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Panama Red posted:Recently switched to TMobile for the Unlimited One plan. Just saw this today: http://www.businessinsider.com/t-mobile-fcc-reach-48-million-settlement-unlimited-data-plans-2016-10 I believe the softcap for T-Mobile is 21 gigs for them to really hate you.
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hiddenriverninja posted:I believe the softcap for T-Mobile is 21 gigs for them to really hate you.
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Google Pixel seriously making me consider switching to GoogleFi. How easy is my not-a-contract-but-a-JUMP-phone to turn back in and cancel without having to pay anything if my phone is in good condition 
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Quidthulhu posted:Google Pixel seriously making me consider switching to GoogleFi. How easy is my not-a-contract-but-a-JUMP-phone to turn back in and cancel without having to pay anything if my phone is in good condition In order to jump and trade in your phone you have to buy a phone. So jump to the least expensive phone and then return it and pay the restock fee. Edit:Auto correct
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Panama Red posted:Recently switched to TMobile for the Unlimited One plan. Just saw this today: http://www.businessinsider.com/t-mobile-fcc-reach-48-million-settlement-unlimited-data-plans-2016-10 Depends on what you do. If you're a power user you basically are being charged for the poo poo sandwich. If you don't watch videos on your phone all day you're probably ok. You're speed capped immediately on multimedia and anything tmo thinks is multimedia which is why it's not a real unlimited plan but even more speed limited should you hit the cap, which again most non power users won't. Realistic total of tmo customers that are power users data wise : 30-50%. People send lots of photos and do lots of multimedia stuff these days. Think of this like being told you can drive unlimited but can't go above 30mph and if you hit 700 miles driven in a month your speed limit is 1.5mph. Sadly, every other us carrier is worse.
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Is there any way to check to see if T-Mobile has good coverage in a specific area? Kind of a goofy question I know but i might be able to be the freebie 4th person on the One plan if not for the doubts of the potential customer that they'll get good reception in their area of upstate New York. I want to recommend the plan to her but i don't want her to get stuck with worse phone service on contract.
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net cafe scandal posted:Is there any way to check to see if T-Mobile has good coverage in a specific area? Kind of a goofy question I know but i might be able to be the freebie 4th person on the One plan if not for the doubts of the potential customer that they'll get good reception in their area of upstate New York. I want to recommend the plan to her but i don't want her to get stuck with worse phone service on contract. Before i switched I bought the cheapest prepaid T-Mobile phone I could and just called 611 a bunch from it without activating it.
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Oct 21, 2016 00:35
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Do they still do the 7-day iPhone loan?
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So I bought a Moto G4 under the (mistaken?) belief that wifi calling was built into Marshmallow and would work with any carrier that supports it. But I cannot find an option to turn it on. Instructions via google are: Open the Phone app on your device . Tap More Settings. Tap Calls. Tap Wi-Fi calling on. If you don't see this option, it's because your carrier doesn't support this feature. I don't have "more settings" When I instead google Moto g4 wifi calling I find a lot of posts implying it doesn't support wifi calling but nothing really definitive. Even in reviews I find some saying it doesn't support it, some saying it does. WTF. I am going to call tmobile but in my experience it takes more than one call to find someone who knows what they are talking about.
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It's built into Marshmallow for Nexus devices, which those are instructions are specifically on a Nexus help page. Things like the Moto G4 are responsible for implementing it themselves for their special snowflake changes.
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T-Mobile added Simple Choice plans with unlimited data to the Pixel offer, so I was able to claim it. After verifying my eligibility with their support folks, I went to their promotions site and used promo code PIXEL, put in my IMEI and uploaded my receipt from the Google store, and I was done.
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Nov 1, 2016 05:22
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This also includes people who were on 6 and 10gb plans that got free upgrades to unlimited till feb 2019
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Can I simply pay off the EIP balance of my G4 that's on Jump! to keep it? I just recently did the V20 deal.
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Any idea why I'm getting such lovely speeds on my iPhone 6 in Chicago? http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/1843777025 Ridiculous... restarted my phone and everything. My wife's phone gets 22 up 12 down sitting right next to me on an iPhone SE Astro7x fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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Astro7x posted:Any idea why I'm getting such lovely speeds on my iPhone 6 in Chicago? Have you used a lot of data this bill cycle? Dial #932# and let us know how much data you have used?
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Kreeblah posted:T-Mobile added Simple Choice plans with unlimited data to the Pixel offer, so I was able to claim it. After verifying my eligibility with their support folks, I went to their promotions site and used promo code PIXEL, put in my IMEI and uploaded my receipt from the Google store, and I was done. So what is the order of stuff here? I tried to do the promo thing and keep getting weird messages saying my phone number/pin are not active.
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Burden posted:Have you used a lot of data this bill cycle? Dial #932# and let us know how much data you have used? My billing cycle just restarted. I've used 45MB of data. I assume it's just network congestion that is causing the slowdown.
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Could have been some parade related to a recent event
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I was at a T mobile store last night and they had a poster saying that they consider >26 gb as high use and grounds for speed capping.
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Can you tether a device with Nerd Plan to another device for free, or is there an additional cost? I have a 2Mbps conection through Time Warner that I pay $15/month for, and if I could just use the Nerd Plan for $30 for both phone and computer data instead, that would be super
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For the pixel deal, do they want your current phone's IMEI or the pixel's (when you receive it)?
