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Unlimited roaming :D

I just checked Sprint and checked my roaming data 1.3 gigs, but then it wasn't in red, and it said 1.3gigs/Unlimited
Yay unlimited roaming

It's been like this forever.
Sprint Data Used
459,509KB/ Unlimited
Sprint Data Roaming Used
4,384,848KB/ Unlimited

Be careful 50% or more of your usage/time on roaming and they kick you off the network.
Sent from my Evo beeesshh

engagedtosmile said:
It's been like this forever.
Sprint Data Used
459,509KB/ Unlimited
Sprint Data Roaming Used
4,384,848KB/ Unlimited
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I checked it like a week ago, and it always said out of 0 but they never charged me.

DirtyShroomz said:
Be careful 50% or more of your usage/time on roaming and they kick you off the network.
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Proof? I have been over 50% since I got my Evo and they haven't said a word.
jigglywiggly said:
I checked it like a week ago, and it always said out of 0 but they never charged me.
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Yeah I see what you're saying now, but technically its always been unlimited. Now it just doesn't say "Additional Charges 0$" all the time in big scary red letters.

DirtyShroomz said:
Be careful 50% or more of your usage/time on roaming and they kick you off the network.
Sent from my Evo beeesshh
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I think for me it would be something like this
limit x-> 0+
1,300,000/x
The ratio that is, I don't use Sprint data.

engagedtosmile said:
Proof? I have been over 50% since I got my Evo and they haven't said a word.
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Yeah, check your terms and conditions. Every carrier has this.
Sent from my Evo beeesshh

Be aware that they won't charge you, but they do have the right to terminate your contract with an etf if your roaming data goes over 300MB/month. Whether or not they decide to crack down on you is up to them.

nukedukem said:
Be aware that they won't charge you, but they do have the right to terminate your contract with an etf if your roaming data goes over 300MB/month. Whether or not they decide to crack down on you is up to them.
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That is incorrect!
They have the right to terminate/regulate/throttle your contract/usage/data, but if they cancel you, there is no ETF. I have spoken at length with several Sprint reps about this, and it is fact.
I have been concerned that they would try to cancel my contract because I have the PRL hack and have been over 12gb of roaming data for several months in a row now, since way before the Evo came out. But, they keep telling me it's okay. They even give me free bonus minutes for my trouble every time I call. The secret is to call it in yourself, and act like a concerned customer that just wants to know what to do, but be persistent, they will be more than helpful if you take this approach.

JTNiggle said:
That is incorrect!
They have the right to terminate/regulate/throttle your contract/usage/data, but if they cancel you, there is no ETF. I have spoken at length with several Sprint reps about this, and it is fact.
I have been concerned that they would try to cancel my contract because I have the PRL hack and have been over 12gb of roaming data for several months in a row now, since way before the Evo came out. But, they keep telling me it's okay. They even give me free bonus minutes for my trouble every time I call. The secret is to call it in yourself, and act like a concerned customer that just wants to know what to do, but be persistent, they will be more than helpful if you take this approach.
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They will still cancel you regardless how "concerned" you are lol
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DirtyShroomz said:
They will still cancel you regardless how "concerned" you are lol
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That's fine, I'll take my phones somewhere else.
Also, they will give you warning before they cancel you. Remember, they want you to keep sending them money, and you wont be doing that if they cancel you. They will send out a warning letter asking you to change your usage pattern. If you don't change in the next month, then ur gone without any further notice.

DirtyShroomz said:
They will still cancel you regardless how "concerned" you are lol
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You work for Sprint and have done nothing but give horrible advice about Sprints terms and conditions.
We get it - you work for Sprint. Now shut up please. You don't know half as much as you claim you do.
Sprint CAN cancel your contract for numerous things - including tethering without paying. I use ~ 20 gigs a month without paying for tethering. Never heard a complaint.

