i was wondering because when i got it the lady over the phone told me my data would slow down, but how much would it slow down?
Expect a really high bill, for going over the limit
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i have flex pay, so they won't charge me if i go over.
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i was wondering because when i got it the lady over the phone told me my data would slow down, but how much would it slow down?
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They don't slow u down on that plan they charge u I think its 10 cent a mb till u hit 30 dollars If I'm not mistaken
oh because i called and they told me they won't charge me if i go over, they would just slow down my data.. mmh this is confusing!
First off. Who is your provider?
If its Tmobile then they slow you down to basically EDGE speeds. If you do a speed test before the throttle you probably will get around 3down and 2up, after the throttle its around 1down and your upload speed is a joke.
If its any other provider it depends on their plan.
Kawika is right I'm on that plan now. Does anyone know of a way to stop the throttle? I've been looking all over they have found a way on some phones but I haven't seen in on the vibrant yet
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200mb won't last you!
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200mb won't last you!
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How do you know? I'm on the same plan and I've never gone over 110mb. Some people have wifi at work and home you know...
I'm on the same plan. You get 200MB then they throttle you to what I can only assume is edge speeds. I can't say for sure since I've never noticed a difference after exceeding 200MB. Probably because only edge is available in my area anyway, so why pay more for something I can't get. There's no overage charges, though.
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I'm on the same plan. You get 200MB then they throttle you to what I can only assume is edge speeds. I can't say for sure since I've never noticed a difference after exceeding 200MB. Probably because only edge is available in my area anyway, so why pay more for something I can't get. There's no overage charges, though.
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Its slow. It takes me from about 5mb down to 50-60 kbs
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Its slow. It takes me from about 5mb down to 50-60 kbs
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Haha! When I'm at work I can only dream of 50-60K. Matter of fact, in most of the places around here 60K is doing pretty good. I really hate edge.
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I just got a free msg from T-Mobile saying " due to the amount of data used your data speed will now be slowed" wtf!?!? Why!? I have an unlimited data plan! I'm guessing its from watching Netflix.. is there anything I can do besides complain? Service.jar??
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I just got a free msg from T-Mobile saying " due to the amount of data used your data speed will now be slowed" wtf!?!? Why!? I have an unlimited data plan! I'm guessing its from watching Netflix.. is there anything I can do besides complain? Service.jar??
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Before anyone flames you let me clear this up. It's *Unlimited, and not Unlimited. After 5GB they throttle you down below 2G speeds until the end of the current billing cycle. There isn't much you can do about it. Next month try to take it easy with the streaming.
Oh I see. Thanks for that!! I Watch Netflix on my phone cause the home internet got cut! Lol!
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Oh I see. Thanks for that!! I Watch Netflix on my phone cause the home internet got cut! Lol!
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Yikes, been there before. Hang in there dude.
Ahh, you didn't know that they cap you at 5GB. It sucks, but you agreed to it. Been there with the home web cut off, and I did the same thing rofl. Oh well, have fun with dial-up. xD
Lol well at least the msg the sent me was free
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Lol well at least the msg the sent me was free
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Imagine if it wasn't and you had no texting plan.
Throttled and being charged an extra .25 for the text. That would be just terrible and lulzy on T-Mobile's part.
Dood complain to T-mobile.
People that have been hitting their cap has usually been for tethering and thats a BIG no no you cant complain if you get throttled if you tether because thats your fault. Under normal use you should never hit your cap. But with a heavy dose of Pandora, web browsing, pod cast downloads, mp3 downloads, downloading thru the stock media hub, using 3G for apps like geocaching, and now the ability to stream movies with apps like netflix. All of that combined I believe people will start getting closer to their cap or even start to go over. I believe this is a game changer and service providers are gonna have to provide more bandwidth. We just have to complain when we hit the cap under normal use. And thats the kicker. You should not have werking netflix on your specific device as its not "officially" werking for the Vibrant (yet) so its still not normal use for us. Just don't tell them that i guess, lol. Tell them you have some other phone. Good luck!
I thought maybe I would make a thread for if you have gotten throttled and what Location. Just hit my highest this month. Right now 9.5Gb In the Shelby, NC Market and STILL no throlting or message saying im within the 5%
Nothing of the sort here in the south florida area yet. but I will note the highest data rates I'e seen were 7.2mbps down and 1.5mbps up. and the worst I've got was .3 down and .1 up.
10GB+ since June. At about 8GB now...cycle ends tomorrow. Got 5% email and text this morning. Lovely.
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10GB+ since June. At about 8GB now...cycle ends tomorrow. Got 5% email and text this morning. Lovely.
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haha im trying to make it to 10gb tonight cause it resets tommrow
I've heard people who would be using Dropbox from SGS III will be getting free 50GB dropbox storage.
Can anyone come out with some app showing dropbox tht we've logged in through Galaxy S3??? Something like that???
