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Fixed Slow Nexus S Data w/ call to Tmobile!

Just jumped from the N1 with an unlimited Android Data plan.I've been scratching my head ever since I purchased my off-contract phone, as to why I was getting ridiculously slow speedtest results (58 kb/s /38 kb/s with full green bars) avg. I'm not sure if everyone did what I did but I took the sim card out of my N1 and activated the phone w/ T-mobile by calling in the IMEI. Turns out my N1 data plan (according to the service rep) was for the 3g service and the NS apparently uses a newer 4g service.The rep made the change and told me it should go into effect in about 2 hours and I've just rec'd a text stating that my web plan has been changed. Going to wait to run the test a bit later tonight to see if I can pull in faster speeds with speedtest. If you aren't getting the speeds you think you should here in the US with optimal signal, a call to Tmobile to verify that you the correct. Going to activate the sim card that came with the phone just to be on the safe side too. Hope this helps anyone out there reading this
UPDATE! Man I feel stupid lol but that seems to have done the trick. Just pulled 1542 kbps/ 376kbps. Should I expect higher? Just looked at the Tmobile website and Android Mobile Web - Unlimited has been changed to 4G Web- Unlimited.

Just a note: NS can not use 4G

Ulukita said:
Just jumped from the N1 with an unlimited Android Data plan.I've been scratching my head ever since I purchased my off-contract phone, as to why I was getting ridiculously slow speedtest results (58 kb/s /38 kb/s with full green bars) avg. I'm not sure if everyone did what I did but I took the sim card out of my N1 and activated the phone w/ T-mobile by calling in the IMEI. Turns out my N1 data plan (according to the service rep) was for the 3g service and the NS apparently uses a newer 4g service.The rep made the change and told me it should go into effect in about 2 hours and I've just rec'd a text stating that my web plan has been changed. Going to wait to run the test a bit later tonight to see if I can pull in faster speeds with speedtest. If you aren't getting the speeds you think you should here in the US with optimal signal, a call to Tmobile to verify that you the correct. Going to activate the sim card that came with the phone just to be on the safe side too. Hope this helps anyone out there reading this
UPDATE! Man I feel stupid lol but that seems to have done the trick. Just pulled 1542 kbps/ 376kbps. Should I expect higher? Just looked at the Tmobile website and Android Mobile Web - Unlimited has been changed to 4G Web- Unlimited.
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i get an average of 4500-6500kbps here in brooklyn.

mazodude said:
Just a note: NS can not use 4G
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From what I understand, it can benefit from 4G to the extent the 3G network it would otherwise use is slower than what it is internally capable of handling, it just can't take full advantage because its hardware antenna is limited to a 7.2 mbps transfer rate.

Back again
I just did the same test and now I'm pullin in 400kbps/ 376 kbps. I guess I'm just not in a good area Will try again tomorrow in a different part of the house. TY for the info everyone.

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Not entirely correct. While it doesn't boast full hspa its capable of higher than standard 3G speeds by using the 4g network. However unless using a custom rom you won't be able to see when it's on hspa.
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I can pull 1840/590 frequently.
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The Nexus One can also pull data off the HSPA+ data network (mine was averaging 4Mb/s after T-Mo upgraded my area).
My Nexus S can't seem to pull nearly that amount though. I need to pull out my N1 and test both in the same location to see if network performance has deteriorated in my area overall, or if the NS just isn't hauling the load properly.
Others have reported success in increasing data speeds with a call to T-Mo and changing to 4G account type in other threads here, so the theory is sound, assuming you're on an old account with some bad data plan. I clearly wasn't, based on my N1's performance, but the N1 was my first T-Mo phone/sim.

I had sort of the same issue. I was on a mytouch 3g data plan with my nexus s for 3 weeks and one day the data on my phone stopped working but I could still make calls. I called T-Mobile and the rep upgraded me to the 4g plan and its been working ever since.
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The Nexus One can also pull data off the HSPA+ data network (mine was averaging 4Mb/s after T-Mo upgraded my area).
My Nexus S can't seem to pull nearly that amount though. I need to pull out my N1 and test both in the same location to see if network performance has deteriorated in my area overall, or if the NS just isn't hauling the load properly.
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I am both happy and sad to report that after some minimal testing, my Nexus S is getting the same download speeds as my Nexus One when using the same sim card in the same location off the same speedtest.net servers. I am getting around 2990Kb/s on both phones down, 2000 up. This is happy since it shows no hardware issues with the NS as I had originally thought.
It is sad because T-Mo used to serve up around 3800-4000Kb/s in this area. Not that in most real world uses, even tethering, that there's much difference.

the Nexus S just cant pull higher than 7.2 down HSPA+ is more about the backend

I have thought about making the call but I'm afraid that tmobile might make me switch to the "third party phone" plan for $30 when I pay $25 for unlimited data with my G1 plan. plus I would have to add a text plan and I would end up pay about $20 more than I do now.

