Enabling wi-fi calling: Missing "UMA Options" in Engineering Screen for BB PD P'9981 ?
I am trying to enable wi-fi calling on BB Porsche Design P'9981 with TMobile following
forums (dot) crackberry (dot) com/blackberry-torch-9800-f209/guide-enable-uma-unlocked-9800-t-mobile-513720-print/
I have a problem with this step
v. Press the BlackBerry menu button and select <UMA Options>
I accessed the P'9981 engineering screens, then chose:
3GPP Radio Engineering Screens
Utilities
Session Manager (which is *Empty*, as expected)
I press the Menu button but there is no "UMA Options". The only choices I have are:
New Ping Session
New UDP Blaster Session
New TraceRoute Session
I compared with the BB Curve 9300 from TMobile I own and "UMA Options" submenu shows up in Menu button for Session Manager screen
I called TMobile USA and they confirmed:
a) BB Curve 9300 is enabled for wi-fi calling (I know that because I have one)
b) BB Bold 9900 is **also enabled** for wif-fi calling, so it should be able to be configured for wi-fi calling
The P'9981 is based on Bold 9900, consequently I thought, the "UMA Options" submenu should be present.
I confirmed with TMobile that any BB phone that is wi-fi enabled should be able to access the TMobile network by creating a profile in "UMA Options". So it's possible! And these nice web pages confirmed that fact -- ANY they said!
That should apply to my P'9981 too, no? It's a fake Bold 9900 who TMobile confirmed does wi-fi calling.
www (dot) berryreporter (dot) com/use-any-wifi-uma-enabled-blackberry-on-t-mobile/
www (dot) berryreview (dot) com/forums/topic/guide-on-how-to-enable-uma-for-t-mobile-on-the-torch-9800/
www (dot) blackberryrocks (dot) com/2009/01/26/uma-enabled-blackberry-t-mobile/
So, due diligence done... this phone P'9981 should be able to be enabled for wi-fi calling.
OK, so why do I not have "UMA Options" submenu showing when I hit Session Manager "Menu" button?
I thought it might be my BB OS 7.1 that was too old (I had 7.1.0.614)... so on to upgrading the BB OS.
I upgraded to 7.1.0.1033 following:
forums (dot) crackberry (dot) com/blackberry-p9981-f255/new-official-9981-os-7-1-0-1033-smartone-hk-839982/
All good.
My new BB OS shows 7.1.0.1033, so I go back to the Engineering screens/.../Session Manager and...
STILL no "UMA Options" submenu when I hit Menu button!
There has to be a flag somewhere to let that submenu "UMA Options" show up.. somewhere...
Any ideas?