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And now each month on Verizon im going over 10gb with the Thunderbolt. Im really not doing anything different either. I have the same apps as the captivate, generally use it the same amount.
Anyone finding the same with their TBolt?
10 GB? Bull ****! doesnt seem possible
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10 GB? Bull ****! doesnt seem possible
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10GB/mo is very easy to achieve.
The only time I use alot of data is when I tether, even the occasional Pandora/Youtube/streaming doesn't use that to much.Plus, are in 4G or 3G area?
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And now each month on Verizon im going over 10gb with the Thunderbolt. Im really not doing anything different either. I have the same apps as the captivate, generally use it the same amount.
Anyone finding the same with their TBolt?
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Would be nice to have a list of the apps u use so we can help u
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I have noticed, and have seen other threads about it, that I am using a lot more data on my TB then I ever did with my OG Droid. Like others say I haven't really changed my usage or apps really. At least not a lot that I should be seeing the jump in data that I have gotten.
It makes me think that there is something with the way LTE is working that is making the phone pull data more then it should.
used 9 gig so far and I only have 8 days left I think. The reason why I use so much because I use the mobile hotspot app to watch netflix
The iPhone and captivated are 3g phones, if you are using 4g I would expect it to be significantly more
I tether with my Eris and only use 3gb, I'm at 8 right now with 1 week Tobago. I think I'm forgetting that I'm not on my home WiFi and use my stuff unconservatively.
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Not surprised.
I used about 2-3gigs on my nexus one t-mobile, and on my t-bolt, my last bill cycle was about 10.5 gigs, no change in how i used it.
I wouldn't be surprised. I have heard stories of 40 or 80 gigs of use, and some claim no tethering either. Maybe on ur next cycle you can force it to 3g only and see how much you use then. Atleast we got unlimited data.
Also > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071253
I used 2.8GB and that is mostly streaming pandora for 8 hours every day. I use WiFi at home. In the past though, I hit 10-15GB/month when I didn't have a home network connection (tethered to 2 laptops and a desktop though).
I think by saying "not using it any differently" we are forgetting that it is faster. In other words, I may still only spend a half hour on YouTube and a couple hours worth of web as before, but in that same space of time I have done so much more...
for instance YouTube and Pandora in high quality mode, downloading. roms over 4G instead of wifi, etc...
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instead of waiting for things to load on 3g and then saying "eff it i need to go" and put it back in your pocket. 4g is so fast that things loads when you need it to...
only explanation i can think of =P
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As Newt would say, "mostly". At some point Verizon will start throttling your data but I admit that I don't know what that point is.
Throttle the top 5%. 10 gigs is no where near the top 5%. And just because its a 4G connection does not automatically mean more data usage. 1 GB of data is 1 GB of data whether on 4G or 3G. What does change is the amount of data you can use in the same hour long lunch break for instance. You can do things so much faster you don't realize how much you actually use.
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I'm at the end of my billing cycle and am just over 10 GB so far.
I listen to different streaming radios for about 8 hours of the day, at high quality, using Pandora, Slacker and Winamp's Shoutcast. When I'm at home, my phone is on WiFi.
My wife and I have been house hunting and I use Google Navigation to drive to these houses which pulls down a lot of images.
There may be some times that I pull up a video here and there, but not very often. I have tethered a couple times, but nothing significant.
I originally had AT&T before they got rid of unlimited, then switched to Sprint to get the EVO and now on Verizon because of their ridiculously fast LTE network. If Verizon had data caps like AT&T, or throttled like T-Mobile, I wouldn't have switched.
That's how I typically use my phone and easily use many GBs of data... which gets me thinking... how the heck did we survive on dial-up back in the day? How things have changed.
The simple reason you never went over 1gb/month with those phones is because it would take more than a month to transfer that much data on at&t's ****ty network
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I did 2.9GB last month and that was without tethering. Most of it was probably from using dropbox to download apps, kernels and ROMs that I wanted to test and play with, besides using Pandora almost daily. I'm sure I could hit 10GB without a problem if I tethered.
I have used 8+ Gigs in a month, no tethering.. and that was with my Droid X, so once I get 4G, I'm sure it'll be easy to get 10+.
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If you are running a Rom will ATT know ,and change your data settings, if you use the mobile hotspot? I thought I read they can't and you can do it on your unlimited plan without them know or changing, but I just wanted to if that's true.
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If you are running a Rom will ATT know ,and change your data settings, if you use the mobile hotspot? I thought I read they can't and you can do it on your unlimited plan without them know or changing, but I just wanted to if that's true.
