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Hey guys,
I was wondering, which one of the different US providers would you recommend to use with an imported unlocked diamond2?
I'm currently with AT&T, and I'm having a lot of issues to connect to MediaNet... For some unknown reason, the phone looses its connection:
- every single time after either a reboot or using wifi
- on time to time, randomly without any specific reason
My main concern being: it's a pain to get it back! It takes several reboot and retry to re-setup the data connection.
I was wondering if some of you have actually experience better result with other provider or even with AT&T... (note: i m on a pay-as-you-go plan for phone and data)
Thanks,
Kandjar
I, too, am using Diamond2 with ATT and I'm ok with it. Granted, I've given up trying to use MediaNet on this phone but not really missing it.
I'm on T-mobile with the $5.99 unlimited data (T-Mobile Web). It's now $9.99 Web2Go if you are starting a new contract with limited data. Everything is working fine and the other day I got my email working on the diamond2 through the $5.99 plan.
No connection problems at all.
Same here with T-Mobile and the T-Zones plan, my call quality is pretty good with no drops & edge has descent speeds.
Wow, ok, once my pay-as-you-go expired, I'll definitively check T-Mobile!
AT&T data plan is slow and not very stable for me...
The main reason I need it is: mails!
I got so addicted to the 'read mail everywhere' plan, it's scary... When it doesn't work, it's bugging the heck out of me
I found in the 'phone setting' that it's possible to change the baseband; so instead of having them set to 'auto', I'm trying to force them to be:
'gsm' and '1900+850' to see if there is any improvements.
In any case T-Mobile does sound a lot cheaper...
I m currently paying $100 for 400 minutes (good for a year) and $20/month for 100MB... That's about $30/months.
Thanks for the replies
wbaez0320 said:
Same here with T-Mobile and the T-Zones plan, my call quality is pretty good with no drops & edge has descent speeds.
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Edge on T-mo has really good speeds here in CO. That's why I don't mind not having 3G. Soon enough manufacturers will be making quadband 3g handsets. I hope.
Any who kandjar if you need help with the data settings if and when you switch to T-mo just post up. If you search google for T-mobile wireless configurator you can get the settings by selecting any WinMo phone in the list ut you have to change some things.
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Disregard that last part about the configurator. The D2 finds the settings automagically for you. But you still have to change 1 or 2 things so it'll work.
That's cool, thanks!
By the way: does the youtube app work with T-Mobile?
It doesn't seem to work at all with AT&T...
Or does it only work with 3g?
kandjar said:
That's cool, thanks!
By the way: does the youtube app work with T-Mobile?
It doesn't seem to work at all with AT&T...
Or does it only work with 3g?
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Youtube worked on my Diamond2 with ATT. I don't have a data package with ATT, but I have wifi in my complex and I can watch Youtube on the Wifi.
As well as sending/receiving emails.
True, I should have been a bit more explicit..
I also managed to get it to work through wifi...
I m just wondering if this work with data plan (through medianet ...)
kandjar said:
True, I should have been a bit more explicit..
I also managed to get it to work through wifi...
I m just wondering if this work with data plan (through medianet ...)
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Yes it works fine on T-mobile edge. Maybe AT&T edge is a bit slow? IDK? This is on T-zones might I add. Not T-mobiles full web service. Who needs that with opera available?
Goto T-mobile website and change the phone on my account from G1 to another and buy a text messaging plan under that? would it work with my G1?
right now I have NO text plan or data plan, and tmobile does not let you do anything unless you buy their android data plan.
J.a.M said:
Goto T-mobile website and change the phone on my account from G1 to another and buy a text messaging plan under that? would it work with my G1?
right now I have NO text plan or data plan, and tmobile does not let you do anything unless you buy their android data plan.
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No you can't....For data you must be using the android data (25bones), I tried a BB's sim to test(Talk/Text only) it worked fine. The apns might only work for the tmo G1 plan though.
Ace42 said:
No you can't....For data you must be using the android data (25bones), I tried a BB's sim to test(Talk/Text only) it worked fine. The apns might only work for the tmo G1 plan though.
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My little sister uses a cliq with a $15 prepaid unlimited texting plan so I don't see why not. You will need to put your sim card in a dumbphone, then call t-mobile and ask for a messaging plan. also, make sure to download APNDroid from the market to disable data.
mejorguille said:
My little sister uses a cliq with a $15 prepaid unlimited texting plan so I don't see why not. You will need to put your sim card in a dumbphone, then call t-mobile and ask for a messaging plan. also, make sure to download APNDroid from the market to disable data.
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I said it works but not for data, texting works fine. I wasnt sure if the messaging apn might be affected but that's cause i used att sim not tmo.
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My little sister uses a cliq with a $15 prepaid unlimited texting plan so I don't see why not. You will need to put your sim card in a dumbphone, then call t-mobile and ask for a messaging plan. also, make sure to download APNDroid from the market to disable data.
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Do I HAVE to call them? cant I just do it over their site?
this is just for texting, no data . What would apndroid do?
thanks
J.a.M said:
What would apndroid do?
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mejorguille said:
APNDroid from the market to disable data.
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J.a.M said:
Do I HAVE to call them?
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Since they'd need to check the IMEI of the dumb-phone, probably.
J.a.M said:
Goto T-mobile website and change the phone on my account from G1 to another and buy a text messaging plan under that? would it work with my G1?
right now I have NO text plan or data plan, and tmobile does not let you do anything unless you buy their android data plan.
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As for data if you have a Wi-Fi connection you can use that as long as you have a data "capable" SIM. I personally have an old H6315 from T-mo and it had to have a data compatible SIM card in order for me to use the phone. I am currently using that same card now except that I cannot use data (except Wi-Fi from home) and I send & get texts all the time (pre-paid prices). However the downside of this is if they know you have a G1 you most likely have a G1 specific SIM card in it and there is no way to do that unless you get a new SIM card (go to a T-Mobile store) and then after they see the phone they will give you a bunch of hogwash about "You must have a G1 SIM card."
If you have an older style smartphone around get it out and go buy a new SIM with it. If you only have the G1 all I can say is "good luck"!
I have personally done this in my own "stock" G1 and it works flawless. You can keep the data (2/3G) active and everything will be fine. You just can't browse anywhere. T-mo will send you to a site (over edge) for you to upgrade your services for data. But this is all on a pre-paid SIM that I am currently running that I got a long time ago for an older XDA type smartphone in 2004. I am not sure if you can even get the prepaid "dummy" SIM's anymore. But they still have pre-paid so I can't see why not!
Anyone successfully connect to the old cingular apn? It won't let me get a 3G data connection (I get signal bars with an exclamation point on the icon). If I force 2G, it will fully connect to edge. Then if I select 3G as my preferred network type the signal icon switches to 3g then H and then back to the exclamation point all very quickly. I have tried a couple apn settings without any luck. Since I'm getting service, but it won't give me data, is there something baked in the phone not allowing me to connect? I can put the sim in my old phone (optimus g) and it connects fine.
I can connect to the normal "nxtgenphone" apn but I don't want to right now.
any help or thoughts on this would be appreciated
isnt cingular the old tmobile? cingular doesnt exist anymore from what i understand, so you cant expect to connect to it.
Cingular is ATT now.
knitler said:
Cingular is ATT now.
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yup, you are right. you should probably use an att apn from what i just read about cingular.
simms22 said:
yup, you are right. you should probably use an att apn from what i just read about cingular.
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I can connect to the att apns, but my download speed is a whopping 0.5 Mbps. Connecting to cingular apn, which I can do with my old phone, at least gets me back into 3g speeds.
Are you on an lte provisioned account? If so the older apn's are locked out. Att did this because of the ability to bypass the throttle restrictions when on an unlimited plan. As far as the apn that works for 2g, that's probably the mms network.
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Check the attached screenshot for the APN settings, even though its called ATT. Its worth double checking. Otherwise, two things should happen - find your old phone and get them to reprovision your account to work with the old APN, or troubleshoot with them and find out why you're getting such **** data speeds.
http://apn-settings.com/us/att-apn-settings/
Are you on an older unlimited Nation plan or Family talk plan with unlimited data? If so, your speeds are being throttled after surpassing 3gb. Those download rates are tell tale. AT&T has blocked APNS other than NXTGENPHONE for those using a capable LTE device for the reasons mentioned above . If you were to change the APN to regular 3g ATTPhone or Cingular WAP. Your account is auto provisioned to reduce speeds.
Yeah throttling is the issue. Just strange I can go through cingular with a different lte capable phone.
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technid said:
Are you on an older unlimited Nation plan or Family talk plan with unlimited data? If so, your speeds are being throttled after surpassing 3gb. Those download rates are tell tale. AT&T has blocked APNS other than NXTGENPHONE for those using a capable LTE device for the reasons mentioned above . If you were to change the APN to regular 3g ATTPhone or Cingular WAP. Your account is auto provisioned to reduce speeds.
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Using a Family Share Plan I had connected via the default AT&T APN. I believe it was AT&T "phone" APN. However, I recently switched to my company provides AT&T Corporate Mobile Share Plan, and I had to switch my APN to AT&T "PTA" APN in order to get LTE to work. This is what I'm currently using on my Nexus 6. AT&T's NXTGENPHONE APN did work for me when I was running the 5.0 Developer Preview on my Nexus 5 on the AT&T Corporate Plan. However I lost the settings for it. Does anyone have a listing of the APN settings for it? I would like to compare speed tests.
Nevermind, got it from source
<apn carrier="ATT Nextgenphone"
mcc="310"
mnc="410"
apn="nxtgenphone"
type="default,mms,supl,fota,hipri"
mmsc="http://mmsc.mobile.att.net"
mmsproxy="proxy.mobile.att.net"
mmsport="80"
/>
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Hello just got a U2, At&t, what Sims have people been able to successfully use on it besides the att&t? Would like to connect mine cheaply. Anyone tried Mint or Project Fi?
I just got today my U2 ATT unlocked, I put in an ATT SIM and a T-Mobile SIM and both worked, and both showing LTE, although ATT held onto LTE more often, T-Mobile went down to HSPA+ or HSPA as I moved around deeper indoors.
Red pocket works for voice and text, but not data. I'm waiting on a Truphone sim to arrive as I've heard this works across the board.
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notamoosen said:
Red pocket works for voice and text, but not data. I'm waiting on a Truphone sim to arrive as I've heard this works across the board.
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I've had Truphone for a year with no issues. It should work. I tried Ting and H2O originally but had the same issue of no data. Probably an APN settings issue.
notamoosen said:
Red pocket works for voice and text, but not data. I'm waiting on a Truphone sim to arrive as I've heard this works across the board.
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I've also now ordered Truphone SIM.
I only have had my UB2 about 2 days and still learning, but know enough I think the Truphone incoming-centric cost structure probably is a good part of the solution. Thanks for advising Truphone works inside the UB2
mward1995 said:
I've had Truphone for a year with no issues. It should work. I tried Ting and H2O originally but had the same issue of no data. Probably an APN settings issue.
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Thanks for the Truphone tip, I got it and I been averaging about 2MB/day so 18c/day = $5 / month extrapolation, and so I'd struggle to find anything lower cost. What I learned is the LTE really drains battery life, about 25%/hour, vs 5%/hour on BT tether, so the idea I can spend all day out just with the UB2 is not viable so I'd be using for brief traveling light situations, popping down shops, walking the dog, that sort of thing. Around here AT&T is the best coverage. One thing i've learned however is the UB2 for some reason will lose the BT and Wifi connection and so connect to LTE so causing some demand, so I've had to disable cellular and manually enable when I intend to go away from the phone with just the UB2, that should lower my monthly cost to significantly less than $5 extrapolation.
My UB2 would be become more useful once AW2 and Android Pay comes out then it really becomes me single device to head to the local supermarket.
I use H2O Wireless for voice. Prepaid, minimum $10 for 90 days. Calls are something like 5¢ per minute, same for data & SMS. I turned data off, though, because the watch keeps hitting the data connection, running the balance down.
roebling said:
I use H2O Wireless for voice. Prepaid, minimum $10 for 90 days. Calls are something like 5¢ per minute, same for data & SMS. I turned data off, though, because the watch keeps hitting the data connection, running the balance down.
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Right, what I also found the watch keeps hitting the cellular data connection, when there is no good reason, I'd be near Wifi all the time and at most it moves from BT to Wifi but it seems to not go to Wifi, it seems to go LTE if the BT is hiccup.
So the UB2's option for cellular is very dumb, it only allows on/off, I can't say, disable LTE for data but keep the SIM on for incoming calls. So that means I must take specific action when I leave the phone behind, which is to enable cellular.
I guess data is on, it's reporting on & I don't see a setting to turn it off.
I leave my phone on 24/7: cellular on, WiFi on, Bluetooth on, data on (apparently). But I sent a text message from a Google Voice account to my watch 5 minutes ago & the watch hasn't received it so I don't know. I don't want data on it, except WiFi, so it's not been a problem for me. Bill's about $3 a month & I have coverage everywhere so I love it.
Just checked & the SMS test message did go through. Didn't alert so I didn't know it until I looked for it. Guess the volume's down.
mward1995 said:
I've had Truphone for a year with no issues. It should work. I tried Ting and H2O originally but had the same issue of no data. Probably an APN settings issue.
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Yes, the APN couldn't be modified from the watch. I am not sure if there is a small tool so that we can modify it from the paired phone.
Too bad my LG urbane 2 is being tortured atm. Will update when I get it back.
For the record, it's 200mb free each month plus calling and texting.
My total cost was $1
Drops77 said:
Too bad my LG urbane 2 is being tortured atm. Will update when I get it back.
For the record, it's 200mb free each month plus calling and texting.
My total cost was $1
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Couldn't set up APN for the Freedompop SIM card, did you?
My watch is being repaired, other places say the same. Hopefully 2.0 will bring some configuration.
Drops77 said:
My watch is being repaired, other places say the same. Hopefully 2.0 will bring some configuration.
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Unfortunately I don't think that option is available yet on 2.0 either.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidWear/comments/604p4w/any_payasyougo_sims_work_with_gsm_watches/
I didn't spot any cellular configuration options in AW2 DP
@moderator please apply lg-urbane-2 tag.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/lg-urbane-2
damiloveu said:
Couldn't set up APN for the Freedompop SIM card, did you?
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I couldnt either. US mobile did work for me with no issue. I might try truphone, US mobile is $9 a month hopefully can average lower for the watch with truphone pay per use.
So now that 2.0 is out, I got the truphone Sim but it's not working. Any tips?
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So now that 2.0 is out, I got the truphone Sim but it's not working. Any tips?
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it worked before 2.0 but not after? Or first time trying the SIM? What's not working, cellular and data?
Just purchased a SM-N950U, got it registered on Sprint, but cannot get mobile data to work. I can place and receive voice calls with no issue?
Under APN's I have cinet.spcs & otasn but when I access Network operators and search networks.. I cant select Sprint.
Thoughts?
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Just purchased a SM-N950U, got it registered on Sprint, but cannot get mobile data to work. I can place and receive voice calls with no issue?
Under APN's I have cinet.spcs & otasn but when I access Network operators and search networks.. I cant select Sprint.
Thoughts?
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Factory reset
kinda sounds like what happened to me. I got my N950U in Oct 02 from preorder, the whole first day I couldnt get it to connect to SPRINT network, voice or data. There was sketchy stuff happening, sprint c.s. couldnt figure it out (even when into a corp store) and samsung c.s. kept blaming sprint. Randomly the phone provisioned itself finally and it refreshed its APN list, now defaulting on "APN2 LTE internet" - n.ispsn.
Have you gone to the samsung website and tried activating through your account page? If they shipped you a sim card that may be you fix. or let the phone randomly refresh itself and hope it self cures... My samsung page still doesnt give me the option to activate through them, i went directly through sprint.
Sorry i couldnt help much, just wanted to give some insight. good luck!
##72786# hit yes and let it re-activate
##update# will update prl,profile and check for software / firmware.