I have a 3gb plan of 4g lte data. I have my phone rooted and have tried foxfi but don't work. I have wifi tether for root users and works good I even the interface of the app. However with at app I got a warning from att then later had my plan switched to the tethering plan. When I tethered it was only sessions of less than 10mb and was only around twice a month for where I go somewhere and don't have wifi. I am att stock rom. If you guys tether how do you it for not getting caught?
I don't think the data you use matters because the last two months I only used 200-300 my of my data and since att does not let me roll it over I downloaded torrents to my phone of about 2.5gb to make sure I went close to my 3gb plan.
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Using various phones(on AOSP-based roms though) I've never been 'caught' tethering, though it was used for light-ish browsing/downloading I suggest going that route.
EDIT: I do also have a grandfathered 'unlimited' plan
What rom are you on and what app did you use?
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I haven't used it but there is Clockwork tether by Koush that claims to be able to mask tethering. It is an app for phone and client program for PC.
If you tether a lot it's worth getting off grandfathered in pdaunltd if you use it in a market area that throttles unltd users after some paltry amount.
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If you tether a lot it's worth getting off grandfathered in pdaunltd if you use it in a market area that throttles unltd users after some paltry amount.
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6gb of full speed is good enough
It may be 6GB in your area, but in some areas it's a lot less.
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Generally you're throttled after 2 gigs. Have never seen an account not throttled after more than 3. Count yourself lucky and don't press your luck.
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They knock my speed down after only 2 gigs
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I'm on a 2 GB plan, and have tethered my gf's laptop so she can send work emails while I drive on a long road trip. It probably wasn't more than 20 MB a couple times, though, but I didn't get caught.
If you have a tiered data plan then tethering is included these days.
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So my girlfriend is going to be getting a note.
But we don't get lte in our area. We hardly get 4g.
Do we absolutely have to add a lte data plan on to our account or could we get like a 3g/4g data plan?
Basically don't want to pay for something we are never going to use.
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So my girlfriend is going to be getting a note.
But we don't get lte in our area. We hardly get 4g.
Do we absolutely have to add a lte data plan on to our account or could we get like a 3g/4g data plan?
Basically don't want to pay for something we are never going to use.
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You can call ATT to verify but I'm pretty sure you can use a normal data plan. Your account needs to be provisioned for LTE for it to work (and with the SIM iirc), but you should still be able to pull hspa+ with no issues.
I wasn't charged anything extra for having LTE provisioned on my account, but I'm also grandfathered unlimited.
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Yeah, it will depend greatly on the actual AT&T person who sets you up. Bottom line is that technically, you can use the Note without being provisioned for LTE. My girlfriend and I both had our Notes set up on our old data plan for a couple of months before a store realized the error while fishing in our account for other stuff.
Ok. I actually just called them.
The guy basically said that no matter what I get for data 3g/4g/LTE its all the same price.
It just depends on how much data she wants.
Can anyone confirm this?
She had a 2gb data plan from like 2 1/2 years ago. They don't offer that so they said regardless we are going to be charged more once we upgrade the contract.
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Yeah the 2gb plan is no longer available, it's now like 500mb for 20 3gb for 30 and i dint remember how much the 5gb plan was cause i went with the 3gb
The plans and prices are all the same regardless of what smartphone u have. Currently they are $20/300mb $30/3gb $50/5gb with tethering. if u already had a smartphone on an older smartphone data plan you are grandfathered in to that for the time being.
At&t sales rep here.
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The plans and prices are all the same regardless of what smartphone u have. Currently they are $20/300mb $30/3gb $50/5gb with tethering. if u already had a smartphone on an older smartphone data plan you are grandfathered in to that for the time being.
At&t sales rep here.
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OK sweet. Thanks.
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Just keep tabs on your usage with *3282# SEND. These phone are capable of allot of data even if you do not stream audio and video. 3GB is nothing with Play updates, a little web, FB, Twitter, FourSquare, email and Maps... Youtube can easily chew up a few hundred MB in a session.
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Just keep tabs on your usage with *3282# SEND. These phone are capable of allot of data even if you do not stream audio and video. 3GB is nothing with Play updates, a little web, FB, Twitter, FourSquare, email and Maps... Youtube can easily chew up a few hundred MB in a session.