werxen said:
You work for Sprint and have done nothing but give horrible advice about Sprints terms and conditions.
We get it - you work for Sprint. Now shut up please. You don't know half as much as you claim you do.
Sprint CAN cancel your contract for numerous things - including tethering without paying. I use ~ 20 gigs a month without paying for tethering. Never heard a complaint.
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Damn I thought you left. Today is a bad day for this forum if you're back. Btw they won't cancel you for tethering free that's why you haven't heard anything lol but they will cap data because of morons like you
Nobody likes you here and I do thoroughly enjoy seeing you drop out of every thread when proven wrong.
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Here you go brother
Excessive Utilization of Network Resources: Wireless and Wireline networks have capacity limits and all customers can suffer from degraded or denied service when one or a small group of users consumes disproportionate amounts of network resources. Sprint Nextel, therefore, will monitor both overall network performance and individual resource consumption to determine if any user is consuming a disproportionate amount of available resources and creating the potential to disrupt or degrade the Sprint Nextel network or network usage by others. While the determination of what constitutes excessive use depends on the specific state of the network at any given time, excessive use is determined by resource consumption relative to that of a typical individual user of the Service and not by the use of any particular application.
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Go ahead and test your "unlimited" theory. This applies to roaming minutes as well.

JTNiggle said:
That's fine, I'll take my phones somewhere else.
Also, they will give you warning before they cancel you. Remember, they want you to keep sending them money, and you wont be doing that if they cancel you. They will send out a warning letter asking you to change your usage pattern. If you don't change in the next month, then ur gone without any further notice.
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I think we just stumbled across a fool proof way to get out of your contract without the etf. Just act like a data roaming fool for a few months to get them to take notice, then ignore the warning they send you and poof.....you're out of your contract the next month.

Crotchety said:
I think we just stumbled across a fool proof way to get out of your contract without the etf. Just act like a data roaming fool for a few months to get them to take notice, then ignore the warning they send you and poof.....you're out of your contract the next month.
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Problem with that is, it takes 3+ months for it to actually get to you. If you're lucky you will get it within the 3 months but most people get cancelled at month 6 - but it will definitely work if you do, do that.

DirtyShroomz said:
Problem with that is, it takes 3+ months for it to actually get to you. If you're lucky you will get it within the 3 months but most people get cancelled at month 6 - but it will definitely work if you do, do that.
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Well I guess that bright idea bit the dust with a quickness

Crotchety said:
I think we just stumbled across a fool proof way to get out of your contract without the etf. Just act like a data roaming fool for a few months to get them to take notice, then ignore the warning they send you and poof.....you're out of your contract the next month.
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Yeah, that's actually what I was trying to get out of talking to them. I finally got one the managers to confirm in writing that I would be able to opt out all 5 lines for free if they decided to cancel/suspend me. Just waiting for that letter but it never comes, been over 6 months of intentionally high data roaming. I run Pandora all day and stream netflix/hulu while tethered to 4g, and of coarse lots of mp3 downloads.

JTNiggle said:
Yeah, that's actually what I was trying to get out of talking to them. I finally got one the managers to confirm in writing that I would be able to opt out all 5 lines for free if they decided to cancel/suspend me. Just waiting for that letter but it never comes, been over 6 months of intentionally high data roaming. I run Pandora all day and stream netflix/hulu while tethered to 4g, and of coarse lots of mp3 downloads.
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Never seen anyone get cancelled because of high data usage... this is for roaming calling usage. Right now you're just messing up everyone else's usage and giving Sprint a reason to cap their data

DirtyShroomz said:
Never seen anyone get cancelled because of high data usage... this is for roaming calling usage. Right now you're just messing up everyone else's usage and giving Sprint a reason to cap their data
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Are you retarded?
This thread is about data roaming, if you can't follow along, stfu!
Also, can you read? I mentioned I was running a different PRL, all my data and voice is roaming!

Verizon PRL Hack - Just Don't

I don't know how many of you have been kicked off for this (doubt anybody has as not one of you that do use the hack have ever potsed about it finally working) but please stop doing it, all youre doing is upping the costs for everyone. To get kicked off the network we all know you have to constantly roam (excessive roaming) however Sprint will still check and require proof of address to have your ETF waived, once they see you're constantly roaming in a coverage area you will still get stuck with the ETF. Just a heads up, we all complain about prices going up but there's also tons of people that participate in making costs go up.

