I used to use iPhone 3GS along with T-Mobile prepaid program. The iPhone allows me browser web for free through T-Mobile edge network + a proxy server.
I just upgraded my 2.5 years old iPhone 3GS to an AT&T version GSII, and did unlock. However, I realized that
I can not connect to the web through T-Mobile edge network. Even the daily pass for internet access is not showed up when I try to access to the internet. The daily pass($2/day) used to show up on my iPhone whenever I try to access to the web without wifi.
I did some google search about the issue. I am not sure if this is blocked by T-Mobile for all Android phones or somewhere setting is not done correctly.
I just set APN to wap.voicestream.com and went to the proxy web site.
Anyone has ideas about the issue ?
errrhhh........ why didn't you buy the proper version for Tmo?
i do suppose you are talking about Tmo USA and not Tmo UK right?
return it and get the SGH-T989
the one that you have right now SGH-i727 will not work on Tmo USA
I went to the cricket store today and I am thinking of switching to cricket from Tmobile since cricket now uses AT&Ts network. and Tmobile sux! in my area at least. the ONLY thing keeping from making the immediate switch is the salesperson telling me Hotspots are not supported by their plans. I looked in their phone settings and they removed the hotspot option in the settings as well.
So my question is, anyone have a cricket phone with one of their NEW plans (GSM phone) and rooted it, to get the hotspot back, and does it work? is cricket able to tell and shut it down? I'm just wondering if its only a software thing that they removed the hotspot in the OS or if it has some sort of network detection to shut off Hotspots.
Thanks all!
is bumping allowed? lol
Initiating a new thread as Cricket WIreless has succeeded AIO
Nexus 5 on AIO wireless thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/nexus-5-aio-wireless-thread-t2598309/
I see Cricket is advertising new prepaid plans including a 10GB per month data plan (Pro plan with AutoPay at $55/month). And SIM's are $0.99 (for a limited time). I assume no activation fee.
Since all of StraightTalk's plans only support 3GB data per month (throttled thereafter) I'm considering moving from ST to Cricket. I assume they operate on the exact same network (AT&T) so I assume there should have no coverage differences. Is that a good assumption?
Can anyone please post the APN info for CricketWireless?
Anyone else change from StraightTalk to Cricket? Any issues to report?
Straight talk has 4g... I used to use them.
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31ken31 said:
Straight talk has 4g... I used to use them.
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The "3GB" in the OP refers to the per month "high-speed allowance" (data).
Cricket Wireless referral
Can anyone PM me for a referral?
FunDionysus said:
Can anyone PM me for a referral?
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Sent.
EDIT:
Oh yeah, I was going to include the APN in this post. I'll just edit it in.
Name: Internet
APN: ndo
Proxy: Not Set
Port: Not Set
Username: Not Set
Password: Not Set
Server: Not Set
MMSC: http://mmsc.aiowireless.net
MMS Proxy: proxy.aiowireless.net
MMS Port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 150
Authentication type: Not Set
APN type: default,mms,fota,hipri,supl
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The correct APN settings are on their website. Can't post the link because low post count. Just search their site for "apn" and it will show up.
I switched to Cricket from Straight Talk (AT&T) last summer and don't regret it one bit. My bill is a flat $35/mo, coverage is great, no issues with SMS/MMS (my main reason for ditching ST). They just upped the low tier limit to 1GB from 500MB, but I'm on WiFi 99% of the time so it didn't matter much to me anyway.
Aio's capped speeds still apply, 8Mbps for LTE, 4Mbps for HSPA+. After you hit the data cap those speeds are 128Kbps and 64Kbps. I've only hit my cap twice, and my phone was still usable on LTE. You can purchase an extra GB for $10 as many times as you want.
Their account app actually works, customer service is top notch (the other reason I ditched ST).
If you're not a speed queen, and are in an area with good AT&T coverage I would absolutely take Cricket over ST.
I've had Aio/Cricket for a while now. Overall, I'm satisfied. My biggest issue is the occasional MMS outage and the lack of any kind of communication about it.