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I have sprint so I don't worry about it. But I always check for my gf. She is always so close to going over. Lol.
Then I'm like " No more internet". Haha.
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The plans and prices are all the same regardless of what smartphone u have. Currently they are $20/300mb $30/3gb $50/5gb with tethering. if u already had a smartphone on an older smartphone data plan you are grandfathered in to that for the time being.
At&t sales rep here.
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Why do you say for the time being? Are they trying to do away with the grandfathered unlimited? Honestly...that's the only reason I stuck with ATT
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No i haven't heard that they will, but they can at any time. The way things are going its bound to happen at some point.
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Has anyone used simple mobile on a 717Note I am on CM9 and not unlocked yet but curious if anyone has been able to obtain the 4g speeds they offer for 60$ unlimited everything.
Just get T-mobile's monthly 4G $30/month plan. Unlimited text and web (5gbs at 4G) and 100 mins. You can't beat that.
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That's AWESOME
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I wasn't looking for capped data though.
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I wasn't looking for capped data though.
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Simple mobile has data capped at 2GB only on their $60 unlimited plan.
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Well then whats my best option? I hate that crap I want unlimited data and not 3g crap.
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Well then whats my best option? I hate that crap I want unlimited data and not 3g crap.
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3G?.. Lol, after 2 gb you are down to dial up speeds... You can't avoid that no matter which plan you choose on prepaid. Atleast on the tmo plan you have 5gb which is pretty epic.
If you want truly unlimited, you are stuck with Sprint contract plans. And they are only unlimited because they are slow as ****.
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You misread my post. I can find unlimited non capped 3g speeds anywhere. I wanted unlimited 4g. And how do I go about getting that tmobile plan? Prepaid? Can I use my old SGS4G sim card? And is there a free unlock option available yet?
I had simple mobile and let me tell u it was worse than wen i had cricket when they first emerged so ya stick with a real provider
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I dont care about phone calls btw. I will be using Groove IP to make all my calls like I do now I just need a decent usable data connection.
How about H2O? I use it and get at least 1mb up and down. Sometimes I would get 2mb up and down. Its not as fast as everything out there but I do live in long island. Might be different in other places and you don't need to unlock your note. Just put in the similar card and download an app to configure data and SMS. And your good to go. $60 a month is better than $170 a month
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Do yourself a favor and order the straight talk sim card....straight talk is att lil brother....my speeds at lowest are around 6mb down..... 1.5 or 2 up....excellent signal.....I love it.....straight talk is the way to go....and btw its 45 unlimited everything......
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Wondering if there is any way around tethering and data charges, will be in a hotel for a week and don't care to pay for the internet there. Thinking about trying pdanet.
Will Verizon notice?
tether at your own risk, but chances are verizon will not notice.
Why not use wifi tether ? And there's almost no chance Verizon will notice.
If you're rooted use the latest version of Wireless Tether, if not, ClockWorkMod USB tether is cheap and works on non rooted phones.
Assuming you don't go over your data cap if you have one, you'll be fine. I tether and watch hd netflix on my Xbox all the time
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Sorry to be a prude, but what kind of hotel charges for access? Every hotel I've stayed at, especially for work usually offers free or none at all.
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Sorry to be a prude, but what kind of hotel charges for access? Every hotel I've stayed at, especially for work usually offers free or none at all.
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I know right lol all hotels I have stayed is free wifi
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Sorry to be a prude, but what kind of hotel charges for access? Every hotel I've stayed at, especially for work usually offers free or none at all.
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I stayed at a Marriott when I was on a business trip (we had the event at the hotel), although we (my company employees) had gotten a free access code, the hotel charged everyone else $10 every 24 hours.
edit: Of course I ended up tethering to my phone anyways at night due to the fact the Internet connection ended up being overloaded. haa
Also just realized you added the "especially for work usually offers free or none at all." bit.
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Sorry to be a prude, but what kind of hotel charges for access? Every hotel I've stayed at, especially for work usually offers free or none at all.
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Disney...
