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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] UncleMike:
Though I reference AT&T, I'm using Straight Talk with an AT&T SIM, and have so far been unable to get them to do this (though they did it for me 3-4 months ago).

If Google Voice required the calling number to change in order to work then all GV people using GV in voicemail-only mode would always appear to receive voicemail from themselves instead of the original caller.

It seems clear to me that something is wrong, since if it worked this way for everyone, reports of the problem, and possible solutions would be easy to find. But most Google searches for this issue turn up either my own reports, or reports from 3-4 years ago, where the discussion just seems to die off with no resolution.

Thanks to all for the replies.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jordanishere:
That's because all of your unnecessary forwarding is creating the issues. Turn all of the forwarding off, and the issues will cease. Allow Google voice to take the call and send it to it's own voicemail. . . .

Sent from my Xiaomi MI2S
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] UncleMike:
Thanks, but as I indicated above, I've tried every known method to turn off conditional forwarding, yet it remains in effect. All attempts to turn off conditional forwarding result in forwarding being set to a default number.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jordanishere:
Ahh ok. For some reason, I was under the impression that you wanted the forwarding to remain in effect.

Best of luck. It's probably something only the carrier is able to fix. Very strange indeed.

Sent from my Xiaomi MI2S
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] theroblog.com:
It's not. The MVNO I use gets voice, text, and data roaming with Tmobile primary towers. I've used AT&T and Cellular One. Maybe others I don't remember. *Roaming* Data is 2G. It's kinda unlimited but if you try and use too much (like you're some place for a week) they might call you to ask. Had that happen once. But they did nothing. Just wanted to make sure MOST of your time is on the Tmo network.

4 gigs 4G. Throttled after to 2g, but still 4G ping times and 115KBPS. Free Int'l text and a few other goodies at $49+tax.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jordanishere:
Simple mobile brought their service in line with the rest of the mnvos. Now they give you four gigs prior to hitting the throttle.

Sent from my Xiaomi MI2S
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jonny:
Actually what you are doing falls under the categories of advertising and using XDA to make money. Both of these things violate the forum rules so kindly do not post similar content within these forums.

Edit: Thread cleaned, back on topic please ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zorachus:
Whats a good alternative to Straight Talk ATT ? My brother, my Wife, and myself all have been on ST ATT since winter, we all have different phones; Galaxy Nexus...HTC One X...Nexus 4...

Service for all of us, really sucks the past several months, data speeds slow like Edge, group text messages rarely go through, only individual texting works perfectly.

We live in the Chicago area.

None of us have been heavy data users, we all stay well under 2GB DATA/MONTH, my Wife like 800mb a month at most, my brother maybe 1.5gb a month at most, same with me too. Thanks to WiFi at home and office, not using a ton of data.

I called Straight Talk a few months ago, they said I was throttled, I asked why, they never gave me explanation. Said there is no way to get my speeds back to original fast data again, once throttled that's it forever they told me.

So...I am looking to try another pre-paid service, what do you recommend ? How is "Go Smart" from T-Mobile ? Or how is official T-Mobile overall ? Or the new ATT pre-paid plans that came out this Summer ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shiznu:
For me at&t go phone service works really well. Its 60$ but that's will 2g of data and the way I understood it was no throttle. Use 2g and you will have no data with the option to add 1g/10$ . Net 10 is almost identical to ST if your looking for the same kindj of service while ditching their throttle.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jordanishere:
Tmobile $70 prepaid unlimited. After this, probably go smart mobiles $45 plan which gives you 5 gigs. Unless your phone doesn't support 1700mhz 3g AND you do not live in a tmobile 1900mhz 3g area, I'd avoid an att mnvo

Sent from my Xiaomi MI2S
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mr.Mischief:
Net 10 with their 1.5GB hard cap or AT&T and their 2GB plan.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jswede:
If you use Calling Mart you get ATT Gophone refills for 5-10% off and no sale tax, bringing the cost much lower. I just bought a $70 refill for $63, using promo code B2S1310.

