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How is T-mobile in New York and in general

Hi guys,
Don't blast me guys if you think this is a useless thread.
I was looking to buy the sensation for my wife but we have never had a contract with t-mobile and as such do not have any experience with them personally. In philly friends who had t-mobile weren't always happy about their signal when traveling out of town or just the fact that most people we knew were on At&t. Does T-mobile have truly unlimited data?
Anyway for a change I was looking to you guys for a review of t-mobile rather than the phone itself.
Also just to be sure if I buy it out of contract I could use AT&T sim card right?
Thanks for any replies. Much appreciated. Enjoy your phone.

Pr20 said:
Hi guys,
Don't blast me guys if you think this is a useless thread.
I was looking to buy the sensation for my wife but we have never had a contract with t-mobile and as such do not have any experience with them personally. In philly friends who had t-mobile weren't always happy about their signal when traveling out of town or just the fact that most people we knew were on At&t. Does T-mobile have truly unlimited data?
Anyway for a change I was looking to you guys for a review of t-mobile rather than the phone itself.
Also just to be sure if I buy it out of contract I could use AT&T sim card right?
Thanks for any replies. Much appreciated. Enjoy your phone.
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I'm in NYC and Tmo's coverage here is great. I dont travel much and when I do it's usually big cities so I've never had a problem with signal. I know when I go to some more rual areas I have some issues but that's not too often.
TMO does have unlimited data BUT you get throttled to dial up speeds if you go above 2gb/5gb/10gb(depending on the plan you have)
You will be able to use your ATT sim card if you buy an unlocked sensation or have yours unlocked. But ATT uses different 3G bands as TMO so I think you would be stuck on 2G speeds

Thanks for the reply. You see I am on sprint (EVO 4G) and I love Sprint's unlimited everything plan.I don't think they do the throttling thing.
So buying it unlocked and using AT&T is a no go if it's going to be stuck on 2G speeds.

Pr20 said:
Thanks for the reply. You see I am on sprint (EVO 4G) and I love Sprint's unlimited everything plan.I don't think they do the throttling thing.
So buying it unlocked and using AT&T is a no go if it's going to be stuck on 2G speeds.
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No Problem Yeah I think Verizon and Sprint are the only ones with TRUE unlimited data.
You might want to hold off then. I do think I read somewhere that a Sensation with ATT bands went through the FCC, So they might be releasing the sensation soon on ATT

graffixnyc said:
No Problem Yeah I think Verizon and Sprint are the only ones with TRUE unlimited data.
You might want to hold off then. I do think I read somewhere that a Sensation with ATT bands went through the FCC, So they might be releasing the sensation soon on ATT
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That's about to change on Verizon's side.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...data-plans-on-july-7th-and-theyre-not-pretty/

[Q] Verizon GS3 on T-mobile/Simple Mobile with 3g

Hey
I was able to get the Verizon Samsung galaxy S3 to work on simple mobile(prepaid service that uses t-mobile's towers) but I am only getting 2g speed. As anyone being able to get it work on t-mobile with 3g speeds.If the 3g works on t-mobile, it would work on simple mobile.

samsunggs3owner said:
Hey
I was able to get the Verizon Samsung galaxy S3 to work on simple mobile(prepaid service that uses t-mobile's towers) but I am only getting 2g speed. As anyone being able to get it work on t-mobile with 3g speeds.If the 3g works on t-mobile, it would work on simple mobile.
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I'm currently on T-Mobile, and I'm only getting max of EDGE connection, which is equivilent to 2G... I guess. Lol
Only way 3G or 4G will work is for T-Mobile to merge Verizon towers with theirs, and that will not happen, for about another month or so, promised by T-Mobile. But I hope so!

jtdo said:
I'm currently on T-Mobile, and I'm only getting max of EDGE connection, which is equivilent to 2G... I guess. Lol
Only way 3G or 4G will work is for T-Mobile to merge Verizon towers with theirs, and that will not happen, for about another month or so, promised by T-Mobile. But I hope so!
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From what I have heard from verizon themselves is that the contract talks fell apart between them and t-mobile. I have an S3 and have rooted and swapped sims.. then reprogrammed the phone to only pickup 750mhz 1700mhz, 1900mhz, and 2100mhz (I believe that is what I have it set to) so that if/when they do get back together and make it happen the phone that I have setup will be able to grab the tower information and get 4g. I have spoken with T-,Mobile and they are not saying anything at this time. I will keep you up to date.

