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[Android General] tylerb1800:
Check out Oppo phones. There build quality is fantastic.
[Android General] bozzo12:
It just checked and it is "just" an i9500 straight up, just the international unlocked version and the Baseband is from Trinidad and Tobago if it even matters. My SGS2 (unflagged for 2 years) is an unlocked international version from the UK. Obviously their IMEI have not made it to AT$T's database.
[Android General] Mephisto Zap:
I picked up a xiaomi mi2 for $200 and really like it. Miui is also great. And there's no way att can get the imei number as the phones only sold officially in Taiwan and China.

If you want one avoid the m2a as it doesn't have the right 3g bands or the hongmi. Stick with the mi2, mi2s or mi3 when its out. There's supposed to be a 3g hongmi coming out sometime soon.

Also on the plan for a day or two now. Everything seems to work except downloading larger apps from the play store. Smaller ones will download but larger ones stop half way through. Any ideas?
[Android General] yw2012:
I am debating whether to pick up MI2S for $300 or just wait for the MI3 and have relative buy it for me in China. Where do you pick up a MI2 for $200? That's a pretty good price. What do you think of the phone? Is it too thick? How's the battery life?

As to your downloading issue, go to a MIUI app called "Download" and set the download size limit. This app restrict and control all downloads (if the file size is bigger than the limit, it will restrict that download to wifi only). Hope this helps.
[Android General] Mephisto Zap:
I really wanted the mi3 as I came from a galaxy s4 but its a lot harder for people outside of China to get one. Only way to get one is to preorder it and it seems it wouldn't come til December. So it was too long of a wait for me but if you got a relative that can pick one up for retail in China I'd do that. I didn't want to put my money with people online so I'm gonna wait til its in stock before I order one which I imagine will be January.

But the mi2/s are still nice phones. I bought mine used for $250. Thought it was a mi2s but it was a mi2. The buyer didn't know must of have been ripped off but I'm getting $50 back so not to bad. Mi2 seem to be going for about $200 on eBay as well.

I overall like it the screen is kinda small coming from my s4 but I'm used to it after about 2 weeks. Its not to thick but is a little bit heavier at 145 g but feels solid. Battery is OK it gets me through the day. There are different tweaks you can to help with that. Also there's the extended 3100 battery I ordered it a few days ago. People said it added about 40% more life. And doesn't add that much weight or thickness.

As to the downloading off apps I've got the download restrictions up to a 1gb but big apps were downloading fine before on the normal smartphone plan. The issue came when I switched to media net. Sometimes it will even say download failed. I have a feeling att might somehow be blocking app downloads from the play store.
[Android General] joecool1029:
Good looks on the Oppo, might consider this for next to try, added bonus to fall back on T-Mo if all else fails. HSPA Ion all good still I think, N9 dead. (M$ sucking on AT&T's and all)
[Android General] PassingThruLife:
att rep just told me medianet plan is gone!

stupid me,i made the mistake of putting my sim in an htc droid dna,i put in the medianet apn settings and i was ok for a day but got hit with the text on a friday night.

prior to the droid dna,i was using a droid 3 and using at least 1gb a day of data... i called att up and requested the $30 plan be taken off,made up a story about testing my friends phone out.

after the guy removes the $30 plan,i ask for the $10 medianet plan i had before and he says its no longer available,i ask him when it was stopped and he said a few months ago.

so be careful,my guess is if youre on it,youre good till something happens and you cant sign back up for it.
[Android General] bedwa:
Strange as my mother's line with a dumb phone and no internet is able to get it through the myatt app. Sounds like you had a bad rep on the phone. Try using the myatt app and see if you can get it back.
[Android General] PassingThruLife:
tried the medianet thing in the nokia dumbphone,i can still get through to the news and stuff... could it be the guy was just dumb?

i might call back and ask again.
[Android General] bedwa:
I do as much online and through the myatt application that I can. The less amount of people I have looking at my account and usage, the better.
[Android General] Mephisto Zap:
I doubt its actually gone. Its been around for a long time.

Does anybody have trouble downloading apps from the play store on your android phone on medianet?
[Android General] tylerb1800:
No issues downloading from the play store on medianet here.
[Android General] chrism.brunner:
Does anybody have trouble downloading apps from the play store on your android phone on medianet?

