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[Galaxy S III General] Racer447:
Yes. Did it about a week ago and so far so good.
[Galaxy S III General] Cdjones187:
I tried this the first day I got the GT-I9300 (eur BTU). The phone actually showed up as a blackberry on their system at first and I told them it wasn't a blackberry at all but a samsung flip phone. They apologized for the mix up and manually changed over to the 'dumb' phone plan. A few days later I receive a message saying something a long the lines of "Did you know, your smartphone needs to have a data plan, we have switched you over to the......" Switched me back to the 3gb plan automatically. When I looked online it actually shows a blank phone with model GT I9300 next to it.. So it only took a few days for the system to update, and this was almost a month before AT&T even had the phone.

So I guess its a hit and miss. Probably recognized because of multiple euro 9300s being used on their network, who knows.

Bad part is now, I'm in an area with NO at&t service so all I get is edge. If I were to change my plan to the 300mb a month I would lose my rollover and extra night and weekend minutes. Just about to cancel AT&T and go to prepaid service for unlimited everything at half the price.
[Galaxy S III General] gadget069:
Ok, looking at taking this step yet I'm on a different provider (straight talk), I have an old Motorola ATT flip phone I could use the imei from. I want to port my number over so this may make it more complicated. Suggestions?
[Galaxy S III General] james11417:
How long did it take to show up? Mine still shows up as generic. Picture related.

Anyway, I just got my i9300. I've been on medianet for around 1.5 years on a samsung vibrant no problems. Cut my SIM card a few hours ago already had it on my phone for 2 hours now. My at&t account still shows up generic and so far no messages. I don't know how long it will take for them to recognize me. Some people say a few hours, some say a few days. My phone came with German instructions.
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
Mine still shows up as the old RAZR that I used to activate the MediaNet plan with 2 years ago. :)
[Galaxy S III General] james11417:
I was asking him since his was caught by AT&T! :P I assume yours hasn't been caught? I used the online option to put medianet on my phone 1.5 yrs ago. I hope I don't get the text message! Keeping original screen protector just in case I need to return it! haha

What's the best ROM for this that's not CM?
[Galaxy S III General] ceo.mtcl:
Word of advise : please done ask this question anywhere else in xda ;)

I use check rom as my daily driver. Right now on leaked jb rom.

☞ sent from GS3 or Nexus
[Galaxy S III General] MattMJB0188:
One last question for me and then I'm good. If I were to use my new GSIII with my existing unlimited smartphone plan, and then later on decided to try this method would it still work? Or would they just associate the IMEI with a smartphone the second I pop in my iPhone 4S sim card into it and have that smartphone plan active?
[Galaxy S III General] ceo.mtcl:
You are safe as long as you just plug in your iPhone sim card into gs3 and don't tell them/call them at all.

In this way they will have your iPhone imei in the system.

In case you want to switch it to media net then you can safely follow the process in second post anytime.

PS: them = AT&T
[Galaxy S III General] sumeet909:
Any tablets that work on MediaNet? Perhaps some of the T-Mobile ones?
[Galaxy S III General] katinatez:
Question for CEO.MTCL

So I read the entire thread but before reading I had already decided to purchase the International I9300. This thread just re-enforced my decision for the reasons of unlocked bootloader, unlocked Sim, Dev support.

Just received my I9300 today still considering doing the media net unlimited but like many before me have posted don't want to lose the grandfathered unlimited plan. But what I did do is took a sim cutter, cut my current sim into a micro sim and installed it in my I9300. Then checked my AT&T account and I have a generic picture phone, which tells me the system does not recognize the phone. Also have an old Samsung Eternity phone I placed my sim in yesterday because I knew the I9300 would arrive today. And checked my AT&T account and it recognized my Samsung Eternity phone but could not find the media net unlimited option. Was highly considering doing this without calling AT&T representatives. And changing data plan without talking to anyone. Another reason for doing this is because I am considering going to StraightTalk anyways so if I lose my unlimited plan I will just jump ship to new carrier, all our phones are now all Sim unlocked.

