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So I'm looking at getting the T-Mobile 30 dollar a month plan and throwing like 35-40 bucks on every month for the occasional voice overage. One thing I'm worried about though and I'm not sure if it's a real issue or just someone making poo poo up. If I port my number over to Google Voice and have my voice mails delivered through their system, am I going to see my minutes balance reduced every time I get a voice mail? I read somewhere else that Tmobile charges you minutes for calls that go to voice mail as well, regardless of how you check your voice mail. I'm not sure if that's just an issue with Tmobiles voice mail system or something I will bypass all together if I use Google Voice.
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Boondock Saint posted:So I'm looking at getting the T-Mobile 30 dollar a month plan and throwing like 35-40 bucks on every month for the occasional voice overage. One thing I'm worried about though and I'm not sure if it's a real issue or just someone making poo poo up. If I port my number over to Google Voice and have my voice mails delivered through their system, am I going to see my minutes balance reduced every time I get a voice mail? I don't know if I'm reading this correctly, but what I did was disable voicemail for my T-Mo number, and have GV handle everything.
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Jan 29, 2013 20:04
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Boondock Saint posted:So I'm looking at getting the T-Mobile 30 dollar a month plan and throwing like 35-40 bucks on every month for the occasional voice overage. One thing I'm worried about though and I'm not sure if it's a real issue or just someone making poo poo up. If I port my number over to Google Voice and have my voice mails delivered through their system, am I going to see my minutes balance reduced every time I get a voice mail? If you call Google Voice and check your voice mail through the voice prompts then yes it will use your minutes. However, someone leaving you a voice mail does not use any of your minutes because Google picked up the call not you. This is the same as using T-Mobile voice mail. You will have to call T-Mobile and have them shut off your voice mail. T-Mobile prepaid does not support conditional call forwarding which is what is used to say if my phone rings and I don't pick it up send it to another phone number (like your Google Voice number).
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Jan 29, 2013 20:38
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BoyBlunder posted:I don't know if I'm reading this correctly, but what I did was disable voicemail for my T-Mo number, and have GV handle everything. Does this only work if you have people call your GV number, or does having the app on your phone/gv set up to take voicemail for said phone work?
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Jan 29, 2013 21:00
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Tedronai66 posted:Does this only work if you have people call your GV number, or does having the app on your phone/gv set up to take voicemail for said phone work? I set up my T-Mo # to ring on GV. If someone calls my GV #, it'll route to my phone (with my prepaid T-Mo SIM), and if I don't pick up, GV will handle the voicemail.
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Jan 29, 2013 21:26
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gariig posted:If you call Google Voice and check your voice mail through the voice prompts then yes it will use your minutes. However, someone leaving you a voice mail does not use any of your minutes because Google picked up the call not you. This is the same as using T-Mobile voice mail. This doesn't sound like it'd be true, but calling from a landline to check my voicemail does not use minutes, correct? BoyBlunder posted:I set up my T-Mo # to ring on GV. If someone calls my GV #, it'll route to my phone (with my prepaid T-Mo SIM), and if I don't pick up, GV will handle the voicemail. Seriously considering porting my $30 plan to GV (and signing up a new one) and doing this, MMS be damned.
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Jan 29, 2013 21:42
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BoyBlunder posted:I set up my T-Mo # to ring on GV. If someone calls my GV #, it'll route to my phone (with my prepaid T-Mo SIM), and if I don't pick up, GV will handle the voicemail. If you're checking the voicemail on your phone using the Gvoice app, it'll only use data to download the voicemail message, no minutes are used.
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Jan 29, 2013 21:48
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BoyBlunder posted:I set up my T-Mo # to ring on GV. If someone calls my GV #, it'll route to my phone (with my prepaid T-Mo SIM), and if I don't pick up, GV will handle the voicemail. That's pretty much my plan if I go forward. Thanks!
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Jan 29, 2013 22:36
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TraderStav posted:This doesn't sound like it'd be true, but calling from a landline to check my voicemail does not use minutes, correct? Calling into your voice mail from another phone line does not use your minutes (what I do). If you check your voice mail on your cell phone (dialing yourself or holding 1 on the dialer) will use your minutes because you are just calling yourself and on prepaid a minute is a minute.
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Jan 29, 2013 23:20
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I put in my unlock request, but I'm still not sure about the $30 plans. Restricting my data by 20 MB a month would be a lot easier than restricting my calls by 300 minutes a month or whatever. The $50 plan is probably more suitable, but then it's not nearly as much savings (I think AT&T is $60). Are there programs on my phone that will use data in the background without me knowing? Is there an iPhone app that will let me make free calls over wifi?
