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ThermoPhysical posted:AT&T is getting into trouble with the FCC with their throttling so that might be going away. That's for unlimited plans though. Cricket very clearly states how much data you get before you are supposed to be throttled.
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Republic Wireless has just switched over to a new pricing model. Now everyone will be on the base $10/month plan (unlimited talk and text, but no cell data) and you can buy cell data on top of that for $15/gig. That cell data rate is a little steep, but here's the gimmick -- at the end of the month, they refund you for whatever portion of the data you didn't use. So if you only used 10% of that gig, your next bill gets a credit for 90% of the $15. It's an incentive to get you to use wi-fi more. Obviously not the greatest deal if you're using 4G all day every day, but for those of us who are surrounded by wi-fi most of the time and have pretty light data usage otherwise, this should be a nice little money saver. I've been with Republic for about six months now, and overall I'm very happy with them. Occasionally a phone call being made over wi-fi will have problems, but that's pretty rare, and there's a button right on the screen to hand it off to a cell tower. And in any case, I'm on a crusade to switch all my friends over to RedPhone and TextSecure, so I'm using the default phone apps less these days anyway. Suck it, NSA. 
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Powered Descent posted:Republic Wireless has just switched over to a new pricing model. Now everyone will be on the base $10/month plan (unlimited talk and text, but no cell data) and you can buy cell data on top of that for $15/gig. Changing the OP but...$15 per gigabyte?? Even with the credit refund... 
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ThermoPhysical posted:Changing the OP but...$15 per gigabyte?? Even with the credit refund... Yeah it seems a little high. Google Fi is $20 + $10/gb and then you get refunded the data you don't use, so it's a similar pricing scheme with different prices. Existing Republic customers keep their current plans grandfathered until January 31st, 2016. That's probably when I'll switch to another provider. I'll miss my moto x but I guess I've got 6 months to find a new phone.
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PaganGoatPants posted:Does Cricket support Apple Music in their "free music data" thingy? Isn't that T-mobile? If so, it looks like "not at the moment": http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/free-music-streaming.html
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clockworx posted:Isn't that T-mobile? If so, it looks like "not at the moment": Oh, I thought Cricket had the same deal too. Oops.
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PaganGoatPants posted:Oh, I thought Cricket had the same deal too. Oops. Cricket has a streaming service called Deezer; they give you one month free and then it's $6/month after that.
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nimper posted:Cricket has a streaming service called Deezer; they give you one month free and then it's $6/month after that. That is a terrible name.
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FAUXTON posted:That is a terrible name. What the hell is a Spotify, anyway??
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:What the hell is a Spotify, anyway?? It isn't a Deezer, that's for sure. Deez er.
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Pro-tip about microSD slots since I couldn't find much information on it and I had to take a risk ordering a card I wasn't 100% sure would work. A lot of the phones that are cheap enough to be worth getting for a prepaid plan will say they are limited to a 32gb microSD. This is because the 32gb and lower cards are SDHC, and are formatted as FAT32, but 64 and above are SDXC, and formatted as exFAT. However, you can get those phones to accept a 64gb card by formatting that card as FAT32, which is really easy, and worked flawlessly for me. I bought this card, which cost 25$ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00M55C1I2?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00 Then I formatted it to FAT32 with this program, which is like, stupid simple. http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm And it worked perfectly for me on my Moto E LTE. So now my phone that has cost me $75 total has 65 gigs of storage and does everything I could ever need it to. Owns. Hypothetically, this should work for 128gb cards as well, but that's not an option in the program I listed, and it would probably take a little bit more technical know how. But yeah. Cheap and easy way to boost your storage way above what this tier of phones should be capable of.
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Most of the time, you can just let the phone format it also after it complains about the SD card.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Most of the time, you can just let the phone format it also after it complains about the SD card. But years worth of torrented animes... I'm on the road a lot so I can't go without a TB of local storage.
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Does cricket have any in-home internet based signal boosters? I get good coverage with cricket, except at my house because of typography. My house is at the bottom of a hill that is between the AT&T tower in my town and my house
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Are we still doing Cricket referrals in this thread? I'd like one please. Thanks.
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I'd like a referral as well. My email is - got the referral, thanks. sandball fucked around with this message at 10:43 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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sandball posted:I'd like a referral as well. Sent! (Needed your name so I put the first of your e-mail plus "S"...should still work, if not, let me know..  )cptn oblivious posted:Are we still doing Cricket referrals in this thread? I'd like one please. Thanks. Gonna need an e-mail, no PMs here.
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cptn oblivious posted:Are we still doing Cricket referrals in this thread? I'd like one please. Thanks. https://mycricket.sparkrefer.com/4zzwOwi
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Did cricket stop letting you change your plan from the app? I need to upgrade as I'm out of my data and can't do it. Navigating through the web browser redirects me back to the app.
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Just a heads up for anyone on cricket or any other ATT based MVNO: ATT seems to be having some pretty major issues right now in the tri-state area. I'm having trouble sending texts and receiving phonecalls, and the down detector map on their website shows a giant red angry blog hovering over the area.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Just a heads up for anyone on cricket or any other ATT based MVNO: ATT seems to be having some pretty major issues right now in the tri-state area. I'm having trouble sending texts and receiving phonecalls, and the down detector map on their website shows a giant red angry blog hovering over the area. Note that conspiracy theory nuts are out in full force: http://resistancejournals.com/2015/07/15/breaking-cell-service-blackouts-as-jade-launches/ So there may be a whole lot of really stupid people trying to hammer ATT's network so that they can make it a self-fulfilling prophecy. "ATT is down? Hold on let me call everyone I know who has ATT and tell them to chug data as hard as they can."
