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does anyone know if t-mobile forces you to put a data plan on the mytouch if you use it?
nikmash232 said:
does anyone know if t-mobile forces you to put a data plan on the mytouch if you use it?
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Yes they do.
you will be required to only if you use the discount available by redoing your contract. no contract extention, no mandatory internet. You will have to pay full price ($500) to avoid internet.
donepate said:
you will be required to only if you use the discount available by redoing your contract. no contract extention, no mandatory internet. You will have to pay full price ($500) to avoid internet.
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well i always buy used fones from craigslist anyways soo yeah i can avoid internet jus making sure its not like at&t where they just add the data plan on your iphone when you put your sim in the iphone
nikmash232 said:
well i always buy used fones from craigslist anyways soo yeah i can avoid internet jus making sure its not like at&t where they just add the data plan on your iphone when you put your sim in the iphone
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I Would root it & install an ion rom 1st jsut to be sure.. then they couldnt tell
T-Mobile policy is, as long as you buy the phone full price, no "mandatory" internet. as far as AT&T is concerned, i would ask how they can add it on without your permision legaly. I don't know I don"t work for AT&T. Go Talk to a T-MO rep. In person. No over the phone stuff. Look into the eyes. I cannot say why I know. Just know. It has EVERYTHING to do with your contract RENEWAL. Buy the phone full price, no internet add-on necessary. TMO policy as of yesterday.
Just as a side note. You will not recieve MMS messages as long as you are on the Stock MyTouch rom. Just speaking from experience.
I got my g1 a few weeks ago and i had an iphone with the 5.99 tzones internet on it working great.
So i pop in my sim, and without wifi, it goes through the activation fine, which told me that the tzones internet worked.
And it did, it was on epc.tmobile.com and i think the other settings were default (no proxy) anyway, after a few days it stopped working.
Now whenever i try to open a webpage, it says that the plan is not compatible with my phone and i need to upgrade.
What to do?
TMo has all of the G1 numbers in their database which is why it doesn't work. They don't have all of the iPhone numbers in their database so they had no idea what kind of phone you was using.
um...upgrade?
i aint payin like 50 bucks a month just for internet, thats how much i pay for dsl
what if i get it unlocked? will that change anything?
It's $35 actually. The $25 plan comes with 0 text messages, so not really an option.
just like at&t with the iphone, you gotta pay to play with the g1...or just use wifi whenever your around a source.
jadi929 said:
i aint payin like 50 bucks a month just for internet, thats how much i pay for dsl
what if i get it unlocked? will that change anything?
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$50? more like $25-$35 depending on if you want unlimited txts or not. Unlocking won't do **** cuz tmobile has the G1 IMEI in its database, you could switch to ATT if you unlock it then use there $15 plan like I do but then you have your tmobile contract to cancel.
Why did you buy the G1? If you got it from tmobile then you knew you needed the data plans cuz they are a required service. Besides going to ATT your only other choice is to use WiFi.
jadi929 said:
i aint payin like 50 bucks a month just for internet, thats how much i pay for dsl
what if i get it unlocked? will that change anything?
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$50, really. Just like everyone else said either pay to play or use wifi.
First of all, myTouch is way cooler than the iPhone. It's only a matter of time before google rules the world.
I've searched the forums and still couldnt find all the answers I was looking for.
I currently pay only $70 per month flexpay with 600mins, unlimited txt and tzones. It all works flawlessly with my iPhone.
If I purchase a mytouch on ebay and just plug in my sim, why shouldnt it also work flawlessly? On tmobile.com I have a dumbphone listed so they shouldnt know right?
If they detect the myTouch from the IMEI and then block my data, can I have a Tmo rep do an IMEI switch?
What if I switch to the 19.99 internet plan?
,yea I had data for about 8 hours before I had to switch over to the android data (from smartphone data).
BUT im pretty sure you may be able to still use your iphone because I can still use data on my dash and shadow for a day without problems.
So yea you gotta have the android plan to use the phone. I have unlimited data and text for $34.,,,,,,,,,,
just call a rep or go into a tmo store and they'll change it over for you.
moved to the my touch from iphone 4 days ago
HI I bought the my touch 4 days ago.Rooted with 1 click method running Cyanogens 4.1.11.1 it works great but the t-zone will not work after a few hours and I don't want to pay $25 or $34 for data the $19 data plan will get block too and there not a lot of good apps so far so I may have to go back to my Iphone (that suck) Someone said i would have to change my IMEI # for t-zone to work and i don't think that can be done on the my touch.It is a cool phone just don't think i can pay that much for data. We will see maybe i change the phones when i go out for longer trips
Hi,
I'm still using a grandfathered plan that contains unlimited data for $5.99. If I were to use my sim card in the Nexus, would I be able to have 3G? I have acquired a new sim card last year if that helps.
