So, after much thought I decided to keep the phone and give it a second go and might sell my 9700 to make some cash. However, as I am not sure 100% of this, I thought that maybe I could keep both. Questions is, when I had an iPhone, I also had a my 9700 and had of course a BB plan. Even if the phone was running on EDGE only, I still could pop my SIM and check the web, even if sloooooooow. How come I can't web brows or anything on the Amaze? Is it because of the 4G?
Thanks, I am basically trying to figure out if I can have one data plan where I can use both phones, possibly.
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So, after much thought I decided to keep the phone and give it a second go and might sell my 9700 to make some cash. However, as I am not sure 100% of this, I thought that maybe I could keep both. Questions is, when I had an iPhone, I also had a my 9700 and had of course a BB plan. Even if the phone was running on EDGE only, I still could pop my SIM and check the web, even if sloooooooow. How come I can't web brows or anything on the Amaze? Is it because of the 4G?
Thanks, I am basically trying to figure out if I can have one data plan where I can use both phones, possibly.
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The carrier may have made changes on the network to prevent you from using a non-Blackberry device on a BES or BIS data plan.
I had an issue in the past using a SIM from a BlackBerry (broken) while waiting on a replacement in a Sony Ericsson, within two days I built up $140 worth of data charges due to an "unauthorized" device accessing data through a BlackBerry plan...weird but it was a learning experience to say the least.
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If using a BB plan or grandfathered plan, 4g phones does not work. I use to have one of those 5.99 plans. didn't work with any 4g phones. They are able to detect what phone you're using and block it or something.
I noticed the very first time i used it, the phone's data worked, but then about an hour or 2 in, it stopped working.
I am on a Value Plan, and I could switch between BB and iPhone without issues. I think it might be the new SIM I got when I got the Amaze. Possible?
The Amaze and GSII need the newest GBA sims I believe
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I am on a Value Plan, and I could switch between BB and iPhone without issues. I think it might be the new SIM I got when I got the Amaze. Possible?
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The Amaze and GSII need the newest GBA sims I believe
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no it's not the sim, I'm on the old sim and it works fine. You need to be on a 4g plan to get 4g with 4g devices. The old plans and bb plans do not work. They block it somehow.
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The Amaze and GSII need the newest GBA sims I believe
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The new SIM as I understand it, is for wifi calling. I used my old sim from my old curve in both my optimus-t and amaze without issue.
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No, I had WiFi calling before too. I also think its the 4G question. Its the only logical explanation so far...
its because blackberry uses real basic apns that you can program into the iPhone and the amaze does not use those the combination of the bis blackberry server apns will prevent it unlocked phones can be made to function on almost any apn but locked devices cannot unless you try manually changing the apns. I'd just stick with one phone so your mms and internet work right without having to change them all the time
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If your gonna try to change the amazes, you would have to use either wap.voicestream.com although I don't recommend this one at all or internet2.voicestream.com be aware the performance of your data may vary changing it seeing as sometimes they decomission old apns not used theres a blackberry specific that you could Google that may work well but I don't remember I haven't looked up someones blackberry data settings in a while
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All my phones are unlocked but I do see what you are saying it makes sense.
Good one.
Yup good luck if you speak with technical care n ask nicely maybe they would tell you what apn you can use with your blackberry data plan to use an iPhone from time to time and just change that in your amaze, if i was at work I'd look it up for you.
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Yup good luck if you speak with technical care n ask nicely maybe they would tell you what apn you can use with your blackberry data plan to use an iPhone from time to time and just change that in your amaze, if i was at work I'd look it up for you.
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Nah thanks a lot.
I sold the iPhone 3G a while back, and might sell the BB too, and stick with the Amaze anyways.
I was just curious on why... Geeky stuff, you know.
Oh word well there you have each data plan has certain ones that provision with it, you just gotta use the right one
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So I just got a call from sprint saying I've been roaming too much (because I don't have services where I live) but they said they have to follow the rules and then she said they'll let me out of my 2 years for free but the thing to if I flash my phone to cricket can I still use the roms or will have I have to change something in them?
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So I just got a call from sprint saying I've been roaming too much (because I don't have services where I live) but they said they have to follow the rules and then she said they'll let me out of my 2 years for free but the thing to if I flash my phone to cricket can I still use the roms or will have I have to change something in them?
