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E4GT vs Skyrocket

Sooo I wanted to check back with my 4G touch friends and let you guys know that you're really not missing much with the Skyrocket. I avidly benched, and did battery tests with the E4GT with multiple roms, and same With the Skyrocket, and it pales in comparison.
Caulks rom at 1.4 Ghz I was benching damn near 5k in Quadrant. With the Skyrocket, even at 1.8ghz, I cant get past 4600. Which I agree to some extent benching is irrelevant, but it does work for comparison. So yeah.
Also, the battery life, even on 3rd party roms blows compared to the E4GT. It's hard going from 25 hours total charge with 4:30 screen on time to 13 hours charge and 2 hours screen time :/
Other then that, the phones are pretty similar. The E4GT roms are way batter though. If it wasn't for Sprint 4G being nowhere and 3G being slow as **** no matter where I am, I'd return this phone and go back to the E4GT in a heartbeat. This LTE and getting 60 megs down made me fall in <3. I just wish the phone itself was up to par.
I decided to post this because other people I saw were debating on the swap. Having owned both, if you can deal with, or have decent Sprint data speeds, it's definitely not worth it.
I might buy another E4GT just to use and mod cause it's so epic

Did you say 60 megs down on LTE or was that LTE and 60 megs down on wifi? I am liking these unbiased comparisons. Thanks
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Did you say 60 megs down on LTE or was that LTE and 60 megs down on wifi? I am liking these unbiased comparisons. Thanks
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pay no attention to the wifi symbol at the top, I was at home when I snapped the pic, the network says LTE, it's truly beast.

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Thanks for that. I am sticking with my e4gt. Awesome phone. Appreciate your time.

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Did you say 60 megs down on LTE or was that LTE and 60 megs down on wifi? I am liking these unbiased comparisons. Thanks
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One of my co-workers here has a skyrocket the LTE in the Nashville area is about 50mb down. My only gripe with ATT here is their signal is very iffy alot of the time, that and their largest data package is 4gb/mo for $45, I can chew through 4gb of data very easily, went to the Sprint site and viewed my data usage, its the 19th, and I have already used 3gb of data on 3g, and another 6 on 4G. That on top of 59.99 for a 900 minute plan. My personal opinion is while the speeds may be drastically better, I am not willing to pay over $100 for less than what I get with Sprint currently. I view the speeds that we are seeing with ATT, and Verizon's LTE services something we can look forward to when Sprint rolls out their LTE network.

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One of my co-workers here has a skyrocket the LTE in the Nashville area is about 50mb down. My only gripe with ATT here is their signal is very iffy alot of the time, that and their largest data package is 4gb/mo for $45, I can chew through 4gb of data very easily, went to the Sprint site and viewed my data usage, its the 19th, and I have already used 3gb of data on 3g, and another 6 on 4G. That on top of 59.99 for a 900 minute plan. My personal opinion is while the speeds may be drastically better, I am not willing to pay over $100 for less than what I get with Sprint currently. I view the speeds that we are seeing with ATT, and Verizon's LTE services something we can look forward to when Sprint rolls out their LTE network.
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yes but its very easy to get a grandfathered in unlimited data plan from att, all you need is an OG iPhone. I just got my att account a week ago and I already have unlimited data. And who needs a 900 minute plan? The unlimited texting plan comes with unlimited mobile to mobile, then you just get the 400 minute plan. Who calls land lines for more then 400 minutes a month that doesn't have a business plan already?

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yes but its very easy to get a grandfathered in unlimited data plan from att, all you need is an OG iPhone. I just got my att account a week ago and I already have unlimited data. And who needs a 900 minute plan? The unlimited texting plan comes with unlimited mobile to mobile, then you just get the 400 minute plan. Who calls land lines for more then 400 minutes a month that doesn't have a business plan already?
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When 95% of your calls are to businesses You too will need a minimum of a 900 minute plan, and Why buy a business plan when I am the only user of my phone. Their low end business plan is $60 for only 700 minutes, and still doesn't include the additional charge for the data cap, Just saying If you only have 1-2 people who need a phone for work purposes, a business plan is not always the best value.

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When 95% of your calls are to businesses You too will need a minimum of a 900 minute plan.
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My whole work phone bill is expensed *shrug* I dont even see a bill. Hence why I mentioned business plan. Your situation is speaking for only a few.

