Photon vz Atrix - Motorola Photon 4G

is it a good move to switch from Atrix to Photon?
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If you have the extra money in short....yes

AJC9000 said:
If you have the extra money in short....yes
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Agreed!But I think functionality should trump price.

but there are many big hands for this atrix; like fingerprint scanner, cyanogenmod support, active dev team... but i find the photon has cool camera features, big screen blah blah blah.....awh i need to find a photon user for better review!!!

Atrix is trash compared to the photon. Fact.

http://geekaphone.com/compare/Motorola-PHOTON-4G-vs-Motorola-ATRIX-4G

thanks for that.....wish photon had wifihotspot. rest everything happy..... well how much ram is user available??? its 815/1024 for atrix.
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njarun said:
thanks for that.....wish photon had wifihotspot. rest everything happy..... well how much ram is user available??? its 815/1024 for atrix.
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It does have wifi hotspot? It was on the stock rom when I purchased my phone. You can use hotspot on rooted as well 3G/4G. It has 816
Edit: I'm sorry no hotspot I was talking about tether *facepalm* lol.

what if we install custom roms like cm7 or miui? will they bring wifi hotspot? does it require any particular hardware of its just a software feature?
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Do you want to save money each month?/Quieres ahorrar dinero cada mes?
njarun said:
is it a good move to switch from Atrix to Photon?
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Sprint has the best value in wireless considering you'll get 7.5 hours for landline calling included from Mon-Fri 7 am to 7 pm, all mobile to mobile calls while on Sprint's Nationwide Network are free, all calling after 7 pm are free, all domestic text messaging as well as domestic data usage are unlimited and free. All this on the Motorola Photon 4G starts at $87.99 ($79.99 + $8.00 Total Equipment Protection) before any NVP discounts and applicable taxes. Remember, both at&t and Verizon Wireless cap data usage per month and charge per MB over the included GBs and T-Mobile throttles data speed to 2G speed until the next billing cycle once 5 GB of 3/4G usage is exceeded.

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what if we install custom roms like cm7 or miui? will they bring wifi hotspot? does it require any particular hardware of its just a software feature?
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Hotspots work for me rooted. I never tried multiple devices I will when I get off and report back.

Gsmarena tells the photon has wifi hotspot, http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_photon_4g_mb855-3987.php
confusing.....
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verizon data limit?

I have read that there is a 5gb limit, even with the 'unlimited' plan. is it true, or do we have an unlimited plan?
Its unlimited....I asked a VZWireless Rep about a month ago.
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I can confirm this too, no cap
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5GB isn't a cap, it's the point of bandwidth degradation for excessive users.
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Its unlimited....I asked a VZWireless Rep about a month ago.
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Captainkrtek said:
I can confirm this too, no cap
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okay, thank you both of you.
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5GB isn't a cap, it's the point of bandwidth degradation for excessive users.
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ah, okay. makes sense.
Just don't torrent through tethering and you should be fine. I never use 5GB and I use Pandora and streaming sometimes, and I even have downloaded I think a 100-500MB file before.
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Just don't torrent through tethering and you should be fine. I never use 5GB and I use Pandora and streaming sometimes, and I even have downloaded I think a 100-500MB file before.
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Haha, that's why I asked... that and playing halo using tethering.
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neederishelp said:
Haha, that's why I asked... that and playing halo using tethering.
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Wow. I'd make sure you have a tethering plan.
there is a 5gb limit. I went over and was charged for every kb or mb. When I talked to the tech they said u can pay for an extra 5gb to make it 10.. so unless they changed it I would not go over.. google it and u will find the full detailed info about that unlimited = the 5gm cap
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Verizon wireless website states in the fine print a 5gb limit. They have a calculator to estimate how much usage you can get out of 5gb depending on what you your data for.
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Show me this fine print..I blatantly asked the rep if there is an imposed monthly limit on data and he answered no. Their external hardware tethering (USB dongle) solution has a 5 gigabyte per month limit or if you tether your smart phone...ie a BlackBerry.
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Upon checking VZW again, you are correct, the fine print is under mobile data via aircards and BB tether. I guess they don't expect anyone to exceed 5gb on a phone alone. I wouldn't be suprized if they raised an eyebrow on smartphone data usage that high though. It's the golden rule; the one's with the gold get to make the rules
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Right now I'm up to 120G of data usage. No extra charge or anything like that.
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johnnyboy1549 said:
Right now I'm up to 120G of data usage. No extra charge or anything like that.
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yeah ive torrented via tethering and used xbox live also and definitely exceeded that "5gb" and have gotten no extra charges to my account for it.
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Right now I'm up to 120G of data usage. No extra charge or anything like that.
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In the words of Joe Dirt..."daaaang"
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fivefour said:
In the words of Joe Dirt..."daaaang"
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Yeah. At one point early this week it was going up about 15 to 20 G's. A day.
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I called Verizon today and they said the "Data Plan" for the phone itself is unlimited, but for Tethering it would be $2/mb!! Is that because they assume we use some sort of Verizon approved app for tethering? How would they know the difference? I want to tether, but Im afraid to get charged a radical amount. I use "Wireless Tether", So it uses the actual data plan.
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I called Verizon today and they said the "Data Plan" for the phone itself is unlimited, but for Tethering it would be $2/mb!! Is that because they assume we use some sort of Verizon approved app for tethering? How would they know the difference? I want to tether, but Im afraid to get charged a radical amount. I use "Wireless Tether", So it uses the actual data plan.
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Only if you were to use a Verizon licensed app would you incur tethering fees....wifi tether is fine to use in my experience. It is not impossible for Verizon to monitor your traffic...be aware there is always a possibility of incurring tethering fees..even if the likelyhood is small.
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fivefour said:
Only if you were to use a Verizon licensed app would you incur tethering fees....wifi tether is fine to use in my experience. It is not impossible for Verizon to monitor your traffic...be aware there is always a possibility of incurring tethering fees..even if the likelyhood is small.
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Thank you for the Clarification. Well if people are using 50g/month I highly doubt that I would have a problem. I have even used 5gigs on just the hone alone last month, so I highly doubt that they would think something was up.
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Thank you for the Clarification. Well if people are using 50g/month I highly doubt that I would have a problem. I have even used 5gigs on just the hone alone last month, so I highly doubt that they would think something was up.
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I doubt it as well.
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CM9 tethering free?