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I know there are threads around this forum regarding how to flash to other carriers. Perhaps it would be worth your time to read through those.
I know from what I've seen, some settings need to be tweaked in the ROMs.
Definitely for MMS and sometimes for internet data (proxy settings). Perhaps also for voice mail, especially if there is a visual voicemail service. Also, sometimes other carriers have special software for their Android devices they might be able to provide you.
As a slight side note, I have noticed the EVO 3D roams quite a bit more than any of my previous Sprint Android devices (Moment, EVO, and NS4G). Even with an Airave, my EVO 3D will sometimes prefer to roam .. kind of odd.
Good luck!
To any Amaze users; Are you able to to use the wifi hotspot without the $15/mo fee? The Sensation has it, and I can use it freely, but it is being exchanged for an Amaze due to dust accumulating under the screen.
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Yes
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To any Amaze users; Are you able to to use the wifi hotspot without the $15/mo fee? The Sensation has it, and I can use it freely, but it is being exchanged for an Amaze due to dust accumulating under the screen.
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Just like Teo said, yes you can.
Just a matter of changing the APN and deleting another one.
Let me find the thread on that for you.
*Here it is and I believe page 4 has the instructions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1301104&highlight=wifi+hotspot
Only for a short time it doesn't look for the apn, T-Mobile knows your using the hot spot and there is an amount that it lets you use before forcing the feature on you, although I've never found how much it is that it lets you use but I can tell you it indicates to us what percentage you have used of what it allows you to. Changing apns might work but only until they decomission some of the older apns and it doesn't work for everybody I seen people get mad because they can't access web because they are using an old apn or because they can't use hot spot for free anymore lol
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Just use a third party app if you get blocked like wireless tether same thing anyways
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when i purchased my amaze the sales lady told me that tmobile will only charge you if they catch you.. then she whispered to me "ive been using it for a long time now and they havnt caught me yet"..
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Lol employees get it free, no they are aware I see it on accounts all day but just use it while you can, they will crack down on it harder soon i assume but u always got third party options anyway
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ill say this man, store reps for the most part aren't very knowledgeable they are trained to sell to average joe, they know nothing about how it works on the back end. Most of them would try to sell you the galaxy S 2 and tell you its totally superior to the amaze. On the back end when you use hot spot it notes your account in 25% increments that you have used a certain allotment of tethering why T-Mobile allows free use of it who knows but its great for customers I just tell people it lets you try it pretty well but will eventually tell you that you have to pay to continue using it we never been told why it lets people use it free for a bit and I've tried looking into it. If at&t ever takes over it will probably change seeing how they are pretty strict about tethering for now enjoy
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Only for a short time it doesn't look for the apn, T-Mobile knows your using the hot spot and there is an amount that it lets you use before forcing the feature on you, although I've never found how much it is that it lets you use but I can tell you it indicates to us what percentage you have used of what it allows you to. Changing apns might work but only until they decomission some of the older apns and it doesn't work for everybody I seen people get mad because they can't access web because they are using an old apn or because they can't use hot spot for free anymore lol
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I think you've mistaken, we don't use a different apn, we just add a new apn with the same apn... the epc one.
we delete the two original apns so it doesn't switch back. There's something extra in the stock APNs that causes the tethering block (someone mentioned it somewhere but i find it easier to just delete and add a new one)
so unless they block the epc one, which is their main one at the moment, then we're free to use it. besides xboarder already has a workaround for it too.
But if you're not rooted and you're on a fresh factory restore, the adding apn method works. ONLY on fresh factory resets though, before you try toggling the wifi tether. this is what a few others and i discovered roughly a month ago
Epc is the current one that we use at T-Mobile so that would be wrong, they can track which ever one they like point being that it doesn't matter what you do anyone gets free use whether you change it or not, either way being rooted lets you use wireless tether so it doesn't matter. But I've personally seen people get blocked on different apns, I even went as far as having it researched for someone who claimed to not be using what they came back with was interesting.
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good thing i still have my rooted nexus one.. probably use that for hotspot? just gonna share something.. when we moved to our new house i lost my internet.. connected my ps3 to my nexus via hotspot and played call of duty mw2, played it for a couple of hours then tmobile dropped me down to 2G.. talk about large mount of data.. hehe..
