I have used ST service on my HOX and HOX+ and had a mixed experience with the service. I just got the HTC One Dev and popped the old (AT&T) ST simcard with one month service. I live in the Twin Cities, MN.
The cellular signal is good (always stay at 4-5 bars). I haven't had any dropped call or late msg in the last 15 days. The call quality is good too. However, the problem occurs with the data speed. I have observed the data speed decreased significantly. I searched Google and found that ST stopped offering AT&T simcard last couple months.
Does the discontinue of AT&T simcard have any impact on my data speed? I would like to hear from other HTC One owners whom have been using ST service on a AT&T simcard about their experience lately.
Thank you
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I have used ST service on my HOX and HOX+ and had a mixed experience with the service. I just got the HTC One Dev and popped the old (AT&T) ST simcard with one month service. I live in the Twin Cities, MN.
The cellular signal is good (always stay at 4-5 bars). I haven't had any dropped call or late msg in the last 15 days. The call quality is good too. However, the problem occurs with the data speed. I have observed the data speed decreased significantly. I searched Google and found that ST stopped offering AT&T simcard last couple months.
Does the discontinue of AT&T simcard have any impact on my data speed? I would like to hear from other HTC One owners whom have been using ST service on a AT&T simcard about their experience lately.
Thank you
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i live in clarksville, tn and using straight talk att (i bought from ebay the triple pack) then just sold one att and one t-mobile like couple days ago, im getting 4-8 mb persecond and its great no throttling and no crap, i will say i use maybe 50 mb a day, no complain matter of fact im happy with it, let me know if you need anything else.
BTW att will be relaesing new prepaid service close to st but not the same st still cheaper, im sticking with them
Thank you for your input man. I still don't know why my data speed is very slow. Can you post your APN setup?
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i live in clarksville, tn and using straight talk att (i bought from ebay the triple pack) then just sold one att and one t-mobile like couple days ago, im getting 4-8 mb persecond and its great no throttling and no crap, i will say i use maybe 50 mb a day, no complain matter of fact im happy with it, let me know if you need anything else.
BTW att will be relaesing new prepaid service close to st but not the same st still cheaper, im sticking with them
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I just switched from att to straight talk ATT sim on my HTC One over the weekend. So far so good. But I typically don't burn through a lot of data. It's odd b/c I feel like I'm always on my phone, but I'm normally always on wifi b/c I prefer it. But we will see, I'm still terrified of being throttled. lol
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I have used ST service on my HOX and HOX+ and had a mixed experience with the service. I just got the HTC One Dev and popped the old (AT&T) ST simcard with one month service. I live in the Twin Cities, MN.
The cellular signal is good (always stay at 4-5 bars). I haven't had any dropped call or late msg in the last 15 days. The call quality is good too. However, the problem occurs with the data speed. I have observed the data speed decreased significantly. I searched Google and found that ST stopped offering AT&T simcard last couple months.
Does the discontinue of AT&T simcard have any impact on my data speed? I would like to hear from other HTC One owners whom have been using ST service on a AT&T simcard about their experience lately.
Thank you
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I use ST in my area of TN and I average about 3-5MB/s speeds down and about 1-3 up. The trick is when you put in the APN DO NOT put inthe Proxy field. It is a built in proxy to slow your speeds. also if you go over your daily allowed amount of data (~200mb a day) they will throttle you, even though they will never admit it. Hopw that helps
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I use ST in my area of TN and I average about 3-5MB/s speeds down and about 1-3 up. The trick is when you put in the APN DO NOT put inthe Proxy field. It is a built in proxy to slow your speeds. also if you go over your daily allowed amount of data (~200mb a day) they will throttle you, even though they will never admit it. Hopw that helps
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Thanks! Ive been looking for the looking for the limits. 200mb a day is a nice buffer. So those getting throttled are burning through 200mb? Also, my One is an Att model. Does it matter if I delete the Att Apn or not?