the wifi hotspot tethering in turl's cm9 will not be charged by att right?
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the wifi hotspot tethering in turl's cm9 will not be charged by att right?
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All depends if they detect you tethering.
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I don't know if this is what the OP was asking but I was also curious as to whether the wi-fi tethering was the same in cm9 as it was in cm7?
i'd say use cautiously. they can track the IP, and they may send you a nasty gram. if they do, stop doing it.
Also, keep in mind that AT&T is now throttling your unlimited connection so it may not do you a whole lot of good to do this..
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Also, keep in mind that AT&T is now throttling your unlimited connection so it may not do you a whole lot of good to do this..
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Based on usage? They aren't throttling my data. This is only for small % of people.
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The only people who are going to get throttled are the people who are using crazy amounts of data... like gigabytes on top of gigabytes. My friend works for att and told me they only screen users who are going above 10 gigabytes a month. At least for now...
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So long and thanks for all the fish

So between Motorola's crappy support of this device and sprints lousy data speeds, after reading this article I've decided to jump ship and go to t-mobile prepaid with a galaxy nexus. For $30 a month the price difference would more than cover the $300 ETF within 6 months, and selling my Photon will likely cover half the cost of the galaxy nexus.
So thanks to all the developers who have made the most of this great phone.
Cool deal
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100 anytime minutes is crap
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LexLuger82 said:
100 anytime minutes is crap
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For some. I hardly call anyone. And you can step up to the $50 plan, adds unlimited calling.
Shad0wguy said:
For some. I hardly call anyone. And you can step up to the $50 plan, adds unlimited calling.
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The idea is to use a VOIP app and use your google voice number with Wi-fi to make those other 100 minutes viable. You can also still use additional minutes for .10 cents a minute after you use your 100 minutes as well.
Overall unless you're a big talker with no stable Wi-fi, this plan could work for most people.
I'm using it on the Photon, no 3G speeds, but I'm around Wi-fi most of the time anyway.
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The idea is to use a VOIP app and use your google voice number with Wi-fi to make those other 100 minutes viable. You can also still use additional minutes for .10 cents a minute after you use your 100 minutes as well.
Overall unless you're a big talker with no stable Wi-fi, this plan could work for most people.
I'm using it on the Photon, no 3G speeds, but I'm around Wi-fi most of the time anyway.
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How did you unlock the sim?
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I may think about this and see if it would be worth it.
LexLuger82 said:
How did you unlock the sim?
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See this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1664212
I'm using mine on simple mobile for now.
stonesaber said:
See this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1664212
I'm using mine on simple mobile for now.
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Thanks Thanks
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I want the WiFi tether bypass for AT&T.