Great thing is, they fully support tethering since you pay by the GB. Also, being able to add GB as needed is great, since ATT MVNOs don't support buying more.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Pkt_Lnt:
Straight Talk AT&T SIMS are back.

http://www.shopstraighttalk.com/bpd...&locale=en&market=GSM4&productFamily=simcards

More info from Android Police.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...d-of-selling-att-compatible-sim-cards-online/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ackis:
Anyone here know if any of those work in Canada, or a list for Canadian types?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jaybeeunix:
http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/canada.php

Their forums have useful info too.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shiznu:
Thanks for the tip. I will be checking out calling mart for my next refill. I have two questions 1. Do they e-mail or text you a pin? 2. Are you buying the 70$ refill for the extra GB of data ( just out if curiosity) If I could get 3gb for 63$ I will probably never consider switching from go phone, also didn't know about the free tethering makes a good plan even better.

Edit just looking at the site. Do you choose the real time refill (RTR) option?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jswede:
Callingmart directly refills your prepaid account, no pins. Be forewarned, the first time it will not be instant as they will call you to confirm your account. After that first time it should always be instant.

I have bought the $70 refill for two reasons. The first is to have money in my account to quickly add a GB if I need it. I don't buy extra data unless I need it. The second is for federal fees. I have to pay $0.86 per month for E911 and the relay fee. This is deducted at the beginning of the month for me, not at the beginning if the billing cycle.

I've been using the RTR option.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] colonelcack:
So I have prepaid tmobile unlimted and my friend just got postpaid unlimited and the speed difference is crazy. I knew prepaid probably was a little slower but we both had full signal and he was pulling 18-22mbps on speed tests and I was getting 2-6mbps. He also had a nexus 4 though while i was was using cm 10.2 on my gnex. I thought it might have been using lte but nope same hspa on both.

i know the radios on the gnex suck but i don't think that's the problem here. guess i'm gonna try to switch to postpaid...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mach3.2:
The gnex have a HSPA 21 radio, the n4 have a HSPA 42 radio, the n4 is capable of higher speeds.

Beamed from my Maguro
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] j8048188:
Try swapping sim cards, rebooting the phones, and doing a speedtest again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] colonelcack:
I couldn't swap sims cuz the n4 has a smaller one... Or does it still work?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] reuthermonkey:
you'd have to cut the sims and get an adapter.

The reality is simple though. He has more spectrum that he can use, and that spectrum seems to be less congested (ie the 2nd carrier in DC-HSPA+). The GNex simply can't take advantage of it at all. On ATT a N4 and GNex would be on equal footing since ATT's network is standard HSPA+. On T-Mobile, however, the N4 will always outperform the Gnex because the N4 supports twice the amount of spectrum.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tokuzumi:
Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 both use micro sim cards
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] colonelcack:
N4 sim is definitely smaller than my gnex's
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zepius:
Wrong. Galaxy Nexus uses a mini sim and the Nexus 4 uses a micro sim
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tokuzumi:
I was going based on my Verizon galaxy nexus. I didn't think the sim card sizes would differ.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] theroblog.com:
I think it's funny that the 'normal' size we all think of is a 'mini'.

I've only ever seen one of the full 'credit card' sized SIM cards on Wikipedia. Those must have been for European bag phones or something.

Anyone actually use a full sized SIM card?

I got back to the T28W which used the 'mini'. Man, that was a small phone. IIRC, first phone envy. Forgot what i had but the T28W was sweeeet! Ended up with one, then the T39...

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Not true. I didn't read the other hundreds of messages but I have roamed on Cellular One in East Texas, and on AT&T. Strangely I even got 3G data on an unlocked iPhone 3Gs in Minot ND, but no data on my G Nexus. I think they have something set wrong somewhere because it's supposed to give free 2G data like T-Mobile postpaid.

So, yes, there are MVNOs out there that give you even data roaming, but you might get a phone call if it's a lot so they can check if you're cheating by saying you live somewhere else and using roaming all the time. Costs them a certain amount, so they will absorb it 99% of the time. I only heard of one lady getting a call because she was roaming for a week and lord knows how much she used, knowing her.

