3G SWITCH OFF

[Jeffers613]

I have a Galaxy Tablet TAB A 10.5 LTE which was first released in August 2018.

My line provider, Smarty ,has advised me that they are switching off 3G during September  and that my tablet may not work after the switch-off.

in my tablet - Mobile Networks (under Settings) says "LTE/3G/2G auto connect"

Will my device work after the switch-off?

If it won't, is it possible to upgrade/update my tablet to 4G or even 5G?

I am very happy with my tablet and (in my 80's) can't face the hassle of buying a new device and then transferring all of my contacts, photos, apps etc to a new tablet!

[arianwen27]

Gonna start out with saying Google says your tablet does support it, or at least should. So the setting might just be hidden for some reason. A 4g device doesn't have to support VoLTE for it to be a 4g device, older devices didn't, new ones basically all do. There's an app called "force lte" that you can use to open the phone debug menu, if you see VoLTE provisioned, the phone at least believes it's on. So if you just carry on as you currently are, it should just work. But if it doesn't, you can't really add VoLTE to a device that doesn't support it.

[Jeffers613]

Many thanks.

Where do I find the 'force lte' app?

After I've downloaded it, what do I then do? 

Would be very grateful if you could be as detailed as possible in the steps I need to take after I've downloaded the app.

I'm over 80 and not very good at these things! 

I hope it works, because I've been very happy with my tablet - up to now!

[arianwen27]

Open the Google play store, search "force lte", download it. Open it, press method 2, it'll play an ad, when it finishes, it should open the debug page. Have a look at the grayed out switches near the bottom

[Jeffers613]

Thanks.

When I press Method 2 it says "This method is not compatible with your device"

I can press Method 1  and get page 'Licence Free Radio System' - 'icomuk.co.uk' with the options to 'open' or 'close'.

[Jeffers613]

Update.

I've got Android v 10.

So I clicked on Method 1."VoLTE Provisioned" is greyed out.

So I presume this means that my tablet can't be enabled to receive VoLTE?

Is it possible to install Andoid v11 (or later) on my tablet?

If I can do this, will I then be able to get VoLTE?