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Really the best way to know for sure before buying all that junk is to find a friend with an AT&T smartphone, or ask to borrow an AT&T sim. Failing that, if you have $460 that you can afford to tie up on a credit card, you can buy the same phone from Target.com http://www.target.com/p/samsung-nexus-i9250-unlocked-cell-phone-titanium-silver/-/A-14078800 If you keep it in pristine condition, you have 90 days to return it, no restocking fees, which is pretty awesome.
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# ? Sep 6, 2012 23:54 |
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Zero VGS posted:- The auction I posted had a Buy It Now price of $250 when I posted, but the Buy It Now option can be set to disappear if an item is bid over a certain threshold which seems to have happened in this case. Zero VGS posted:- I dunno about the SII having better battery life, if I stream music for two hours and lightly use it the rest of the day I'm lucky to get ten hours. I've owned about eight different T-989s that I've either bought and returned (ghetto free rental before I had money) or sold to friends, and none can stay on for more than 12 hours on the best day. I hear the Bugless Beast kernel on Nexus grants magical battery life. Zero VGS posted:Failing that, if you have $460 that you can afford to tie up on a credit card, you can buy the same phone from Target.com http://www.target.com/p/samsung-nexus-i9250-unlocked-cell-phone-titanium-silver/-/A-14078800
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# ? Sep 7, 2012 15:30 |
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Why would you want to buy a Nexus from Target for $110 more then on the play store?
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# ? Sep 7, 2012 17:38 |
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LiquidRain, I have another question about Ting. Is it possible to split a bill between another person? My wife is on a subsidized phone, and the rest of my family is on verizon and won't budge from them. I'd like to find some stranger (maybe a goon?) to maybe share a line and just get 2 separate bills, and just split usage in half. Is that possible? And going back to the thing you said about 'blocking' stuff on the account: Is it possible to set a hard cap on how many voice minutes/data is used so it doesn't go over? Also, is it possible to split those minutes/data evenly between 2 people so nobody goes over their portion? Mister Fister fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Sep 7, 2012 |
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1karus posted:Why would you want to buy a Nexus from Target for $110 more then on the play store? I was saying that if you keep the phone looking like new, then you'd have 90 days to try it and return it to any Target for free. If he wanted to test his reception with a Play Store Nexus and it didn't work out, they charge I think $20 as a restocking fee, and you're out $10 for the two-day shipping you're force to buy as well.
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# ? Sep 7, 2012 19:42 |
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Mister Fister posted:LiquidRain, We also cannot detect how many minutes you're using while on call, so if you're sitting at 90 minutes and make a 30 minute call we can't stop that call. You'll wind up going over into our medium voice bucket. Sprint only reports that call when it's done. (and there are delays in that as well, usually negligible but we cannot promise immediacy, so a follow-up call right afterwards can still happen) Data works in similar bunches as well, a video near your threshold will push you over without us knowing until it's too late. LiquidRain fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Sep 7, 2012 |
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Friend splitting a cell bill with a stranger with the promise of only using half is basically the worst idea short of the same arrangement with your bank account
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# ? Sep 7, 2012 20:20 |
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LiquidRain posted:A big "sorry" on all fronts. Billing is to a singular credit card, and our alert system only alerts you, it cannot stop you from going over. You have to go in manually and turn off a phone's functionality in the control panel. There is a feature in our open beta to *suspend* a phone at a certain point, but that renders the device useless - all text, voice, and data operations. The only thing you can do at that point is call us. (similar to what happens if you simply stop paying us) drat, ok thanks. *coughthat'safeatureyoushouldimplementcough* Gourd of Taste posted:Friend splitting a cell bill with a stranger with the promise of only using half is basically the worst idea short of the same arrangement with your bank account Well if there were hard stops, it would work. I split my amazon prime with 4 other people i don't know
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# ? Sep 7, 2012 20:36 |
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I finally got around to using SIPDroid a couple of months ago, because I started making a lot more calls than before and I have a grandfathered $25/month 300min Virgin Mobile plan. It hooked up to my Google Voice account, created a pbxes.org account, etc, and everything was fine. About a week ago I got this email: quote:for your newly created PBXes account [whatever] please add your Personal This evening: quote:Your account [whatever] has been deleted Any idea what the hell just happened? My personal data was complete and accurate and I sure didn't ask for it to be deleted. Has this happened to anybody else? And also, does anybody have any good instructions on hooking everything up again with a new pbxes.org account? Because it did everything automatically last time and I will be completely lost if I have to start over.
