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[Nexus 7 General] AFAinHD:
Damn. I didn't know that. That's really some bs
[Nexus 7 General] UberSlackr:
Hey Mr. SmartyPants.. When you Select "Unlocked GSM Phone" when ordering a SIM from StraightTalk, you are ONLY giving the Option of a AT&T SIM (Micro or Standard.) - SO LIKE I SAID: to get a T-mobile SIM you have to select "T-Mobile Compatible Phone" - Do you get it know, or do I need to say it again?

I'm not confusing anything; I know what I'm talking about, do you? When you Order a SIM from StraightTalk it comes with an Activation Card. On that Activation Card is has a 15 Digit Number printed on it.. Just above the number it says "Enter This Number When Asked For Your Phone's SERIAL Number" (In this Case, when dealing with StraightTalk ... Serial Number = IMEI) - If you enter the IMEI from the back of the Device (Phone/Tablet) its not going to work!

It says right on the StraightTalk website "Please enter your phone's 15 or 18 digit Serial Number/IMEI/ MEID DEC below. Your Serial Number can be found in the Red Activation card that came in your phone's package." (It also says something about the SIM Card number, but that pointless, since the Number Printed on the Activation Card will be the SIM Card number, if you selected BYOP when ordering a SIM)

I have 4 Devices in my home, all running on StraightTalk service, Think I'm well aware of how it works..
[Nexus 7 General] AFAinHD:
You don't have to be such a jerk about it man.
[Nexus 7 General] phonic:
*sigh*.

Let me explain this one more time for you, and I'll type slower this time so hopefully you will understand it.

As I said before, when you chose "unlocked", Straight Talk will determine what SIM card to send you based on your market and what's best for them. Since you apparently are such an expert on their website, let me ask you this question:

What does Straight Talk ask you in between selecting a carrier (or unlocked) and prompting you to select the size of your SIM card?

Take your time, I'll wait for you to go look...........back yet?

That's right. They ask you for your ZIP CODE. And why do you think that they ask? To determine what MARKET you are in. Because, like I said, they will pick the carrier for you BASED on that answer.

Just because they happened to pick AT&T for you (and me) doesn't mean that the case 100% of the time. I had a friend who picked "unlocked" and received a T-Mobile SIM. And there are reports of that on Howard Forums too.

So you can apologize now for being not only incorrect, but a rude prick about it too.

Again, you are completely missing the point. Straight Talk is trying to cover all avenues with what it's asking for. Their Bring Your Own Device promotion is only a recent thing. In the past, you had to buy phones from them, including CDMA ones. So when it asks you for your "Serial/IMEI/MEID/etc." it means the one it cares about for your phone or plan. In the BYOD scenario, they care about the SIM card's serial number, or ICCID, like I said. They aren't asking for the IMEI, nor is that located on the packet you receive from them like you originally claimed:

IMEI and ICCID are two totally different things. Just because they ask for one of a list of possible items, again depending on the phone/plan you have, doesn't mean they all are equal.

0 for 2 buddy.
[Nexus 7 General] AFAinHD:
Lol
[Nexus 7 General] UberSlackr:
Regardless of you "Region" its always going to output an AT&T SIM. You can sit there and input all the Zipcodes you want, and It's only going to give you the option for an AT&T SIM Instead, to get a T-mobile SIM from StraightTalk, you can SELECT T-MOBILE COMPATIBLE DEVICE.

IMEI = Device Serial #

ICCID = Number Printed on SIM.

I stated to enter the "Serial Number" (as its listed and titled on the Activation Card) printed on the Activation Card when asked for the Serial Number/IMEI/MEID DEC on the Activation Website, instead of the IMEI from the Device.. So that someone did not try and Input the Device IMEI. (which is also stated in the paperwork received with the activation card, not to input the Device IMEI) as at no Point does the SIM Card Number (ICCID) matter to activating the SIM Card. (as its always the same as the Serial Number printed on the Activation Card when using BYOP)

I'm done arguing with you, I know what I was trying to say, and what needs to be done in order to get the Tmobile SIM for straighttalk working with the Nexus 7. At no point in my original post did I mention the ICCID, and was not confusing the two, I was trying to keep people from entering the IMEI of the Device when asked for it, as there is always someone that is not going to read careful enough and input the Wrong information.

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Haha.. T-mobile Support Chat.

You: I have a Nexus 7 3G Tablet, and want Data through T-mobile.

