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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] scoobdude:
I had come across this setting under my account. Did you have a proxy on your son profile? I had noticed one when I first set up my phone but as of now there is none. I would suspect this is how they filter the content. Try deleting the proxy if you have one. I don't surf those sites but I have yet to get one that is blocked (no p0rn just warez etc)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wjsmaggle:
I don't know if you know this but you can get a jetpack plan and pop the Sim card from that into your VZW Nexus and get data directly on your Nexus. You get charged per minute if you use any voice minutes but you can set up sip or voip like you intended anyway.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tmst:
Now that I have ST sim on my phone, I don't want to bother popping T-Mo sim back in again.

That said, I do not recall having anything in proxy for APN settings. Just plain old APN.

They more likely put all HTTP traffic through transparent proxy server which acts according to pre-specified rules.

Regardless of proxy settings, the traffic WILL go through T-Mo's proxy. That's how they catch people tethering by trying to catch desktop browser User-Agent.

I'll even bet that they do deep packet inspection on their mobile data connection.

I don't surf those sites either. But I am not a big fan of censorship, especially when they block sites like 9gags (no porn, no warez). --- But that's a different topic.:cool:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rock7632:
So I bought 2 of these from that seller and just received them yesterday but there was only 1 activation card for the 2 sims. Not sure why that is. I sent a message to the seller. Let's see what he says
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BrianDigital:
I just pulled up 9gags in TMobile data
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tmst:
With prepaid sim + wal-mart plan + non-credit card refill?

If that's the case, maybe it was just me that got a nannied sim from an Amazon seller.

Or, that T-Mobile has come to senses and unblocked it.

If you used a credit card to refill your account directly with T-Mo, they could have retained the information and automatically verified your age. -- Just a wild guess.

But it was my personal experience (~4 months ago) that access to 9gags from my T-Mo data was blocked, and was informed to "verify" my age on T-Mo website in order to gain uncensored access.

I still have one more unactivated T-Mo sim and will definitely try the nanny server thing out when I decide to ditch ST. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BrianDigital:
Off my monthly 4g plan. I did turn off web guard when I signed up. But I suppose that's enabled on by default since I can imagine alot of kids get on the prepaid plans
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tmst:
Got it. Thanks for clarification. Yea, when you're on a monthly/post-paid plan, they can easily verify your age and have no problem turning a nanny service on and off.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xxBrun0xx:
Att st Sim + gnex = make everyone, smartphone or dumb phone jealous. Only drawback is no lte, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Lte wrecks your battery and usually is totally unnecessary (wifi ftw :D). Ben using this for months without being even close to 2 gigs of data. A word to the wise: if you want to stay well under the limit, don't download apps or stream music/video unless you're on wifi. You could probably get away with downloading apps on hspa+ to be honest, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BrianDigital:
I have been finding Pandora, doesn't eat up that much data.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tmst:
With wifi at home+work and VZW hotspot when there's no T-Mo coverage, I barely use 2GB (T-Mo and VZW combined.) I had to tether my laptop and download a bunch of test files to see how T-Mo behaves after 5GB limit. :D

Brun0, where do you use your ATT ST sim? I am in Chicago and just started using ATT ST sim today. My first impression is that the coverage is better than T-Mo but the speed is usually worse. I got around 200-500kbps v.s. 1.5mbps at home, and 1-2mbps v.s. ~4 mbps out and about. (ATT ST v.s. T-Mo) --- Yes, "proxy" is empty under APN settings.

Internet connection on ATT ST sim got interrupted quite often. (Bars turning grey for a short while, then turning back blue.)

Not sure if it was just an MVNO thing, or ATT hasn't improve its network capacity/quality in Chicago during the past decade.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jgrinst1:
I'm in Tampa Bay at the beach and have had the 5G T-Mo plan on my Exhibit II 4G for 6 months. Just bought an ATT ST SIM to try out. In my house ST is better, but outside T-Mo has slightly better speeds. I can't get above 3Mbps on ST or over 4Mbps on T-mo anywhere near here.

Still a work in progress...