I've been getting 3mb down since they upgraded my area and I'm on android unlimited web plan.
I just called T-mobile for the second time and asked to add the 4G web plan and the rep. told me that my device was not a 4G device and for that reason the 4G plan could not be added.
Is there really a difference between Android web and 4G web? or is it just name? I'm going to find out. Tomorrow I will borrow my brother's SIM card (from his G2), and do some speed tests.

simms22 said:
i get an average of 4500-6500kbps here in brooklyn.
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Wtf? The most I've gotten was 3Mbps in Brooklyn.

My carrier dilemma

I have been with att for about 3 years until january 15th when I switched to sprint because of AT&T's bullcrap top 5% throttling thing. I like sprints service but in the middle of the day they're 3G goes horribly slow, like 200kbps to 500kbps.
I work rotating shifts and at about 12am to 4 am it always runs at above 1.5mbps wish it ran like that all day. I noticed that right when I opened the sprint account, I started getting charged for texting internationally to vietnam which I have no idea why as I don't know anyone there. anyways I had them block the single number which they said was only outgoing texts never incoming. anyways, I am lockeed into a contract with sprint now but I called earlier and complained about them changing my discount to only my primary line and told them thats a breach of my contract and voila!!! they said if thats how I feel about it I can cancel My account without ETF fee's. So I have to decide on sprint or att heres the breakdown
on my plans please tell me which one would you guys go with?
Sprint (current carrier)
about $148 a month
1500 minutes with any mobile to any mobile
unlimited text and data
ATT:
$138 a month for 2 iphones
700 minutes with any mobile to any mobile
A-list: 10 landlines that I can assign unlimited minutes too
unlimited data on both lines
unlimited text
I have about 7000 rolled over minutes sitting there at all times
I like my ATT plan better but the throttling is what is keeping me on sprints side as I consume up to 10GB's a month and ATT is throttling down to less than edge after about 2gb's. Also att seems to give me a more solid signal here in Los Angeles. spriint is spotty in some areas and I have already ran into 2 spots where there is no signal at all in the middle of the city.
which one would you guys choose? Consider that sprint is also supposedly upgrading its 3g network this year and rolling out it's LTE network too

As much as I dislike AT&T, it seems pretty obvious that for you AT&T is the better plan, both in terms of coverage and price. Sprint's 3G is a joke in many places around the country. Unless, of course, you're privileged to live near a good cell site in an area that hasn't been oversold. Sprint claims their Network Vision plan will improve 3G speeds, but I'll believe it when I see it (I have Sprint, but I'm contemplating leaving them for T-Mobile, which offers great coverage/speeds in my area). My question is: how are you paying $148 a month with Sprint on a single line? Even their unlimited everything plan is $109 a month (with a 4G phone), as far as I know.

Sorry that was for 2 lines. With my 18% discount
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I also find it weird that with sprint u can be sitting in the sAme spot for hours and the signal will keep jumping around. Is that normal with cdma or is it my nexus s 4g ics rom acting up?
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cell128 said:
I also find it weird that with sprint u can be sitting in the sAme spot for hours and the signal will keep jumping around. Is that normal with cdma or is it my nexus s 4g ics rom acting up?
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No, I've noticed that with CDMA, too. I used T-Mobile for a few days a while back for a phone review and the signal was a lot more consistent, but that could have something to do with the frequencies GSM uses compared to Sprint's CDMA, or the protocol itself.

Dallas area Straight Talk question

People in the Dallas area
So I've had straight talk on my Nexus 4for about 3 months now and I have noticed at T Mobile in my area is way faster has anybody else experienced this? I've even tried AT&T on straight talk for about a week or 2 and was so frustrated with the speed that I have to go back to T Mobile. is there a workaround around this or anything that I need to know of?
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Anyone?
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I'm having issues as well with att/straight talk on my nexus 4 . I avg about 0.32 mbs down
Seems like T-Mobile sim is way better . but service here is sht for them
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Jess813 said:
People in the Dallas area
So I've had straight talk on my Nexus 4for about 3 months now and I have noticed at T Mobile in my area is way faster has anybody else experienced this? I've even tried AT&T on straight talk for about a week or 2 and was so frustrated with the speed that I have to go back to T Mobile. is there a workaround around this or anything that I need to know of?
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Anyone?
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I didn't understand your question.
myturbo1 said:
I'm having issues as well with att/straight talk on my nexus 4 . I avg about 0.32 mbs down
Seems like T-Mobile sim is way better . but service here is sht for them
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AT&T byop Sim on straight talk usually yields speeds of 5/1 on hspa+ @21mbs.
Tmobile's hspa+ is faster @42mbs, their network is also less saturated and so yield much higher speeds.. Benefitting T-Mobile byop straight talk users.
Draw back is less building penetration, and loss of signal outside of large cities..
Another drawback with T-Mobile is the way fast dormancy works switching between 3G and H+ is slow/laggy and may pause streaming. AT&It's H to H+ is much quicker and virtually seamless.. Also it seems tmo doesn't actually xmit data while on 3G. Where AT&T will on H.
A drawback using AT&T st Sim is AT&T throttles randomly and st doesn't have control over it. Once throttled you're for the duration, until your next refill..
All this and more info can be found in the existing straight talk thread.

