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Straight Talk service on HTC One

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

AirSupply said:
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?

iraqgsm said:
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

AirSupply said:
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

crackeyes said:
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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nuprotocol said:
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

AirSupply said:
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.

nullkill said:
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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nuprotocol said:
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

nullkill said:
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.

nuprotocol said:
thanks. i can now download.
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But not send??? Are you on a ATT model or dev?

nullkill said:
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?

nuprotocol said:
wow, you are right. I can download, but not send. I just errored out. I'm on the ATT model.
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Are you able to send/recv MMS?
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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))

crackeyes said:
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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crackeyes said:
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.

Cricket Wireless - Is the network down (maybe) ?

I haven't had service to my nexus 6p for almost three weeks, but I was able to pay for re-establishing service sometime around 1:28am on a whim that I might of got paid. This is when the problems started...LTE kept coming in and out very rapidly, I rebooted twice - did not work, so I figured maybe something was corrupt so I fastbooted N4F26J, N4F26O, NBD91K....26J-260 kept bootlooping. It went past the google animation screen, so I know I wasn't getting the BLOD I've heard everyone mentioning. Right now my phone is working, but I remembered I had saved NRD91U from that one time I decided to use Squabbi's Toolkit. I am now successfully booting, but now data is not working - just like before. I checked online to see if maybe Cricket had a network down issue and a lot of reports were coming in that people were having issues. I'm checking to see if a radio - mobile data issue could ever cause me so many issues. I think ill wait until the morning to figure out what the hell is going on, but I seriously doubt it's an issue with the phone as much as it is an issue with Cricket's network. Let me know if any you other cricket users have had issues too.

jxcorex28 said:
I haven't had service to my nexus 6p for almost three weeks, but I was able to pay for re-establishing service sometime around 1:28am on a whim that I might of got paid. This is when the problems started...LTE kept coming in and out very rapidly, I rebooted twice - did not work, so I figured maybe something was corrupt so I fastbooted N4F26J, N4F26O, NBD91K....26J-260 kept bootlooping. It went past the google animation screen, so I know I wasn't getting the BLOD I've heard everyone mentioning. Right now my phone is working, but I remembered I had saved NRD91U from that one time I decided to use Squabbi's Toolkit. I am now successfully booting, but now data is not working - just like before. I checked online to see if maybe Cricket had a network down issue and a lot of reports were coming in that people were having issues. I'm checking to see if a radio - mobile data issue could ever cause me so many issues. I think ill wait until the morning to figure out what the hell is going on, but I seriously doubt it's an issue with the phone as much as it is an issue with Cricket's network. Let me know if any you other cricket users have had issues too.
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You're running a really old build. I'm a Cricket customer and my phone is working fine. Does your phone boot loop when you try flashing the latest build? Are you flashing the full stock image or trying to flash OTAs?

I have cricket I'm on the latest 8.0 and have major connectivity issues I lose signal and have to reboot constantly. As well. IDK what to do anymore

Anyone else having this issue?

sexcytyme said:
Anyone else having this issue?
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.....No. Maybe time to look at a different carrier? <Chirp Chirp>

sexcytyme said:
I have cricket I'm on the latest 8.0 and have major connectivity issues I lose signal and have to reboot constantly. As well. IDK what to do anymore
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Cricket is working fine for me on all of the 8.0 roms that I have tried.

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.....No. Maybe time to look at a different carrier? <Chirp Chirp>
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I have no issues in my S7 edge, my wife's TMobile variant unlocked LG V10 is fast, and my son's ****ty ass LG power x runs data circles around my Nexus. Can't be the network

bmwkeith said:
Cricket is working fine for me on all of the 8.0 roms that I have tried.
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Would you mind sharing your apn settings with me?

sexcytyme said:
Would you mind sharing your apn settings with me?
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https://www.cricketwireless.com/sup...ice-byod/customer/bring-your-own-android.html

bmwkeith said:
https://www.cricketwireless.com/sup...ice-byod/customer/bring-your-own-android.html
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I had those they didn't work they are also different from the ones on my S7 which I tried and don't work either. Though u might have had something different making it work.

sexcytyme said:
I had those they didn't work they are also different from the ones on my S7 which I tried and don't work either. Though u might have had something different making it work.
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Not sure what is happening, but I checked my phone again and those are my settings and Cricket works fine in Fort Wayne, IN at least.