4 gigs full speed DCHSPA 4g, after that 115KBPS throttled. But still on the 4G network so ping times are same and the data is a SOLID 115KBPS vs just forcing you to the 2G network. Free int'l texts, yadda yadda.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] grayson73:
Just switched for Straight Talk T-Mobile to Airvoice AT&T. $40 for unlimited talk and text, 1GB data. There are two catches:

1. You start with 500mb each month. Have to call/e-mail to get the second 500mb

2. Can't stack pins
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zepius:
they were used in bag phones/car phones back in the day.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tokuzumi:
We get the full sized sim card whenever we get a new sim card. We just "pop out" the mini/micro/nano sim out of it.

Could you imagine trying to accomodate one of those full sized sims in current phones? That would be fun.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Pkt_Lnt:
I guess no one saw that Straight Talk now is providing AT&T 4G-LTE?

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/09/13/straight-talk-prepaid-service-now-compatible-with-att-lte/

I switched to Straight Talk from T-Mobile to test this month and service is much better in the rural coastal CA area where I live. I just ordered a new ST SIM to get some faster speed yet to go along with the SGS4 Active I ordered. :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] herzzreh:
My work ID is essentially a full-size SIM. Just different data encoded on the chip.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shev7chenko:
Full size sim cards were also used extensively by telcel in mexico for public pay phones.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jazzruby:
It's now official - StraightTalk and Net10

Unlimited - $45 - 30-day - Talk - Text - Data

2.5 GB of high speed data then drops to 2G for the rest of your 30-day cycle.

http://www.phonenews.com/straightta...y-adopt-more-transparent-data-policies-24027/

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story...-limits-straight-talk-net10-brands/2013-09-30

-JR-
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] agamjl:
red pocket gsmt data only

anyone using red pocket gsmt data only plan? it uses t-mobile 4g, my phone shows all signal and 4g, but wont download anything, any app that use internet is not connecting, their reps are helpless
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wintrxtrem:
This is a good similar thread comparing all prepaid providers: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2333541
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Wow. Really good speeds. Check back in and let us know how your total data usage is.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DOHCtor:
Here's a little update on the AT&T GoPhone $50 unlimited everything plan. Just a little over two weeks and went up to 2.5gb of data usage and still no throttling. AT&T haven't cut my data, still thinks it's a dumbphone. I still get decent speeds and am able to stream and browse whatever is needed on a smartphone. (The low speedtest results are ones I did while at home up the mountains).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] reuthermonkey:
thank you for your results. How did you set up your phone for the gophone account? Any steps, or just pop in the sim card and go?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DOHCtor:
You can pop in the sim and go but make sure you use the wap.cingular apn and not the "phone" or any other at&t apn you see posted all over xda. You will get caught if you use any other att apn besides wap.cingular. I didn't want to take any chances so I deleted the default apn that loaded up and just created my own. I named it ATT and only filled out the apn field with wap.cingular. I don't care for mms so I left everything else blank.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JCreazy:
Is it possible to port a number to T-Mobile prepaid after you have already acted the sim?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lafrad:
Yep.

Call up customer service and say "I would like to port my number into my active account". you might have to try more than once (prepaid support sometimes has a few staff members that are a bit... new), but they will happily do that.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alphahere:
I have tried the phone apn and other at&t apns and these apn's won't work at all with gophone plan. I did not get caught. Whatever that means. However, the only apn that will work is wap.cingular. I'm using the default apn on the phone which was wap.cingular without any problems. MMS works great with the default apn for wap.cingular and this is covered in the plan! So don't turn off MMS because it is part of the 50 buck unlimited plan.

This is a great thread and I have been moving in this direction for sometime. Currently using myfamily mobile, but playing around the 50 buck gophone unlimited which costs 45 bucks online with coupons. Data works perfectly without the extra costs with 50 buck unlimited gophone plan. I guess the network sees it as a dumb phone. The nexus s I have is seen as a smartphone for some reason and it is not an at&t phone.

