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(Q) AT&T Alternatives?

Im in Dallas,tx so was wondering about if there were any other services that used AT&T towers. Greatly appreciated
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mattmiller said:
Im in Dallas,tx so was wondering about if there were any other services that used AT&T towers. Greatly appreciated
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H20 does pre-paid $60/month unlimited text talk web
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Well I had ATT and I left because of the lack of android phones. I went to sprint and found I had no signal at my house. So I used the prl hack do I could run on Verizon towers at sprints price and their phones. Just my 2 pennies. Plus you get real 4G.
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So that's legit? Cuz at&t pissing me off badly
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H20 does pre-paid $60/month unlimited text talk web
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I looked at the rates and data is 50 mb a month + unlimited picture messaging. Is stick with ATT despite bad customer service.
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Extremely sloow data speeds

Is anyone else having this problem. I have noticed slow data speed the last few weeks and before that I was having excellent speeds but now its 50-120kbs (3G)..which means no YouTube..and issues with anyone else
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Did you notice them after installing a custom kernel? I sure did...
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Do you mean kilobyte or kilobit? Here in south florida I'd be lucky to get 120KBs, usually its 50 and below.

Stock rom and kernal just rooted..I'm getting 0.10 mbps average download and 0.30 mbps upload (sometimes if lucky) ..I'm in sothern California ..
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If you think you're handy try updating the PRL.

I have tried but my computer won't show up in the com port in device manager
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Rooting my phone and uninstalling the virgin bloatware fixed my 3g speeds.
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cougle said:
Rooting my phone and uninstalling the virgin bloatware fixed my 3g speeds.
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So which apps did you remove and what improved your 3g speed or the 3g drop to 1x?

motorolatriumph said:
I have tried but my computer won't show up in the com port in device manager
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Try it w/ the phone turned off.

Yeah i hear you, ive been gettin low speeds as well, funny thing though, when im at a mcdonalds about a mile away from my house, the speeds are super high, like 2000kbps
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Same thing at Walmart I get 2 bars an over 1 Meg a second ..perfect for streaming Netflix..and that's in the afternoon-evening ..that's the best speed Ive ever got on 3g around that time..in the morning I used to get 1.4mbps..now like 0.2mbps if THAT ..
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Its a prepaid carrier you just have to deal with it, or do you want a $100 phone bill?
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Im actually thinking of swiching to a better company just cuz of the 3g, my gf has tmobile and pays about 80 a month but her 3g is FAST.
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Just put CM7 on your phone, it comes with the sprint prl which you have sprint speed.
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I have cm7 on mine now and it's a little better.. now I can get like 0.5mbps so half a Meg down.. so pretty decent after installation of cm7
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elflip88 said:
Im actually thinking of swiching to a better company just cuz of the 3g, my gf has tmobile and pays about 80 a month but her 3g is FAST.
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If she's with T-Mobile she might have 4g, well for that price.
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iloveandroid16 said:
If she's with T-Mobile she might have 4g, well for that price.
No its 3g, she has the mytouch3 and doesnt have 4g,
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iloveandroid16 said:
Just put CM7 on your phone, it comes with the sprint prl which you have sprint speed.
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Ok one wuestion though, i installed cm7 and under mobile network settings theres a few more things like international data roaming, national data roaming, and system select, should i check any of them, or change the select system to automatic, affiliated networks, or just leave it at home??
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elflip88 said:
Ok one wuestion though, i installed cm7 and under mobile network settings theres a few more things like international data roaming, national data roaming, and system select, should i check any of them, or change the select system to automatic, affiliated networks, or just leave it at home??
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I saw all that stuff in the menu but didnt touch it..with cm7 i get better service and speeds...now im back to stock so i can really feel the diffrence..one time i thought i was roaming when i had cm7 it sayed roaming but i didnt think thats possible and i couldent replicate it so must have been a glitch..
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is cm7 even usable as a main phone at the moment? i havnt been keeping up

Anyone have bell sensation on at&t 10 dollar unlimited data?