Try proxy.mobile.att.net and http://mmsc.mobile.att.net

idbl_fanatic said:
Try proxy.mobile.att.net and http://mmsc.mobile.att.net
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I will test this out it's working right now but I'm in hspa. It can't be the network cuz my S7 edge is sitting side by side and I have LTE with about 8gb down and the Nexus is pulling under 1gb on hspa. I'm getting frustrated. Gonna try a TMobile sim tomorrow and see if it performs different

idbl_fanatic said:
Try proxy.mobile.att.net and http://mmsc.mobile.att.net
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It worked! I haven't experienced any drops and speeds are a lot better. Thanks bro

sexcytyme said:
It worked! I haven't experienced any drops and speeds are a lot better. Thanks bro
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Great! I found this while trying to get my MMS to send while on WiFi

Is there a way to get tethering working without root on cricket wireless?

kinggame992000 said:
Is there a way to get tethering working without root on cricket wireless?
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For free? Not really. Get a phone that will tether without checking entitlement. If you want to pay all you need is to borrow a cricket branded phone that supports tethering, put your SIM card in it, turn the phone on and let it register, add the tethering feature to your line, then put the SIM back into your regular phone. It will continue to work as long as you don't make any changes to your account. I don't know why they only allow you to sign up with certain phones, I guess it saves them on troubleshooting costs.

So I ended up ditching my 6p and got a Pixel XL. It was fun but I kept having connection issues and have zero issues with the pixel so far and I've been using it now for 3 days . Same areas I'd get drop in connection and data service my pixel is still blazing fast.

Inconsistent 3G & LTE performance, defective unit?

Don't get me wrong, I love this phone despite the bugs. Software bugs.
However I've a serious issue regarding the 3G/LTE module. 3G/LTE performances are not consistent at all.
Sometimes it goes well (chatting, sending pictures, even testing the speed with a speed test) but other times the connection "hangs" and I'm not able to do anything for seconds or minutes (download pictures from whatsapp, sending text with telegram or open web pages). After that time, the connection seems to work again. When this Is happening, phone is at full signal.
Please note that I never had these issues with all my previous phones (Nexux 5, Nexus 5X, OnePlus 3T) with the same SIM card and under the same conditions (places, time of the day). I've performed all the updates available (software version 4.5.4) and cleaned the cache many times using the recovery.
I'm asking your help: is there some debug feature I can activate in order to see what is happening and understand the problem? Many thanks.

What carrier do you have?
ATT had to load my phone into there system. I'm in Seattle, WA USA
After they did that LTE has been perfect!
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Nick James said:
What carrier do you have?
ATT had to load my phone into there system. I'm in Seattle, WA USA
After they did that LTE has been perfect!
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Since I'm on ATT and I might get a OP5 I gotta ask how you went about this. Because I can see me telling customer service this and them not having the slightest clue what I'm talking about.

atistang said:
Since I'm on ATT and I might get a OP5 I gotta ask how you went about this. Because I can see me telling customer service this and them not having the slightest clue what I'm talking about.
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Basically you'd call in and ask to register your phone. It's not actually necessary but they do this anyway when you ask for a replacement sim. All they do is get your IMEI off your phone and add it to your account. Though with the 3 it already showed up during use. I don't think it matters much at all. Haven't had an issue with the 5 in Wisconsin, Minnesota or Nevada. I've simply plugged in the sim to this phone and went on my way since day 1.