Source:
http://www.themobileindian.com/news/6413_Samsung-Galaxy-SIII-users-to-get-50-GB-free-Dropbox-storage
What's the purpose of this if one doesn't have truly unlimited data? If everywhere i go i need to stream crap, I'm going to max my data plan well before the month is out. I know wifi is different, but it still sounds like a pain in the ass. Am i missing something?
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But the service will only be valid for a period of 24 months maximum
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2 years is a very good amount of time, I am only at 10gb and trying not to use it all.
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What's the purpose of this if one doesn't have truly unlimited data? If everywhere i go i need to stream crap, I'm going to max my data plan well before the month is out. I know wifi is different, but it still sounds like a pain in the ass. Am i missing something?
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What does this have to do with streaming?
Do you know what dropbox is exactly?
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2 years is a very good amount of time, I am only at 10gb and trying not to use it all.
What does this have to do with streaming?
Do you know what dropbox is exactly?
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Yeah, i have an account. I guess i was more or less thinking this was some sort of solution or compromise for not including an sd card slot. I should have said downloading, not streaming, my bad. I was probably just looking at it from the wrong angle.
Edit: I was probably more confused than I originally thought. I thought the S3 wasn't going to have an SD card slot. It's hell getting old...
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Okay well the title basically explains it, my data usage statistics are not updating. It's currently August 18th and my usage cycle ends on the 11th of each month. Running neomax and currently s-on. Thanks to anyone who can help.
I've found that the data usage app is absolutely worthless. Every month I compare what Android says my data usage is compared to what verizon says it is and they are no where near the same. Verizon says my usage is 850-1,000 MB while Android usage app shows only around 300-350 MB. So, I just ignore what the data usage app says.
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I've found that the data usage app is absolutely worthless. Every month I compare what Android says my data usage is compared to what verizon says it is and they are no where near the same. Verizon says my usage is 850-1,000 MB while Android usage app shows only around 300-350 MB. So, I just ignore what the data usage app says.
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I have noticed that too.
Like right now, VZW says I have used 2.23GB of data (day 20) and my phone says I have used 0.93GB. D:
Not trying to be a smart ass or anything, but it says right there in the screenshot that it is measured by the phone and your carriers data accounting may be different.
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Not trying to be a smart ass or anything, but it says right there in the screenshot that it is measured by the phone and your carriers data accounting may be different.
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True, but to have such a disparity between the two reports is odd.
They have to say that to cover themselves just in case, but I guarantee they intended for it to be accurate. I'm sure they will make it more accurate in future updates.
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Not trying to be a smart ass or anything, but it says right there in the screenshot that it is measured by the phone and your carriers data accounting may be different.
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Maybe if you have both WiFi and LTE on it doesn't count your data correctly? I'd test, but I'm already watching my data closely for other reasons.
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If you're crack flashing going on a new rom will reset the counter on the phone.
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If you're crack flashing going on a new rom will reset the counter on the phone.
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What's 'crack' flashing?
zZDave_Stud said:
What's 'crack' flashing?
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If you flash multiple roms on your phone daily you're a crack flasher.
Not the issue.
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Maybe if you have both WiFi and LTE on it doesn't count your data correctly? I'd test, but I'm already watching my data closely for other reasons.
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true but its still innacurate even if u don't crack flash
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If you're crack flashing going on a new rom will reset the counter on the phone.
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Its odd to see so many people saying the bandwidth meter is inaccurate.. Mine has always been pretty much right on the money every month!
I do notice that there are some apps that don't get reported individually - for instance, WiFi Tether is never listed as an app that has consumed bandwidth in the list below the graph. But the total amount of bandwidth consumed always seems to be right. In other words, even though WiFi Tether is not listed with exactly how much bandwidth it used, that bandwidth is still being reported by the graph, and the cumulative total always seems to be in line with what Verizon reports I have used..
Guys the problem isn't that the statistics aren't accurate with what VZW says, its that its August 20th and the usage cycle has not updated since august 11th!
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Guys the problem isn't that the statistics aren't accurate with what VZW says, its that its August 20th and the usage cycle has not updated since august 11th!
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OH!!! Ok my bad..
I have no clue. Everytime I have weird **** like that start to happen, it usually means its time for a full wipe and start over.
I've started to notice that Android is a little like Windows used to be.... After awhile it just starts to bog down and weird **** starts to happen that doesn't make sense. Only solution I've found in these cases is to do a full wipe and start over.
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OH!!! Ok my bad..
I have no clue. Everytime I have weird **** like that start to happen, it usually means its time for a full wipe and start over.
I've started to notice that Android is a little like Windows used to be.... After awhile it just starts to bog down and weird **** starts to happen that doesn't make sense. Only solution I've found in these cases is to do a full wipe and start over.
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Thanks man probably gonna do that soon and find a new rom to use for my daily. Any suggestions?
with the internal SD being 16 gigs and 11 usable, how is it partioned? for example, those 5 gigs between 16 and 11 are set aside for system, rom, apps etc right? (it's probably like 3-4 gigs since it's not fully 16gb..)
i only ask because i can't figure out where my storage is going. i plugged into pc, and highlighed everything on my internal storage, and its only 6 gigs. i've got 3 gigs free it says, so that's 9 gigs. where are those last 2 gigs? i can't figure it out.
