Hi everyone. My Xperia x10 is dying on me so I need a new phone. I saw a galaxy s3 on ncix.com for $100 and locked to the bell carrier. My current plan is with bell and I was wondering if I needed 4G LTE or if my current plan would work. I'm not very active on the forums and any help would be greatly appreciated.
You current plan will work, but you'll need a new micro-sim card.
IIRC, Bell data plans from the past become LTE plans assuming you have the hardware. I may be wrong though.
And the phone won't be that cheap unless you sign a new contract with them (Bell). Otherwise if you really want your old plan, you'll need to buy the phone outright.
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I am planning on upgrading my phone from Samsung Vibrant to Galaxy S II. Currently I have $15 (feature phone) unlimited data plan on AT&T. If I go with S-II, will AT&T detect it as smartphone and change my data plan to one of limited plans?
I am planning on buying T-Mobile version of S-II unlocked and using it on AT&T. please advise.
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csci1000 said:
I am planning on upgrading my phone from Samsung Vibrant to Galaxy S II. Currently I have $15 (feature phone) unlimited data plan on AT&T. If I go with S-II, will AT&T detect it as smartphone and change my data plan to one of limited plans?
I am planning on buying T-Mobile version of S-II unlocked and using it on AT&T. please advise.
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i think it will make u charge extra, thats what happen when i upgrade to the tmobile G2 from HD2. not sure how they detect it.
but then again thats tmobile ATT might be different
Were both G2 and HD2 tmobile branded phones?
did you purchase them unlocked on ebay or something?
can anyone else with experience pls confirm this ?
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Never mind misread op lol
no, as long as ur phone isn't att branded
just buy the phone outright, swap in the old SIM card, and you can keep your current plans unchanged
I will buy unlocked phone and check it out...I am very excited about S-II
thank you all very much!
Hey guys, im gonna buy an unlocked GSM GNex soon for use on AT&T and was just wondering if I had to flash anything (radio, ect) or can I just plug in my sim card and get right to it?
Thanks!
spitefulcheerio said:
Hey guys, im gonna buy an unlocked GSM GNex soon for use on AT&T and was just wondering if I had to flash anything (radio, ect) or can I just plug in my sim card and get right to it?
Thanks!
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No need to do anything, put ur existing AT&T sim and you are all set .
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I too did the same and it works just fine. I am curious about my plan though. I still have the unlimited Data plan. I had the Captivate and got an iPhone 4 in trade for something. I switched to it until the Nexus came out.
I had to call AT&T and have them change my plan so that the iPhone would get data. When I got my Nexus I just put the sim in an adapter and have service with Data. Interestingly my phone shows up as a Captivate again at the AT&T website. Anyone familiar with AT&T plans to tell me what plan I should be on now?
I used to have the international version of the GSII, and I was able to give the IMEI to AT&T, and tell them that it was a dumb phone. This allowed me to use the unlimited $15 data plan.
My understanding is that this is because they don't have the IMEI in their system since it's an international phone. If I were to buy the Galaxy Nexus from Google, would I be able to do the same thing? Or would I have to import one from Europe/Asia? Not sure how the IMEI thing works
Guess I'll try it anyway
Did it work? Anyone know? Looking to do the same thing. Currently have a nexus one on the dumbphone plan, looking to go to a galaxy nexus.
Jakeadiah said:
Did it work? Anyone know? Looking to do the same thing. Currently have a nexus one on the dumbphone plan, looking to go to a galaxy nexus.
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If you already have the plan, go ahead and try it.
I would like to know if this worked as well. I have a photon which is an American phone but is also a world phone and by default is locked to international GSM. Im about to use the domestic hack for the radio to use this as a go phone. Att shouldn't have the imei in their system because its not supposed to work for att lol.
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The general consensus is that only the international gnex's can use the unlimited att data plan. Some how att was able to recognize some gnex's bought from the play store (USA) and flag them as smartphones. There is another thread floating around either here or in the sgs3 forum that showed this.
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The general consensus is that only the international gnex's can use the unlimited att data plan. Some how att was able to recognize some gnex's bought from the play store (USA) and flag them as smartphones. There is another thread floating around either here or in the sgs3 forum that showed this.
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What's this I keep hearing about people buying phones from the play store??? I've seen this all over. Also would this even apply to the photon? The photon is an American phone that can run on GSM but is locked out of domestic and will most likely never get unlocked for domestic GSM use. So would att log the imei as a smartphone?
Edit: we can use a hybrid radio made custom by a dev to allow domestic GSM but the radio used is from a Japanese phone
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I am considering the note2 but I want to get the unlocked no commitment version. I have read n the past people will buy non carrier branded phones and the carrier will not recognize the phone so they default to the lowest data plan. Is that still the case? I currently have no data plan so I dont know what I want to do. Part of me is thinking of ditching AT&T and going to one of those prepaid services and using my old number via Google voice but to my understanding the texts get messed up.
