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can sprint tell when i wireless teather?

Simple question I just want to make sure I don't get extra charges for teathering to my laptop every once in a while when the laptop would be easier.

not unless you call them and tell them

ukn0wnscaa said:
Simple question I just want to make sure I don't get extra charges for teathering to my laptop every once in a while when the laptop would be easier.
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of course they can. the real question is do they really care?! i remember a thread with one person touting something like 50GB of use in a single month...

so they really wont care if I use my phone as a wireless hot spot for temporary usage for like email or playing online with my PSP or something...awesome. Thanks

Negrito said:
of course they can. the real question is do they really care?! i remember a thread with one person touting something like 50GB of use in a single month...
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They can probably tell when your usage jumps up like that, but thats it.
50gbs? Thats nothing, I average 2~3 sometimes 5 gbs a day, and I try to take it easy when I tether

Vrekk said:
They can probably tell when your usage jumps up like that, but thats it.
50gbs? Thats nothing, I average 2~3 sometimes 5 gbs a day, and I try to take it easy when I tether
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Sometimes I use over 15GB/mo. just on my phone. They probably don't care. I read that with WiMax they're not even going to have a bandwidth limit, so you can download and tether to your heart's content. I'm definitely looking forward to that.

Lol, I'm pretty sure 50GB was the guy who was considered the lightweight. I'm almost positive I read a guy using over 100GB, and Sprint didn't do anything. That kind of stuff just makes me laugh.

Nodata said:
Sometimes I use over 15GB/mo. just on my phone. They probably don't care. I read that with WiMax they're not even going to have a bandwidth limit, so you can download and tether to your heart's content. I'm definitely looking forward to that.
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I cant wait for the SuperSonic! I live in Vegas and already have WiMax through Clear. Can't wait for that shlt on my phone!

I thought sprint had a 5GB limit stated in their terms and conditions.

Negrito said:
I cant wait for the SuperSonic! I live in Vegas and already have WiMax through Clear. Can't wait for that shlt on my phone!
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You're lucky you get WiMax already.... I don't live in a city, so regular 3g for me..... They also can't tell if you tether UNLESS you use built-in MNS.

akijikan said:
I thought sprint had a 5GB limit stated in their terms and conditions.
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Yeah here's an article on the 5gb limit

HeroMeng said:
You're lucky you get WiMax already.... I don't live in a city, so regular 3g for me..... They also can't tell if you tether UNLESS you use built-in MNS.
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MNS?
akijikan said:
I thought sprint had a 5GB limit stated in their terms and conditions.
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Data Cards. Not phones.

Negrito said:
MNS?
Data Cards. Not phones.
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MNS is Mobile Network Sharing. Internet Sharing on fresh 2.0.
They can tell if you tether with that. On wireless tether, it just looks like normal data usage.

HeroMeng said:
MNS is Mobile Network Sharing. Internet Sharing on fresh 2.0.
They can tell if you tether with that. On wireless tether, it just looks like normal data usage.
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How can they tell? Not trying to be a smartass, just curiuos.

HeroMeng said:
MNS is Mobile Network Sharing. Internet Sharing on fresh 2.0.
They can tell if you tether with that. On wireless tether, it just looks like normal data usage.
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Ahhh, i knew that. Im not quite sober though, so i couldnt think of what MNS stood for. lol.

I have used my Hero Tethered to my Laptop *thus giving it internet access.
then through the LAN port on the laptop supply internet access to my 360 which I use to play MW2
I used 15GB in 1 night sprint never said anything.

RPerry435 said:
I have used my Hero Tethered to my Laptop *thus giving it internet access.
then through the LAN port on the laptop supply internet access to my 360 which I use to play MW2
I used 15GB in 1 night sprint never said anything.
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I literally just finished doing this. Some lag, but my I just moved here and my internet hasn't been installed yet.