I have trouble sometimes. Takes like 6 tries on a larger app. It will get 35 to 70 percent done and freeze....... I have 5 phones, and they all do it. I think its Media net somehow.....

Just my experience.
[Android General] Mephisto Zap:
That's my same experience is well. I wonder if there's a way around it.
[Android General] kaijura:
rarely have that issue, when I do I think it's when my data got cut off. Maybe you can try downloading the latest play store and see if that fixes it, clear cache and other stuff.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/08/13/download-latest-google-play-store-4-3-11-teardown/
[Android General] chrism.brunner:
Downloaded the file.....seems to have fixed it. Thanks man.....
[Android General] stunner2:
Can anybody confirm if iphone 3g or 3gs work on at&t without data? I need to buy a phone for my dad who currently has a family line with a data block on it. I was wondering if At&t automatically adds a smartphone data even if the line has a data block on it? Thanks
[Android General] PassingThruLife:
Would a htc droid dna work for just talk and text? if i cut the cellular data off would they still add the data plan to it? I ju,st want to be on the $10 extra family plan line , I have no need for mobile data except for gps sometimes.

how the hell does at&t get verizon IMEIs? this $h!+ isnt fair. we buy phones with our own money and cant even use them how we want.
[Android General] Mephisto Zap:
I think with a data block in place and data turned off and not uses you should be good.
[Android General] sumeet909:
Please keep us posted whatever happens. It seems like data block works for non-AT&T and non-Apple phones. International iPhone was flagged even with data bock for me. I got the text few mins after inserting the SIM, so iPhones have a different system. I've had HTC Radar 4G (flagged) with data block for 2 years, no problems.
[Android General] killme2:
I'm using an iPhone 5S without a data plan and in the past I used an iPhone 4S without a data plan. Make sure the line is on medianet plan (unlimited or pay per use) before you put a block on it. I'm on a pay per use medianet plan and AT&T never detects my phone. At least, not until l I configured it to use data via the medianet plan. Only then was I bumped to a smartphone data plan. So make sure the line is provisioned for medianet before putting a block on it and that should take care of it.
[Android General] PassingThruLife:
i added the data block,couldnt find it online or through the att app so i used the live-chat on the at website. had my sim in a nokia dumbphone and asked the nice rep to add the block. I waited a few minutes,made sure the mobile data on the droid dna was off and popped in the sim.

its been about 12 hour so far,but it took like 2 days for me to be flagged when i was on the medianet plan so who knows...

hopefully it sticks. only issue is getting MMS,any way to get MMS besides just having people email you the pics?
[Android General] kaijura:
From what I've seen before, mms uses the mobile data apn in most situations but I think it was rom specific. Like AOSP based builds could not do this, although UIs like sense could.

Try a dummy mms apn and see if it works: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1882479

You can dial a code to have att send you a sms if you've used data by going to the dialer and dialing *3282#

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Android General] stunner2:
Alright. Thank You. I will try that out.

Also, I don't see any Nokia phones on the list. Is there a reason for that? are they not supported by medianet?
[Android General] sumeet909:
Thanks. What carrier were your 5S and 4S from?
[Android General] killme2:
Both from AT&T.
[Android General] sumeet909:
Hmm...I have to say you got very lucky. Carrying AT&T phones with data block is not heard of. What's your location? Another possibility is that your area is not swept or you are on a partner network. :confused: There's also a remote possibility you are on an old cingular plan that's not part of their sweeps. For sure though, your solution wouldn't work for others. Here, just inserting the SIM in an iPhone triggers an alert within 15 mins.
[Android General] killme2:
I'm in Greenville, SC. I never was on Cingular. I am on a Premier plan so maybe that could make a difference.
[Android General] kaijura:
I'm very suspicious about something that rcently happened.

I think AT&T flagged me today for using my WiFi Hotspot on my Galaxy Nexus. I had changed the gnex IMEI manually so it shows up as an unknown device in OLAM.

I recall [MENTION=1258762]bedwa[/MENTION] mentioning about useragents in the past.. I was using Firefox with the default PC useragent string around the time I got the text message.

IIRC from reading around other people's comments, it was either t-mobile or one of the GSM MVNO's (ST or Net10 or something) that also did flagging by useragent strings.

Right now I'm USB tethered and running useragent spoofing as a dumbphone on chrome. Take precautions tethering.