DirtyShroomz said:
I don't know how many of you have been kicked off for this (doubt anybody has as not one of you that do use the hack have ever potsed about it finally working) but please stop doing it, all youre doing is upping the costs for everyone. To get kicked off the network we all know you have to constantly roam (excessive roaming) however Sprint will still check and require proof of address to have your ETF waived, once they see you're constantly roaming in a coverage area you will still get stuck with the ETF. Just a heads up, we all complain about prices going up but there's also tons of people that participate in making costs go up.
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Thanks for the info. Did not realize you were a sprint employee.
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I don't know about anyone else but I've been using this hack for months and don't have any roaming data. I know it's working or doing something because I notice a great deal of improvement in coverage.
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Sprint's data service is so bad that many find it as essential. If I pay $10 for a PREMIUM data add on, I expect premium data not 200-500 kbps. I've yet to do the PRL hack but everything is so damn slow. Downloading apps used to take a couple of seconds now it takes a couple of minutes.

Award Tour said:
Sprint's data service is so bad that many find it as essential. If I pay $10 for a PREMIUM data add on, I expect premium data not 200-500 kbps. I've yet to do the PRL hack but everything is so damn slow. Downloading apps used to take a couple of seconds now it takes a couple of minutes.
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I'm not talking about the speed, I have horrible speeds too for the past 2 months, i'm talking about people using it to get kicked off.

Rem3Dy said:
Do you really have evidence of this? Or are you just some disgruntled cheapskate passing off opinion as fact?
This really required its own thread? You are just screaming for attention aren't you.
BTW many people have posted about this actually getting sprint to cancel their account ETF free.
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What the hell are you talking about? Reading > You.

He's talking about people that use it to get out of paying the etf...for instance they download torrents 247 just to get excessive roam instead of just using it for Verizon coverage...I read it pretty clear, don't know what's wrong with everyone
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i totally 100% agree with the op

i kinda agree but then again i understand why they are doing it been fighting with data speeds to the point i thought about doing the prl hack to get released from my 5 phone contract

I just hate to see good things come to an end because of a select few. Prices are going to go up, no doubt, but there's no sense in having them go up faster. It's a lose-lose situation. Customers get less for their money and employee's get less (benefits).

so, what you're bringing to my attention is that there is a way to get out of my contract without an etf?
this is news to me and probably several others. I had no idea there was a vzw prl hack. can you explain in great detail how this is done and what I should search Google for?
oh wait I guess you just did in the OP.
thanks.
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thedudejdog said:
so, what you're bringing to my attention is that there is a way to get out of my contract without an etf?
this is news to me and probably several others. I had no idea there was a vzw prl hack. can you explain in great detail how this is done and what I should search Google for?
oh wait I guess you just did in the OP.
thanks.
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Reading > You.

DirtyShroomz said:
Reading > You.
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all i'm saying is if something is bad and you don't want people doing it, probably not the best idea to draw attention to it. just let it die.

thedudejdog said:
all i'm saying is if something is bad and you don't want people doing it, probably not the best idea to draw attention to it. just let it die.
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Or you can educate them that by doing this hack you won't be let go ETF free as proof of address is still required to have ETF waived.

can anyone give me a link on how to do this? I would love to test out the speeds on it

raul602 said:
can anyone give me a link on how to do this? I would love to test out the speeds on it
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http://tinyurl.com/47z9cbn

Although I see where you're going with this, we are a very small percentage of the Evo owners. And a smaller amount of rooted Evo owners that actually user this hack. I know quite a few Evo owners that don't even want to root their phone, one of them being my wife. If Sprint set their plans up like TMO, where I could bring a paid off phone to their network and pay less monthly since I wasn't on a subsidized phone then it would different. Rates are determined partially about how providers will recover phone costs, and that is the ETF (obviously), but what about all the people that have paid there phone off by contract and continue to pay the same rates. This came to my attention, or rather opened my eyes when I wanted to add my daughter on our family plan with a blackberry that I had laying around. And even though it was paid off, it still required a 2 year activation..WTF...i didn't understand when I wasn't buying a subsidized phone, since I wanted the ability to shut the phone off for grades, behavior, etc. I mean why would I be responsible for etf for a phone that wasn't subsidized. I wish a plan similar to TMO would come to other providers.
Swyped from my CyanoSavaged Evo

