Whats the deal with upgrading from 3g to 4g with verizon now? If I buy a used rezound (not from verizon) and upgrade to 4g will I be losing my unlimited data now?
random155 said:
Whats the deal with upgrading from 3g to 4g with verizon now? If I buy a used rezound (not from verizon) and upgrade to 4g will I be losing my unlimited data now?
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My understanding was yes. You will have to go to Verizon have them key it in the system and activate a sim card.
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random155 said:
Whats the deal with upgrading from 3g to 4g with verizon now? If I buy a used rezound (not from verizon) and upgrade to 4g will I be losing my unlimited data now?
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Nope. Just requires a new sim card that you can get for free from vzw. You're not changing plans or getting a phone from them so it shouldn't matter.
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I purchased an S 2 from AT&T a while back. I have sense let my plan run out and now bought a prepaid SIM card. the problem is is that now my data does not work because of the 4 G AT&T does not offer 4 G with a prepaid. there is hardly any 4 G coverage where I'm from anyways but I would at least like the 3G to work. is there a way that I can get it to work like flashing ROM or something. I'm not a total noob to this stuff I just hang out at android Forums because of my zte. thank you very much for any of your help.
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I purchased an S 2 from AT&T a while back. I have sense let my plan run out and now bought a prepaid SIM card. the problem is is that now my data does not work because of the 4 G AT&T does not offer 4 G with a prepaid. there is hardly any 4 G coverage where I'm from anyways but I would at least like the 3G to work. is there a way that I can get it to work like flashing ROM or something. I'm not a total noob to this stuff I just hang out at android Forums because of my zte. thank you very much for any of your help.
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If your SIM card doesnt allow it, then its not gonna be possible. No S/W can change that.
But if your SIM does allow 3g, then odds are you need proper APN settings. Google it if thats the case.
MotoMudder77 said:
If your SIM card doesnt allow it, then its not gonna be possible. No S/W can change that.
But if your SIM does allow 3g, then odds are you need proper APN settings. Google it if thats the case.
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I would think that it would the 50 dollar monthly unlimited plan. from everything that I've read thus far I've got it narrowed down to something with the phone. I read about the apn settings once before and thought that that was it so I will definitely read more and do what needs to be done.thanks
jdremler said:
I purchased an S 2 from AT&T a while back. I have sense let my plan run out and now bought a prepaid SIM card. the problem is is that now my data does not work because of the 4 G AT&T does not offer 4 G with a prepaid. there is hardly any 4 G coverage where I'm from anyways but I would at least like the 3G to work. is there a way that I can get it to work like flashing ROM or something. I'm not a total noob to this stuff I just hang out at android Forums because of my zte. thank you very much for any of your help.
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By any chance are you using Straight Talk? You were vague about which prepaid service.
Straight Talk is supposed to offer an AT&T compatible sim that actually works off the AT&T network.
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mattern1974 said:
By any chance are you using Straight Talk? You were vague about which prepaid service.
Straight Talk is supposed to offer an AT&T compatible sim that actually works off the AT&T network.
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True. But he'd still have to change his apn settings, the straight talk peepz give u the apns.
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True. But he'd still have to change his apn settings, the straight talk peepz give u the apns.
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sorry about being so vague yes it is the AT&T prepaid service. I'm doing the apn settings as we speak so will see if they work.
I had the 50 dollar unlimited plan as well but it really is only for calling and texting. I still had to purchase a data plan and it was 25 dollars for one gig.After I got the data plan 4G started. You have to use the old cingular apn settings to get 4G but you cannot get 4G LTE on a prepaid plan. And just a heads up...when your prepaid needs to be renewed..4G data will shutdown for a few hours.
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EQ2192012 said:
I had the 50 dollar unlimited plan as well but it really is only for calling and texting. I still had to purchase a data plan and it was 25 dollars for one gig.After I got the data plan 4G started. You have to use the old cingular apn settings to get 4G but you cannot get 4G LTE on a prepaid plan. And just a heads up...when your prepaid needs to be renewed..4G data will shutdown for a few hours.
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Our phones cant use LTE.
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Our phones cant use LTE.
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Check out his sig. His skyrocket can Phailanx.
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Check out his sig. His skyrocket can Phailanx.
