not properly signed, android pay doesn't work which mean I can't use the phone as my daily driver. Eagerly awaiting the final AT&T ROM so I can use this as my daily driver. A really great phone! (I need dual sim since I commute between the US and Asia and have local SIM cards for both).
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] juscallmemickey:
I contacted them weeks ago and a few days ago, but they still haven't responded.

I guess no VoLTE for me.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] Friendlyx355:
Hi there! I was reading about this and hope you don't mind me asking. I currently have the BLA-L29 C636 Dual Sim, and i love it, however i'm looking to have wifi calling and VoLTE on my phone with T-Mobile USA. I've tried and can't seem to get it to work. How did you enable it without changing any software?
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] piskr:
Hi, I didn't need to take any special measures to activate Volte and WiFi calling, both just work if provider supports them. In this case you have both options highlighted in settings.

But that seems not to be true with Tmobile. As you can read in the linked forum even though HM 10 pro supports LTE on one of Tmobile channels with VoLte (12, 700 mhz), Tmobile demands Volte certified phone to enable it, otherwise connection automatically falls back to 3g/2g when switched from data to calling. Sadly but true with no obvious reason.

https://www.google.si/amp/s/xdaforums.com/general/general/lte-band-12-volte-t-mobile-t3658788/amp/
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] KevinAce:
Talk to FunkyHuawei

You can enable VoLTE on this device with T-Mobile with the assistance of FunkyHuawei. Look him up. Google him.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] lbarouf:
While not T-Mobile specific, I can confirm that many carriers world wide filter feature access on a specific IMEI basis. If the IMEI is not in the HSS/HLR or on the subscriber account, they can block it. It varies by carrier and what feature they enabled on their own equipment. I know for a fact that some carriers are using their EIR to do this. It's a sneaky way to keep customers and make sure they buy devices from them as well. While you can get a grey market device on their network on a BYOD plan, it requires a subsidized one to get access to all features, read VoLTE, Video Calling, etc. Again, not all carriers do this, but it's a trend I have seen more and more..
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] KevinAce:
You need to rebrand your phone to the US version BLA-A09 and VoLTE will work on T-Mobile. Your dual SIMs will still work too. You do this via going to http://funkyhuawei.club and follow the instructions.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] lbarouf:
This entails that the branding contains either apps, or configurations (servers and or certs) that make the connection work. It would be interesting to know what precisely is missing so it can be added manually without forcing a complete rebrand. Nothing against funkyhuawei BTW.
[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] KevinAce:
I agree. Last way to make it work and keep it as BLA-L29 was to unlock bootloader and update the carrier VoLTE file on the phone but bootloader needed to remain unlocked. The benefit to this method was you got Huawei updates much faster like the Europe version. But it did not pass Google safety net...

If you know another way, I'd love to hear it. I'm not sure why Huawei allowed VoLTE to work on the P20 Pro on T-MOBILE out of the box but restricted it in Mate 10 Pro. Oh actually likely because it was supposed to be a huge USA flagship release for them tied in with At&t.... Now that it's not, I wish they would just allow the international versions to work unrestricted with US carriers as they have work the P20...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] gimini:
TomTom6

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i got it and now its saying not a valid pocket pc program O.o any ideas?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ronfin44:
Can you be more specific, since TT works great on the Kaiser/Tilt.:confused:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] gimini:
i can try to be. i put the program onto my SD card click on the autorun.exe and it says not a valid pocketpc program. when i click the little red hands that says start absolutly nothing happens. i went through the files one at a time and finnaly found a cab file that did something...not much but something. all it did when i installed it called TTM.cab was give me a black and grey mirrored tomtom logo that filled my screen.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] joshuah82:
You didn't copy the contents of a CD/DVD directly to your SD card did you? autorun.exe is typically the program that launches automatically when you insert the disc into your computer. It will be compiled to run in Windows XP, Vista, etc. not Windows Mobile.

Unfortunately I can't help with why it isn't working. But maybe it just wasn't installed correctly?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] gimini:
i tried that as well i get not a valid win32 application
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Rumball:
:rolleyes: As joshuah82 indicates...it sure sounds like you're trying to copy the TomTom CD to your SD card and running it on your PPC which is just plain wrong.

Step 1: Connect PPC to computer using USB so that ActiveSync is running

Step 2: Place your TomTom CD into your PC's CDROM drive

Step 3: TomTom installation program should start on your PC...follow the instructions

Step 4: After TomTom is installed on your PPC you should see Tom Tom Navigator in your PPC's program folder that you can click on to run.

Surely your TomTom CD came with the above mentioned instructions on how to install the program onto your PPC.
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Questions & Answers] dokujaryu:
I was looking at the customizations page on XperiCheck and I was wondering which is best. I don't want to root and lose my DRM keys.

https://xpericheck.com/device/G8341

Customized GR, NOBA, IT, KR and GEL seems to be getting updates the fastest. Any disadvantage of running those in the US? I don't use VoLTE or WiFi calling.

SOLVED: The one thing I would like is to be able to turn off the NFC icon. I'm assuming there's some law or something that says that has to be on in some regions cause security or something. Is there a region where this isn't the case? Is it one of the regions I listed above?

NFC is able to be disabled in the Customized KR firmware. I also checked the XZ Premium it seems KR is the way to go.

Update:

I downloaded all carrier unspecific FTF roms and extracted their properties. When I said KR was the way to go, what I mean is KR is already updated to the latest OTA update .51. So I assume Korea gets the new software sooner most of the time. However, it seems like it has a LOT of props set. Like "ro.camera.sound.forced". So that's maybe not so good.