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Thank you all for the good insight. Can someone please post their APN setup so I can compare with mine? For some reason the data speed in my area is still very slow
here are mine. data works well
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Thanks! Ive been looking for the looking for the limits. 200mb a day is a nice buffer. So those getting throttled are burning through 200mb? Also, my One is an Att model. Does it matter if I delete the Att Apn or not?
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I too have an ATT model and yes i deleted my ATT APN with no affects, The 200MB is a ruff estimate of the cut off, after several hours of reading that is about where most people start to get cut off at
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here are mine. data works well
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Same as mine other than the name and on mine i set the apn type to default,mms. that way it gives you a dot to make sure it is the active one
It is very weird that I use the same setup like you guys, but I got .016 Mps for download and 1.8Mbps for upload. I really have no idea what wrong here
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It is very weird that I use the same setup like you guys, but I got .016 Mps for download and 1.8Mbps for upload. I really have no idea what wrong here
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then that means you've been throttled. i would get on the straight talk forums and start a thread, they will contact you and help. you will have to post 5x to respond to private msgs.
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Anyone have issue sending SMS picture messages? I receive them fine and even bigs ones like 900k but I can't send one.
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Anyone have issue sending SMS picture messages? I receive them fine and even bigs ones like 900k but I can't send one.
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what are your settings? I just noticed I cant receive.
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what are your settings? I just noticed I cant receive.
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only thing I do different is I don't use // after http:// for the mmsc
Also using a Dev edition I have noticed I generally always get sms with a ATT phone
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only thing I do different is I don't use // after http:// for the mmsc
Also using a Dev edition I have noticed I generally always get sms with a ATT phone
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thanks. i can now download.
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thanks. i can now download.
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But not send??? Are you on a ATT model or dev?
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But not send??? Are you on a ATT model or dev?
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wow, you are right. I can download, but not send. I just errored out. I'm on the ATT model.
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I use ST in my area of TN and I average about 3-5MB/s speeds down and about 1-3 up. The trick is when you put in the APN DO NOT put inthe Proxy field. It is a built in proxy to slow your speeds. also if you go over your daily allowed amount of data (~200mb a day) they will throttle you, even though they will never admit it. Hopw that helps
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Are you able to send/recv MMS?
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wow, you are right. I can download, but not send. I just errored out. I'm on the ATT model.
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yep mine works fine. You have to make sure you data is turned on (of course) a good restart of the phone helps also (with fastboot turned off (menu-settings-power))
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yep mine works fine. You have to make sure you data is turned on (of course) a good restart of the phone helps also (with fastboot turned off (menu-settings-power))
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so you cant send while connected to wifi?
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yep mine works fine. You have to make sure you data is turned on (of course) a good restart of the phone helps also (with fastboot turned off (menu-settings-power))
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Thanks. tested with wifi off, and it works with it on/off now.
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Anybody notice 3G to be a bit slow lately? I used speed test awhile back and got 1.5mbps, now I get half that! Not cool.
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Anybody notice 3G to be a bit slow lately? I used speed test awhile back and got 1.5mbps, now I get half that! Not cool.
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Fluctuation in speed will happen. Try it again in a hour and see what you get. Did you run the speed tests in the same location.
I've been seeing more and more of these threads popup. Something is up.
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Maybe this..
http://www.bgr.com/2010/11/23/att-and-sprint-petition-fcc-for-spectrum-exchange/
My 3G speeds were bad all of Dec. now they're good.
Didn't mean to add another thread. Was going I wasn't alone on this. I've gone through 3 different roms and a slew of kernels thinking it was them. Bummer.
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during the day my speeds are decent, in the evenings once everyone gets off work my speeds slow to a crawl.
Just now....
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Just now....
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What prl and radio do you have?
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What prl and radio do you have?
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All the latest...
I actually got 1.12mbps couple minutes ago. So I guess its nothing I should be concerned about.
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Think you have it bad, look at this ****. And can someone explain to me why when I open speedtest all of the servers are in europe?
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Think you have it bad, look at this ****. And can someone explain to me why when I open speedtest all of the servers are in europe?
