Are there any E/OS phones that do work with VoLTE?

[eosfan]

Are there any E/OS phones that do work with VoLTE ?
Thanx for your help.

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[AnotherElk]

@eosfan

Are there any E/OS phones that do work with VoLTE ?

Yes.
Edit: I just now realise this topic is tagged device-suggestions, so for what it’s worth …

VoLTE is available and working on my Fairphone 3 with a German Telekom SIM card, and I would expect the same for Fairphones 3+, 4 and 5 with the same SIM card.

VoLTE is not available on my Fairphone 2 with a klarmobil SIM card using the Telekom mobile network.

Please mind that VoLTE availability is depending on your phone, your mobile network provider and possibly your plan with them.

[petefoth]

@eosfan

Are there any E/OS phones that do work with VoLTE ?

Pretty much all of them except Samsung devices. But what @AnotherElk says is very true:

@AnotherElk

VoLTE availability is depending on your phone, your mobile network provider and possibly your plan with them

[eosfan]

I had a fairphone 3 before. Switched it to Samsung cause Fairphone was having troubles with dual sim.
Maybe gonna try Oneplus this time.

[Cooler]

Oneplus has no problem with VoLTE as far as I know. If you want to use Oneplus as a good phone I reccomend Oneplus 7 PRO, but you should check how good is the /E/ OS support for it.
SONY surely has no problem with VoLTE but you have to unlock the bootloader using a procedure involving Sony site.

[eosfan]

Thank your for the advise Cooler. Do I have to be very technical to get a Sony running on E/OS? There are many possible Sony’s on the E/OS but for reason unknown to me these seem not so popular.

[Cooler]

No… it’s not complicated… just an extra step compared to others.
Sony phones are a bit different and not everyone likes them but they are of good quality… at least the XZ ones that I use (or used); XZ3, XZ2, XZ2 compact, XZ2 premium. I also bought a Sony Xperia 10 to experiment with porting to /E/ OS Sony phones. It was a success so I ended up with many others. XZ are also not made in China (the same as with Samsung S and Note line) which is preferable to me.

[eosfan]

That is very helpful thanks a lot. This extra step is described in the e/os installation manual I presume?
I found an XZ2 on second hand website for 115 euros. What do you think good idea?

[Cooler]

XZ2 is OK. I sold one for under 80 Euros, so it depends om the state and accesoriers.

[tOm8]

Very helpful post, thanks for your comments @Cooler .

I plan to buy a Xperia 10 Plus: does it support VoLTE with /e/OS?

[Cooler]

Salut!
It should have but you must wait for a confirmation from someone who has one.

[Cooler]

@eosfan

This extra step is described in the e/os installation manual I presume?

Yes it is… I forgot to answer… Onepluses don’t need to be unlocked but some of them (newer ones) have other complications…

[eosfan]

I found a oneplus 7 pro for 100 euros.
What did you mean by this line?
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reccomend Oneplus 7 PRO, but you should check how good is the /E/ OS support for it.

I see E/OS can also be installed on the 7 Pro using easy installer. I only wonder if with easy installer I still have to upgrade the phone to Android 12 before installing as they say in the instructions
https://doc.e.foundation/devices/guacamole/install

[Cooler]

I only used Easy Installer once (first time) and I don’t intend to use it again.
Oneplus 7 PRO is a VERY good phone and 100 Euros is a good price; I bought one for ~80 EUros with slight screen burn and gave it to my mom… but I kept the original OS on it… that is why I said you should check if there are problems using /e/ OS on it (I have no idea).

[piero]

@eosfan

. I only wonder if with easy installer I still have to upgrade the phone to Android 12 before installing

As you well know,

• android 12 (if exist) is needed for /e/OS-S
• android 11 (if exist) is needed for /e/OS-R

In principe /e/OS-R don’t work over android 12…
On most device (when android 12 don’t exist), /e/OS-S work over android 11 or 10 or 9 (if latest available)

So using easy-installer, you must downgrade to android 11 to install /e/OS -R

For Your Information, guacamole is on the first list for /e/OS-T (android 13 based) [LIST] Devices which will be getting upgraded to /e/OS T - Part I

Edit : /e/OS-T is out for month https://images.ecloud.global/dev/guacamole/

[Cooler]

As Piero said I would buy the phone and then wait for Android T which is suposed to arrive in ~2 weeks.
And use the install by command line (especially for Linux, where you don’t have to mess with installing drivers).
Base on my experience so far with /e/ OS I would not expect secondary cams to work on 7 Pro under /e/ OS but others should confirm/infirm this.

[eosfan]

Hi Piero, I did not know about S and R android versions. I am new to this whole Custom ROM world, as you might have noticed So thank you very much for explaining it to me.
Thank you also @Cooler for the advise. I am not in a hurry so I will wait for T.
T is android 13 I understand?

update
T DEV is available or should I wait for the stable version of T?

Wishing you both a good weekend!

[gnection]

VoLTE is also available on Fairphone 4 in Japan.

Fairphone 4 with the latest /e/OS installed via EasyInstaller works well in Japan

Here I would like to share my experience of using /e/OS on Fairphone 4 in Japan, where Fairphone series are not officially supported. On the stock ROM, Fairphone 4 did not conduct IMS registration or recognize VoLTE networks of docomo and KDDI. It was unnerving, but it has been reported multiple times on the official Fairphone forum that after the stock OS on FP4 was updated to Android 12 the phone no longer recognized network connections in Japan, and I guess this might be the case. I tried t…