I need a rollover cable to get my PS3 bridged in.

churraman said:
How can they tell? Not trying to be a smartass, just curiuos.
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I believe it signals your carrier or goes through a different set of ports. Either way, I tried this on a 1.5 rom and my phone wouldn't connect to EVDOs for an hour. Scary.

ldleblanc said:
I literally just finished doing this. Some lag, but my I just moved here and my internet hasn't been installed yet.
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I just did this. No lag on halo for me. NHL had some lag. It is awesome.

How much data have you consumed?

If you have had your TB for at least a week, what has your data usage been so far?
Don't forget to vote in the Poll!

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Jeez!!!!!!

Here's mine.
Gigabytes 4.067 GB
Megabytes 4,164.481 MB
Kilobytes 4,264,429.050 KB

A little under 100MiB since 03/08.
I'm actually looking forward to tiered data.

Zshazz said:
A little under 100MiB since 03/08.
I'm actually looking forward to tiered data.
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How on earth have you used so little? 3g only? Syncing email alone should have you above 100MiB... unless you are only using the phone on wifi...

is there a way to find out without signing in to a verizon.com account?

MYxdaUSERNAME said:
is there a way to find out without signing in to a verizon.com account?
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not that i know of

letzgostate said:
How on earth have you used so little? 3g only? Syncing email alone should have you above 100MiB... unless you are only using the phone on wifi...
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I use wifi at my house and when available. I guess the main reason I don't use much data is because I study, play video games, and watch a few tv shows/movies. With that much going on, I don't have any time to use massive amounts of data.
Honestly, I don't know how anyone uses 20+GiB. There just isn't enough time in the day unless you're taking time out of other things. Maybe tethering I could see... but if you're just using the phone?
MYxdaUSERNAME said:
is there a way to find out without signing in to a verizon.com account?
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Call #DATA on your phone and you'll be texted the information

Zshazz said:
Honestly, I don't know how anyone uses 20+GiB. There just isn't enough time in the day unless you're taking time out of other things. Maybe tethering I could see... but if you're just using the phone?
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Well, I have been enjoying the hotspot while it is free for now

Zshazz said:
Call #DATA on your phone and you'll be texted the information
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nice...
1648173 kb...almost 1.6GB...not bad, i use a lot of wifi too..

MYxdaUSERNAME said:
1648173 kb...
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That's ~1.6GiB

lol, i google converted it...

I am sitting at 3.56Gb

Zshazz said:
That's ~1.6GiB
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U mean 1.6 Gb (vs GB)?...
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How on earth, short of using wifi tether as your only internet service, do you use 30 gigs of data a month. I've seen a spike in my usage to just above 5 gigs for 2 weeks+ with the TB and < 2 weeks with the D2. But I have never come close to 10 gigs even during the holidays when I tether a crap ton, because most of the people I visit don't have wifi. I'm sorry, but it is people like you that are getting us all forced onto tiered plans eventually. And I consider myself a "power" user. I stream a lot of music, and use my phone a ton for nav. I just do see how you can use this much data.

1454 said:
How on earth, short of using wifi tether as your only internet service, do you use 30 gigs of data a month. I've seen a spike in my usage to just above 5 gigs for 2 weeks+ with the TB and < 2 weeks with the D2. But I have never come close to 10 gigs even during the holidays when I tether a crap ton, because most of the people I visit don't have wifi. I'm sorry, but it is people like you that are getting us all forced onto tiered plans eventually. And I consider myself a "power" user. I stream a lot of music, and use my phone a ton for nav. I just do see how you can use this much data.
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exactly, there is people who abuse the system and some of us have to pay for their abuse of the system.

funkybside said:
U mean 1.6 Gb (vs GB)?...
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I mean 1.6 "GB"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
I'm just trying to get into the habit of using the binary prefix rather than the colloquially accepted standard SI prefix.