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Yeah I know,and I saw he has one hehe. Just thought I'd chime in to let the OP know so he didn't go asking about it
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due to the globalocity of the Rez and my VZW contract ending in April, I have purchased a T-Mobile Monthly SIM card online and will be trying out the data/call quality/etc. The plan I am eyeballing is $30 a month for unlimited data/text and 100 minutes.
After much searching, I am expecting that when I put this sim card in, 2 things will happen:
1. the superior radio and leaked global rom will allow me to get HSPA+ speeds on TMO network, make calls, send SMS/MMS, dance, and be merry.
2. once I re-insert my Verizon SIM card, it will be as if I never put the TMO card in, and my plan (including unlimited data) will remain intact.
are these the proper assumptions?
That would be nice, but unfortunately the Rezound radios have (so far) been unable to utilize the tmobile frequencies. Until it is figured out (it has been deemed impossible as yet) you will only be able to use edge network. Calling, sms, mms, and data all work. But data will be stuck at edge network.
The stock global leak may take some tinkering to get all parts working. I recommend a gsm compatible rom, as that will prove the least amount of effort on your end to get up and running.
Fair warning: edge network is usable.. But going from 25mbps to 120kbps is not a fun transition. I'm doing it myself, presently. Awesome devs for the Rez are the only things keeping me from buying a new phone that I can't afford.
Also, just to elaborate on going backward, as long as you don't port your number over (as that would cancel your vzw plan), you will be able to clean flash a cdma rom (or restore a nandroid) to get back on the Verizon network. I have yet to find a rom that allows both modes with everything working just from swapping the sim.
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Gotta love TMo getting shafted, or rather shafting themselves, by operating on such an odd frequency in the US
You can get hspa on tmobile with a gsm rom
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Tmo works fine on a gsm ROM. I lent mine to a buddy for a few weeks he loved it just no 4g
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Tmo works fine on a gsm ROM. I lent mine to a buddy for a few weeks he loved it just no 4g
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What about 3G? I just ordered a gs3 and my gf is getting my rezound
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3g works on gsm roms
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You can get hspa on tmobile with a gsm rom
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3g works on gsm roms
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Not on T-Mobile. Edge only.
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I m using edge on GSM network , it not that bad for browsing , but yes for video streaming it sucks
Has anybody with an ATT Atrix 4G and grandfathered unlimited plan from the hay days moved on to an LTE device (i.e. Note II) and have kept their unlimited plan with LTE?
I'm still on my grandfathered iPhone 2G (yeah i know, lesson learned) plan that was "upgraded" to 3G and was looking to upgrade my phone in the near future. But wasn't sure if I could still hang on to my unlimited. I still have my Atrix, but being stuck on gb and no HWA on ICS/JB.. it's kind of a bummer.
I upgraded my phone to a Moto Atrix HD and kept my Unlimited data. The phone is 4G LTE and works great. So Yes is your answer.
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Thanks for the prompt reply. Hopefully this phone will last me until some of those hyped devices come out
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I recently upgraded my wife's phone from a Samsung Cappy (3g) to the SG III (LTE) and her unlimited plan transferred just fine.
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If I wanted to take my ELTE and switch to Verizon's pre-paid plan do kneed to do anything special with the phone? I want to hold off getting a contract plan until the nexus 5 comes out.
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There is a guide for tgat all u need is root
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I already am root and I'm already running on Verizon's 3g but still with sprint. Its switching to vz full time I'm wondering how to do
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You won't be able to use their LTE no matter what you do short of getting a VZ device... So why bother even trying to keep the evo
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Im not really concerned with 4g per se. I'm wanting to go ATT but really feel the phone I want is the Nexus 5 based on the rumors. I like my evo 4g because of its camera. Honestly right now it is plenty fast for everything. In running meanbean on it and there doesn't appear to be anything I can't handle just fine.
I hate sprints service so I flashed the Verizon prl and after putting 5gb on it this week I should be getting terminated before too long.
ill need a service to jump on and Verizon's month to month is $70 with 2gb. That should be plenty for me. ATTs month to month sucks and I dont care for their phones right now. My goal is the Nexus 5 anyway. I'd rather just use verizons monthly with my current phone. Just depends how things work out. I also get 22% off Verizon plans so hoping that translates to a good deal.
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Im not really concerned with 4g per se. I'm wanting to go ATT but really feel the phone I want is the Nexus 5 based on the rumors. I like my evo 4g because of its camera. Honestly right now it is plenty fast for everything. In running meanbean on it and there doesn't appear to be anything I can't handle just fine.