One year ago I had cricket wireless on a Huawei Android phone. I live in Florida and the data rates were pathetic, seriously between 40kbit and 120kbit.
However, Muve Music app was decent. Can't believe they are selling it to Deezer.
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Thanks for the info above.
Follow-up questions. Any observations regards to how well Cricket works with Hangouts and/or Google Voice?
And any issues with tethering on Cricket?
I could sign up for a month to test myself, but I want to port my number at the same time I sign up for Cricket. I've heard there are problems porting phone numbers from ST to Cricket if you try to do it later (I'm employing extra caution as I've never previously ported a number).
FunDionysus said:
Thanks for the info above.
Follow-up questions. Any observations regards to how well Cricket works with Hangouts and/or Google Voice?
And any issues with tethering on Cricket?
I could sign up for a month to test myself, but I want to port my number at the same time I sign up for Cricket. I've heard there are problems porting phone numbers from ST to Cricket if you try to do it later (I'm employing extra caution as I've never previously ported a number).
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Hangouts and Google Voice work fine for me. As well as any other carrier. Cricket doesn't officially support tethering, but I have had no issues doing it with a small change in the settings DB.
eunichron said:
Their account app actually works, customer service is top notch (the other reason I ditched ST).
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I disagree. CS has been far from top notch. Wait times were horrible and I got disconnected multiple times to resolve a billing issue where my debit card didn't have an address or name associated with it so it got denied but still went through as pending and didn't have phone service because of it. I called in a total of about 10 times on a Sunday and each time I got hung up on or the call dropped.
That sounds like straight talk cs
FunDionysus said:
Thanks for the info above.
Follow-up questions. Any observations regards to how well Cricket works with Hangouts and/or Google Voice?
And any issues with tethering on Cricket?
I could sign up for a month to test myself, but I want to port my number at the same time I sign up for Cricket. I've heard there are problems porting phone numbers from ST to Cricket if you try to do it later (I'm employing extra caution as I've never previously ported a number).
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I only use Google voice/hangouts integration for texts and it works great... the reason I left straight talk a long time a go is they close ports after they've been idle for a while. Ie if I haven't sent or received a hangout in x amount of time they close the port and I won't get any more messages unless I reset my connection yo Google or use Wi-Fi... It was really annoying when I relied on push through gv and hangouts and never used normal texts...
Plus the service has been out standing for be single aio days.
MrObvious said:
I disagree. CS has been far from top notch. Wait times were horrible and I got disconnected multiple times to resolve a billing issue where my debit card didn't have an address or name associated with it so it got denied but still went through as pending and didn't have phone service because of it. I called in a total of about 10 times on a Sunday and each time I got hung up on or the call dropped.
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That's weird, that was my experience with ST. MMS wasn't working on my Nexus 5, and their only answer was that my phone didn't support MMS and that I had to buy a new phone from them. I told them that it had worked fine on T-Mobile (I switched because I was moving to an area with no T-Mobile service). The reps were rude and ignorant.
When I switched to Cricket Straight Talk messed up porting my number. They had somehow generated a cancel request on their end, but still released the number, so Cricket wasn't able to pick it up. I went to a Cricket corporate store and they did everything they could to help fix it. One of the reps even called me on her day off to help try to fix it. Eventually I lost the number and had to start my account with a new one, but the store reps jumped through hoops to help me out. They even gave me credit for a month of service for the problem that ST caused.
The only other time I had to call tech support was to get some account information changed. It took all of 5 minutes, including hold time, and the rep was really nice and straight forward.
FunDionysus said:
Initiating a new thread as Cricket WIreless has succeeded AIO
Nexus 5 on AIO wireless thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/nexus-5-aio-wireless-thread-t2598309/
I see Cricket is advertising new prepaid plans including a 10GB per month data plan (Pro plan with AutoPay at $55/month). And SIM's are $0.99 (for a limited time). I assume no activation fee.
Since all of StraightTalk's plans only support 3GB data per month (throttled thereafter) I'm considering moving from ST to Cricket. I assume they operate on the exact same network (AT&T) so I assume there should have no coverage differences. Is that a good assumption?