Last time I stayed there, it was $10 a day or some flat rate for the week, needless to say, Wifi Tether works great...
And get around VZW's Wifi Hotspot or that "Tetherguard" apk vzw has rigged in the system...? Hmm
Embassy suites still charges for hotspot, but that free breakfast and happy hour are tough to pass up.
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Tethering is now free and allowed. Verizon just got sued and lost... ordered to pay $1mm to the usa and allow tethering.
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Tethering is now free and allowed. Verizon just got sued and lost... ordered to pay $1mm to the usa and allow tethering.
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Not if you are on an unlimited plan....
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Not if you are on an unlimited plan....
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I believe that the data plan does not matter; it is whether you are on 4g or not. When Verizon bought the spectrum for its 4g service it was agreed to not restrict user use of their devices.
The FCC specifically left out the part about unlimited data in their ruling.
And you would be surprised at how many hotels charge for internet access still. I've practically lived out of a suitcase for the past 2 months and had at least 4 or 5 hotels still wanting to charge me for internet access. Or the free access was so miss poor that I ended up tethering anyway.
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You can tether. They can't block tether apps in the market nor charge you for using it, unlimited or not. Also, tetherguard can be messed with..
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You can tether. They can't block tether apps in the market nor charge you for using it, unlimited or not. Also, tetherguard can be messed with..
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There is nothing in the fcc ruling that says that can't charge for tethering just that they can't restrict the tether apps in the play store.
Man yall need to learn how to read.
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I believe that the data plan does not matter; it is whether you are on 4g or not. When Verizon bought the spectrum for its 4g service it was agreed to not restrict user use of their devices.
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If you have unlimited like myself then you don't get tether from Vz.
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116k tops on speedtest. 50$ 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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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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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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Anybody seen this? Runs on tmobile network and way cheaper. 39.99 unlimited talk and text with 2.5g 3g data!
http://www.walmart.com/cp/Family-Mobile/1076544
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omgbossis21 said:
Anybody seen this? Runs on tmobile network and way cheaper. 39.99 unlimited talk and text with 2.5g 3g data!
http://www.walmart.com/cp/Family-Mobile/1076544
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Yeaup Im on the same price plan but changed to it the first day it was out ... So I get 5g high speed data + unlimited talk & text !!!
I switched to the new plan too but have you noticed that the 3g speeds have slowed down or is it just me?
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I switched to the new plan too but have you noticed that the 3g speeds have slowed down or is it just me?
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Yes I noticed & called multiple times about it ... I used to get well over 10-12Mbps and sometimes up to over 21mbps ... but when i made the change .. the speed struggles to get past 900-1000 !!! I thought to my self maybe its the rom im using .. wind mobile rom with apps 2sd ... but i doubt it ... what is your high speed data limit ... i get 5gb ... you ???
I also have the 5 gb plan. Before the change, like you, I was getting speeds up to 10 mb now after the change I'm struggling to get 1 mb. Sometimes I'll get a little over 1 mb but it never hits 2 mb.Guess there's a catch to everything. Also I am running the stock jb so it's not your Rom.
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You guys are still smoking my 50$ 500mb data already throttled @ 116k speeds
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I also have the 5 gb plan. Before the change, like you, I was getting speeds up to 10 mb now after the change I'm struggling to get 1 mb. Sometimes I'll get a little over 1 mb but it never hits 2 mb.Guess there's a catch to everything. Also I am running the stock jb so it's not your Rom.
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Glad too know its not the rom .. in a way !!! I guess now we actually have 3g speeds ... lol ... Its good enough for what i do and at l can still tether to other devices .. So im not yoo mad about it .. plus with the faster speeds i used to have with only 1gb allotment .. im better off... I would used most of my data up doing speedtest !!!
I recommend straight talk. 45 for unlimited all. I don't know if they have the micro sim available now, but I cut mine. Speed is reliable and fast enough for daily use. There are many threads about ST TMO service on xda; search it.
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I get a discount on the Wal-Mart Family Mobile cause I work at Sam's Club. The speed may seem slow but it's enough to do everyday things. I streamed music tonight at work and it didn't buffer any. I've also watched a couple of YouTube videos and it streams fine.
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