Quick question at the beginning of your thread you had posted screen shots of the I9300 with all 4 CPU working. How do I get this up and running or where can I find the settings. Or was that an app? and whats the name of the app?
[Galaxy S III General] BarryH_GEG:
Any international 3G tablet will work. I've used it on a UK G-Tab previously and now a 3G Note 10.1. The T-Mobile Galaxy Tab 10.1 has AT&T's bands and should work if it's unlocked. Whether they catch it or not is an unknown. I've never heard anything either way.
[Galaxy S III General] crash6x86:
Just jumped ship from AT&T to straight talk, so far so good. It's running h+ no problems except for setting up the apn, which was a joke. I went with straight talk because I can get a discount from the calling cards, had no problems with att and them detecting my i9300...
[Galaxy S III General] gadget069:
You have to watch straight talk though, you start creeping up to2gig of data they'll throttle you. That's why I was looking at stitching and going with medianet. And straight talk as far as I know doesn't care what phone you use with the byop program, accept for blackberries.
[Galaxy S III General] ceo.mtcl:
There is no setting for enabling four processors. They are already enabled by default in the default governor for stock kernel.

The app that I'm using is system panel.

I've shown that pic in op because looo...on time back when the US version of phone was not out, many friends on this forum were saying that android never uses all four cores and US version will be more smoother. This picture was just a proof for them.

☞ sent from GS3 or Nexus
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
So is there any benefit from switching from Straight Talk to AT&T prepaid? I have an i9300. The only thing I dislike about Straight Talk is that "Unlimited Data" means I can be cut off for any reason at any moment. So I ported my number to Google Voice and use the Voice app to text and call. I pay about $50 after taxes a month.
[Galaxy S III General] gadget069:
I've had Gophone, they claim that most 4g phone don't play nice with Gophone accounts. I used my i9100 with Gophone account without any issues for awhile, then had issues sending mms. I've also heard from an ATT rep that they were going to be phasing out pre-paid service. Straight talk the internet seems to go down every now and then, but have good support. H2o and red pocket have absolutely horrible support, stay away.
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
I just wish there was no danger in porting my number directly. I hate using the Voice app to call/text. The only nice thing is being able to text from the web interface and having visual voicemail.
[Galaxy S III General] onmike:
I currently use i9300 on AT&T with medianet plan and I'm thinking of switching to Straight Talk. Although you only get 2GB of data with ST, bill is half which is more important to me.

As far as porting number this is where I'm undecided. I've been following a thread on another mobile forum and I don't see anybody loosing their number in a long long time. For those that did it was only after they received a warning call and repeated the same offense.
[Galaxy S III General] Racer447:
I would advise you not to do this. I just went back to medianet after a two month stint with straight talk. 2 things i noticed:

1) They do throttle you when you get up over 2gb. I was consistently recording 128k download speeds right before i bailed. And no, contrary to what you may read about it, deleting the proxy from the apn doesn't keep them from throttling you.

2) this isn't anything i can prove, but it seems that the AT&T data traffic got priority over the straight talk traffic (which would make sense). In busy areas (casino, concert, and on other occasions) my data would time out (with full signal) while a companion's at&t phone would have connectivity.

Just my $.02. :)
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
Pretty much my logic for thinking of switching to Medianet. What's the pricing difference?
[Galaxy S III General] onmike:
I'm not really concerned about 1. Before I dumped my unlimited plan I'd use over 7GB per month. I can get by on wifi most of the times though. Since usuing medianet I don't typically go to far over a GB.

2 I'm very concerned about and that's what is sort of holding me back. From what I've read ST data is routed differently. A lot of people even under the 2GB limit are talking about issues with data issues with ST, while ATT direct customers are not having issues. Even some with a ST and ATT phone are only having issues with the ST line in same place.

Was hoping to make a decision this week before my new cycle starts. May stick with ATT a bit longer at least to see how this plays out.
[Galaxy S III General] gadget069:
I would try and stay with ATT if possible. Straight talk is cheap, not sure if it's worth the hassle sometimes.

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I'm not sure what you mean danger of porting. Danger of ATT not being able to port it back, yes. Otherwise I've ported about 5 times between Gophone to H2o to red pocket to straight talk to H2o back to straight talk without any issues.
[Galaxy S III General] b-eock:
I would like to know if I can still get the unlimited data...

Here is how things went down, I ordered an Intl. Version of GS3 from Expansys-USA (GREAT BTW). I didn't have a micro sim card and didn't wanna risk messing up my old one by chopping it up. So I went to my local AT&T store and got a micro sim card, I think he copied down my IMEI so I would have to use a dumb phone (does an LG incite count? Maybe I can find a old razor or black berry lying around my house!)... So my question is can I use the LG incite's IMEI along with the current Micro SIM (which I got from my local AT&T store) (SKU 72290) and call to see if I can get the unlimited data?
[Galaxy S III General] Racer447:
The pricing difference is substantial. Straight talk was $48.xx per month (tax included), at&t $79.xx with the 450 minute package. But the frequent data outages on straight talk simply made it a non starter for me.
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
Oh well f*ck that then. Straight Talk it is. (student)
[Galaxy S III General] JKDLBC:
Has anyone thought about using Simple Mobile. I know they are using T-Mobile's network, but I've seen that AT&T phones can use their service.
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
On an I9300 you'll only have EDGE. Some AT&T phones that are pentaband can use Simple Mobile but otherwise you'll need an AWS band phone for anything above EDGE.
[Galaxy S III General] JKDLBC:
Thank you for the clarification. I guess now it's truly between low talk time on AT&T or Straight Talk, which doesn't seem to have good overall service.
[Galaxy S III General] sumeet909:
T-Mobile has gainEd rights to 1900Mhz network and they have been testing connectivity in some markets already, I don't know what the timelines are, but chances are you may already be under a 1900 MHz tower. There is a thread here where people report 1900 MHz sightings on T-Mobile. That might be a game changer as people with iPads/iPhones could pick up cheap TMO plans with 3G speeds.
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
Your mileage with Straight Talk will vary with where you are. If you live in an area where AT&T is heavily congested, yeah, you'll have ****ty service and have the chance of getting cut off by them for excessive data use. But if most of the people in your area don't have AT&T or the network is fine, they tend not to care. Hell I live in NYC and have gone a little over 2GB and nothing has happened to me. I know some people that tether and have gone all the way up to 7GB and nothing has happened.

I would go over to T-Mobile if:

1. They had decent coverage; even here in NYC, there are lots of areas with EDGE service, including my entire campus.

2. They were on 1900 MHz right now; being on 1700 MHz (AWS) severely limits the phones you can use with anything above EDGE.

Their $30 Walmart plan is appealing; 100 minutes, Unlimited texts, 5GB of data. I don't talk on the phone that much.
[Galaxy S III General] JKDLBC:
Thanks. I'll try to find out more about this.

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That is my concern, being that I'm in the LA area. I guess if it can work for you in NYC, it should work out here.
[Galaxy S III General] b-eock:
I don't usually do this but, bump. Anyone?
[Galaxy S III General] onmike:
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1) Regardless of what phone the micro sim was registered with. You may change the plan at any time as long as the new phone supports the plan you're looking for (I got micro sim with iPhone 4S which didn't support unlimited medianet, put SIM in i9300 and was able to add it, same with an old nokia phone I have).

2) From brief search the incite doesn't appear to require a data plan so you should just be able to put the sim in it and get the plan added.

I looks up pics real quick and it looks like you may be able to just place the micro sim in place to make it work temp with batt cover off. If you do that and call them should be set. I've done that once with an old Nokia.

If not you should still be able to call with just the IMEI and SIM.
[Galaxy S III General] foehammer92:
Which IMEI number did he copy down? Your intl s3's or the LG phone's IMEI? If he copied down the s3's IMEI, on your myAtt account did your phone update to a generic grey flip phone or to your s3? If it was your s3 on the myAtt account, then im afraid they were able to detect your s3 and there is most probably no way for you to get unlimited data via medianet :( If greyed out generic flip phone i can give you further instructions!
[Galaxy S III General] b-eock:
Dang, my S3 shows up. He got my S3's IMEI so I gotta wait for my next phone to screw over AT&T -_- Thanks anyway guys!
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
I think they're harvesting IMEIs to calculate them so they can detect non-AT&T phones.
[Galaxy S III General] ceo.mtcl:
They don't have to harvest. This information is available online for free.
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
The issue isn't in forcing smartphone data plans on smartphones; the issue is in the pricing. Every time I go to Europe, I notice people pay like 15-20 Euros on their phone bill. Hell, when I was in Berlin and Vienna, I was looking at T-Mobile and I noticed they give away the GS3 i9300 for free with a 30 Euro a month contract. Converting, that's about $38 a month. I asked someone about that and they were like, "No, no it's not worth it. That's very high." If they think $38 a month and a free GS3 is high, they'll **** their pants when they see how badly we get raped.
[Galaxy S III General] Mister_Mxyzptlk:
Just to add my experience, today I put my SIM card in a $10 GoPhone and walked into AT&T. I asked them to switch my $25/2GB plan to a dumbphone plan and the rep suggested the $10/unlimited plan. He updated my account and sent me on my way. In my car, I put the SIM back in my i9300 and updated the APN, and everything works great!! $10 unlimited data!!
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
I've been using the $10 Unlimited MediaNet ever since the International GS2 came out. Still works with my GS3 and One X (both unlocked International versions).