The one thing I like about Sprint is the plans. I go over 4gb of data in a week, easily. I pay $115 a month(20% discount) for unlimited everything on two lines with 1500 anytime, and it works out great.

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Just saying If you only have 1-2 people who need a phone for work purposes, a business plan is not always the best value.
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Agreed. And I was just saying that that's not the case for the majority.

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The one thing I like about Sprint is the plans. I go over 4gb of data in a week, easily. I pay $115 a month(20% discount) for unlimited everything on two lines with 1500 anytime, and it works out great.
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If you need it, thats works perfectly. I pay $73 a month for unlimited data, texting and mobile to mobile, I just only get 400 anytime minutes, but I also have 450 rollover, so I dont even think it makes a difference. I feel like it's all unlimited. I too get a 23% discount though.

have been thinking about switching for the simple reason of 50k means i cant do anything with this phone unless im at home and then i have my galaxy tab 7+

i think i would like to switch
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yes but its very easy to get a grandfathered in unlimited data plan from att, all you need is an OG iPhone. I just got my att account a week ago and I already have unlimited data. And who needs a 900 minute plan? The unlimited texting plan comes with unlimited mobile to mobile, then you just get the 400 minute plan. Who calls land lines for more then 400 minutes a month that doesn't have a business plan already?
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hi how is the data signal / speed inside buildings? i would be interested in switching to att, if i can get unlimited data, as i see that gsm phones have wider support group

asteetva said:
hi how is the data signal / speed inside buildings? i would be interested in switching to att, if i can get unlimited data, as i see that gsm phones have wider support group
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About half the time I lose LTE in buildings, but HSPA+ is still like usually 4megs down. I lose connection occasionally depending on the building, but it's not as bad as Sprint service, thats for sure. I'd lose service everywhere.

Epic touch is exynos and skyrocket is qualcomm 1.5 ghz so there is no comparison. Even qualcomm runs at 2.0ghz it will still be slower than exynos.
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Epic touch is exynos and skyrocket is qualcomm 1.5 ghz so there is no comparison. Even qualcomm runs at 2.0ghz it will still be slower than exynos.
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True story based on my benches.

jermzz said:
yes but its very easy to get a grandfathered in unlimited data plan from att, all you need is an OG iPhone. I just got my att account a week ago and I already have unlimited data. And who needs a 900 minute plan? The unlimited texting plan comes with unlimited mobile to mobile, then you just get the 400 minute plan. Who calls land lines for more then 400 minutes a month that doesn't have a business plan already?
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Sigh, I had the old ATT plan with unlimited data but cancelled and switched to sprint a year ago for the Evo, now on the E4GT, love the phone, hate the service, just can't switch back to my ATT unlimted plan now

neilkarunatilaka said:
Sigh, I had the old ATT plan with unlimited data but cancelled and switched to sprint a year ago for the Evo, now on the E4GT, love the phone, hate the service, just can't switch back to my ATT unlimted plan now
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I'd be mad if i were you. When I switched, I moved from t-mobile, and now to ATT. Although I'm swapping service a lot, I feel like I'm upgrading. Well, as far as service goes anyway... Sprint seems to get all the better phones, so if their service improves and they have good LTE, I'd be willing to switch back. The good thing about keeping up on phones is that it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to switch phones / providers, even with an ETS. My ETS at Sprint was 180, and I paid 224 out the door at ATT for my plan and Skyrocket. Sold my 4G touch for $350, so I only spent like 50 bucks. all said and done.

until then?
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I'd be mad if i were you. When I switched, I moved from t-mobile, and now to ATT. Although I'm swapping service a lot, I feel like I'm upgrading. Well, as far as service goes anyway... Sprint seems to get all the better phones, so if their service improves and they have good LTE, I'd be willing to switch back.
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So until 2023 you will keep switching between ATT,VERIZON AND T-MOBILE?...

wtf i only get 30mbs down on a WIRED fios connection at home
fml

[Q] Anyone running Simple Mobile? Did you need to unlock for it to work?

