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[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
The Hercules is a variant of the U.S. market Infuse with a dual-core TI SoC. What other features it has haven't been confirmed. It's due out in September. T-Mobile won't be getting a version of the SGS2.

http://thisismynext.com/2011/05/17/exclusive-samsung-hercules-t-mobile-dual-core-infuse-4g/
[Galaxy S II General] Juls317:
would it be possible to buy an I9100 and unlock it and use it on tmobile
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
You'd only get EDGE data speeds. Your only hope for a version that works on T-Mobile's bands is if Wind Canada gets one. But the Canadian's on the forum have said it's a Bell Canada exclusive so it's a long shot.
[Galaxy S II General] arntgur:
Just got SGS2, it is connected to t-mobile usa, and it does only get EDGE speeds, and no HSPA+.

I can still keep it for trying out stuff for a bit, and would install any custom mods to try. If won't work, I may want to return it.

Is Wind Canada the only one with HSPA+ which is an option here?

There is no way to add only that support on top of a stock android?

The other feature that's needed to make it an excellent offering it T-Mobile Wi-Fi calling.

Any suggestions?
[Galaxy S II General] arntgur:
Ok, got an att sim and hspa+ works getting 6mbit downloads wih sgs2 now. Will only have that sim for test for three days. Though att is definitly costlier than tmobile for data and phone plans and they charge for overage rather than throttle.

Still my preference would be to hspa+ on tmobile, get tmobile wifi calling to work etc.

Also noted that tmobile wifi calling wont show as an app that backup software can see.
[Galaxy S II General] Disfected:
I don't see AT&T being quite more expensive unless you really need the unlimited minutes. Otherwise you could get the medianet plan since the S2 isn't detected as a smartphone, which will solve your data problem for overages.
[Galaxy S II General] arntgur:
On tmobile i pay $25 for 'unlimited' data which means after 5gb it is throttled. I am on a no contract plan. Price for contract plan is $30 for the same data plan.

If i dont pay for overage its great. Yet them not recognizing it as smartphone may not hold for too long, as us flavors of s2 are being prepared.

While it does last that they dont recognise it as a smartphone, are you also on smallest data plan and pay the minimum?
[Galaxy S II General] kirdroid:
There is an unlimited non smartphone data plan in att for just $15 and many of us are on that plan.

We do get hspa+ speeds on this plan. Pretty good deal compared to tmobile.
[Galaxy S II General] gspears:
I just bought an unlocked SGSII http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16875176292 from Newegg on "sale." It states that it has UMTS 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 MHz.

I thought T-mobile used 900 and 2100. Can anyone explain why it doesn't work with T-mobile?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] Disfected:
T-mobile uses 1700 and 2100, not 900 and 2100.
[Galaxy S II General] gspears:
That would explain it.
[Galaxy S II General] arntgur:
Rrr, guess i missed the same point about tmobile's bands. There was a list of the 4 freauencies and no distinction of which one is for voice, data etc.

So running a speed test using AnTuTu benchmark clearly shows sgsii is a great pick performance wise as it is dominating the charts. Though that app lack a distinction for original cpu speeds. I may overclock it if i get time as its a fun game, thouhgh not right now.

Data plan wise, on att usa, you are on $15 for non smartphone. The its ar their mercy, and they could identify sgsii as smartphone anytime in which case we'd loose that excellent option, right?

Now got my previous smartphone, mytouch 4g with tmobile on a family plan. And that one would likely not fit on att hspa+ eigher. I can validate it later with my test card from att.

Phone plan wise att family starts at $69 for 700 min for two lines, and they also got 550 min unadvertized for $10 less. This is still $10 above t mobile base for family at $49, yet no big deal if att data is cheaper at $15 with the mentioned 'non smartphone' option.

With att data on hspa+, you vuys easily use the mobile access point without limitations? Have anyone tried vpning and working on that, remote desktop to work machine for a significant time, full working day, etc?

With my att test sim, hspa+ downloads are fine, anywhere from 1.5 to 6 mbits, uploads sometimes were slow around 300
[Galaxy S II General] arntgur:
... uploads were around 300 kbit.

Will test it some more today and tomorrow from more locations in the area.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
To save you and everyone else the trouble, as of now:

- There is no AT&T phone that supports HSPA+ on T-Mobile's network

- There is no T-Mobile phone that supports HSPA+ on AT&T's network

- There is no unbranded phone that supports HSPA+ on T-Mobile and AT&T, you have to pick one or the other. The SGS2 does not support, and most likely will never support, T-Mobile's funky AWS bands.

The Hercules is rumored to have AT&T's bands. So was the G2X and it didn't.
[Galaxy S II General] arntgur:
Thanks, that clarifies.

