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My DINC recently took a crap on me, and I'm currently looking around for a replacement. However, what I want to know if in the meantime it's possible to re-activate my old "dumb" phone (LG enVtouch or an old razor) without affecting/losing my plan (unlimited data).
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That depends on your carrier. In Germany it's not common to have a provision in your contract that forces you to stick to the phone given to you by the carrier... in fact I haven't heard about such a provision anywhere, but you might just want to check with them.
I sometimes switch to my old Palm Centro when I'm away from a charging station for more than 4 days because the battery life is better and I haven't gotten any complains yet
If you are with Verizon (EnV phones in US) then switching to a dumb phone will cause you to drop your unlimited plan and you wont be able to get it back. I would recommend switching to a different smart phone while you are looking. An old one from a friend maybe?
Until about last year, I trusted Android...
Then my mum bought me a present, a cheap Allview P7 Pro. Phone was looking fine, it was supposed to be Dual Mode 4G (FDD-LTE and TDD-LTE), Dual Sim as my old Allview V1 Viper...
She bought it in Romania and managed to send it to me in UK. Unpacked, plugged in both sim cards (Romanian Digi and UK Three). Been negatively impressed of the new interface looks, those devs really like to completely change interface from build to build, but it was very white-ish and I am a night person...
Impossible tethering. At the time, if I remember well, P7 Pro had Lollipop running, though now gsmarena says it's Marshmallow.
The phone was actually creating the wireless connection, but it was no tethering on it, as I presumed it was actually trying to tether internet from the Digi sim (which was disabled) instead of the one from the Three sim (which was enabled). I couldn't believe my eyes, there was no way to get tethering to work.
Then I just unmounted the Digi card and left just the Three. Finally tethering was working. But hey, we use dual sim phones for a reason.
Anyway, I've seen there were problems with connection. Even deep in the night towards morning when finally Three was working in the remote Highlands... (One of our colleagues had a Utok 400D, and I still think about buying that as a modem, he was shaming us with his phone, his girlfriend streaming a movie and he playing a game on the same connection during daytime, which was impossible for everyone else, but gladly I'm no longer there).
So I tried to download a movie. After about 2-3 minutes of download, it was actually going to stop. Pretty funny, Internet Download Manager, which didn't ever have any problem, before, or after that night, was becoming blocked into a "Connecting"/"Sending GET..." endless loop. Stop & resume. Did that more than 100 times in about 3 hours. Downloaded the movie, however, but I was determined to get rid of the phone. Packed the sims back on my old Allview V1 Viper, which I still use today and managed to sell the brand new P7 Pro...
Now I'd like to buy a new phone, but I'm really scared.
I don't know what's out there, I don't know how much devs possibly screwed Android builds, I don't wanna end with a defective flagship because some mofos talked to some networks in order to screw users tethering.
I still don't have good wireless in this location, but Three works very well. Still, I need to know which Android versions are to be trusted at least on this aspect of tethering.
TheEconomist said:
Until about last year, I trusted Android...
Then my mum bought me a present, a cheap Allview P7 Pro. Phone was looking fine, it was supposed to be Dual Mode 4G (FDD-LTE and TDD-LTE), Dual Sim as my old Allview V1 Viper...
She bought it in Romania and managed to send it to me in UK. Unpacked, plugged in both sim cards (Romanian Digi and UK Three). Been negatively impressed of the new interface looks, those devs really like to completely change interface from build to build, but it was very white-ish and I am a night person...
Impossible tethering. At the time, if I remember well, P7 Pro had Lollipop running, though now gsmarena says it's Marshmallow.
The phone was actually creating the wireless connection, but it was no tethering on it, as I presumed it was actually trying to tether internet from the Digi sim (which was disabled) instead of the one from the Three sim (which was enabled). I couldn't believe my eyes, there was no way to get tethering to work.
Then I just unmounted the Digi card and left just the Three. Finally tethering was working. But hey, we use dual sim phones for a reason.
Anyway, I've seen there were problems with connection. Even deep in the night towards morning when finally Three was working in the remote Highlands... (One of our colleagues had a Utok 400D, and I still think about buying that as a modem, he was shaming us with his phone, his girlfriend streaming a movie and he playing a game on the same connection during daytime, which was impossible for everyone else, but gladly I'm no longer there).
So I tried to download a movie. After about 2-3 minutes of download, it was actually going to stop. Pretty funny, Internet Download Manager, which didn't ever have any problem, before, or after that night, was becoming blocked into a "Connecting"/"Sending GET..." endless loop. Stop & resume. Did that more than 100 times in about 3 hours. Downloaded the movie, however, but I was determined to get rid of the phone. Packed the sims back on my old Allview V1 Viper, which I still use today and managed to sell the brand new P7 Pro...
Now I'd like to buy a new phone, but I'm really scared.
I don't know what's out there, I don't know how much devs possibly screwed Android builds, I don't wanna end with a defective flagship because some mofos talked to some networks in order to screw users tethering.
I still don't have good wireless in this location, but Three works very well. Still, I need to know which Android versions are to be trusted at least on this aspect of tethering.
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I think that would be more of an issue of the network involved instead of the device or android version.