Just curious if anyone was able to use Simple Mobile without unlocking your GS3. Simple mobile customer service told me no, then I spoke with a tecnical assistance person and they said that since it is a tmobile phone it is rare that you will need to unlock it.
The reason I am not taking their word on this issue just yet is
1) I have gotten two different answers from them for this question, and
2) When I hooked up my LG G2X with them it, the Simple Mobile APN kept switching back to Tmobile APN when I would try to set it up. They then tried to delete the Tmobile APN but it was ghosted and could not be deleted so it needed to be unlocked to do so.
So, again, has anyone hooked up with Simple Mobile without unlocking and data and calls functioning properly? Thanks.

I have simple mobile with the sg3. there's no need to unlock. The t-mobile apn with remain but it hasn't caused me any issues.
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Just curious if anyone was able to use Simple Mobile without unlocking your GS3. Simple mobile customer service told me no, then I spoke with a tecnical assistance person and they said that since it is a tmobile phone it is rare that you will need to unlock it.
The reason I am not taking their word on this issue just yet is
1) I have gotten two different answers from them for this question, and
2) When I hooked up my LG G2X with them it, the Simple Mobile APN kept switching back to Tmobile APN when I would try to set it up. They then tried to delete the Tmobile APN but it was ghosted and could not be deleted so it needed to be unlocked to do so.
So, again, has anyone hooked up with Simple Mobile without unlocking and data and calls functioning properly? Thanks.
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Just an fyi. Simple Mobile will throttle you at about 3gb of data. You won't be able to exceed 240kbs. Ask me how I know. You are better off doing prepaid direct via tmobile atleast you know for sure when you will be throttled.
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Just an fyi. Simple Mobile will throttle you at about 3gb of data. You won't be able to exceed 240kbs. Ask me how I know. You are better off doing prepaid direct via tmobile atleast you know for sure when you will be throttled.
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Im not sure you know what you are talking about? Where are you located? Im in eastern long island which is not a 4g area but I just speed tested and im getting 661.157kbps. I have not tried speed test in a 4g area but this still exceeds what you have stated.
You are correct about the 3gb of data allowance, but they did not throttle me after I have hit the 3gb margin, rather they shut my data off completely.
What prepaid plan does tmobile have to offer? Right now I pay $50 a month for supposed "unlimited" 3g/4g data, unlimited talk/text.

All T-Mobile phones work with Simple Mobile. I've been with them for a year and I got no complaints. I just bought a T-Mobile branded S3 and had no problems cutting my SIM card and using it on the phone. They do sell Micro SIM cards on eBay for pennies if you'd like to buy one.

I get 17mbs down on tmobile near my home in central NJ, I have gotten 7mbs down in NYC and most places average about 7-10mbs down. Tmobile speeds are good. You will get the same speeds on simple mobile until you use about 3gb worth of data, then they will throttle your connection (meaning slow it down considerably).. I know because I tried simple mobile for a little bit, and that's what I experienced.... Tmobile prepaid offers a plan with unlimited everything aswell for 70 bucks, however you don't get throttled until you exceed 5gb worth of data use, they are upfront, plain and clear about it... Simple Mobile will not be upfront about there data limits and at what point they start to throttle your speeds down to 240kbs... I have only been on tmo prepaid for about 3 weeks now and so far I am satisfied with there coverage, and data speeds. Tmo now offers an 70 dollar plan with unlimited everything and unthrottled data. But you have to sign a contract to get on that plan.... But if I can work within the constraints of 5gb then I'm okay..... I may give straight talk tmobile sim a try to see if they start throttling at any point.. I have heard conflicting stories about them, some say they do some say they don't.. No I do not tether.
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Im not sure you know what you are talking about? Where are you located? Im in eastern long island which is not a 4g area but I just speed tested and im getting 661.157kbps. I have not tried speed test in a 4g area but this still exceeds what you have stated.
You are correct about the 3gb of data allowance, but they did not throttle me after I have hit the 3gb margin, rather they shut my data off completely.
What prepaid plan does tmobile have to offer? Right now I pay $50 a month for supposed "unlimited" 3g/4g data, unlimited talk/text.
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Check your apn settings the apn settings provided on the simple mobile site will give you crappy speeds. Long Island is listed as a 4G area on tmo website. There is a coverage map in this forum in the modems download thread. When I first installed the sim I got from simple my speeds were crap, but my wife on tmo was getting great speeds in the same house with the same phone. So I googled "best apn setting for simple mobile" made the change and the difference was dramatic. Change the top half to look like this and leave the rest alone.
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I get 17mbs down on tmobile near my home in central NJ, I have gotten 7mbs down in NYC and most places average about 7-10mbs down. Tmobile speeds are good. You will get the same speeds on simple mobile until you use about 3gb worth of data, then they will throttle your connection (meaning slow it down considerably).. I know because I tried simple mobile for a little bit, and that's what I experienced.... Tmobile prepaid offers a plan with unlimited everything aswell for 70 bucks, however you don't get throttled until you exceed 5gb worth of data use, they are upfront, plain and clear about it... Simple Mobile will not be upfront about there data limits and at what point they start to throttle your speeds down to 240kbs... I have only been on tmo prepaid for about 3 weeks now and so far I am satisfied with there coverage, and data speeds. Tmo now offers an 70 dollar plan with unlimited everything and unthrottled data. But you have to sign a contract to get on that plan.... But if I can work within the constraints of 5gb then I'm okay..... I may give straight talk tmobile sim a try to see if they start throttling at any point.. I have heard conflicting stories about them, some say they do some say they don't.. No I do not tether.
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Is that $70 with tax and all the othe bs fees included or no?
Can someone explain to me what the best speed test site would be and how to read it? I went to mobilespeedtest.com and I get different kbps everytime? Which mb should I be testing at, they have 100kb 200kb 500mb, 800mb, etc options. Which kbps is reasonable? When I did it the first time I got 661.157kbps at the 100kb testing option, then I did it again and got 800kbps, then again and got amost 900kbps. It keeps changing wtf?