1454 said:
How on earth, short of using wifi tether as your only internet service, do you use 30 gigs of data a month. I've seen a spike in my usage to just above 5 gigs for 2 weeks+ with the TB and < 2 weeks with the D2. But I have never come close to 10 gigs even during the holidays when I tether a crap ton, because most of the people I visit don't have wifi. I'm sorry, but it is people like you that are getting us all forced onto tiered plans eventually. And I consider myself a "power" user. I stream a lot of music, and use my phone a ton for nav. I just do see how you can use this much data.
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Tether > xbox, netflix, hulu, etc. When this is faster than my DSL, why not enjoy it? Free tethering won't last forever. Plus ATT put their DSL into tiered plans as well.

550MB between my wife and I combined, having the TBolts since release day. We're on WiFi at home or it would be higher (up to double that). I would call us well over average volume users in regards to social apps and chat programs since it's our work.
magneticzero said:
exactly, there is people who abuse the system and some of us have to pay for their abuse of the system.
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Yeah I hear ya. I'm reminded every time I look over my taxes or see someone buying soda and Ding Dongs with food stamps while talking on their iPhone. Hard to complain though because every group has a poster child to make you look evil for being against them lol.

Game addons question

Hey guys, like most of you know, most gameloft games require addons to run and they are usually 400 mb in size, and most of the time I get errors while downloading, so I was wondering if it was possible to download these addons on pc and then transfer them to your phone? Thanks !
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Yourmama said:
Hey guys, like most of you know, most gameloft games require addons to run and they are usually 400 mb in size, and most of the time I get errors while downloading, so I was wondering if it was possible to download these addons on pc and then transfer them to your phone? Thanks !
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Gameloft do not let you do this for piracy reasons, the same reasons xda members cannot share with you there downloaded resources

How about using WiFi? If you don't have it at home the local Starbucks or McDonalds or even your local library should have it. Gameloft even says on their site (EA as well) that they highly recommend to use WiFi instead of 3G service for game downloads.

That's resumable, I experience this a lot of times eventhough I have stable connection.. For example I'm downloading a 500mb data then after approximately 1 hour, I got an error, I just close it then open the game launcher again to continue my download then it says I need to download 300mb+.. sometimes I encounter that error for 2-3x per game, just continue downloading until you finish it..

Rogue Leader said:
How about using WiFi? If you don't have it at home the local Starbucks or McDonalds or even your local library should have it. Gameloft even says on their site (EA as well) that they highly recommend to use WiFi instead of 3G service for game downloads.
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lol I am not crazy to download a 500mb file on my 3g data plan lol XD that's already half of it
Oh well I guess I have to resume it every hour or so
But thanks guys!

Yourmama said:
lol I am not crazy to download a 500mb file on my 3g data plan lol XD that's already half of it
Oh well I guess I have to resume it every hour or so
But thanks guys!
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Heh sorry, I have friends who do just that. Then I point out that hey we are at Starbucks (or wherever) you know they have WiFi here!

it might not of been what solved the problem but it worked.
what i did was set the screen to never turn off while charging (somewhere in settings,you can turn it off with the power button still) and do the transfer while it is charging as this way the wifi doesnt cut out as often, this may not work and it may be complete conicidence but this worked on all my gameloft downloads except backstab which just didnt want to work at all

I can download gameloft games via 3g now?!
When did this happen?
Sorry should've checked before posting. Id like to mention though that a lot of people are on unlimited data plans which you can tether to a pc/laptop (sometimes this is my only connection to the internet). Companies restricting 3g access seems rather dodgy to me.
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How much data can u burn in a month?lets talk torrents

Just for fun....now with the new value plan.
Its not much but its a start.

Shortbus-Driver said:
Just for fun....now with the new value plan.
Its not much but its a start.
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Holy s*$% dude, how did you manage to burn through 24.6 GB's of data??? I consider myself a pretty heavy user and I barely scrape the 5 GB ceiling every month

Well now that I don't have to worry about data....I don't worry so much about backing anything up when flashing roms and then there's Netflix and veetle and everything else that takes data.