mustangboy88 said:
Although I see where you're going with this, we are a very small percentage of the Evo owners. And a smaller amount of rooted Evo owners that actually user this hack. I know quite a few Evo owners that don't even want to root their phone, one of them being my wife. If Sprint set their plans up like TMO, where I could bring a paid off phone to their network and pay less monthly since I wasn't on a subsidized phone then it would different. Rates are determined about how providers will recover phone costs, and that is the ETF (obviously), but what about all the people that have paid there phone off by contract and continue to pay the same rates. This came to my attention, or rather opened my eyes when I wanted to add my daughter on our family plan with a blackberry that I had laying around. And even though it was paid off, it still required a 2 year activation..WTF...i didn't understand when I wasn't buying a subsidized phone, since I wanted the ability to shut the phone off for grades, behavior, etc. I mean why would I be responsible for etf for a phone that wasn't subsidized. I wish a plan similar to TMO would come to other providers.
Swyped from my CyanoSavaged Evo
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You can start a line without a contract if you bring your own phone, don't let anyone tell you any different.

I encourage you to call Sprint yourself and clarify that. That is not the case when adding a new line. I can activate a phone under my line and not affect my contract, but adding a line is different.
Swyped from my CyanoSavaged Evo

mustangboy88 said:
I encourage you to call Sprint yourself and clarify that. That is not the case when adding a new line. I can activate a phone under my line and not affect my contract, but adding a line is different.
Swyped from my CyanoSavaged Evo
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I don't need to, I work there.

got "the call" today

...informing me my account was being cancelled for excessive roaming data usage. I knew it was being throttled and it's why I'm switching providers and already have a phone with a different provider. I wasn't abusing it, but when sprint changed the terms of their service agreement when I got my evo it put me in a bad spot because I work in the mountains of CO 2 days a week and have a lot of down time to watch videos. Previously, my grandfathered SERO plan had no restrictions on data usage. 10 years with Sprint and this is the call. Awesome.

Some will tell you this is a blessing.

jorpe said:
...informing me my account was being cancelled for excessive roaming data usage. I knew it was being throttled and it's why I'm switching providers and already have a phone with a different provider. I wasn't abusing it, but when sprint changed the terms of their service agreement when I got my evo it put me in a bad spot because I work in the mountains of CO 2 days a week and have a lot of down time to watch videos. Previously, my grandfathered SERO plan had no restrictions on data usage. 10 years with Sprint and this is the call. Awesome.
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See ya....

swaze said:
See ya....
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and I thought we were all just becoming BFF

Out of curiosity, were you using the verizon prl? Or a regular sprint one.

jorpe said:
...informing me my account was being cancelled for excessive roaming data usage. I knew it was being throttled and it's why I'm switching providers and already have a phone with a different provider. I wasn't abusing it, but when sprint changed the terms of their service agreement when I got my evo it put me in a bad spot because I work in the mountains of CO 2 days a week and have a lot of down time to watch videos. Previously, my grandfathered SERO plan had no restrictions on data usage. 10 years with Sprint and this is the call. Awesome.
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Huh?
You knew you were being throttled?
You're right, you are now because you're with another provider (and they all do except att that just doesn't have unlimited)
Sprint doesn't throttle phones.

I sort of want to be canceled because I want to switch to Verizon or AT&T.
I know how to do the Verizon prl. My question is, are they making you pay an ETF? And, if they cancel you, do the do anything with your ESN? Will I be able to sell my phone to cover the cost of a new phone on another provider?
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Out of curiosity, were you using the verizon prl? Or a regular sprint one.
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Just a regular sprint one, I think I was on the 190.001 or whatever the number was. If that's not the one you were talking about either way I didnt do any of the semi-shady flashing anything to Verizon.

josh995 said:
I sort of want to be canceled because I want to switch to Verizon or AT&T.
I know how to do the Verizon prl. My question is, are they making you pay an ETF? And, if they cancel you, do the do anything with your ESN? Will I be able to sell my phone to cover the cost of a new phone on another provider?
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Unfortunately they dont make you pay an etf although they should make you pay extra for every KB of abuse.
Hopefully they lock down your esn so it can never be used again.
You want out of contract? Be a man and pay the etf.
No one made you sign the contract but you.

