Is it possible to use an android phone without a data plan and just text and call from it. Then connect to wifi for internet use?
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idlaxstar said:
Is it possible to use an android phone without a data plan and just text and call from it. Then connect to wifi for internet use?
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Yes
2nd. Definitely yes
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You can but tmobile requires a data plan when on there network using a smart phone.
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idlaxstar said:
Is it possible to use an android phone without a data plan and just text and call from it. Then connect to wifi for internet use?
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That's what I did the last few months with wind. But now I got an upgrade with unlimited data for only $30 a month.
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Tell them your using and old nokia brick phone. You might even be able to get the cheap $10/month internet and have 3g or something.
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You can but tmobile requires a data plan when on there network using a smart phone.
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Well not exactly. If you buy the phone out of contract then you can use the phone without a data plan. That's exactly what I did with my G2X and I don't have any data plan on it. They also aren't bugging me to get one either.
haha i didnt tell them im using a g2x
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You can but tmobile requires a data plan when on there network using a smart phone.
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Like another poster stated, they only force you in to a plan w/data if you pick up a new phone through contract. Out of contract deals are totally safe and you can use wifi for Internet all you want
My mom apparently asked a person at the tmobile store if this was possible and he said no because the phone will search for internet and update itself and then you will get charged for data usage. Do you have to turn the data off on the phone?
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idlaxstar said:
My mom apparently asked a person at the tmobile store if this was possible and he said no because the phone will search for internet and update itself and then you will get charged for data usage.
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It won't if you keep data disabled.
idlaxstar said:
My mom apparently asked a person at the tmobile store if this was possible and he said no because the phone will search for internet and update itself and then you will get charged for data usage. Do you have to turn the data off on the phone?
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Yea dont believe those idiot service reps, They would say anything to get you on a contract
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Sure bro:thumbup:
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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
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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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How do I get around the Tmo tethering block without paying? Was doing it off and on until today. Just courious about it.
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butterbeam said:
How do I get around the Tmo tethering block without paying? Was doing it off and on until today. Just courious about it.
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Are you rooted?
Yes
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butterbeam said:
How do I get around the Tmo tethering block without paying? Was doing it off and on until today. Just courious about it.
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I can tether without any specian program I have the unlimited 2gb plan
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I have the unlimited 5g. Never had them tell me I can't tether until now.
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If your rooted you can wireless hotspot/tether for free.
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I am rooted...
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butterbeam said:
I am rooted...
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ok... well all custom roms have wireless hotspot baked into them which allows up to 5 devices to access your 3g/4g data connection. Best thing about the hotspot feature is that it won't use up your data plan since your rooted and it's usually a paid service you have to buy when your not rooted. However if your just tethering by a usb cable you would be throttled after your 2gb limit.
Have you enabled wireless hotspot in setting's before it will work as long as you have an active data plan.
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ok... well all custom roms have wireless hotspot baked into them which allows up to 5 devices to access your 3g/4g data connection. Best thing about the hotspot feature is that it won't use up your data plan since your rooted and it's usually a paid service you have to buy when your not rooted. However if your just tethering by a usb cable you would be throttled after your 2gb limit.
Have you enabled wireless hotspot in setting's before it will work as long as you have an active data plan.
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Oh, the wireless hotspot won't use up my 5GB limit?? Wow I didn't know that. I thought both USB tether and wireless hotspot uses your monthly 5GB limit.
That's good to know!
mackster248 said:
Oh, the wireless hotspot won't use up my 5GB limit?? Wow I didn't know that. I thought both USB tether and wireless hotspot uses your monthly 5GB limit.
That's good to know!
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Yep, only the built-in tethering feature uses up your 2-5gb data plan, i read about the wireless hotspot not eating up any data while in use somewhere. I'm gonna try and find a link real quick for my source since i know it will come up sooner then later lol
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Yep, only the built-in tethering feature uses up your 2-5gb data plan, i read about the wireless hotspot not eating up any data while in use somewhere. I'm gonna try and find a link real quick for my source since i know it will come up sooner then later lol
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I would like that confirmed, if accurate I will be using that all the time.