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The pixels
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EugeneJ posted:Can you tether a device with Nerd Plan to another device for free, or is there an additional cost? Yes, up to your data limit. Once you hit the limit tethering stops working. Note that this is only their current policy and it has changed in the past (you used to only get 100 megs of tethering per billing cycle). Also, Binge On and Music Freedom work with both the nerd plan and tethering so sites/services those apply to don't count towards your data cap, even when tethering. Mr.Radar fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Nov 5, 2016 |
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hiddenriverninja posted:I was at a T mobile store last night and they had a poster saying that they consider >26 gb as high use ... I can see that. Our family of four with two teenagers has rarely gone over 8gb combined. I'm on wifi most of the time so that helps. The schools have wifi which also helps.
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Mr.Radar posted:Yes, up to your data limit. Once you hit the limit tethering stops working. Note that this is only their current policy and it has changed in the past (you used to only get 100 megs of tethering per billing cycle). So if Nerd Plan has a 5gb cap that throttles down to 256kbps speed or whatever once you've used 5gb, you're saying that I can still use the slower speed on my phone, but not via tethering - correct?
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Mr.Radar posted:Yes, up to your data limit. Once you hit the limit tethering stops working. Note that this is only their current policy and it has changed in the past (you used to only get 100 megs of tethering per billing cycle). Pretty sure binge on is not unlimited data for the nerd plan. It just gives you lower quality video but counts against your data cap (although it will generally count less than if you had been watching 720p video for obvious reasons) Music freedom def works though.
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EugeneJ posted:So if Nerd Plan has a 5gb cap that throttles down to 256kbps speed or whatever once you've used 5gb, you're saying that I can still use the slower speed on my phone, but not via tethering - correct? As far as I know that's correct. Nitrousoxide posted:Pretty sure binge on is not unlimited data for the nerd plan. It just gives you lower quality video but counts against your data cap (although it will generally count less than if you had been watching 720p video for obvious reasons) I'm on the nerd plan and I just streamed a short Youtube video on my phone over LTE and it counted as "on-network data" but not as part of my "unlimited plan" (according to #932#). I'm pretty sure that's how it shows up when it doesn't count towards your data cap, though I've never come close to hitting my data cap so I guess I can't say for sure. Mr.Radar fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Nov 5, 2016 |
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On network data is the stuff that counts toward your limit.
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Nitrousoxide posted:On network data is the stuff that counts toward your limit. No, "on network" number tracks the total amount of data you have used on T-Mobile's network. The "unlimited plan" number is what counts against your data limit. They show both because the "on network" number is what they use to decide when to deprioritize your data. Source (sorry I couldn't find a better one, this apparently isn't officially documented anywhere).
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Guess I'm going to try the Nougat beta for Galaxy S7 Hopefully my phone won't brick within 3 weeks of owning it.
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notwithoutmyanus posted:So what is the order of stuff here? I tried to do the promo thing and keep getting weird messages saying my phone number/pin are not active. I got that when I mistyped my phone number. But, order the phone while the promo's running, and then submit the form once you get it (since you need to include the IMEI of the Pixel). Also, for anybody who's curious, on the status page for the promo (for one that's already submitted), it says the dates for it (for putting in an order, which is the date they go off of) are 10/4/2016 - 11/30/2016.
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I was on the Nerd Plan for a few years and recently switched to Fi, transferring my number along the way. Just got a text from TMo saying that my plan would renew in a few days? Previous experience with cell companies was that transferring would just nuke the old account straightaway; do I need to do something to actually cancel with T-Mobile? e: Never mind, twenty minutes later I got a text saying auto-pay was cancelled 
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Deathlove posted:I was on the Nerd Plan for a few years and recently switched to Fi, transferring my number along the way. Just got a text from TMo saying that my plan would renew in a few days? Previous experience with cell companies was that transferring would just nuke the old account straightaway; do I need to do something to actually cancel with T-Mobile? Yeah, I had the same thing happened. I called TMobile and they were confused cause they couldn't find any sign that I ever had an account with them.
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How do you like GoogleFi after switching from T-mo? Is there a GoogleFi thread? I'm thinking about doing the same even though I just switched to T-Mo in July. I like them but my bill is too high.
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Quidthulhu posted:How do you like GoogleFi after switching from T-mo? Is there a GoogleFi thread? I'm thinking about doing the same even though I just switched to T-Mo in July. I like them but my bill is too high. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3747918 So far, so good - I'm in Chicago metro, so, really, any of the big carriers are going to have the area pretty well blanketed, but adding two more lines and wanting to streamline billing a bit necessitated a change from T-Mo prepaid.
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If my wife and I both have phones with Jump on Demand and we want to leave tmobile, do we have to turn in our phones AND pay the remaining months on the lease?
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Tiny Lowtax posted:If my wife and I both have phones with Jump on Demand and we want to leave tmobile, do we have to turn in our phones AND pay the remaining months on the lease? Just jump to the cheapest phone that Tmobile offers on Jump On Demand , return it and pay the restocking fee.
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Burden posted:Just jump to the cheapest phone that Tmobile offers on Jump On Demand , return it and pay the restocking fee. Exactly what this person said. Also the best way to get INto t-mo with carrier freedom
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I'm getting a Pixel soon, but also have a phone on lease. Should I do the same thing with Jump On Demand to return the phone or what?
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Mr E posted:I'm getting a Pixel soon, but also have a phone on lease. Should I do the same thing with Jump On Demand to return the phone or what? Just do the contract buyout and/or trade in the phone but they give poo poo for trade-in credit.
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