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[Q] new unlimited. Still tether?

I've seen a couple threads and I'm a bit confused.
I know the new plan doesn't have wifi hotspot... Not like that service really mattered.
Was wondering for those who are on the new plan. Can you still tether?
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Teo032 said:
I've seen a couple threads and I'm a bit confused.
I know the new plan doesn't have wifi hotspot... Not like that service really mattered.
Was wondering for those who are on the new plan. Can you still tether?
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I'm just gonna put my two cents in, I'm not on the plan, might get the s3 with this plan. But, from my knowledge, there is no way for them to know what's using your data unless you're on a stock ROM.
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Yeah that's what I'm thinking too. But rather get some hard feedback lol
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I was wondering this very question myself.

Tethering is still working for me after I made the switch yesterday. Hopefully I don't get charged though.. even though I don't use tether, it's good to know that everything works on my phone. How would i know I'm being charged for it? I didn't receive any "warning" popups or anything like that before continuing.. do I just have to wait for my next bill??

I wonder if they can develop some methods that could detect your tethering and block it?
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I had the tether feature free when i upgrade to 5G and now I'm on this new plan and the rep told me that i still keept my free tether and my other line will have it free as well...
but gosh Tmobile just got bad after they close the calls center with reps I had to talk to 4 people for one simple reason cause none of these new foreign knows what their talking about. so im not sure if i still have the tether will see.

Alarmmy said:
I wonder if they can develop some methods that could detect your tethering and block it?
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Only by puting an APP on your device. I know a little bit about networking, and thats the only way. packets are packets. the user-agent is the only way to see what type of browser it is. but like i said before, a lot of android browsers use the desktop user agent.
But why would/should any carrier stop it? Especially if you are on a tiered plan. Its YOUR data, use it how YOU want. PERIOD. wethere you are streaming on your laptop, or streaming on your phone and using an MHL conector to your TV, its STILL streaming. Period.

Just got this, and i'm on the plan. also using stock rom.. http://offers.t-mobile.com/tethering/upsell.do?source=pcweb

gypsy214 said:
Just got this, and i'm on the plan. also using stock rom.. http://offers.t-mobile.com/tethering/upsell.do?source=pcweb
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Were you tethering? And it's because you're on stock.
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noodles2224 said:
Tethering is still working for me after I made the switch yesterday. Hopefully I don't get charged though.. even though I don't use tether, it's good to know that everything works on my phone. How would i know I'm being charged for it? I didn't receive any "warning" popups or anything like that before continuing.. do I just have to wait for my next bill??
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It wont connect now.
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I'm also getting the exact same page when attempting to tether with my nexus 7. I'm on an amaze running speedrom 7.5
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I was able to tether no problem to my laptop yesterday .. just tested it again and it still workibg great..
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For those unable to tether and being sent to that page, You could try using a different tethering app. Try foxfi, my dad is a tmo employee and doesnt have tethering on his plan, but says tethering works perfectly fine on his stock unrooted t989 with foxfi. I might also recommend cwm tethering.
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I purchased easy tether a couple of years ago. I'll try it when I get home.

gypsy214 said:
Just got this, and i'm on the plan. also using stock rom.. http://offers.t-mobile.com/tethering/upsell.do?source=pcweb
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I got the same thing
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If its unlimited data why it shows this? Anybody else get this?
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bmakk2055 said:
If its unlimited data why it shows this? Anybody else get this?
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Mine shows this on the website..
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bmakk2055 said:
If its unlimited data why it shows this? Anybody else get this?
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They need to show that because they need a
fixed number. It's the same with minutes, i remember a while ago they had something like 999999 minutes. That's a long time ago though lol. But do you honestly think you'll use 10000GB lol
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Mine shows this on the website..
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Yeah thats from the mobile site? They're probably slowly updating yo hide the number and showing unlimited instead... TMobile aren't exactly the best at web developing... Remember their slow and crappy websites when trying to check your usage. It's a tad better now lol.
Anyways, it looks like there are mixed reviews, but i assume native tethering is no good but some 3rd parties are still good? Keep the feedback coming fellas
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Im trying to change my data on tmobile website but no luck. It keeps loading or says "You cant change service at this time" Anyone has that issue like me?
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My data usege

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Are you serious?
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How did you manage to use 77gb? I used 10gb and thought it was a lot of data usage.
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Tethering and torrenting I would assume.

77GB lot of porn lol
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jpeps said:
77GB lot of porn lol
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No its not.
Ive heard.

don't they slow you down after 5GB?

tigersgt said:
don't they slow you down after 5GB?
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Not if you get their new truly unlimited 4G plan.
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If I recall, someone else used like 1 tb of data. So although this is quite a lot, others have done worse.

007shinobi said:
If I recall, someone else used like 1 tb of data. So although this is quite a lot, others have done worse.
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Yeah was just gonna say that
But seriously OP why would you post a thread for your data? You know you don't get a cookie for that
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007shinobi said:
If I recall, someone else used like 1 tb of data. So although this is quite a lot, others have done worse.
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Wow 1TB. Did anyone know if tmobile will suspect the account for this much usage? Thinking if I can replace my home internet with this. I am getting 3mb internet only

Just let people know the new unlimited data.
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Can you still wireless tether if you have the new 4g plan and your phone is rooted?
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Yes, i am on cm10 rom, and wifi tethering work fine , that is why use that much data
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9 TB. Outrageous!
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OP: are you proud of yourself?
That kind is usage on a mobile device is why some carriers don't have unlimited anymore....
That"s just excessive.
(I don't really care if you don't agree with me, it's my opinion and I'm entitled to it...thank you)
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Babydoll25 said:
OP: are you proud of yourself?
That kind is usage on a mobile device is why some carriers don't have unlimited anymore....
That"s just excessive.
(I don't really care if you don't agree with me, is my opinion and I'm entitled to it...thank you)
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I think he post just for fun nothing to do with proud thing
Cause I use more data than he does and not even one month.two more weeks left

I was pretty surprised that I've used close to amount (last I checked a few days ago, 50GB). No tethering no Torrenting. But it seems that the Gallery likes to use nearly 2GB of data in the background every time I set up a new ROM or Reflash. That plus all the Roms and re downloading of apps from the Store. And more recently, the purchase of a couple HD movies and a hand full of re downloads of the Avengers movie.

77Gb on HSPA+? Come to my area Whole brooklyn gets like 0-0.20Mbit, Loading Netflix or Youtube is virtually impossible here. Called T-mobile they said they're fixing tower, well 4 Months and still fixing it? Good thing I have pre-paid I can cancel any time

Babydoll25 said:
OP: are you proud of yourself?
That kind is usage on a mobile device is why some carriers don't have unlimited anymore....
That"s just excessive.
(I don't really care if you don't agree with me, is my opinion and I'm entitled to it...thank you)
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Agree
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Question for you all: truly unlimited throttle

So about mud day yesterday, I was watching YouTube, all of a sudden everything started buffering no matter what video I watched. Downloaded a couple files and speeds were only 30kB/s. Didn't think anything of it. Thought it was the host. Didn't do much else but use tapatalk and noticed things were a but slow. Did a speed test and it shot up to like 300kB/s then hovered around 30-50kB/s felt that awfully strange.. as that's what would happen on my old throttle plan.
So I went to bed not thinking of it.
Got up this morning and speeds were the same. Stayed the same for the entire day til I got fed up and called T-Mobile. They "said" I wasn't being throttled. And after I *****ed they "reset" my phone on their network and things were back to normal.
Has anyone else experienced like symptoms? I'd hate to think they went this low to throttle us..
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Are you sure you have the truly unlimited 4G plan... Or the unlimited data with let's say 2gb, 5gb or 10gb of 4G data.
If you have the truly unlimited data then you shouldn't be throttled. But if you have one of the other three plans where they cap the 4G data then they throttle you after that certain point.
Or maybe t mobile was having issues with your tower and had to reset the connection?
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It wasn't just my area though, both s2 and s3 showed same speeds. And yes I have the truly unlimited.
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How much data have you used this period?
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This had to be all of tmobile last light because me and 3 buddies at work were all stuck on edge till 8 am
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Why is this posted in general? Not to sound an a$$ but yeah..
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You weren't being throttled. I'm in southern cali and had horrible speeds this morning.
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agtitan said:
How much data have you used this period?
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17gigs but that doesn't matter.
imtjnotu said:
This had to be all of tmobile last light because me and 3 buddies at work were all stuck on edge till 8 am
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well that reassures me that they weren't throttling me.
shahkam said:
Why is this posted in general? Not to sound an a$$ but yeah..
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And because I had general open in tapatalk and didn't realize it. Lol sorry I'm human.
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Lol no worries i just hate cluterred forums :/
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17 gigs? I really don't see how most people can go over 5 without tethering. I use my phone constantly and I've never gone over 2. Even with what I use on wifi, which might be another 2gb, is still not even 5gb's. So, I can only ASSUME you have been tethering, and they figured it out. That would explain the throttle.

tony yayo said:
17 gigs? I really don't see how most people can go over 5 without tethering. I use my phone constantly and I've never gone over 2. Even with what I use on wifi, which might be another 2gb, is still not even 5gb's. So, I can only ASSUME you have been tethering, and they figured it out. That would explain the throttle.
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Get Netflix.....

tony yayo said:
17 gigs? I really don't see how most people can go over 5 without tethering. I use my phone constantly and I've never gone over 2. Even with what I use on wifi, which might be another 2gb, is still not even 5gb's. So, I can only ASSUME you have been tethering, and they figured it out. That would explain the throttle.
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You get 100 uses of tethering anyhow. Then they block you. But as psykhotic said get Netflix and watch HD movies and then tell me how much data you use. Not to mention you can download torrents via your phone. And I never use WiFi except for when transferring files to my phone.
But irregardless, it's unlimited, there shouldn't be a throttle period.
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Get Netflix.....
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Yes. This and gogoanime plus a movie streaming website.
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elesbb said:
You get 100 uses of tethering anyhow. Then they block you. But as psykhotic said get Netflix and watch HD movies and then tell me how much data you use. Not to mention you can download torrents via your phone. And I never use WiFi except for when transferring files to my phone.
But irregardless, it's unlimited, there shouldn't be a throttle period.
Yes. This and gogoanime plus a movie streaming website.
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What do you mean you get 100 uses of tethering?
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.....irregardless
I could certainly reach well above twenty gig with Tune in radio, Hulu, Jetflicks, and Netflix.
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I just streamed music to and from work and I used up 5gb in 2 weeks... now if you don't have a full time job and don't commute in traffic m-f then you won't understand
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No not 100 uses of tethering.
You can use 100 MB before the block you if you already used the work around on the software they have on the phone.
The program by default on the phone though will actually block you right away.
Unless you use a custom APN then you get blocked after 100 MB.
If you change your User Agent on your browser the the User agent of the phone and you won't get blocked.

tony yayo said:
17 gigs? I really don't see how most people can go over 5 without tethering. I use my phone constantly and I've never gone over 2. Even with what I use on wifi, which might be another 2gb, is still not even 5gb's. So, I can only ASSUME you have been tethering, and they figured it out. That would explain the throttle.
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Just syncing my phone after a factory reset uses over 5.
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redhooka said:
Just syncing my phone after a factory reset uses over 5.
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Soooo.... why not factory reset while on wifi? I don't understand why people treat the network as a substitute for a home network?
And streaming music doesn't use that much data, you'd have to watch 8 or 10 movies on Netflix to hit a gig. Don't tell me you watch 10 movies a week on your phone. I feel sorry for your eyes.
It is the abuse of the system that will do nothing but raise data rates for all of us. Thanks alot people, enjoy your rerun's of Charles in Charge.

Netflix even on the phone does use more then that. A 2 hour movie would be about 600 mb for that one move.

I use around 25gigs lol
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any one else using a huge amount of data?

Lately my data use has quadrupled and I use WiFi about 90% of the time. I've used 65 % of my 10gb. I have a week to go. I just switched us to mobile share last month. I am wondering if I have something wrong with my phone.

What makes you think its you and not someone else on the share plan?
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Att gives a break down by device

Oh ya, forgot about that tool.
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Att thinks it may be my device and gave me a credit in case I go over. They'll be calling me in a couple out days to follow up.

They sure are being generous lately
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ConeyKiller said:
They sure are being generous lately
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Well a little history is in order I suppose.
I've never come close to my 3GB cap. When I started in mobile share, I signed up for the 6 GB plan. Within two weeks I was at 65% of allotted use, so I switched to 10GB. Two weeks later I was again approaching the limit. I don't stream video, or Pandora, or anything like that. Something in my device is constantly connecting to 4G I'm seeing dumps of 50-60 MB at a time when I know for sure I'm home and on wifi.

I've seen what you guys are have been talking about. I don't download music or anything just average use like Pandora, Facebook, and of course xda.... And where I used to use around 4 ro 5 gigs a month my last bill showed I had used 17.2 gigs. Glad I'm grandfathered in on the unlimited plan. But seems strange how data has went up so drastically but I haven't changed the way I've used this phone and I've had it since the day it came out.
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What rom are you running? I'm on rooted stock jelly bean. I've never seen data use like I am seeing

Serenity 1.2 note 2 port, and but have been running this rom a long while. I my data usage has just jumped up this past month by triple or more!
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That's what I'm experiencing as well.

I just noticed something. When connected to Wi-Fi I still see the 4g lte indicator. It didn't turn off until I switched on airplane mode then enabled Wi-Fi after I disabled airplane mode, the mobile indicator stayed off. I wonder if mobile data isn't shutting off when I have Wi-Fi enabled.

Did you install any new apps when you started to notice this happening?
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Nope. Just updated to rooted stock jellybean.

I tend to go through a lot of data but I went through 5 gigs one day
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I can confirm this on stock rooted JB...I've gone through 3 GB of data and I haven't even been downloading/streaming. If you use Avast! AV there's a network monitor that tracks your data usage. Mine says "system apps" are responsible for the heavy usage, but doesn't specify which apps.