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# ? Sep 8, 2012 03:52 |
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If I have a regular StraightTalk SIM, will it work in Canada? I'm headed up there tonight for a bachelor party, and it would be nice to be able to communicate with people if we get separated. It looks like i'll have to shell out some money beforehand (one place says the min. is $5, the other says the min. is $10) to "enable international calling at $0.XX cents per minute? How does data work? I only see info on minutes, not data or even regular texting. I have all my texts go through Google Voice...I might find wi-fi, I might not (what are the odds a strip club has wi-fi?) Edit: Oh, that plan is for calling to international places from the US. What about calling while IN those places? Near as I can tell, I'm screwed unless I want to actually shell out money for a pre-paid Canadian SIM, which isn't worth it for the one night I'm there. DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Sep 8, 2012 |
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You're going to be roaming for sure, your phone will continue to work, but expect to pay outrageous rates. When I roam in the US on my Canadian phone it's $0.25/text and $0.75/minute (regardless of inbound/outbound), and don't even *think* about using data. Bad idea. Very bad idea to use data.
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# ? Sep 8, 2012 17:49 |
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Android Central put up a nice little article about prepaid. It answers some questions and also has a nice graphic of how much you can save: http://www.androidcentral.com/prepaid-not-just-burner-phones-anymore
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# ? Sep 11, 2012 05:53 |
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Now that's a helpful chart to show people. Speaking of saving money on T-Mobile Prepaid's cheapest option, the Galaxy S II Prepaid was in stock at Walmart a little while ago, but before I could post about it here it sold out again. Either everyone must be buying these, or Walmart isn't getting much stock. http://www.walmart.com/ip/T-Mobile-Pre-Paid-Samsung-Galaxy-S-II-w-30-Airtime-Card/21631986
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# ? Sep 11, 2012 12:07 |
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Hi LiquidRain, I'm 95% sure i'm going to jump on Ting. I have a question though. 30 minutes ago, i just bought a 32 GB Samsung Galaxy S3 from cowboom, Sprint version. It's slightly used so i got a good deal at $349. Do you know a) When BYOSD goes into effect and b) whether or not the Sprint version of the SGS3 is part of the BYOSD program? I think i have about 30-40 days to return this if i can't use the phone. Or i guess i could also sell it too. Edit: oh one more question, would i pay tax on the phone if i bought it through TING instead? Just want to compare how much i would have saved. If you guys don't charge tax, i might cancel my order and order a brand new SGS3 from you guys. Mister Fister fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Sep 11, 2012 |
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Mister Fister posted:Hi LiquidRain, I don't believe the SGS3 is excluded. The main exclusions are the iPhone and Galaxy Nexus. The guy I'll put you in contact with will know for sure, though.
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# ? Sep 11, 2012 23:28 |
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LiquidRain posted:Send me your email in a PM and I'll forward you along to hopefully make you a part of the BYOSD beta program. Once you're in contact with a guy who can help you with that he should give you a better idea of when. Sent you my email, thanks... And i guess i didn't get my edit in fast enough, but could you also answer this as well: quote:oh one more question, would i pay tax on the phone if i bought it through TING instead? Just want to compare how much i would have saved. If you guys don't charge tax, i might cancel my order and order a brand new SGS3 from you guys.
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# ? Sep 11, 2012 23:38 |
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We charge tax.
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# ? Sep 11, 2012 23:50 |
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LiquidRain posted:We charge tax. Ah ok... guess i got a pretty darn good deal then. Thanks again.