I swap between the two phones often and I've never had any problems.
[Galaxy S III General] FreddieP:
I searched this thread on 'Rogers' & 'Telus' and didn't see this question asked:

Could I buy an unlocked Rogers phone and get the unlimited non-smartphone rate on AT&T?

I think I'd like to get the S4/LTE/2GB RAM version of the phone (on Rogers) if it'd work with AT&T.
[Galaxy S III General] Product F(RED):
Yes. AT&T wouldn't have the IMEI number. If you decided to pay for the LTE plan, it should also work with that too.
[Galaxy S III General] MattMJB0188:
Well I pulled the trigger. I was surprised she offered me messaging and mobile to any mobile calling for only $10 plus the $10 media net. I was like SURE.

Anyway I can verify all the changes on my account. She said my dumb phone was showing up on her end but on mine it was not. I still saw my iPhone 4S. So I changed the device to a Samsung flip phone. It looks like mine but is not the exact one. Anyway, I want to know when I should pop my sim back in my GSIII?
[Galaxy S III General] MattMJB0188:
2 hours later and I'm now using my GSIII with an AT&T Microcell and I'm good. Went to the store and got 4Mb down, but that was during a busy time.

Hoping I don't get that dreaded AT&T text.
[Galaxy S III General] gadget069:
So what is everyone using for a dumb phone. I have a 10+ year old Motorola, inn sure it didn't have web capabilities. Is our wise to use a Samsung dumb phone?
[Galaxy S III General] MattMJB0188:
Go to Wal-Mart and buy the $20 Go Phone. Its a cheap Samsung flip phone but with "3G" capabilities. Their system will recognize it as a Go Phone and allow you to add the Media Net Plan to it.
[Galaxy S III General] foehammer92:
And if you keep the packaging all nice and new...you can even return it when you're done with it :P shhh i didn't tell you that though
[Galaxy S III General] ceo.mtcl:
Haha that's the trick out of my book ;)

☞ sent from GS3 or Nexus
[Galaxy S III General] foehammer92:
Well there you go, you heard it from ceo.mtcl himself so it wasn't my idea! :P

Also, I've been on my tmobile s3 for two weeks now and ive been fine! gobbling up data like it's nothing and couldn't be happier with this phone :D
[Galaxy S III General] ceo.mtcl:
That's amazing. I heard you guys got the leaks to the jelly bean.

☞ sent from GS3 or Nexus
[Galaxy S III General] MattMJB0188:
Nearly 24 hrs later and I'm pulling 6mbps down and not a word from AT&T. Only thing is my usage for the medianet plan still shows as 0 used. Forunately a generic flip phone shows on my account. Hopefully I'm good to go.
[Galaxy S III General] ceo.mtcl:
Congrats!
[Galaxy S III General] sumeet909:
Question is for how long. With MediaNet being publicized and recent T-Mobile phones containing ATT 3G frequencies, it's only a matter of time AT&T closes the lid on this. Only think that might prevent this thing from closing is AT&T customers who stream MobiTV type subscription apps. It's just a matter of reaching a threshold before it becomes visible on their dashboards.

