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Battery life on edge - outstanding

I am in roaming n didn't opt for the 3g plan, technically leaving me on edge all through.
Attaching below, I want to show how awesome the battery life is on edge. Hopefully this will give more reasons for our devs to work on enabling 2g/3g toggle in roms.
2.5 days standby with ~1 hour display n ~40 mins calls, battery is at 51%.
Standby drain is at 1% per ~3 hours. Compare this to 1% per hour when on 3g/h in US.
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That's really amazing!
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definitely impressive - i can't say it's surprising... you never use the thing! 1 hour of display time and less than 1 hour of call time in ~2.5 days - it probably feels neglected. i would keep a leash on it so it doesn't try to run away.

mfpearson said:
definitely impressive - i can't say it's surprising... you never use the thing! 1 hour of display time and less than 1 hour of call time in ~2.5 days - it probably feels neglected. i would keep a leash on it so it doesn't try to run away.
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The point here was abt the standby drain in edge, esp for users in travel like me who don't use data 24/7 n use only in intervals. Plus this is with frequent times in areas with low signal.
More importantly, an hour of calls now takes abt 6-7% battery, compared to 10-12% when on H.
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infused v2 has it in the setting app i was stoked

brorex said:
infused v2 has it in the setting app i was stoked
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Oh. This I am not aware of. I am on vacation out of country and logged in on these forums after a week. Looks like I'll have lot of following up to do when u get back home
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I did not root my infuse. Long press power button and deactivate 'data'. You can happily make calls and use wifi for Internet. THIS WILL BOOST THE BATTERY LIFE A LOT.
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Just curious, what do you mean you didn't get the '3G' plan? I wasn't aware there was such a plan and either way, AT&T doesn't allow the toggling of WCDMA/Edge manually, even with root access on current US based builds or with the star codes
Even though you're in a roaming zone, it's still scanning WCDMA bands unless you did something
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Just curious, what do you mean you didn't get the '3G' plan? I wasn't aware there was such a plan and either way, AT&T doesn't allow the toggling of WCDMA/Edge manually, even with root access on current US based builds or with the star codes
Even though you're in a roaming zone, it's still scanning WCDMA bands unless you did something
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Nice one U see, I am in India now on vacation. I can opt for 3G at a slightly higher cost, or stick to edge. Since its only mails n xda stuff mainly, I decided not to take the 3g plans.
By the way, I am on prepaid n paying $1 and 20 cents for a 1 GB plan with 15 days validity. 2GB plan with 30 days validity is abt $2 and 20 cents. Saying this just for sake of cost comparision. I think 3g plans for the same are about $1 more than those on edge.
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brorex said:
infused v2 has it in the setting app i was stoked
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Awesome. I remember asking about it. I guess GTG was listening, enough people inquired about it, or he just wanted to throw it in.

diablo009 said:
Nice one U see, I am in India now on vacation. I can opt for 3G at a slightly higher cost, or stick to edge. Since its only mails n xda stuff mainly, I decided not to take the 3g plans.
By the way, I am on prepaid n paying $1 and 20 cents for a 1 GB plan with 15 days validity. 2GB plan with 30 days validity is abt $2 and 20 cents. Saying this just for sake of cost comparision. I think 3g plans for the same are about $1 more than those on edge.
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Ah, okay now it makes sense lol - that's pretty sweet
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Just unlocked my phone

I just unlocked my phone for Verizon, bought a Verizon Sim card fir $5 on Ebay and used it to unlock my phone
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WTF are you talking about?
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for a long time i kept hearing people say you cant use the same phone on verizon and att networks, because verizon uses cdma and att uses gsm, well i just exactly that, the only thing stopping me for being able to use verizons network is the fact i dont have a plan with them, other than that i receive signal and everything

More info plz

The Infuse will not work on verizon network!!! You may have bars but if that sim was activated the phone will not work.
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OK I'm lost! Verizon sim card??
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on simple mobile, but 4g wont work
I went to cellunlocker.net for 10.99 and unlocked my phone and now im cool ,but the 4g wont ever be for me until simple mobile changes upto ATT frequencies

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OK I'm lost! Verizon sim card??
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Yes Verizon has Sim cards
See
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Yeah, but only for LTE because that technology uses gsm. The infuse will not work on verizon no matter how you attempt to unlock it or which SIM you put in it. Walk into your nearest verizon retailer and they will laugh you out the door.
All verizon phones must support cdma, even the LTE phones that have a SIM still have cdma support. The infuse has neither LTE or cdma.

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looks like a pretty beat up simcard you paid money for that

CheesyNutz said:
looks like a pretty beat up simcard you paid money for that
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dude its a new sim, came in the case and everything, never been used...

deathblade said:
dude its a new sim, came in the case and everything, never been used...
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i sell cellphones and from that picture that's NOT new
could be the lighting too

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i sell cellphones and from that picture that's NOT new
could be the lighting too
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most likely the light, the flash went off when i took the pic, but trust me its new

It doesn't matter if it is new. It still will never work.