Update:

OK, I guess I got this totally backwards. I'm assuming if ro.nfc.icon.enable=true then I -->cannot<-- turn it off.

Here's a list of all the ones with "ro.nfc.icon.enable=true". Do not use these.

AR

BR

DE

FR

KR

UK

Here's a list of the ones that are already on .51:

GEL

GR

IT

KR

NOBA

KR is the only overlap, so avoid.

Based on what I'm looking at, NOBA seems to have the most sub configuration files, which I assume are per carrier changes? Maybe that increases the chances of VoLTE and WiFi Calling? Not sure.

IT has the least folders and settings. Maybe THAT is best since you would think MOST things are not disabled? Not sure.
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Questions & Answers] pbarrette:
If you don't use VoLTE or VoWiFi, then there's no difference. The band support is the same.

If you don't want the NFC icon, you'll have to download each firmware, extract the OEM sin file and look at the

system-properties/config.prop

file.

If the icon is enabled, the file with have a line with "ro.nfc.icon.enable=true" in it.

You can extract the OEM sin file with UnSIN and it will produce a ext4 image which can be opened in 7zip.

I would look for you, but I'm not all that keen on downloading multiple GB's of firmware just to check.
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Questions & Answers] dokujaryu:
Is there anywhere I can get a generalized list of differences between firms? Like, which one use 4G, 4G+, and LTE icons? That's probably the only thing I've ever noticed.
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Questions & Answers] dokujaryu:
Updated main post, I downloaded many Customized XXXX firmwares and KR seems to be the way to go.
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Questions & Answers] KumarAnup:
Which firmware support Volte
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Questions & Answers] pbarrette:
Short answer: All firmwares support VoLTE for someone and no firmwares support VoLTE for everyone.

Long answer:

VoLTE support is handled by the files in the OEM sin file and is different for each carrier.

See here where I describe the bits in the OEM partition that handle VoLTE. I'm specifically talking about T-Mobile US, but it works the same way for all other carriers as well.

Basically, your MCC/MNC is looked up by the CustomizationSelector.apk and converted to a 3 digit "config_id". That config ID number is then used to select the proper modem file and to overlay the system UI to allow the VoLTE controls to be shown and used.

Each region / carrier firmware has different carrier specific configurations that are used for this.

So you would have to check your region's firmware to see if your carrier is supported.

Specifically, you would need to decompile the

/oem/overlay/com.sonymobile.customizationselector-res-305.apk

file, then look at its

res/xml/configuration_selectors.xml

file, which contains a number of "sim_config_id" values that look like "S264.1".

Then you need to find that value in the

res/xml/service_providers.xml

file and look at the MCC/MNC values associated with it to determine if they match the MCC/MNC values of your carrier.

If you have a match, then the "config_id" value in the

res/xml/configuration_selectors.xml

file will be used to set your modem to the value found in

/oem/modem-config/XXX/modem.conf

, where "XXX" is the 3 digit "config_id".

Finally, the overlay APK's found in

/oem/overlay-XXX/

will be applied to the base applications. Specifically, the

com.android.carrierconfig-res-XXX.apk

should contain values in

res/xml/vendor.xml

such as <boolean name="carrier_volte_available_bool" value="true" />.

That's how VoLTE is handled.

EDIT:

Additionally, if the modem has a name that includes "ims" then it probably supports VoLTE for your carrier. If not, it probably doesn't. The actual modem files are found on the system partition at

/system/etc/customization/modem

if I remember correctly. But you still need the OEM partition bits to get that modem selected and the VoLTE controls enabled.
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Questions & Answers] dokujaryu:
Updated to contain all the property files I extracted and an analysis, based purely on property files, on which ones I find most desirable (spoiler, it's IT).
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Questions & Answers] astalavista66:
Someone already found a Firmware which supports VoLTE in Germany - Deutsche Telekom?
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Questions & Answers] matticala:
I'm sorry to add my question, could anyone point me to a way to change my firmware using a Mac?

Sony's tool is Windows only and the other NewFlasher the same.

Also, where can I download FTF files?

Thank you in advance to anyone who will kindly help

I'm on Customized BLX (Belgium-Netherlands) and apparently I don't receive updates. Even though 374 has been out for a while, even on BLX, I'm stuck on 324.
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Questions & Answers] SGH-i200:
Not only MCC/MNC is looked up, but the GID1 is important, too. That's my problem with German carrier "Congstar" (uses "Telekom" network) which supports VoLTE now, but the config has not changed in the firmware of course...

MCC = 262 (Both Telekom and Congstar)

MNC = 01 (Both Telekom and Congstar)

GID1 = 44 (Only Congstar! No GID1 for Telekom)
[LG G5 Questions & Answers] adam79:
I've been doing alot of research this week to find a new phone that fits my needs. Those would be good audio quality, performance and a screen no bigger than 5" (I'd be willing to compromise on a slightly larger screen if the phone is a perfect match for me). I also could care less about camera quality or gaming.

I currently have a Moto G4 Play. The audio is decent, but it's lags doing basic tasks, like opening/using apps (especially while there are others running in the background, or I have a ton of open tabs in my browser).

Right now I'm leaning towards the LG G5. It's at the very top of my budget, $250. I've been reading articles on phones with the best audio quality, and the G5 never makes the list.. even the lists from last year when it was released. I might be dead wrong, but it seems as though the audio quality went down from it's predecessor, the G4. What are your thoughts on this?

The LG V20, and to a lesser extent the V10, usually top the list of best audio. Not only are they out of my price range, but their screens are too big, at 5.7".