Can anyone please post the APN info for CricketWireless?
Anyone else change from StraightTalk to Cricket? Any issues to report?
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Their APN info is on their website, however since Lollipop, it appears to be baked into the OS. I was able to wipe my device and when I rebooted, all Cricket Wireless info was preloaded.
Here is the link regardless:
https://www.cricketwireless.com/sup...ice-byod/customer/bring-your-own-android.html
Tethering on Cricket?
Appreciate the feedback.
I'm holding off moving from ST to Cricket until I can obtain clarification on the following two items:
1. If there are any issues with 'tethering' on a Cricket prepaid plan. I occasionally need to tether my laptop to my Lollipop N5 and so far have not observed any issues doing so on ST..
(It has been reported T-Mobiles newly announced pre-paid plans do NOT allow any tethering.)
2. Since I will lose roaming with Cricket, I don't know.if that will impact me or not. How can I tell if with my recent ST usage, if I was always/mostly connecting to AT&T towers, or if sometimes I switched to roaming on Verizon and/or T-Mobile towers? I want to be certain that most of my recent local connections were to AT&T towers, especially at my residence and general vicinity (rural area 10 miles from town).
In regards to CS, with Cricket having a store not too far from me, I figure most of my CS interaction will be via their store. So that should beat ST non-existent CS (after all, ST is Tracfone in Walmart clothing).
FunDionysus said:
Appreciate the feedback.
I'm holding off moving from ST to Cricket until I can obtain clarification on the following two items:
1. If there are any issues with 'tethering' on a Cricket prepaid plan. I occasionally need to tether my laptop to my Lollipop N5 and so far have not observed any issues doing so on ST..
(It has been reported T-Mobiles newly announced pre-paid plans do NOT allow any tethering.)
2. Since I will lose roaming with Cricket, I don't know.if that will impact me or not. How can I tell if with my recent ST usage, if I was always/mostly connecting to AT&T towers, or if sometimes I switched to roaming on Verizon and/or T-Mobile towers? I want to be certain that most of my recent local connections were to AT&T towers, especially at my residence and general vicinity (rural area 10 miles from town).
In regards to CS, with Cricket having a store not too far from me, I figure most of my CS interaction will be via their store. So that should beat ST non-existent CS (after all, ST is Tracfone in Walmart clothing).
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I've tethered a few times and never had any problems. But admittedly it's rare.
If you have an att ST SIM then you were only on ATT. If you had a tmobile ST sim then you were only on T-Mobile. And the nexus 5 doesn't support Verizon, so you definitely weren't roaming there either .
frigidazzi said:
I've tethered a few times and never had any problems. But admittedly it's rare.
If you have an att ST SIM then you were only on ATT. If you had a tmobile ST sim then you were only on T-Mobile. And the nexus 5 doesn't support Verizon, so you definitely weren't roaming there either .
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Hmm...it's been suggested in this thread and elsewhere that ST supports roaming. Maybe I'm confused on this.
Is there a diff in how roaming works for voice/text service versus data service, as far as ST is concerned?
And how would that differ from what Cricket offers (or doesn't offer)?
FunDionysus said:
Hmm...it's been suggested in this thread and elsewhere that ST supports roaming. Maybe I'm confused on this.
Is there a diff in how roaming works for voice/text service versus data service, as far as ST is concerned?
And how would that differ from what Cricket offers (or doesn't offer)?
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I just read the whole thread. That's no mention of roaming.
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I just read the whole thread. That's no mention of roaming.
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Duh! On a non-XDA thread I recently read, It was suggested roaming would be lost if I moved from ST to Cricket. Now I understand that info was bogus. So it appears I have had no roaming capabilities and thus have been connecting via AT&T facilities all along. That has been a satisfactory experience for me. Although I do only occasional texting, so not sure if ST texting has been working efficiently.
I have the AT&T SIM that came with the ST BYOB kit purchased at Walmart. So besides buying a $0.99 SIM from Cricket, setting up the N5 on Cricket should hopefully be straight forward.