Also, I tested the i9250M (Canadian Galaxy Nexus) - OLAm showed as i9250 within a minute of putting the sim in after turning the phone on. Fastest I've ever seen.
[Android General] bedwa:
If your phone has a APN for tethering, remove it. Or if it's not a custom ROM over 4.2 I believe, it'll always report tethering to the network.
[Android General] kaijura:
I use the default APN for aosp roms usually, but sometimes I forget the developers fork different apn lists. Which section of the APN settings reports tethering?

Here are my current values:
[Android General] shsplaying:
I would rate it B+. Performs solid, but somewhat slow while it has 1Ghz proc. installed. Maybe I am used to my previous phones - Galaxy Note, LG Optimus 3D, iPhone 4S.

Check out video reviews on Youtube.

One thing I really like about this phone is the battery. Sony phones have Lithium Polymer batteries installed (Most phones from Samsung and LG have Lithium Ion batteries), Lithium Polymer actually last way longer, at least this phone.

I am thinking it's Lithium Polymer actually lasts longer, and/or Sony did a good job with optimizing the kernel for good power management, and/or smaller screen.

With Samsung and LG phones with 1500mah batteries, I always suffer the low battery problem in the late afternoon.

With this Sony MT11a (w/ 1500mah), I am good until late nite.

*Data Connection always enabled, 4-5hrs of music playing via BT, some videos, some web browsing, a few phone calls - that's my average use.
[Android General] fadinglionhart:
Here's my data usage chart from AT&T, you can tell when I had switched over to my i9100:

Use imgur.com and then add "zsvN7"
[Android General] pookeyster:
Thanks!
[Android General] kaijura:
@pookey, I've seen only in extreme cases that a couple of posts where people got 'automated' from their grandfathered medianet to smartphone plans.

These were people abusing the system.

For me, I've been using this option since 2009 with the G1. I average low monthly, usually 500mb-1gb's or in times where I've moved and had no home internet, 2-3GB and pretty much safe for 3.5 years.
[Android General] longdongsilver:
Anyone got a trip report on getting LTE on an HTC One X with a medianet plan? I see it's been discussed here but I don't seem to see any confirm/denys of it working or not. I see Amazon has them Prime at a little over $600, I guess with their liberal return policy it would be worth a shot, except the One X has a microsim doesn't it? Guess I would have to cut my SIM as part of this experiment, and it really does sound too good to be true :confused:
[Android General] kaijura:
Nobody has tried the LTE thing yet, if there is some person with both a working LTE sim and a 3g sim and respective phones, that would be a perfect scenario.

Don't cut your 3g sim into a microsim though, it won't work. LTE is on a different band that the 3g sims don't have.
[Android General] ckong1:
I believe that the Tegra 3 chip on the International HTC One X cannot work with LTE which is why the AT&T version has the dual core snapdragon. I could be wrong.
[Android General] sk337sk337:
I did have a rogers note but I have traded it off. Also, I don't even have HSPA+/LTE within 150 miles so I couldn't test it anyways. However, my friend is getting a Telus Note in a few days and lives in a LTE area so he may be able to do some testing for us.

Edit: Just spoke with him and he isn't in an LTE area either :(
[Android General] pjr300:
Wow... So, even though you just purchased an iPhone, for example, for which AT&T expects to get revenue via data plan to pay for the subsidized hardware, they will let you cancel after a month and keep the phone? The contract allows that?
[Android General] sk337sk337:
Noticed this when I went to preorder to the SGS3 this morning. "You must maintain a minimum $20 per month data plan for as long as you have a voice plan with this phone."
[Android General] sheik124:
Is anyone getting throttled? I went from my Nexus One to a RAZR very briefly and saw my speeds increase because of the faster radio. When I switched to a NAM Lumia 800, Microsoft's "TestMyNet" app never shows me pulling more than 1 mbps. What gives?
[Android General] sk337sk337:
No throttling here.
[Android General] dkotoric:
Has anyone gotten the international Samsung GS3 and are they having any issues with medianet

Sent from my HTC One X
[Android General] sk337sk337:
I called att and asked about removing the data and they tokd me yiu can if your no longer using a phone that requires a data plan so no policy change
[Android General] stumpyz9:
Thats att 3g for you
[Android General] kaijura:
Looks like according to this post, the Galaxy S III from UK is getting detected as a smartphone. An iPhone. That'll be a letdown for some folks looking to get an S3 and keep this plan.
[Android General] kaijura:
Other than checking your signal strength, radio firmware, and depending on who's hogging the cell tower, things you can't really adjust:

Look at your phone spec/modem and make sure they support proper speeds.

