No one in my life cares except for my XDA family..
I just got the dreaded text from t-mo and was immediately throttled to .006mbps. Seriously, FML. I have like 20 days left in my cycle. ARRRRGGHHHH
I even was desperate enough to try the (now defunct) alternative APN internet1.voicestream.com. I even tried internets 2 and 3!!!
God forbid I run into any feral cats on my walk home, because I am going to punt something and I prefer pine cones, but homeless cats fly further.
Happened to me last month. It sucks balls bug time. Sorry dude, calling tmo wont help either trust me....
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Does anyone know if buying tmos tethering plan increases the cap?
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Does anyone know if buying tmos tethering plan increases the cap?
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It does not.
I get throttled every month. I make good use of my phones browsing. Its starting to annoy me. My cycle ends on the 21st and I been throttled for 2 weeks now.
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The way to get around data throttling is to have a friend that works at TMO and use their unused $5 employee data only plan. I now effectively have 5 more GB on a spare SIM card. Once I get throttled on my MT4G I start tethering on my MT3G.
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The way to get around data throttling is to have a friend that works at TMO and use their unused $5 employee data only plan. I now effectively have 5 more GB on a spare SIM card. Once I get throttled on my MT4G I start tethering on my MT3G.
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That's pretty nifty. Now only if I knew any tmo employees...
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That's pretty nifty. Now only if I knew any tmo employees...
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Your only 4 hours from TMO 's headquarters. Take a road trip, find a bar close to HQ, and find a group of ppl w TMO phones.
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I have a mint condition fascinate running 2.2, I would be able to add 150 cash on my end.
PS. Don't know if this would be the right section? Mods please redirect me if it isn't.
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sorry but the tb is the best phone if anyone trades you their not thinking straight.
Haha just to let u know..someone did. I'm a tbolt man now
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Haha just to let u know..someone did. I'm a tbolt man now
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Awesome...thats because not everyone wants to give there TB a BJ everyday
if you give me your thunderbolt ill give you $150 and one used htc evo. it also has 4g which is awesome if you're near a tower and out in an open field nowhere near a building. also the 3g is worse than a 56k modem but its okay the network is gonna be good some day.
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Did you already get a tbolt?
i did yes, it is a great phone
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if you give me your thunderbolt ill give you $150 and one used htc evo. it also has 4g which is awesome if you're near a tower and out in an open field nowhere near a building. also the 3g is worse than a 56k modem but its okay the network is gonna be good some day.
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The 56k modem on evo really was awesome but I don't think ill be going back to sprint...ever.
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The 56k modem on evo really was awesome but I don't think ill be going back to sprint...ever.
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I second this, great price every month, tho verizon with my company discount is honestly about the same, but the 3G/4G was terrible, and everyone trying to sell me that in home cell module thing, that only helps phone calls, because it would fix my "4G" and therefor I shouldn't leave them. Left them same day for a Thunderbolt with verizon, and in there survey asking why I left, I explained that every employee I talked to was a moron.
Did I also mention I had a Sprint "Manager" start cursing me out because I called him an idiot for telling me the only way I can get 4G is to have my phone off for about 12 hours straight every day?
seriously the worst provider ever. AT&T was better than Sprint, and I told them that
You made out on that trade even with the money involved. Congrats!
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I second this, great price every month, tho verizon with my company discount is honestly about the same, but the 3G/4G was terrible, and everyone trying to sell me that in home cell module thing, that only helps phone calls, because it would fix my "4G" and therefor I shouldn't leave them. Left them same day for a Thunderbolt with verizon, and in there survey asking why I left, I explained that every employee I talked to was a moron.
Did I also mention I had a Sprint "Manager" start cursing me out because I called him an idiot for telling me the only way I can get 4G is to have my phone off for about 12 hours straight every day?
seriously the worst provider ever. AT&T was better than Sprint, and I told them that
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Hahaha 12 he's downtime a day for "4g" that's awesome.
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You made out on that trade even with the money involved. Congrats!
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I know I thought it was a great deal. Thanks
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Hey gang, new TB owner here, previously a AT&T customer for 7+ years. With my Inspire it was nearly impossible to get to 5GB of data because my data speeds were dreadful so I mostly stayed on WiFi. With the TB I get insane speeds and I use 4G a "decent" amount but switch to WiFi when I'm home. I'm on day 19 of my billing cycle and have already used 6GB, WTF!!! I didn't see that coming. What are you guys averaging a month? I know we have unlimted data but don't want to draw any attention to myself.