First, I need to gain a bit more confidence that tethering won't be an issue. If tethering is ok I'll make the jump.
Also I think I should first sign up for a new Google Voice number to minimize porting issues (present and future). After I got my N5 set-up on ST last year I wasn't using my old Google Voice number so Google expired it on me last month. Darn me.
I have an unlocked Galaxy S3 I535 Verizon phone using Straight Talk
Details:
- Latest ClockworkMod installed
- Latest CyanogenMod (v12) installed
- Straight Talk uses Verizon towers
- the APN's Straight Talk uses is Verizon's
- Phone service works good
- Text messaging works good
- SMS service works good
Now my problem is that I have no internet access via the Mobile Network. I have to connect using a WiFi Network in order for me to gain access to the internet.
I have tried so many different steps to gain access to the internet via the Mobile Network.
And yes... I do have a Straight Talk plan that includes an unlimited data plan up to 3GB but, I never am able to use it.
Can someone please help me out?
Thanks a bunch!
Note: Just an FYI (to those who didn't know)... Straight Talk as well as Trackphone, Net10 and Consumer Cellular (as well as a bunch of other brand names) are all Sister Companies that is owned by the Trackphone Corporation and the Trackphone Corporation does not own any tower's. They are under a contract with many different companies who do own towers allowing their customers to obtain their service via their towers. It's funny that even US Cellular doesn't own any tower's, they have a contract with Verizon to use their tower's. This is why phones like the Galaxy S3 & S4 parts for those two companies are solely interchangeable. Just a Sheldon style "Fun Fact". LOL!
~ Post submitted via Samsung Galaxy S3 (SCH-I535).
Anybody ???
Ibuprophen said:
I have an unlocked Galaxy S3 I535 Verizon phone using Straight Talk
Details:
- Latest ClockworkMod installed
- Latest CyanogenMod (v12) installed
- Straight Talk uses Verizon towers
- the APN's Straight Talk uses is Verizon's
- Phone service works good
- Text messaging works good
- SMS service works good
Now my problem is that I have no internet access via the Mobile Network. I have to connect using a WiFi Network in order for me to gain access to the internet.
I have tried so many different steps to gain access to the internet via the Mobile Network.
And yes... I do have a Straight Talk plan that includes an unlimited data plan up to 3GB but, I never am able to use it.
Can someone please help me out?
Thanks a bunch!
Note: Just an FYI (to those who didn't know)... Straight Talk as well as Trackphone, Net10 and Consumer Cellular (as well as a bunch of other brand names) are all Sister Companies that is owned by the Trackphone Corporation and the Trackphone Corporation does not own any tower's. They are under a contract with many different companies who do own towers allowing their customers to obtain their service via their towers. It's funny that even US Cellular doesn't own any tower's, they have a contract with Verizon to use their tower's. This is why phones like the Galaxy S3 & S4 parts for those two companies are solely interchangeable. Just a Sheldon style "Fun Fact". LOL!
~ Post submitted via Samsung Galaxy S3 (SCH-I535).
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I also had a VZW S3 on straight talk and I had no issues getting mobile data to work. I wish I could suggest something but all I did was get the CDMA sim from straight talk and put it in. I didn't have to change apn settings or anything
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I have CyanogenMod 11 & the latest version of ClockworkMod. I haven't heard of any issues related to them...
I finally did what i should have done in the first place (what an A** I am).
NOTE: It would be great for those who are experiencing the same dilemma.
I called NET10 and they had me shut off my cell and a few minutes later asked me to turn it back on and, ABRACADABRA, I got mobile data.
NOW I have a Verizon Galaxy S3 with an unlocked bootloader and rooted.
It has ClockworkMod (CWM) Touch v6.0.4.5, CyanogenMod (CM) v12 & TKGapps PICO v5.1.x.
I have NET10 with Mobile Data working at 4G LTE Speeds.
As i stated above, i feel like a total A** not calling NET10 in the first place LOL )
I would like to finally thank everyone who tried to help me with various ideas to try and i tried everything i can think of and find (without crapping the phone LOL! ))
CASE IF SOLVED AND CLOSED!!!