clockcycle said:
I didn't understand your question.
AT&T byop Sim on straight talk usually yields speeds of 5/1 on hspa+ @21mbs.
Tmobile's hspa+ is faster @42mbs, their network is also less saturated and so yield much higher speeds.. Benefitting T-Mobile byop straight talk users.
Draw back is less building penetration, and loss of signal outside of large cities..
Another drawback with T-Mobile is the way fast dormancy works switching between 3G and H+ is slow/laggy and may pause streaming. AT&It's H to H+ is much quicker and virtually seamless.. Also it seems tmo doesn't actually xmit data while on 3G. Where AT&T will on H.
A drawback using AT&T st Sim is AT&T throttles randomly and st doesn't have control over it. Once throttled you're for the duration, until your next refill..
All this and more info can be found in the existing straight talk thread.
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Makes sense.
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AIO Wireless (AT&T mvno)

http://www.aiowireless.com/home.html
Has anyone tried this yet? I'm definitely gonna be ordering a sim (theryre only $9.99) and giving it a go next month
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Not available in South Dakota.
What are the rates? It's kind of stupid that they won't even let you shop if they don't serve your area.
EDIT: Ok, the coverage map down the page says they cover my city. When I type in my zip in that map, it locates it fine and I have coverage. When I got to shop for plans and type my zip in, it says they don't cover me. Seems like they need to update/sync their database. Although, I'm getting the same message that I got a few weeks ago about being only in 2 cities at the moment, maybe they just need to update their validator on the page?

Oops, I read on a website that it was available nationwide now, I guess not but the rates are $40 for 250 mb of HSDPA, 55 for 2 GB, and 70 for 7 GB, all with a soft cap to edge data afterwards.
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For 70$ on T-Mobile I can get unlimited 4g and everything elce
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lowrider262 said:
Oops, I read on a website that it was available nationwide now, I guess not but the rates are $40 for 250 mb of HSDPA, 55 for 2 GB, and 70 for 7 GB, all with a soft cap to edge data afterwards.
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That's pricier than StraightTalk.

EvoXOhio said:
That's pricier than StraightTalk.
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It is but at least you don't have to worry about random throttling, since the data limits are clearly defined. I used to be in st at&t, their throttling is a joke. Ditched them after a month
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IRX120 said:
For 70$ on T-Mobile I can get unlimited 4g and everything elce
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Of course tmo is a better deal, but in many areas (mine included) at&ts network is waaaay better than tmo.
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lowrider262 said:
Of course tmo is a better deal, but in many areas (mine included) at&ts network is waaaay better than tmo.
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And I can personally vouch for this exact scenario. AT&T covers the entire city of Marshall and all of the outskirts, whereas T-Mobile only covers the "downtown" area. I live JUST outside of downtown and get NO service whatsoever. I told T-Mobile to kiss off and have been using H2O Wireless for maybe a week or so and it's been nothing but pleasurable. The service "just works." I'll definitely be switching to AIO when it's available nationwide because their customer service seems to be state-side, whereas H2O is outsourced and VERY difficult to work with and they have no patience. Definitely crap customer service but hey, you get what you pay for I guess?

