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[Galaxy S III General] RMXO:
A few wks ago, I got a text from AT&T stating that I went over my data limit & I checked my ATT account online to see whats up. It showed that I had a non-smartphone & 100mb data plan. I've been on a grandfathered unlimited plan forever & I had to call ATT to get my old plan back. It took over a hour to get things straighten out.
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
Honestly this didn't need to become a new thread, same stuff seems to be discussed in the benefits of att international I9300 thread.
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
No, once you call in they will see you are on an old dumb phone. Tell them you want the unlimited data plan for it. If they ask for an IMEI number, just give them the one from the phone you are calling in with.

After they set up the plan, take the SIM out and put it in your GS3. Good to go.

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I agree.
[Galaxy S III General] BoostedSR20:
I've been on the $10 plan for almost 2 years. I had them change it at my local store. No problems. I got the AT&T One X, switched to a normal plan. Got my GS3, went back in and had them switch me back to the $10 plan. They knew, they laughed, all was well.

Go to a store. If they ask to see your phone, you don't have it with you, its a generic flip phone. Done.
[Galaxy S III General] dieselfatal:
update:

I seriously think AT&T is catching up on this trick. I spent one hour on the phone with a lady who knew what she was doing. She put my device under UNKNOWN made sure I had data for non smart phones and we did everything and no connection. The only time I was able to connect was when she applied data for a smartphone. She tested out $5 50mbps of data and as soon as she applied this it worked. Since I'm on a prepaid goblin I had to get 1.GB for $25 unless I sort this out....what should I do....buy old at&t phone...get a new sim card and use it then put it in .gs3? I think as soon as u put sim card in on a smartphone it will detect. I can't pay $75 a month and get 1.GB of data
[Galaxy S III General] rAmO1984:
Make sure your APN settings are correct, the fact that the "smartphone" plan worked but not the dumbphone sounds highly suspicious of this.
[Galaxy S III General] cmd512:
It's only happening to you, the "sky is falling" bit is somewhat played, don't you think?

For next time:

1) Have an old POS flip phone sitting around to call in with. Or if that's not possible, call in from a different line with your international smartphone shut off. When they ask you about the "other phone" just tell them you're at work and don't have it handy, not a huge deal.

2) Stop handing out your international smartphone IMEI like candy on Halloween. We know their network can scan it, but why the heck would you go waving it around? You might just end up with that one CSR who knows a thing or two.

Good luck.
[Galaxy S III General] BarryH_GEG:
The first 5-7 chararcters of the IMEI identify the make and model of the phone. They always have.

"The IMEI (14 decimal digits plus a check digit) or IMEISV (16 digits) includes information on the origin, model, and serial number of the device. The structure of the IMEI/SV are specified in 3GPP TS 23.003. The model and origin comprise the initial 8-digit portion of the IMEI/SV, known as the Type Allocation Code (TAC). The remainder of the IMEI is manufacturer-defined, with a Luhn check digit at the end."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mobile_Equipment_Identity

Prepaid accounts are billed and tracked through seperate servers and administrative systems. So what's happening with prepaid plans may not have any impact on post-paid plans.

The $50 plan was never intended to be used with a smartphone. If it has been abused it makes sense AT&T would start monitoring devices on the prepaid network.

Access the Web, email, Facebook, social networks, and more! Data packages are available with the $50 Unlimited Monthly Plan and the $25 Monthly Plan.

Smartphone users must purchase a data package with an eligible plan to use data/Web services

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$25 for 1 GB

$15 for 200 MB

$5 for 50 MB
[Galaxy S III General] imnothimm:
Maybe that's the reason why?

He's not the only one its happening to me as well. I thought I just messed something up on the phone
[Galaxy S III General] cmd512:
Not too good with reading the actual posts in the threads you reference, huh? :)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27979880&postcount=518
[Galaxy S III General] lunercrab:
Mines been working fine all week. But I never gave them the s3s ime number. Gave them one off a samsung cheap phone. I hope they don't catch on the whole reason I got the international was to say 40 month on service. If they do ill just have to get the att version I guess. Oh btw I'm on a postpaid family premier account.
[Galaxy S III General] imnothimm:
I'm sorry, I didn't realize the OP Said he called ATT today to set up his plan..

Oh ****.. You mean he didn't say that?

But wait, doesn't that mean that your post that was made today in your quote would be irrelevant in this matter?

Yes....
[Galaxy S III General] davidstech11:
You could always do what millions of other honest people do and pay for the data plan there smartphone needs. Or you can keep lying hoping to save money. Me, I just pay for a data plan. If I can't afford it I guess I can't have it. I'm not going to keep trying to think of a way to cheat the system.
[Galaxy S III General] cmd512:
Note my original post above on this matter said "Next Time: <Recommendation>"

Reading comprehension, tough for some I know.
[Galaxy S III General] imnothimm:
To be fair though you said...

Then you referenced one particular post...

I pointed out that the post was written today and would be irrelevant to those of us who did this a week ago

Then you said

And now I point out that my original points are still valid.