Thanks
Seems to be working fine in an unlocked phone.
I had a friend who was using an unlocked AT&T Tilt on T-Mobile's network. He recently bought a MT3G and it wouldn't let him sign in to his google account. He called T-Mobile and they told him he needed the Android plan to activate it. So he added that and it started working. I would keep your plan and try it, but don't buy the phone and expect that you will be able to keep it.
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Seems to be working fine in an unlocked phone.
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Do you have the $5.99 data plan on the N1? I'm not worried that it will work, just wondering if I will get 3G and not just EDGE. I'm using my $5.99 plan on the iPhone but getting EDGE due to frequency but I was wondering if T-Mobile can cap or restrict me to EDGE speed only due to my plan.
I am currently waiting on my N1 to show up; but I do know my G1, when I switched to it from my wing, didn't get any internet whatsoever until I had them update my plan to the 'android unlimited web'. And when I switched my plan from the 350 min myfavs to the 500 even more plus, I had to get them to tack on the same thing but in it's free version before I got 'net again. My friend has the $5.99 internet on his unlocked iphone. If I see him this weekend before you get an answer, I'll have him put his sim card in my N1 and see what happens.
Those of us who had the Ion, which was a developer phone and had no T-mobile branding, kept the 5.99 plan for a little while but the party eventually ended when the MyTouch was released. I would guess the same will happen with the N1... it'll work for a while, but then they'll prompt you to upgrade.
My G1 worked for a while with the old unlimited plan, but suddenly one day it stopped working, and all sites redirected me to a page saying I needed to upgrade my data plan. Just FYI.
Is this the same as the 5.99 T-zones plan thing that I have had my Dash rigged up to for the longest time? I didnt think anyone still has this plan but I get my phone tomorrow and I still have this plan though I think I am going to just go straight to 3g since I am going back to Phoenix in a week and I think their new network has rolled out there.
Would be interesting to get cheap internet though...
JHaste said:
Is this the same as the 5.99 T-zones plan thing that I have had my Dash rigged up to for the longest time? I didnt think anyone still has this plan but I get my phone tomorrow and I still have this plan though I think I am going to just go straight to 3g since I am going back to Phoenix in a week and I think their new network has rolled out there.
Would be interesting to get cheap internet though...
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You will get 3g speeds on the 5.99 plan. Keep it until they block it.
karnovaran said:
You will get 3g speeds on the 5.99 plan. Keep it until they block it.
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no sh*t? Now we are talking, nothing better than paying 6 bux a month for brand new 25 dollar plan... i wonder how long this goes on for before they ruin my fun
even if a get a couple months out of it that would be sick!
My friend has a n900 unlocked on tmobile
pays for the 10 dollar internet plan. Told them hes on some cheap motorola flip phone. There is no more 5.99 plan. And he gets 3g on his N900. So u save 20 a month by doing that.
lightforce said:
My friend has a n900 unlocked on tmobile
pays for the 10 dollar internet plan. Told them hes on some cheap motorola flip phone. There is no more 5.99 plan. And he gets 3g on his N900. So u save 20 a month by doing that.
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Years ago, there was a 5.99 internet plan. Trust me, I have it... data has just gotten progressively more and more expensive over the years, it started at 5.99, then went to 10 then 20 now 25...
Luckily, I have been using the dash all this time, not the 3g dash, the oldschool one.... and ive had fully functional internet with it since my 5.99 internet plan has been grandfathered over the years...
this will be interesting to try out on my N1 that comes tomorrow...
JHaste said:
Years ago, there was a 5.99 internet plan. Trust me, I have it... data has just gotten progressively more and more expensive over the years, it started at 5.99, then went to 10 then 20 now 25...
Luckily, I have been using the dash all this time, not the 3g dash, the oldschool one.... and ive had fully functional internet with it since my 5.99 internet plan has been grandfathered over the years...
this will be interesting to try out on my N1 that comes tomorrow...
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Well u can still add the 10 dollars internet plan online
JHaste said:
no sh*t? Now we are talking, nothing better than paying 6 bux a month for brand new 25 dollar plan... i wonder how long this goes on for before they ruin my fun
even if a get a couple months out of it that would be sick!
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Yeah I got at least two months of 3g goodness on my Ion for 6 bucks. I had to bump up to the G1 plan eventually, but it was nice to save some $$ for a while.
karnovaran said:
Yeah I got at least two months of 3g goodness on my Ion for 6 bucks. I had to bump up to the G1 plan eventually, but it was nice to save some $$ for a while.
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yea no kidding, this college kid is going to be eating ramen and ezmac for awhile now since i went unsubsidized because i am on a family plan lol...
the "extra money" from not having to get the new web plan right away is a breath of fresh air
Well actually way back then t-mobile had T-zone for only $2.99 and then they bumped it up to $5.99, and so on.