Thats just lte sim; even if your phone lte, and if frequencys wore the same and if you got verizon to take imie, lte is data only so it be a waste of your time
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Thats just lte sim; even if your phone lte, and if frequencys wore the same and if you got verizon to take imie, lte is data only so it be a waste of your time
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not completely, i had already planned that if i got it work and everything i'd use wifi calling and texting anyways, though it may seem pointless, this is just me trying to make something work that i've been told wouldnt my whole life, so yes it all is pretty pointless to everyone but myself

So even with an unlocked phone if I went to the USA on vacation what type of sim card should i get going to NH in July for NASCAR

[Q] Your carrier?

What is your carrier?

Why would you want to know this and why would you care?
It says on our little info box next to each post anyways, no need to make a thread...
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Best Carrier
I've had quite a few but i love sprint since i first got it and will probably always stick with it.

Sprint, but have not been super impressed with service or data...
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well....
I have happymovil. It must be something really nice for british natives

Vodafone, but thinking of moving to giffgaff

jugg1es said:
Vodafone, but thinking of moving to giffgaff
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If you're a heavy user, don't switch to giffgaff. If you use data moderately then they are best.
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T mobile. I'd love to go to Verizon.
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KidCarter93 said:
If you're a heavy user, don't switch to giffgaff. If you use data moderately then they are best.
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How come, their 15 quid package includes unlimited data

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How come, their 15 quid package includes unlimited data
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It's not actually unlimited.
I used to be on GG myself and everything was going great. Then I started getting my internet cut off because I was using too much internet. How can one use too much of unlimited? I literally ended up getting cut of twice in one week for using too much and all I was doing was streaming through Netflix.
Here's a screenshot of the message I sent to one of their agents about the situation.
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I am currently on 500mb data, having to cut myself short as I'm averaging 3x that in a month. I think the most I'll use is about 3 gig, mainly Rom downloads. Won't be using Netflix or streaming media, but still like access to my files at home whilst I'm out, which is why I was looking at giffgaff.

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I am currently on 500mb data, having to cut myself short as I'm averaging 3x that in a month. I think the most I'll use is about 3 gig, mainly Rom downloads. Won't be using Netflix or streaming media, but still like access to my files at home whilst I'm out, which is why I was looking at giffgaff.
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With that usage, you should be fine with giffgaff then. I was clocking about a gig a day and they said that was too much lol.
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Giffgaff offer very good options in the UK, just need to be careful to make sure you always have a goodybag including data otherwise your credit disappears rapidly. Even better now the goodybags can auto renew.

Straight Talk (AT&T)

gagdude said:
Why would you want to know this and why would you care?
It says on our little info box next to each post anyways, no need to make a thread...
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Why not? We can discuss about the service of each carrier. Which is the best in specific situations or regions.
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dbutun said:
Giffgaff offer very good options in the UK, just need to be careful to make sure you always have a goodybag including data otherwise your credit disappears rapidly. Even better now the goodybags can auto renew.
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I say I'll change, but it does depend on what vodafone offer me for my next twenty pound a month 18 month contract which I can upgrade in January.hopefully this handset will last that long, emmc and ghosting issues that it has

Alarmmy said:
Why not? We can discuss about the service of each carrier. Which is the best in specific situations or regions.
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Look at OP. He just asked about our carrier and hasn't posted since. He never wanted to discuss about our carriers either, he simply wanted to know WHAT carrier we were on. The replies started the conversation on what carriers were good.
Since I posted second, all I knew about this thread was that some weirdo with barely any posts just wanted to know what carrier other people were using. He never posted his carrier either, usually you would at least say "to start, I am on AT&T" or other carrier.
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Nar mobile. Cheapest that possible

From Straight Talk AT&T to Go Phone LTE.....