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# ? Sep 11, 2012 23:51 |
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I wonder how fast these prepaid companies (specifically Tmo & straight talk) are going to be about getting out nano-SIMs. The new iPhone is rumored to use them (Vodafone UK posted about having 500k of them stock piled for the big day so it's all but confirmed) and my girlfriend is intent on buying an unlocked one on day one. She's going to be rather disappointed if she can't put it to use right away. SB35 fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Sep 12, 2012 |
# ? Sep 12, 2012 00:33 |
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Take old SIM card, cut plastic off old SIM card, job done. http://www.solutios.com/simcutting/
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 00:58 |
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LiquidRain posted:Take old SIM card, cut plastic off old SIM card, job done. May not be that easy, the nano-SIM is even smaller and thinner therefore to make it fit one may have to take it to a piece of sandpaper or something to get it to fit. see here e: am I being dense here? I'm talking about a new, even smaller than the iPhone 4 sized SIM here. Nano SIM SB35 fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Sep 12, 2012 |
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I used one of these the other day: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UEWF8I/ Took a few seconds. Align the SIM correctly, press firmly and quickly, and after a satisfying "clunk" you have a microSIM. It's the perfect size. And immediately throw away the adapters. They are absolute junk.
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 17:39 |
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Yesterday night two dudes had a table set up in front of the student center on campus and they were pitching a cell phone service called Solavei and nets you unlimited everything for $50 a month and lets you refer people for bonus cash (So basically it's a ponzi scheme) The dudes were poorly informed and really poorly chosen college students and did a piss poor job of not sounding incredibly sketchy, the actual website is less back-of-an-alley sketchy and more 80s-used-car-salesman sketchy http://www.solavei.com/ I'm not dumb enough to fall for it but it's weird because $50 a month for service isn't underhanded or that bad of a price (even assuming really low hidden caps) and unlike most pyramid scams the product is something people would actually want
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 18:25 |
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Mister Snips posted:Yesterday night two dudes had a table set up in front of the student center on campus and they were pitching a cell phone service called Solavei and nets you unlimited everything for $50 a month and lets you refer people for bonus cash (So basically it's a ponzi scheme) From the website it looks like they're going to be a T-mobile MVNO. They have a link to a PDF on their overview page that says they're going to throttle after 4 GB of data, which is actually better than the $50 plan from Tmobile (throttle after 100 MB) or the $50 plan from Simple Mobile (throttle after 2GB I think). I don't know how I feel about the pyramid thing though.
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 20:08 |
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It's going to fail pretty spectacularly because nobody has tmobile compatible phones and few people are going to jump ship to a carrier because of contractual obligations. Unless they expect idiots to buy a plan to not use and just to refer people (likely option tbh)
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 21:01 |
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Mister Snips posted:It's going to fail pretty spectacularly because nobody has tmobile compatible phones and few people are going to jump ship to a carrier because of contractual obligations. T-mobile is in the process of a network refarm that includes HSPA on 1900MHz. Supposedly things are going to start changing in a few months, which means that the 3G compatability issue is going to become less of an issue. This was kind of forced by the iphone not supporting HSPA on AWS.
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 21:28 |
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Naffer posted:T-mobile is in the process of a network refarm that includes HSPA on 1900MHz. Supposedly things are going to start changing in a few months, which means that the 3G compatability issue is going to become less of an issue. This was kind of forced by the iphone not supporting HSPA on AWS. This is good, i have a cousin who has an Iphone 4 who wants to switch to T-mobile's $30 plan, but didn't want 2G speeds. Good to know he'll get 3G.
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 21:32 |
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I keep forgetting, does that mean in a few months I can maybe have 4G from the T-mo $30 plan work on an unlocked, plain AT&T band phone? If I can use that Xiaomi Mi2 at full speeds I'd cream my pants. Or is it 3G only, or is it LTE? T-Mo is like the best thing that ever happened to me but drat if it isn't hard to plan around their antics.
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 21:36 |
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Zero VGS posted:I keep forgetting, does that mean in a few months I can maybe have 4G from the T-mo $30 plan work on an unlocked, plain AT&T band phone? If I can use that Xiaomi Mi2 at full speeds I'd cream my pants. HSPA is T-Mobile's "4G" and ATT's "3G". Because "#G" is basically a meaningless term. But yes, you will get HSPA speeds on T-Mobile with an phone that only uses ATT bands IF you're in an area where they've completed their rollout of 1900MHz HSPA, which like 2 cities in California or something last I heard.
