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A newbe

Hi guys! Amazed by this forum, so much advanced users here...
I have been a user of blue angel for about 4-5 years, travelled with it in Europe, Asia, Americas, sank it, dropped it, loved it... got it from expansys long time ago...
Got my Touch HD yesterday, unlocked, nice and shiny. Impressed so far, no flaws at all, Edge is fast here! (I'm in Houston, TX now)
Question. I am with ATT, and have a basic plan that does not include internet. However I am able to use internet thru data connection on my Touch HD. Are they charging me for usage? Do I have to be subscribed to a more expensive plan to be able to use it? Well, I'm using it now...so does ATT know at all that I am using it and how does it work with them if they don't know what phone I have?
Free internet just sounds too good to be true...
Thank you!

Newbe, data is data it doesn't really matter the phone. I can throw my AT&T SIM in any phone and use the AT&T network. You probably had some form of default data set up on your SIM and I would be very surprised you're getting something for nothing. More probably you're going to be charged on a usage based per kb basis. I would suggest you contact them and get the all you can eat plan cause you'll need it. It runs about $30 a month. If you stick with the metered plan hang onto your wallet.

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Newbe, data is data it doesn't really matter the phone. I can throw my AT&T SIM in any phone and use the AT&T network. You probably had some form of default data set up on your SIM and I would be very surprised you're getting something for nothing. More probably you're going to be charged on a usage based per kb basis. I would suggest you contact them and get the all you can eat plan cause you'll need it. It runs about $30 a month. If you stick with the metered plan hang onto your wallet.
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this is correct: any data capable phone can access the internet using pay-per-use and your charged for each KB of data, unless internet usage is explicitly turned off by calling at&t cust service! get on the $30 unlimited pda-connect data plan very soon, or you'll be paying through the wazoo
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data slow down due to the data used

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well well, aint that a surprise, tmobile do act fast, my internet was cut of, so im stranged to use tethering,

Well, how much data have you consumed?

presumably 5 gb?

That's bs if you pay for unlimited.In any case I think they can do a service reset it doesn't effect anything accept your connectivity and maybe I'm not sure but possibly your data speeds its not a factory reset sorry if you dont find this helpful our if you already knew about it
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Well quite a lot, I been hugging it for some days now, I might have consumed minimum 5gigs, win7 home, music and software updates to windows. So it might be more. Also they toggle your connections after 10G of data, it may say unlimited but its on their own terms
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I am sure you could call t-mobile && get that slow down lifted.. After all, they do like to kiss our.. well you know

Thats pretty crappy.they haven't done that to me though and im on my phone all day download and uploading?i wonder why
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Willnews I went overboard haha since my computer crashed I had to install everything, after that I downloadtef a crapful of music, haha I dont want to call tmobile I have no valid legal reason to tell them lol good thing in a week the "cycle" will start again
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It it's unlimited, the msg only said they will reduce the speed. They never said unlimited at full data speed. Still better than att. They no longer have unlimited.
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Try to change network mode to GSM only. They throttle WCDMA (3G) data speed to 50kbps or 60kbps around like. But they don't throttle GSM/EDGE connection. It's depends on signal strength but usually you can expect 100kbps to 120kbps on EDGE network. It's not excellent, but still better

Also next month tmo will start charging fir tethering.
Over half of att smaetphone users still have unlimited data.
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Does anyone use Verizon Prepaid?

Just curious. I've been using it for over a year since I had an Eris and switched over a white Fascinate I picked up for $150. It's $95/month for 450 anytime minutes/unlimited text plus free nights/weekends and UNLIMITED data at full 3G speeds. Plus, unlike ATT/etc the network is exactly the same, IE you aren't limited to a specific prepaid network. I mention it occasionally and people give me a flabbergasted look but according to the Verizon website they still have such a thing. Since apparently few people know about it, consider this your heads up if your contract is expiring soon and you want/need unlimited data for some reason. May not be around forever though. Who knows.
Scroll down to "3G Monthly Plans (Smartphone and Blackberry Devices)
http://www.verizonwireless.com/plans2-1/prepaid.shtml
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$95/month?! Your getting ripped off. If you own your phone w/o a Verizon contract, Check out PagePlus, a Verizon reseller (same service, lower prices).
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I travel all over the country, so I have to make sure I have cell service in as many offsite locations as possible. Verizon is the only company that offers that level of coverage, and the small carriers that piggyback towers here and there don't cut it.
Plus, I burn through about 10gb of data every month. Lol
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I guess it just doesn't sound like it's that much cheaper (if any) than regular post-paid. I'm on a family plan and have essentially the same plan you do and it's definitely cheaper than $95, but it's a family plan so hard to compare.