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They have ways of knowing. For example, a couple of months ago some jailbroken iPhone users started getting letters and text messages from AT&T stating they need to either stop tethering or be forced to get a tethering plan. I haven't heard of the same thing happening with Android users though. Earlier this month Google bowed to pressure from the phone companies and started removing tethering apps from the Market.
Att is most likely checking the natted IP bounce since using hotspots requires extra hop. Have to use proxy to avoid trace.
I was USB tether my phone to my work laptop for internet and have been doing so for many months and never once has ATT said anything. Then again thats USBtether, not wifi
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I was USB tether my phone to my work laptop for internet and have been doing so for many months and never once has ATT said anything. Then again thats USBtether, not wifi
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The issue arises when someone is using tens or hundreds of GB per month, that kind of gives it away. If you only occasionally tether (wifi or hotspot) for basic websurfing, I doubt you're going to raise any red flags.
I know there were a few moments when I really needed internet on my laptop and decided to tether because I could... even thigh I was scared to do it, I did it anyways and I have yet to get any charges... so yeah just keep your usage while tethering low...
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The issue arises when someone is using tens or hundreds of GB per month, that kind of gives it away. If you only occasionally tether (wifi or hotspot) for basic websurfing, I doubt you're going to raise any red flags.
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^this
i've consistently gone over 5gigs since i've had my unlimited data plan (nothing outrageous usually under 10gigs) and i wifi tether all the time. i read in another thread this exact thing... they can't really tell unless you all of a sudden jump your usage... for that reason i make sure i stay above the old 5 gig limit.
I'm using the latest cm7 nightly and whenever I tether either over wifi or through USB on my x64 windows 7 machine, the internet dies after a couple minutes. Is anyone else having this issue?
I thought it might be an issue with the nightly build so I switched back to the stock rom and the internet tethering behaved exactly the same way. I also tried tethering to my laptop which is 32-bit windows 7. Because it didn't work on my laptop either, I think its either a hardware issue with my phone or T-Mobile is blocking the tether now.
I've also noticed that voip calling with the gingerbread sip client only works on wifi. I suspect that T-Mobile is starting to enforce some of their policies finally :/
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I wi-fi tethered to my Nook Color last night for a about 30mins and didn't have a problem at all.
T-mobile terms of service prohibits you to tether. Most people don't realize it but they can mess wit ur connection as they please if they find u using ur device in way that conflict with every user receiving equal service. Do u tether a lot and if u do way kind of activities do u do
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T-mobile terms of service prohibits you to tether. Most people don't realize it but they can mess wit ur connection as they please if they find u using ur device in way that conflict with every user receiving equal service. Do u tether a lot and if u do way kind of activities do u do
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T-Mobile does say it's against their TOS.
Bottom line is my data is mine. regardless of what device i use it on.
Now i will say that i only tether to other Android devices (IE Tablets), but still....
Capped?
Sounds like you're being capped :/ T-mobile will cap your data if you're using too much of it.. I've heard this many times.. they cap after 5gb of data, or maybe its 10gb? I'm not really sure but that sounds like what's happening to you. Usually it will disconnect or kick you to EDGE to slow you down.. Sucksss
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I have a HTC Sensation and used to have a LG G2x and both of them came with usb tethering and Wifi hotspot out of the box. I think your hitting the 5gb cap.
Not really. It may be that he hitting his cap but my friend just got tmobile and he can't tether either. I tried it out and it didn't work. I could connect but the internet wouldn't work and I know for a fact he didn't hit his cap. I just tried it and my tether works and I dont officially pay for it. I'm running royal panache. Hopefully they won't start enforcing this...
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I know I'm not at my cap... I only used about 2/5 gb so far. And the 4g will work on my phone even after my tethering stops working.
I noticed that while tethering that Google Chrome says "resolving proxy" in the status bar. The connection works really well within the first minute of tethering and then gets slower and slower until it dies completely.
I have x86 and x64 windows 7 machines that both show the same symptoms when tethering. But when I boot into my x64 Ubuntu desktop the tether works indefinitely. I suppose that T-Mobile detects how windows handles its network and somehow disables the tether through proxys.
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T-Mobile does say it's against their TOS.
Bottom line is my data is mine. regardless of what device i use it on.
Now i will say that i only tether to other Android devices (IE Tablets), but still....