21MB/s and over is HSPA+,

14.4MB/s is wannabe-HSPA+ (just faster HSPA)

7.2MB/s is just low tiered HSPA

Looking up your phones:

Nexus One - 7.2MB/sec

Not sure which RAZR, but it's probably 14.4MB/sec

Lumia 800 - 14.4MB/sec
[Android General] Juicy555:
I have a LTE sim card from a skyrocket i dont really care about lte speeds i dont even live near a lte area 3g speeds are fine but with a lte sim card can i still use medianet?

have a droid 3 global btw
[Android General] dkotoric:
Yes you can without any problems

Sent from my HTC One X
[Android General] Juicy555:
ok, so do i just insert my current sim card into the droid 3 and then what? How do i switch from my smarthphone plan to medianet?

edit: I do have a dumb phone i could switch but still just wondering
[Android General] sumeet909:
You could also use a VPN.
[Android General] Endlessknight:
How did you do that?
[Android General] gtmaster303:
Been having problems tethering. It stays connected but doesn't supply a constant data stream. Youtube videos tend to stop a lot, and won't keep playing until I reload the page. What gives?

Attached you will find a screenshot of what I mean. Random drops while I'm requesting my phone to actively pull data

I'm using the standard tethering built into CM10
[Android General] Lifeblood:
Does anyone know if the Jiayu G2+ gets flagged by AT&T? I want to buy the 1Gb version.

I still use a Palm Pixi Plus which I bought the day before HP pulled the plug on Palm. The phone has worked fine until recently, but has now developed a problem with shutting down intermittently. The odd thing is that its an AT&T branded phone, its recognized by AT&T, yet I am not forced to get a data plan. It may be I turned on data long enough to activate it the day I got it, but then turned data off and haven't had it on since then. I have so much free WiFi around everywhere I go I don't need data.
[Android General] tylerb1800:
Jiayu should be fine. I haven't heard of any Chinese phones being flagged. I'm on Oppo Find 5 with zero issue.
[Android General] redsrule2500:
I've had this same issue for the past couple of years. It sucks. I can access websites, but it constantly keeps disconnecting and re-connecting. Large file downloads are pretty much impossible
[Android General] chernomorez:
So what do you do once you get flagged?

I called them up, gave them my dumb phone imei, and switched back to $15 plan.

Then next day I put my SIM back into the smartphone. Few hours later I got the dreaded SMS and email that I've been flagged again.

Any thoughts? My phone is T-Mo Moto Defy.
[Android General] redsrule2500:
Are either of the above phones capable of HSPA+ on AT&T?
[Android General] tylerb1800:
Oppo Find 5 gets HSPA+. It doesn't look like the Jiayu G2+ gets ATT 3G frequencies. You may want to check it yourself to be certain
[Android General] gtmaster303:
Does it have something to do with APN settings? Or maybe the tethering client. What's weird is downloading and streaming on my phone works fine. But as soon as I tether I have problems...

Sent from my Galaxy S Relay
[Android General] yw2012:
How do you like your Oppo Find 5?

Yes, i also confirmed that chinese phones are safe for now.
[Android General] tylerb1800:
I love my Oppo Find 5. The screen (5") is fantastic and it has a solid feel to the overall phone. Battery life is decent...It lasts all day and I am a moderate to heavy user. My favorite thing about the phone is the community development. There are so many ROMs (CM, PA, AOSP, AOKP, OmniRom) and super easy to flash them.

You can pick one up off of eBay for a pretty decent price (that is what I did)
[Android General] PassingThruLife:
Still using a Droid Dna on the $10 extra line plan from At&t. I guess it is safe to say that turning data off and adding data block to the line works.

How about using an actual At&t phone though? I have an upgrade and the LG G2 is $99 and I have a $50 off Best Buy mobile coupon...