LOL. Nice Short. How about leaving a really popular torrent seeding for a month?

Set me up ill sow my seeds.... ~

Ok on the topic of torrents....
I've dl'd a few torrent clients and am learning how they work....question is....is there a particular one that works better?
I went to dl a movie and it showed that it would take 28weeks and 5days to complete,lmao.
I'm also finding that the sites with higher seeding dl faster,but what is concidered a high count,for the numbers I'm seeing aren't all that high.

Short
I use utorrent for both my PC and my phones client. As far as seeds and leaches go remember you can pull from both to get parts of the DL. A seed has the whole file while leachers have just pieces until they finish the DL at which time they become seeders. As long as their are more than 5 seeders(big generalization here) you should be fine. Remember that it's considered torrent etiquette to seed after you receive the DL. Always try to share to a ratio of at least 1. Also remember that torrents are packages with many pieces so you will see slow DL speeds until you get a least a few pieces to share. As soon as that happens your DL speeds will go up fast. I usually get at least 500kb/s down on a well seeded torrent.

It's best if you pick torrents where there are more seeders than leechers. You'll get better speeds that way. On a lot of well seeded torrents you can have your download speeds start at your full connection speed.
Remember, seed:leech ratio is what will control download speed. Normally a torrent that has a few dozen seeders will net you the most speed since a lot of torrent clients have a concurrent connection limit (the number of connections you can have at once) of less than 100 (utorrent, transmission) and you won't gain any more speed from torrents with more than 100 seeders.

I typically use my phone to remote access my home PC and download torrents directly to my home PC. I usually get about 5 MB/s down (even though I have 30 MB plan). I can then just remotely send everything to my seed box and allow uploads to others for a minimum of 2 days.
Since I do not have unlimited data, this avoids me exceeding my data cap and I get better download speeds than using my phone.

I did around 12gb the first month I had unlimited. I need to play with Dosbox and play over battlenet to see what that uses.
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Tunderpimp what game are you playing on battlenet? And or are you just goin to battlenet thru phone?

And you wonder why carriers are using tiered data plans now

Warcraft 2 with Dosbox
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IAIRonI said:
And you wonder why carriers are using tiered data plans now
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Actually T-Mobile has had tiered data plans right along...
Its becuz of people like me that got throttled every month.....that they finally now offer true unlimited data.
So ....your welcome!

I need to play with kainy you can stream pc games and play them over your phone.
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Tunderpimp said:
I need to play with kainy you can stream pc games and play them over your phone.
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I would love to learn more! !!
I'm an ex hardcore addict of Diablo II and miss it lol but don't have the time for sitting at a computer to play it, nor the patients.

I played all three and wow, it shows someone playing wow with kainy. I just have to get time to play with it. Work owns me atm.
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Shortbus-Driver said:
Actually T-Mobile has had tiered data plans right along...
Its becuz of people like me that got throttled every month.....that they finally now offer true unlimited data.
So ....your welcome!
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You're an idiot if you think that's the case.

IAIRonI said:
You're an idiot if you think that's the case.
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Write this down. Someone just called Short an idiot. Can't wait to see where this one goes.
@ the guy who called short an idiot back it up or shut it up. Flame on

Lol hes not worth it.......just another clueless retard.

Nexus 5 on no data / low data plan.