angelicsoldier said:
From what I have heard from verizon themselves is that the contract talks fell apart between them and t-mobile. I have an S3 and have rooted and swapped sims.. then reprogrammed the phone to only pickup 750mhz 1700mhz, 1900mhz, and 2100mhz (I believe that is what I have it set to) so that if/when they do get back together and make it happen the phone that I have setup will be able to grab the tower information and get 4g. I have spoken with T-,Mobile and they are not saying anything at this time. I will keep you up to date.
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Wait so how were you able to do this. Can you post the instructions online.So your currently getting 3g with tmobile on you verizon GS3?

samsunggs3owner said:
Wait so how were you able to do this. Can you post the instructions online.So your currently getting 3g with tmobile on you verizon GS3?
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no. what I was mentioning is that the contract talks between them fell apart...I am still working on getting 3g on the phone.. however I have seen that the chipsets are the same between the models. I purchased 2 gs3s one att and one verizon. Opened them up and part numbers where the same on the main board. I am fairly new to the android development area and so to the best of my knowledge you should be able to flash the radioover but have not tried yet... am going to try once I get some time to flash an AT&T radio and kernals and see if I can put a sim into the phone and see what happens.

angelicsoldier said:
no. what I was mentioning is that the contract talks between them fell apart...I am still working on getting 3g on the phone.. however I have seen that the chipsets are the same between the models. I purchased 2 gs3s one att and one verizon. Opened them up and part numbers where the same on the main board. I am fairly new to the android development area and so to the best of my knowledge you should be able to flash the radioover but have not tried yet... am going to try once I get some time to flash an AT&T radio and kernals and see if I can put a sim into the phone and see what happens.
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Hope you got jtag Some very good devs have tried to get it to work for months and havent been able to. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1895684

4G LTE working on T-Mobile with unlocked One X

Idk if this has been confirmed, I searched a little and didn't see anything, I have an unlocked AT&T HTC One X on T-Mobile prepaid unlimited $70 plan and just started getting LTE today at home with it, speeds went up from a best of 14mbps on H+ to 22mbps the first time I ran it on LTE. This is going to be nice being that for some reason they never block my tethering so I use it as my home internet lol.

I can't believe the upload speeds, I used to never get more than 3mbps now its hitting 16mbps lol. Hooray for unlimited uncapped 4G LTE for $70 a month, and I've ran it up to 35 gigs one month so it really is uncapped.

punxnotdead185 said:
I can't believe the upload speeds, I used to never get more than 3mbps now its hitting 16mbps lol. Hooray for unlimited uncapped 4G LTE for $70 a month, and I've ran it up to 35 gigs one month so it really is uncapped.
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That's awesome, are you in a refarmed area?

Favelarx said:
That's awesome, are you in a refarmed area?
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Refarmed?

punxnotdead185 said:
Refarmed?
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Yeah, an area where T-Mobile changed their spectrum so that unlocked phones work on their 4g network. I don't live in a refarmed area and only get Edge speeds on my unlocked One X

Oh possibly, I live 20 miles from Minneapolis. That would explain why I get edge when I leave the cities but I don't care cuz that's like once a month.

punxnotdead185 said:
Oh possibly, I live 20 miles from Minneapolis. That would explain why I get edge when I leave the cities but I don't care cuz that's like once a month.
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Yeah, it's good to see that the unlocked One X gets T-Mobile's LTE

Lucky duck! Does anyone know if there's a website somewhere that's keeping track of this kind of data? You can't get it from T-Mobile themselves unfortunately. I'd consider leaving Straight Talk for T-Mobile if I knew I would have working data coverage in most of the places I go with LTE in my home town. I hate having to wait for wifi to do anything big. The One X in unsupported areas is so slow you couldn't google to save your life. At least with AT&T I get reasonable speeds everywhere I go except tiny little towns.