My Exhibit has a 14.4 modem compared to the 21 Mbps on the GNex. Anyone else in the Tampa Bay area getting better speeds on the GNex with these plans?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] scoobdude:
I was able to get to 9gags also.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jbeez:
Bar color grey is no Google connection and blue means its talking with Google services. I read this in my nexus manual fwiw.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dsparil:
Thanks for the thread. It's very informative.

My phone just recently became GSM unlocked (hurray!), so I did an ETF on Sprint, and I'm currently using the $50 per month T-Mobile Unlimited Talk, Text, and 100MB 4G/Unlimited 2G plan.

After I recover from this ETF, I'm planning to get a Galaxy Nexus or just wait it out for the Next Nexus.

Now for the dilemma:

I've been thinking of switching to Straight Talk for $45, and I plan on using no more than 2GB. Is this amount safe from being disconnected from the service?

If 2GB isn't safe, I will probably go for the T-Mobile $60 2GB plan since the only consequence of going over is being throttled instead of booted.

But if I don't even give Straight Talk a try, I'll never know if I can get away with only paying $45 per month.

My price on Sprint was $80 per month, so my savings for Straight Talk would be $35 per month and $420 per year which means I get the latest Nexus every year if Google keeps their $399 pricing model. Not to mention that phones do have a resale value, so if the resale value is $150, it's really $570.

No contract means a new phone every year from the savings alone, and I get to keep $170 extra in my pocket.

Even if Straight Talk doesn't work out, the $60 2GB is still $240 in savings every year, and with the phone's resale value, I can still muster up a new Nexus every year from the savings alone.

As soon as people figure this out, the contact model will die.

Sent from my CM9 GSM Unlocked Photon.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] housry23:
The problem is, it will take a long time for people to move over to this kind of thing. I mean the Nexus is only $400, but when it comes out brand new, it will be a lot more. I don't think Google will be selling future Nexus phones this cheap. They didn't put the Galaxy Nexus on the Play Store until after it had been out for quite some time. Don't get me wrong. I hope that Google will put the phone on the Play store for $400. Even $500. Hell, even if I were to pay $700 for a brand new phone off contract, I would still save money. I am planning on going to the T-Mobile $30 Pre-Paid plan. This plan is only available online and is not for everyone. It gives you 100 minutes talk, unlimited text and 5GB data. There is another T-Mobile prepaid plan for $30 that has more minutes, but hardly any data.

If you don't do much talking on the phone, then the $30 plan is great. Right now I am paying Verizon $104 per month for 450 Talk, unlimited text and 4GB of data. This is after fees and everything. So, I would save around $70 a month. That's $840 a year and $1680 per contract. You still have to pay $300 for the top tier smatphones at VZW even when signing a new contract. I paid $150 for mine through Amazon. So, if I buy a phone outright for let's say $600, that's $450 more than buying one on contract. Subtract that from the 1680 and you have saved $1230 over 2 years. This is more than enough to buy yourself another phone or 2 in that time period, plus the resale value of the phone.

Hopefully more people start to figure this out and this thread is only a beginning. It would be nice to get the message out to more people via news channel or some other big media channel, but most people only think of the big savings they get on the phone up front. They don't think in terms of being stuck in contract, paying double or triple what you could pay if on a month to month plan.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] scoobdude:
I also have a photon. Keeping it as my back up. I had also just bought my wife the genes on sprint. So she is staying there for now. But we both have a gnex so that is the good part.

But since you will be using your photon, the St plan you will want is with att which from the tidbits I have gotten, say attention is the one to kick you off more for data usage. But if you go with T-Mobile coverage your phone will not get the heap speeds(photon is limited to 14.4 I think)

Either way I think you will be happier data wise than you were with sprint.

IMHO T-Mobile on edge was still better than sprint. Also did you get the boot up signal delay to go away? I still need to go in and rename those 2 files. The photon is an awesome phone for anyone reading this coming from sprint.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dsparil:
The $30 plan is too limited for me. I need more than 100 minutes and I need more than 30mb for the other $30 plan.

I'll try the $45 unlimited straight talk plan, and keep my data under 2GB to avoid getting booted.