Running BAMF 1.7 Stripped (not that it matters).
I'm on a revolution, got it on day 1. In the 11 days I had it for that billing cycle that ended the 6th I used 12gb with generous 4g and upto now now I've used 14gb so far with the same usage, I know what you mean lol
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I'm on a revolution, got it on day 1. In the 11 days I had it for that billing cycle that ended the 6th I used 12gb with generous 4g and upto now now I've used 14gb so far with the same usage, I know what you mean lol
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I used 21 gigs and I am 24 days in my bill cycle...the only reason its that high is because I was running netflix on the wii for two day straight non stop
ISP's need to understand that data caps will cripple online services like netflix, dropbox, etc.
I hope VZW comes to their senses and lifts data caps.
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Am at 1.8 GB on day 7 of billing cycle. Runrate for about 8 GB in 30 days. With LTE being faster than most people's WIFI, I don't think you are alone...
6gb isn't too much actually compared to others. No worry Verizon isn't really into throttling everyones service contrary to the belief of some Verizon really is interested in keeping their costumers happy.
I hit 5gb before the billing rolled over. Iy happens when you download 10 Roms a month and stream music and video.
Cool. Glad to I'm not alone, when average over 20mb dl its easy to rip through data. LTE is the truth!
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I envy you all. No LTE here in Wahiawa, Hawaii. I'd like to take advantage of the hotspot feature with LTE one day. 3g hotspot doesn't make any sense due to have cable internet.
With the 3g I do about 2gb/month.
Absolutely! Last month I had somewhere about 80gb of usage for the cycle. It's easy on 4G. Too easy.
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I did over 35 gigabytes the other day when I was downloading and installing The Old Republic beta...
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Damn, I use about 7GB/month and I thought that was a lot. Guess I don't need to worry about being throttled.....
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ISP's need to understand that data caps will cripple online services like netflix, dropbox, etc.
I hope VZW comes to their senses and lifts data caps.
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That's exactly what they want, so they can sell their own services. ISPs are scared of being nothing but "dumb pipes."
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I envy you all. No LTE here in Wahiawa, Hawaii. I'd like to take advantage of the hotspot feature with LTE one day. 3g hotspot doesn't make any sense due to have cable internet.
With the 3g I do about 2gb/month.
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We envy you being in Hawaii!!!
I use on average about 12 gb a month, and that was with my Eris. I got my bolt the last week of may so I'm sure it will be around 15 gb a month or so
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Thanks to you guys, I will probably never be in the top 5%.
I'm at 4 GB
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Thanks to you guys, I will probably never be in the top 5%.
I'm at 4 GB
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The most I use is just around 1GB of traffic. What are you guys d/ling??
I'm at 15GB on day 27 of my billing cycle with only 3G where I live. All of Battlestar Gallactica on Netflix for Android and a good chunk of Farscape will do that I guess
im 7 days into my billing cycle and im at 2.5GBs............................. just got 4G going 3 days ago so i've been going nuts
Just wondering if anyone can help me out with any tweaks to beat this damn 60kbps throttle from tmobile. I have tried the patch that was created for the froyo roms but it didn't work for me. Any information would be greatly appreciated please PM me. Its best the information isn't posted publicly due to the brown nosing tmobile turds that troll these forums. Thanks in advance.
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pm me too! im at day 2 of my billing cycle and am already at 1.5GB/ month out of the 5GB i get capped every month! i dont believe there is a way around it though!!
Stop being cheap and buy the 10gb plan lol
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There is no way around the cap. It is done of T-Mobiles servers and linked to your SIM card. Many people have tried to get around it without any luck.
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Stop being cheap and buy the 10gb plan lol
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I can dig what you're saying but I'd like to think of it as being resourceful rather than cheap. After all it is android, several exploits and loopholes exist for other devices already. Ill keep fishing and maybe I can figure it out. Maybe IP/MAC spoofing would work to avoid the asshats at T-Mobile.
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Stop being cheap and buy the 10gb plan lol
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thats what i did lol theres your throttle fix.
It's not a work-around to the T-Mobile cap exactly. But by fine tuning when and how your installed apps use data, can keep you under the cap. For example instead of streaming podcast with Mediafly I installed DogCatcher. I set the download permissions for the application to only update when connected to WiFi and plugged in.