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Keep getting no service on my wife's iPhone and losing signal on my Z3c at my home in SE Michigan. That could explain it
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My coverage in SW Michigan has seemed spotty the last couple days as well. I'm glad it's not just an issue with my phone.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Just a heads up for anyone on cricket or any other ATT based MVNO: ATT seems to be having some pretty major issues right now in the tri-state area. I'm having trouble sending texts and receiving phonecalls, and the down detector map on their website shows a giant red angry blog hovering over the area. Good thing there's only one "tri-state area", so we all know exactly which one you mean.
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Powered Descent posted:Good thing there's only one "tri-state area", so we all know exactly which one you mean. The only one that matters.
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revdrkevind posted:Note that conspiracy theory nuts are out in full force: What the gently caress...why do you know about this website? This has got to be satirical...
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ThermoPhysical posted:What the gently caress...why do you know about this website? False flag mention made in the comments. I'm declaring this website legit and not satire. 
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TraderStav posted:False flag mention made in the comments. I'm declaring this website legit and not satire. Jesus Christ... indeed. The scariest part about that website is that apparently 200,000+ people believe in it...I had to delete the website from my history just in case Google Now decides to start showing me stuff from it...
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ThermoPhysical posted:What the gently caress...why do you know about this website? Nope, but I'm in a satirical group with a lot of reformed conspiracy nuts, so we can have a good laugh over these things. e: \/ http://www.subgenius.com/pam1/pamphlet_p1.html revdrkevind fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Jul 17, 2015 |
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revdrkevind posted:Nope, but I'm in a satirical group with a lot of reformed conspiracy nuts, so we can have a good laugh over these things. Huh...that actually sounds kind of fun. Apparently a lot of people were freaking out about this too as it was all over Facebook.
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So I'm currently with Virgin Mobile. I purchased an iPhone 5 through them a while ago - they had a decent deal on them - without considering the fact that they might have the phone locked to Sprint (which Virgin Mobile uses). I'm trying to switch to Cricket since it's a better deal and the consensus seems to be that they're pretty decent. I'd like to still use my iPhone 5 for a little longer with Cricket (it's A1429 so its compatible with CDMA and GSM), but I need to have the phone unlocked. I tried calling Virgin's customer service and they had no idea what I was talking about because their customer service is absolutely horrible. Any ideas on what I could do?
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sweetmercifulcrap posted:So I'm currently with Virgin Mobile. I purchased an iPhone 5 through them a while ago - they had a decent deal on them - without considering the fact that they might have the phone locked to Sprint (which Virgin Mobile uses). I'm trying to switch to Cricket since it's a better deal and the consensus seems to be that they're pretty decent. I'd like to still use my iPhone 5 for a little longer with Cricket (it's A1429 so its compatible with CDMA and GSM), but I need to have the phone unlocked. I tried calling Virgin's customer service and they had no idea what I was talking about because their customer service is absolutely horrible. Any ideas on what I could do? Of course customer service reps don't always know or follow the laws but... Federal law says pre-paid carriers must be granted unlocks in order to provide service, so long as you're not currently under contract and so on. So Cricket can probably do it for you, if possible go into a store and have them do it. Carriers were also supposed to abide by this but in my experience they "just so happened" not to tell their customer service reps and/or assume nobody will sue them but you can try: https://community.virginmobile.com.au/t5/Phones-knowledge-base/How-to-unlock-your-phone-or-modem/ta-p/82 Verizon and Sprint both tried to say they couldn't unlock my phone. Cricket just asked my info and did it.
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revdrkevind posted:Of course customer service reps don't always know or follow the laws but... Pretty sure only the carrier that locked it can unlock it.
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I unlocked a phone for $2 using eBay in 10 minutes last week.
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TraderStav posted:I unlocked a phone for $2 using eBay in 10 minutes last week. Ah yes, I meant requesting a carrier unlock. The sellers on eBay sure, but I wouldn't go to an AT&T shop asking them to unlock my Sprint phone. They'd just look at me stupid and tell me to go to a Sprint store.
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SB35 posted:Ah yes, I meant requesting a carrier unlock. The sellers on eBay sure, but I wouldn't go to an AT&T shop asking them to unlock my Sprint phone. They'd just look at me stupid and tell me to go to a Sprint store. ...even though any pre-paid seller can do this no problem. ...and AT&T is one.
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SB35 posted:Ah yes, I meant requesting a carrier unlock. The sellers on eBay sure, but I wouldn't go to an AT&T shop asking them to unlock my Sprint phone. They'd just look at me stupid and tell me to go to a Sprint store. I am referring to a carrier unlock. The sellers on eBay can unlock them for you and you don't have to deal with the carrier. I didn't want to deal with the long cycle time for AT&T and just had them do it for me.
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Refurb Verizon (GSM Unlocked) First-gen Moto X 16gb is $100 today http://www.ebay.com/itm/Motorola-XT...=item33a35606bb
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Lblitzer posted:Refurb Verizon (GSM Unlocked) First-gen Moto X 16gb is $100 today This is an excellent cheap device for anyone using Verizon service or a Verizon mvno. But it won't get LTE on AT&T or TMo.
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