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Wow! That's actually what I was seeing earlier. Don't know what's going on cause soon as I made my post that I was getting 1.2mbps, it dropped to nearly nothing. Smh..
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Think you have it bad, look at this ****. And can someone explain to me why when I open speedtest all of the servers are in europe?
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Same thing is happening to me.
Like I said something is up. Sprint data used to be the best in NYC. Man, I also wish that they upgraded to Rev. B for the next flagship phone. I know, wishful thinking but Id prefer that over WiMax for everyday use
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markushi said:
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+1....Whats up with that???
markushi said:
Same thing is happening to me.
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Check your mobile internet settings. I just flashed cm7 and it has a couple of new selections...like international roaming, which was preselected. Also, it was preselected to roam on national affiliate networks. Since a lot of these roms are from people "across the pond" as they say, it will default to their servers. So, de-select those options and it will find a server closer to where you live. It is pretty kewl as it does switch to another network, but it is only 1rt speed, not 3G, so it didn't make my connection any faster. There are several threads out there on this about slow 3G speeds. I can only hope that with the 4G coming online, maybe the spectrum will open up to allow faster 3G speeds.
Lol glad im not the only 1 seeing this.. I was testing my connection in Germany yesterday LOL...
Tho even swapped back to the closest server (Germantown WI) , my speed still sucked..So I called sprint when I got home and told him my results compared to an ATT and Verizon phones while they were right next to me, and they were 6-7x faster then mine.
The CSR told me that its possible with northern Ill. getting 4G its working its way north into Wisconsin,and that could be affecting towers here while they transition..
Frankly I dont buy it. 2-3 weeks ago it was great, since then, 360kb is common. Also in the phone call I told him that I have no issues paying the $10 premium data charge, but if my phone keeps chugging along as it is now, I will be calling back since there is no way in hell I can take advantage of this "premium data" when I cant even watch a video on YouTube without constant pauses and other downloads basically crawling along.
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Lol glad im not the only 1 seeing this.. I was testing my connection in Germany yesterday LOL...
Tho even swapped back to the closest server (Germantown WI) , my speed still sucked..So I called sprint when I got home and told him my results compared to an ATT and Verizon phones while they were right next to me, and they were 6-7x faster then mine.
The CSR told me that its possible with northern Ill. getting 4G its working its way north into Wisconsin,and that could be affecting towers here while they transition..
Frankly I dont buy it. 2-3 weeks ago it was great, since then, 360kb is common. Also in the phone call I told him that I have no issues paying the $10 premium data charge, but if my phone keeps chugging along as it is now, I will be calling back since there is no way in hell I can take advantage of this "premium data" when I cant even watch a video on YouTube without constant pauses and other downloads basically crawling along.
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I chatted with a rep last night and they gave me the whole "there are no issues" song and dance. Clearly with so many people noticing this in so many different areas there is SOMETHING wrong with Sprints network. Either that or theyre throttling their speeds thinking people wont notice.
The csr i spoke to said he was going to push something thru to my phone and I should reboot it..which I did..
I see somewhat of an improvement at home (I THINK theres a relay on the watertower near my house but im not sure) and its now about 1.4mb down...Tho most of my issues are when im away from home and not near WiFi lol
I really hope Sprint isnt pulling a ninja throttle job on us to ease up the network for all the new subs
I've been looking over a few threads here about the soft data caps that T-Mobile uses. I'm aware about how it works and everything but I've found something kind of odd. I've seen a couple of posts about other people having some success with it.
Over the past 3 or 4 months my phone has been my primary internet connection by using the hotspot feature. This phone is completely stock (non rooted, no custom roms, etc) and within a few days of my new billing cycle I would hit the 5GB data limit for my plan. Out of frustration I turned off WCDMA/GSM auto to GSM to see if it would work faster. I turned it back to auto after a day or two and found that I had been un-throttled. I would check the My Account app on my phone and it would state that I had been throttled but everything is working on 4G speeds.