That alone has cut my data usage in half. Fine tuning other settings in apps like email, facebook and twitter have also cut down my data usage. I went from always bumping the data cap to moving to the next lowest data rate plan.
Something to consider!
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Stop being cheap and buy the 10gb plan lol
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im not being cheap at all!! but is it possible i can up to the 10GB/ month? i just started a 2 yr contract 2 months ago and i get capped everymonth so far to 56k speeds...i pay 100 dollars a month and i think thats alot already! thats no fun when i dont get access to wifi everywhete like most of you.
If you change your phone number & get a new SIM chip it resets yer data usage. Setup google voice, get 5GIG plan - wait 2 weeks & spend $15 to have phone number changed and get another 5Gig. Two more weeks, billing cycle starts over, another 5GIG. Wait 2 more weeks and change phone number again - 5 more gig. Repeat every month. If you use google voice then everyone will still have your phone number. I think to get the 10gig plan it's 30 bucks so this saves you 15 bucks a month. Of course its also a huge pain in the ass for 15 bucks.
Lol that's actually pretty damn clever. A huge undertaking, but still clever. Well done.
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Well I found the best solution. Screw T-Mobile and every lie they represent. I switched to sprints true unlimited with no datacap or throttle. Thanks for all of yalls feedback.
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Well I found the best solution. Screw T-Mobile and every lie they represent. I switched to sprints true unlimited with no datacap or throttle. Thanks for all of yalls feedback.
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Well those of us who like data speed don't have the option of Sprint.
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Switchbg to sprint would = same speed as capd speed for tmo that's why I swtch from sprint
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Well u guess your service area for Sprint kinda sucks, the data speeds are way faster on this phone than they ever were on my g2x
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Well u guess your service area for Sprint kinda sucks, the data speeds are way faster on this phone than they ever were on my g2x
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Sprint is unlimited and true they don't throttle - HOWEVER what they do is kick you off the network and cancel your contract if you use "too much" data. Happened to me a year or two ago.
Well regardless, I'm satisfied with the new beast. And still have the G2X on the side to play around with.
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HAHA i still have the old $25 unlimited NO throttle plan
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im not being cheap at all!! but is it possible i can up to the 10GB/ month? i just started a 2 yr contract 2 months ago and i get capped everymonth so far to 56k speeds...i pay 100 dollars a month and i think thats alot already! thats no fun when i dont get access to wifi everywhete like most of you.
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$10 more and u will have 5g. Just call the customer service and ask them. I did and I'm on 5g. $87.08 a month for me. But I got a 15% discount cause I'm a firefighter or it would be 102.98
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http://news.yahoo.com/judge-awards-iphone-user-850-throttling-case-195042925.html
I wonder how many will follow?
This is ****ing great I love to hear **** like this I think next time they throttle me ill march down there and file a small claims suit use this as a reference in court. If they are protected against class action I think they should get millions of small claims
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I can only imagine LOL but good find btw
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great news !!!!!!!, cant wait att change them throttling for unlimit coustom
Pretty sure they have it in your contract that they can change it at any time.. Wouldn't be surprised if they lose to many of these lawsuits that they just move everyone over to the 3gb plan(same price as unlimited) and gave you the option to walk away without ETF. Might take a few of these losses but don't be surprised if it happens.
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Very unlikely they would give the option to walk without etf. That's 17 million customers you're talking about, about half of all their customers. I have a feeling they have a plan to screw everyone.
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That many people on unlimited?
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I got throttled at only 1.2 gb this month (4 days into my billing cycle). Mad, i switched to hspa+ only and racked up 13gb in two days. On the third day I switched back to 4G LTE and what do you know, I'm no longer being throttled. I'm not sure if it's related to this or not but I'm happy!
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I got throttled at only 1.2 gb this month (4 days into my billing cycle). Mad, i switched to hspa+ only and racked up 13gb in two days. On the third day I switched back to 4G LTE and what do you know, I'm no longer being throttled. I'm not sure if it's related to this or not but I'm happy!
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I'm hoping so too! Im running hspa+ and over 12gb so far, ill be sure to test the LTE when I go up to the city
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I got flagged for 1.8gb and slowed to 128kbs both hspa+ and lte. Thats bull****... if they don't stop ill do the same.