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If your rooted you can wireless hotspot/tether for free.
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I am rooted, have 5g data plan, hotspot force closes, I have changed roms 6 times and still get blocked. They must have zapped the simcard. That's the only thing I can see that would have happend. I'm gonna do another simcard tomorrow. Will post results....
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Still doesn't work....
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I heard that you can find apps in the market to get the job done for free. Or maybee a one time fee or maybe pay for the app I dont know that is what I heard.
I've been tethering my phone all month and I just got a message saying i reached my 2gb. Now my data is noticeably slower. I'm rooted on EB 2.3.7
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builtboosted said:
I've been tethering my phone all month and I just got a message saying i reached my 2gb. Now my data is noticeably slower. I'm rooted on EB 2.3.7
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Same here... I reached my 5GB cap. I went from 8mb's down to 50kb's... Lmao.
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I haven't reached my 5g cap yet. It stopped me when I hit 4g of data. I'm still fast but just no tethering is being allowed.
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You could use an app called easy tether that has a one time fee of $10 if not your stuck with limited free version. This tricks the ADB interface so it doesn't show up as tethered so it will only show up as regular data from your phone not a PC.
Also if your using tmo network there is no way around their tracking and throttling of speed. A while back we could get around data throttling but i believe they caught on. If you running into hitting your cap use 3g watchdog and give yourself a daily limit and the app will alert you that you hit it
Remember when your on a pc it doesn't know your on a mobile network so keep youtube quality at its lowest. If your watching youtube at 720p you will hit your cap easily.
If your using netflix you will hit tour 5g cap in about 3movies at 720p.
Now the trick is is getting wireless tethering to work lol
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Ok, ill try the easy tether. Thanks
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I have been using my micro sim in my infuse and got a text from att saying I should change to a 4g data plan. Does it really matter because I don't want to change.
Thanks
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I asked to change and noticed a 0 change in speed.
Cranky...
O dear they are going to change the NAME of the data feature you are on, that's right the name, not the feature, price, or your contract, JUST THE NAME!!! I would call and cancel if I were you....
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Biggzz said:
I have been using my micro sim in my infuse and got a text from att saying I should change to a 4g data plan. Does it really matter because I don't want to change.
Thanks
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When I first got my infuse about 3 months ago they sent me the same message and have continued to send them once or twice a month. I just ignore them and continue to pull down 6-10mbps here in Chicago
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Biggzz said:
I have been using my micro sim in my infuse and got a text from att saying I should change to a 4g data plan. Does it really matter because I don't want to change.
Thanks
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Micro sim? how?
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Justinfedor said:
Micro sim? how?
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They make adapters.
EDIT: People moving from iPhone 4s(plural, not 4S.) usually keep them.and either are given or buy an adapter.
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Thanks guys...I talked to a local Rep who said if I didn't change then some of my features wouldn't work. I haven't experienced that using my iphone sim card but if they change my plan to 4g would that affect my iphone the other way? I mean features not working.
I know there is no price change im just concerned about everything working right
I have to say I was having real trouble getting good speeds till I switched. I don't know if I was imagining it or if it was just coincidence, but i switched from an iphone, could only pull 1mb down and 250kb up. Got that text, switched it(its only 5 dollars more I believe) and started pulling down 5-6 mb.
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Well hopefully it is truly unlimited I'm use my phone as a hotspot
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kepapas said:
Well hopefully it is truly unlimited I'm use my phone as a hotspot
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To get the unlimited data you have to pay I think an extra $10 or some sort of extra fee but the unlimited data doesn't include hotspot, for hotspot you have to pay for it seperately.
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You can't tether your phone
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You can with Root!
Hell yeah I got the unlimited for free
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kepapas said:
You can't tether your phone
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Actually, you can. You can add it to your phone. OR:
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You can with Root!
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Actually, i'm not rooted (became unrooted with the last update and just haven't gotten around to rooting it agina yet, lol) and neither is a cousin of mine. We both stayed with my grandpa for a week (our grandmother passed away) and we were able to use tether. He used it for his wifi only iPad and I used it for my Nexus 7. Neither of us rooted, and neither of us got charged for using it. Both of us on T-Mobile.