To maintain at least HSPA+ speeds, I can either Of two options:

- keep sgsii, move to AT&T, find how to migrate another existing smartphone since my tough 4g won't work with AT&T's data. *Maybe sell it and get another AT&T phone.

- return sgsii and stay on tmobile.

Have talked to AT&T support, and they confirmed that data plans for non smartphones begin at $10. *And that sgsii does not show as anything in their systems now neither a smartphone nor a non-smartphone. *And that it is correct that they can't guarantee anything about not identifying it as a smartphone in future.

So the best chance of the $15 data for non smartphones to last is if we get lucky enough that when they do launch the us AT&T version of sgsii, then the international one will be left out.

I am not exactly clear why the $15 non smartphone plan is needed over the $10 one. *Though, cant test too much with my AT&T temp sim, as they didn't want to change the plan the store gave me due to being on a trial period.

Still got today to try att sim out and can return with no fees, so will call or step by the store and check if that would be possible. *One challenge is that they already saw the phone and got excited, and listed it as a smartphone plan. * ..., we'll see how it goes...

Then I am also reading that AT&T talks about a dual LTE/HSPA+ support, yet that lte may take time to be battery friendly (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1162330&page=2). *

So possibly waiting for LTE to mature is not practical, in which case maybe no point in waiting for AT&T us version of sgsii which may only add LTE.

Coming from tmobile hspa+ usage since nov 2010, now when testing AT&T, it is more influenced from during the day traffic and speeds are slower vs faster speeds at less conventional hours. *Also seeing some sporadic speed tests issues coming from another device using the wifi hotspot - usually the upload, sometimes download too is near zero speed. *While most speed tests are decent. *Then have not seen any of that on tmobile.

One issue making me consider moving to AT&T is that tmobiles speeds in my new place are very bad for hspa+ if it at all it gets an*hspa signal. *Used to never need wifi and get consistent 4-6 mbits downloads ..., now getting even 1 from tmobile is a challenge.

Then, would like fast Internet when traveling overseas. *And tmobiles phone worked well last time with fast speeds. * Then I have seen some mentioning that tmobiles bands could be better for world traveling than AT&T, is that so?

(For instance*http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=4d1bbd0f46632e8d&hl=en has:

I can only say I use T-Mobile version and it IS working. I don't have AT&T one, can say nothing about it. Reason I have in mind while selecting model - in the most of the world T-Mobile version will have better coverage.

)
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
- The $10 plan requires an unlimited messaging plan. The $15 plan is a stand-alone.

- The carrier versions of the SGS2 will have different model numbers and a different series of IMEI codes so I doubt that would effect the international SGS2 in AT&T's database.

- Our SGS2 won't support LTE. But it's going to take AT&T at least a year and a half to get any meaningful LTE penetration.

- I came from T-Mobile. AT&T's HSPA+ clocks a lot slower than T-Mobile's and isn't as widely available. For some reason though, things like video buffer less for me even though the speeds clock slower.

- AT&T is far better for international travel. They have roaming data plans you can pre-purchase that are less than 1/4 of what T-Mobile charges. Also, because the SGS2 is unlocked, you can pick up a SIM locally if you want to.
[Galaxy S II General] jasonleb1:
I'm surprised T-Mo isn't getting the GSII, they're usually good with Android.Well, this sucks...
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
No offense, but they're also the smallest carrier and are in the process of going away. I'm guessing they're getting an Infuse variant instead because Samsung's got the production capacity and probably cut them a deal.
[Galaxy S II General] Illicit Hero:
I wouldn't even consider that a plus, I would rather buy a sim from a local carrier.
[Galaxy S II General] pastuch:
There is no way in hell Samsung is going to manufacture an AWS band SGS II just for Wind/Mobilicity in Canada. The two companies have a combined user base of 300000 users. Wind/Mob only get phones that T-mobile gets and they don't even get all of them.

The Hercules looks very promising for T-mobile, there is a good chance Samsung replaces the piece of $hiT Yamaha DAC in the SGSII with the proven excellence that is the Wolfson DAC. It's hard to put into words how disappointed I am with the audio quality of the SGSII.

Note: If you're not an Audiophile your living your life wrong.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
To me, with the plans being cheap, I'd rather keep my phone number for calls, texts, and MMS. Trying to track down a pay-as-you-go data-capable foreign SIM is also a pain if you bounce between countries and not every country has them.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
It's an Infuse with a dual-core TI SoC. If the Infuse has Wolfson, so will the Hercules. If not, I wouldn't get my hopes up. The Hercules is based on the Infuse to save money so I wouldn't think there's going to be a ton of new high-end features. Assuming the SGS2 ends up being Samsung's premium phone on AT&T, VZW, and Sprint it's hard to imagine the logic of giving T-Mobile something better.
[Galaxy S II General] arntgur:
I called att after posting this to pass to the non-smartphone $15 plan, there was no such thing, she said the only non-smartphone data plan was $10 unlimited provided you are a non-smartphone.

