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Old 10-03-2016, 21:51
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Continuation of thread from here: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...9#post81787899
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Old 10-03-2016, 21:55
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Aww the end of an era!

I wonder what EE will bring in the next few years that'll we discuss on this thread
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Old 10-03-2016, 22:03
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EE are the bees knees.

Anyway to get congestion sorted in a small city at lunch time?

When I start work I can get 30mbps. By lunch time it's like 0.5mbps and hardly loads anything.
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Old 10-03-2016, 22:10
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I wonder what page number this thread will be at when volte is launched nationally....

I'm going to go with page 100
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Old 10-03-2016, 22:11
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Ooh isn't this exciting! New thread and possible 5X love!
No updates popped up on mine yet. I guess it's a phased OTA rollout. Not going to go through the unlock'n'flash rigmarole so will just hope it pops up soon. Sounds hopeful on the unbranded ones though!

Edit: Found OTA links on XDA. Didn't know those were a thing. Righto then...
Edit 2: They're not OTA at all, you still have to unlock (which wipes everything). The wait continues...!
Edit 3: Or maybe you don't. So much misinformation on XDA...
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Old 10-03-2016, 22:14
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One interesting thing I noticed today, My Galaxy S7 which I bought from Mobile Phones Direct and received yesterday actually has the EE firmware on it and so I have been able to activate WiFi calling (yay). I was under the impression only devices bought directly from EE had the EE specific firmware?
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Old 10-03-2016, 22:19
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One interesting thing I noticed today, My Galaxy S7 which I bought from Mobile Phones Direct and received yesterday actually has the EE firmware on it and so I have been able to activate WiFi calling (yay). I was under the impression only devices bought directly from EE had the EE specific firmware?
If it came with EE firmware on it then I assume Mobile Phones Direct have sourced the phone from EE.
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Old 10-03-2016, 22:25
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Video about TETRA Airwave and GSM-R railway masts with a bit of ESN.

ESN being a bit about EE hence why on this thread.

Shame about the closing of the big thread, found 10K posts quite amazing!
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Old 10-03-2016, 22:27
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Edinburgh is already live.. Has been for several days. Several other cities on top of that list also.

I'll go with less than 100 pages.. Depending of Devons late night banter
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Old 10-03-2016, 22:39
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Ooh isn't this exciting! New thread and possible 5X love!
No updates popped up on mine yet. I guess it's a phased OTA rollout. Not going to go through the unlock'n'flash rigmarole so will just hope it pops up soon. Sounds hopeful on the unbranded ones though!

Edit: Found OTA links on XDA. Didn't know those were a thing. Righto then...
Edit 2: They're not OTA at all, you still have to unlock (which wipes everything). The wait continues...!
Edit 3: Or maybe you don't. So much misinformation on XDA...
You don't need to unlock to flash official images from Google, including developer previews. You only have to unlock to flash third party ones
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Old 10-03-2016, 22:44
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So Lord Lucan other than the places previously mentioned where else can users try out VOLTE ? If you can't post the place names how about cryptic teasers
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Old 10-03-2016, 22:46
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Edinburgh is already live.. Has been for several days. Several other cities on top of that list also.

I'll go with less than 100 pages.. Depending of Devons late night banter
I'm on Courage Directors tonight. Don't normally drink until the weekend but it was on offer and was always good on draft.
I'll see if I can stretch it out a bit for you tonight.
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Old 10-03-2016, 22:48
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So Lord Lucan other than the places previously mentioned where else can users try out VOLTE ? If you can't post the place names how about cryptic teasers
There must be people on here who have used it wherever it has been turned on surely.
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Old 10-03-2016, 23:07
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So, no one else has been able to connect to 800mhz yet?
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Old 10-03-2016, 23:22
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I can get on EE 800MHz here, but no VoLTE.
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Old 10-03-2016, 23:27
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I can get on EE 800MHz here, but no VoLTE.
Yea I think I'm the same too, but will have to wait until tomorrow to confirm whether or not VoLTE was on.

It has to be on though surely, otherwise there is no point in 800mhz on EE?
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Old 10-03-2016, 23:55
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You don't need to unlock to flash official images from Google, including developer previews. You only have to unlock to flash third party ones
Very cool! I probably could have saved myself doing that when I broke my radio settings. Which reminds me: don't mess with the radio settings in *#*#4636#*#*, people - there's a major bug where once it's set to the US band, there's NO WAY back without some extreme jiggery pokery. Factory reset is NOT enough, nor is the standard flash_all script in Android's factory firmware package.

If the Play Store telephone support had not fobbed me off with "you shouldn't have been messing with that menu, so we're not going to help you, bye" (ticket/email support were much nicer and way more helpful but by then I'd gone down the "flash this custom ROM where the menu isn't broken" route) I might never have had to go through the unlock+wipe, fix, re-lock, re-flash routine.

It did indeed sideload fine per my comment here http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexu...t3306450/page7
Just waiting forever-and-a-day for the usual "Optimising app x of y" routine.
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Old 10-03-2016, 23:56
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Why do we need a new thread?
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Old 11-03-2016, 00:45
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Wifi Calling option appeared and (because I was already provisioned from when I had an iPhone) worked straight away! Woohoo! My Signal Box did its job XD I'll still keep it as I think it'll help battery life not clinging to a patchy signal all the time.

VoLTE not working, but behaving differently (when forced to LTE-only via the debug menu). Where before it'd drop the call right away, now the call sits there in silence. Interesting...

E: Hmm, when Wifi Calling is switched on, it seems to drop off the Signal Box and stick to the outside signal, going by the signal indicator which instantly drops to 1 bar. Maybe there is no benefit to keeping it after all. I don't know if it's a graphical glitch though, as LTE Discovery still shows -67 dBm.
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Old 11-03-2016, 07:10
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why start a new thread ?
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Old 11-03-2016, 07:18
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One interesting thing I noticed today, My Galaxy S7 which I bought from Mobile Phones Direct and received yesterday actually has the EE firmware on it and so I have been able to activate WiFi calling (yay). I was under the impression only devices bought directly from EE had the EE specific firmware?
Good luck getting quick android updates.
Samsung is slow as hell as it is, now you have to wait for EE to taint it.
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Old 11-03-2016, 08:45
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I can get on EE 800MHz here, but no VoLTE.
Hi

Where is 'Here' and do u tell if ur connected to 800MHz?

Thanks

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Old 11-03-2016, 08:51
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I vote to keep the old thread and reach 100k!
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Old 11-03-2016, 09:18
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Can confirm that EE 800MHZ is on Serving Layer Priority = 4

https://flic.kr/p/EFVt7b

Need to double check that VoLTE is active on it but I don't think it is. Which is very very weird

The 2 cells I have connected to have Cell Identities of 5207052 and 5207053 so guessing they are coming from the same mast. However I connected to these masts over 6km away from each other!
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Old 11-03-2016, 09:25
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Hi

What's the field test number that can be dialled from the iPhone?

Thanks

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