If you plan on doing it, DO IT!! In case you don't know, AT&T Go Phone is their prepaid services and they introduced new plans that offer LTE back on June 21. I just did less than an hour ago and boy does it feel great. All of our phones are data driven and it is important to have good data speeds otherwise your experience can be ruined, waiting for stuff to load. Everything is lightning fast, even sending text messages is pretty much instant vs before there was a slight delay. I recommend anyone who has the straight talk AT&T to move on to the Go Phone AT&T LTE. It's only 60$ a month plus tax so let's round it up at 65$. That's less than 20 bucks a month from straight talk but with up to 10 times the speed (and I'm not exaggerating) . Here's a sample:
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65USD a month?! Who the bloody hell are you, Bill Gates?
My god, and I though 25 Euro a month (33USD) was expensive....
Dear T-Mobile, I take it all back, please don't start using American prices...
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ShadowLea said:
65USD a month?! Who the bloody hell are you, Bill Gates?
My god, and I though 25 Euro a month (33USD) was expensive....
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Unfortunately 60-65 is good in the US. And that's only for 2gb of data @LTE speeds.
I am on Att and between 2 lines with only 4gb of lte unlimited everything else I pay $146.00 that's after a 20% employer discount.
Being bent over is normal these days.
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Whoa
We(I) pay 25 euro's a month for 2GB 14.4mbps 3g, with free LTE when they finish rolling out the network in a month or 4.
SimOmly, though. I would rather use a dumb phone than that branded crap. I'll buy my phone myself, cheers... It saves me 300 euros! (700 @Tmobile, 420 mediamarkt germany...)
With phone is 35 a month. 1 or 2 years makes no difference in price.
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echonc said:
Unfortunately 60-65 is good in the US. And that's only for 2gb of data @LTE speeds.
I am on Att and between 2 lines with only 4gb of lte unlimited everything else I pay $146.00 that's after a 20% employer discount.
Being bent over is normal these days.
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Exactly. This is the US and 65$ is a good deal. When I was using the first iPhone, iPhone 3g and 3gsm, my monthly bill was never less than 135$ a month....
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For $70 you can just go unlimited everything with uncapped data and LTE on T-Mobile.... That's $5 more for an extra unlimited gigs
Edit: fail, I have no idea why I said extra 3 gigs originally
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For $70 you can just go unlimited everything with uncapped data and LTE on T-Mobile.... That's $5 more for an extra 3 gigs
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If it prepaid?
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barondebxl said:
If it prepaid?
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Yeah
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Yeah
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Nice! I may switch to that if I find 2gigs of data to be insufficient. Thanks for the info !
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barondebxl said:
Nice! I may switch to that if I find 2gigs of data to be insufficient. Thanks for the info !
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No problem mate.
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Wow this thread is old. I was using Straight talk 45 a month, LTE speeds. 5gb a month unlimited everything else. In the beginning it worked great, however, it turned into a horrible experience. I was with them for almost 4 years without any issue. Here's what happened........I was about half way through my month, When I noticed my data speeds were horribly slow! So bad I couldn't watch a video, and browsing the Web took like 10 minutes to load a website page!
So I called Straight talk 1800 number, which by the way is a whole different discussion. Lol. I was told I went over my data limit. I asked if I bought another 45 card would my data b reinstated, he said yes, so I bought it and added it. I noticed my speeds were still horrid! Well this went on for over a week, I called back and they said everything was fine on their end lol. So I decided to buy another Sim card and another 45 card. The second I switched Sims and added the 45 dollar card with a new phone number, my speeds magicly came back! So what happens is when someone watches a lot of videos, and uses all their data, straight talk sees that and throttles you forever!
I decided to switch to go phone ATT prepaid service. It's 10 bucks more a month, but they don't drop u to 1x speeds when u run out of data, they drop it to 3g. And I now have the option to add as many gigs of LTE I want at 10 bucks a gig. This is the way to go! Screw Straight talk! 4 years I was with them and they acted like I wasn't with them at all! Anyways I hope this post helps other people to leave Straight talk! They are garbage! Never again!

The best plan ”carrier"

I was wondering what's the best deal out their. I want unlimited data and tethering.
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Tunderpimp said:
I was wondering what's the best deal out their. I want unlimited data and tethering.
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It would help significantly to say what region you are in.

Tunderpimp said:
I was wondering what's the best deal out their. I want unlimited data and tethering.
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There is no "best" deal, but a popular one I know of and use is with T-Mobile, a non-contract $30 a month plan with unlimited data(first 5gb at 4g speed) unlimited texting and 100 talking minutes. I rooted my phone and can now tether without the fee and I use an app to make free phone calls. 5gb of data is a lot for phone usage, even if you tether it should last you a month. If you're looking for a home internet service though you should still order wifi because 4g speed isn't great on laptops.

i have sprint.. been with them almost 4 years.. i love them.. well service sucked for a while but now i get great 4g lte in my state so im happy.. i get unlimited talk.. text.. data.. and use wifi tether all the time with no issues.. i would hate to have a limit on data..

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i have sprint.. been with them almost 4 years.. i love them.. well service sucked for a while but now i get great 4g lte in my state so im happy.. i get unlimited talk.. text.. data.. and use wifi tether all the time with no issues.. i would hate to have a limit on data..
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Show me a speedtest with your Sprint N5 I wanna compare with T-Mo

markdapimp said:
Show me a speedtest with your Sprint N5 I wanna compare with T-Mo
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thats in my house.. If I go outside its better
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thats in my house.. If I go outside its better
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Very nice to see Sprint chugging along
Unfortunately we wont see LTE in Hawaii from Sprint until 2015-2016

I'm in central va , Richmond
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mblacki said:
There is no "best" deal, but a popular one I know of and use is with T-Mobile, a non-contract $30 a month plan with unlimited data(first 5gb at 4g speed) unlimited texting and 100 talking minutes. I rooted my phone and can now tether without the fee and I use an app to make free phone calls. 5gb of data is a lot for phone usage, even if you tether it should last you a month. If you're looking for a home internet service though you should still order wifi because 4g speed isn't great on laptops.
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I'm with T-mob and pay much more than you for pretty much the same thing. What apps are you using?
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