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this is funny
So I sourced this from reddit.com
Apparently people were putting a package together with the help of a few freelance lawyers to make a kit so that the average person could get all of the documents together and have all their bases covered in order to have a good chance of winning the small claims court case. It was getting a lot of attention.
Either my search skills are rusty, or overnight the moderators deleted the thread due to AT&T pressure or some other reasons.
edit: found it
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/q4j2q/att_sued_for_throttling_unlimited_data_plan/
seems though that they removed it from and type of direct search. interesting.
I've seen some methods on trying to evade the data cap on certain phones.. I have yet to see if it works with our Blaze.. I've used my 2 Gigabytes on Tmobiles supposedly unlimited plan.. Is there a way to avoid getting throttled after you've used the limit you get?
METHODS I HAVE FOUND
DTR- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1435085
4G Hack- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1645521
MythBusting- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987029
APN Trick- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1408812
xWolf13 said:
I've seen some methods on trying to evade the data cap on certain phones.. I have yet to see if it works with our Blaze.. I've used my 2 Gigabytes on Tmobiles supposedly unlimited plan.. Is there a way to avoid getting throttled after you've used the limit you get?
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im with you... I've tried everything imaginable... at least when verizon had unlimited, it was truly unlimited. I'll never forget a couple years ago when 3G/LTE went down in the Savanahh, GA area when I was stationed at Fort Stewart, I called Verizon and said "Im not getting data, do you throttle services?" Rep said "We shouldn't unless you're in the top 5% of subscribers, let me check your account"... clickety click click click of the keyboard "...oh my. I have to say, that is the highest useage I've ever personally seen. You're at 33 GB of LTE used.". I was only 12 days into my billing period at the time
There is a company called telcel America I used them for 4 months they had unlimited service for 45 a month no throttling whatsoever to the best of my knowledge they ran on on tmobiles network I used 5 gig a month 10 MBS down 2 up 2 weeks ago they stopped but they still have the $60 plan that you get unlimited talking to mexico I think sorry do the badly written post in a rush will update later
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The only sure-fire method I know of is using WiFi. Sorry
Although I'm sure somebody has created a workaround
It sucks that you get punished for using your phone for what it was meant to do. Listening to Pandora at work all week and I'm halfway to my limit.
By the way I still have a Verizon grandfather plan that I am looking to get rid of !!
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That's what I like about the $30 Monthly4G plan, I haven't hit the 5gb soft cap yet. And vonage mobile works great for extra free minutes.
I used to have the T-Mobile Unlimited 3G plan when I had a BlackBerry, and I would regularly break 20-30GB data on it when I was still going to school and still be able to maintain 3G speeds.
When I upgraded to the Blaze I was forced to switch to their new "Unlimited" plan, which seems to choke the speeds down around 5-6GB. Although this month I'm already around 7GB and I still pull in decent H+ speeds between 8 and 12Mbps, so maybe they only restrict the speeds during peak hours or something.
I have been doing research(ugh. feels like school lol) and I stumbled upon this. Since I've been using the UVMC Radio from the Hercules I think this should work. Note. It says to do these methods before getting throttled. I don't know if it works because I am getting throttled already..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1408812
Edit: Been reading on the thread. People say its been patched. Cant say that's true yet.
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I have been doing research(ugh. feels like school lol) and I stumbled upon this. Since I've been using the UVMC Radio from the Hercules I think this should work. Note. It says to do these methods before getting throttled. I don't know if it works because I am getting throttled already..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1408812
Edit: Been reading on the thread. People say its been patched. Cant say that's true yet.
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Looks ok. Think I might give it a try
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Looks ok. Think I might give it a try
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Google is now my bestest friend ever lol. Found many methods to try! Will post links in OP later..
Updated OP with my findings.
Has anyone who isn't throttled yet found any of these to work? I'm already throttled
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Has anyone who isn't throttled yet found any of these to work? I'm already throttled
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I will try these today & see which one seems to work. I'll give you guys an update later
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I tried the 4G hack but I can't confirm it works yet since I just got my data count refreshed on the 27th on the start of the new cycle.
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Any CONFIRMED solutions yet?
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Off topic, sorry OP
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By the way I still have a Verizon grandfather plan that I am looking to get rid of !!
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Fer realz? I'd take it off your hands for you
Pm me will try to work it out
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I can confirm the 4G hack doesn't work...well at least not for me it didn't.
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Any proven results? looks interesting since I have the 5GB plan and some times I go over my limit.
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