Tethering should not be a problem if you root the device though. There is usually a mod or an app of some sort that can be used to enable hotspot/tethering on pretty much every device.
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Droidriven said:
I think that would be more of an issue of the network involved instead of the device or android version.
Tethering should not be a problem if you root the device though. There is usually a mod or an app of some sort that can be used to enable hotspot/tethering on pretty much every device.
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Still, my old Viper V1 never had a problem to tether, it never needed root for that (I rooted it because I believed at some point the speeds were too low for that to be the network's fault, believed it to be a policy thing, but Three in Highlands is 2G basically).
I was 100% convinced it was a Lollipop bug, that some developer addressed a wrong object, trying to get the internet from a wrong sim. I could not swap the sims, cause they were different sizes, however it could tether when only the Three sim was physically inserted in the phone. Still, there was the other bug, connection not actually working after a few minutes.
I mean the surprise was too much. You don't expect that kinda issue with a brand new phone and a supposedly newer version of Android. (I remember when Ice Cream Sandwich came out, I couldn't even find the internet settings, in 5 minutes I was flashing back Gingerbread, but Gingerbread was working fine on my Galaxy S at the time). Hate those interface changes they dish out on every new version.
Still, my question is: are the new versions having the same Lollipop bug on dual sim phones ? Can I safely buy a new phone now ?
So I understand that you can use Pay on the S3 even when your phone isn't with you. In this case, you will have to enter a PIN number to use pay. I am in the UK.
My question is:: Is there a limit to the number of transactions that you can perform away from the phone before it stops working - in a similar fashion to the limitation to number of contactless payments you can make using the debit/credit card before you are forced to use chip and pin?
I have not seen any limitation so far with it.
Yes I have read something similar that you are allowed to do 5-6 transactions only, you can get the exact transaction count on spay support page.
I'm sure that if you have the LTE version with an esim card, you don't have any limit since they have there own data and don't have to be connected to a phone all the time. Every purchase I have made with mine has required me to use my pin to make a purchase even with my phone on me. I have the T-Mobile version
Sent from my wickedly kewl Galaxy S8+ using my fingers. Duh!!!
Most cards will allow you to make up to 10 transactions before you will need to connect to the internet and refresh the Samsung Pay information, LTE or not.
I make almost all my purchases (75+ transactions per month) with my watch and I never carry a phone. A phone is not needed. The watch doesn't even need cellular service. The BT only models can do S Pay.
There is a set number of transactions that can be done before the watch must be synced with the phone. I haven't kept track, but I've run up against the limit. When that happens, any further attempts will result in declined transactions for that card. If you have multiple cards, those that haven't reached the limit will continue to work.
During one of the more recent Tizen updates, the watch gained the ability to require PIN entry only prior to the first use of S Pay after the watch has been taken off. So when I strap it on in the morning, I only have to enter the PIN when I make my first purchase of the day.
I am in the US, YMMV in the UK.
Works for me too. Frontier s3 BT only. I love being able to use any card reader and not only the Samsung pay ones only
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9 months ago I switched providers from NTT docomo (where I still used a SIM lock free iPhone) to SoftBank (where I got a new Pixel 3, and first time in many years that I got a phone + SIM).
But like how the whole nature of planned obsolence works, gradually going from best phone ever to falling apart to boiling my blood.
First the USB-C port of my phone stopped working (so I am now forced to use wireless charging and SFTP on a local network), then the FeliCa chip started becoming instable (which is fine, I can still switch back to a dedicated SUICA card where the FeliCa chip works for a decade), then I was forced to set up a finger print to use Google services (later on turned out to be just a policy issue in Google Apps, I already fixed that) which only makes my phone more insecure (random unlocking if accidentally unlocking the phone within 5 seconds or when the scanner touches the skin of my lag through my pants), but after I turned off finger print authentication my phone started to randomly unlock itself whenever I get extreme weather warnings (and since it's summer, I'm getting multiple times every day).
So I was looking for switching to another phone, and I bought a SoftBank branded Digno flip phone from Amazon, and my SIM card didn't work.
I went to SoftBank have them take a look, the guy was searching using my IMEI for 30 minutes only to tell me that the Digno problem is a very rare case and that Aquos flip phone doesn't have this problem because Digno is too old (released before 2015).
So I bought the Aquos flip phone that he recommended me, but again my SIM card didn't work.
I started to question it, and put my SIM card into my SIM free iPhone: didn't work.
Then I put it in an Aquos smartphone which I bought specifically as a SIM free phone: didn't work.
I went to SoftBank again (this time to a different store because I didn't have much time) and explained the situation.
The guy then told me that I must have my phone registered at SoftBank for the SIM to work.
Then I asked how I can do that, he said that I must purchase a phone via SoftBank instead of Amazon, or otherwise let a totally different SIM card get issued.
By this I'm not complaining or asking to hack the system, I only want to ask if anyone knows about such a tactic? Did anyone experience it too (in Japan or overseas)? And is it normal for a phone provider to lock your SIM card to a specific phone?
And while we're at it: if I flash my phone with a custom ROM, will this render my phone to be unusable with this SIM card as well?