So this month just out of curiosity I've been using as much data as possible just to see if anything will be done. I'm not trying to be a data hog or anything, this is just out of curiosity. I'm 7 days into my billing cycle and have used over 22 gigs and still going strong. I'm currently streaming Netflix in HD and have two laptops and another smart phone using the data.
Does anyone know if I'll see a cease and desist letter from T-Mobile or if anything at all will happen?
Side note: This phone/T-Mobile has really surprised me with the speeds and capabilities it has. I used an iPhone4 with AT&T to stream Netflix and the quality and buffering was horrendous in comparison.
This sounds extremely beautiful to me as I bought the 10$ 200mb and I blow through that in less then a day. If this works you would not believe how happy this would make me. As for T-Mobile doing a cease and desist order I would highly doubt it. When I had a T-Mobile dash 2 years ago, without a data plan I was able to connect to the internet free of charge, and I would watch youtube Justin.tv and so on. I did this for almost 1 and a half years and have seen nothing from T-Mobile.
so basically, all you did was turn it to only GSM for a day or two, and then back on and the throttle went away?
Im gonna try the same thing and see what kinda speeds im getting after I turn it back on. 5gigs goes really quick and throttled speeds suck, Drives me crazy.. Ill get back with my results..
Subscribing to this... I just got a throttle boner. If this turns out to work for other folks I will seriously **** my pants. I had to upgrade to the $60 10gb plan bc I have been using this as my primary internet.
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Haha I remember this hack from the G1 days, when people used over 2gb data at that time. It actually works, it tricks the system I guess. I thought tmo patched it.
I've searched everywhere and can't find the setting, could someone shed some light.
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I've searched everywhere and can't find the setting, could someone shed some light.
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Sure. Type *#*#4636#*#* into the dialer. From in there you can choose GSM only.
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Sure. Type *#*#4636#*#* into the dialer. From in there you can choose GSM only.
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Since it is decided on their side i don't think they will try any legal action or whatever against you, happy throttling
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I've searched everywhere and can't find the setting, could someone shed some light.
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/Settings/Wireless & Networks/Mobile Networks/Network Mode. Then select GSM only
thats the first place I looked but to no avail, I can't seem to find the network modes but the *#4636#*#* works just fine, has anyone found this method to work?
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thats the first place I looked but to no avail, I can't seem to find the network modes but the *#4636#*#* works just fine, has anyone found this method to work?
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i dont remember stock rom having the 2g option so...yea
What phone are you currently using?
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Just an update on my usage. I've attached a screenshot of the amount of data that I've used so far from the monitor usage section of mytmobile.com
Also a speedtest that I ran just now just to see what it's running at. Right now usually seems around peak time, the ping and download speed is usually a bit faster at night.
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Subscribing to this... I just got a throttle boner. If this turns out to work for other folks I will seriously **** my pants. I had to upgrade to the $60 10gb plan bc I have been using this as my primary internet.
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That's what I was going to have to do to try to avoid being throttled. If you get a chance to try it out let me know what happens.
If anyone else does want to try this if you could let me know what happens. Also if you could let me know the phone model, current data plan, and anything else that you think may be important. I'm curious to know if it is my phone, the MyTouch 4G's in general, or what. I don't know anyone else with a smart phone with T-Mobile that cares about this so if anyone could provide any feedback on this it would be great.
My refill minutes and data just started today and I'm already at 1 gig will probably report back next Sunday
I have gotten the "5gb throttle" text from T-Mobile a couple times but I have never been throttled and that's without doing this "trick". I've never done anything and still seem to not get throttled even tho I've gotten the texts saying they were going to throttle me for the remainder of my cycle. It did it on my MT4G and its also doing it on my Sensation now. Maybe I'm just lucky.