You: It supports HSPA+

You: Network Unlocked GSM/UMTS/HSPA+ GSM/EDGE/GPRS (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz) 3G (850, 900, 1700, 1900, 2100 MHz) HSPA+ 21

Jillian: Great, it means you can get a SIM card activation kit for it for $0.99 and activate it with $30 plan.

Jillian: $30 will give you 100 minutes+ unlimited text+ unlimited data(high speed upto 5GB and then you will be getting 2G speed)

Jillian: All you have to order the SIM card first. Once you receive the SIM card you need to activate it online for free and on the process pick up $30 Monthly 4G no-contract plan.

Jillian: Please click here for Micro SIM activation kit.
[Nexus 7 General] JoeBruin32:
I'm curious what you were expecting :P
[Nexus 7 General] djdanska:
Tablets require webconnect data plans. This has been the case for a few years now. No way around that other than using the hotspot feature of your smartphone. (I don't get the tethering warning on my unlimited plan and nexus 7 WiFi model.)
[Nexus 7 General] tienhn:
Just chatted with T-mobile support and they said post paid plan such as Value Unlimited Plans should work. I just ordered 0.99 Micro SIM and when it come, just call 611 to switch over. Will see.
[Nexus 7 General] foxmulder:
I had a webconnect 5gb for $39 plan i was able to connect to the network and surf the wed on my N73G. Working fine after i cut my sim card.
[Nexus 7 General] naterfi:
(solution found) unlimited data nationwide $49/month

I have a nexus 7 4g tablet and have Solavei which uses tmobile.

It works great in dallas area.

To sign up its solaveis.net $49 for unlimited data, text, voice nationwide

There's no phone options but works great for data.
[Nexus 7 General] adamhlj:
Well, thats what I have. I am getting it tomorrow, so we will just wait and see.

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Lol I think that Solavei is like the world's first MLM for cell phones. Nice.
[Nexus 7 General] naterfi:
Solaveis.net, I use it in Dallas and get great speeds. Can't beat the price for $49 a month unlimited on T-Mobile towers.
[Nexus 7 General] tienhn:
T-mobile confirmed that only Mobile Broad Band plan for N7

Quote from from support: https://twitter.com/TMobileHelp/status/270932810720763904

"A phone plan won't work in a tablet for data. It has to be a mobile broadband plan."
[Nexus 7 General] sw20:
I'm not sure if this information I have will be of any help, I just came back from spending an hour at a local T-mobile store. They let me activate a SIM as if I was going to put it in a phone and I tried that in my N7 32Gb 3G and it would not let me use the data plan. It kept referring me back to a T-Mobile website requesting authentication. I put the same sim in my GSM Galaxy Nexus and it worked fine. I put my Galaxy Nexus SIM in my N7 and it exhibited the same symptoms. I tried authenticating using the password for my phone number and it would bring me back to the login page. So I had them cancel that original phone sim and activate a new sim as a mobile broadband plan and it worked in my N7.

Perhaps the IMEI is how T-Mobile can tell if it is a tablet/mobile broadband device or not?
[Nexus 7 General] adamhlj:
Yep. I just got my N7 and it does not work with the sim card I put in it. This sums up how I feel about the matter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYwWKEc8c88

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Did you sign up for a new plan? What is the plan you have on your mobile broadband plan?
[Nexus 7 General] sw20:
I signed up for a new line to try it out. The Mobile Broadband plan I have a 10Gb data plan.
[Nexus 7 General] adamhlj:
Oh, so you are paying an extra $70 for that? What phone do you have, and what plan do you have with that phone?
[Nexus 7 General] sw20:
Yup, they quoted me $59.99 for the Mobile Broadband plan since I have my smartphone plan too. I have the $49.99 unlimited everything plan on my GSM Galaxy Nexus.
[Nexus 7 General] adamhlj:
So I switched to the unlimited 4G plan that "doesn't include wifi tethering" but I am able to tether to my Nexus devices. I think it has to do with the fact that the Gnex, N4 and N7 are so similar that T-mobile can't tell they are different devices. Pretty cool.
[Nexus 7 General] sw20:
Yeah, I was able to tether on my GNex to my 16 Gb N7 and T-Mobile couldn't tell, but when I tethered it to my laptop, I got blocked after a few minutes of surfing the web on my laptop. Yet I can stream all day from my N7 tethered to GNex from Netflix! :)
[Nexus 7 General] nickmv:
I've been tethering my N7 wifi to my HTC One S for a while now. One of the things T-Mo looks for in tethering blocking is the actual devicename and type, not necessarily the IMEI. Using my method, the N7 tablet works fine. If I connect with a computer, I'm immediately greeted with "sign up for t-mo tethering". So they're looking at device type and name I believe, among other things.
[Nexus 7 General] adamhlj:
I have not tested this out, but if you use chrome, you can go to a setting and change it so the browser acts like it is on a Gnex running 4.0.2. I think its in settings-->tools-->developer tools-->then go down to the lower right hand corner and there is a little gear, click that and check the user agent box and select the appropriate User Agent. This may allow you to tether to your computer and surf.
[Nexus 7 General] scurtin:
DNS block?

