I have been doing research on rium card for my htc tilt to see if i could possibly put it on my families verizon plan. Unfortunately, American companies have too much of a need for power to implement such a beautiful device in their phones. Not only could i not got to my service providers website and buy one, but when i searched for them i got very little real information on how they can be used.
1. can they be used on verizon? (not does verizon use them, but could i somehow manage it.)
2. is their anywhere i can buy one without paying 200 dollars for it or buying 1000 of them?
3. an elaboration of my knowledge of the subject?
We are a very small Tier 3 CDMA carrier. Because we purchase handsets in low volumes, we find if extremely difficult to obtain assistance from most vendors and handset manufacturers.
One of the smartphones we are trying to add to our line-up is the HTC Hero.
We typically can only get phones after larger carriers have run them through their life cycle and such is the case here. We are having trouble implementing MMS. It seems that none of the tools or other resources available to us are capable of allowing us to set X-MDN HTTP header and that seems to be what is preventing the handset from authenticating with our MMSC and thus the MMS send is failing.
I'm starting to understand that MMS is an application and as such it seems it may take an app developer to help us solve the problem. We do not have an Android developer on staff nor do we have an existing relationship with one. Can anyone in this forum help us find a solution to the problem? We are willing to pay a reasonable fee if so.
Thanks,
John Nettles, President
Pine Belt Wireless
334-385-5001
Hey Everyone,
I'm going to France/UK for a month in about 3 weeks
But I would still like to get in contact with my family here in the states. I was wondering if anyone knew the best way to get service while outside of the country.
Would it be cheaper to get a sim card there and plop it into my phone or call ATT and tell them I'm traveling and that I need service there.
Lastly, if I go the sim card route, do I need to do anything to be able to use the card or do I drop it in and it works?
Thanks again!
Firstly, congratulations and I hope you have an amazing time. Last summer I went to Greece, Italy, and France so what I did was turn off my data (just the toggle in settings) and used the wifi over there for apps that let you call or text others who have the same app. At&t also has a messaging plan where you get 100 texts for like ten dollars or so I think but you can't double up -_- for some reason. Don't buy any At&t overseas data plans, they will charge you an arm and a leg.
But any ways, if you know you are going to populated parts of the country where you'll get wifi, then you should be good with that to talk to friends/family here for a really good portion of the day. (many cafes and such offer free wifi but hotels, you'll have to pay but it's super minimal- equivalent to about three dollars on average for your stay there)
Again, wishing you the best of luck.
3 possible options outside of using ATT
first call att and see if they unlock your phone for you - if not use cellularunlock (~$25) to get the unlock code, once overseas, buy a local sim and use that
if wifi is available use that - first sign up for google voice then install grooveIP and log in with your google voice account - you can not make wifi based phone calls (caveat - not sure if groove ip enabled yet in Uk or france)
use Skype - sign up for thier very cheap monthly subscriptions, and use that when in wifi range
jluu1286 said:
Hey Everyone,
I'm going to France/UK for a month in about 3 weeks
But I would still like to get in contact with my family here in the states. I was wondering if anyone knew the best way to get service while outside of the country.
Would it be cheaper to get a sim card there and plop it into my phone or call ATT and tell them I'm traveling and that I need service there.
Lastly, if I go the sim card route, do I need to do anything to be able to use the card or do I drop it in and it works?
Thanks again!
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Thanks for the replies guys!
I think from the look of things I'll get my phone unlocked and just get a sim card there.
I'm going to hope that there is a ton of free wi fi so I can call the family back home but I also need service to keep in contact in towns while I'm there.
Also, will unlocking the phone affect anything? Because I'm currently rooted and running TheUnofficial.
Nope. Unlocking a phone lets you use carriers overseas. Has nothing to do with os.
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Hey there,
Nowadays lots of things there, you can contact your family very easy and free services. There's lots of application on the phone, you can contact through Skype, WhatsApp, IMO and there is lots of apps are available. You can easily video call with these apps. You only need a good internet connection which you can easily find in the UK. Happy journey
Thanks!
I need to buy a MiFi device and noticed that they're around £60 or more for the decent ones. Then I got thinking that a budget Android smartphone rocking at least ICS would probably cost around the same. I could then use this as a MiFi by enabling WiFi mobile hotspot but the additional benefit is that I could also text and make/receive calls using my SIM card with the data connection. I'd also benefit from having the built-in data usage warnings, limits and graphing as well.
I should note, that I don't specifically need ICS but I assume this is when the data usage settings were added to Android. If it was introduced earlier, then I'm happy to go back to whichever version had this incorporated.
Any links to suitable unlocked phones available in the UK would be greatly appreciated. Looking to get the most bang for buck as possible while staying at the budget end of pricing.
TIA
Ignore this post if you’re not on EE (a UK network).
Though not widely advertised, Cash on Tap, (EE’s NFC payment app) does work on the Xperia SP (the EE website is ambiguous – in places it says the SP can use the service, but on the device compatibility web page the SP is not listed).
It’s a decent service and perhaps more reassuring than contactless payment cards because you top it up with how much you want, rather than it having direct access to your bank account/credit card balance. It can also be used as a virtual payment card – so if you’re ordering online from a website you’re unsure about and don’t want to give them your normal credit/debit card you can use the details on the virtual card. If it’s a dodgy website and they try and take more money, the most they can steal is the balance of your ‘tap wallet’.
More good news is that they give you £5 just for installing the app and a further £5 when you add money to the service – so yes, you get given £10 for doing next to nothing and who can argue with free money?
I bought my lunch using my phone yesterday, which whilst a bit geeky, did make me feel kind of cool (I know that in other parts of the world NFC payments are used a lot more, but it’s not common in the UK). I felt at the forefront of technology for once.
Anyway, what is evident is that for security purposes, to start using this service your device has to be authenticated by EE - you download a bridging app (cash on tap), then EE check your credentials (which can take two hours) and once this is done you are allowed to download the ‘tap wallet’ which is the app which actually allows you to make NFC payments.
Unfortunately part of this process involves validating the firmware of your phone and you simply won’t be allowed to install this service if you are using a custom rom.
However, if you install both parts on stock, set up your account etc. and make a CWM backup you can use Nandroid manager to restore the apps and data to a custom ROM (I guess this will work with Titanium too?) and the service will work perfectly, though I suspect if they update either app you will lose the service and have to do everything again.
EDIT: Also, you need an NFC enabled SIM from EE for this to work. Check your SIM card, if it has an N after the string of numbers it is the correct type, otherwise you'll have to get one from EE.
Sorry to bring up an old post, but do you (or anybody) know if this process would work to get it onto a different handset rather than just a different ROM?
I use this a lot but want to use it on my nexus5...
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