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 21:52 |
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Arcsech posted:HSPA is T-Mobile's "4G" and ATT's "3G". Because "#G" is basically a meaningless term. There's an unofficial map of 1900MHZ 3G sightings here: http://www.airportal.de/
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 22:03 |
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I contacted StraightTalk regarding availability of Nano-SIMs and they called me back almost immediately to say "we don't know". Then emailed me just to reiterate StraightTalk Customer Service posted:Dear SB35,
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 22:22 |
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Naffer posted:There's an unofficial map of 1900MHZ 3G sightings here: http://www.airportal.de/ Oooh, one sighting in Boston. They have a huge presence here so it'd make sense to prioritize a rollout. I Want To Believe.
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 22:31 |
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For those using T-Mobile's prepaid service, what phone are you currently using? I bought the Samsung S2 prepaid phone for $299 at Walmart, and flashed it to CM9 but not sure if I'm going to keep it. I know the GNexus for $350 is a popular choice, but from what I'm reading its not that different from the S2 and has issues all its own. Maybe I'm just getting bored with Android. Anyone using a Windows phone with their prepaid? Hughmoris fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Sep 12, 2012 |
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No, you're doing it correctly, that's what I'm doing. CM10 on the SGSII. Flash the current nightly and gapps from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852105 What don't you like with it? Every last thing works for me and it's been perfectly stable for the last few weeks. Also I had a coworker who used a windows phone (Lumia 710) with T-Mo and she wished death upon herself. I got her a Vibrant to stick her T-Mo SIM into with CM10 and an extended battery, she's thrilled now. Lasts about 20 hours and runs way faster than it honestly deserves to. Windows phones are godawful to actually use and are stuck in some poo poo-hardware-purgatory, if you're going to throw in the towel at least get an iPhone 5. Zero VGS fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Sep 12, 2012 |
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Mister Snips posted:Unless they expect idiots to buy a plan to not use and just to refer people (likely option tbh) My sister left college with three or four credit card accounts that she didn't know she had because she kept signing papers for free tshirts. College kids are idiots.
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# ? Sep 12, 2012 23:40 |
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Zero VGS posted:No, you're doing it correctly, that's what I'm doing. CM10 on the SGSII. Flash the current nightly and gapps from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852105 Sorry, I meant to say I'm running CM9. I read somewhere that there is a "superbrick bug" in some of the S2's when you flash CM10, and there isn't a definite way to see if you have the issue. So I'll just hang with CM9, which works flawlessly. No complaints with it other than I think I'm getting a little bored with Android. Although, my $30/mo is nice compared to the $90/mo I was spending with Sprint.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 00:05 |
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Someone else can chime in if they want but everything I'm reading about that MMC superbrick is for the i9100 international Galaxy S II model. The T-989 you bought from Walmart is such vastly different hardware as to not be the same phone at all. If you just bought the Walmart phone with the last 14 days, just flash CM10. I'm 99.9% sure it's not gonna brick if it somehow takes a dump, take it back to Walmart. Those guys won't give it a second glance if you tell them it won't boot. It's a lot faster than 9 and has some thoughtful UI improvements. I don't know if it will inject the excitement that Microsoft has promised you but it's worth the trouble.
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 00:28 |
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Zero VGS posted:Someone else can chime in if they want but everything I'm reading about that MMC superbrick is for the i9100 international Galaxy S II model. The T-989 you bought from Walmart is such vastly different hardware as to not be the same phone at all. Ok, I'll give it a shot. Hows your battery life with CM10, and is the camera working? Hughmoris fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Sep 13, 2012 |
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Hughmoris posted:Ok, I'll give it a shot. Hows your battery life with CM10, and is the camera working? Camera (and everything else) works flawless now, and there's a cool new thing in CM10 where you can swipe the camera and go into the photos and movies you just took, and swipe them for fast deletion. Battery life is about 9-11 hours if I've got an hour of heavy use in there, and screen off for the rest. I'm installing a new kernel as we speak to experiment with undervolting/overclocking, I've heard that can push the thing to near 24 hours, but you can let me do that scary stuff first before you try. eBay sells an extended battery for 8 bucks, I'm not entirely sure if it's as much extra capacity as they promise, but at worst it's as good as the stock battery for sure, I own this one from this exact eBay seller: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Extended-Ba...=item4ab8502c16
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Naffer posted:There's an unofficial map of 1900MHZ 3G sightings here: http://www.airportal.de/ That site loads really wonky on my phone but I'm guessing the marks on the map are just where some dude connected to t mobile on 1900mhz and not towers or anything?
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# ? Sep 13, 2012 00:58 |