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Q- New phone activation

I plan on buying the Gs3 on my mother's account unactivated. I would like to know if can activate it my account, I'm not due an upgrade and not face any penalities.
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Yes but they will show it as a new phone and charge you $36 activation fee.
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Not if it is Att you are talking about...if you buy the phone outright it will be a simple change equipment and you will only be charged the price of the phone ..it should go that way for most phone companies but if its att you won't get charged...
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Kflan22 said:
Not if it is Att you are talking about...if you buy the phone outright it will be a simple change equipment and you will only be charged the price of the phone ..it should go that way for most phone companies but if its att you won't get charged...
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Nah, it's for Sprint. My mother have an upgrade and I do not so I plan on buying the Gs3 from wirefly or some other place unactivated and activate it on my account w/o going through the "flip-flop" fiasco.
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kennyglass123 said:
Yes but they will show it as a new phone and charge you $36 activation fee.
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Thanks, Kenny
I thought that, but when I got my Epic the reps told me if I ever activate a phone too early that wasn't due for an upgrade my account could be cancelled or something.
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masaidjet said:
Thanks, Kenny
I thought that, but when I got my Epic the reps told me if I ever activate a phone too early that wasn't due for an upgrade my account could be cancelled or something.
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Nah. Some of the richer Devs do it all the time. Same as buying a phone full retail off contract.
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$45 Unlimited All Straight Talk for T-Mobile

So all this time I thought that Straight Talk was ATT strictly.. til my bro in law just told me I can purchase a T mobile Sim Card and use it.
http://www.shopstraighttalk.com/bpd...cards&zip=32707&market=GSM5&locale=en&lang=EN
45$, unlimited text mins and web, no contract. Does anyone have this Straight Talk plan with a t mobile sim card?
If so, what kind of Web Speeds do they offer? Is it T mobiles Hspa 42.2 mbps 4g or what?
Also is it truly unlimited web? or do they throttle after certain GB of use?

Crisisx1 said:
So all this time I thought that Straight Talk was ATT strictly.. til my bro in law just told me I can purchase a T mobile Sim Card and use it.
http://www.shopstraighttalk.com/bpd...cards&zip=32707&market=GSM5&locale=en&lang=EN
45$, unlimited text mins and web, no contract. Does anyone have this Straight Talk plan with a t mobile sim card?
If so, what kind of Web Speeds do they offer? Is it T mobiles Hspa 42.2 mbps 4g or what?
Also is it truly unlimited web? or do they throttle after certain GB of use?
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They throttle for sure and the rest I'm not sure
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jgalan14 said:
They throttle for sure and the rest I'm not sure
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So I guess t mobile is the only true unlimited Web service
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Crisisx1 said:
So I guess t mobile is the only true unlimited Web service
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And sprint (if you get reception on it)
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jgalan14 said:
And sprint (if you get reception on it)
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Heard their data is horrible
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Crisisx1 said:
Heard their data is horrible
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Yeah I had them for a few years, last year it got bad after the iPhone it got even worse so I wouldn't recommended them at all, tmobile got some dead spots sometimes but is much much better than sprints
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If u get a plan on att w/ a tmo phone u will get h+... if u prepay u only get edge speeds...
To get speeeed u need to sighn a plan...
All depends what ur looking for...
Already checked it out.....
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Just to confirm straight Talk does have limits on their "unlimited web"
They just don't specifically tell you when.. But when they do feel like you've used too much data they just throttle you. That's an email from them.
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I am on the Unlimited data plan and after 5 gigs, they throttle
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So I guess t mobile is the only true unlimited Web service
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No, I am on the t-mobile Unlimited data plan and after 5 gigs, they throttle

We also have truly unlimited 4g plan also
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serendipityguy said:
No, I am on the t-mobile Unlimited data plan and after 5 gigs, they throttle
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How much does it cost you a month?..I'm on straight talk and do far i like it but haven't really used it on the road yet..
I had Sprint last week and decided to get rid of them cause their data speeds was soooo bad.. so far though I'm happy with straight talk. The girl i bought my phone off she mentioned simple mobile which runs of T-Mobile towers. And idea about them?..
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well, I am using simple Mobile $60. unlimited everything, but they throttle you when they feel you are using too much data. max speed I got around 16 Mb, by the way I live in Houston.
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makki666 said:
well, I am using simple Mobile $60. unlimited everything, but they throttle you when they feel you are using too much data. max speed I got around 16 Mb, by the way I live in Houston.
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Now they lowered the price to 50$
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serendipityguy said:
No, I am on the t-mobile Unlimited data plan and after 5 gigs, they throttle
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You're probably on the unlimited data with 5gb of 4g then after 5gb they throttle you.
But now t mobile has a data plan that is supposed to be truly unlimited.. No throttle
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Crisisx1 said:
Now they lowered the price to 50$
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Sorry, my bad. yeah it is 50 bucks.
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makki666 said:
Sorry, my bad. yeah it is 50 bucks.
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Can you do some speed tests and a screen shot
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Crisisx1 said:
You're probably on the unlimited data with 5gb of 4g then after 5gb they throttle you.
But now t mobile has a data plan that is supposed to be truly unlimited.. No throttle
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You sir, are correct.
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I've been using Straight Talk with the T-Mobile compatible sim for about 4 months now and I've never been throttled. I regularly use around 6-8gb of data a month and have never had any trouble. Speeds are exactly on par with what you get on T-Mobile.
However, there are rumblings of Straight Talk throttling on the AT&T compatible sim card.
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Crisisx1 said:
Can you do some speed tests and a screen shot
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Sure, but not now cuz I returned my phone back to amazon, I had a problem with it. I am planning to get SGS3 in a few days. sure I will post speed test.
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makki666 said:
Sure, but not now cuz I returned my phone back to amazon, I had a problem with it. I am planning to get SGS3 in a few days. sure I will post speed test.
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Thanks. What phone did you return to Amazon
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Tmobiles truly unlimited plan.