1. The OP of the other thread expressly lists giving att your imei as a step.

2. Your posts MADE TODAY were not there a week ago or even a day ago when most of us set this up with ATT. (I guess you just have eagle eye hindsight?)

And last but not least a counter to your last post...

Your "Original post above on this matter" would have no bearing in our argument because it was also written today. Not 1 week (or even 1 day) ago when most of us set this up...:highfive:

Hey, 2. and the Last one look awfully similar.....
[Galaxy S III General] Quist:
Need a ladder for that horse?

Some of us have plenty of money to pay for a contract, but may not have a credit history or might not want to have to do a credit check to get one. Much less have any desire to tie ourselves up to a binding contract.

Another thing on this front is that AT&T try and sell something as "unlimited data" and then qualify that in a crummy way - it's only on a dumb phone (how the he%l can you use more than a few hundred MB on a dumb phone in a month so why would it be such a boon to pay so much for it if you can't even use it? They're painting a skunk black and selling it as a cat.).

Ah, but they have data packages for smartphones you say, why don't you just get that you say? Well, if a prepaid customer pays say $25 for 1Gb, shouldn't he or she be able to have full access to what the phone and network provide? OK, maybe LTE speeds are something special, but at the very least, we should be able to get 3G speeds since we are paying a premium for data on prepaid. Not on AT&T, oh no, AT&T slows our service down to differentiate it from contract subscribers, only they don't actually say so.

When I signed up in the AT&T store for prepaid service with my international SGSII last year, I was told I would be getting the same data service as subscribers. I was up front with what the phone was and was willing to pay for the data package. They even made sure to give me info on the various APNs. I get home a little while later and find out that I can only connect to the Medianet APN not to the Phone APN, in contrast to what the store told me. OK, I thought, whatever. But as time goes by, I began to realize that my data speeds were at best half of what they should have been given coverage.

Now with my SGS3, I've got two prepaid SIMs, one with a smartphone data package and one with the dumbphone "unlimited data". In a poor coverage area, I get almost 2mbps down and almost that up on the dumbphone plan. Exact same location, same phone, same APN, but with the smartphone data feature package, I am lucky if I get 500kbps down and 300kbps up. WTF?!

So for those of us who are "playing by the rules," or "being honest" as you say, are getting screwed behind our back by good ole honest AT&T. We're paying extra so they can both cap our data volumes and our data speeds.

I would jump to T-Mobile in a heartbeat, but dodgy EDGE speeds would handicap the phone entirely.
[Galaxy S III General] davidstech11:
If getting the data plan screwed me with data speeds I would have to go another route myself. So if you paid say, $30 to AT&T for 3GB you should get your data WITHOUT being throttled or poor data speeds. But if it is, I would be upset too.
[Galaxy S III General] ceo.mtcl:
^^I think this is the case.^^

Using the phone from expansys and everything is fine.
[Galaxy S III General] nexo85:
Why not get a plan from redpocket? Its an ATT MVNO after all.
[Galaxy S III General] dieselfatal:
I thiught Straight Talk was. Can someone confirm if user would get unlimited data with either one of these...
[Galaxy S III General] Quist:
That's the thing. For AT&T prepaid on a smartphone, the $25/1GB data package is the best you can get for data. And that only works by combining it with (a) a $50 prepaid package that is already supposed to come with "unlimited calls/texts/data", only the data part is null-and-void if you have a smartphone, for a grand total of $75/month, or (b) a $25 package with 250 calling minutes and unlimited texts for a grand total of $50/month.

The latter deal is OK if you call out or get calls very rarely and are prepared to watch data consumption and wait for your downloads. Minute overages cost the same as the included minutes (10 cents/minute), so a seldom-if-ever caller might get by on $50-$60/month.

Still, I think it is utterly dishonest of AT&T to throttle the speeds on the prepaid data packages. The "unlimited data" on non-smartphone accounts is dubious at best, but they are up-front about it from the beginning. The speed throttling they apply to GoPhone prepaid accounts to make them slower than the Medianet post-paid accounts is fraud because they don't give any indication of doing so before people sign up and I have yet to hear of any official announcement that they admit to doing so.

Given their dishonesty in that regard, I have no qualms about playing the system if it gives me the speeds I thought I was paying for and they told me I should be getting. On the other hand, I'm dumbfounded that they didn't pay a few hundred bucks for a full IMEI list or instigated other network monitoring measures to back their dubious policies up. I mean, how likely is it that a dumbphone can download a large amount of data in a short period of time at 6+ mbps? Or how many dumbphones actually have full html browsers, voip capabilities, video streaming or any of the other tell-tale network signs that would give a smartphone away?

Anyway, not sure what the other AT&T-network prepaid providers offer, but I would be surprised if they weren't speed handicapped too.

