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Unfortunately, I forgot to do that. If I see it again, I will screenshot it. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Yes, 20 + 20 +10. I thought I wasn't seeing it right at first, but here's a screen shot of it.

I suppose that is possible. It displayed the icon, but it's possible it wasn't actually VoLTE. I will say there were no stutters or anything on the call I did and it sounded good. I tend to be a glass half full person, so hopefully Shentel has it already implemented and maybe it won't be long until they turn it on here. One can hope at least.

True, but this is the first I've seen it work with VoLTE. It worked with calling plus prior. It was just nice to see it working now with VoLTE. A made a test call of about 5 minutes where I transitioned towers, so it seems to be working well. There were no cutouts or anything either. It worked really well. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

I just saw B41 3rd carrier in SCP. I checked the engineering screen and Shentel apparently added a 10Mhz 3rd carrier to my local tower. I'm in Woodstock, VA. Is anyone else seeing this? BTW, the 3rd carrier was at 41324.

Just something to try for those of us not in the VoLTE markets... I just started a call on Wifi calling and then turned off wifi. The call then switched to a VoLTE call. The icon appeared in at the top of the phone. I think there's a name for this, but it's escaping me at the moment. Anyway, it's a start for us I guess. This was in the Shentel market. It may not work everywhere.

Does anybody know how quickly (or slowly) other markets will get added to VoLTE? I thought the Shentel market would be high on the list but it seems we didn't make the initial cut. I use calling plus at times and hate to update my phone to lose that capability until VoLTE is available. I also hate to hold off and not do the security updates that come with the system updates. I'm pretty much caught in the middle.

And just like that, it started working again. Not sure why it didn't work all day, but came back on around 10pm. It's really weird that it didn't work all day and now it's working again.

Reviving an old thread to ask for help. Yesterday, calling plus worked on my S8+. Today, it won't connect to calling plus. I turn it on in the settings, but the icon doesn't show up next to the LTE bars at the top of the screen as usual. I tried restarting, deleting the cache partition, dialing ##72786# to reprovision the network, a profile and PRL update, and nothing has worked. It continues to use 1x for calls. My wife's S8 active is connecting to calling plus, so it's not a network issue here. Anybody have any other ideas? There are times I need data to work when I make a call. I've had this phone for over a year and this is the first issue I've had with calling plus not connecting.

Could that be in preparation for upcoming VoLTE?

Has anyone else noticed how calling plus on LTE seems to be doing much better now than when it was first implemented? Not sure what they tweaked in the past few months, but it seems pretty close to 1x reliability and quality now, at least for me. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Thanks for the quick reply. With living right near their headquarters, I was hoping it was going to be favorable to them, which is just what it looks like. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

I don't know if this was already asked or not, but what would happen to the Shentel agreement if the merger is approved? Would Shentel keep their current area under the new combined company and be rebranded under T-mobile? Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Looks like a new update this morning. Weighs in at 203 MB. Ends in RC5. Hopefully this will fix the double sound notifications. *Edit: This does update the security patch to March 1st. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

It's pretty here. My wife and I moved here in 2006 from PA and we haven't ever really wanted to leave. I live in Woodstock and work in Front Royal, both pretty decent towns. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

That looks like one of the two that are already there. I'll have to ride up there to check it when I get a chance. There were two B25 only small cells that were installed there a couple years back. Maybe they upgraded them to B41? I'll check it out when I have time. I only live about a mile from the school. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Hopefully it's better than the "CRAP" update.

I just read on Android Central that Samsung pulled the Oreo update for the S8. I guess we'll all be waiting a bit longer now. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Don't forget to change your market label in your profile. You're in the Shentel market now.

I believe it says he's getting Hulu for free, which Sprint customers can get as long as they are on an unlimited plan. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Warning: Long, but worth the read. I just wanted to give a good customer service experience with Shentel. On one sector of the tower closest to my house (Woodstock, VA), B26 had zero data throughput. I am mainly on B41 at my house, but on occasion I would drop to B26. Anything I was doing would get cut off, which was frustrating. Through the Sprint app, I submitted some network data tickets, but nothing ever happened. So after about 6 weeks, I sent a Facebook message to the Shentel FB account one evening before work with details on the problem, including the GCI of the B26 sector and the address of the tower. I work nights, so I didn't wake up until about 2PM the next day and saw I had missed 5 calls from a Shentel Employee. It was the RF Engineering Manager. I called him back and he thanked me for my detailed message and he said when they checked the stats on the tower, they realized they had an issue. They actually shut down that sector on B26 so phones wouldn't connect to the bad band/sector. He told me the RRH went bad and they had already put in an order for a crew to replace it. He all but offered me a job and thanked me for helping them diagnose the issue. He told me I should stop by sometime and talk to him. Long story short, I may go have a chat with him sometime, but I don't know that I would leave what I'm doing now. Anyway, fast forward a few days and I got a call from a field RF engineer who told me they had just fixed the issue and did some other tweaks to the tower to make speeds better. He told me he is responsible for the general area around me and told me to save his number and call him directly if I ever notice anything else. I also got some info from him about future upgrades for this area. He said they are waiting on Sprint to approve them adding a 20x20 B25 carrier, but that should happen soon. He told me there is already a 15x15 B25 carrier active near me that I'm going to try to see if I can connect to it. That tower also has B41 so it may be a bit of a challenge to get my phone to connect to it. One last thing, they are close to adding a third B41 carrier to have 3xCA in this area. He said that should happen soon too. A couple days later I noticed that there are now two 10x10 B25 carriers live on my "home tower." There used to only be one 10x10 and one 5x5. I wish I could have asked him about this, but I didn't know at the time I talked to him. I'm guessing this may be the speed tweaks that he mentioned. This is all good news for this area and hopefully he and I can keep in touch. I asked if he could give me a tour of a tower one day and he said he would check with his boss to see if he could do it. I hope that I can do that someday.

In the Shentel market, I have had good results with LTE calling plus. I was in the Richmond area though a few days ago and it kept breaking up when I was on I-95. I just hung up, turned off calling plus and called the person back. As far as the comment about what bands VoLTE should use, calling plus seems to switch between bands with no loss of audio, so I don't see why it would really matter what band it uses. Just let it do it's own thing and go between bands just as "regular" data does. With voice packets having priority, it should be a good system in the end. I hope it happens sooner than later though. It really is nice to be able to look something up while on a call, or to have Google maps running in the car while on a bluetooth call and still getting updated traffic info.

Looks like it went from the Nov 1 to Dec 1 security patch. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

I threw in $10.

Before I updated my S7, I was on the Oct 1 patch, it now says Nov 1. Samsung seems to always be about 5-6 weeks behind. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk