Re: Phone usually doesn't' work

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.

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