Anyone?
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Reason I ask is because when I got my bell sensation at&t told me I could get the 10 dollar unlimited plan,but whennthey added it to my plan,my internet didn't work anymore. I had to add the 2gb 4g data plan back
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Gonna give this its final bump. Google returned zip. Wont keep this in you guys'es face if I don't get an answer this time lol
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If you are talking about the media net
plan, yes i'm on it and using it with no issues on bell sensation z710a.
I'm on the $15 unlimited plan since I have not added unlimited messing.
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Also make sure you use the wap.cingular apn if you are having data issues. Attached is my apn setting for the media net plan.
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kirdroid said:
Also make sure you use the wap.cingular apn if you are having data issues. Attached is my apn setting for the media net plan.
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And you get 3g?
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brd912 said:
And you get 3g?
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Yes I get 3g, hspa+ speeds with no issues. In Seattle I get average download speeds arnd 2MBps since att network is not great where I stay. But I have hit around 5Mbps in Chicago airport while traveling.
If you want there is a thread in sgs2 forums about people's experience on media net plans and their speeds. For me I didn't see any speed difference between the media net plan and the att 4g plan speeds. So i'm happily using the one which costs less and get unlimited data in the process
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kirdroid said:
Yes I get 3g, hspa+ speeds with no issues. In Seattle I get average download speeds arnd 2MBps since att network is not great where I stay. But I have hit around 5Mbps in Chicago airport while traveling.
If you want there is a thread in sgs2 forums about people's experience on media net plans and their speeds. For me I didn't see any speed difference between the media net plan and the att 4g plan speeds. So i'm happily using the one which costs less and get unlimited data in the process
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Lol alright thanks bro
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kirdroid said:
Also make sure you use the wap.cingular apn if you are having data issues. Attached is my apn setting for the media net plan.
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whats the rest of that first apn

I got it!!!!! Holey hell thank you! I wonder will they notice I'm using a smartphone? I use about 4gb a month lol
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brd912 said:
I got it!!!!! Holey hell thank you! I wonder will they notice I'm using a smartphone? I use about 4gb a month lol
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I don't think they will...may be monitor and stay below 5 GB just to be safe .... I mostly use wifi at home and work so don't use that much data.
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kirdroid said:
I don't think they will...may be monitor and stay below 5 GB just to be safe .... I mostly use wifi at home and work so don't use that much data.
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Well i don't have wifi anymore use to I didn't even go over 400mb,if that. I refresh the marketplace every 47 seconds lol
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So this would work on other Bell phones as well?

mayurolla said:
So this would work on other Bell phones as well?
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Yeah,it should. I just didn't know the apn settings
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brd912 said:
Well i don't have wifi anymore use to I didn't even go over 400mb,if that. I refresh the marketplace every 47 seconds lol
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Just found this thread. It's helpful in my search.
FWIW, I USB tethered my Nokia 6700 Classic (which I didn't even know was capable of HSDPA until it launched). Signal used to be really good for it, but it started dropping like crazy. Thought it was the device, so I replaced it with another... same signal issues.
Anyway, I think I'm the reason why the signal is all crappy. In April, 2011, I did 800GB of data on my $20 Media Max unlimited data plan. AT&T never caught me. Until that month, I was doing between 10GB and 30GB each month.
Now, I'm looking for an affordable smartphone that is very much NON-AT&T so that I can continue to bend the rules and keep getting high speed internet.

G2x on simple mobile

For u simple mobile peeps, Did u have to Unlock ur g2x to use with simple?? Thanks
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I bought mine unlocked
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funziebear said:
For u simple mobile peeps, Did u have to Unlock ur g2x to use with simple?? Thanks
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Nope you don't have to unlock. Simple Mobile uses Tmobile's network.

Sweet that's what I thought thank you so it's just the apn deal and ill be set
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Yup. I believe if yu bring it to a simple mobile retailer they'll set everything up for yu...Apn mms and data. All dat good stuff.
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I just installed that apn fix on here just waiting on the sim had my sister pick one up for me
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since it uses t mobile network. does your previous account with t mobile affect it.? Like for example say you owe Tmobile and you switch to simple will there be any draw backs.?
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pillzzberry said:
since it uses t mobile network. does your previous account with t mobile affect it.? Like for example say you owe Tmobile and you switch to simple will there be any draw backs.?
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Nope...once you go to SM you are free of T-Mo. However, if you use Wifi calling or other T-Mo branded items you will not be able to use them on SM.
I did have a data loss last week with Simple here in Sacramento. They had tower issues. But nothing else of consequence.
One issue that I have had. On virtually every ROM is editing the APN. YOu can usually edit it once, but when you go back in often the APN's do not show up. Food for thought.