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Ok, so they are not truly unlimited, but what is the alternative? Here we have tmobile gs3's, what are the other options? The OP stated you can get an unlimited plan with T Mobile at 70 dollars a month but he hasn't stated whether that was with tax or not. He also stated that you have to sign a contract with them. As of right now simple mobile for me isn't that bad. The speeds are decent and I haven't had any other problems besides for them cutting my data completely off after I have reached 3 gigabytes of data but that was because I was playing ps3 call of duty using my data service so I guess I deserve that 1 but other than that I have never reached 3 gigabytes of data under normal use. so if anyone has any other suggestions for unlimited plan please let me know.

sprint to tmobile or prepaid

I have sprint right now and basically it sucks at work. At home I get 4g some times and at work I get 3g or just no data. I'm thinking ing about switching to tmobile or a prepaid carrier. I use about 100 mins a month in talk but I use like 5-7 gb in data a month because i'm on netflix and pandora all day at work. I have a job where i'm at a desk so i'm just sitting 6am to 7pm monday through wednesday. anyone know if any carriers?
I heard simple mobile is ok but I also heard they throttle or just cancel people
Heard straight talk cancels after 2gb.
I'm in the Baltimore MD area.

Well I have simple mobile and I have not had any problems with them at all. But based in your number of minutes, ill suggest t mobile unlimited 4g text and 100 minutes for 30 bucks a month. Check that plan out. And I believe you will have the Wi-Fi calling benefit at well. Having simple mobile, Wi-Fi calling and descent support is what I don't have, oh and insurance, but I'm not complaining for 50 bucks a month
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The plan mentioned above sounds great for you but be aware T-Mobile coverage (more or less the deepness that it can go into buildings) T-Mobile has an online only 30 dollars a month for unlimited data (5gigs of 4g service then the rest 2g) with 100 minutes and unlimited text.
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Ok. but what is athe 2g speed? because if I go over the 5gig its capped. so how would it be if I get 2 chips for the phone.
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The plan mentioned above sounds great for you but be aware T-Mobile coverage (more or less the deepness that it can go into buildings) T-Mobile has an online only 30 dollars a month for unlimited data (5gigs of 4g service then the rest 2g) with 100 minutes and unlimited text.
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The plan mentioned above sounds great for you but be aware T-Mobile coverage (more or less the deepness that it can go into buildings) T-Mobile has an online only 30 dollars a month for unlimited data (5gigs of 4g service then the rest 2g) with 100 minutes and unlimited text.
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its not just online its at walmart too
if you go over 5gig a month there is something wrong

