Anybody tried Advanced Calling with the M9

WuBoy · Apr 14, 2015

It works for the audio as calls between my wife and I were much clearer after activating it. Making video calls is weird though. On my wife's Note 4, her standard dialer now has a video option. My M9 can accept video calls, but the dialer doesn't give me the option to make video calls. Does anyone know what to do about this?

AZgl1500 · Apr 14, 2015

I tried it one time on our S5 phones.
My wife is the only contact out of 500 contacts in my phone who would even use it, so I turned it off.

WuBoy · Apr 14, 2015

Why turn it off? Does it have some negative consequence when just leaving it on?

whitecollar · Apr 14, 2015

On Verizon there are certain other features like ringback tones that you cannot have if you have advanced calling turned on.

AZgl1500 · Apr 15, 2015

WuBoy said:
Why turn it off? Does it have some negative consequence when just leaving it on?

Yup, on Verizon it takes away a lot of good features, it is definitely a Money Maker for VZW, it is not good for the consumer. I tried it and turned it off in about 2 hours of testing.

WuBoy · Apr 15, 2015

AZgl1500 said:
Yup, on Verizon it takes away a lot of good features, it is definitely a Money Maker for VZW, it is not good for the consumer. I tried it and turned it off in about 2 hours of testing.

What features do you lose? I don't even see how it really makes Verizon any extra money. It still works off your phone plan not data so I don't see what difference it makes.

AZgl1500 · Apr 15, 2015

Been way too long, and I did not keep any notes on it.
sorry

WuBoy · Apr 16, 2015

Ok, thanks anyway. So far the only negative I see with having it on is dropped calls if a person loses the 4G signal. There is also the fact that it can only be used with other people who have it. That cuts down it usefulness, but my wife has it and I talk to her on the phone more than anyone else, so it's not completely pointless for us.

Bloomy6 · Apr 16, 2015

I have had the option pop up to try this and have denied it thinking it would be an additional charge. Is that the case?

AZgl1500 · Apr 17, 2015

Bloomy6 said:
I have had the option pop up to try this and have denied it thinking it would be an additional charge. Is that the case?

I don't think there is a charge... been too long, go to www.verizonwireless.com and login to your account.
Then look at the features you have turned on/off on your phone.
it will show the $0.00 value of each feature.

a lot of them are included in your plan.

Lars · May 7, 2015

Free HD voice.
Free video chat
Free basic visual voicemail.
Simultaneous voice and data only works on late model phones with HD enabled. Earlier phones had SVDO to bond EV/1X and LTE.

Thom · May 7, 2015

Isn't there a data charge for the video portion of the video chat? Did they change that?

... Thom

Lars · May 7, 2015

I'm sure there is data use for video chat. In that way MMS is really not free either and visual voicemail probably uses data to retrieve them. In a way, free apps you download wouldn't be free, lol.

What phone you have these days Thom?

Thom · May 8, 2015

Droid Turbo.

... Thom

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