mattykinsx said:
Huh?
You knew you were being throttled?
You're right, you are now because you're with another provider (and they all do except att that just doesn't have unlimited)
Sprint doesn't throttle phones.
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Maybe I wasn't being throttled. Up until 2 months ago when I was out of normal coverage I could still watch things on megavideo. Within the last 2 months all of the sudden I cant even get data coverage that is fast enough to sync my email without timing out. This area is covered with a Verizon 3G signal. This has happened with 2 different EVOs on stock ROMs and steel H rooted rom as well as myn's 2.2 RLS5 ROM

mattykinsx said:
Unfortunately they dont make you pay an etf although they should make you pay extra for every KB of abuse.
Hopefully they lock down your esn so it can never be used again.
You want out of contract? Be a man and pay the etf.
No one made you sign the contract but you.
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I know nobody made me sign the contract. I could pay the ETF. I just don't want to. That's the beauty of America. I don't have to do anything I don't want to, and there's a way around everything.
Thank you.
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mattykinsx said:
Unfortunately they dont make you pay an etf although they should make you pay extra for every KB of abuse.
Hopefully they lock down your esn so it can never be used again.
You want out of contract? Be a man and pay the etf.
No one made you sign the contract but you.
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I think this isn't even remotely directed at me (I see who you quoted) but on the chance that it is... I wasn't doing any of that and am not under contract with Sprint and haven't been since December. Before I got my EVO and had a winmo phone my grandfathered SERO plan had a $5 option for data roaming while off the sprint network as long as it didn't go above a certain percentage of your usage, which it shouldnt have ever anyways because unless I'm snowboarding or exploring CO I'm not off Sprint coverage more than 2x a week

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I know nobody made me sign the contract. I could pay the ETF. I just don't want to. That's the beauty of America. I don't have to do anything I don't want to, and there's a way around everything.
Thank you.
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And this is why America is going down the drain, people don't take responsibility for their actions, they screw everyone over to save themselves. What a sad country we live in.
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josh995 said:
I know nobody made me sign the contract. I could pay the ETF. I just don't want to. That's the beauty of America. I don't have to do anything I don't want to, and there's a way around everything.
Thank you.
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I'm going to bold what I'm about to say because you need to understand it.
This behavior right here, your behavior, is the PROBLEM.
It is EXACTLY WHY carriers get away with throttling and limiting and ****ing the customer.
It is EXACTLY WHY there is always a new law to bend people over even more.
You're not just ruining it for Sprint customers, you're ruining it for everyone in society and the day this is understood is the day we might actually be able to mature as a people.

Hey, I think you guys should lay off the guy. It wasn't his daily there was no Sprint coverage. And this is America, he has every right not having to pay an etf because Spring decides they've had enough. So bottom line, go troll somewhere else, this guy doesn't deserve it.
I feel bad for you man, hang in there!
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Make way for the "you should do what's right" police :rolls eyes:

chickut123 said:
Hey, I think you guys should lay off the guy. It wasn't his daily there was no Sprint coverage. And this is America, he has every right not having to pay an etf because Spring decides they've had enough. So bottom line, go troll somewhere else, this guy doesn't deserve it.
I feel bad for you man, hang in there!
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If Sprint stops providing coverage in your area then they have to waive your ETF and that is a separate issue.
However, if you sign up for Sprint and you use the coverage and then just decide you don't want it anymore and therefore are going to abuse your way out then you can honestly go jump off a bridge.
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Make way for the "you should do what's right" police :rolls eyes:
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Sorry, I forgot, it's "cool" to abuse situations in life whenever possible and to **** others over.
Our bad, bro.

He said he isn't using a verizon prl, it is obviously bad coverage. Not his fault.
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Sorry, I forgot, it's "cool" to abuse situations in life whenever possible and to **** others over.
Our bad, bro.
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Now you're learning man good for you! Living is all about bending life over and taking what you want. In order for this to work you will have to break rules and abuse the system sometimes. Nice guys will always finish last Matty.....

