I have a Samsung Captivate. Its on AT&T's $50 Unlimited Talk, Text and Web plan, however, the web part is disabled. I have to buy a separate Data Plan to make the internet work.
I was just wondering if there are any free mobile networks out there? Perhaps setting a new APN that lets me on the net without paying for it, how ever slow it may be. I'm not talking about WiFi either. I mean an internet that can used while outside of a WiFi hotspot.
I've heard of such things, but can't find any information about it.
I don't think such a thing exists, cuz whatever APN/VPN/... you're setting up, it still has to go through whatever your provider is..
Ixindor said:
I have a Samsung Captivate. Its on AT&T's $50 Unlimited Talk, Text and Web plan, however, the web part is disabled. I have to buy a separate Data Plan to make the internet work.
I was just wondering if there are any free mobile networks out there? Perhaps setting a new APN that lets me on the net without paying for it, how ever slow it may be. I'm not talking about WiFi either. I mean an internet that can used while outside of a WiFi hotspot.
I've heard of such things, but can't find any information about it.
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Are you serious? You think a service provider is going to let you eat their bandwidth for nothing? If that were the case, why would ANYONE pay for data? Keep dreaming big, my friend.
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See here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16661042&posted=1#post16661042
In order to use the unlimited featurephone data on the $50 prepaid plan with a smartphone, you need to use an Android device AT&T doesn't recognize. That means an unbranded device with AT&T's 3G frequencies.
synaesthetic said:
In order to use the unlimited featurephone data on the $50 prepaid plan with a smartphone, you need to use an Android device AT&T doesn't recognize. That means an unbranded device with AT&T's 3G frequencies.
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Exactly, look for a desire Z or a milestone.
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Hey Guys,
I have a weird question, i have a p4000 from telus in canada and i DONT have caller ID. Telus charges a ridiculous fee for it.
However when i go the caller id screen i can see the numbers of my calls for like 1/2 a second then it goes blank. This is enough that i can get my last call anyways.
Is there any way to completely unlock this via software that anyone knows??
My Telus bill is about $180/mo. (For my HTC Titan & my wife's RAZR V3c.)
...
*sob*
i think mine is 100 or so for the p4000 and the touch.
math0ne said:
Hey Guys,
I have a weird question, i have a p4000 from telus in canada and i DONT have caller ID. Telus charges a ridiculous fee for it.
However when i go the caller id screen i can see the numbers of my calls for like 1/2 a second then it goes blank. This is enough that i can get my last call anyways.
Is there any way to completely unlock this via software that anyone knows??
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I agree on the price gouging. I stripped everything off my P4000 plan months ago. No data, no CID, no voicemail, everything except a 20$/month calling plan. I didn't do this because I don't need the features, quite the contrary. But it's my way of protesting the horrible monopoly we're stuck with in Canada. ****em, they're not getting access to my wallet until they match Sprint's unlimited data, unlimited text and 500 minutes for 30$ a month. [/END RANT]
Now, what do you mean by the "caller id screen"? Maybe there is way to hack it but I'm not sure what you're referring to.
I'm referring to the screen you get when you are at the phone screen and you press the button named: Call History
I couldn't find a shot of it in its default state but here is what it looks like if you have the contact photos addon:
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Any idea's??
I recently switched to the Sidekick pay as you go plan on t-mobile. Pay as you go sim cards work fine in most t-mobile phones. It works fine in my t-mobile dash which is upgraded to wm 6.1 (kavanna downloaded from the Excalibur forum here). My text messages work fine as unlimited but I'm supposed to get unlimited internet as well. I have the edge network icon on my top bar yet i can't connect to the internet. In my comm manager it won't let me select the 4th (email) or 5th(data connection) icons. T-mobile said this was because sidekicks are very specific and the plan is designed for sidekicks, but my friend had already done this on his dash and his interent worked (then upgraded to a g1). Anyone have any ideas?
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I recently switched to the Sidekick pay as you go plan on t-mobile. Pay as you go sim cards work fine in most t-mobile phones. It works fine in my t-mobile dash which is upgraded to wm 6.1 (kavanna downloaded from the Excalibur forum here). My text messages work fine as unlimited but I'm supposed to get unlimited internet as well. I have the edge network icon on my top bar yet i can't connect to the internet. In my comm manager it won't let me select the 4th (email) or 5th(data connection) icons. T-mobile said this was because sidekicks are very specific and the plan is designed for sidekicks, but my friend had already done this on his dash and his interent worked (then upgraded to a g1). Anyone have any ideas?
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Well, I don't have any experience with the sidekick or the pay as you go plan as I'm from Spain, but if internet in the sidekick works as in any regular phone, then you need to know the APN and username/password you should use to access the GPRS/EDGE/3G data network.
If you already do, and the dash is configured, then the only reason I can think of it wouldn't work is because of the IMEI, as providers know the device type based on the TAC (Type Allocation Code) and they can block internet access if the connected device doesn't comply with the allowed device.
Well I assumed it was the upgraded wm 6.1 so I downgraded to the official tmobile wm 6.0 but data connection still wasn't allowed in my comm manager. I've uploaded a screenshot of my comm manager so it's easier to see what the problem is:
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(it won't even let me select 4 or 5 the email and data connection)
I attempted to connect to the internet on a friend's sidekick with my SIM card and it asked for the username/pin (which means my plan does allow me to connect to the internet) so I'm going to have to assume it is the IMEI, I don't understand what else it could be. Thanks for you help. If anyone else might know why please post.