atistang said:
Since I'm on ATT and I might get a OP5 I gotta ask how you went about this. Because I can see me telling customer service this and them not having the slightest clue what I'm talking about.
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Just to give you the big picture, I'll include everything that happened when I got my OP5 in terms of registering the phone on AT&T's network...
I got the OP5 and I came from a OPO, so I needed a new nano SIM card. I went to AT&T and they gave me a new sim but they were not able to get LTE signal at all. I was impatient and really didn't want to wait around so the rep and myself came up with excuses on why it wasn't working so I could get out of there. HSPA+ was the best I could get and it was about ~5Mbps up/down and I was happy with that for now.
I got home and decided to call in. Usual phone tree hell with AT&T began but I eventually got a level 2 Android technician. I will note the default values within the phone tree took me to iPhone support. Anyhow, the level two technician verified that my phone was not getting LTE. Furthermore, the device was not registered in the system at all. He gave me two options (which from the sounds of things, he wasn't supposed to do) 1.) I could just deal with the HSPA+ connection and it could take up to 5 days to fully load the phone but my phone would work perfect in terms of service/coverage/data rates (HSPA+) or 2.) He could load a Samsung S7 mock profile to my phone and it would more than likely work fine but don't hold him accountable for it. He said if it were him, he'd go for the S7 mock profile so I went with it.
Immediately I got an LTE signal and he had me reboot my phone. I've zero issues as he figured would happen and everything has been perfect. I got a confirmation text message from AT&T saying my phone will be loaded by July 6th and originally the technician told me around July 14th.
Anyhow, that was just my experience and a good experience at that. Of course, popping a sim out and back into a new phone would be ideal but a non-contracted AT&T device has to get loaded at some point and time I guess, right?
Cheers!

Nick James said:
Just to give you the big picture, I'll include everything that happened when I got my OP5 in terms of registering the phone on AT&T's network...
I got the OP5 and I came from a OPO, so I needed a new nano SIM card. I went to AT&T and they gave me a new sim but they were not able to get LTE signal at all. I was impatient and really didn't want to wait around so the rep and myself came up with excuses on why it wasn't working so I could get out of there. HSPA+ was the best I could get and it was about ~5Mbps up/down and I was happy with that for now.
I got home and decided to call in. Usual phone tree hell with AT&T began but I eventually got a level 2 Android technician. I will note the default values within the phone tree took me to iPhone support. Anyhow, the level two technician verified that my phone was not getting LTE. Furthermore, the device was not registered in the system at all. He gave me two options (which from the sounds of things, he wasn't supposed to do) 1.) I could just deal with the HSPA+ connection and it could take up to 5 days to fully load the phone but my phone would work perfect in terms of service/coverage/data rates (HSPA+) or 2.) He could load a Samsung S7 mock profile to my phone and it would more than likely work fine but don't hold him accountable for it. He said if it were him, he'd go for the S7 mock profile so I went with it.
Immediately I got an LTE signal and he had me reboot my phone. I've zero issues as he figured would happen and everything has been perfect. I got a confirmation text message from AT&T saying my phone will be loaded by July 6th and originally the technician told me around July 14th.
Anyhow, that was just my experience and a good experience at that. Of course, popping a sim out and back into a new phone would be ideal but a non-contracted AT&T device has to get loaded at some point and time I guess, right?
Cheers!
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Did you try rebooting the phone before calling? That is what happened with my Moto X Pure and no one knew what to do at the store. The manager came out and rebooted it and it got LTE and worked fine after that.

atistang said:
Did you try rebooting the phone before calling? That is what happened with my Moto X Pure and no one knew what to do at the store. The manager came out and rebooted it and it got LTE and worked fine after that.
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You mean, did I remember to turn it off and back on again? Yes, we tried that. Haha
It wasn't until the AT&T tech adding the profile to the network that it works. It was instant too.
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Data Service is Blocked

Just started today, and has been going on for most of the day:
Keep getting a notification saying Data Service is Blocked.
Reset my APN thinking it was that.. no go..
I'm on At&t
Anyone else Having this issue... I know if I call AT&T they are going to be clueless.

