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Bypassing T-Mobile's "Subscription Update Required"

So here's what I did:
Some 4-5 months ago, I purchased Tmos month-to-month plan. I did not sign any contracts. I simply got a SIM card and put it in my Nexus One and voila, everything worked just fine (data included).
The other day I decided to take advantage of TMos G2 for free and sign a contract. However, since I wanted to keep both SIM cards BUT use the old phone number (old SIM card) in the new phone (G2), I simply put the old SIM card in the G2. Guess what? The internet doesn't work. No matter what address I try to go to, I get "Subscription upgrade required" message. ('your data plan does not work with this device').
NOTE: I rooted my phone and am running CM7
So, what I was thinking of doing is the following:
1) Change the DNS to OpenDNS in resolv.conf (is this possible)?
OR
2) Change the IMEI code somehow (with gfree?) to match my N1's IMEI code. Is this possible?
OR
3) Call TMobile.
I'm at school right now so I'll try those, in that order, once I get home, but I would appreciate if anyone could tell me whether any of the aforementioned options would work.
Thanks!
edit: nvm, called tmobile, they just had to activate "android feature" on my plan, which is free.

what is this android feature you're talking about? is that the 20 dlls for android phones plan?

Deusdies said:
So here's what I did:
Some 4-5 months ago, I purchased Tmos month-to-month plan. I did not sign any contracts. I simply got a SIM card and put it in my Nexus One and voila, everything worked just fine (data included).
The other day I decided to take advantage of TMos G2 for free and sign a contract. However, since I wanted to keep both SIM cards BUT use the old phone number (old SIM card) in the new phone (G2), I simply put the old SIM card in the G2. Guess what? The internet doesn't work. No matter what address I try to go to, I get "Subscription upgrade required" message. ('your data plan does not work with this device').
NOTE: I rooted my phone and am running CM7
So, what I was thinking of doing is the following:
1) Change the DNS to OpenDNS in resolv.conf (is this possible)?
OR
2) Change the IMEI code somehow (with gfree?) to match my N1's IMEI code. Is this possible?
OR
3) Call TMobile.
I'm at school right now so I'll try those, in that order, once I get home, but I would appreciate if anyone could tell me whether any of the aforementioned options would work.
Thanks!
edit: nvm, called tmobile, they just had to activate "android feature" on my plan, which is free.
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Newer android phones need an android web plans, even if u have those web on your sim the G2 IMEI reads your web plan and it doesn't recognize it.. so wat I'm trying to say is purchase android web plan
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I think #2 on your list is illegal.

Since you got the G2 on contract, they automatically added the data plan. You need the data plan ported to your old number instead of the new one. Call T-Mobile, they will fix it.

Yeah, changing the IMEI of your phone is quite illegal. I highly recommend that you don't do that.

Do I have to activate the Inc2?

My friend can't get a smartphone because of the data package, so I was going to buy him one off eBay without a contract. Can he use it without activation? Some devices have an option to skip activation, if not stock, then maybe a Rom.

I'm pretty sure you still need to activate it, but there shouldn't be a problem. It just wont use the data network because the account isn't authorized to. Your friend can still use wifi though.
Let us know how it works out.

Are you asking if your friend can get an Inc2 to use for calls and wifi but not activate a data plan? If so, Verizon will not let this happen...they require you to activate a data plan on devices like this. If you're simply asking if he can use the phone with no calling plan, just wifi...the answer is yes. You can bypass activation.

bassett said:
Are you asking if your friend can get an Inc2 to use for calls and wifi but not activate a data plan? If so, Verizon will not let this happen...they require you to activate a data plan on devices like this. If you're simply asking if he can use the phone with no calling plan, just wifi...the answer is yes. You can bypass activation.
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I've heard this response from Verizon sales when I asked them if I could buy a smart phone from them without the data plan, but I'm pretty sure you can buy any phone from a third party and activate it. I did it with an iPhone on T-Mobile years ago.
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You'd have to to root, unlock GSM and use a different carrier (sim card) you can also make calls while connected to wifi by using the app GrooveIP

If you get the Incredible 2 and are stuck on the activation screen that wants you to make the special call to activate it & can't get into any menus of the actual phone....
Hit the call button to make the call to set it up, right when you hear a ringback sound hit end call, it will fail and beep twice, do this 2 more times, 3 times in all, skip activation will come up as an option or something like that, you'll notice it, skip from setting up everything and ignore everything else it shows you, you will be in the homescreens and have bypassed activation.
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Tmobile visual voicemail

Since I flashed to TAKJU 4.0.4 and 4.1, I couldn't find tmobile's visual voicemail in the Play store. It states that your device is not support in your country. I lives in USA. Do you guys experience the same thing? Anyone has that .apk file? Thank you.

android.vibrant said:
Since I flashed to TAKJU 4.0.4 and 4.1, I couldn't find tmobile's visual voicemail in the Play store. It states that your device is not support in your country. I lives in USA. Do you guys experience the same thing? Anyone has that .apk file? Thank you.
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Yea, I had that problem too. But I was able to find the apk outside of the Play store. I'm running 2.0.20, current version is 2.0.28, which just doesn't work at all. I'm trying to see if I can find a newer version than 0.20, but before 0.28. I've attached the apk for 2.0.20.

updated to 4.1.1 and i found the app....cool

Any thoughts on if this works on the $30 plan or any other prepaid T-mobile plan? Waiting on my phone and sim..

pdxtechdoctor said:
Any thoughts on if this works on the $30 plan or any other prepaid T-mobile plan? Waiting on my phone and sim..
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AFAIK Visual Voicemail is not available on prepaid