Yea it's kinda weird. Also have you noticed that in settings/apps/running it shows the ram at whatever you have left out of 1.5gb instead of it being out of 2gb just like the original dna specs were saying it was.
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Yea it's kinda weird. Also have you noticed that in settings/apps/running it shows the ram at whatever you have left out of 1.5gb instead of it being out of 2gb just like the original dna specs were saying it was.
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If I'm not mistaken, the GPU uses 512mb of ram.
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If I'm not mistaken, the GPU uses 512mb of ram.
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Yes, that's correct. :good:
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So it's 12 gigs of data? I'm still missing two gigs that I can't figure out where they are lol grr
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Initially this was a problem for me. It was either the DNA or the Note II. The fact is that we are moving to a cloud environment in all aspects of IT, even mobile phones.
All of my videos, television, music, and lectures are in the cloud. There is no real need for me to have a 64GB phone, or an SD slot. The idea is that we would migrate our multimedia fix to the cloud.. and our devices would become less expensive because of the lack of required storage.
To date, after 3 weeks of having the DNA... I haven't skipped a beat. All of my music is cloud based, my camera is linked to dropbox - automatically uploading pictures and video as I take them. And my movies and television are of course, online.
So how much storage do we really need then? And why is it then a real issue?
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Initially this was a problem for me. It was either the DNA or the Note II. The fact is that we are moving to a cloud environment in all aspects of IT, even mobile phones.
All of my videos, television, music, and lectures are in the cloud. There is no real need for me to have a 64GB phone, or an SD slot. The idea is that we would migrate our multimedia fix to the cloud.. and our devices would become less expensive because of the lack of required storage.
To date, after 3 weeks of having the DNA... I haven't skipped a beat. All of my music is cloud based, my camera is linked to dropbox - automatically uploading pictures and video as I take them. And my movies and television are of course, online.
So how much storage do we really need then? And why is it then a real issue?
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yea but you see. the cloud takes away the space limit but gives us the data limit..
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yea but you see. the cloud takes away the space limit but gives us the data limit..
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i mean, idc about that since i'm still unlimited and won't ever upgrade until they decide to take it from me.
however, i hate google music. the app is god awful, and it just defies all common sense. htc's built in music player is so much better.
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yea but you see. the cloud takes away the space limit but gives us the data limit..
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This is where we get screwed. Verizon and HTC want us to use cloud services...which use data. But then they want to cap it. This is why I will always carry a separate iPod from my phone...
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No joke, s#$t's ridiculous with only 11GB of usable storage....
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I think everyone with a small/capped storage should get unlimited data!
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I too would like an expandable memory, but at the end of they day if you REALLY need it you can always buy a USB memory card reader and plug it into the bottom of the phone, no?
What happened to WiFi then? There are millions of hotspots around the country. I use them as needed. My data usage hovers under a gig each month no matter where I go.
Why spend a premium on data plans when we have WiFi?
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Why spend a premium on data plans when we have WiFi?
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Speed.
trickster2369 said:
Speed.
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How slow is your wifi?
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How slow is your wifi?
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15mbs down
2-3mbs up.
But that's the limits of my hard line to my Wi-Fi in my house.
30-35 down
6-7 up
On 4g at my house.
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15mbs down
2-3mbs up.
But that's the limits of my hard line to my Wi-Fi in my house.
30-35 down
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On 4g at my house.
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And that's exactly my point. I have 75MB down and 15MB up at home, OC3 at the office, and last I heard - 4G isn't as fast as that; it certainly isn't as fast as G.. Secondary to that, why waste money on a trumped up throttled and limited data plan when WiFi is readily available EVERYWHERE?
I dunno, I hear complaining where there doesn't need to be. And as far as I'm concerned, Mazel Tov to everyone who wants to waste their hard earned cash and pad VZW's wallet. (Not gonna be me though).
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And that's exactly my point. I have 75MB down and 15MB up at home, OC3 at the office, and last I heard - 4G isn't as fast as that; it certainly isn't as fast as G.. Secondary to that, why waste money on a trumped up throttled and limited data plan when WiFi is readily available EVERYWHERE?
I dunno, I hear complaining where there doesn't need to be. And as far as I'm concerned, Mazel Tov to everyone who wants to waste their hard earned cash and pad VZW's wallet. (Not gonna be me though).
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That's cool, I don't blame you a bit with Wi-Fi like that. I also have unlimited data, so it doesn't bother me at all to use data.
I was also answering a question that wasn't asked by you. And where was I complaining?
Since some of us are s-off, i think we can actually repartition our intertnal memory.
Gnex also had 16gb memory, but it had 13 gb memory for user. We could do with those additional 2 gb
Maybe some dev can look into that. My 2 cents.
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