I hate sprints service so I flashed the Verizon prl and after putting 5gb on it this week I should be getting terminated before too long.
ill need a service to jump on and Verizon's month to month is $70 with 2gb. That should be plenty for me. ATTs month to month sucks and I dont care for their phones right now. My goal is the Nexus 5 anyway. I'd rather just use verizons monthly with my current phone. Just depends how things work out. I also get 22% off Verizon plans so hoping that translates to a good deal.
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I doubt you will get any discounts on a prepaid plans
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ToiletDucky said:
Im not really concerned with 4g per se. I'm wanting to go ATT but really feel the phone I want is the Nexus 5 based on the rumors. I like my evo 4g because of its camera. Honestly right now it is plenty fast for everything. In running meanbean on it and there doesn't appear to be anything I can't handle just fine.
I hate sprints service so I flashed the Verizon prl and after putting 5gb on it this week I should be getting terminated before too long.
ill need a service to jump on and Verizon's month to month is $70 with 2gb. That should be plenty for me. ATTs month to month sucks and I dont care for their phones right now. My goal is the Nexus 5 anyway. I'd rather just use verizons monthly with my current phone. Just depends how things work out. I also get 22% off Verizon plans so hoping that translates to a good deal.
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The problem is getting Verizon's system to recognize a Sprint phone. You can take GSM phones from carrier to carrier because all you have to do is transfer the SIM card, but that doesn't work with CDMA carriers since there's no SIM card. You'd actually have to get Verizon to provision a Sprint phone for their system, and somehow I don't see them doing that.
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maxpower7 said:
The problem is getting Verizon's system to recognize a Sprint phone. You can take GSM phones from carrier to carrier because all you have to do is transfer the SIM card, but that doesn't work with CDMA carriers since there's no SIM card. You'd actually have to get Verizon to provision a Sprint phone for their system, and somehow I don't see them doing that.
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Even if you could swap Sims it wouldn't help ya as the device itself is not provisioned to work on all of VZ freq.... Namely LTE... Lot more to how devices connect than the SIM cards...
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Call verizon customer service tell them you want to open a prepaid account and port the phone and they will help you. See the only real difference between the verizon 4g phones and sprint are the lack of sim card and imei. But you can still program it to work on verizons network. All customer service agents aren't the same by the way. So if one doesn't know how to help you then another one will and you will get your phone on their. Also if you take a look in this same section this really cool guy wrote a guide on flashing a evo 4g lte to verizon prepaid.
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Even if you could swap Sims it wouldn't help ya as the device itself is not provisioned to work on all of VZ freq.... Namely LTE... Lot more to how devices connect than the SIM cards...
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That was my point. Sprint and Verizon are both CDMA providers and it's not as simple as just swapping out the SIM like you can do when you move from one GSM provider to another (e.g. AT&T to TMobile).
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That was my point. Sprint and Verizon are both CDMA providers and it's not as simple as just swapping out the SIM like you can do when you move from one GSM provider to another (e.g. AT&T to TMobile).
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as long as you can get verizon to accept the ESN number your good. verizon has been known to be more accepting of sprint ESNs than visa versa. Though you will not get anything higher than 3g which will top out around 3-5mbps. Also you have to get the phone to accept verizon prls but i think someone has a guide for that..signal should be good though paying 70 for prepaid verizon 2gb i'd rather just get tmobile at 30$ for 5gb of AWS signal just pick up a sony xperia Z
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as long as you can get verizon to accept the ESN number your good. verizon has been known to be more accepting of sprint ESNs than visa versa. Though you will not get anything higher than 3g which will top out around 3-5mbps. Also you have to get the phone to accept verizon prls but i think someone has a guide for that..signal should be good though paying 70 for prepaid verizon 2gb i'd rather just get tmobile at 30$ for 5gb of AWS signal just pick up a sony xperia Z
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You'll never get 3-5mbps using Verizon 3g. More like 1-2. Still way better than Sprint 3g though.
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If I purchase this phone unlocked in Europe, would I get the data on AT&T in US? I am currently using unlocked Note 2 successfully in LA area.
Thank you.
carlitos66 said:
If I purchase this phone unlocked in Europe, would I get the data on AT&T in US? I am currently using unlocked Note 2 successfully in LA area.
Thank you.