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I was wondering about switching to t-mobile for a cheaper plan, but can someone tell me that is the speed is good. Here's my speed for att
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Damn, this is faster than when I had my att sim in it.
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i used to get 4-8mbs Dl and 1-2 Upld now im getting 18-25mb with 11mbs upload.im in Los Angeles

Following up on your experience with TMO and One X
I was really glad to see your post about the One X getting LTE service on T-Mobile. I just switched to T-Mobile from AT&T with quite a few phones in my family (cut my bill almost in half!) To make a long story short I popped the T-Mobile SIM in my iPhone 5 and connected straight to the LTE network. Needless to say I was surprised because T-Mobile does not make any mention of having LTE in the Sacramento, CA area, but two reps did confirm that my LTE service was here to stay. Unfortunately my iPhone 5 and a Galaxy SIII and Note II (all originally purchased for AT&T and then unlocked for T-Mobile) seem to revert to the EDGE network and then get permanently stuck there after about ten minutes of LTE. Have you noticed that happening with your One X? I've always been a big fan of the One X and I would love to have one, but I'm not sure if it supports the HSPA+ 42 network and or how well it keeps a lock on the LTE networks for T-Mobile. I'd love to hear how you like it after having a few weeks to try it out.
Thanks and sorry it's a bit off-topic, just wanna see how the One X holds up on T-Mobile's network!

jamesbii said:
I was really glad to see your post about the One X getting LTE service on T-Mobile. I just switched to T-Mobile from AT&T with quite a few phones in my family (cut my bill almost in half!) To make a long story short I popped the T-Mobile SIM in my iPhone 5 and connected straight to the LTE network. Needless to say I was surprised because T-Mobile does not make any mention of having LTE in the Sacramento, CA area, but two reps did confirm that my LTE service was here to stay. Unfortunately my iPhone 5 and a Galaxy SIII and Note II (all originally purchased for AT&T and then unlocked for T-Mobile) seem to revert to the EDGE network and then get permanently stuck there after about ten minutes of LTE. Have you noticed that happening with your One X? I've always been a big fan of the One X and I would love to have one, but I'm not sure if it supports the HSPA+ 42 network and or how well it keeps a lock on the LTE networks for T-Mobile. I'd love to hear how you like it after having a few weeks to try it out.
Thanks and sorry it's a bit off-topic, just wanna see how the One X holds up on T-Mobile's network!
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I just sold my galaxy s2 (t989) because not only was it slower than my htc amaze, I just couldnt stand touchwiz. I cant understand why anyone would want to own a samsung galaxy smartphone, easier to brick, no access to hboot, nice screen, hardily any widgets, lags when switching apps, I dunno, I just realized I made a mistake trading my amaze for an s2, and I almost got a one s, but my dad has one, and I figured he would always be cool with trading me whatever I bought, so I took a $250 risk with an Att one x unlocked. I had no idea that it even had lte! Not to mention that I didnt think tmobile had lte cranked up in my city (Jax,Fl). Im very much stoked with a really nice phone that downloaded venomxl rom in less than five minutes.

I live north of Atlanta and switched to T-Mobile several months ago. They rolled our LTE this summer and so far the speeds have been great. I regularly get 25-35 mbps down and 15-20 mbps up. I only get HSPA while in my apartment, but am still able to achieve speeds in the high singles to mid-teens. Coverage here is decent although I have noticed several dead spots, most noticeably along GA400 north of town which is a major highway. Kind of unforgivable but I am hoping the spectrum purchased in the MetroPCS acquisition will better coverage since they had a big presence here as well. All in all, I am happy with the service and glad I switched from AT&T.

I get good speeds when I'm outside.
I'm on an good signal area yet I have basically unusable data inside.
I actually just wrote T-Mo a letter requesting an ETF Waiver because of the bad service.
I almost got fired because of missing a text...
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Can you help me I'm just switched to T-Mobile but I can't get internet or sms on my phone please help me
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max1099 said:
Can you help me I'm just switched to T-Mobile but I can't get internet or sms on my phone please help me
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Did you check your APNs?
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timmaaa said:
Did you check your APNs?
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Wen I insert the sim card it didn't showe any sons I tried differents tmobile sons but didn't work
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max1099 said:
Wen I insert the sim card it didn't showe any sons I tried differents tmobile sons but didn't work
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I mean apns not sons sorry

Did you any signal at all? Or just no data?
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Ting

Anyone have a Nexus 5 they have been able to activate on Ting?