Got no previous knowledge about how they run it, seems you have a sense how it was done before and if that's the case that's a great options since it will continue being identified as non-smartphone. Then we'd still need to be lucky enough that noone there figures the top bandwidth using IMEI series and cut those off as smart-phones.

Make sense, won't be waiting for LTE, and HSPA+ is already reasonably fast, for $10 a month that's a good deal.

Speed vary greatly depending on location, and for some networks on time of day.

While at my current location tmobile hardly gets HSPA+ signal then ATT HSPA+ beats it with downloads most the times. Yet tmobile can beat them with uploads if it's getting HSPA+.

I have not seen a location (or time) where ATT HSPA was really solid and consistently fast, and I have seen quite a few such solid locations for tmobile.

Like others also mentioned, I am also talking about using a local sim on an HSPA+ network. One site listed the support of my international network as HSDPA, then I guess it's same as HSPA just that D stands for download.

Roaming data plans are good if you travel to many international destinations which keep changing frequently.
[Galaxy S II General] avetny:
Im in New York...

And my provider is T-Mobile.

I got with this phone only "E" lol (no 3G, no 4G)

If you got A&TT than you lucky ! you will get 3G.

Phone working excellent. Even my "E" (edge) working fine :)

_________________________________________________________

Samsung Hercules- F*** NvidiaTegra2 (beta chipset)

No TEGRA2 after my LG G2X !!!!

RUN AWAY man !
[Galaxy S II General] Mylenthes:
I'm going to be really f***ing pissed if this doesn't come to tmo in some form. 4.3 inch screen with dual core proccesor, not 4.5 inch. If my dream phone doesn't come to tmo.
[Galaxy S II General] naive1016:
I am pretty sure we will see sgs2 on tmobile but probably later than other companies. When is the release date for att anyways? Is it soon. Man Samsung is f***ing retarded for delaying it so much in the usa man. I am already thinking of getting the damn HTC Sensation if this takes any longer.
[Galaxy S II General] Disfected:
It's not Samsung's fault for the delay, blame the carriers for it.
[Galaxy S II General] arntgur:
After going past Edge, going back to those crawling speeds is a joke.

Before tmobile I have been with Sprint since 2005 on the pre WiMax network just after it lunched, it got 400-900kbit download range which was decent for the time. Edge is maxed around ~200kbit then after being on tmobile with 2-6mbit download and 1-3mbit uploads and a modern smartphone, ..., man, there is no way back even if you paid me :)

Under that case being with SGSII and keeping t-mobile would be suffering Edge slowness which I am not going with. SGSII is a very solid phone, would be pretty sad to see it on Edge :) Thus I am considering moving to AT&T. If the international version of sgsii we're talking about can be kept under radar on a cheap data plan then that would be the best deal in town for gsm in US. If BarryH_GEG's point is right then the US sgsii phones won't enjoy this option.

Still wanting to confirm that my international sim would produce HSPA like data speeds (2-5 mbit) similar to those I got with my tmobile my touch 4g on last trip. Need to call them again in business hours and see.

Not sure if I cleared that up but they switched my temp AT&T sim-account to the $10 (for non-smartphones) plan, the data speeds seem the same.

Also the store folks didn't have access to those plans, I had to call 611 on the way back to do that switch.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
These are plans for non-smartphones:

Data Unlimited for Non-Smartphones - $15.00

Data Unlimited for Non-Smartphones (Messaging Unlimited required) - $10.00

Messaging Unlimited - $20.00

Messaging Unlimited with Mobile to Any Mobile Calling - $20.00

Messaging & Data Unlimited for Non-Smartphones - $30.00
[Galaxy S II General] kirdroid:
@op ... I guess the att rep is trying to sell you $10 plan because they will add the messaging unlimited and you will see $30 unlimited data + messaging charge on your 1st bill.

Believe us there is just the $15 unlimited plan and many of us are on that plan.
[Galaxy S II General] chestvrg:
Yes, the unlimited $15/mo non-smartphone data plan does work on at&t for the GSII and you can save a lot of monies. The only reason why I'm not on this data plan is because I'm still on the grandfathered unlimited smartphone data plan for $30/mo and I'm waiting for a future LTE 4G release on at&t that I'll be grandfathered into a LTE 4G plan on a future 4G smartphone, most likely the Galaxy SIII LTE :)
[Galaxy S II General] arntgur:
Sorry folks, I have said exactly what you informed me on that call earlier today and she still insisted that there was no $15 and only $10 and she puts me on that.

So I got on line with another lady now.

She also said same as the earlier lady that I am on $10 for data, and I have had her re-confirm I got _no_ text plan at all (only paying on individual messages and I hardly use them).

