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Guys,
I need your help! From time to time I hear success stories on people activating their Woot Galaxy Tabs on a Sprint Month to Month plan. I tried in 3 stores as well as calling employee sales (as a SERO customer I am routed to Employee care) and have been told that there are NO non contract [email protected]!
HELP!
It's B.S, the reps you've spoken to either are trying to force a contract on you for their commissions or they do not know their job. Unfortunately, you just have to keep trying or just walk into a Sprint direct store and see what happens.
Or just get the $11 prepaid data from boost, and flash your tab.
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Or just get the $11 prepaid data from boost, and flash your tab.
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Any idea how to set this up without taking it to a service to have them flash it over? I'd be very interested in having 3g data on this tab for $10-11 a month...
Thanks Soo Much
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Or just get the $11 prepaid data from boost, and flash your tab.
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Do you have info or a link about Boost's $11 data plan? Did you have to call customer service? I've searched and only see the plan mentioned here and on some blogs.
these guys(http://www.robostars.com/) claim to do it, they even have a video of it functioning. they charge a hefty price however ($109), but you'll get unlimited internet for $11 a month,, but the price is a turnoff. < I have not done this nor went to the site...Just linking you to what the guy left who left you empty handed was talking about. COmment on what you think after reading the site..Maybe this is something we can do ourself...Im to lazy to go to the site since they are charging.
I actually just went to the Sprint store to ask about a M2M plan. They told me they could not do it because if you're not on a contract, they can't legally force you to pay your bills. I swear to any god you want me to swear to that is what they said. M2M plans can't be forced to pay their bills.
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I actually just went to the Sprint store to ask about a M2M plan. They told me they could not do it because if you're not on a contract, they can't legally force you to pay your bills. I swear to any god you want me to swear to that is what they said. M2M plans can't be forced to pay their bills.
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Wow, makes me glad i got a Verizon Tab instead. No activation fee, month to month, simple process right on the Tab itself.
LordLugard said:
Wow, makes me glad i got a Verizon Tab instead. No activation fee, month to month, simple process right on the Tab itself.
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Trade you.
Not sure if it's been gone over already, but I just called VZW and asked if any promos where going on, which there aren't, but I was told they brought back unlimited data plans again 3 weeks ago, for the same $29.99.
Really? The vzw rep said that? If so that's awesome!
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Yup, give them a call! I already have it from my thunderbolt or I would have been all over it!
Not available on their website. Maybe like everything else, reps don't know what they're talking about.
If this were true we would've heard some report of this from other sources. Odds are the rep had no clue what was going on.
I'm calling them back to verify. Maybe someone else wants to call and see what's up.
Yep they allowed me to switch my daughters Thunderbolt to unlimited data. It's brought back to January 1st as a promotion for the iPhone 4S. That's from my rep. Laura Merritt
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The new rep says she knows nothing about it, but is trying to get in touch with her.
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Yep they allowed me to switch my daughters Thunderbolt to unlimited data. It's brought back to January 1st as a promotion for the iPhone 4S. That's from my rep. Laura Merritt
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Hmmm. Interesting, I wonder if it applies to new customers as well.
Ok, here it is. My original rep was what's called an 'overflow rep', these people are out sourced, and take calls when there are too many coming in to VZW. This person, of course, gave me misinformation.
Sorry guys, just looking out for you and that was too good not to share.
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Yep they allowed me to switch my daughters Thunderbolt to unlimited data. It's brought back to January 1st as a promotion for the iPhone 4S. That's from my rep. Laura Merritt
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So now I don't know what to think, but I do think everyone without unlimited data should call and maybe get lucky.
There is nothing about this on the web either. If this is an iphone 4S promo why not adverstise it. This one is going into UFO status...
I won't complain. My plan got switched lol I have confirmation. And I have documentation. If they try to change I can get out of my contract for t-mo. I want open phones with verizon locking them.
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What time of day did you call so I can get an overflow rep.
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I can verify this is not true.
There was a loophole but it's closed now. For some time you could get unlimited data by adding the 4G only, $30 unlimited hotspot feature. By default it changes your data plan to the $29.99 unlimited.
It is only intended for customers with unlimited data already, but for awhile they were doing it for all 4G phones.
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I got unlimited data last week.
I was on the 2 GB plan... never used that much since data doesn't work worth a crap. My company IT department finally appoved me to get me email on my phone using the "Good" app. As soon as I activated it, the Good servers sent me an email stating that I did not have a feature on my account and I needed to contact Verizon. So I did. I was told that I had to go to an enterprise plan to get my mail through the app. It would be $44.99 a month but it also included unlimited data. With my company's 22% discount, that brought it to $35.09. I pay $5.09 more for unlimited data over the 2 GB regular plan.
I've been on the phone with Verizon this morning and getting nowhere with this. I just moved from AT&T and definitely miss my unlimited data. I was told they know nothing about the unlimited data coming back for any period of time.
To anyone that gets it, congrats and enjoy!
ive been a vzw rep for a few years now and this is nothing that ive heard. tiered data was all part of a bigger plan that hasnt come into place yet. what i do know though is that service is able to put customers back onto unl data if they lose it due to a system error or weird change in their acct that doesnt involve a phone.
I actually had a rep laugh at me and hang up the phone.
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I actually had a rep laugh at me and hang up the phone.
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the guy holding the J.P.Powers award???
I don't know if you guys saw the news but I was looking forward to AT&T adding family data plans in hopes I'd save some cash. Well they announced them today and it's a nightmare. Currently I'm paying $50 for 2 gigs per line, total 4. Under AT&Ts new plan I'd have to pay $85 a month for 1 gig! They aren't making you switch but still wtf?
I'm sick of carriers and carrier phones. I love my vivid but can't deny the fact that with the new features of ICS came new bugs, and it's looking like we're left for dead. The Vivid is hitting eol status on some carriers, and it came out after the Google flagship! And I hate seeing that ugly at&t logo. Freaking ruining the looks of my phone pasted dead center on the bottom of the front. And they lock these phones down so much that hacking them is getting harder to impossible! A couple years ago CyanogenMod was a safe bet but due to ril issues we sure don't have that option.
Updates are only going to get worse. I'm at the point now where if it doesn't have a Nexus in the brand name I can't recommend it. Android phones are slowly but surely becoming the new feature phones. And every device I've had, updates brought new issues with them and the carriers never released any updates to fix those issues. You shouldn't have to root your phone to take care of them!
So for the half assed treatment we get for buying the carrier phones what do we get in return from them? Higher rates with excuses. They claim "due to the high costs of today's smartphone" ah save it! My old Samsung Eternity dumb phone was $450 off contract, a Galaxy Nexus is $350 so how do smartphone costs have anything do do with their nickle and diming? Why does my insurance deductible cost $120 now when my old eternity was only $50 and costs the same amount?
But you know what? When your contract is up or if you own your own phone you don't save anything. So how do smartphone costs have anything to do then? I should get a discount if I choose to not subsidize my phone but nope that's not how they roll.
I don't plan on getting rid of this phone anytime but I may after the next Nexus is announced. I'll see how I like it then. At any rate I'll continue to be an AT&T customer until March of 2014 and then at that point I'll be taking whatever phone I have to a no contract low cost option. I'm sick of carriers and sick of their phones too.
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I used a non-carrier phone for the last year, as well as a carrier-based phone. I had planned to switch to virgin mobile, and bought an LG smartphone. I set it up with Google Voice and Groove IP for calling, rooted it with no worries, loaded it up with free apps and the latest ROMs. It did a great job with email, texting, internet, all the same stuff we do on our Vivids. The only down side was the occasional lack of WiFi. If WiFi is e easy to get to, it is a nice way to go. I got a kick out of showing people my android phone running ice cream sandwich and telling them I paid 0 per month.
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I used a non-carrier phone for the last year, as well as a carrier-based phone. I had planned to switch to virgin mobile, and bought an LG smartphone. I set it up with Google Voice and Groove IP for calling, rooted it with no worries, loaded it up with free apps and the latest ROMs. It did a great job with email, texting, internet, all the same stuff we do on our Vivids. The only down side was the occasional lack of WiFi. If WiFi is e easy to get to, it is a nice way to go. I got a kick out of showing people my android phone running ice cream sandwich and telling them I paid 0 per month.
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Ha I know a guy that uses an old iphone 3g as a wifi only phone. What you do is get a portable wifi hotspot, it's what $25 a month? Keep that in your pocket and you can use wifi for everything! There was a write up on lifehacker back in the day about making a poor man's iphone with a portable wifi hotspot and an ipod touch lol.
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BTW I'm not ripping on the vivid so much as the carrier. I like my phone but I almost regret it just because I'm financially obligated to at&t till 2015 now. I really feel like for a measly 4 gigs on 2 lines. I'm already paying too much and I was hoping with maybe a little relief with shared plans and they totally blow. I really don't get how it's "shared" with a per line fee. Total lunacy! You'd have to be insane to switch.
The phone I don't regret, the upgrade that required 2 more years of service I regret if that makes sense.
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T Mobile. $60 dollars a month, no contract. Includes Unlimited talk and text with 2GB of data. $70 is unlimited talk, text and 5GB and its much better than AT&T. I made the switch and haven't had a dropped call since.
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I'm currently running H20 wireless 60$ dollars a month unlimited talk and text but just with 2g of data it connects on att towers.
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Yeah I think I'll look into straight Talk and t mobile. Hell without the contract, and an unlocked nexus that works on all gsm bands you can go wherever you want
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Unlocked nexus I would get on T-Mobile.Ran it on the vivid just get edge other than that I would be on T-Mobile lol
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Unlocked nexus I would get on T-Mobile.Ran it on the vivid just get edge other than that I would be on T-Mobile lol
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Yeah the nexus has T-mobile and AT&T bands for fake 4G, thats what sucks about carrier phones lol. you really can't take them anywhere else. AT&T and T-mobile phones are interchangeable except for the 3G bands, thats pretty much the main difference. So if you get a T-mobile phone it won't work on AT&T's 3G network, and AT&T's 3G phones won't work on T-mobile's 3G network.
I remember the Nexus one Google actually made 2 versions of it because of the bands, but the Galaxy nexus has all GSM bands, which is nice
I work at a junior college with two campuses. One of them is kind of up in the hills, and the *only* signal they get is AT&T, so I am pretty much stuck with that until my job changes. I've been paying about $70/month for two dumb phones, just upped my bill by $30 (minus my discount) for the Vivid. I'm not complaining, but my daughter is moving out and wants to bail on AT&T entirely, probably go Virgin Mobile no contract. That is still the cheapest I have found.
I work at a junior college with two campuses. One of them is kind of up in the hills, and the *only* signal they get is AT&T, so I am pretty much stuck with that until my job changes. I've been paying about $70/month for two dumb phones, just upped my bill by $30 (minus my discount) for the Vivid. I'm not complaining, but my daughter is moving out and wants to bail on AT&T entirely, probably go Virgin Mobile no contract. That is still the cheapest I have found.
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Yeah that's typical of college campuses. I remember my brother had to get Verizon when he went to ball state because no other carrier could get a signal there. My issue with virgin is they run on Sprints network which is cdma and with cdma you pretty much are buying a phone that only works on one network.
Straight Talk seems like the best deal from what I've seen because you basically can get any carriers service without going through the carrier. The Android phones they sell run on sprints network but many people on xda have bought unlocked nexuses and basically gotten service through AT&T without the at&t hassle
See only tmobile does it right in that if you own your phone you save money. If subsiding the phones really are costing at&t and Verizon that much then both should offer discounts or better plans for those who have their own phones and don't opt to bite on early upgrades etc.
Either way I'm stuck with at&t till March of 2014 so I went ahead and grabbed the 3 gig data plan before it goes away in August. Me and my wife were both on the 2 gigs for $25 each plan. In February they killed that plan off in favor of a 3 gig for $30 plan. I kept both our plans at the time as I hadn't yet discovered Google Music and had a hard time even using a gig but now with slacker and Google I'm having to constantly monitor my data and still find myself rationing the last few days of my billing cycle with only 250 megs remaining. The extra gig is just enough really to not have to worry about it. Figure get it now before they do away with it in august!
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I'm selling my Vivid. I've only had it two months, but I need the cash to finance new Galaxy Nexus I got this week. The Nexus is wide open to development and has a thriving (mostly positive) community. AT&T really hobbled the Vivid, which could have been so much more. Whether that's the reason for the negativity surrounding this phone, I don't know, but I don't see myself going back to a carrier phone again.
I like HTC phones, though. I wish it was somehow possible to magically merge the Nexus guts with the Vivid's case and screen. Maybe someday HTC will make a Nexus for Google.
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I'm selling my Vivid. I've only had it two months, but I need the cash to finance new Galaxy Nexus I got this week. The Nexus is wide open to development and has a thriving (mostly positive) community. AT&T really hobbled the Vivid, which could have been so much more. Whether that's the reason for the negativity surrounding this phone, I don't know, but I don't see myself going back to a carrier phone again.
I like HTC phones, though. I wish it was somehow possible to magically merge the Nexus guts with the Vivid's case and screen. Maybe someday HTC will make a Nexus for Google.
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Yeah I do think all the security hurdles cause mysterious issues in roms, then the average xda member gets mad at the developers for not fixing the issues, then the developer snaps back, then mods get involved and the developer gets banned, then the members are like wtf, they get mad back and next thing you know the whole community is in disarray!
At least that's my thoughts.
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I actually wanted a nexus. I was hoping at&t would announce it on contract and I got sick of waiting. Me and my wife were both tired of our lagtivates, and I talked to at&t about early upgrades and got me and my wife both Vivid's. And I swear right after my 30 days Google announced the nexus for 400 bucks on the play store. The word I said when I saw the article started with f and was 4 letters long.
That being said I don't hate the phone its fast, and has a kick ass camera but I also thought I wouldn't be interested in flashing custom roms if I had a nice enough phone. No other way to sum it up than saying this is not a developers phone and in those regards I do regret it a bit, however if I really wanted to get a nexus, well a vivid is worth more than a Captivate ebay anyway.
Other than battery life I got no complaints
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I buy the phones and just use wifi. And I have a free phone for calls only. Bottom line you dont need data to use android. Just wondering how long that will last before they make it mandatory to have a data plan. To make people like me pay for service.?
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Lol carriers. Get a Straight Talk AT&T Sim. $45/month for unlimited talk, text, and 2gb data, no contract. Beats the piss out of AT&T, H2O, and every other carrier and MVNO out there. QFT
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I buy the phones and just use wifi. And I have a free phone for calls only. Bottom line you dont need data to use android. Just wondering how long that will last before they make it mandatory to have a data plan. To make people like me pay for service.?
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You must be on an olllld contract. On newer plans, if they discover you have a smartphone on a "dumb phone" plan, they'll "upgrade" you into the most expensive data plan. AT&T did that to my wife when I dropped her SIM into an old iPhone. She was happy to use it as Wi-Fi only, but got a text saying they discovered the change and were changing her plan.
I fought with all four carriers about this. None of them will sell you a smartphone anymore without forcing you into a data plan. They claim that people were buying smartphones without data plans, and then complaining when they got charged for using data. Jerks.
The only thing I like about buying phones on carrier is that they are piss cheap, and I have trouble justifying 4x the cost for a phone from overseas.
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Lol carriers. Get a Straight Talk AT&T Sim. $45/month for unlimited talk, text, and 2gb data, no contract. Beats the piss out of AT&T, H2O, and every other carrier and MVNO out there. QFT
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Actually, ST's data is unlimited, not 2GB, for that price.
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I think carriers subsiding days are numbered honestly, largely thanks to Google and the cheap tablet wars, as cell phone hardware is getting cheap and then Verizon wants to sell you a locked down Motorola that takes a year to get an update for $300 on contract, but you can get a nexus, have your updates instantly and only pay $50 more! It's not just the nexus that's cheap either, that new sexy Motorola Atrix HD is only $450 no commitment. I mean if you absolutely have to have a gs3 or one x yeah subsiding is your best bet but there are quickly becoming a alot of good phones for $350 to $500.
I'm ready for it to end. If subsiding ends and people start wanting to hold on to their phones, manufacturers will make less phones, and support them better. I can't fault any manufacturer right now for not having jelly bean as without source they can't do anything, but 6 months to a year is a bit much and to stop supporting a phone like ours when it's only been out like 8 months, but I'm tied to it for at least 18 months, well that's just lunacy!
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to stop supporting a phone like ours when it's only been out like 8 months, but I'm tied to it for at least 18 months, well that's just lunacy!
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I find it ridiculous how a lot of the phones are made to barely even last through 6 months of light use, and you end up having to 1) Cheat the company out of a replacement. or 2) Pay for another phone without the contract discount, and still be stuck with that company. Straight Talk looks really really appealing, I've been dying for a good enough reason to sell my Vivid, and go Galaxy Nexus and being able to switch from at&t to a cheaper/better alternative whenever I want without buying a new phone would be great.
Tried to buy one off contract at a T-Mobile store since my g nexus is on its last limbs and they refused to sell one to me. They said they were only for new lines. Pretty ridiculous, I'm punished for being their customer. As soon as my value plan contract is up I'm switching to straight talk.
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Whoever said that lied to you. They offer all phones off contract, you should have asked to speak to a supervisor. That's the reason they offer a non commitment price in the first place.
What I would do is call another T-Mobile store while you're standing in that store.
Get customer care on the line and they will make them sell you the phone... They are trying to earn commission by only allowing new customers to get the phone and that is wrong and against policy.
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The supervisor is the one who told me this.
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Get customer care on the line and they will make them sell you the phone... They are trying to earn commission by only allowing new customers to get the phone and that is wrong and against policy.
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This would more or less be the reason.
Source: AT&T employee.
I called Tmobile and had a 4 shipped to me overnight. Got it yesterday.
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Could you do this?
Got to T-mobile Store, sign up for a new two year agreement. Get the N for $200.
Call and cancel service. Pay EFT of $200. Keep the phone for $400.
It seems its only slightly more than the Play Store price, and less than the full retail price ($499?)
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Could you do this?
Got to T-mobile Store, sign up for a new two year agreement. Get the N for $200.
Call and cancel service. Pay EFT of $200. Keep the phone for $400.
It seems its only slightly more than the Play Store price, and less than the full retail price ($499?)
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Standard practice is to also charge you the the difference in the phone price if you cancel within the remorse period. You would have to keep the phone until after the remorse period, pay the service charges for that period, as well as the ETF.
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Could you do this?
Got to T-mobile Store, sign up for a new two year agreement. Get the N for $200.
Call and cancel service. Pay EFT of $200. Keep the phone for $400.
It seems its only slightly more than the Play Store price, and less than the full retail price ($499?)
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= $500 or less
Call customer service on that jackass. Go find a store that deserves your money
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So....they paid 500 for the device off contract at a t-mo store? Why the heck would you do that?
Also if you cancel contract right after buying the phone ON contract, they're going to charge you the full "retail" price plus termination fee.
Because I'm currently phone less.
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I haven't had difficulties getting the phone (able to buy from the Play store) but T-Mobile isn't helping me switch from Verizon.
Online sold out of prepaid micro-sim cards
Went to store, wouldn't sell the micro-sim without signing up (then I can't do the $30 plan)
Ordered regular prepaid sim
Went to store, asked to cut the sim to micro-sim size, said they didn't do it for non-customers
Asked if I could exchange the regular sim for micro-sim, said no
Cut down to micro-sim size myself, activated online at 3:30pm Friday
Got an error message during activation, and have to wait for a text message from TMobile that it's activated, it's not 12pm Saturday
I'm in the process of doing that. He wouldn't give me the corporate number but I called the store I usually go to and they're going to give that to me.
PSA don't visit T-Mobile stores in prick neighborhoods. They're run by pricks.
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Yeah the only issue is no subsidized phone pricing...GET THE NEXUS 5 FROM GOOGLE PLAY IT WORKS SWEET DEAL OMG
Just to clarify, you purchased the nex5 from Google play and was able to get the 12 free service for students? Or are you saying the nex5 is great?
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Just to clarify, you purchased the nex5 from Google play and was able to get the 12 free service for students? Or are you saying the nex5 is great?
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I am saying I purchased the Nexus 5 from google play and it activates on Sprint just fine for me, so yes it can be used for this plan.