Im in a little bit of a pinch. I never use voice and I use sip with 3g when I do.
So I thought of a solution.
I heard the sidekick could have just internet so...
To get your bill under 50 bucks you must have that.
I figured out how to have just a dataplan...
First go to t-mobile.com
And login
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Stroll till you see this.
Then click the Not your phone link
Choose check sidekick.
Scroll down untill you see the green "t-mobile sidekick™" Click it.
Now it will go back to my t-mobile. scroll all the way down until the links at the bottom and click Plans & Services.
Click Change plan
Now scroll a little untill you see.
check the button and scroll all the way down and click change plan.
Now click manage.
press not my phone again
check t-mobile.
and scroll down untill you see your g1.
press the select button.
And congrats you are now paying less than 50 bucks for your g1 the sidekick plan will stay on even after you say its a g1 again ...
Also to get no data plan chose some cheepy phone and in services click no data plan ...
Any particular reason you dont select THIS plan: http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/....aspx?tp=tb1&rateplan=T-Mobile-Total-Internet ??
Its even cheaper.
But if your on a sidekick plan then won't they cut off the data. People were complaining that they had the sidekick plan or the web2go or one of the other data plans and it worked until not to long ago. Now the G1 data will only work under the G1/Android data plan or am I looking at something wrong. I can't see the pics so I might be missing something.
No I meant choose like a cheap ghetto phone that can have just voice to do that.
Anyway I don't know what phone has that total internet so...
idk
This could go for any phone, but since I have the Nexus 4 I thought I should post it in here.
I just received an update for T-Mobile My Account, the one on the Play store that gives you the information in your notification window, and after the update it was showing me the "Tutorial" Screen and I noticed that it was showing "XX/Unlimited" for minutes and texts.
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On my phone however it only shows up "Unlimited" ... I'm curious if I can get the actual count to show up on mine, and how? I am on a monthly pre-paid plan, so I'm not sure if that is why. Since I am unlimited, it's not life or death, just something I'd like to be able to get the stats on.
If anyone has a Nexus 4 and was able to do this and can tell me that would be awesome, or if anyone knows of a setting within the app itself?
Thanks in advance everyone.
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This could go for any phone, but since I have the Nexus 4 I thought I should post it in here.
I just received an update for T-Mobile My Account, the one on the Play store that gives you the information in your notification window, and after the update it was showing me the "Tutorial" Screen and I noticed that it was showing "XX/Unlimited" for minutes and texts.
(See here
-- from T-Mobile's website)
On my phone however it only shows up "Unlimited" ... I'm curious if I can get the actual count to show up on mine, and how? I am on a monthly pre-paid plan, so I'm not sure if that is why. Since I am unlimited, it's not life or death, just something I'd like to be able to get the stats on.
If anyone has a Nexus 4 and was able to do this and can tell me that would be awesome, or if anyone knows of a setting within the app itself?
Thanks in advance everyone.
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there should be a data tracking in the settings menu that let you know how much data you have used
From my experience the app will not show stats for anything that is unlimited as there is no point in keeping track of it. Mine shows minutes used, as I only have 100, unlimited texts with no number given, and how much data I've used as the cap it at 5 GB. Verizons app does the same thing, as I have true unlimited data it never shows how much I have used but as my minutes and texts are limited I get a count on them.
OK that's cool ... I had seen the pictures and was wondering, no biggie!
Thanks all!
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I have had AT&T for awhile, and I just swapped to an S4 from a One X, and I am on a 4GB Data plan. I was curious as to how much data I was using after having the phone for a couple days so I did the "check or data" code and I come back with something odd. I have never seen it show 2 different sections for data before on any device that I have had. I haven't touched wifi so far, I have been at work mostly and our wifi is pretty slow. I also checked on my account page on the AT&T website and it shows the same as the top line that I haven't used any data at all.
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When my friend switched over to the S4 he also had the 4GB plan but they screwed up and gave him unlimited. That was months ago when the s4 first came out. Check under services online and see if it reads "data unlimited for smartphone LTE add on" or something like that.
Congrats if you have unlimited now. They don't really throttle anymore.
Well thats interesting. I actually started a new account under an ANR line and just went for the 4GB data because I tend to use more. If I log in on the site it tells me I have the 4gb and I have used zero of it. If I have unlimited then that is going to be awesome lol, I think I am going to try to go over to see if they charge me teh $10 per GB. This is what the MyAT&T app says
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Well thats interesting. I actually started a new account under an ANR line and just went for the 4GB data because I tend to use more. If I log in on the site it tells me I have the 4gb and I have used zero of it. If I have unlimited then that is going to be awesome lol, I think I am going to try to go over to see if they charge me teh $10 per GB. This is what the MyAT&T app says
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It looks to me like there are two data plans on your account. That might be where the error is. It would have to say XXXo of 4,096 deactivated and then your new unlimited plan, e.g, ... xxx of unlimited. Log onto your AT&T account and see if your feature for your data plan says what mine does.
Well for mine, it doesn't show anything as current. I can't edit anything on my account without it screwing up either. I have to talk to my account executive and they do it for me. ANR accounts are kinda weird.
You have two data plans on your account... Try to get the 4gb removed...
It should look like this :
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