*knocks on wood*
Im trying this asap...I run a shoutcast radio station (limbik frequencies if anyone cares to know) and I drive a truck all night so have been listening via the 4g while i drive...needless to say I run out of data in no time. Even if I upgraded to the 5gb plan (which is the highest they offer me) I'd still run out...1mb per minute, 5-9 hours a night....doesn't add up right! Worst part is that its a nonprofit station that AOL pays for our bandwidth to stream...seriously I shouldn't have to pay out the ass to make sure its running and simultaneously enjoy it!
Anybody have one on order heading to the US to use on AT&T?
I know technically it "should" work, but want to make sure HSPA+, MMS, etc works before I order mine.
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Anybody have one on order heading to the US to use on AT&T?
I know technically it "should" work, but want to make sure HSPA+, MMS, etc works before I order mine.
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I have one ordered from handtec . Will see how things go..
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Anybody have one on order heading to the US to use on AT&T?
I know technically it "should" work, but want to make sure HSPA+, MMS, etc works before I order mine.
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I also order one from mobilecityonline.com
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I also order one from mobilecityonline.com
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That's who I was thinking of ordering from. Have you or anyone got shipping notice or a date from them?
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Anybody have one on order heading to the US to use on AT&T?
I know technically it "should" work, but want to make sure HSPA+, MMS, etc works before I order mine.
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I have one on order from clove uk. You can also order from http://www.unlocked-mobiles.com/. It works fine on ATT.
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I have one on order from clove uk. You can also order from http://www.unlocked-mobiles.com/. It works fine on ATT.
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I just like mobilecity's price better.
wonsanim said:
I also order one from mobilecityonline.com
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They removed it...
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I have one on order from clove uk. You can also order from http://www.unlocked-mobiles.com/. It works fine on ATT.
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I switched to unlocked-mobiles so it would ship tomorrow and I could get it Tuesday or Wednesday next week.
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I switched to unlocked-mobiles so it would ship tomorrow and I could get it Tuesday or Wednesday next week.
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Their price is a little bit on the higher side
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Their price is a little bit on the higher side
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$676 in dollars...
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They removed it...
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Still active and for the same price $699.99
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That's who I was thinking of ordering from. Have you or anyone got shipping notice or a date from them?
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No ETA at the moment
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$676 in dollars...
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is 499.16 GBP with shipping
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$676 in dollars...
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479 GBP + shipping is appr 800 USD.
Did i miss something ?
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Still active and for the same price $699.99
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I made a typo on google, 420 instead of 520.... back to the drawing board...
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I've been using an ISGS2 on AT&T since May. If you're on a legitimate 4G plan you can use the APN settings from the Infuse and ASGS2. If you're on a 3G plan you have to use the Cingular APN. The speeds are the same. The 4G APN is routed through seperate servers and it appears that's the way they catch unauthorized tethering and apply throttling for data overages so be warned. Since it's an international device the IMEI won't be in the AT&T database so the data for non-Smartphones $10/15 plan will work on it for any one starting new service.
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I've been using an ISGS2 on AT&T since May. If you're on a legitimate 4G plan you can use the APN settings from the Infuse and ASGS2. If you're on a 3G plan you have to use the Cingular APN. The speeds are the same. The 4G APN is routed through seperate servers and it appears that's the way they catch unauthorized tethering and apply throttling for data overages so be warned. Since it's an international device the IMEI won't be in the AT&T database so the data for non-Smartphones $10/15 plan will work on it for any one starting new service.
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The speeds were NOT the same for me. On my ISGS2 changing to the infuse settings halved my pings and increased down/up speed noticeably.
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The speeds were NOT the same for me. On my ISGS2 changing to the infuse settings halved my pings and increased down/up speed noticeably.
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A couple of weeks ago I was traveling though TX with a friend that had an Infuse on a 4G plan. My ISGS2 is on a 3G plan. We compared speeds multiple times in multiple 4G cities and I got the same speeds if not better. A couple of people have said they've seen a difference but to the majority it's the same. If you look at the ASGS2 forum there's tons of posts about people getting caught tethering and being throttled for overages. There doesn't seem to be a big advantage to routing through their 4G servers for anyone but AT&T.