Anyone using T-Mobile Galaxy Note? I was thinking of getting that, but was wondering if it will get ATT 3G frequencies w/out requiring flashing/modding.
[Galaxy S III General] MattMJB0188:
I don't think they will. However, anything is possible. I just hope I get to enjoy some time with a truly unlimited data plan. I previously came from the $30 smartphone plan and boy let me tell you how nice it is not having to worry about reaching 3GB. My speeds once were throttled to about 20kbps. Yeah. I'm betting that they revise their throttling policy to 3GB with LTE phones on the old grandfathered plan before they even give us a thought.
[Galaxy S III General] sumeet909:
Throttling with LTE is >5GB and only if you are in top 5% (whatever that means). I use 5- 10 GB and have never gotten throttled, but hey, I'm in DC area, so probably there're heavy data users in my area, that's why I've never gotten throttled. I use MediaNet for tethering on 2nd device, but keep it under 5GB, but I see some people here boasting 20-30GB.....they're going to get it shut for everyone. I'm about to get a Note 10.1 3G and then plan to put MediaNet SIM in that. As someone who has had both, I'd say I prefer LTE speeds because in my office where my signal is really weak, I can stream Netflix/Pandora, but it buffers on HSPA+. I have HTC Radar, Infuse 4G, HTC Titan II. But if I had choice to keep just 1, it would probably be my MediaNet plan. I'd like to think that AT&T has stopped haggling people for tethering on unlimited plan as well. I think they saw bulk of these people move to ST/T-Mobile etc. With tiered data plans, T-Mobile works for budget conscious people because they don't charge overage, they just throttle. So, if you go over 5GB, you'd still be able to check your email, run GPS, web browsing etc, where as on AT&T you get hit with $10 for every increment of 1 GB. Therefore, people tend to prefer T-Mobile billing model over AT&T as your chances of incurring overage are less.

Not for smart folks on this forum, there's always a way to flip your contract device for a profit, get MediaNet for $10 w/ family messaging for $20, and you got yourself a sweet deal and some change to buy a high-end unlocked device.

I repeat my question: Anyone using T-Mobile Galaxy Note on MediaNet? Can you confirm if you get HSPA+?
[Galaxy S III General] b-eock:
No its top 5% of users all over the US
[Galaxy S III General] MattMJB0188:
Your mistaken. AT&T throttles you no matter what if you hit 3GB on a 3G/HSPA+ plan or 5GB if your on an LTE plan. Doesn't matter where your at.

The medianet p,an isn't capped or throttled so technically one could use 100GB. Would that wave a flag to AT&T though? Ask the ones that have had this plan for a while m
[Galaxy S III General] FreddieP:
Will Bell version of S3 be unknown to AT&T?

A search of this thread for 'Bell' returned 0 hits...

Will the Bell version of the S3 (S4/LTE/2GB RAM) be unknown to AT&T?

I'm pretty keen on replacing my HOX w/ the Bell S3 (Negri is selling it for $559) and would like to know if its worth trying for the unlimited dumbphone plan on it.
[Galaxy S III General] Mister_Mxyzptlk:
If it's an I747 or I747M, then no. You will not be able to use it on dumbphone data.
[Galaxy S III General] FreddieP:
Would any else please chime in on this to verify? Earlier I asked the same question but about the Rogers S3 and was told Rogers would be unknown to AT&T. Its also an i747 model.
[Galaxy S III General] garyd9:
Staying on topic of the subject...

Another reason to use the international SGS3 (i9300) instead of a US (krait) variant:

With all the patent BS going on, Samsung is starting to strip features out of US versions of their phones to try and avoid having the SGS3 be the subject of a US patent issue.

However, as Samsung is having much better luck in courtrooms outside of the US, the international verions of the phones are being left full featured.

Take care

Gary
[Galaxy S III General] FreddieP:
What are some examples?
[Galaxy S III General] garyd9:
The search function in several of Samsung's US phones has been crippled in recent firmware updates: Instead of it searching stuff on the phone (messages, music tags, etc) as well as the internet, it's only searching the internet.

The international versions aren't being downgraded like this...
[Galaxy S III General] FreddieP:
In several US versions of the S3? Thankfully device search still works on my HTC One X.

I can't understand how Apple has patent on that when Palm had device search built in to the Palm OS over 20 years ago.
[Galaxy S III General] MattMJB0188:
Definitely off topic here but can someone explain why everyone and their mom has an iPhone at my University???? It's sickening. I only saw 1 yes 1 other Galaxy S III.

Still makes me smile knowing I'm the only one here with a truly unlimited data plan for only $10.
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
Most of my friends have iPhones too. Many have a lot invested in them and just don't want to switch. That and there are still many apps they use that just aren't available for Android yet.

Sent from my HTC One X