Solutions Etcetera said:
Anyone have a Nexus 5 they have been able to activate on Ting?
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Have there been any updates on this front? Per my searches, haven't found evidence of a successful flash to an sprint mvno

Solutions Etcetera said:
Anyone have a Nexus 5 they have been able to activate on Ting?
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I've been on Ting with my N5 over a month...works great!
You need to have a Sprint SIM (Ting sells them for $10). Then, just go to their pages and activate. If you're already on Ting...the best bet is to give them a phone call...they'll step you thru the process to activate.
https://ting.com/blog/time-to-bring-your-nexus-5-to-ting/

Vegasden said:
I've been on Ting with my N5 over a month...works great!
You need to have a Sprint SIM (Ting sells them for $10). Then, just go to their pages and activate. If you're already on Ting...the best bet is to give them a phone call...they'll step you thru the process to activate.
https://ting.com/blog/time-to-bring-your-nexus-5-to-ting/
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whats the deal with ting? how much is it and what do u get??

P.Mobile said:
whats the deal with ting? how much is it and what do u get??
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All you need to know - https://ting.com/

I have my N5 on Sprint MVNO Ringplus.
It works great.

booda3000 said:
I have my N5 on Sprint MVNO Ringplus.
It works great.
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I have been using TING on my N5 for a couple weeks.
TING is very good - but be cautioned that I am only running 3G - not getting LTE. This is a coverage issue though - and not a TING or N5 issue.
I was getting 4G on my E4GT - but with my N5 I am now getting worse data speeds as LTE is not in my area
One of the things I really like about the N5 and TING - is I can switch to AT&T or TMobile at any time if LTE doesn't come around on Sprint soon enough!

I've been on Ting for about a week now with my N5. They claim you can only use those bought directly from Google Play and you need to buy a Sprint SIM card (they'll sell you one for $10+tax which is pretty much at cost).
Mine works fine.. gets LTE and everything. Just keep in mind if you use voice or mobile data a LOT then Ting might not be your best choice.. but if you rarely use mobile data or voice (and are in a wi-fi area the vast majority of the time) you can save some serious coin.
I bought my g/f a Purple Galaxy S4 and she bought me a N5 for Christmas. I have both phones on the same Ting account (you can only use Galaxy S4 or HTC One phones that you actually bought from Ting). We text with them more than anything else and have wifi at home and at work and at most restaurants.. and for both phones looks like our bill this month is going to be well under $40 total.

Ting ran out of sim cards No restock till mid January and my N5 is supposed to arrive tomorrow. Really bummed

oaliaso said:
Ting ran out of sim cards No restock till mid January and my N5 is supposed to arrive tomorrow. Really bummed
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You can possibly pick up those cards on Ebay, I picked one up there and worked great. It is a Sprint Model: SIMGLW206R

I ended up finding a local Sprint repair shop that just gave me one when I asked nicely Love the N5... but I have the same service issues I did with the HTC One when it had a CM/AOSP/GE ROM installed. At this point I'll ride that out and see if it gets better or if I need to find a different provider.

Canadian Oneplus Owners

Are you able to connect to LTE ? The best i can get on Rogers is H+ in Montreal, tried fiddling with the bands but nothing. I'm following this thread in the hopes that i could work to unlock the LTE bands.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-unlock-aditional-bands-qualcomm-t2877031
Anyone got any other input/solutions/tricks ?

I'm on Koodo, and I get LTE.

Yeah LTE works fine on Rogers.
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LTE on Bell. But the area I live in and the area I work in it jumps in and out of LTE and H+ but thats a stupid Bell issue.

It shows LTE on the icon on top ? Can you tell me what network type you have in the phone info *#*#4636&#*#* because i'm not getting LTE at all

Cholerabob said:
It shows LTE on the icon on top ? Can you tell me what network type you have in the phone info *#*#4636&#*#* because i'm not getting LTE at all
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Mine shows as: TD-SCDMA, GSM/WCDMA and LTE

I'm getting lte on telus here in Vancouver. Are you using the international opo?