This is probably the best I will get.

Sent from my CM9 GSM Unlocked Photon.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dsparil:
I still have the boot signal delay. What two files do I need to rename? And yes, T-Mobile on edge is better than Sprint.

Sent from my CM9 GSM Unlocked Photon.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] scoobdude:
I posted a link to it in the GSM thread. If not search for bypass activation or something like that.

Also for minutes, remember that you can put a reserve in your account and if you go over that 100 it will be 10 cents a min. So if you do the the mobile plan and added 15 bucks that would give you an extra 150 minutes. Plus you keep the change. And its 5GB not a mystery number. But I still say you should go with St since the photon does not support T-Mobile 3g. But soon it will as they ate moving their 3g to 1900 by the end of the year or something.

Also in the GSM thread someone mentioned booting it different in the boot loader. But I only got revolts doing that and then had to fight through normal boot a few times to get data again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xdp:
Yeah, you can find some benefits here and there if you're willing to put in the work. You can maybe even get great new phones like the Galaxy S III for $200 on contract (if you don't mind that) and turn them into AOSP devices. But as you pointed out, the landscape changes, things need attention and updating, and it's sometimes hard to identify what's really better. If a ROM gets me additional useful life out of my device 2+ years from now, that's great, but I don't want to have to put the time into that as soon as I buy the device. This is why I prefer Nexus devices now and the stock ROM. Unlocking the bootloader and rooting is a decision I can make over time depending on my needs. Right now, the main thing I was concerned about was the LED, so I don't see an immediate need to root just yet.

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I've been giving this some thought as I've gone through this transition. Obviously the post-paid plans offer you more (LTE, 2 or 3 GB of guaranteed data), and that might tempt some people. The more I think about it though the more I realize how unnecessary it is to consume that much mobile data. You just have to get creative. For example, if you like to stream music in your car on your way to work, you can just pin large amounts of music from Play Music for offline listening, or use something like Slacker Radio (way better than Pandora, far less ads), pay for their Plus subscription ($4/month) and cache stations for offline listening. Some people may want to stream a lot of Netflix or YouTube and for them post-paid might be necessary. But I like the idea of going pre-paid, being smart about my usage, and saving money.

Then there's the Nexus. You're right that the next one will probably not be $400 from day one. I believe the Nexus One was $529 when it was new. But who needs it on day one? A lot of us are just buying the GNex now and it's still an awesome device well worth purchasing. The One X and SGSIII aren't even that much better, just higher MP cameras and slightly faster SoCs. So you can always just wait 6 months or so and get it for ~$400 (hopefully). It's tough to get people to look at this option since most people just walk into the store and pick up a phone they like with a contract.

The one unknown for the future is LTE. I am no in hurry for it with solid HSPA+ speeds, but people will want it more and more moving forward, and it's not clear when pre-paid might offer it. Even when they're ready to, we'd have to have unlocked devices that support it (as opposed to the carrier-specific LTE devices we see today). Who knows when that might happen.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] scoobdude:
Looking at my usage pandora will consume about 20mb an hour. Plus there is an apk for it themed to ics and no ads + unlimited skips. Now just need to find the most up to date one or one that also sends Meta data. That would be awesome.

In regards to data usage I am at 700 MB at 10 days in. That is with 200 from a fresh rom restore (apps and such). I only used about 500 a month on sprint. But now that I can d/l podcasts ota in seconds in stead of minutes my usage is higher. On sprint a 4MB file would take 20 minutes. So if you had slow speeds before be sure to take into account the fact you will be able to utilize the new speeds.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tmst:
I am aware of that. But my SSH session was interrupted and

E/3G/H icon disappeared. (Still have voice connectivity, of course.)

It was most likely caused by intermittent data connectivity from ATT/ST.

T-Mo's data connection seems to be more stable than ATT/ST, at least in Chicago anyway.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mr.Mischief:
I'm on T-Mobile's $30 a month plan. I use about 150 minutes a month, but my parents pay for the plan, so I only have to pay for the extra minutes. My Galaxy Nexus arrives this week!