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Jan 30, 2013 01:22
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Google Voice worked well enough when I tested it.
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Jan 30, 2013 02:42
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actionjackson posted:I put in my unlock request, but I'm still not sure about the $30 plans. Restricting my data by 20 MB a month would be a lot easier than restricting my calls by 300 minutes a month or whatever. The $50 plan is probably more suitable, but then it's not nearly as much savings (I think AT&T is $60). Are there programs on my phone that will use data in the background without me knowing? Talkatone and Vonage are your best bets. My wife is testing T-mobile on her iPhone 4 (minimal 3G in our area) on the $3 plan and had a pretty good question. Will any text messages she receives on her AT&T number (that sim is removed for the time being, the T-mobile is a throwaway number) arrive when she puts the sim in or will they be lost into the ether?
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Jan 30, 2013 03:10
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TraderStav posted:Talkatone and Vonage are your best bets. Yes. Think of it as her phone is "off" to AT&T and when she pops in the AT&T and turns her phone it'll be like turning her phone on.
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Jan 30, 2013 04:00
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Thought about some more, and I rarely actually need to use data anyway. I have wi-fi at home and probably the only time I need data is for google maps, and I can put the route in from home anyway. Thanks for all the help. I did notice that my phone had a total sent/received data of 200 KB or so data, even though I never used it for that. I have all my notifications turned off, is there anything else I can disable that might be causing this?
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Jan 30, 2013 06:22
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actionjackson posted:Thought about some more, and I rarely actually need to use data anyway. I have wi-fi at home and probably the only time I need data is for google maps, and I can put the route in from home anyway. Thanks for all the help. I did notice that my phone had a total sent/received data of 200 KB or so data, even though I never used it for that. I have all my notifications turned off, is there anything else I can disable that might be causing this? You said iPhone, right? I'm not sure about iOS, but you can turn off all data in the settings on Android. I'd assume you could so the same on iPhone. Or just turn off mobile data and leave wifi on like normal. Then, even if something is checking in the background, the OS should be stopping it. Edit: Here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4203 Uthor fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Jan 30, 2013 |
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EDIT: Never mind, answered my own question.
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Jan 30, 2013 14:11
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Uthor posted:You said iPhone, right? I'm not sure about iOS, but you can turn off all data in the settings on Android. I'd assume you could so the same on iPhone. Or just turn off mobile data and leave wifi on like normal. Then, even if something is checking in the background, the OS should be stopping it. Yeah I noticed that menu last night. Probably a good idea for me to disable it since I use data rarely anyway. I also reset my usage meter to get an idea of how much I'm using going forward.
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Jan 30, 2013 17:19
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Looking to sign up for a Ting account? Please do so through my brother's referral link. Gets you $25 to spend on a phone, or a $25 account credit if you bring your own device. My brother activated his Sprint Evo 3D and is happy with the service. Set it up with the plan set to 0 min/text/data, so he just gets billed at the end of the cycle for the tiers he used. Alerts are easy to set up to warn you about text, minute, and data usage. You can also have it shut off text/minute/data after a set threshold to avoid any surprise bills. I made a referral chain in Coupons. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3531513 goku chewbacca fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Feb 1, 2013 |
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Feb 1, 2013 00:56
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That Ting ETF credit deal looks awesome, just wish it was more of a guaranteed thing. Do I have to port my number over in order to try and get in on the credit or can I hold my spot in line, get picked, then decide if I'm going to jump ship?
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Feb 1, 2013 05:03
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Lblitzer posted:That Ting ETF credit deal looks awesome, just wish it was more of a guaranteed thing. Do I have to port my number over in order to try and get in on the credit or can I hold my spot in line, get picked, then decide if I'm going to jump ship? Also sorry folks, I forgot to ask about 50 dollar coupons while i was at work.  I'm no longer a Ting employee as of today so I won't be able to check on it anymore. Was fun serving you guys!
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Lblitzer posted:That Ting ETF credit deal looks awesome, just wish it was more of a guaranteed thing. Do I have to port my number over in order to try and get in on the credit or can I hold my spot in line, get picked, then decide if I'm going to jump ship? I did this at 12:01 though so I am actually curious how fast they went through that $100k as I don't see it on the front page anymore. goku chewbacca posted:Looking to sign up for a Ting account? Please do so through my brother's referral link. Gets you $25 to spend on a phone, or a $25 account credit if you bring your own device.