Net flix and crunchyroll uses a lot, lol
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its not just online its at walmart too
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its not just online its at walmart too
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Yes but you cant buy JUST a SIM card at walmart. So that doesnt help the OP since they already have a phone.
But OP, if you go over 5gigs. 2g is okay for streaming pandora just gotta give it a good while before it starts playing. Also, browsing the xda app or tapatalk is possible as well as mobile facebook website (not sure about the facebook app) it was alright for what i used it for but once i got my s2 i started using a lot more data with netflix and youtube and streaming anime on xScope pro browser. And going over 5gigs is really easy pltctytc.

yeah thats where i'm at. i'm thinking about trying different carriers to see which one won't just block me or cut me off when I use there service. I have a S3 from sprint trying to get out of the contract now. but was going to sell it to get a used S3 on tmobile but might have to flash it to boost if I can't find a carrier prepaid that will do 5-9 gb of data.

You are not gonna get a prepaid that will give you 5-9 gb a month.
Don't know why you would go to Boost. They are the prepaid network of Sprint.
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because its will give me the 5-9gb. and I atleast get 3g which sucks.
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You are not gonna get a prepaid that will give you 5-9 gb a month.
Don't know why you would go to Boost. They are the prepaid network of Sprint.
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You said that Sprint sucks but yet you want to go to Boost, when Boost uses the same Sprint network?
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It's unlimited and from what I'm seeing won't cut me if I go over 5gig a month.
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Boost explicitly "reserves the right" to throttle you past 2.5 Gb and has in their terms that they can cancel you if they deem you to be in violation of reasonable use.
T-Mobile states that they will throttle you to 50kb/s >5Gb.
At work, can you possibly use wifi instead of mobile data ? Instead of streaming movies/music, put them on an external SD card ? I guess it comes down to how badly you need to stream over mobile networks and how much you're willing to pay.
You can get 10Gb from Verizon for $140/month total. I mean, it exists even if you probably have no interest in signing up for it. It would cost $70/month to hook a compatible tablet up with 10Gb/month - so I guess if they get much better coverage in your area, you could switch to them and use a cheap pre-paid phone for voice calling if calling over data work-arounds are not reliable enough for you - since it's not like you'd be paying any more.
Just ideas. I don't think you're going to find what you're looking for when it comes to a pre-paid that will let you go over 5Gb/mo so you'll either have to deal with Sprint's limitations or make some kind of compromise (paying more, data-only tablet, using an SD card instead of streaming, et cetera), or perhaps look at other post-paid.

I had boost before I signed up for sprint. And i had a flashed epic 4g on it and was doing Netflix all day and was never canceled. Went to sprint to get the s3 and they said 4g lte was in my area which it wasn't.
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Get tmobile you're not going to regret it. Especially if you live in a +42 area. 23.5GB and still going strong!
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I say go to Tmobile, I was with Sprint for 12 yrs and had all of their top smartphones for the most part. This recent LTE fail in an LTE city (DFW) made me switch to Tmobile which is saving me $40 per month now after Sprint went up $13 per month for each 4G line and I get up to 25Mbps down compared to the horrible 3G I was getting in the summer while in the DFW and DC area. You can get on their unlimited 4G plan with no throttle or the 5GB with hotspot and throttle. Get a GS3 on Tmobile for a low contract price and then sell the Sprint one for $300+ on ebay to pay the ETF. I sold my EvoLTE, and 2 Evos to pay what was left on my ETFs. I have great coverage on the East Coast and DFW.
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I'm in Clarksville md, Lutherville md, and Baltimore md everyday. And only place I get good service is Clarksville and no 4G. Near bwi i don't even get Internet on my phone.
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I just moved from sprint to t mobile and am super happy with the move.
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I say go to Tmobile, I was with Sprint for 12 yrs and had all of their top smartphones for the most part. This recent LTE fail in an LTE city (DFW) made me switch to Tmobile which is saving me $40 per month now after Sprint went up $13 per month for each 4G line and I get up to 25Mbps down compared to the horrible 3G I was getting in the summer while in the DFW and DC area. You can get on their unlimited 4G plan with no throttle or the 5GB with hotspot and throttle. Get a GS3 on Tmobile for a low contract price and then sell the Sprint one for $300+ on ebay to pay the ETF. I sold my EvoLTE, and 2 Evos to pay what was left on my ETFs. I have great coverage on the East Coast and DFW.
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I used to be on Boost but switched to T-Mobile because not only has Sprint not rolled out LTE yet in my city (Birmingham), they never even rolled out WiMax here.
The unlimited 4G is a great value -- Boost was cheaper, of course, but the data was sooooo slow.