Did a search on tmobile's site and that is the case.. I really really want to go t-mobile, but it looks like because of the VVM and conditional call forwarding, I'm going it have the go ATT on the ST BYOD SIM... I ended up getting the tmobile sim for a buck and might just activate it on the $30 plan just to see exactly what kind of data performance difference I get between the two... I figure for $30 worth investigating..
I wonder if T mobile knows how many customers they are loosing out on with Straight Talk because of the call forwarding issue? I'm sure they would rather get the activation than ATT. I'm sure I am not alone in the fact that I refuse to go back to having to call in for voice mails after using gvoices voice mail for so long.

can't call forward on straight talk either

harveydent said:
AFAIK Visual Voicemail is not available on prepaid
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I use Visual Voicemail with my T-Mobile prepaid. I love it, so much less stressful than the typical voicemail system navigation where you press 7 or 9 (wait, which was save and which was delete again?) And with one of my service providers they seem to insist on always making me listen to my OLD messages first before I can play the unheard ones (WTF?!?) I'm not sure if T-mobile's is that way but, thanks to Visual Voicemail, I don't even have to find out, I can just press on the message I want to hear and it plays.

Download google voice, and have it handle voice mail.

TMO $10 Data Match Plan on M8 - Doesn't work apparently - Help!

Just got my new TMO M8 direct from HTC and I love it..... except for one problem which is not exclusive to this phone but I've searched everywhere and can't find a solution. Since this is not my every day phone I don't need a regular phone & texting plan. I only need a data plan... so I signed up for T Mobile's $10 data match plan which gives me 5GB/mo.... seemed like a great idea except apparently TMO doesn't allow smartphone devices to use this plan only tablets or hotspots. I've searched and searched and tried every combination of APN's but none of them work... when I'm changing the apn settings either data is totally disconnected or when it connects and I try a browser it prompts me to "Sign into Network" and sends me to the "upsell" site. Is there any way to spoof a tablet or hotspot? I know there are browser plugins that change the user agent but this seems to be happening on a system level. Is it possible to edit a system database entry, etc? Any help to point me in the right direction would be appreciated.

andersonwittekind said:
Just got my new TMO M8 direct from HTC and I love it..... except for one problem which is not exclusive to this phone but I've searched everywhere and can't find a solution. Since this is not my every day phone I don't need a regular phone & texting plan. I only need a data plan... so I signed up for T Mobile's $10 data match plan which gives me 5GB/mo.... seemed like a great idea except apparently TMO doesn't allow smartphone devices to use this plan only tablets or hotspots. I've searched and searched and tried every combination of APN's but none of them work... when I'm changing the apn settings either data is totally disconnected or when it connects and I try a browser it prompts me to "Sign into Network" and sends me to the "upsell" site. Is there any way to spoof a tablet or hotspot? I know there are browser plugins that change the user agent but this seems to be happening on a system level. Is it possible to edit a system database entry, etc? Any help to point me in the right direction would be appreciated.
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You're not going to be able to trick the carrier into thinking you're using another device. Continually attempting to do so also will get you flagged and you may come under scrutiny with the carrier so I'd suggest you pay for a rate plan like the rest of the android community, or utilize WiFi hotspots as much as possible.

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You're not going to be able to trick the carrier into thinking you're using another device. Continually attempting to do so also will get you flagged and you may come under scrutiny with the carrier so I'd suggest you pay for a rate plan like the rest of the android community, or utilize WiFi hotspots as much as possible.
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I am paying for a rate plan... for 5 devices which are full unlimited plans but for this one I only need data.

andersonwittekind said:
I am paying for a rate plan... for 5 devices which are full unlimited plans but for this one I only need data.
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Enable WiFi Tethering on the device you use as your primary phone and let your data only devices utilize it's unlimited data plan. That way, you don't have to pay for anything for your data only device.

Sprint Note 10+ Can't add APN or edit

hello everyone I am new to the forum so any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a note 10 plus with sprint. I am trying to add a new APN so I can use unlimited free hotspot. All the apn's are greyed out and I can't reset to default or add a new apn. What can I do to fix this or is there any way to fix it??? I recently upgraded from a note 9 and I could click to the left of the blue circle and it would allow me to edit the settings but it doesn't work anymore on this phone and I'm assuming when it went from Android 9 to Android 10 is when it stopped working all together. Has anyone figured out how to do something with it that doesn't require the phone being rooted??

devildog2011 said:
hello everyone I am new to the forum so any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a note 10 plus with sprint. I am trying to add a new APN so I can use unlimited free hotspot. All the apn's are greyed out and I can't reset to default or add a new apn. What can I do to fix this or is there any way to fix it??? I recently upgraded from a note 9 and I could click to the left of the blue circle and it would allow me to edit the settings but it doesn't work anymore on this phone and I'm assuming when it went from Android 9 to Android 10 is when it stopped working all together. Has anyone figured out how to do something with it that doesn't require the phone being rooted??
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Unless things have changed (as far as I know they haven't) if you have one of the unlimited data plans (which is pretty much all they have) then you already have unlimited hotspot data.
The unlimited data plans they have offer a set amount hotspot data measured in gigs at full LTE speeds. After that your hotspot speeds are reduced until your next billing cycle. Because it is unlimited there is no need to use some form of "trick" to get something that is already included with the plan they offer.
If for some reason the hotspot isn't working and it is supposed to be included in your plan then contact sprint and make sure your account (and phone) are provisioned for the service.
Now if by chance your trying to sneak one past sprint and get unlimited high speed hotspot data that was not included in the plan you agreed too... Then I would recommend you reconsider. While it can be argued that this can be considered theft, it would be most definitely an intentional, blatant and willful breach of your agreement that you entered into with Sprint.