Given a rooted device, BetterBatteryStats can track data usage with (theoretically - without knowing exactly what the problem is, this is an educated guess) a better breakdown of services than just "system data". Might be worth a try.

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Given a rooted device, BetterBatteryStats can track data usage with (theoretically - without knowing exactly what the problem is, this is an educated guess) a better breakdown of services than just "system data". Might be worth a try.
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Thanks I will look at that

Is this real life

So I put slim bean on my phone. Left it for3 hours and this. Please tell me this is a sick joke Lol
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Wow dude my wife would kill me. Did all your apps redownload after you flashed? Every time I flash a new ROM, my phone redownloads all my apps for me. So every time I go right to the play store and stop all downloads. Or kill your data. The only app I redownload is titanium backup. If I was smarter I would probably just save it to my SD card. Hope this helped.
Apparently, redownload isn't a word. Thanks, autocorrect.
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Take a deep breath...now relax. Hunt around and you'll see that it was due to some stuff that got merged a while ago. Long story short, it's an error that does not reflect actual data usage. It erroneously totals numbers crazy high.

I don't think he would have 33 GB of apps! Plus that much data in just 3 hours? Something is skewed!

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I don't think he would have 33 GB of apps! Plus that much data in just 3 hours? Something is skewed!
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Actually he could, the magic of 4G. It could be incorrect data measuring, but OP, are you on AT&T? If so, dial *3282# to see the amount of data used that month. Accidental thanks for you diablo
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Oh man. Thanks Lol. And yeah 33 gigs of apps would be a lot. I do have 4g, I'm on bell. Knowing them I would be screwed if my bill was that high Lol
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Lmao.. Your S3 must be from the future
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On 3G that is near impossible, call AT&T to get some enlightenment, I can't imagine that this is accurate

Yea good luck getting 33 GB of data in 3 hrs without getting throttled. That ain't real

How much free space did you have?
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3G average speeds are about 3 Mb/s, so lets do some math! 33.5 GB=about 268Gbs. 268 times 1000=268000. 268000 divided by 3, giving you the amount of seconds it would hypothetically take. You get 89333.3. You divide that by 60 for one whole minute and should get 1488.88, which you divide by 60, to find out how many hours it would take to download at that speed. Which is 24.814 hours. There you have it, not very plausible.

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Actually he could, the magic of 4G. It could be incorrect data measuring, but OP, are you on AT&T? If so, dial *3282# to see the amount of data used that month. Accidental thanks for you diablo
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Right. My mistake. I just tried a converter, and to download 11 GB an hour, you need atleast 26Mbps sustained, and on AT&T 4G LTE, average of 36 Mbps is quite the norm for me. So it is actually possible. Thanks Rani.

Atrixn00b said:
Oh man. Thanks Lol. And yeah 33 gigs of apps would be a lot. I do have 4g, I'm on bell. Knowing them I would be screwed if my bill was that high Lol
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Just s heads up if you have not heard.
The Max you can be charged from overage is $50 now.
Or $100 when out of country.
They just passed that new law a month ago or so.
So even if you dud go over and DL 33Gb your not gong to owe thousands like in years past
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I said I have 4g mang downloads at 1 mb/s . wicked rom had the fastest dl speed thoug imo where its 2-3 lol I'm with bell. Also my phone is blocked from going on xda if I'm not on WiFi. I do have data and can connect everything else but xda pretty odd..:/ and really? That's good to hear. Anyone know if Are there any ROMs with battery life better then slimbean?
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I said I have 4g mang downloads at 1 mb/s . wicked rom had the fastest dl speed thoug imo where its 2-3 lol I'm with bell. Also my phone is blocked from going on xda if I'm not on WiFi. I do have data and can connect everything else but xda pretty odd..:/ and really? That's good to hear. Anyone know if Are there any ROMs with battery life better then slimbean?
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Try the other APN.
Two are listed from bell.
When in Vancouver or Kingston/ Toronto I can go on XDA over the network...
But when I am in Belleville Ontario I can't connect to XDA for example.
pda.bell.ca has given me issues at times and I have better luck with inet.bell.ca
Next time I am in a XDA dead zone I'll switch around my apns and see if that helps.
But I am sure inet.bell.ca I'd the better one.
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Try the other APN.
Two are listed from bell.
When in Vancouver or Kingston/ Toronto I can go on XDA over the network...
But when I am in Belleville Ontario I can't connect to XDA for example.
pda.bell.ca has given me issues at times and I have better luck with inet.bell.ca
Next time I am in a XDA dead zone I'll switch around my apns and see if that helps.
But I am sure inet.bell.ca I'd the better one.
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okay i'll try that. sometimes i lose phone connection to completely. like today. not sure if just cause there was to much interference or what lol