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I'm in Clarksville md, Lutherville md, and Baltimore md everyday. And only place I get good service is Clarksville and no 4G. Near bwi i don't even get Internet on my phone.
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I lived in the DC-Bmore area for 11 yrs so I am familiar with all of those places. My friends in Bowie, Upper Marlboro, and DC with their Sprint LTE devices are still waiting for the LTE to be turned on. Baltimore was supposed to have it by now from what I have read. Everytime I read stories like these, it makes me feel even better about my decision to move all of my lines to TMO.
Here are some dl speeds:
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I am tried on knocking sprint about their slow data speeds.

I am slowly becoming a fan of sprint's internet speeds. Please check out my signature line for the speed I got on my laptop computer. I am thoroughly impress with the speed I am getting. I was knocking sprint because I was getting faster internet speeds from my home internet but now I am getting faster speeds from my phone internet. If sprint can duplicate this standard everywhere they my have a chance of being the number one cell phone provider one day.

ill continue knocking them for a lack of LTE and unusable speeds on 3G
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and thats 3x faster than what i usually pull in NYC

Dude thats horrible
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Best speed I've gotten over the last month was a 422/308 kbps in jersey

I've gotten as low as 20kbps and my highest speed was 800, on average I get 200-300kbps on one phone and 500kbps on the other (samsung sph-a900 and apple iPhone respectively), and ~6months+ ago (for 6 years) I was getting ~1.2mbps with spikes upto 1.5mbps. (And at Lunch/dinner time the speed drops to about half of the average) Have not had a chance to try LTE yet because it's not available here.

I am finally starting to pull some decent speeds. My 3G speeds have been increasing and I get LTE around my area. My prior Wimax phones got no love. Soon as I took the GNII to work, 4G popped up.
Highest I have gotten in my area is 8mbps, slowest about 1.3mbps. On 3G I routinely stay over 500kbps and sometimes in the 1.5mbps around town. All far better than what I used to get.
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Screw u guys. Half the time my speed test app cant even find the server. Thats why we get unlimited data cause they know its impossible to pull a gig a month. We r suckers. All I do is ***** about sprint and im on my 5th 4g phone. Oh well
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royshero said:
Screw u guys. Half the time my speed test app cant even find the server. Thats why we get unlimited data cause they know its impossible to pull a gig a month. We r suckers. All I do is ***** about sprint and im on my 5th 4g phone. Oh well
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I was pulling upto 20gb/month a few years ago when I was getting 1.2mbps and avoiding slow WiFi (most of the hotspots around here are 300-600kbps) now that my data speed is 400-600 dep on time and phone I try to use hotspots more and I only pull a couple gb/month at max (though to be fair I use less mobile data overall, for a month I test-drove AT&T and was pulling upto 5mbps on HSPA+ and upto 27mbps on LTE and I still stayed WELL within my 3gb limit (and even really pushing hard to burn though the data at the end of the month by streaming HD videos I barely got to 2.5gb)
Also, just for the record, it's "100gb/month" of data (as per reports on androidforums) for 3G - no idea what the cap is on LTE

royshero said:
Screw u guys. Half the time my speed test app cant even find the server. Thats why we get unlimited data cause they know its impossible to pull a gig a month. We r suckers. All I do is ***** about sprint and im on my 5th 4g phone. Oh well
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I've used 23gigs thank-you
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chessx said:
ill continue knocking them for a lack of LTE and unusable speeds on 3G
and thats 3x faster than what i usually pull in NYC
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I think I can shed some light ther pm me ur zip and city and I can see whats going on when I get back to work tomorrow
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Read an article today how boost mobile or virgin mobile is throttling their speed after the user consumes a certain amount of bandwidth.
The speed would be throttled down to 256kbps.
I LOLd. I wish I get 256kbps from sprint.
As an aside, both those networks run atop the sprint network...So they get the same speeds as sprint users.
swyped all these spelling errors from my galaxy note 2