Anyway I have to send my galaxy nexus back. I really like this phone but there is loud static using a wired headset. This is off topic but anyone else has this problem? I guess folks don't use wired headsets anymore.

Later and thanks for the information thread. This thread really needs to be in all forums.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Yep. I ported from another T-mobile account to a prepaid account I had already activated.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1430453&page=4

One more choice is the Nokia Lumia 900. Nothing confirmed, but looks promising.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/01/mobile-world-congress-2012-smartphone-roundup/

And the upcoming Huawei Ascend D Quad is a fine choice indeed.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ninjames:
I'm sorry for asking here - but you guys seem to be on the cusp of what I'm looking for and I'm struggling to understand some of these things. I'm on Cricket, with a Huawei Ascend II - a phone I really do enjoy, but I want to move on. My speeds are always less than 1 MB and hardly ever up to 100kb, everything is 3G.

The Galaxy Nexus phone is not 4G, right? It's HSPA+, yes? What's the difference? I'm really confused. I'm eyeing the simple prepaid T-Mobile plan for $60 and that will give me everything I need - but is the Nexus not going to work well because it's not 4G? How are HSPA+ speeds? I don't know how to check the coverage in my area.

In other words, I don't want to drop $600 on a phone and have the speeds be sub-1MB, though more is obviously better. I'm struggling to understand what HSPA+ is and why a phone like the Galaxy Nexus doesn't support 4G? Is T-Mobile HSPA+? Because all they say is 4G. Am I better off buying another phone? I really wanted Ice Cream Sandwich now or in the near future - if there's a good phone that is slated to get it that is significantly cheaper than $600, that'd be wonderful, too.

I'm really confused lol
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] codesplice:
HSPA+ and LTE are both referred to as "4G" by different carriers so it can be very confusing. HSPA+ is the non-LTE 4G. It's what is present on AT&T and T-Mobile networks (and every network that isn't Verizon or Sprint).

The Galaxy Nexus will work fine on T-Mobile's 4G plans. I routinely see ~8Mbps down and ~1.7Mbps up.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Couldn't have really explained it any better.

I too get about 6-9mbps down / 2-4mbps up on the prepaid plan.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ninjames:
Thanks a lot, guys. I was really confused. I really want a Galaxy Nexus. Like bad. I'm just struggling with the fact that it will cost me $600, whereas Verizon will cost me $100, but it will only work with them and it's a two-year contract.

That being said, are there any other "top" phones that are slated to get Ice Cream Sandwich that can be bought and used for T-Mobile prepaid? Maybe something in the $350 range? Just wondering .. I may just suck it up and take the big hit to my wallet and get the Nexus though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] codesplice:
I was able to get a friend of mine to justify the purchase of the GNex with the following logic:

1) Consider how much you'd pay for service with Verizon (or continue to pay with AT&T, as was his case).

2) See how much you'd save by moving to a prepaid plan with T-Mobile (for him (and me) moving to the $30/mo "Walmart" plan saves about $50-60/mo).

3) Divide the cost of the GNex (call it $600) by those monthly savings - you will have saved enough money in a year to pay for the GNex. The next year, that's ~$600 extra that you otherwise wouldn't have if you were locked into a 2-year contract elsewhere.

Pay a little bit more up front to save money long-term. And you want to make sure that the device you pay full-price for will be worth hanging on to for a while. I don't think the GNex will have any problem remaining a viable phone for at least the next two years. Think that will be the case with a cheaper Android phone?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Can't look at the up-front cost of the device. Have to compare monthly, yearly costs when making a decision. Without any discounts, the cheapest you're going to spend monthly on Verizon is $90 before taxes and fees. That quickly adds up on top of the $100 device price.

I saved $37 a month going from postpaid T-Mobile to Prepaid. $37 a month turns to $444 a year. $888 over a 2 year contract. Quickly covers the cost of my Galaxy Nexus, and that's without selling my old device yet. The gap is even bigger coming from Verizon. You could save about $65 a month. $780 a year, $1560 over a 2 year contract. If you go with a $45 Straight Talk plan to have more minutes, the savings are slightly less ($600 / $1200) but still gigantic compared to the price of the phone up front.