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Epc is the current one that we use at T-Mobile so that would be wrong, they can track which ever one they like point being that it doesn't matter what you do anyone gets free use whether you change it or not, either way being rooted lets you use wireless tether so it doesn't matter. But I've personally seen people get blocked on different apns, I even went as far as having it researched for someone who claimed to not be using what they came back with was interesting.
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not exactly sure what you're pointing out is wrong. I'm actually confused about the whole run on sentence lol. Not sure if you realize that they originally block it straight out of the box. You can't use it at all. So no, it isn't free use whether you change it or not for the Amaze. You HAVE to add a new apn if you want to use it on stock.
we've been discussing for a while now so i don't know if you even tried using your wifi hotspot yet for your amaze because this device is not like other devices where you can use it straight out of the box. and yes if you don't add the new apn, it gets blocked after it reaches a certain point.
I understand what you're saying about ppl using all the other available tmobile apns, but we don't need to do that for the amaze. What you're saying relates to ALL devices, so you're making ppl skeptical about wifi hotspot on the amaze. Like the guy before me saying to use his nexus, it would relate to his nexus too.
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Epc is the current one that we use at T-Mobile so that would be wrong, they can track which ever one they like point being that it doesn't matter what you do anyone gets free use whether you change it or not, either way being rooted lets you use wireless tether so it doesn't matter. But I've personally seen people get blocked on different apns, I even went as far as having it researched for someone who claimed to not be using what they came back with was interesting.
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Let's clarify this.
With the release of the Amaze and GS2 they have changed the way tethering is recognized. On previous phones it SHOULD catch you at 200mb (think of it like a preview) and then throw an upsell message. Yes, employees were not caught as they have different permissions but they were supposed to get the upsell as well. With the new phones they WILL get the upsell (trust me, I talk to upset employees every week that got one of the above mentioned phones and now have to pay). Employees do NOT get to tether for free, we are supposed to pay for the $14.99 tether feature like everyone else. If you have an amaze that is not rooted and has not had the apns changed and you can tether, then it is a fluke.
The amaze seems to block this through the apn settings. NOT the apn itself. The original work around was to just delete the apn type field and it would work. Seems to work better if you create a new apn with JUST epc.tmobile.com and delete the old ones. Of course, if you're rooted, most roms have fixes implemented so you don't have to do anything.
With both devices, if left completely alone and without the tether feature, you will get the upsell message immediately. No 200mb "buffer."
^^ yes finally a support, end thread.
I just got the HTC EVO View 4G off a deal on the internet and I really don't want to activate with Sprint (bad issues about 10 years ago). Is there any way to activate it on any other network carrier or am I stuck with SPRINT or WIFI?
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I just got the HTC EVO View 4G off a deal on the internet and I really don't want to activate with Sprint (bad issues about 10 years ago). Is there any way to activate it on any other network carrier or am I stuck with SPRINT or WIFI?
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This doesnt belong in development.. I'm not sure though... I heard you can get 4g service with clear since they provvide sprint with 4g service.. Not sure about 3g though
Edit - Misunderstood the question for some reason
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Bought my view without having to activate it on Sprint for $230. Check eBay. There are also some online sale sites selling it cheap, can't think of their names ATM.
Ask the seller, whether It's a person or company, if it needs to be activated or it will say so on the page
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He means using 4G on a different carrier.
You can activate it on cricket service, I've done one and it works pretty well. Of course you will only get 3g instead of 4g as Cricket does not have 4g yet. I had everything working except incoming calls would not ring through, still working on it. However, texting, mms, web, apps, and google voice worked great. I could get incoming and outgoing calls through google voice just fine.
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You can activate it on cricket service, I've done one and it works pretty well. Of course you will only get 3g instead of 4g as Cricket does not have 4g yet. I had everything working except incoming calls would not ring through, still working on it. However, texting, mms, web, apps, and google voice worked great. I could get incoming and outgoing calls through google voice just fine.
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How much does cricket service cost a month?
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Cricket has an android plan for their smart phones which gives you unlimited talk/text/data for $55 per month. That is the method I used. Their 3g is pretty decent where I'm at, but like most carriers Cricket will throttle you if you exceed your data usage. I have not been throttled yet, but I do not use an awful lot of data. I believe there is a way to use the $45 per month plan which requires a few more steps flashing the View, but I have not tried it and I am not sure how reliable it would be.
I saw a program called flash to talk android studio that might let you do it. Thing is , its $50 for the program and $5 each time you use it. I think a lot of stores use it to flash android phones between carriers. If its worth it to you, check it out.