Nice writeup!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] reuthermonkey:
Interesting. T-Mobile is known for being one of the only carriers that consistently uses a full-rate voice codec while other carriers use a half-rate codec for their voice.

Yeah, disabling the proxy in the APN should take care of this. Really, there's no reason to have anything but an MMSC proxy in your APN settings. EDIT: Ahh yeah or that nanny setting in my.tmobile.com... forgot about that.

Awesome - great to see multi-month reviews on these services. They paint a much clearer picture than the 1-week, etc. short period reviews.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Meflakcannon:
You answered all of my questions and have been enormously helpful. I will be ordering my new Google Nexus and getting this all setup later this week. Thank you very much!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Correct on the throttle. Everything is still normal.

I'll work on finding a hard number on Net 10.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shev7chenko:
I have two GNs coming in tomorrow for me and my wife. I am on virgin and was having a hard time deciding between the Evo V 4g for virgin or the Galaxy Nexus on simple mobile.

Even though I knew the GN was better I did not want to increase my monthly bill and T mobile coverage is not the best in my area although it is not bad.

So it was either Pay $299.99 plus tax for the Evo V (Two of them actually, wife is done with her sprint contract) and $58 a month on virgin

or

I could buy two GNs and get on the $60 simple mobile or $70 t mobile pre paid plans. This however was not financially feasible and my wife did not want to spend that much money on the phone and only save $5 a month over her current sprint plan $75 (employee discounts) and said she would just keep her phone (HTC Hero)

Then I discovered Straight Talk sim program and $45 so then I explained that to my wife and she was onboard with saving $30 a month and so the phone purchase was justified.

I then decided to research before making the switch and googled "Galaxy Nexus straight talk sim" and all the results were positive and this thread was the final deciding factor.

I am glad we are making the switch since I do like the fact that whenever I go to Mexico for family reasons I can use a sim from Tel-cel and have service over there.

Best of all is that I was going to buy a new phone anyway (Evo V 4G aka Evo 3d) and the GN was $100 more however with the money I save $58 on virgin to $45 on ST in 8 months I will have made up the difference all while enjoying a better service than sprint. I will have a phone that works anywhere I go (mexico) and it will have better resale value due to it being unlocked pentaband GSM based.

Oh and we are using ATT sims since we both prefer coverage over data speeds. T mobile is faster but less coverage in our area. (But if the coverage isn't what we are expecting then we can switch)

Can't wait till tomorrow and then our sims come in on Wednesday.

Oh and I have been on prepaid services for almost 4 years. First with boost (both iDen/and CDMA) then onto virgin for the last two and I must say even though the speeds suck (compared to other carriers) my LG Optimus V handled everything I threw at it and never let me down.

So if I have been "happy" with my Optimus V for two years I can't even imagine how much happier I will be with my Galaxy Nexus.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] harveydent:
Congrats! The Galaxy Nexus will be a big step up from the Optimus V
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ficklecycler:
Just wanted to point out something since some people don't realize it...

If you are considering the $30/mo 5gb Tmobile plan, but need more minutes, you can buy 150 more minutes by the time you reach the price of the Straight Talk plan. That would net you 250 minutes which is more reasonable. For some that still won't be enough, but you are getting a much more generous helping of data with the Tmo plan.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shev7chenko:
Yeah I bet! Can't wait.

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Although you make a good point, I am currently with Virgin Mobile and have unlimited minutes and my monthly usage ranges from 2300 minutes to 3800 minutes. Texts are in the 225 to 450 range and data although it was unlimited before was capped recently and I have never been over the cap so to me and my wife the $45 Straight Talk plan made more sense.

I do know some family (younger cousins) who don't even use more than 250 minutes but use much more texts and data and for them those plans are awesome!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
38 - 63 hours a month on the phone? wtfmate?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shev7chenko:
Yeah I never had an idea of how much I used my phone before for work. When I switched to virgin I wanted to reduce my phone bill so I went with the 1200 minute plan from virgin and did not last long before I went over. I used to get my phone bill payed by my old employer but not at my new job yet. I do have a phone in my office however I am usually away from my desk so I use my phone for work related purposes as well as personal.

