Help Lenovo Yoga 3 8" 4G tablet voice calls, how to?

[Lenovo Yoga 3 voice calls]

There's no dialer installed. I've installed a few but they do nothing.

 

[androidmachine]

That's because there's not any voice call hardware (radio) installed. It's a tablet, not a phone. It only has a radio for data communications.

 

[scott.mcmasters]

That's because there's not any voice call hardware (radio) installed. It's a tablet, not a phone. It only has a radio for data communications.

What does it being a tablet have to do with it?? Every tablet I've seen which takes a SIM can make calls. Do you actually know anything about this particular model or not?

 

[psionandy]

You must have Seen some very different tablets then... As most cannot make calls over the mobile phone network EVEN IF THEY HAVE A SIM CARD.

If you're wanting to make voice calls.. You may want to look at voip apps... Such as hangouts.. Viber... WhatsApp etc

 

[Pugs1957]

It would be helpful to know the exact model of the tablet as some support voice calling however as no apps can find the necessary radio, I'm with psionandy on this one.

 

[scott.mcmasters]

I have the 850L. The 850M can make calls and a forum manager at Lenovo's community said the hardware should be the same. So now I'm seeking that rom, and following the progress at xda.

 

[chanchan05]

The hardware should be MOSTLY the same. The question is, does it have the other hardware needed to make voice calls.

 

[Pugs1957]

If you want to be brave here are instructions to flash http://lenovo-forums.ru/topic/14182-yoga-tablet-3-yt3-850m-инструкция-по-обновлению-прошивки/

A search revealed this ROM http://www.samsung-files.com/index.php?a=browse&b=category&id=2024

 

[RMOP]

Has ANYONE tried to flash the "M" ROM onto the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 3 YT3-850L? I purchased the "L", thinking it had a built-in phone (as did a similar, older Yoga Tablet 2 I saw in India). I DO have a tablet, the Samsung SM-T325, which DOES have native phone support, so I quite appreciate the OP's interest in this, but am inclined to agree that the "L" variant is unlikely to support voice just by swapping ROMs. Maybe I'm mistaken, which would be just great. I peeked at the Russian Lenovo site, but can't navigate it as I read no Russian.

 

[RMOP]

I have the 850L. The 850M can make calls and a forum manager at Lenovo's community said the hardware should be the same. So now I'm seeking that rom, and following the progress at xda.

Mind sharing the link to that Lenovo community post? I've found the "M" ROM, but want a little more confidence that this could work before risking my new tablet or wasting my time, which is arguably worth more than a tablet. Someone over at XDA appears to have tried exactly that, and though they ended up with a dialer, their YT3-850L w the "M" ROM doesn't function as a phone. Not sure that it can, but my YT3-850L wouldn't even function as a DATA device when I put my VOICE/DATA SIM in it. T-Mobile assured me that it WOULDN'T work for DATA with that SIM, as their network at least requires non-phone devices to utilize a DATA-only SIM card. So, unclear if the user who flashed the "M" ROM had a DATA-only SIM (reverse of my problem), or if there really are hardware differences between the "L" and "M" devices. ANYONE?