Been using international Note N7000 for almost a year and should till tomorrow lol. I have my iPhone 4 SIM in it and the AT&T site shows the picture of a flip phone so they don't know what phone I'm using. I do have the iPhone data plan so maybe they don't care as I'm paying for a data plan.
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Yes ATT will recognize it. As long as you have a micro sim card. If not you can go to an ATT store and ask for one.
So check this out.... I am an AT&T user and back when the HTC HD2 came out for T-Mobile I bought it from a friend when they signed up for a new contract. Got an unlock code from Ebay and have been using it for the past 2 years without having to have a data plan, never got added automatically to my plan like i have heard happen to others? And I'm wondering why? Is it possibly cuz its a T-Mobile phone? Or is it cuz I still have an old "Cingular" SIM card? I am curious about this because right now, Wally World has a special sale on the phone at $249, plus a $100 gift card, which will bring the phone down to $150 basically, so a pretty damn good deal for a phone just out on the market. And I'm plan on getting it this week, I was wondering if any of you would be able to tell me if at some point if i was able to get a T-Mobile version of the Samsung Note 2 if i could slip my SIM card into it and then be able to cancel my DATA plan, if i told them i went back to a Motorola Razr or something, which worked when i got my HD2? Or will AT&T be able to see that i have a smartphone? Is it the newer smaller SIM card, that will tell AT&T that I have a smartphone, or will the phone it self be what sends info to the servers or whatever that tells AT&T I have a smartphone? Or do you think this method of getting a T-Mobile phone and using an AT&T SIM card will work and I won't get stuck with a DATA plan? Everywhere I go has Wi-Fi so I have no need for the Data plan it will be going to waste.
The newer phones, including this one, use a micro-SIM.
I think it is because you have a phone that is not sold by AT&T that they can't tell what it is, so you would probably be forced to get a data plan if you get the AT&T Note II. I would think that regardless of the sim card you have it would still report your phone model to the network, but I really don't know anything about that, so hopefully others can chime in.
I have been using an unlocked Xperia Pro on AT&T and they don't seem to have a clue what it is or even that it is a smartphone, so I could probably do whatever I want with the data plan.
If you got the international version of the Note perhaps you would not have to have a data plan.
acey_zero said:
I think it is because you have a phone that is not sold by AT&T that they can't tell what it is, so you would probably be forced to get a data plan if you get the AT&T Note II. I would think that regardless of the sim card you have it would still report your phone model to the network, but I really don't know anything about that, so hopefully others can chime in.
I have been using an unlocked Xperia Pro on AT&T and they don't seem to have a clue what it is or even that it is a smartphone, so I could probably do whatever I want with the data plan.
If you got the international version of the Note perhaps you would not have to have a data plan.
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I'm wondering if it has something to do with the IMEI? If it isn't listed in there network or something? Maybe I will be alright? I don't know... But back when I got the Tmobile HD2 I went from a Motorola Razr to the HD2 just fine and wasn't automatically enrolled into a data plan, like some others people on at&t were that got the same phone. I don't know how I wasn't, but I'm happy I wasn't and was hoping to find out how to avoid it again. Everywhere I go has Wi-Fi, I don't need to throw away, $15 to $30 extra a month when I'm not even going to use the Data network very often. I have been going just fine with my HD2 with no data plan, just using Wi-Fi.
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The newer phones, including this one, use a micro-SIM.
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Right, I know I'll have to get a new SIM card and that is what kinda worries me, I don't know anything about the SIM cards. I was just curious if my older "Cingular" SIM card is what was helping keep me stay under the radar of them not knowing I have a smartphone, or if its because, the HD2 phone I have is from Tmobile and not in their system, so it can't recognize it? I went from a Razr to the HD2 and it still shows as a Razr in my account. An when I get the Note 2 phone, hopefully from Tmobile sometime, I was hoping I can still get away with not having to add a Data plan if i can find out how to avoid it...
Its all in the IMIE ... I was using a Galaxy Nexus overseas on a dumb phone plan because they didnt have the IMIE in system they couldnt tell it was a smartphone but they have cracked down on it now. Only phone that seem to be making it through the loop hole is overseas ones that are not very popular. If you switch to the AT&T version you will 100% be put on data plan if you choose a note 2 from say Rogers there is a slight chance you could sneak under the radar and not need it but for how long no one really knows.
I've seen people come in with T-Mobile phones or international phones and they don't register as a smartphone with the IMEI. So no data is required with unlocked phones.
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I've seen people come in with T-Mobile phones or international phones and they don't register as a smartphone with the IMEI. So no data is required with unlocked phones.
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Do you work at an AT&T store or something? Just curious, cuz it kinda sounds like it from the way you worded that reply. I've read on other threads that AT&T does checks or sweeps every now and then, that might detect a smartphone? Have you heard about that before, not sure what they meant by that?