But after reading this thread. It appears to me that T-Mobile only finds out and block you from the $5.99 internet plan if your using a Google Phone. Because I have the TP2 from T-mobile, and my 3G internet is working fine. I have the $5.99 internet plan as well. This is very interesting.. Helps me decide between the HD2 and the Nexus 1... I think I will have to go with the HD2 for the cheap internet.
JHaste said:
Years ago, there was a 5.99 internet plan. Trust me, I have it... data has just gotten progressively more and more expensive over the years, it started at 5.99, then went to 10 then 20 now 25...
Luckily, I have been using the dash all this time, not the 3g dash, the oldschool one.... and ive had fully functional internet with it since my 5.99 internet plan has been grandfathered over the years...
this will be interesting to try out on my N1 that comes tomorrow...
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dinkk007 said:
Well actually way back then t-mobile had T-zone for only $2.99 and then they bumped it up to $5.99, and so on.
But after reading this thread. It appears to me that T-Mobile only finds out and block you from the $5.99 internet plan if your using a Google Phone. Because I have the TP2 from T-mobile, and my 3G internet is working fine. I have the $5.99 internet plan as well. This is very interesting.. Helps me decide between the HD2 and the Nexus 1... I think I will have to go with the HD2 for the cheap internet.
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the HD2 is nice on paper, and it is a gorgeous phone no doubt but WMo is such a bastard child OS for new phones these days... i am so sick of the WMo on my dash...
can anyone confirm that using a 9.99$ plan works?
melterx12 said:
can anyone confirm that using a 9.99$ plan works?
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tomorrow i will test the 5.99 plan before i move over to to the 25 dollar one...
i tried cancelling my 24.99$ mytouch 3g plan online... THERES NO OPTION TO CANCEL IT! WTF???
I am shocked how fast it is blocked from web2go.
It worked yesterday with web2go on 3rd line, but I got upsell error today, so you're warned if you want to attempt to use NS with grandfathered $10 web2go (not 200MB one).
Does anybody else encounter same problem?
mingkee said:
I am shocked how fast it is blocked from web2go.
It worked yesterday with web2go on 3rd line, but I got upsell error today, so you're warned if you want to attempt to use NS with grandfathered $10 web2go (not 200MB one).
Does anybody else encounter same problem?
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Interesting .........tmobile does know if u use nexus s whether u like it or not....which apn are u using?
kolyan said:
Interesting .........tmobile does know if u use nexus s whether u like it or not....which apn are u using?
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epc: NO
wap: NO
internet2: yes
all other: NO
mingkee said:
epc: NO
wap: NO
internet2: yes
all other: NO
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not that ^ ,APN (access point name)
need to use correct APN in order for it to work
Ignore this
What the heck is web2go? Some weird proprietary TMobile crap? Isnt the lack of carrier crap a huge selling point of this phone?
Ignore this
An update:
It works again with default settings this afternoon. Perhaps it's just a fluke, but I have to keep eyes on it.
AdamHart612 said:
What the heck is web2go? Some weird proprietary TMobile crap? Isnt the lack of carrier crap a huge selling point of this phone?
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Basically a cheap dumbphone data plan, better than paying $30 per mo.
i have same problem!!
I am having the same problem, it was working fine the last few days though I did have to reset a couple of times, but yesterday it just stopped working. I even returned it and got another one to see if that one would work but it didn't. Did they block it for everybody? Anybody using it with no problems?
yup same problem. I had to change my data plan.
If they block T-zones / Web2Go then over a 2 year period that's an extra $240 or more (Minimum $10/mo more for data X 24 months)
$575 (Nexus S price + tax)
$240 ($10/mo extra for data over 24 months compared to Web2Go)
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$815
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$350 (Amount for selling Nexus One)
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$475 Total cost of Nexus S (vs keeping Nexus One and Web2Go)
Love the Nexus S but I dunno if I can handle a near $500 dollar loss even if the SuperAMOLED screen is amazing =/
It's probably just a data outage or something though so I'll wait a week or so to see if it gets better.
blocked for me too.. somehow I think that if I use my N1, it will start working again.
is it really blocked?
did you guys try all the apns?
like internet2.voicestream.com
wap.voicestream.com
epc.tmobile.com
Wow this is so lame. Anyone find a solution yet or able to get web2go working again? I'm having the same problem and now have some regrets in buying this phone. I can't handle paying 30 for data.
tmobile knows what phone your using so it will only work for a matter of time. you can keep changing your apn but when you put your sim in they know. i called yesterday just to test them and they asked me how am i enjoying my nexus s. enjoy it while you can.