Anyone here use their Nexus 5 on a prepaid cellphone plan that has no data or low data?
I am thinking about switching over to h2o's Unlimited Talk, Text and 500mb plan to save money and become less dependent on my cell phone. I find myself using about 5 GBS a month on straight talk but its nothing productive, just downloading the latest roms or downloading an app only to delete a few minutes later or checking facebook. I think I could get by fine just using wifi and then the 500MB to check email or use my GPS.
Thoughts?

brooksyx said:
Anyone here use their Nexus 5 on a prepaid cellphone plan that has no data or low data?
I am thinking about switching over to h2o's Unlimited Talk, Text and 500mb plan to save money and become less dependent on my cell phone. I find myself using about 5 GBS a month on straight talk but its nothing productive, just downloading the latest roms or downloading an app only to delete a few minutes later or checking facebook. I think I could get by fine just using wifi and then the 500MB to check email or use my GPS.
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No disrespect but try to find a hobby, its just a phone

gee2012 said:
No disrespect but try to find a hobby, its just a phone
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I think you fail to see my point. This is XDA, where we talk about phones.

brooksyx said:
I think you fail to see my point. This is XDA, where we talk about phones.
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True, but me personaly is see no point in flashing just to flash

gee2012 said:
True, but me personaly is see no point in flashing just to flash
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I see no point in posting just to post.
But going off your post count and the lack of relation to the thread in your posts, you would disagree... Maybe you should get a hobby

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I see no point in posting just to post.
But going off your post count and the lack of relation to the thread in your posts, you would disagree... Maybe you should get a hobby
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Oke, lets call you the winner, i don`t argue to argue. You posted to get feedback and now you don`t like what i`am saying you make it personal. Good day bro

Hi,
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Sorry but... Hobby can be phones, it depends of your point. Maybe because you are on stock non rooted (as I read if I'm not wrong) doesn't mean other users do not have their phones to test kernels, roms, tweak their phone as a hobby.
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For testing purposes?
Like you download an app just to see or to test, you can download a rom and flash it to test, right?
That being said, for the OP, not sure a low data plan will make you less "dependent" (maybe good for money), if you have access to wifi? You can always download all the last roms via wifi
It will depend of your real use apart downloading rom, maybe it will be enough with only GPS (again it depends the frequency of use, GPS can be a huge consumer of data ) and email...

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Oke, lets call you the winner, i don`t argue to argue. You posted to get feedback and now you don`t like what i`am saying you make it personal. Good day bro
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But you didn't post relevant feedback at all. You meant complete offense and said I have no life just because I was asking about thoughts on switching to a lower costing phone plan. I don't see how that has anything to do with me having a life or not.

brooksyx said:
But you didn't post relevant feedback at all. You meant complete offense and said I have no life just because I was asking about thoughts on switching to a lower costing phone plan. I don't see how that has anything to do with me having a life or not.
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You stated in your OP that you think you download and flash too much and you want to cutdown on your plan. If you download 5GB of data and its usefull its fine, but if you delete most of it its a waste of time. It was not my intention to say you have no life, as i don`t know you Lets keep it at this, i never attack or judge users, you can read all my posts if you want.

Hammer_Of_The_Gods said:
That being said, for the OP, not sure a low data plan will make you less "dependent", if you have access to wifi? You can always download all the last roms via wifi
It will depend of your real use apart downloading rom, maybe it will be enough with only GPS (again it depends the frequency of use) and email...
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I mean dependent in terms of using the phone when I am out in about in public where wifi isnt available. I have no guilt about using my phone when I am sitting at home on the couch watching TV but it will deter the urge to browse the web when I am out with friends or something.

gee2012 said:
You stated in your OP that you think you download and flash too much and you want to cutdown on your plan. If you download 5GB of data and its usefull its fine, but if you delete most of it its a waste of time. It was not my intention to say you have no life, as i don`t know you Lets keep it at this, i never attack or judge users, you can read all my posts if you want.
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Telling someone they need to find a hobby usually implies that you think someone doesn't have a life.
PS it takes literally 5 minutes to download and flash the latest nightly of cyanogemod. I am not downloading a miillion different roms each month. Just staying up to date.
edit: also and saying "no offense" before saying something offensive isn't a hall pass to say something rude.