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I can still tether too, but I don't use it to often though, only when I need to get something important while i'm out. But I've been tethering since I had my G1 and when I had my g1 i would tether my ps3 to to lighten the load on my wifi router. I dont do that anymore but I still like tether since I do pay around 30bux for 5GB unl, I want to make use of what i pay for. But i end up using around 2GBs per month anyway.
I don't tether much at all. I only have been browsing the internet with the tether because my cable DSL has been out for a week. But that's another story
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I tethered last weekend for about 27hours. No problems.
Okay it's working fine now... maybe T-Mobile is beta testing some filters they plan to use in the future?
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Beta testing filters? Lmfao....come on dude...common sense check...he or she is using nightlies...THINGS WILL BE BROKE. Or it could be a hardware issue...either way I have no issues with tethering at all. Oh any rom.
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I have had to tether a few times with my laptop and had no issues, I don't do it often either though but I've yet to recieve a notice stating other wise. I would think that since they provide network service by means of usb network cards it would depend on the amount of data used in a yearly quater which would force anyone to upgrade their service for obvious reasons. My brother travels on business alot and he had to switch service for the same reason, not because he was doing anything wrong but because there was a better service provided for that specific use. If your on a laptop all day get a network card other wise tethwring should be for simple tasks ans periodic use only.
Sorry, Newbie to tethering, So when you hit the 5gb cap tmobile will shut off/throttle the data services?
Does that apply even if i have the Old school Even More plan with unlimited data? I could understand how new or plan changes where the option for fully unlimited is not available but not so much for old school plans.
I also realize post merger I may be out of luck but one can hope.
It's still unlimited, the new plan starts throttling at 2GB instead of 5GB. You still have data, just at edge speeds.
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My God you're literally stupid. Data for your phone. Not for your laptop but your phone. Go die in a fire please.
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are you ignorant and just cannot read. I'm sure you're just trolling hoping to get a troololololol our of someone. but i never mentioned LapTops.
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Sorry, Newbie to tethering, So when you hit the 5gb cap tmobile will shut off/throttle the data services?
Does that apply even if i have the Old school Even More plan with unlimited data? I could understand how new or plan changes where the option for fully unlimited is not available but not so much for old school plans.
I also realize post merger I may be out of luck but one can hope.
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You're plan is 5Gb of data. period. after that the brakes are slammed on .
cfnerd said:
Sorry, Newbie to tethering, So when you hit the 5gb cap tmobile will shut off/throttle the data services?
Does that apply even if i have the Old school Even More plan with unlimited data? I could understand how new or plan changes where the option for fully unlimited is not available but not so much for old school plans.
I also realize post merger I may be out of luck but one can hope.
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He's right, if your using more than that you should be on another plan, 5gbs is alot for a phone no matter how you cut it, personally I can blow threw 5 in a day easily depending on what I'm up to obviously but anything over that should be on a USB wireless network card.
Example:
http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/?shape=lcards
ive been capped a few times and got a text message from t-mobile saying if i tethered any more that i would be charged. they have a monthly fee for tethering and hot spotting. its something insane like 25 bux a month. thats only happened once though and ive tethered and h spotted since with no problems. its accumulative i assume and you have to switch back and forth from each style of web connecting. try it and see if it helps at all.
Was curious to give it a shot. Wanted to know if anyone has been busted and charged or any that has zero problems with using these features
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I've not had a problem using them and At&T has never questioned me either.
My kids watch so much YouTube on my phone that my data usage is pretty high each month...(I still have an unlimited plan)... so it's not unusual for me to go over 5 gigs or better.
But someone that jumps from not even a gig to over 5 all of a sudden might raise a few eyebrows.
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I tether to play xbox live and use about 300 mb everyday and havent recieved any notice from att
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What do you use? The built in app?
i use the built in app and it works flawlessly and gives better options than the wireless tether app (ie encryption-wise and tracking connected devices)
I use the built in app
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Built in app? Which app is that? I am rooted using the unity ROM,and I'm no noob,yet I am curious to which built in app yall mean?! When I plug in my phone to usb I'm guessing I could select "internet pass thru" and yes after almost 5 years I'm still puzzled. I have always used wireless hotspot or pdanet (back in the orginal tilt haha).
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The built-in app is called Wi-Fi Hotspot.
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I tether to play xbox live and use about 300 mb everyday and havent recieved any notice from att
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really..how is that when you play online? is it laggy?
If you get 3 bars you will hardly lag and if you have 4 bars you will have no lag
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If you don't have the unlimited data plan, I wouldn't recommend using it. I used it and SIGNIFICANTLY went over my data plan cap and was billed overage charges.