I'm running ADHD 10.2 and I tried one already without success. Can someone guide me please. Thanks!
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Obie911 said:
I'm running ADHD 10.2 and I tried one already without success. Can someone guide me please. Thanks!
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Tethering works perfectly for me on ARHD 10.2 (which is what I'm guessing you meant to type). Just go to settings, hit more,mobile network shareing, then go into portable wifi hotspot settings, name your hotspot and PW, then hit the checkbox. I had no problem.
Just curious, when you did your install with AROMA, did you hit AT&T, or international?
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Tethering works perfectly for me on ARHD 10.2 (which is what I'm guessing you meant to type). Just go to settings, hit more,mobile network shareing, then go into portable wifi hotspot settings, name your hotspot and PW, then hit the checkbox. I had no problem.
Just curious, when you did your install with AROMA, did you hit AT&T, or international?
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I chose AT&T. But I was just asking for a way to get the hotspot free. I haven't tried because I don't want extra changes, but if you telling me that im good then I'll try
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Obie911 said:
I'm running ADHD 10.2 and I tried one already without success. Can someone guide me please. Thanks!
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There is NO guide for ADHD 10.2 its an international rom which means there is NO AT&T stuff blocking use of tether, you must be doing something WAY wrong.
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I chose AT&T. But I was just asking for a way to get the hotspot free. I haven't tried because I don't want extra changes, but if you telling me that im good then I'll try
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I've tethered multiple times in the past, and have never had AT&T bring up the issue. Just don't abuse it.
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I've tethered multiple times in the past, and have never had AT&T bring up the issue. Just don't abuse it.
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Well I kinda abuse it. I use sometimes 50gb in a month. But that's because I'm at a friend's during the weekend and the only thing to use is either tether or satilite internet lol
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hyelton said:
Well I kinda abuse it. I use sometimes 50gb in a month. But that's because I'm at a friend's during the weekend and the only thing to use is either tether or satilite internet lol
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You're gonna get throttled real bad dude
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You're gonna get throttled real bad dude
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No.... Using the "phone" apn yes, at 5GB of usage I get throttled down to .047mbps down.
Then I just switch over to the wap.cingular APN and BAM pulling 6-10mbps down on H+/3G. No throttling here..
This thread is a bit confusing to me.
Are you guys saying AT&T charges extra for tethering?
ATT charges $$$ for a seperate data plan which lets you tether Internet, which is also limited to about 5gb or 3gb, not too sure. If you use tethering on a regular phone (stock rom with bloatware- fresh from the store), they would probably charge you for tethering because of the detection apk they put in there.
The way to bypass this is to use a custom rom, Internet tethering should work on it, maybe you could reflash/ reset the phone (all the settings and whatnot) maybe try a different rom?
Also, I diddnt know you could bypass ATT throttle, could you post all the complete APN settings to do that?
Cheers,
OK, please forgive me for being slow. You only save money if you're tethering from a phone with unlimited data plan, right? If you're on a limited plan, it doesn't matter and AT&T should not charge you extra, right?
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OK, please forgive me for being slow. You only save money if you're tethering from a phone with unlimited data plan, right? If you're on a limited plan, it doesn't matter and AT&T should not charge you extra, right?
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If you go over the limit on a limited plan, they charge you extra $$$. I think it is $20 for 1 more GB.
If you are detected tethering on a stock ATT phone, they will probably charge you for tethering plan
If you are on unlimited data, you may lose it (plan) if you are detected tethering (stock phone),
if you go over limit 5GB for 4g LTE phone they will just throttle you.
Undetected tethering/ Custom ROM with removed att protection = only worry about going over the limit
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If you go over the limit on a limited plan, they charge you extra $$$. I think it is $20 for 1 more GB.
If you are detected tethering on a stock ATT phone, they will probably charge you for tethering plan
If you are on unlimited data, you may lose it (plan) if you are detected tethering (stock phone),
if you go over limit 5GB for 4g LTE phone they will just throttle you.
Undetected tethering/ Custom ROM with removed att protection = only worry about going over the limit
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running a custom rom doesnt make you more invisable tethering with att its shows up the same as it would on stock...
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hyelton said:
running a custom rom doesnt make you more invisable tethering with att its shows up the same as it would on stock...
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Not correct
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Not correct
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Ask other people it doesn't change anything. It allows you to use native tethering to use a custom Rom but that's it doesn't change anything else
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Ask other people it doesn't change anything. It allows you to use native tethering to use a custom Rom but that's it doesn't change anything else
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It allows you to tether and only shows up as regular data usage
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It allows you to tether and only shows up as regular data usage
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You can tether on the stock Rom too... It doesn't make your data issage look any different
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You can tether on the stock Rom too... It doesn't make your data issage look any different
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I agree. The only thing Att or carriers look at is the amount of data being used periodically or the mac/ip address. Carriers have the ability to tell the difference from our phone using data or tethering, especially if data patterns changes.
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Heck I use a lot of data tether and through phone anywhere between 5gb and 50
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Heck I use a lot of data tether and through phone anywhere between 5gb and 50
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Is it included? I happen to have it included.
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T-Mobile throttle....

