Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "s|b" Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Phone usually doesn't' work Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2025 21:51:51 +0200 Organization: XXII Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <8ov84kpis1uol4nl8ntdr50e43o7kpsd87@4ax.com> Reply-To: sb.nospam@belgacom.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net yshSNQTiLLtGByo1DEGUkAbqKjXxB9i8A7L6SigunxSaSuvsC3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MhMFJC5tbVTe3FHyRgwGEiH2BHs= sha256:mEZoi0GZ6wZSZN0uFWwqoFUWIGmjgLwiK4cFh8gRstM= User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-Face: j0\WO?Dcjo^V#d7Q,H$9^8N{Z|fy50vxQkToel)jNR3hmCMV8kai(fMVJ:Yk}q?t<:xHu2D )?CJ[c|zu]%I!fKb7-4~$&Mx|GT=>ux^*,A:5Cdek,y4A(DSX=oXRv7-)/AcgHiWf On Sat, 07 Jun 2025 14:22:55 -0400, micky wrote: > Yes, she has lots of stuff in her phone, a long contact list and I don't > know what else but she only has 2 gigs empty out of 64 or 48 iirc. It's going to be 64, not 48 (it's 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, ...) I work as a volunteer helping people with digital stuff like smartphones. Past week I've encountered a woman with a malfunctioning phone with 62 GB of her 64 GB filled. That's just asking for problems. If her phone has the option of a microSD card I'd advise to buy one and move data to it. Don't buy too big. You should be able to see on gsmarena.com what cards are supported. You can backup pictures to Google Drive and delete them on the phone. There's a setting to not backup the original size, but smaller. Not too worry; they will still be big enough. Contact list is on Google Drive as well. > That night I learned about wifi-calling (which would help when she could > connect to wifi) and that she had to implement it, Her carrier needs to support her device as well for it to work. > and learned about > VoLTE**. I did talk to her on the phone and she couldn't find that > option and her phone is newer than mine so maybe on her phone it's > always on. Is that typical for newer phones, VoLTE is always on? IIRC you can check this with: *#*#4636#*#* As for VoWiFi, if the phone supports it I advise to set it to always use VoWiFi if possible. > the description on my phone is "Use VoLTE to improve the quality of > voice calls" because, I think, at the time the phone was made, 5 or so > years ago, 3G was everywhere, and now it's nowhere, and now the phone > doesn't work at all unless you turn on VoLTE. Did I get that right? I value VoWiFi over VoLTE. In my history, I can see when VoLTE is being used, so it's active. To my knowledge, there's no setting for this, but the device needs to be supported by the carrier. -- s|b