A2CKilla said:
I've used 23gigs thank-you
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Ive never passed 2gigs and im on my phone constantly. Mostly watching fb or YouTube trying to load then telling me to try again.
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will do
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I think I can shed some light ther pm me ur zip and city and I can see whats going on when I get back to work tomorrow
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I have two note 2 phones.
One on sprint the other on solavei. Which is tmobile really.
The solavei phone kills sprint in data speed. Constantly getting 10-15 mbps all day.
Lately my sprint note is to slow for decent test.
I love unlimited data but is it truly unlimited if your connection is piss poor slow?
The solavei plan is Unlimited 4g
Talk text web $60.00 per month taxes included.
No $10.00 per month smartphone fee. I have been a sprint customer for 14 years but for the first time considering leaving.
Even when the lte gets worked out . The data plans will most assuredly change. I just hope they get it together soon.
Bought the fiancé an note 2 also unlocked it threw in solavei sim card and shazam
Look at those internets fly lol.
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chessx said:
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Good news!! there's 3g upgrades going on a few miles away about 1.8 to be exact bad news........ The tower closes top you have afew more weeks to go.. If everything goes as plan
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I have no g's in my area,0g

Actually saw my phone pick up 4g for the first time today on the freeway but by the time I pulled up speedtest I had lost connection.
This is my average speed at home.

humdrum2009 said:
I have two note 2 phones.
One on sprint the other on solavei. Which is tmobile really.
The solavei phone kills sprint in data speed. Constantly getting 10-15 mbps all day.
Lately my sprint note is to slow for decent test.
I love unlimited data but is it truly unlimited if your connection is piss poor slow?
The solavei plan is Unlimited 4g
Talk text web $60.00 per month taxes included.
No $10.00 per month smartphone fee. I have been a sprint customer for 14 years but for the first time considering leaving.
Even when the lte gets worked out . The data plans will most assuredly change. I just hope they get it together soon.
Bought the fiancé an note 2 also unlocked it threw in solavei sim card and shazam
Look at those internets fly lol.
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I hear you on that. I tested out the internet on my ATT iPad3 (HSPA+ and LTE) and I gotta say it's very tempting to switch (Pulled 4-5mbps on HSPA+ and 20-25mbps on LTE) if ATT would offer me a bit more data, like T-Mo does @ 5gb/month (T-Mo reception is **** here) I'd probably switch. There comes a point when you say "if I cant really physically use more than 5gb/month of data, why am I paying for it?" I'm really hoping LTE is as big of a game-changer as Sprint claims (I've seen some impressive speeds posted on HoFo) but given what happened with Sprint's implimentation of WiMAX, I'm not holding my breath...

Lte speeds here in nyc.
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Indianapolis.
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[Q] Does T-Mobile ever really throttle you?

As the title says, I've been using WAY over 2.5GB of data (around 5-6GB) and I've consistently been getting 4g speeds. I've been doing this for months now and they never seem to throttle me. I know that this is a good thing, but I was just wondering if some of the people that actually know about tmobile can give me an official reason. Thanks.

Depends. What plan you have? The $70 unlimited Everything plan is the only unlimited data that doesn't throttle.

lm that guy said:
Depends. What plan you have? The $70 unlimited Everything plan is the only unlimited data that doesn't throttle.
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I have the 2.5gb one. Thats why I'm asking. I'm not getting throttled even though they said it will be throttled after 2.5 gb

Do a speed test what speeds do you get? Are you past the 2.5gb right now?

Okay. I also have that plan but I have yet to go over the limit yet. So I can't really say. That's just what I heard. Maybe someone else can chime in. Also, care to post a screen of your current data usage going over the 2.5 limit and a speed test please :fingers-crossed:

I pay $20 for the truly unlimited data so I haven't been throttled in over a year
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I'm on the $30/mo prepaid plan with 5GB data, after that it's throttled to 2G speeds but I haven't gone over before. Plenty of room for even downloading ROMs regularly. I love this plan.

lm that guy said:
Okay. I also have that plan but I have yet to go over the limit yet. So I can't really say. That's just what I heard. Maybe someone else can chime in. Also, care to post a screen of your current data usage going over the 2.5 limit and a speed test please :fingers-crossed:
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Here is my usage (does anyone know what the blue square means, the one that says data?)
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Ignore the LTE on the status bar. I modded that to make myself feel better about tmobile where i live.

xxjrsmith3xx said:
Do a speed test what speeds do you get? Are you past the 2.5gb right now?
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Yes I am well past it. Look above for the screenshots.