Looks like you are down with a string of strange events and bad luck.
Softbank seems to be a d*ck and I would change a provider if I am you. It is illegal in my country, malaysia, to lock devices to network. But you can easily just register your phone imei to Softbank if you really like the coverage they provide.
As for phones I can't comment on that as I never used pixel, aquos or any of the phones you mentioned but the fingerprint able to unlock by touching your legs through your pants sounds like a hardware failure and I would bring the phone in for repair.
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In my experience Docomo works really well within the Yamanote area of Tokyo, but I cannot afford living there and my work is just outside of that area.
And I already had home internet from SoftBank, which were the 2 reasons why I went with SoftBank, plus its coverage works really well (even when I go to a mountain village north from Sapporo, which I did yesterday, I still have really good coverage).
Their SIM only plans were also really good, I really feel like an idiot that I took a SIM + phone set this time…
My friends (I have them despite my username) also recommended me to go with au, but I didn't like what they covered (can't remember what exactly, but I remember it was somewhere among those lines).
But would be nice if our politicians would make this illegal too, once big companies obtain too much power, it's never going to be enough for them.
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I only want to add that the only time I had a bad coverage with SoftBank was when watching fireworks at the Edo river, but I'm not sure whether it's because I was near a big river or because the part of the river has a 3 point prefectural border (between Tokyo, Chiba, and Saitama).
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9 months ago I switched providers from NTT docomo (where I still used a SIM lock free iPhone) to SoftBank (where I got a new Pixel 3, and first time in many years that I got a phone + SIM).
But like how the whole nature of planned obsolence works, gradually going from best phone ever to falling apart to boiling my blood.
First the USB-C port of my phone stopped working (so I am now forced to use wireless charging and SFTP on a local network), then the FeliCa chip started becoming instable (which is fine, I can still switch back to a dedicated SUICA card where the FeliCa chip works for a decade), then I was forced to set up a finger print to use Google services (later on turned out to be just a policy issue in Google Apps, I already fixed that) which only makes my phone more insecure (random unlocking if accidentally unlocking the phone within 5 seconds or when the scanner touches the skin of my lag through my pants), but after I turned off finger print authentication my phone started to randomly unlock itself whenever I get extreme weather warnings (and since it's summer, I'm getting multiple times every day).
So I was looking for switching to another phone, and I bought a SoftBank branded Digno flip phone from Amazon, and my SIM card didn't work.
I went to SoftBank have them take a look, the guy was searching using my IMEI for 30 minutes only to tell me that the Digno problem is a very rare case and that Aquos flip phone doesn't have this problem because Digno is too old (released before 2015).
So I bought the Aquos flip phone that he recommended me, but again my SIM card didn't work.
I started to question it, and put my SIM card into my SIM free iPhone: didn't work.
Then I put it in an Aquos smartphone which I bought specifically as a SIM free phone: didn't work.
I went to SoftBank again (this time to a different store because I didn't have much time) and explained the situation.
The guy then told me that I must have my phone registered at SoftBank for the SIM to work.
Then I asked how I can do that, he said that I must purchase a phone via SoftBank instead of Amazon, or otherwise let a totally different SIM card get issued.
By this I'm not complaining or asking to hack the system, I only want to ask if anyone knows about such a tactic? Did anyone experience it too (in Japan or overseas)? And is it normal for a phone provider to lock your SIM card to a specific phone?
And while we're at it: if I flash my phone with a custom ROM, will this render my phone to be unusable with this SIM card as well?
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It isn't a matter of "locking the device to the SIM", it is a matter of the device being registered on the service providers network using the device's IMEI number and the SIM card number being registered as being used with that device, both of these numbers must be registered together in your service account, that is how the network recognizes your device and how it knows to send service via that SIM to your device. When you switch to another device, the new device must be registered on the network and the SIM must be registered as being used with that device.
It's similar to registering your car and registering a license plate on that car. The car is registered to identify it as your car and the license plate is registered to identify that the license plate is for your car and not someone else's.
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It isn't a matter of "locking the device to the SIM", it is a matter of the device being registered on the service providers network using the device's IMEI number and the SIM card number being registered as being used with that device, both of these numbers must be registered together in your service account, that is how the network recognizes your device and how it knows to send service via that SIM to your device. When you switch to another device, the new device must be registered on the network and the SIM must be registered as being used with that device.
It's similar to registering your car and registering a license plate on that car. The car is registered to identify it as your car and the license plate is registered to identify that the license plate is for your car and not someone else's.
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If it's true, then I'll try it out.
Somehow confusing if employees of the same ISP working at different branch stores tell me totally different things. (´；ω；｀)
Long story short, my phone was under the account of a relative that passed away, so I had to switch service. Problem is I had a $1400 phone I was still making payments on... for some reason Xfinity let me port out my number, but the phone is not paid off. I switched service and I'm looking for a service to unlock the phone so I can use it on another carrier whom I already have service and a cheap phone with.
Anyone use one of those websites and which one is reliable and at a good price? So far I'm trying fastnlock.com $19.99.. they got back to me with a code that did not work and I'm waiting to hear back from them again.