I'm not sure if its been posted already, but I just found d out by a representative that the plan caps out at 10 gigs. Still a great plan though.

Are u sure? cuz am at 12 right now and it still fast as before
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epik277 said:
I'm not sure if its been posted already, but I just found d out by a representative that the plan caps out at 10 gigs. Still a great plan though.
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If this is true I'm suing them because in my paperwork it says truly unlimited. Plus that's not what I signed on to in the store.
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Truly unlimited means that you are not disconnected from the internet but your download speed will be slowed to about 10kb/s therefore you still have internet and tmobile doesn't violate your contract
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I'm at 12 GB so far and still hitting 15 mb/s. I think they must have just misinformed you and told you about the 10 GB unlimited plan. Which does slow down after 10.
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That rep was misinformed. Their truly unlimited plan is truly unlimited. They have another "unlimited" plan for 10 GB -- and they will throttle you afterward.

I agree that the rep is misinformed. Log into your t-mobile account, you can go up to 9999gb.

Ya cuz when I check on my acct it say data 9xxx
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im currently at 25gb and counting.

Lock this for miss information
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imtjnotu said:
Lock this for miss information
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Agreed.
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i always thought it was a gimmick

mityaz07 said:
i always thought it was a gimmick
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its not...the rep op talked to had downs

I believe that that information is false as I have reached 86gb last month at full 4g speeds
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ktetreault14 said:
I believe that that information is false as I have reached 86gb last month at full 4g speeds
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Just curious, what apps do you use in that you can use 86gb??

I assume he's tethering and maybe torrenting
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Like others have already said, the rep was probably talking about the "unlimited" 10gb plan, not the truly unlimited plan
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completely false, the true unlimited is true unlimited, i used about 30 gb last month ...

Sue them in the court of law for false advertisement.
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The "out of 9gb+" is just their system limitation, they just have to update their system to remove it and put unlimited instead since they did not have it for awhile
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going to china will note 2 work?

Hi,
i got my unlock tmo note 2 here and running tweaked rom and wanted to see if it can work with 3g or 4g prepaid carries over at china , i think unicom is the one i wanna go wth but will wait till you guys give me advice

Unlock it, a nd use other carrier.
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but will the note 2 for tmo work over there with 3g signals?
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xsessive said:
but will the note 2 for tmo work over there with 3g signals?
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I got 4g/3g signals on my recent trip to Philippines and India.
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One of the guys on the MT4GS board travels to China routinely. He uses China Unicom and gets 3g/4g speeds with his mt4gs. Should work well with the tmo us GN2.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement

I use Unicom with TMo Note 2 in China, and it works well.

SiliconBug said:
I use Unicom with TMo Note 2 in China, and it works well.
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thanks, do they offer prepaid options over there, and how are they like (in term of data allowance and stuff )
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You can purchase prepaid cards there, like airports or malls.

Do you know any that offer unlimited data I mean I am going to be taking a lot of pictures and would love to have them sync automatically to my dropbox like I do over here
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Just got back from China with note 2....bought a China mobile sim and it worked fine. They offer reasonably priced data plans and service is pretty stable. Don't forget to take advantage of free Wi-Fi there, you can enter the new phone number from China mobile sim to activate it at most places (ie Starbucks)
What cities will you be in?
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il be going to chengdu china...seens pretty industrialized so wifi should not be an issue
but is there not like a straight talk type of unlimited plan over data wise?
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shone ndiilab
xsessive said:
il be going to chengdu china...seens pretty industrialized so wifi should not be an issue
but is there not like a straight talk type of unlimited plan over data wise?
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that's the point of unlocked phones
if China is 5G then your N2 can't see that kind of signal...but it still sees 4G-LTE and below
it just like N7000...international version but work just fine here....yet never sees 4G-LTE on its bar

Data roaming

Had Verizon for years, roaming in the US was free. Obviously forcing the phone to roam would result in bad things.
Does t mobile allow this in the US too? As in can I turn on the roaming feature and not get dinged?
Have the unlimited everything plan.
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Unlimited plan includes unlimited roaming.
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Trackfiends said:
Unlimited plan includes unlimited roaming.
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Thank you. I couldn't seem to find that info.
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I live in an area with pretty horrible tmobile service, and previously depended heavily on tmobile's domestic data roaming.
Back in 2012 they did away with unlimited roaming, and their unlimited plan now gives you 50mb, after which you have no data roaming for the rest of the month.
Here's a recent article: http://www.fiercewireless.com/story...-roaming-services-simple-choice-pl/2013-10-25
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Thank you for the information sir!
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I'm currently out of the country and I'm able to get unlimited roaming, although it's at a slow speed.

They'll give you unlimited data roaming if you go outside the US, but not in the US.
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Depending on your specific data plan , you have certain amount of roaming data.

papabear said:
Depending on your specific data plan , you have certain amount of roaming data.
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I have unlimited and I get 50mb
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The man in the tmobile store told me that domestic roaming is unlimited.
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Trackfiends said:
Unlimited plan includes unlimited roaming.
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No it does not, it says only 50MB.
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