Again, T-Mobile is great for prepaid, but pretty much only Nokia phones have penta-band WCDMA that work on their 3G network in the international smartphone arena.
[Galaxy S III General] lovem:
Re: I strongly believe AT&T is cracking down UNLIMITED DATA FOR NON SMARTPHONES trick

Simply put, AT&T is now getting the imei numbers to device offered internationally, especially after they get the device. After month of them getting the galaxy note 2, I began to receive the text around the start 9f my bill cycle that I was upgraded to a smartphone data plan--the 3gb for $30. I just called them back and told them I was not using a smartphone but the last non-smartphone I had and to reinstate the $10 unlimited data plan. I will not pay $30 for capped data usage. They are aware of seeing the imei number and determining the model number, one csr even looked on the internet to see the model number shown in there system was the equivalent to the n9te to model number.
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
Yes, they finally got me too. But, I went to an International Galaxy S II and haven't been flagged. That was two months ago.
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
Re: I strongly believe AT&T is cracking down UNLIMITED DATA FOR NON SMARTPHONES trick

Surely they should realize there's a market for unlimited data on smart phones they could make a fortune.

The only reason to not allow it is they can't keep up with capacity which in 2013 is a poor excuse, they just don't want to pay to upgrade their network to that extent
[Galaxy S III General] ThePublisher:
They got me

Just put my SIM in a s4 i9500 international today. 5 hours later I received an email from AT&T saying I had been 'upgraded' to a smartphone data plan. Has this happened to anyone else? My international s3 and s2 were never recognized.

Any way to fix this and keep the phone? I'm not trying to pay $20 more a month for capped data.
[Galaxy S III General] Geordie Lad:
All I can say is I'm freaking glad I don't live in US because in UK I'm using Three Mobile £15 all you can eat data plan and I regularly tether which isn't supposed to be allowed, and one month I used 58gb and I've never had so much as a warning for my use, and as far as I know they've never barred anyone for excessive use.

And you'd think America would be leading the way with phones but they a long way behind us.
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Actually they're a long way ahead of us if you look at it from the perspective "what else can we charge this guy for?"
[Galaxy S III General] Geordie Lad:
All that proves is the image that Brits don't like complaining is false, Because Americans are paying easily twice what we are for call charges and seem to accept that's just all they get.
[Galaxy S III General] jinosong:
They know about the I9500 now. It actually shows up as that exact model on their computers. Their system is much smarter than before. No more free riding. That is unless you switch IMEI numbers.
[Galaxy S III General] adobian:
anything galaxy or nexus seems to be in their database despite the version.

I would find a way to root the phone and do something about the IMEI has jinosong said.
[Galaxy S III General] beaudolphin:
My brother just switched to GS4 international version about 1 month ago. He had been using the non-smartphone data plan. He used for about a month and now they switched to smartphone data plan. He hasn't been contacted the ATT yet. is there anyway that he can switch back to the non-smartphone data plan??please help. I would appreciate it. so ATT can detect the international version smartphone now??? :(
[Galaxy S III General] kaynpayn:
Ever since the early days of the nokia 3210 I had this solid idea the operator could tell what phone you were using from your imei. I was always convinced there's a specific algorithm to calculate imei's and one of the inputs would be something specific to the model of the phone. I remember calling different operators, telling them some imei and they'd be able to tell me what phone it belonged to. I also remember unlocking some nokias with some code calculator software and it would guess what model I was trying to unlock just by inputing the imei.

I have no other proof of this and may actually be totally wrong but I always thought that's how it works because of this.

With this mindset it comes of no surprise they're able to tell. I'm from Portugal though.

Also, as far as ripoffs for internet on a phone go it should be rather hard to beat my country - it's fkin expensive and there's no unlimited plan to use on a phone. At best we have an unlimited one to use with an external modem like a hotspot router. Sure you can use it on a phone if you can live with not being able to call or text, just internet. And even so, their unlimited plan only goes so far as 15gb (up+downloads). More than that and they consider abusive and slow (even more) your connection to dialup speeds so you can't "abuse" until next month. Last time I checked this unlimited plan costed 35euros/month on a 2 year contract.

Im stranded on a 80mb/week for 2 euros/week until something better comes along.

That was all for 3g. Sure we have fully functional 4g, if you don't mind prohibitive prices.
[Galaxy S III General] theronkinator:
I thought it was obvious networks could see what phone you are using. When I was with O2-UK even years back their system showed what phone I was using online even when it was a phone from another operator that I unlocked myself.

Same, I'm on Virgin Mobile, £12 sim only 30 day contract, 1200 mins, unlimited texts, 1gb data, rang them up after two months said I wanted unlimited data like my old O2 contract had, but I didn't want to pay more, they switched me to unlimited data still for £12 a month, some people pay even less. PayG (or prepay as they call) in the US charges you to receive calls as well.
[Galaxy S III General] ThePublisher:
AT&T can detect the international S4 now. Same thing happened to me. I'm surprised he got to use it for a month. I was 'upgraded' after only a few hours of my SIM being in the i9500.

He can switch back to the non-smartphone if he changes back to a non-smartphone and calls 611, tell them the non-smart IMEI number and they'll set it back. The last phone that worked for me on the non-smart plan was the International S3. However, some people were flagged on that phone as well.

If you could change the IMEI that registered on the network when you put your SIM in the phone to a non-smart IMEI, that would probably trick the system. But I have no idea how you would be able to do that type thing.
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[Droid Incredible Android Development] withbloodskies:
I didn't get to read it all.. but this does what exactly?

Sounds like it just gives you tablet access with sizing?