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I have flashed mine using cdma workshop which I bought for $100 and qpst which is free.. If you can get the msl code then no need for cdma workshop
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I currently use mine on boostmobile for 3g and i use clearwire for 4g. did a few things that im sure i cant speak of here. but yes you can put it on other carrier's. where i am at cricket/metro doesnt work so i could not go that route otherwise i may have. I use boostmobile because 4g can be spotty sometimes and the 3g is a good backup anywhere 4g doesnt kick in. i had it on sprint but for 1gig of data my monthly was coming in at like 50 with insurance and taxes and no 4g...just pathetic. my alternative gives me pay as you go like 11 bucks a month flat no taxes unlimited 3g/text/no phone at least the normal way but till that is figured out i'm happy using groove ip with google since my data is always on no need to spend talk minutes just use data for talk hence why it costs .35cents a day. and as for 4g well i'm on an older clear plan and i share it with my hotspot(switching back through the login page pretty easy) again i'm not explaining how to do it as in many places its not allowed to talk of the method's tut, i'm just sharing that there are ways. If I was able to use it on other carriers that worked in my area i would or if sprint wouldnt try and be a ripoff and give a decent plan a realistic plan i would just stick with them.
The guy in the att store never switched my unlimited plan from a 3g unlimited to 4g unlimited. The last couple days my data has been so slow. Facebook loads and stuff but xda app sometimes takes forever to load like im on Edge or something. If i go into the browser and go to www.google.com sometimes it just wont load. Phone shows 4 bars of 3g and the lines are indicating data being sent but it never loads. 3g in my area was super fast with my iphone. Speedtest shows 1mbit at first and drops down to like. .87mbit by the time the test is done.
Any ideas?
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Uh, either go back to the store and have them switch you to the 4G unlimited, or log into your account online and switch it, or call up customer service and have them switch it. The sales rep you bought it from is stupid for not doing so when you bought it. My guess as to why you are getting such slow speeds is that you are getting throttled. How much data do you normally use/have you used this bill cycle? If you are getting throttled, then switching to the new LTE unlimited plan should reset your throttling hopefully, but as soon as you reach around 2gb of data, expect to be throttled again.
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Uh, either go back to the store and have them switch you to the 4G unlimited, or log into your account online and switch it, or call up customer service and have them switch it. The sales rep you bought it from is stupid for not doing so when you bought it. My guess as to why you are getting such slow speeds is that you are getting throttled. How much data do you normally use/have you used this bill cycle? If you are getting throttled, then switching to the new LTE unlimited plan should reset your throttling hopefully, but as soon as you reach around 2gb of data, expect to be throttled again.
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Current billing cycle only shows 1345mb. So i shouldnt be getting throttled. The data does work though most of the time. So. I still need to switch it to the 4g? I dont know much about the service side of Att. I just figured if it worked it was fine.
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Not only switch to LTE but if you don't have one already, you'll need an LTE SIM card as well.
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Not only switch to LTE but if you don't have one already, you'll need an LTE SIM card as well.
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Okay. I looked at my sim and the last two digits on the sim is 27. No markings on it at all. Just blue and white. Doesnt even say 3g or anything like my old one did. I guess i didnt really bother asking the guy cause i figured he would know, and we dont have 4g around here anyways.
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Okay. I looked at my sim and the last two digits on the sim is 27. No markings on it at all. Just blue and white. Doesnt even say 3g or anything like my old one did. I guess i didnt really bother asking the guy cause i figured he would know, and we dont have 4g around here anyways.
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It would still be good to make sure you have the LTE sim card, and that you get upgraded to the LTE unlimited plan, even if you don't have 4G yet. It will still allow you to use 3G just fine.
I have a 3G unlimited plan and they tried to get me to change to a 4G plan but says they have no unlimited, ugh, come to find out all I had to do was get a LTE sim card & the store rep added the 4G code and voila magic, 4G without needing to change my plan
There is no such thing as a LTE sim. Its the data plan on your account that makes the difference. There are 3G, 4g and 4G LTE plans. If you have any data at all your on a correct plan. I have never seen a non LTE data plan work on a LTE phone. I have a Note on an unlimited LTE plan. Don't let bad reps lie.