I just upgraded to unlimited w/out hotspot. Only $10 more then my previous 2GB plan. I seem to remember some rooted ROMs getting around it awhile back though. Haven't tried, but hoping I can get around it still.
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Actually, you can. You can add it to your phone. OR:
Actually, i'm not rooted (became unrooted with the last update and just haven't gotten around to rooting it agina yet, lol) and neither is a cousin of mine. We both stayed with my grandpa for a week (our grandmother passed away) and we were able to use tether. He used it for his wifi only iPad and I used it for my Nexus 7. Neither of us rooted, and neither of us got charged for using it. Both of us on T-Mobile.
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You may get away with it for a while, but T-Mobile is slowly cracking down on it, starting with the larger markets first
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How can I get my phone meid unlocked so that I can send it to beigephone and get it flashed to page plus. This DFB didn't pay her bill so I'm stuck with a bolt I can't do anything with but Wi-Fi use any ideas
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I guess is that it's not possible fml
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i have no intentions of flashing to another carrier, but several thunderbolt users i've seen have been able to flash to pageplus. you may need CDMA workshop if you want to do it yourself, i think CDMA workshop is around $100.00. there's a free demo version too, but i'm not sure that the demo would be sufficient to do this.
check this out:
http://www.beigephone.com/flash-htc-thunderbolt-to-page-plus/
and this one, probably the most useful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1294179.html
Yea dude I know all that I need the meid freed from a contract
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skeet43169 said:
Yea dude I know all that I need the meid freed from a contract
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So you're in a contract with Verizon right now?
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skeet43169 said:
Yea dude I know all that I need the meid freed from a contract
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I'm not sure that you can 'unlock' an meid yourself, that's something the carrier has to do (with stolen phones and whatnot)
So if it's on her account, she'll have to get in touch with them herself and give her IMEI number and account details. They should then give an unlock code to make the phone usable again.
If that IMEI number has been flagged (as stolen or possibly delinquent) even an unlocking service won't be able to help you until the carrier clears it.
skeet43169 said:
...This DFB didn't pay her bill so I'm stuck with a bolt I can't do anything with but Wi-Fi use any ideas
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What you are looking for is to CLEAR the MEID/IMEI so that it can be used on another account.
You can't do that. Only the carrier can. Until the account is settled/paid with the carrier, that MEID/IMEI will be associated/assigned to that account and therefore can't be used on a different account.
Since PagePlus uses VZW towers/service (to my knowledge), you're stuck until the old account issues are settled.
Yup I'm stuck with Wi-Fi only thunderbolt this sux I guess she won in the long run although I have seen some nice prepaid phone's I seen an HTC one and some evo 4g's that have ics and are affordable virgin mobile and boost have unlimited data
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skeet43169 said:
How can I get my phone meid unlocked so that I can send it to beigephone and get it flashed to page plus. This DFB didn't pay her bill so I'm stuck with a bolt I can't do anything with but Wi-Fi use any ideas
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So someone else didn't pay the bill for your phone and you're mad about it? Why don't you pay for your own phone?
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So someone else didn't pay the bill for your phone and you're mad about it? Why don't you pay for your own phone?
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WRONG!!!!!! This D.F.B. LOST HER JOB AND DIDN'T PAY HER BILL SO IT GOT 4 MONTHS BEHIND AND THEY SHUT IT OFF I PAID MY PART
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skeet43169 said:
WRONG!!!!!! This D.F.B. LOST HER JOB AND DIDN'T PAY HER BILL SO IT GOT 4 MONTHS BEHIND AND THEY SHUT IT OFF I PAID MY PART
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Woah!
Well all emotion aside, it sounds like you're SOL.
If you were on a shared plan I really feel for ya man, 'friends' can really d*ck you over on splitting the bill
People shouldn't assume what they think they know that's what's wrong with this place
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So I found a site that will get my phone a clean esn.So it's no longer a Wi-Fi only paperweight mrcellphoneunlocker.com
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