What's the issue here "Nexus 5 on no data / low data plan." or hobbies.....let's end the hobby discussion. Thanks

Only issue I can think of is that most of the Google Now voice commands seem to require an internet connection to work.
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I am also on a limited data plan (400mb /mo) and find it kind of limiting. What i use is DS battery saver which turns off your data while your screen is off and turns it on every 30/45/60min for updates. It saves me some data and some battery so it's a win/win for me. I tend to limit my data navigation to mail/facebook and messaging apps and keep the cat gifs/videos for wifi/pc.
Another app you can try is onovo extend (it compresses the internet traffic trough their servers) but i found it a bit fiddly (never know if it's working or not and need to check it constantly) and i suspect it interferes with some apps (had a problem with my maps app but dont quote me on that).
Opera browser also compresses traffic for reduced data use.
Other than this, only your common sense and self control can bring your data use down. Being prepaid can't you buy more data anytime if you need it ?

brooksyx said:
Anyone here use their Nexus 5 on a prepaid cellphone plan that has no data or low data?
I am thinking about switching over to h2o's Unlimited Talk, Text and 500mb plan to save money and become less dependent on my cell phone. I find myself using about 5 GBS a month on straight talk but its nothing productive, just downloading the latest roms or downloading an app only to delete a few minutes later or checking facebook. I think I could get by fine just using wifi and then the 500MB to check email or use my GPS.
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I don't download much but still using 2gb a month - maybe go for 3 gig and see how that goes? 500mb is nothing nowadays.

I think unless you actually turn the data off, you'd struggle to stay under a 500GB a month allowance. Having seen what mine does on a day when I Fine really use it, id be concerned. You'd definitely need to tweak your sync settings and/or turn off data. Possibily even use opera browser or similar to compress your web pages.
Managing that plan sounds like too much of a chore
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I have a voice and text only plan using WiFi when I need the type of downloads you describe. If I want to watch videos or listen to Music I carry a Meenova OTG micoSD card reader (check the N5 accessories section) and preload the files I need. I consider most of the data plans to be a huge consumer ripoff and am not willing not shell out the bucks for a minor convenience. My comments are definitely personal choice and there are so many WiFi hot spots around the impact of not always having Internet access hasn't hit me yet.
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3DSammy said:
I have a voice and text only plan using WiFi when I need the type of downloads you describe. If I want to watch videos or listen to Music I carry a Meenova OTG micoSD card reader (check the N5 accessories section) and preload the files I need. I consider most of the data plans to be a huge consumer ripoff and am not willing not shell out the bucks for a minor convenience. My comments are definitely personal choice and there are so many WiFi hot spots around the impact of not always having Internet access hasn't hit me yet.
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I think this comes down to region too (pricing I mean).
In the UK you can get 200 minutes, 5000 texts and truly unlimited data for £12.90 a month (sim only). £15.90 if you want 600 minutes.
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Why do you have to download ROMs and apps over 3G? Don't you have wireless at home?
I can easily survive a month with 500MB, while checking my e-mail a few times a day (about 10 e-mails over 5 syncs), checking a few tens of articles over feedly and reading at least 5-10 of them, playing 8 Ball Pool (by Miniclip) at least on hour, using Waze for at least half an hour and other occasional searches. I only install apps over 3G on rare occasions (once a week at most), and when I cannot wait until I get home. And sometimes I'm wondering how could I wisely use more data, not to pile it up at the end of the month.
But that's just me...

Both me and my wife manage fine on a 250mb monthly plan. Over 3G we only need the odd update for the weather app and the usual Whatsapp photos and videos, from other family members. Whilst the photos and vids do consume most of that meagre allowance it still works out fine. The videos will get downloaded when at home and using the wi-fi connection.
Knowing that we are "restricted" on a tight data plan (but managing fine) it does tend to discipline me to no longer bother about using the phone more "frivolously", in terms of data usage, and I suppose when I'm at home I'll use my tablet or PC, much bigger screens etc.
Neither of us feel restricted in our use, and it works out much cheaper, but it does focus the attention away from the phone and the habitual data usage which was neither important nor needed.