Would they detect it right away? The upgrade is on someone else's line,they took my upgrade and I plan on taking theirs so the phone would not be linked to my number.
[Android General] joshyth:
You should be fine keeping the data off, my friend is using a AT&T s4 on his line and it's being almost six months now. Just remember not to turn the data on.
[Android General] datpuff:
Nokia N8 Pinged

ATT just popped my Nokia N8...Anyone else having this issue and any recommendations?
[Android General] darnbirch:
Regional restrictions

I'm interested in picking up an unlocked GSM Milestone 3 for use on the MediaNet plan in the USA. Are there any particular countries that I should get this phone from to ensure that I get both 3G coverage and that the phone goes undetected?
[Android General] kaijura:
Try this and let me know if it works for you.

Turn off your tether or reset your phone

Go to Phone

dial #*#*4636*#*#

Go to Phone Information

Change your Set preferred network type: to

WCDMA only

Wait a few for the data connection to restore (shows 3G/H/H+ icon)

Now try streaming youtube and downloading.

Return back to your original setting (it's probably WCDMA preferred or WCDMA/GSM/ or something along those lines), setting it on WCDMA only is basically making your phone a battery hog due to always on mobile data.
[Android General] Endlessknight:
The Verizon version? Is the GSM unlocked straight from Verizon? Does it supposed AT&T HSPA? Thanks in advance for any info.
[Android General] lovem:
If you call AT** & add data block & also block data from your cellular, you should be fine. Have got a line using Note 2 with data blocked from at** when a dummy phone was on the line & since Using note 2 also blocked the data from the phone & no problems; haven't gotten the stupid message.

Also once used at** garmin-asus g60 with data blocked from at** end & no problems with mandate to add data plan until lifting at** data block & adding medianet plan after taking it off for a while even though i was grandfathered in by the line item that read, "Data for Smartphone exclusion. " have tried to get the line item back to my account but have been told that it no longer exists.

Another line using at** lg Windows phone had the exact same line item "Data for non-smartphone" & worked well with medianet with no worries from at** with dreaded message until family member went to retailer & did an upgrade & they took off all the features present on the line to allow for at** smartphone to be used; didn't realize it until to late because at** says once some items removed, they are lost forever. --but That's all Old news.

The question is can a smartphone either at** branded or not be used with data blocked?

The answer is yes. Call at** preferably w/ sim in dummy phone, add data block, & (if possible turn off data from the device too although not required.)

The result is, you won't get the message & you will not be able to send MMS.

They were recently going to add data block to another line using note 2 when the agent misunderstood me & thought that's what I was asking, checked with supervisor for possibility of data block with note 2, after i called to remove the effects of the dreaded message when using medianet on a line with note 2.

LET'S GO BACK TO KEEPING THIS THREAD ON TOPIC! although such information is useful, It's been answered; keep this thread about phones that will continue to work with medianet.

;) :cool: ;)
[Android General] ClearD:
Unlocked T-Mobile HTC Sensation flagged 3 weeks ago.
[Android General] deepen915:
Looking to upgrade my mom's unlocked LG P500

So, I got my mom an unlocked LG P500 from ebay last year to use without a data plan on AT&T. It has worked fine, and I have added a data block to the line just to be safe. I wanted to upgrade to a newer device for her. A 2012 or newer unlocked non-AT&T phone. I have searched ebay for a few phones. I saw this LG L9 P769 unlocked t-mobile phone.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/171154748984?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Do you think it can be used just like the old P500 without a data plan on AT&T? I know they have flagged a bunch of devices. If anyone has a suggestion for a smartphone that isn't flagged for a data plan requirement, please let me know.

Thanks.
[Android General] Mephisto Zap:
T-Mobile phones for the most part have been flagged because att and tmobile share imei with each other. But it should be OK to use without data with the data block in place. But it won't work with media net data plan.
[Android General] gtmaster303:
That code didn't work, my phone says it's invalid. If I go through network settings, my phone reverts to GSM/WCDMA preferred, no matter what I change it to. It refuses to change even if I select another option. Running CM10.1

I noticed something weird though...

I tried tethering my phone to my PS3 to play Black Ops 2 online and it worked flawlessly. Never missed a beat.

Last night, tried tethering my phone to Apple TV and it streams HD video no problem. So I'm not sure what the deal is...

I might try installing the latest version of CM10 and go from there. I have a sneaking suspicion it's the tethering client I'm using

Sent from my Galaxy S Relay