Although I don't think I will be over 2800 minutes anymore where I currently work but I do know that 1200 would not cut it for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ficklecycler:
Exactly! Glad that you've found one that will work for you. Ditch the contract!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nagle3092:
I just went from a V to the Nexus also man. Its one hell of a jump.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] darkfire2024:
Could a kind fellow be able to distinguish the different color levels of coverage of T-Mobiles maps? I find the very similar shades of magenta hard to determine which area has strong data signal.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Via this page?: http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-coverage

It's pretty simple. If you zoom out a bit, the differences between the colors/areas are a bit more apparent. 2G is Voice only / EDGE service. 3G is UMTS. 4G (available/good) is HSPA+. There are probably few areas where you get 3G and not HSPA+. It's usually either HSPA+ or just EDGE.

Most major cities and highways are blanketed in HSPA+ coverage, and your only issues will be in buildings (high mhz spectrum is tough to penetrate buildings with). You'll quickly move out to EDGE in the country / farther in the suburbs usually.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shev7chenko:
Nice!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] brianbgrp:
In my area.....sprint 3g speeds are no better than edge speeds. So took the plunge and going with TMobile wal mart plan...IM in a full 4g area at home and work with it according to the map....so just gotta get it setup now. Going to t mobile after work to get the Sim kit!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] godefoy:
see u sprint, ordered my unlocked nexus from play store and giving ST a try
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tycruickshank:
There's something I recently discovered that works very well if you want some extra minutes for cheap. ICS has built in SIP support which is very nice. I find having a sip client the calls are much clearer than using a voip app like line2 or something else. I'm using call centric and you just have to set up an outgoing number and then you have to set it up so you can receive calls. Its around 2 cents per minute if you don't have a monthly plan and I find that its worth it for me to pay because the quality seems to be better.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thebobp:
I had that, until I realized google voice beat your 2 cents by being completely free (in the US/Canada). However, you need a custom client for that (groove ip is $5, there might be others).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
More difficult than I thought. After numerous dead ends, a couple reps and more noncommittals than I care to shake a stick at? 150 MB Per Day, then they shut off your phone until the next day. This is a soft cap, anything over will almost trigger a flag. Do I trust the person who gave the number? Not especially. But it fits with the general vagueness surrounding these MVNO's. Take the number with a grain of salt. It's definitely under Straight Talk though, I will stake my word on that. I've seen people chug up more and be booted for less. Hope that helps somebody.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] killabee44:
I like that GV is free, but a SIP option is always good in case GV is having issues for some reason... Any good write-ups on how to set it up? Thanks.

Edit: Found an official guide here:

http://support.google.com/ics/nexus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1645041
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Cabal_:
Worth noting that most MVNOs spell out exactly what their data limits are and don't care how you use them (streaming, tethering, etc), they just shut you off (or throttle in T-Mobile's case) after you reach it. It's really only the TracFone subsidiaries playing this "unlimited" game.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xdp:
Are there AT&T MVNOs that have these sort of explicit terms? Only one I know of is Red Pocket. It would be nice to find one with explicit data limits (of at least a gig) with Straight Talk-level pricing.

T-Mobile consistently tempts me, but just don't know if I can rely on Groove IP enough (to save minutes) as well as their data coverage (much spottier than AT&T).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Goodfella80:
Groove IP is somewhat unreliable due to latency & echo issues. I find callcentric to be more reliable even during the few times I've used it on 3g/HSPA. I still use Groove IP every now & then but only on wifi.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] reuthermonkey:
Out of curiosity, does anyone here use Skype in conjunction with the $30/mo T-Mobile plan?

You can get unlimited outgoing Skype calls for $2.99/mo and get an incoming Skype number (which you could direct Google Voice to ring at) for $5/mo. So a toltal of $38/mo.

Not free, but still cheaper than the $45 StraightTalk plan.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] scoobdude:
Keep these ideas and experiences rolling in.

Again thanks for this.

On a side note has anyone been succesful getting a sim kit from att