What version of OOS are you using? I had my network just complete lose service one time, had to reboot to recover. I have T-Mobile.

Binary Assault said:
What version of OOS are you using? I had my network just complete lose service one time, had to reboot to recover. I have T-Mobile.
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AT&T
4.5.5
Reboots aren't helping much.

Instead of reseting the APN go make a new one based on the settings suggested by AT&T. I had some data issues on T-Mobile and I noticed the was a couple of differences in the APN (hipri, supl) things like that. Nothing major but I had slower speeds and some apps couldn't connect. I created a new APN and everything has been butter since.

Jonathan.Parker2005 said:
Instead of reseting the APN go make a new one based on the settings suggested by AT&T. I had some data issues on T-Mobile and I noticed the was a couple of differences in the APN (hipri, supl) things like that. Nothing major but I had slower speeds and some apps couldn't connect. I created a new APN and everything has been butter since.
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Deleted all, created a new one based on: https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/wireless/KM1062162

Hey I am on t mobile too and for me it does say lte next to the network bar but there an exclamation mark. Any ideas ?

neelpatel99 said:
Hey I am on t mobile too and for me it does say lte next to the network bar but there an exclamation mark. Any ideas ?
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Have you checked your data limits? Mine was maxing out at 1GB and it shut of the data. I had to go in and set it to not turn off data and I raised the limit to 1TB.

I did check the data and I have barely used like 500mb.

I read about AT&T banning the use of a note fan edition based on the information provided by the imei.. The person had called to activate and optimize the data connection on their device.. A few hours later they had constant no service whatsoever.
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MrWilsonxD said:
I read about AT&T banning the use of a note fan edition based on the information provided by the imei.. The person had called to activate and optimize the data connection on their device.. A few hours later they had constant no service whatsoever.
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My sim came from my 3t, which didn't have the issue.

Support had me factory reset it, didnt have the issue all evening.
I get into work this morning and it starts popping up every minute..
I'm wondering if its a signal issue?
When it happens, its in the process of changing from H+ to lte+

DjCalvin said:
My sim came from my 3t, which didn't have the issue.
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Yeah, the same argument could go for the guy who brought his sim from a note 5 to the fan edition.. It was just a possibility..
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Oneplus 6T and Verizon?

Should I or should I not get the Oneplus 6T I'v have read on the net and see that there are some problem's here and there. I see lot's of fixes but is it all worth it or there just to many problem's. Or are these problem's overstated.

Works fine with Verizon. You will not get 3g or 1x if that means anything to you. Apparently Verizon will be all 4g by the end of 2019. When the 6t first came people were having lots of issues due to how Verizon handles phones with cdma. You had to call or contact live chat and request the phone line be cdma-less. However this has changed . I got mine about a week ago and I was able to put my sim card in 6t, login to my Verizon account, click activate phone on existing line and the cdma-less feature was added to my like automatically and I immediately started getting text messages. It's been smooth sailing since. I actually get better reception with this phone compared to my OG pixel XL.

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Works fine with Verizon. You will not get 3g or 1x if that means anything to you. Apparently Verizon will be all 4g by the end of 2019. When the 6t first came people were having lots of issues due to how Verizon handles phones with cdma. You had to call or contact live chat and request the phone line be cdma-less. However this has changed . I got mine about a week ago and I was able to put my sim card in 6t, login to my Verizon account, click activate phone on existing line and the cdma-less feature was added to my like automatically and I immediately started getting text messages. It's been smooth sailing since. I actually get better reception with this phone compared to my OG pixel XL.
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By going to your account and activating where you charged a activation fee?

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By going to your account and activating where you charged a activation fee?
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I wasn't. Had mine since release day. I did have to do a few online chats to get SMS to work. But no big deal.