I got busted with AT&T using an iPhone... convinced them I had no idea what tethering was or jailbreaking, etc so they let me keep my unlimited plan. Even let me switch it when I got an Inspire after telling me I needed a "4G data plan", even though they don't have 4G... morons. Anyways, I think I'll try it on here. If you haven't gotten busted playing Live, I should be ok.
As long as you don't go crazy you're fine.
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As long as u r within reasonable limits, it should all be fine. I do, once in a while, to connect to my office laptop to check mails n stuff, and NOT to download huge files nor stream media.
I say keep it under ten gigs and you will be fine
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I say keep it under ten gigs and you will be fine
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Don't count on 10 gigs as a soft limit. Companies are working towards eliminating unlimited plans, and eliminating the one in a <many many> stray customers who hog bandwidth hardly make any difference.
in my town AT&T sucks, coverage is completely spotty, we just got 3G about 2 weeks ago and the coverage is unbearable, in my house i get no service at all but when i go in the middle of town it will jump between 5 bars with 3G to 1-2 bars with edge constantly but when ever i go to a city with good 3G im tethering to my mac constantly and my data never goes over 1.5 GB even though i have the unlimited plan
I used WiFi Hotspot once when my home landline internet was on the fritz for a few hours. It was a nice backup.
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Don't count on 10 gigs as a soft limit. Companies are working towards eliminating unlimited plans, and eliminating the one in a <many many> stray customers who hog bandwidth hardly make any difference.
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There is no limit that's why its called unlimited data and I use around 6 gigs a month but I said to keep it under 10 just to be safe
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There is no limit that's why its called unlimited data and I use around 6 gigs a month but I said to keep it under 10 just to be safe
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I get ur point. But u know I've seen many posts here in some threads where I saw people bragging that they used way excess of 10GB and even as a replacement to home internet service. I was only indicating that as long as one doesn't abuse the network, he/she should be good. Sorry if what I said sounded differently than what I had in mind.
Last month and this month again I have been throttled. I have been reading the countless number of posts on the subject on this and other forums and have decided to post in this thread everything I have found out from research and personal testing.
these answers can be found (except for good instructions on the calling trick) but are buried in other posts... thats why i decided to make this because it sucks reading over 50 posts on 10 pages in a thread for one simple set of instructions.
TOP 5%: AT&T doesn’t disclose any information about the top 5% but I have no reason to believe personally that they are lying about it. The reason for this is last month I pushed 20gb when I was throttled, this month I was throttled again as well but I was throttled after using about 1GB more then I used last month.
I urge everybody to use as much data as they can ONCE THROTTLED. However, as being throttled sucks, don’t abuse it till after you are throttled!
How to UN throttle:
The easiest way (and one which I cannot confirm as I am 100% stock), is to install a custom ROM that supports network modes (force HSPA / LTE) – and then – once changed to HSPA – THEN change your APN.
Changing your APN alone will NOT un throttle you!
For us that are stock this becomes a bit more difficult. AT&T has designed its network to FORCE you onto LTE when available – however, with so many iPhones and other 3g devices, the signal is still there!
A trick I learned and have done successfully for the last few days is this:
1) Add the PHONE apn
2) Select the PHONE apn
3) Enable FLIGHT MODE
4) DISABLE FLIGHT MODE – BUT – BEFORE AT&T CONNECTS TO DATA YOU MUST TERMINATE A CALL!!! Just make a call and make sure it connects before the 5 seconds or so you have when the data reconnects.
Once I did this, it seems to stick. I have even forced myself back on LTE and tried this over and over again and it seems to be working. The key is to make sure your phone has connected to another person BEFORE AT&T’s data reconnects (about 5 seconds like I said).
EVEN AFTER YOU POWER OFF/ON THE DEVICE (i swap batteries 2/3 times a day) the 3G still sticks!!
To get back on LTE after my billing cycle restarts, i just go back to the PTA APN and all is well. back on LTE!
To make this easier on myself, I call my office (goes straight to vm), then I go through steps 2 and 3 – then when im ready for 4 – I turn it on real quick then goto call logs, it’s the top most option, press it. And im on 3g !
MYTHS:
1) yes there is a folder called /data/system/throttle – this doesn’t appear to have any effect on throttling. However, don’t remove the folder – or you will crash every few seconds and will need to recreate the folder with adb before you can use your phone again! My files before and after throttling are the exact same.