Is it a real data block or just a DNS block? Can you punch in a web page's IP directly and get around the landing screen?
[Nexus 7 General] phonic:
Another question: are you setting up anything for the proxy server in the APN settings?
[Nexus 7 General] foxmulder:
Well for me being on the "hotspot" classic no overage plan i didn't do a thing but put in my sim and restart.
[Nexus 7 General] bebopblues:
This sux.

I have a spare T-Mo sim card with data on it that I'm not using, was gonna buy the Nexus 7 with Mobile Data and pop the T-mo sim into it. Glad I read this thread before wasting an extra $100 on the Mobile Data version. I'm gonna get the 16G WIFI version instead.
[Nexus 7 General] cmstlist:
I have heard that T-Mobile will let you convert a phone prepaid account to a mobile broadband prepaid account while keeping the same SIM and balance.
[Nexus 7 General] GoneNomad:
FWIW, another advantage AT&T (no contract) has over T-Mobile (no-contract) (prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-coverage) is a larger data coverage area. T-Mobile's network is very sparse in some western states but pre-paid voice service allows roaming on AT&T's network, but the pre-paid voice service does not. Since AT&T's coverage map is so small, the difference is easier to see on the T-Mobile contract plan coverage map (t-mobile.com/coverage/pcc.aspx/) which shows the "Service partner" roaming area in light green. Data service is available in that light green area to T-Mobile's contract customers, but only voice is available in that area to their pre-paid customers.
[Nexus 7 General] GoneNomad:
And of course the reason it does is that, even though T-Mobile or AT&T network may provide the service, with StraightTalk you aren't actually buying the service from T-Mobile.

T-mobile is arbitrarily imposing a limitation, based on the IMEI number, to prevent the Nexus 7 (and other tablets) from using their $30 100min./Unltd. text/Unltd. data plan, which is restricted to devices T-Mobile classifies as "phones."

The Nexus 7 works fine with a T-Mobile Mobile Broadband (a.k.a.: "internet device") service.

The Nexus 7 also works fine on AT&T's text/data plans.

So it should come as no surprise that the Nexus 7 worked with service sold by StraightTalk either.

All that other uber-technical gobble-dee-gook and argument was an irrelevant waste of everybody's time, including your own.
[Nexus 7 General] oe1:
How the network is blocked

This is my first android device and I was duped by the t-mo online rep who said it would work with the device but found out as everyone else did that this plan is a no go. I did some digging around to see why this happens.

With my device rooted, I got an adb shell and started looking at network routes, dns settings etc. What I found is that in an adb shell, you actually can get to other websites, and not just get redirected to the t-mobile page. This means that there's either an HTTP or SOCKS proxy that gets configured to be used by all apps but which I couldn't figure out how to lookup or remove (Any help on this matter is appreciated)

So in a rooted device

adb shell

telnet google.com 80

GET /

(hit enter twice) and you'll see that you get the google homepage html.

I thought, wow this is great. I already have openvpn installed that creates a vpn tunnel to my home network and which i can use to route traffic all traffic on the device.

telnet my-dyndns-addr 80

Where I have a confirmed working openvpn server listening and accessible to outside world on port 80. I chose port 80 cause all other outbound ports seem to be blocked.

Unfortunately this did NOT work. It just hangs and eventually times out. And if I configure it so my home network responds by displaying a webpage on port 80, then it works fine. So I guess they're doing some DPI and only allow HTTP traffic through. Bummer.
[Nexus 7 General] cmstlist:
Ask TMo if you can have the SIM switched to a mobile broadband plan. Maybe if you ask nicely they'll let you apply the $30 towards that.

Sent from my Nexus 7 HSPA+
[Nexus 7 General] Mechanio:
> Turns out it's detected as a tablet.