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A couple of weeks ago I was traveling though TX with a friend that had an Infuse on a 4G plan. My ISGS2 is on a 3G plan. We compared speeds multiple times in multiple 4G cities and I got the same speeds if not better. A couple of people have said they've seen a difference but to the majority it's the same. If you look at the ASGS2 forum there's tons of posts about people getting caught tethering and being throttled for overages. There doesn't seem to be a big advantage to routing through their 4G servers for anyone but AT&T.
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Thats wild. I live in houston. I noticed a significant difference just changing back and forth APNs. 0 issues with tethering as well.
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A couple of weeks ago I was traveling though TX with a friend that had an Infuse on a 4G plan. My ISGS2 is on a 3G plan. We compared speeds multiple times in multiple 4G cities and I got the same speeds if not better. A couple of people have said they've seen a difference but to the majority it's the same. If you look at the ASGS2 forum there's tons of posts about people getting caught tethering and being throttled for overages. There doesn't seem to be a big advantage to routing through their 4G servers for anyone but AT&T.
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So what plan do you have exactly? I'm gonna order this phone within the next 2 weeks and was gonna put it on a pre-paid go phone plan. But if you get HSPA speeds on post paid for 10-15 dollars I might go that option.
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So what plan do you have exactly? I'm gonna order this phone within the next 2 weeks and was gonna put it on a pre-paid go phone plan. But if you get HSPA speeds on post paid for 10-15 dollars I might go that option.
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if your planning on getting it on a pre-paid plan try using H2O
I personally hate at&t but idk its just some advise
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So what plan do you have exactly? I'm gonna order this phone within the next 2 weeks and was gonna put it on a pre-paid go phone plan. But if you get HSPA speeds on post paid for 10-15 dollars I might go that option.
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Any calling plan lets you add the data for non-Smartphones plan to it. It's $10 with unlimited messaging and $15 without. The $20 unlimited messaging plan's a great deal because it comes with Mobile to Any Mobile calling. If most of your calls are to mobiles, you can get a low limit calling plan which helps offset the costs. Also, you can get a postpaid contract-less plan from AT&T if you bring your own equipment so there's no commitment of any kind.
For anyone who is wondering whether or not the 7.7 (specifically the P6800) can be used as a GSM phone, well here is your definitive answer with video proof from yours truly. Enjoy!
Thanks, for the video. I look foward to receving mine.
Thanks for the video. You just made my decision on buying one much easier.
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Zed? They say zed in Virginia? Is it a suburb of Canada or something?
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Zed? They say zed in Virginia? Is it a suburb of Canada or something?
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Latent Britishism of mine. Used to live in the UK you see.
I wonder if the radio from either the T-mobile Galaxy Tab 10.1 or 7.0 Plus can be used to enable voice and 3G data on the T-mobile US network on this tab. Just a thought.
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I wonder if the radio from either the T-mobile Galaxy Tab 10.1 or 7.0 Plus can be used to enable voice and 3G data on the T-mobile US network on this tab. Just a thought.
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I would say probably not. I have discussed this at length over in the GNote forum.
Long story short, even if the chipset does have a 1700AWS feature, enabled by some modified modem.bin or whatever, the device itself is very unlikely to have the antenna necessary for picking up that frequency. So basically, you'll either get very poor 3G signal, or none at all.
For Americans, as much as it sucks, my suggestion when using international devices is this:
Listen carefully. Are you listening? Good!
AVOID CARRIERS WHICH USE PROPRIETARY FREQUENCIES AND/OR TECHNOLOGIES
So that rules out T-Mobile, or any MVNO that uses T-Mobile (like SIMple Mobile), and that rules out EVERY CDMA carrier.
So yeah, if you're importing international devices, you're basically left with only one option: AT&T (or any AT&T MVNO). And people think it isn't a monopoly? HA!!!
I'm not listening.
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For anyone who is wondering whether or not the 7.7 (specifically the P6800) can be used as a GSM phone, well here is your definitive answer with video proof from yours truly. Enjoy!