aooga said:
Here is my usage (does anyone know what the blue square means, the one that says data?)
Ignore the LTE on the status bar. I modded that to make myself feel better about tmobile where i live.
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How did you mod that? I want mine to just say regular LTE like yours when I'm on LTE.
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@rbiter said:
How did you mod that? I want mine to just say regular LTE like yours when I'm on LTE.
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I just decompiled the SystemUI.apk and edited the png. I could give you the edited png, assuming you know how to decompile and all that stuff. I was thinking about making a signal mods thread like I did with the Nexus 4, but apparently, this phone doesn't work with zipthemer which is the only way I can make something without someone saying "can you make this for ____ rom?".
EDIT: Actually, no need for decompiling, just open the apk in winrar and drag the png to /res/drawable-xxhhpi.
Here is the picture :http://s7.postimg.org/jw4l7bdpj/stat_sys_data_connected_lte_tmo.png (right click, save as)

aooga said:
As the title says, I've been using WAY over 2.5GB of data (around 5-6GB) and I've consistently been getting 4g speeds. I've been doing this for months now and they never seem to throttle me. I know that this is a good thing, but I was just wondering if some of the people that actually know about tmobile can give me an official reason. Thanks.
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If you look at the plans they offer, you will see that the 2.5G data plan says quite clearly that.
It gives you nation wide UNLIMITED NO THROTTLING 4g LTE,
Plus,
2.5G smhs...(Smart Phone mobile hot spot) ...so you will be throttled down to 3g speeds once you Tether more then 2.5G.
Now, I don't know if the THROTTLING would be in effect for all data usage once it is started, or only tethering.
Also they do offer a truly unlimited data for 20 more a month.
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TheNewGuy said:
If you look at the plans they offer, you will see that the 2.5G data plan says quite clearly that.
It gives you nation wide UNLIMITED NO THROTTLING 4g LTE,
Plus,
2.5G smhs...(Smart Phone mobile hot spot) ...so you will be throttled down to 3g speeds once you Tether more then 2.5G.
Now, I don't know if the THROTTLING would be in effect for all data usage once it is started, or only tethering.
Also they do offer a truly unlimited data for 20 more a month.
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no, no, no. that's Unlimited for 70$ which gives you 2.5GB of tethering.
he has 2.5GB of high speed data which is 10$ less than the Unlimited plan that also gives you 2.5GB of tethering.

XxLostSoulxX said:
no, no, no. that's Unlimited for 70$ which gives you 2.5GB of tethering.
he has 2.5GB of high speed data which is 10$ less than the Unlimited plan that also gives you 2.5GB of tethering.
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Well it gives me 500 mb of tethering.
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aooga said:
Well it gives me 500 mb of tethering.
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thats the old plan, if you go in to a T-Mo they'll give it to for free if you ask how come you don't get the 2.5GB MHS.

XxLostSoulxX said:
thats the old plan, if you go in to a T-Mo they'll give it to for free if you ask how come you don't get the 2.5GB MHS.
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The 2.5 is only available for the unlimited plan. At least that's what they said. I only switched over to T-Mobile in the last month so not sure how I could be on the old plan. I'll ask though, thanks.
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aooga said:
The 2.5 is only available for the unlimited plan. At least that's what they said. I only switched over to T-Mobile in the last month so not sure how I could be on the old plan. I'll ask though, thanks.
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its really recent as i had 500MB on N4 even on Unlimited plan around last month. and yes i do believe 2.5GB may be only for Unlimited plan but never hurts to call up.

I chatted with a rep online yesterday and asked if I have to pay extra for mobile wifi hotspot and they told me that I can use all of my 2.5 gigs I pay for with the hotspot app. After that, i can still tether but at slowed speeds. My phone too will be slowed after the 2.5 gigs is used. that surprised me and I hope the rep was correct. I don't tether much at all, but the option is there which is nice for no extra cost. Maybe at the end of my billing cycle, I'll push past the 2.5 gigs and see what happens to both tethering and my speeds.

I just used all my 2.5gb of data, And I am throttled.
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lm that guy said:
I just used all my 2.5gb of data, And I am throttled.
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Have you guys used a root wifi tether? Tether your phone without it going towards the hotspot. I just switched back to tmo and have an unlimited plan. But with other carrier, using wifi tether just used regular, data without it counting towards hotspot data.