116k tops on speedtest. 50$ plan watched one Netflix movie got throttled lol. That is a seriously slow throttle.... so I gotta go 70 a month for unlimited 4g or 60 for 2.5 gigs.... my phone is always picking up at &t signals, maybe they got better deals....I miss metro pcs.
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You only get 500 mb on that plan. How much data do you think a movie consumes? You should have used Wi-Fi or something
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Yea streaming movies takes a whole lot of data.
I'm still on the older contract plans. I pay $35 for 5gb and includes tethering.
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No wifi at my girls house. I knew I would get throttled but 116k lol
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Country of freedom... with so many restrictions(you are prohibited to root your phone,fm radio restriction,wifi tethering restriction, pay for this and pay for that,...).Big brother is really BIG... Data plans are so expensive in your country.
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116k tops on speedtest. 50$ plan watched one Netflix movie got throttled lol. That is a seriously slow throttle.... so I gotta go 70 a month for unlimited 4g or 60 for 2.5 gigs.... my phone is always picking up at &t signals, maybe they got better deals....I miss metro pcs.
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I have created a flashable CWM zip which includes a modified services.jar and apns-conf.xml and am testing it now. I have consumed 2.3 GB of my 2.5 GB allowance.
I will let you know how it works out.
I pay 15 a month for unlimited data, no tethering, wish t-T-Mobile would have just expanded out their HSPA+ network instead of starting up these LTE markets though.
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Well they bought metro pcs, which still has their 55$ a month unlimited talk/text/[email protected] plan.
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I know that they're an MLM and all, but have you looked at Solavei? 49 before tax for 4GB of data, with roaming, and unlimited talk/text. I've been using it lately, and it seems to be pretty solid, though you're going to have to unlock the phone (I just bought a code on eBay). PlatinumTel also has 2GB for 45 before tax, I've heard they're a decent choice as well. Both networks run on T-Mobile. If you decide to go with Solavei, use my link, if you could, it's solavei.com/ my username.
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I have created a flashable CWM zip which includes a modified services.jar and apns-conf.xml and am testing it now. I have consumed 2.3 GB of my 2.5 GB allowance.
I will let you know how it works out.
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Will it work on a note 2? If it does can you pm me a link?
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RicAndroid said:
I have created a flashable CWM zip which includes a modified services.jar and apns-conf.xml and am testing it now. I have consumed 2.3 GB of my 2.5 GB allowance.
I will let you know how it works out.
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I don't understand??? You can give him a free data?
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I may just look for another phone. At home I get no service in a "high coverage area" so I'm forced to rely on wifi calling. Worst part is my phone constantly pulling signal from at&t. They appear on my network operator list for some reason.
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omgbossis21 said:
I may just look for another phone. At home I get no service in a "high coverage area" so I'm forced to rely on wifi calling. Worst part is my phone constantly pulling signal from at&t. They appear on my network operator list for some reason.
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If you select your network operator manually(not "choose automatically"),it should stay on that...
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If you select your network operator manually(not "choose automatically"),it should stay on that...
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It seems to stay on it until I totally lose service then it does what it wants. 90 percent of the time it gives me an error when I try to pull up the list anyway. Today I'm fluctuating between full 2g to no service every 10 minutes at a jobsite I've always had full 4g. I'm a bit over it honestly.
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It seems to stay on it until I totally lose service then it does what it wants. 90 percent of the time it gives me an error when I try to pull up the list anyway. Today I'm fluctuating between full 2g to no service every 10 minutes at a jobsite I've always had full 4g. I'm a bit over it honestly.
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And what if you set phone signal to "use only 2G" or "only WCDMA"? You can put widget for this on home screen and just switch to preferred or strongest signal when you need this.
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