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Feb 1, 2013 09:24
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So is the Ting thing definitely over?
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Anybody have a direct link to the Straight Talk ATT-network MicroSIM?
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ilkhan posted:Anybody have a direct link to the Straight Talk ATT-network MicroSIM? here
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Just out of curiosity, what would happen if you put a non-data sim card in a smart phone? If I put a T-mobile no-data prepaid sim in an older iPhone, would I end up with an iPod that can make phone calls, or would it be unusable as a phone?
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Baby Proof posted:Just out of curiosity, what would happen if you put a non-data sim card in a smart phone? If I put a T-mobile no-data prepaid sim in an older iPhone, would I end up with an iPod that can make phone calls, or would it be unusable as a phone? It should work fine, but it may have pop ups occasionally complaining about no data connection. Has anyone taken their straight talk (at&t) phone to Puerto Rico? Girlfriend is going for spring break and I'm wondering if she'll have decent signal and data.
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Lblitzer posted:Just looking for a second opinion, I recently bought a Note 2 off contract and was looking to maybe hop over to Ting or Tmobile. My upgrade comes in a few days and my contract and I'm wondering if the iPhone 5 is worth it to use the upgrade, sell the device and pay the ETF or just pay the ETF now? Posted this in the Verizon thread, maybe someone here can offer an opinion for me?
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Feb 3, 2013 19:29
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Lblitzer posted:Posted this in the Verizon thread, maybe someone here can offer an opinion for me? $200 for the iphone + $350 for the ETF is $550. A quick glance at ebay shows the low end around $575 for a new iphone 5. If waiting and small profit from flipping it are worth it for you go ahead.
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I'm planning on going to a trip to Flagstaff, AZ in August for two weeks. I know that AT&T doesn't work well there and I wanted to get a T-Mobile SIM. How would I go about doing this? I would only need it for a few weeks so I wouldn't really need to continue paying. What exactly would I have to do? I'm on Straight Talk GSM AT&T with a Nexus 4.
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Feb 3, 2013 20:34
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Order a prepaid sim on the tmobile website and then give them some money.
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Long Francesco posted:Order a prepaid sim on the tmobile website and then give them some money. The problem is that T-Mobile doesn't exist in Omaha, NE. Would I have to use another address or zip code?
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Feb 3, 2013 20:45
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Athenry posted:$200 for the iphone + $350 for the ETF is $550. A quick glance at ebay shows the low end around $575 for a new iphone 5. If waiting and small profit from flipping it are worth it for you go ahead. $575 before fees.
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Athenry posted:$200 for the iphone + $350 for the ETF is $550. A quick glance at ebay shows the low end around $575 for a new iphone 5. If waiting and small profit from flipping it are worth it for you go ahead.
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ilkhan posted:Most people saying "upgrade to an iPhone, sell it, buy a real phone" are assuming you dont need to pay an ETF. This whole scheme worked when etfs were $200, when they revised smart phone etfs up they nullified this.
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Baby Proof posted:Just out of curiosity, what would happen if you put a non-data sim card in a smart phone? If I put a T-mobile no-data prepaid sim in an older iPhone, would I end up with an iPod that can make phone calls, or would it be unusable as a phone? Works fine as a phone but you have no data (obviously). Go into every setting you can and turn off data. (3G, 2G, Edge) turn them all off and you have a phone that works great and will last days (just like they used to!). It's hilarious that Apple got people and carriers convinced that the iPhone needed data. I have an iPhone 3G that has served as a wonderful backup phone for a couple years now. Sometimes with a data SIM, most of the times without.
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Feb 4, 2013 16:48
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Free T-mobile prepaid sims deal, limit 2, is back: http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/88978/tmobile-free-tmobile-prepaid-phone-sim-card-activation-kit-regular-or-micro
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TraderStav posted:Free T-mobile prepaid sims deal, limit 2, is back: I'm still waiting for the two I paid $1 each for to arrive (almost a week and a half since ship date)... The shipping number they give isn't even a shipping number.
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TraderStav posted:Free T-mobile prepaid sims deal, limit 2, is back: Wow. How convenient, right when I needed one. Thanks!
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TraderStav posted:Free T-mobile prepaid sims deal, limit 2, is back: Is this something that would work for Straight Talk? Since they tell me I need a TMobile phone and SIM for them? I'm all confused on this poo poo.
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