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As a brit I have no first hand knowledge on this, but I believe AT&T use different LTE bands to those supported by the Mega, so there won't be any LTE support but you should get some sort of signal.
Various news sites have reported that AT&T are going to release a custom variant of the mega, which will obviously work fine. So it may be worth waiting for that?
"AT&T says it will start selling it Friday for $150 with a two-year service contract. It's also coming to Sprint and U.S. Cellular."
from http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/personal/2013/08/19/samsung-galaxy-mega-smartphone/2670859/
carlitos66 said:
If I purchase this phone unlocked in Europe, would I get the data on AT&T in US? I am currently using unlocked Note 2 successfully in LA area.
Thank you.
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It will work on at&t. voice text and data 3g and HSPA+ But no lte
anyone know the non contract price for at&t yet for the 6.3?
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natienn said:
anyone know the non contract price for at&t yet for the 6.3?
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$499 here, not sure about shipping, depends where you are.
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479$
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Both the i9200 and i9205 will work on att hspa.
I tested both on medianet. Worked great.
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Both the i9200 and i9205 will work on att hspa.
I tested both on medianet. Worked great.
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I'm tempted to sell my at&t mega, and then get the i9205, even if it means no LTE
but at least it will be unlocked and bootloader unlocked as well:good:
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I'm tempted to sell my at&t mega, and then get the i9205, even if it means no LTE
but at least it will be unlocked and bootloader unlocked as well:good:
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I bought unlocked for the 10 dollar unlimited internet. 3G is plenty fast for me.
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I bought unlocked for the 10 dollar unlimited internet. 3G is plenty fast for me.
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And at&t gave you that plan?
How did you manage it, since at&t's network now can detect what type of device is connected to their network
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latinohot said:
And at&t gave you that plan?
How did you manage it, since at&t's network now can detect what type of device is connected to their network
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Since its unlocked unbranded ATT assumes its a dumb phone, hence I am eligible to use the 10$ medianet unlimited plan (need the $30 messaging unlimited plan for the $10 medianet otherwsie medianet is $15)
If ATT does detect my unlocked unbranded phone they only do so at the start of each billing cycle. All I have to do is swap my sim into an ATT dumbphone and revert back to medianet unlimited on OLAM or over the phone. Then I swap back into my unlocked phone and I'm good for another month.
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Since its unlocked unbranded ATT assumes its a dumb phone, hence I am eligible to use the 10$ medianet unlimited plan (need the $30 messaging unlimited plan for the $10 medianet otherwsie medianet is $15)
If ATT does detect my unlocked unbranded phone they only do so at the start of each billing cycle. All I have to do is swap my sim into an ATT dumbphone and revert back to medianet unlimited on OLAM or over the phone. Then I swap back into my unlocked phone and I'm good for another month.
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Yeah I played that game with them for 2 years until they actually told me what type of smart phone I was using on one of the lines.
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Yeah I played that game with them for 2 years until they actually told me what type of smart phone I was using on one of the lines.
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I've been playing this game for 9 years lol. I've saved quite a bit on data ($10 vs $30 a month) I save $240 bucks a year, over two years thats $480 which I then apply towards a new unlocked unbranded device.
If they offered a 1GB $10 a month data plan then I would go legit and even buy/upgrade devices through at&t. They like to screw you on data as the cheapest data plan they offer is 200MB for $15. That's just disrespectful lol.
Bottom line, even if AT&T gives me a brand new high end smart phone for FREE that means I have to pay $20 more dollars a month for data. I would still lose even if they give me a free flagship phone. They make their money on the inflated data plan.
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I'm tempted to sell my at&t mega, and then get the i9205, even if it means no LTE
but at least it will be unlocked and bootloader unlocked as well:good:
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if you are close to my area i would swap you my i9205. i want lte on tmobile
fixit35 said:
if you are close to my area i would swap you my i9205. i want lte on tmobile
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Where abouts are you?
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Where abouts are you?
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GA,
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GA,
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I'm in MN at the moment
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I'm in MN at the moment
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Yea you are long way off. was hoping to just flash modem to my i9205 from at i527 are 1527m to get lte. I tryed i527m modem but will not flash both phones have same hardware.
fixit35 said:
Yea you are long way off. was hoping to just flash modem to my i9205 from at i527 are 1527m to get lte. I tryed i527m modem but will not flash both phones have same hardware.
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The problem with the at&t version is that it has locked bootloader
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