Yes i have the International version ( the one with cyanogen logo ) and i am on the TD-SCDMA, GSM/WCDMA and LTE network ( thought i had changed it cause i played around in there ) very strange since Montreal has complete LTE coverage. Even the LTE discovery app doesn't see any signal and the Cellular Widget app either...

Cholerabob said:
Are you able to connect to LTE ? The best i can get on Rogers is H+ in Montreal, tried fiddling with the bands but nothing. I'm following this thread in the hopes that i could work to unlock the LTE bands.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-unlock-aditional-bands-qualcomm-t2877031
Anyone got any other input/solutions/tricks ?
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I feel like you have to go to "Access point names" and chose Rogers LTE there.... default isn't that...
I was getting low download speed prior to changing that. Still H+ logo though *shrug*
Then again, with my Rogers S3 I would never see the LTE icon either....
Edit: I'm getting LTE icon in some areas now

I just got my opo yesterday. Traded my G3 for it. Lol. It's worth half the price. Anyway, I have a device that doesn't say cyanogen on the back. I've read somewhere that it means it the Chinese 3g model. Anyway I'm in Montreal too, with fido and I get LTE just fine.
All I had to do was pop in my LTE SIM card and I was good to go. All apns were there and everything.

Whoa! Now that's LTE. Way faster than both, my s5 and my g3.

Cholerabob said:
It shows LTE on the icon on top ? Can you tell me what network type you have in the phone info *#*#4636&#*#* because i'm not getting LTE at all
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So? Have you managed to get LTE to work?
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Brought a couple of OPO's to Canada for my friends and family members.
All working on Rogers with LTE, H+ and EDGE.
Just needed to set it to Rogers LTE in the APN as a few threads up stated and LTE was enabled.
Tested in these locations in Toronto:
- Downtown Toronto
- Markham
- Richmond Hill
- Vaughan
- Scarborough

mrnovanova said:
So? Have you managed to get LTE to work?
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Yeah stupid me, the APN was set to regular Rogers signal, selected Rogers LTE and everything is ok now :silly: :good: I'm gonna go hide under a rock now... lol

Cholerabob said:
Yeah stupid me, the APN was set to regular Rogers signal, selected Rogers LTE and everything is ok now :silly: :good: I'm gonna go hide under a rock now... lol
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Lol. I wanted to ask but I figured that you already had the right apn. We've all done it at some point.
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Canadian OPO owners
Hello fellow Canadian OPO,
I will soon be joining the party, as I have just ordered this a day ago. How much was the final cost for you guys at the door. I have just ordered but I feel like us Canadians are getting ripped off with the taxes and import fees. If I were to resell this phone, would do you think the resale value would be? Thanks in advance my friends from the North.

oxxshadow said:
Hello fellow Canadian OPO,
I will soon be joining the party, as I have just ordered this a day ago. How much was the final cost for you guys at the door. I have just ordered but I feel like us Canadians are getting ripped off with the taxes and import fees. If I were to resell this phone, would do you think the resale value would be? Thanks in advance my friends from the North.
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My overall total with shipping, taxes, and exchange rate was 477CAD. I could have saved around $60 shipping it to a mailbox in the US and then driving down to pick it up, but I was lazy.

kokocabana said:
My overall total with shipping, taxes, and exchange rate was 477CAD. I could have saved around $60 shipping it to a mailbox in the US and then driving down to pick it up, but I was lazy.
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Oh I see. Do you still feel like the phone was a good buy, despite the exchange rate?

Definitely. I had placed an order for the htc m8 right before I heard about the OPO and that would have cost me near 800 after taxes and shipping. Even if this phone was priced like all the other flagship phones, I'd still pick this one. It's just a solid overall phone that has great battery life, easy to customize, top specs without gimmicks like dual cameras, finger and heart rate sensors. I used my last phone for over 4 years and it held up great and I'm planning for this phone to do the same.
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For me it was 67$ of shipping/duties/taxes to Montreal , %$^%&* DHL