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I am wondering if my P6810 WiFi only device can use Gmail's Call Phone option?
I have used Call Phone on my laptop when traveling and it works great to make free calls within the U.S.
If not I guess I can use Skype or QIK or even Google Talk?
Yeah I know, why not buy the P6800? Well cost for one thing and also I have a T-Mobile "MiFi" hotspot that is pay as you go. So if I am traveling I top off the hotspot with data/time and I am good to go. Put the little thing my my pocket and connect to my tablet via 4G.
Note: I have not yet received my Tab from Negri , it is due to arrive on 1/26/12
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I am wondering if my P6810 WiFi only device can use Gmail's Call Phone option?
I have used Call Phone on my laptop when traveling and it works great to make free calls within the U.S.
If not I guess I can use Skype or QIK or even Google Talk?
Yeah I know, why not buy the P6800? Well cost for one thing and also I have a T-Mobile "MiFi" hotspot that is pay as you go. So if I am traveling I top off the hotspot with data/time and I am good to go. Put the little thing my my pocket and connect to my tablet via 4G.
Note: I have not yet received my Tab from Negri , it is due to arrive on 1/26/12
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GrooveIP will let you make calls with your Google Voice account via WiFi. Great little app.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gvoip&hl=en
Sweet! I will check it out...thanks for the link.
Couldn't have been easier..
I finally put my AT&T sim card in my tab yesterday..
Now I got it from Negri on the 6th & set up my wifi..
Set up my email.. all is cool..
Went & did an OTA update... all cool.. no probs...
Then I stuffed in the sim card..
Immediately after re-booting... I made and received phone calls..!!!
I didn't have to do any settings at all..
So I tried sending myself a txt message... sent and received within a few seconds..
I didn't have to do any APN settings at all like I had to do in my GNote..
Then sent and received mms too!! success..
Web pages loaded fast.. although I cant find any icons that say 3g or H or H+...
Only super tiny green arrows going up and down near the clock on bottom right..
My contacts from my sim card were there too..
AGAIN.. I DID NOT have to do any APN settings..Somehow it knew and did it all for me... wap. cingular...etc.....
Super success!!!
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Couldn't have been easier..
I finally put my AT&T sim card in my tab yesterday..
Now I got it from Negri on the 6th & set up my wifi..
Set up my email.. all is cool..
Went & did an OTA update... all cool.. no probs...
Then I stuffed in the sim card..
Immediately after re-booting... I made and received phone calls..!!!
I didn't have to do any settings at all..
So I tried sending myself a txt message... sent and received within a few seconds..
I didn't have to do any APN settings at all like I had to do in my GNote..
Then sent and received mms too!! success..
Web pages loaded fast.. although I cant find any icons that say 3g or H or H+...
Only super tiny green arrows going up and down near the clock on bottom right..
My contacts from my sim card were there too..
AGAIN.. I DID NOT have to do any APN settings..Somehow it knew and did it all for me... wap. cingular...etc.....
Super success!!!
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What kind of battery life are you seeing? Are you using as your primary phone? I get mine tomorrow and plan to try this myself. Just a bit anxious!!
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What kind of battery life are you seeing? Are you using as your primary phone? I get mine tomorrow and plan to try this myself. Just a bit anxious!!
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Phenomenal battery. Easy get through a full day with room to spare, even with screen at 100%. Using as primary phone as well. You can talk on the thing for over 24 hours straight, and still not run down the battery all the way. No joke!
Well it does say 49hrs of talk time in 2G mode and 27hrs in 3G so the battery life is gonna be phenomenal when it comes to taking calls.
Want to see how it looks when holding that tablet to your ears?
Watch this http://youtu.be/Lnqs5zMDtRc
phoning starts at 2:40
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Want to see how it looks when holding that tablet to your ears?
Watch this http://youtu.be/Lnqs5zMDtRc
phoning starts at 2:40
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And that right there is precisely the reason I bought an HM5000!