That's exactly what I'm going to do.
I'm going to abuse Sprint's roaming policy to get out of my contract.
If you don't like it, you're the one who can jump off a bridge.
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good buy android..

if yall have been reading the prl thread then you know ive gotten my self into quite a pickle well as it turns out my situation just got worse. So i decided to go to the metro pcs store today to get sined up with them, because there the only ones that could flash my hero to there network. As it turns out though metro charges for roaming and at my house i wouldnt have service even though the customer care lady i called said i would. So that was a complete bust now my only option since i decided to finally get normal home internet at my house is to get verizon and get some piece of crap messaging phone without a data plan. So long story short starting on the 2nd ill be officially off android.

I wasn't following that thread, what happen? You get charged a ton for roaming or get booted for too much roaming?

sprint is supposed to be unlimited roaming, but if you exceed a certain number for x number of months they can kick you off there network.
oostah posted the exact number at the binging of the prl thread

Bierce22 said:
sprint is supposed to be unlimited roaming, but if you exceed a certain number for x number of months they can kick you off there network.
oostah posted the exact number at the binging of the prl thread
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I didn't know if you were on Sprint so I was just guessing. Yeah if you over roam you get booted. I didn't know about the 300mb data thing though, that's a concern having a teenager on the family plan.
I guess it's too late, but couldn't you just have someone eles in your house sign up and be back on Sprint?

Its just time for a change if I stayed on sprint I would just get a basic phone anyway so I could get Comcast internet the cool thing about Verizon is they offer a 18% government discount and since my mom works for the school system she qualifies. So I know this sounds weird but Verizon is actually cheaper than sprint in my situation
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Bierce22 said:
Its just time for a change if I stayed on sprint I would just get a basic phone anyway so I could get Comcast internet the cool thing about Verizon is they offer a 18% government discount and since my mom works for the school system she qualifies. So I know this sounds weird but Verizon is actually cheaper than sprint in my situation
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Sprint had discounts for teachers too. I'm on a 15% discount for my wife being a teacher.

im bout to go out to bestbuy and see if they have better deals, and i could never go back to sprint after what they did to me.

Bierce22 said:
im bout to go out to bestbuy and see if they have better deals, and i could never go back to sprint after what they did to me.
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I don't know the details, but it sounds like you did it to yourself. But anyway, I could (maybe) never go back to VZW after what they did to me. My mom died, I racked up like $800 in overages related to it and they changed my plan to a more expensive one without my authorization which didn't even help the bill and wouldn't change me back.

Bierce22 said:
im bout to go out to bestbuy and see if they have better deals, and i could never go back to sprint after what they did to me.
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Wow man Sorry to hear that Bro!
That Sucks!!
Cant you just tell them that your phone Never use to Roam before, and you actually Noticed it yourself just Recently? Also try throwing a little lie in there and say one of their Operators told you it was due to one of Sprints Towers being Down? It's Worth a try...
Good Luck!

We had the same problem, our phones were on roaming at the house and we was going to get booted, but they sent us an airave and now there is no problems.
Our service has never been better at the house either, we used to get a lot of dropped calls and terrible reception, but now everything is crystal clear

sprint to waive ETFs due to contract change (evo edition)