2) visual voicemail has NOTHING to do with throttling, I read someplace about a theory that if you froze visual vm that AT&T couldn’t throttle you (for whatever reason) – I had my VMM frozen for this entire billing cycle and still was throttled
3) Netflix ETC: this is a funny one because the day after I used Netflix for the first time in my life, I got the 5% warning, the second time I used it I was throttled.. However this billing cycle I didn’t use Netflix or any streaming service (other than youtube) and was still throttled…. I was however throttled at 1GB more data useage then last month…
im still looking at the possibility of AT&T throttling people and putting them on a different subnet then normal users..
another note: I believe this will ONLY work if you are provisioned for LTE. Meaning if you are throttled on the 3G network - you will stay throttled... but if you are provisioned on the LTE network - thats the only place they throttle you (till they figure out a lot of us are doing this...)
Rather than doing the whole phone call trick...have you tried just deleting the PTA apn?
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another note: I believe this will ONLY work if you are provisioned for LTE. Meaning if you are throttled on the 3G network - you will stay throttled... but if you are provisioned on the LTE network - thats the only place they throttle you (till they figure out a lot of us are doing this...)
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thats a great idea and I'll test it. But I think I like the phone trick better either way since it works, and sticks.
and if I get a mms message I swap apn back to pta , download the mms, swap back then phone trick again
also since I'm throttled with like 8 days left would have to just add it again in a few days
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I went up north for a couple weeks and LTE is awesome...but I got the warning about reaching the 5% thing. I never got a warning before but then I never got close to 4gigs either. I don't live in an LTE area either so it's funny I got a warning when I was in an LTE area and never when I was home.
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Which custom rom should i use for bypass data throttle on att skyrocket.
Its funny you mention that.. while on our trip we were rarely in lte coverage (a few days). Within 2 days of being home I got my warning and then was throttled within 24 hrs back in November. This month I got the warning but no throttle yet (been home on wifi all week)
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I went up north for a couple weeks and LTE is awesome...but I got the warning about reaching the 5% thing. I never got a warning before but then I never got close to 4gigs either. I don't live in an LTE area either so it's funny I got a warning when I was in an LTE area and never when I was home.
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i love this method has workrd every time.
thought wish my phone had the option to force hspa+ without roming
Call and complain...worked for me!
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This did not work for me. I used the Phone APN and was able to connect to the HSPA+ network but the speeds are still throttled.
sorry should have updated.. as of the first of March it stopped working. (when they came out with new 3gb/5gb throttle rules)
now there is absolutely no way to bypass it
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OK Thanks.
Throttle
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sorry should have updated.. as of the first of March it stopped working. (when they came out with new 3gb/5gb throttle rules)
now there is absolutely no way to bypass it
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Come on theres always a way, let the game of cat and mouse continue.
So I guess this is because of the change. I had been using this bypass method on my galaxy 2 skyrocket for months with no problems, it was more than fast enough for me, then last week I decided to go back to lte speeds for a while until I got 'the text' like had worked in the past. Except this time I cant get back to HSPA+ by switching apn and going into airplane mode and terminating a call, it just keeps going back to throttled lte now.
so no others ways :?
None of these methods work. AT&T change their throttle rates after being sued by a customer.
If you're on 3G or 4G you're throttled after using 3 gigs of data.
If you're on LTE you're throttled after using 5 gigs of data.
http://www.att.com/esupport/datausage.jsp?source=IZDUel11600000000U
Visit that link and click on what you need to know.
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I hate att. I read an article that data is as valuable as money now. Its crazy I have to watch my data so tight...
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Look at it now, before you were able to have a smart without having a data plan. They saw it as hey everyone wants a smart phone and not getting data. So lets come out with 3 crappy phone and force a mandatory data on all smart phones.
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I'm still throttled every month.. With on average 5 days left in my plan..
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I'm still throttled every month.. With on average 5 days left in my plan..
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I found my self getting throttled about 2 weeks in.
I spoke so highly of att when I switched from sprint. Now That Sprint is rolling out LTE I find myself using my Sprint work phone so much more than the Att phone.
Can't wait for more LTE sites to go live
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I found my self getting throttled about 2 weeks in.
I spoke so highly of att when I switched from sprint. Now That Sprint is rolling out LTE I find myself using my Sprint work phone so much more than the Att phone.
Can't wait for more LTE sites to go live
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tch, i'd just like for AT&T to update this POS EDGE tower to HSPA(+) >.>
At least I don't have to worry about this throttle thing since with EDGE speeds I don't even think its possible to use enough data >.>
They won't acknowledge my complaint, since they say there is a 3G tower in my area, which is true, once in a while I get HSPA+, but its the exception rather than the rule.