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And I can personally vouch for this exact scenario. AT&T covers the entire city of Marshall and all of the outskirts, whereas T-Mobile only covers the "downtown" area. I live JUST outside of downtown and get NO service whatsoever. I told T-Mobile to kiss off and have been using H2O Wireless for maybe a week or so and it's been nothing but pleasurable. The service "just works." I'll definitely be switching to AIO when it's available nationwide because their customer service seems to be state-side, whereas H2O is outsourced and VERY difficult to work with and they have no patience. Definitely crap customer service but hey, you get what you pay for I guess?
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From what I read aio is actually owned by at&t kinda like how gosmart mobile is owned by tmo. So hopefully it will be decent. Even though max DL speeds are capped a 4 mb/s, that's way more than I need just to surf the web or occasionally watch a YouTube video. Plus I'm getting real sick of tmos crappy building penetration & low-latency data connection.
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All right. Old thread, I know but I didn't know where else to ask this and I figured it'd be better to revive an old thread rather than make my own.
I really want to use Aio this coming month (billing cycle ends in a few days) but I'm having troubles finishing my order. As posted earlier, I live in SD, not one of the "beta cities". I can now get into the site, shop plans and devices and whatever. The only problem I have right now is I can't check out. I'm in my cart and I press the "Continue" button, and nothing happens. I don't get redirected, I don't get a prompt, nothing. I'm just wondering if anyone else is getting that problem, or if maybe it's doing another location check, and I'm failing it (because they are either not nationwide yet or they haven't updated this page to reflect that they are). Or maybe they removed the window popup that says I'm not in those beta cities but forgot to remove the actual check?
In any case, if someone has some spare time, could they go to their site, add something to the cart, and try checking out? Just see if you can get to a screen that prompts for a payment method or something? I get nowhere and I want to try their 7gb plan.
And side-bar: OP, did you actually go with this service? How's the quality? Are you satisfied?

I ordered a sim and the $55 plan last night. I've been using straight talk byod for well over a year and it's just slow and annoying. I'd rather pay a little more and hopefully get better speeds.
Who's used it? Comments?
Thanks
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scottx . said:
I ordered a sim and the $55 plan last night. I've been using straight talk byod for well over a year and it's just slow and annoying. I'd rather pay a little more and hopefully get better speeds.
Who's used it? Comments?
Thanks
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I'm in Cape Canaveral Florida, and I switched to AIO for one month and the data speeds were under 1Mbps!!! I called their tech support and they said there was an outage in the area and it would be fixed in a few days, data speeds got up to just over 1Mbps and stayed there for the remainder of my month. I even had my IMEI changed to a 4G phone to see if that was the issue, tried several APN settings, with no luck. I went back to T-mobile. AIO had better coverage but the data was just too slow.

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I'm in Cape Canaveral Florida, and I switched to AIO for one month and the data speeds were under 1Mbps!!! I called their tech support and they said there was an outage in the area and it would be fixed in a few days, data speeds got up to just over 1Mbps and stayed there for the remainder of my month. I even had my IMEI changed to a 4G phone to see if that was the issue, tried several APN settings, with no luck. I went back to T-mobile. AIO had better coverage but the data was just too slow.
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T-Mobile here has crap service where I am. Att and all the mvno's they have are the best around here. I don't need super fast speeds, just stability. It will be here Monday says UPS so we'll see.
They shipped my stuff ups 2nd day air for free.
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[VIDEO] Nexus 6 AT&T LTE Speed Test (83.91mbps down)

This was just for entertainment. My cousin's house has awesome service to say the least. Through in the iPhone 6 Plus for the heck of it as well. Speed tests vary even when done within seconds of each other, but the Nexus was achieving slightly higher speeds on average.
Other Nexus 6 stuff:
[VIDEO] Nexus 6 - Water Test (submerge and charge underwater)
[VIDEO] Nexus 6 Chinese Glass Screen Protector Install

My roommate gets 0.5Mbps here with LTE, lmao. I pull 20 about five feet away on T-Mobile.

We have one person at work here with TMobile. Says he only has it cause his family pays for it. Asian guy...
Whenever we go on trips and are not around a major metropolitan area he says he has no signal. We kindly open up a hotspot for him. [emoji1]
I don't love AT&T. Not a huge fan and also have a Verizon account. If you have both of those carriers you can get by almost anywhere.

TheJesus said:
My roommate gets 0.5Mbps here with LTE, lmao. I pull 20 about five feet away on T-Mobile.
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He may be throttled.. AT&T throttles unlimited plans to .5 Mbps after using 5 GB (for 4G devices)
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chrisngrod said:
We have one person at work here with TMobile. Says he only has it cause his family pays for it. Asian guy...
Whenever we go on trips and are not around a major metropolitan area he says he has no signal. We kindly open up a hotspot for him. [emoji1]
I don't love AT&T. Not a huge fan and also have a Verizon account. If you have both of those carriers you can get by almost anywhere.
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Florida is their best coverage area, but yes, out of state on interstates in the middle of nowhere I lack data. It's alright, unlimited data is a fine trade off for the few times I don't have strong data.
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He may be throttled.. AT&T throttles unlimited plans to .5 Mbps after using 5 GB (for 4G devices)
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Yeah, we saw that article earlier, but he hasn't gone over that cap. I think they just have too many people on the network for the bandwidth they're using.