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I have a similar problem. My wife bought me the phone and when she brought it home, I just took the sum from my Atrix and put it in. When accessing data, I get the 4G at the top. I am on the 3G unlimited plan as well. How do I know if the sim from my Atrix is 4G or not?
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Let me help you guys out:
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Okay. I looked at my sim and the last two digits on the sim is 27. No markings on it at all. Just blue and white. Doesnt even say 3g or anything like my old one did. I guess i didnt really bother asking the guy cause i figured he would know, and we dont have 4g around here anyways.
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The blue and white SIM cards are the old ones. You need an orange / blue SIM card.
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There is no such thing as a LTE sim. Its the data plan on your account that makes the difference. There are 3G, 4g and 4G LTE plans. If you have any data at all your on a correct plan. I have never seen a non LTE data plan work on a LTE phone. I have a Note on an unlimited LTE plan. Don't let bad reps lie.
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There are. The blue / white SIM cards do not officially support LTE. They should still work for call etc, but data may not work properly.
And yes, data does need to be re provisioned under "unlimited LTE"
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I have a similar problem. My wife bought me the phone and when she brought it home, I just took the sum from my Atrix and put it in. When accessing data, I get the 4G at the top. I am on the 3G unlimited plan as well. How do I know if the sim from my Atrix is 4G or not?
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Just go into any AT&T store and ask for a new SIM card. ALL the new ones are LTE compatible.
SIM cards are free too. Just have the rep do an equipment change to your new IMEI / SIM. You'll keep your unlimited data, you get your new free SIM which will work just fine on LTE, and your data count will be reset for that billing cycle.
dial *3282# and you'll see the old deactivated HSPA+ data plan next to your fresh LTE plan. This is also one of the ways to remove throttling. More details on THAT can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1517663
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Let me help you guys out:
The blue and white SIM cards are the old ones. You need an orange / blue SIM card.
There are. The blue / white SIM cards do not officially support LTE. They should still work for call etc, but data may not work properly.
And yes, data does need to be re provisioned under "unlimited LTE"
Just go into any AT&T store and ask for a new SIM card. ALL the new ones are LTE compatible.
SIM cards are free too. Just have the rep do an equipment change to your new IMEI / SIM. You'll keep your unlimited data, you get your new free SIM which will work just fine on LTE, and your data count will be reset for that billing cycle.
dial *3282# and you'll see the old deactivated HSPA+ data plan next to your fresh LTE plan. This is also one of the ways to remove throttling. More details on THAT can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1517663
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A lot of good info here. I do have a question though. I dialed *3282# and this is message I received back:
Next Bill Cycle: 03/02/2012
Data (MB): 720.6 of Unlimited (Deactivated)
Data (MB): 107.8 of Unlimited
Messaging: 6373 of Unlimited
Visit us online at www.att.com/DataPlans
So, besides the fact that I apparently send an exorbitant amount of text messages, I can assume the first Data line is the previous 3G unlimited plan, so does that make the second the LTE plan?
Also, you mentioned the color of sim cards. Mine is Blue/Orange/White on the front and orange on the back. Is this the one I need or do I still need to go into the store?
Thanks for all the info you've passed along so far.
Did you do a cross upgrade?
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Did you do a cross upgrade?
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What happened was, I talked about how I couldn't wait until March 15th so I could upgrade to the Note. My wife happened to be at the mall and stopped by one of those AT&T Kiosks and somehow convinced the guy to let her get upgrade early. I tried the same thing at AT&T store and they wouldn't do it. So she paid for the phone and brought it home. I took it out of the box, put my sim card in it and voila.
Not sure if that counts as a cross upgrade or not, lol.
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What happened was, I talked about how I couldn't wait until March 15th so I could upgrade to the Note. My wife happened to be at the mall and stopped by one of those AT&T Kiosks and somehow convinced the guy to let her get upgrade early. I tried the same thing at AT&T store and they wouldn't do it. So she paid for the phone and brought it home. I took it out of the box, put my sim card in it and voila.
Not sure if that counts as a cross upgrade or not, lol.
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Yes, it is because your account didn't get properly provisioned to use LTE data, your wife's account did. Call AT&T to have your account/data plan changed to LTE unlimited. It's that simple.
This. We went through al of it when the skyrocket released trust me. We have found the sim makes no difference unless its a really really old sim...but the provisioning is key
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Yes, it is because your account didn't get properly provisioned to use LTE data, your wife's account did. Call AT&T to have your account/data plan changed to LTE unlimited. It's that simple.