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By going to your account and activating where you charged a activation fee?
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Nope I just double checked. No fee

Thank's

Works for me. No fee. Just swapped SIM.

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Works for me. No fee. Just swapped SIM.
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I'm interested in buying a 6T as well and I'm on Verizon. So you're saying you just put in your SIM from your former working Verizon phone and all functions are working correctly on your 6T? Mms,sms, incoming and outgoing calls, etc? Wasnt sure if I would still need to contact Verizon to get everything set up correctly. Only reason I ask us that I see a lot of mixed statements about the 6T working on Verizon.

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I'm interested in buying a 6T as well and I'm on Verizon. So you're saying you just put in your SIM from your former working Verizon phone and all functions are working correctly on your 6T? Mms,sms, incoming and outgoing calls, etc? Wasnt sure if I would still need to contact Verizon to get everything set up correctly. Only reason I ask us that I see a lot of mixed statements about the 6T working on Verizon.
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You will still need to contact them to get SMS to be received correctly. You will need CDMA_LESS or LTE only set up. It took me two minutes on chat.
No issues since.

I activated my new phone using my old phone so that Verizon could send me a security code. The CDMA-less was already checked once they activated the 6t. Then swapped the SIM cards from old phone to new. No issues, no fees. It works great and I'm in a very rural area usually on Band 13 

What about Verizon prepaid? Verizon doesn't offer same chat based support for prepaid.

You guys aren't saying whether that is prepaid or postpaid. My EMEI comes up properly when doing a BYOD for postpaid, but it says "incompatible" when I use the BYOD tool for prepaid.
I would like to use prepaid - it is substantially cheaper than postpaid, and obviously anyone here doesn't have to subsidize the phone, so it doesn't seem like there is any advantage, and only disadvantages, to going postpaid.

I just got mine yesterday. I set it up using the following fix / process from Verizon. Had zero issues and everything worked from the start.
Verizon tells us that an easier fix than calling into support may be to login to your account, then head to My Verizon>My Device>Activate or Switch Device>Activate On an Existing Line, and then follow the instructions that pop-up.

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I just got mine yesterday. I set it up using the following fix / process from Verizon. Had zero issues and everything worked from the start.
Verizon tells us that an easier fix than calling into support may be to login to your account, then head to My Verizon>My Device>Activate or Switch Device>Activate On an Existing Line, and then follow the instructions that pop-up.
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This is the process I did when I got mine.
I also took out the SIM from my old phone and made sure both were turned off before I started.
I think the instructions on Verizon say something like this also.
**This was also a NEW SIM CARD** old one was over 3 years old
No problems been working great.

tech_head said:
You will still need to contact them to get SMS to be received correctly. You will need CDMA_LESS or LTE only set up. It took me two minutes on chat.
No issues since.
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This. Just log into my Verizon and do the chat with a representative, and tell them you need CDMA_LESS and tell them your pin and Wich line. Also use Sim slot two.

zakkyzombie said:
This. Just log into my Verizon and do the chat with a representative, and tell them you need CDMA_LESS and tell them your pin and Wich line. Also use Sim slot two.
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Sim slot 2 in particular, mines gonna be here friday. In the same boat. Pretty excited

aer0zer0 said:
Sim slot 2 in particular, mines gonna be here friday. In the same boat. Pretty excited
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Be good to have you on board.

nrage23 said:
Be good to have you on board.
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Looks like a party 256 8 coming Friday.

Tried both sim slot, and doesn't seem to matter. I have mine on slot 1 and no issues.

I'm on prepaid and I was with the second wave of users who had to go through the fiasco of not getting SMS and MMS. took me 4days to make it finally working.
now I live in a semi rural area and a lot of times signal drop to 3g. I was skeptical about this phone. but it worked out well for me. I still have volte symbol. I just have to be a tad careful about not dropping to 3g. if the following 3 things are very important to you than this phone is not for you.
1. WiFi calling
2. 3G service
3. notification light
I don't know if visual voicemail works or not because i don't use it.