You could always pick up a Nexus S too. T-Mobile variants are for sale under $300 I'm sure. And you could save up for the next Nexus then.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ninjames:
Thanks, guys. You convinced me. Around March 15, I'll be the proud owner of a new Galaxy Nexus and I'll likely be on a prepaid T-Mobile plan. As an added bonus, I'm unloading my Ascend II to a family member for around $50. So that helps ease the pain a little.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Every bit counts lol.

Pretty much if you need data and not minutes, get the $30 5gb T-Mobile / Walmart plan. If you need minutes and not as much data, get the Straight Talk AT&T plan. Two best options right now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ninjames:
I don't really know what my usage is going to be like! Right now, minutes are important, but I AM doing all this switching because I'm sick of slow data. I just don't know how much data. I also didn't really understand Straight Talk and their coverage map .. I didn't know which SIM card I'd need lol. That's the first one I looked at, and SIM cards and all of that are really hard to understand. I'm an audiophile, not a ... cellularphile?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] codesplice:
The beauty of prepaid with the GNex is that you don't have to be stuck with one carrier. You can hop from AT&T MVNOs to T-Mobile and back every other month if you want.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
If you need more than 100 minutes you really need to just go with Straight Talk. They have Unlimited Minutes, Unlimited SMS/MMS, and 2GB of data for $45 a month. http://www.straighttalksim.com/

On the Straight Talk site you can choose whether you want an AT&T or a T-Mobile SIM. ST uses both networks, but you have to choose at the time of purchase. AT&T will probably have better coverage, but only you know your area well enough to decide which is better. You can put in your ZIP code and they'll choose for you, but unless your area for some reason has terrible AT&T coverage, I'd suggest you go with the AT&T SIM. There aren't a whole lot of places that have better T-Mobile coverage over AT&T coverage. AT&T speeds may tend to be a tad slower depending on the area also.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aiinjylls:
So, once you have say the ATT StraightTalk SIM and want to switch to T-Mobile, do you need a have to activate a new SIM and transfer my number?

Does StraightTalk allow call forwarding or short codes?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
You mean if you wanted to switch from an AT&T Straight Talk SIM to a T-Mobile Straight Talk SIM? I think you would have to order a new SIM and reactivate it on the account. Not sure why you'd do this though. Their SIMs are expensive too at $15 a pop.

Most of these plans don't support forwarding. Not sure about short codes.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LionAR10:
The ATT side *does* support conditional call forwarding. TMO traditionally does not, but I have not tried it .. so I'll go try it on my gf's ST TMO phone and report back.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Joseph313:
Do I need to r00t my Nexus first ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
No... the phone is SIM unlocked from the factory. You put your SIM in and it works. That's GSM.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
You have other hardware choices besides the GN. If I have one minor quibble with this thoroughly excellent thread it's the resistance to some of my posts offering other hardware suggestions. I'm not surprised since it's a Galaxy Nexus forum and features predominantly Galaxy Nexus users but I think this thread is so useful it should be renamed and stickied atop XDA and HoFo. I honestly think it's grown beyond this forum and addresses what's largely wrong with the American cellular market.

I also understand its not my thread and you guys have the right to tell me to piss off. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ninjames:
Normal sims or the mini/micro sims?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Both. Doesn't really matter, you can chop your SIM down or grab a Micro SIM cutter from Amazon for a couple bucks. They also sell micro SIM adapters that allow you to place your Micro inside one and convert at will to full size for greater flexibility at will. You can find cheap ones for a penny bit you will need some tape to keep them together.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Select normal (which is actually a "mini SIM" if you're nit-picky). Micro isn't really catching on yet. Doesn't necessarily make a difference though. They work in both types of SIM slots with adapters. You can buy kits with cutters and adapters together too.

If you don't plan to have a phone with a micro SIM slot any time soon just get the regular.