Ill hook you up man, i got a fascinate on the verizon 50 dollar unlimited plan with fast 3g (anywhere from 800kps to 1.5mbs depending where you live) and really its quite simple, takes 30 minutes at most if you have problems understanding it. i use about 5 gb of data per month LOL. plus i call and text all the time cuz i do bussiness id say the coverage is about the same on verizon post paid, maybe a bit less but for 50 per month its a great deal! i just finished my guide here on xda, its on the fascinate general. if you cant find it click on my user name and then go to statistics or the last tab and then it says "view threads" or something like that and it should pop out! good luck if u decide to do it !

Holy batman wtf happened to my data?

So apart from falling asleep while reading an article on my laptop last night and having my phone in my hand and waking up at 5am find it low on battery and plugging it in to charge, I got to work at 8am today went to a meeting from 9-11am at a supplier. At the supplier I turned on my hotspot to VPN back into my company to pull a few emails.
I can understand the hotspot use.. 100mb so quickly? Ok that's fine, but how did hangouts, Google Play store, etc explode?
I'll admit I updated a few apps these past few days: Lightflow, Foursquare, Greenify, but all that does NOT add up to that much transfer. And how the hell is Hangouts using so much data? I have an Ingress chat going on, but unless they're pasting Wikipedia articles in there, I sho uld be ok. Even if they went wild with 640x480 images, I shouldn't have that much data.
I also have Google+ Sync OFF and it greenified. WTF is going on? Pulse has its sync off. I almost want to say is it possible to have an error in reporting? I don't even believe these stats. It doesn't make sense.
My phone alerted me that I was at 2gb during my meeting and so I shut it off. This is ridiculous. May 31 - June 7 = 2gb? How the hell do I get through my billing cycle?
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Clearly something went down June 7th, but even if you look at May 31 - June 6, I still cannot understand how Hangouts wastes so much data.

what rom are you using? a few of the latest commits(dalvik/skia) are causing the phone to report data usage wrong on the phone. its not reporting wrong to your provider, just to your phone. you can always check your usage with your provider(tmobile via mobile site). to fix this, delete the files in /data/system/netstats/(i believe).

Cyanogenmod also had issues in one of its latest builds. It was only an issue with calculations though, so it didn't go rogue and download half the internet for you... don't worry.

Use an app from play store to control your data usage everyday.
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Use an app from play store to control your data usage everyday.
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Thanks but it was a bug in CM. Its very unlikely that the pulse or hangouts could gobble up so much data
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42151774
Check out my "usage." Turned out to be the ROM I was on. Actual usage was about 2gigs
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T-Mobile GPRS settings

That's the name I'm seeing on my device and under in small print it says
Fast. T-Mobile. Com my data speeds are 1-3mbps normally see 35+ . I called T-Mobile to no avail. I thought GPRS WAS 2G?
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Etc wtf
?!?
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I'm pretty sure that as long as the APN settings are correct, it doesn't matter what the actual APN is named. Are you on an unlimited plan and if so do you consume a lot of data each month? They may have slowed you down temporarily if you're in your area's peak hours.

I have same settings but it's LTE, that's the proper setting. Worry not the name
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Ok thank you all and I'm on unlimited but have been on WiFi.. I know my note 4 pulls 35+ down but this nexus is barely getting 1mbps.... Customer service tried to say unlocked devices may not receive the same speeds etc
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bipoler said:
Ok thank you all and I'm on unlimited but have been on WiFi.. I know my note 4 pulls 35+ down but this nexus is barely getting 1mbps.... Customer service tried to say unlocked devices may not receive the same speeds etc
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Its rare that a Customer Rep would know the correct answer, you'll get 10 different answers from 10 Rep's!

I changed my apn from default to the Nexus 6 settings....a quick Google search will take you to the T-Mobile support page. Haven't had an issue, except sometimes mms doesn't send, and I'll get duplicate messages especially from my girlfriend's iPhone 6s plus