So I'm currently using the Motorola Atrix on AT&T and I will be selling it for the N4. I was just wondering if I will have any problems using it with at&t or something. My contract ends in 5 months and I will be going prepaid after that. Thanks.
No problems, other than you won't have LTE. You have to set the APN manually as well, before data works. But calling works right off the bat
I wonder if it will work on Medianet, or if At&t will flag them all right away.
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No problems, other than you won't have LTE. You have to set the APN manually as well, before data works. But calling works right off the bat
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I would be surprised if Google didn't add AT&T's APN by default. Surely you aren't correct about this (not that it matters).
You will also need to pay $27 to get your sim changed to a micro sim... (EVEN if you buy it before hand...)
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I would be surprised if Google didn't add AT&T's APN by default. Surely you aren't correct about this (not that it matters).
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he is...
tory13579 said:
You will also need to pay $27 to get your sim changed to a micro sim... (EVEN if you buy it before hand...)
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Really? Dang I thought they would give it for free
Also, I will also be upgrading from the atrix to the nexus 4 too.
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why would anyone would use this phone on att instead of t-mobile ? att hspa+ is so slow its not even funny ...
kiy0shix24 said:
Really? Dang I thought they would give it for free
Also, I will also be upgrading from the atrix to the nexus 4 too.
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When I switched from the HTC One X to the Galaxy Nexus they gave me the new SIM for free.
kiy0shix24 said:
Really? Dang I thought they would give it for free
Also, I will also be upgrading from the atrix to the nexus 4 too.
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They will replace your SIM for free if you go to an official AT&T store. If you go to an "AT&T Authorized Retailer", then they may or may not do it for free.
Go here: http://www.att.com/storelocator/
Look at locations near you, and go to one that says "AT&T" and not one that says "AT&T Authorized Retailer", and you should be good.
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why would anyone would use this phone on att instead of t-mobile ? att hspa+ is so slow its not even funny ...
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really? this has to be the dumbest question ever. maybe some people, like me, are locked into a contract. maybe some people, like me, don't want to lose the "unlimited data". maybe some people actually get better reception for phone calls with AT&T in their area.
did you ever stop to think about some basic things like this before you just spouted off nonsense? yeah... didn't think so.
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why would anyone would use this phone on att instead of t-mobile ? att hspa+ is so slow its not even funny ...
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lol yeah okay because I'm sure T-Mobile's HSPA+ will defiantly get you 42Mbps all the time. Those are theoretical speeds... HSPA+ is HSPA+
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really? this has to be the dumbest question ever. maybe some people, like me, are locked into a contract. maybe some people, like me, don't want to lose the "unlimited data". maybe some people actually get better reception for phone calls with AT&T in their area.
did you ever stop to think about some basic things like this before you just spouted off nonsense? yeah... didn't think so.
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E-X-A-C-T-L-Y. I am on AT&T too, and yup. On a contract, I have unlimited data, and my area gets pretty decent-great reception, so HSPA+ even at 21Mbps will do me well. And the point that it is unlocked, and it being a high spec phone for 299-349 $ blows my mind. Selling my S3 for this! I don't even have LTE in my area, so its al good! Gotta love a nexus! Pure Vanilla Android at its best.
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why would anyone would use this phone on att instead of t-mobile ? att hspa+ is so slow its not even funny ...
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Many places, Tmo service simply does not work. I know of three people in last year who returned Tmo phones because they couldn't make calls from their house. It's great if they have the coverage, but...
Yes if you go to a att store they should give you one for free. They gave me one when I bought the gs3 off contract. He just asked if I needed a sim I said sure and it was quick and free.
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geoldr said:
Yes if you go to a att store they should give you one for free. They gave me one when I bought the gs3 off contract. He just asked if I needed a sim I said sure and it was quick and free.
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^ this is good info. I just called the att STORE down the road and they said just come in and they will give it to me free.
The deal is, I'm a paying customer. They don't give a shyte about anything else. Especially when Someone like me can just change to straight talk and walk away..
This aint my first rodeo.