i also posted this in the epic forum, but since im sure a lot of you dont frequent it, i thought id post it here too. flame on!
title says it all. the admin fee is going from .99 cents per line to 1.50 per line.
all you have to do is call and (2 options) 1.) cancel and move on to a different company with no early termination fee, or 2.) try getting out of the contract and go month to month so you have more leverage to bargain for a better phone in a few months as you are now out of contract.
this is the notice that should be included in your next bill
SPRINT said:
Administrative Charge Increase &Terms & Conditions Changes for Consumers
Effective 9/9/11, the Administrative Chargewill increase to $1.50 per line for customersthat receive the charge. For details, visitsprint.com/taxesandfees. In addition, theSprint consumer Terms (Ts&Cs) are changing. Please review them carefully at your local Sprint store or sprint.com/termsandconditions
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And per their terms and conditions.....
THIS LINK NO LONGER GOES TO THE OLD TERMS AND CONDITIONS
THIS LINK IS NOW GOES TO THE NEW TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
http://shop2.sprint.com/en/legal/legal_terms_privacy_popup.shtml?ECID=vanity:termsandconditions
YOU CAN FIND AN OLDER COPY OF THE CONTRACT BY COPY AND PASTING THE ADDRESS ON ARCHIVE.ORG
if you do want to cancel but want to save your phone number, try going about getting month to month, then porting out your number to a prepaid or gv, then wait 30 days, and port your number back to sprint getting new customer pricing on phones. (perhaps 3vo, sgs2 or photon for 99 bucks.)
For those of you who are considering doing the port out/ port in method you can port your number to Google Voice for free since Sprint and GV are partnered up (Thanks nkdumb24 from slickdeals.net )
personally, i wont be jacking with this. i already have upgrades available on 3 of my 4 lines and i like the prices. just sharing with the community.

Has anyone done/tried this and been successful? I know talk like this went around with some change Verizon did a.couple of months ago and they lowered another charge to keep the bill the same so people couldn't do this. I guess if someone has done this what did you say and what did you get?
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Why cancel over fifty cents?
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Yes I would like to know also. Tempting but just not sure if it would be wise. Only place I would go is tmobile and we all know what road they are going down.

Jjday7 said:
Yes I would like to know also. Tempting but just not sure if it would be wise. Only place I would go is tmobile and we all know what road they are going down.
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Going to try now

locoboi187 said:
Why cancel over fifty cents?
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I'm thinking of switching to a prepaid service mainly because sprints 3g is so slow and lack of 4g except in spotty areas I rarely go to here.

jonathan413 said:
Going to try now
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Let me know how it turns out if you don't mind. I have been pretty disappointed with Sprint for a couple months now.
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I'm interested in getting out of the contract, let me know if it works if anyone else tries it...

I didn't read thru all of this but I cancelled my contract only after 4 months..not because I was unhappy but I flashed my nexus to boost to save money. I was ready to pay the ETF but when I got off the phone with the woman at Sprint she said I had a hundred and some odd dollars credit..I had know idea what she was talking about but I kept quiet. When I got my final bill it was nine dollars and some change..and thats the last bill I got! I have know idea what the credit was.
Edit..I original had purchased an Evo on the account..dont know if that matters.

locoboi187 said:
Why cancel over fifty cents?
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This isnt really cancelling JUST because of the price increase. This is just a way for people who wanted to get out of their contract without paying the etf, since the contract changed.

im really considering doing this , im so tired of horrible internet. I rather pay more to have internet that isnt so damn slow . but i really dont want to leave sprint....

jietzer said:
im really considering doing this , im so tired of horrible internet. I rather pay more to have internet that isnt so damn slow . but i really dont want to leave sprint....
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You're ditching over slow but unlimited internet? Let me know how that goes over.

Indirect said:
You're ditching over slow but unlimited internet? Let me know how that goes over.
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unlimited means nothing when you crawl

What speeds are you getting?
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AZ1412 said:
What speeds are you getting?
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ill have to check when i go outside. I dont really go by speed test i go by real world exp , when im out and i need some info and it takes forever to come up is what bugs me. most my friends have t-mobile and i dont even bother looking up stuff cause they can grab the info seeked tons faster (minutes). I prob wont leave just thinking about it.

AZ1412 said:
What speeds are you getting?
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Mine are anywhere from 1-300 kbps
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Indirect said:
You're ditching over slow but unlimited internet? Let me know how that goes over.
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ok ill give u this one , i just checked my data usage . i only use like 1 gig so a data cap not a big deal to me, my wife how ever uses like 5 gigs on average with her damn spotify.

1-300 sounds terrible. Have you tried the data fixes on xda? I'd link but on the cell at the moment. I get ~500 KB/s on 1-2 bars of 4G. Anything over that is above 800. Try searching for those fixes, they helped me a lot.
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When you have 4g it's a roughly 10x difference if not more. I average 7.5-9.3mb/s :3

Oh, when I first rooted my brothers phone he had bad download speeds compared to me (same ROM and kernel), but after the fixes he is comparable
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