Lol. Hmm thank God. I'm going to get sm tomorrow. Thank you very much.
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Only affects ur credit ahahaha
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funziebear said:
Only affects ur credit ahahaha
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That's funny
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funziebear said:
Only affects ur credit ahahaha
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lol you got jokes. but hey is it the same for the g2 it doesn't have to be unlocked
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I had it on simple for a month and you can't get 4gis 3g only. It was still good enough but that really bum me out
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Sure u had it setup right? If u can get tmobiles h on the mytouch 4g I don't see why u can't on the g2x ill give it a try see what happens
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aliaselchore said:
I had it on simple for a month and you can't get 4gis 3g only. It was still good enough but that really bum me out
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Do you have 40 or 60 plan?
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So far its running nicely and fast
Winning
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aliaselchore said:
I had it on simple for a month and you can't get 4gis 3g only. It was still good enough but that really bum me out
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Actually you can and do get 4g depending on where you are located. I am in Sacramento and get 4g speeds on SM.
Your plan also has to do with speeds. If yo are on the $40.00 plan yes, you are restricted to 3g. If you pay $60.00 then you get 4G.
And no you do not have to unlock for SM.

They do offer a $60/month plan that has 4G. As usual the giant word plastered all over their website and retailers is "unlimited" - which, as we all know, is a load of crap. Yes it's "unlimited internet" - however you get 1gig at 4G - then the rest of the month you're throttled to a whopping 56k (so useless you can't even stream a song with it).
As for the disappearing APN problem - if you run the CM7 ROM, and you're APN's are not in there - all you have to do is pull the battery out, restart the phone, and the APN's are back in. Also as pointed out the specialized apps for t-mobile like the wifi calling app won't work.
Anyway - all that being said - I've been on Simple with my G2X for 3 months and it works quite well for me. Only wish they offered more data in the plans - so I try to stay connected to a wifi hotspot as much as possible.

I thought there flyer says 2gigs of data hahaha on the 60 dollar
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Yes you do have to be unlocked on simple mobile. You cannot use a simple mobile sim in a locked phone. You also get 2gigs of data on the $60 plan and 4g if available in your area.
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T-Mobile or Verizon?

I would just like to get some feedback from T-Mobile users if they like the service they get. I'm currently with Verizon and just hate it. My wife and I are still under contract for about another year or so and I'm thinking of just paying the early termination fee and switching. Now I now coverage will vary depending on where you live but just want an overall view on your experiences with T-Mobile. Thanks
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Tmobile/Wal-Mart plan for $30/month is amazing.
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stuckintheskull said:
I would just like to get some feedback from T-Mobile users if they like the service they get. I'm currently with Verizon and just hate it. My wife and I are still under contract for about another year or so and I'm thinking of just paying the early termination fee and switching. Now I now coverage will vary depending on where you live but just want an overall view on your experiences with T-Mobile. Thanks
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T-moblie is better than veraizon
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Unless you make six figures a year and have money to burn, go with T-Mobile

I left Verizon for TMO about 6 months ago. I'm definitely not Dissatisfied but it's definitely not an easy adjustment from LTE to HSPA+... Outside of the data speeds, I haven't hit a dead spot or dropped a call yet. YMMV.
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Of use two I'd have to say T-Mobile FTW
We see you meow on our nexus⁴ can we haz some more?

Well I had verizon and I left them for sprint and it was the best move I ever made.
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T-Mobile:thumbup:
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I left Att for Verizon and haven't been disappointed.
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Verizon reliability and speed are great. But their Bloatware sucks and you can't remove it completely.
Tmo is very reasonable if you live in city. In rural areas you'll have problems. Speed is decent and phones don't have all the security bloatware like Vzw.
If you travel for business use Vzw. If you rarely leave town then its personal choice really
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Thanks everyone. I don't travel so I'm probably going to get T-Mobile. I like that its cheaper and they don't lock their phones down. The only decision left to make is should I wait or buy my way out? Guess I'll have to see how much it costs.
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Verizon reliability and speed are great.