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Good thing I brought this up..... ;-) I know from experience about the new SIM As well as the provisioned data plan.
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Im just really confused about my data speeds. Wifi is super fast. 3g just isnt fast at all. Crawls. Web pages take so long to load. They shouldnt be throttling me. Im only at 1200 mb.
I cant clear the thought of it being a defect with the phone.
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i decided i may activate my view but sprint doesn't get coverage in this are. i was wondering if there is anyway to unlock it to work on a different carrier.
i tried searching on here and google but all it showed me was results for rooting and unlocking the bootloader both of which i have done, but i could have missed something it is almost 5am.
any help is appreciated thanks.
I would consider a tethering plan or rooting your phone to tether that way.
CDMA phones are simply a no go for that. The View is just too good not to keep though. Beautiful device and it works very well.
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sbrownla said:
I would consider a tethering plan or rooting your phone to tether that way.
CDMA phones are simply a no go for that. The View is just too good not to keep though. Beautiful device and it works very well.
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oh i plan on keeping it, i have had it for a while. was just trying to see if i could get in on someone else. thanks
I've heard you can make it work on Clear, but if you don't have Sprint service, it's pretty unlikely you'll have Clear service.
I'm pretty sure you can get it working on Boost Mobile.
With a CDMA device, your options for moving to a device to a different carrier are basically non-existent. You're essentially limited to the carrier that sells the device and any pre-pay carriers (and sometimes small, regional carriers) that use the network of the original carrier.
Unfortunately, Boost is going to have the same issue, since they are just a prepaid brand of Sprint. You can try PagePlus, though their data rates aren't exactly the cheapest.
freak4dell said:
Unfortunately, Boost is going to have the same issue, since they are just a prepaid brand of Sprint. You can try PagePlus, though their data rates aren't exactly the cheapest.
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Touché. Not sure what I was thinking there.
the only ones who get service in my area are us cell and Verizon, so it looks like im s**t out of luck
Yeah, if you don't get good Sprint service you count Boost Mobile out. I'm on Boost and love it. I'm on the $15 a month plan and its worked out real good for me. The speeds are acceptable and are more than enough to listen to an MLB game or watch a movie on Netflix without constant buffering. Groove ip and google voice give me an extra phone number with unlimited calling if I should ever need it.
Your best bet is to tether like someone above me has posted. Only real drawback to that is that tethering drains your battery rather quickly.
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Antiph3d said:
Yeah, if you don't get good Sprint service you count Boost Mobile out. I'm on Boost and love it. I'm on the $15 a month plan and its worked out real good for me. The speeds are acceptable and are more than enough to listen to an MLB game or watch a movie on Netflix without constant buffering. Groove ip and google voice give me an extra phone number with unlimited calling if I should ever need it.
Your best bet is to tether like someone above me has posted. Only real drawback to that is that tethering drains your battery rather quickly.
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How are you doing a $15/month plan? I don't see anything like that on their website.
Also, have they started allowing WiMax access yet? I remember reading something about Boost having access to the Clear network soon.
Antiph3d said:
Yeah, if you don't get good Sprint service you count Boost Mobile out. I'm on Boost and love it. I'm on the $15 a month plan and its worked out real good for me. The speeds are acceptable and are more than enough to listen to an MLB game or watch a movie on Netflix without constant buffering. Groove ip and google voice give me an extra phone number with unlimited calling if I should ever need it.
Your best bet is to tether like someone above me has posted. Only real drawback to that is that tethering drains your battery rather quickly.
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tethering is not an option
freak4dell said:
How are you doing a $15/month plan? I don't see anything like that on their website.
Also, have they started allowing WiMax access yet? I remember reading something about Boost having access to the Clear network soon.
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http://www.boostmobile.com/shop/plans/pay-as-you-go/
I don't think Boost offers WiMax as of yet but like I said the 3G I'm getting is fast enough to stream video from Netflix so its definitely fast enough for most things.
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http://www.boostmobile.com/shop/plans/pay-as-you-go/
I don't think Boost offers WiMax as of yet but like I said the 3G I'm getting is fast enough to stream video from Netflix so its definitely fast enough for most things.
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Lucky you. Sprint 3G in my area wasn't fast enough to do much of anything, especially nothing that involved video or music.