hello, maybe it has already been asked but, will VoLTE suppert ever come to the xperia xa2, or it’s just for the xperia 10ii and later models?
Should we place bets?
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Let’s make an educated guess. SFOS is relying on Sony’s implementation of operator configs for VoLTE.
They are all part of this repository: https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/device-sony-common/ - common between all devices.
10 II, 10, and XA2 are all using the same kernel.
Now, if the device configuration is similar for this aspect for all devices, in theory it could be supported.
But without someone trying it out, we can’t know that for sure. And another thing is if Jolla will decide they want to spend time on it, seeing as VoLTE support is much more problematic on 10 II than on 10 III already, and it is still in Beta for all devices, with many reported problems.
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i’ll tell you honestly, i am just curious, cause none of our country operators support sony phones for volte, but i keep reading all over this forum that operators are starting to ditch lte in favour of volte, and althought operators over here won’t do that in the near future, it’s kinda scary, that’s why i am curious…
anyway at this point i guess we can only wait and see, althought i don’t think jolla is caring about the xa2 much anymore as in the past
or am i wrong?
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With my operator (Polkomtel in Poland) I just had to send an SMS to activate VoLTE and it got activated immediately. Hope some other operators support that too.
But yeah, I also see they don’t seem to care about XA2 that much anymore. And I can’t really blame them, there are so many bug reports, and there is so few of them.
Not in italy no, sony phones are supported by no operator, also phoned my operator which said it’s automatically enabled so if it’s not working then the phone it’s not supported
What a shame…
I’m on android at the moment and i can tell you is not working on there either…
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Curious about this myself. My mobile operator will be shutting down 3G in 2024.
@fledermaus You need 2G for voice calls using a SFOS device not supporting VoLTE. As long as 2G is ‘on air’, there is no problem. 3G is not important if 4G is available for data.
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I’m aware, but the message from my provider mentioned “improving” their 2G coverage which makes me think it’s a lot patchier than 3/4G.
My xa2 just switches from 4g to 2g on the fly
Call quality is not the best but it’s better than nothing and anyway let me continue using a very functional phone that otherwise should have become e-waste…
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Well… it is not “need”, but “can also use”.
You do however pretty much need VoLTE to get anything like meaningful data speeds while in a call of you don’t have 3G anymore.
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Must be something wrong with your XA2 then. No problems here. Getting a GPS lock is a lengthy process (known issue), but navigation is no problem. I have only used Sailfish from J1 and I only have 1 phone in use. Why would Sailfish not be able to be used as a daily phone?
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XA2 doesn’t have volte if I remember correctly and definitely has an awful gps experience.
Definitely the worst sfosX experience together with the first Xperia 10 if you exclude IV/V that technically aren’t even supported yet.
The lack of VOLTE support is an issue with Sailfish, the XA2 supports LTE (LinageOS has no problem). Where the XA2 is an aging device from 2018. My issue with GPS is the length it takes to get a fix. Once the fix is there I don’t have issues to use it in (android) applications. Though the claim made by Setto is that you can’t use it daily and I am of the opinion that is untrue.
If the J1 would still be able to connect to the network I would still be using that. Though both Jolla and my provider don’t support that device anymore. 
And Ieave it at that.
I tried to use it daily for over a year, but a phone is still a tool, it should just work. Audio on mine worked sometimes for calls, other times I would have to restart the device (even a few times.…) This happened notoriously, not once in a while. After one of the os updates the GPS would never get a fix, not even after 20-30 mins. Device worked flawlessly on android before I flashed it with sailfish.
So I guess I could have used it daily to take photos and check emails, but not making calls unless i was lucky.
I really hope this new phone has those features sorted out….
LTE doesn’t mean VoLTE, neither that a LTE device supports VoLTE.
Regarding GPS though, waiting minutes for something so common and basic that works instantly, you have to agree it can be a big inconvenience for a lot of people.
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Volte means, you can usw Internet and telephony with 4g at the same time…
Volte means voice over LTE. Apple introduced it to mass market 12 years ago together with Wi-Fi calling.
Not having it means in places that still have 2G as a fall back (not for long) you will get last century call quality. And wherever there is no 2G as well you can’t make any phone calls.
Yeah, and when you are in fallback, you do not have Internet anyway…
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