Now I tried understanding if this same thing would apply to my friend who's been on AT&T for many years and have recommended me about the $15 plan, I wanted to check if I can get it only since I am on a trial period and would pass from T-Mobile if I am happy. Took a very long time and multiple attempts to explain that point. Then she was checking for a long time, ..., then requested IMEI, etc. Eventually she said it applied for my line since the system allowed it, but she could not tell why it allowed it.

And also confirmed that the system should not generally allow it exactly as you were saying. This also means that for my second family line to be migrated to migrate AT&T if I do join it would be $15 too.

Guess I just got lucky on that one phone, hope that clarifies.
[Galaxy S II General] arntgur:
Just clarify and sum per feedback from AT&T after a long time on the phone - these points are correct. And specifically verified that the $10 requires Messaging Unlimited, and for those who don't use text the best option is $15.
[Galaxy S II General] arntgur:
Ok, I am willing to move to AT&T based on this.

Kept the trial sim and looking to move from t-mobile.

Now for my second line/phone, the T-Mobile mytouch 4g won't do any data, not even edge with AT&T, just voice. The guy in the store confirmed it too.

So I am looking for a viable replacement.

Anyone can recommend another reasonably good smartphone?

Would be nice to get one not identified by AT&T as a smartphone.

Cheaper than SGSII works, a used phone works, any reasonably new android which I can install the latest OS on any time should be good.
[Galaxy S II General] arntgur:
AT&T will be throttling of their data plans starting Aug 1st:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscent..._to_throttle_big_users_of_unlimited_data.html

http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=20535&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=32318&mapcode=corporate

The AT&T post is saying it will impact: "smartphone customers who are on unlimited plans".

Hopefully it won't impact unlimited plans for non-smartphones. Anyone has any knowledge about that?

Then of course throttling will happen on all networks, so it's not worse than any other provider.
[Galaxy S II General] Juls317:
Irrelevant, get back on topic
[Galaxy S II General] p00kienrayray:
I'm sure it would never be detected. Unrecognized IMEI's have been on AT&T's network for quite some time. People have always bought phones from Europe, Australia, etc. just so they can use it on the medianet plan. I guess the only non-US smartphone IMEI they recognized was the Canadian Nexus S, but that's likely due to it being released on Bell.
[Galaxy S II General] kotaro_14:
Well, you would get EDGE Speds, but remember that AT&T is going to buy T-Mobile. So until then... I have the SGS II and don't use a data plan as I am usually near a an are with wifi.

AT&T uses the same bands as Europe and some parts of Asia. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] kirdroid:
For tmobile folks I think it is better to wait than get stuck with 2g speeds.

http://androidandme.com/2011/07/dev...-bringing-hspa-42-to-t-mobile-on-september-21
[Galaxy S II General] Juls317:
Saweeeet
[Galaxy S II General] rockky:
An adjunct announcement to one of the throttle announcements is that unrecognized imei's have to be activated in-store....I assume as of the same date as throttling begins.
[Galaxy S II General] ImDonly1:
Link to this article?
[Galaxy S II General] rockky:
Will try to retrieve. Was part of one of the many sites projecting At&t's new policy.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeJennni:
I have tried various apps. I have been able to connect to my network browse all files. Its just when I go to play the file it says wrong format. The funny thing is I can place these files on my vibrants SD and play them fine...

I am using trigger redux cm7 and loving it!!!!!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeJennni:
Anyone lol?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sfsilicon:
Files will stream if they are encoded to do so and are in a format that the vibrant can play. Mp4 files with the file info in the header would be your best bet.

Another option would be to use a streaming server/client solution like box stream and convert.it is available in the market.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeJennni:
What do you mean by "in the header " and I tried getting both those apps couldn't find anything pertaining to streaming or encoding.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdWood110:
When you have the Vibrant then you have AllShare preinstalled...you use it?

Cause with AllShare you can watch all the vids that are on your PC via Mediaplayer...all you have to do is, add the Moviefolder to the Mediaplayer Libary and you are good to go.

I have no trouble at all streaming everything to my phone, only old codec versions like XVID or DIVX are making problems, but those are really old.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vanstorm:
Will the ota that we are expecting give me the option to ignore the download or not install it or will it automatically download and install? I want to make sure I keep my ATRIX the way I have it for now.

Thanks
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Magnetox:
You can ignore it

On bell you can atleast.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jnewell05:
Don't download it when it ask just press ignore. Other wise it'll tell you every hour about updating. Also there are several post about how to disable this notification. I'll post the links here when I find one.

Heck too much stuff to dig through but you should try to freeze the updater with titanium backup to keep it from hounding you. If it does that is.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phoneguy589:
I've tried Handcent and GO but I can't stand the whole playback slideshow thing. Are there any better choices out there or different settings?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebeardedchild:
You could try chomp but in my short experience with it it seemed that it may be mostly like those other two..
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