It is a tablet.

It sounds like the people who are having problems are trying to use phone-specific SIMs in the N7, and this isn't working because T-Mobile enforces data segregation by IMEI and the Nexus 7 is a tablet, not a phone.

Is anyone having problems using T-Mobile's tablet data plan in the N7 when using the N7 as a tablet?
[Nexus 7 General] esema1o:
Why pay when u can getbfor free just root ur phone and use wifi free :D
[Nexus 7 General] rictrician:
I bought a 3.5 gigabyte plan online at walmart and it would not connect. It kept telling me I had to sign in. After a few phone calls and a few hours later i had a solution. The walmart 60 day plan will only work with 2 devices that walmart sells. I called tmobile and they swithced it to a 30 day plan and it works great now.
[Nexus 7 General] eksasol:
I don't recommend going with prepay anymore with TMobile for tablet. You got the Mobile Broadband for $40 4.5gb with legal usage of tethering, since its not prepaid you get higher priority for cell towers connection, you get customer service too. Also monthly pass version don't get text messaging (as I recalled). Since there are no more contracts this is a no brainer, huge benefits for just an additional $5.

Sent from XDA app
[Droid Pro General] zubarev:
Hi i have Motorola Pro Plus (Android 2.3.6) and i can't find any options regarding VOIP client, I found system VOIP files, attributes Read-Write-Run.

Is there some ways to unlock this client??
[HTC Desire S] freefreefreaky:
I've searched for a long time now how to fix my problem, but found nothing or it didn't work. Correct me if there's a thread with a solution for this.

Hey Guys,

my WiFi won't turn on and it is constantly grey(ed). When I try to enable it always flips back to position OFF.

Would be great if anyones knows how to fix it.

- CM10

- nk111's latest builds (others don't have the problem - and I can't post there until I posted 10times :eek: )

- JB 4.1.2

- did full wipe

- tried other builds (andromadus..) and reinstalled ROMs for many times

- ...you need more relevant information? just tell me.

Cheers!
[HTC Desire S] teadrinker:
I don't quite understand, are you saying wifi worked or didn't work on andromadus? What rom were you using before, where wifi worked? You haven't flashed any kernels separately? If htcdev unlocked, always flashed the boot.img?
[HTC Desire S] freefreefreaky:
- WiFi just worked on stock rom GB and ICS (from HTCdev). And didn't work since JB (custom roms).

- No kernels separately flashed.

- "always flashed boot.img" - I think so.
[HTC Desire S] teadrinker:
With the "fastboot flash boot boot.img" command?

Edit: sorry, it wouldn't even boot without, going from stock rom to jb

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Can't think why wifi wouldn't work then. You did a full wipe before flashing?
[HTC Desire S] freefreefreaky:
message dicitse

No, not everytime... just installed the .zip via recovery.

Yes, me too :( And I did a full wipe before.
[HTC Desire S] freefreefreaky:
- Country code is correct

- tried every single WiFi advanced setting but still doesnt work
[HTC Desire S] eisenger:
are you htcdev unlocked? did you extract the boot.img from your ROM?
[HTC Desire S] freefreefreaky:
which oexedni

Nope, I didn't. Always flashed via Recovery "install zip from sdcard".
[HTC Desire S] SimonTS:
You need to answer the first question, not just the second.
[HTC Desire S] Jack_R1:
Well, do then.
[HTC Desire S] eisenger:
Ok, so if you're htcdev unlocked s-on. Did you do this step?

After installing zip from sdcard, while still in Recovery, reboot into Bootloader (adb reboot-bootloader), then flash the boot.img of the ROM (fastboot flash boot boot.img), then reboot again.
[HTC Desire S] freefreefreaky:
I'm sorry.

Yes, I am.
[HTC Desire S] freefreefreaky:
HTC DEV **UNLOCKED**

S-ON

I'm stilling using this rom but without WiFi :( So I just did what you said and flashed the boot.img from that rom I'm using.

Still the same problem...
[HTC Desire S] eisenger:
have you tried other roms before? how about other roms wifi? are they working?
[HTC Desire S] SimonTS:
I would suggest that you boot into recovery, do a full wipe (everything apart from SD-Card), then install the ROM, then the kernel. See what happens with a totally clean build.
[HTC Desire S] freefreefreaky:
As I said in my first post:

Yes I tried other roms and other builds of roms and reinstalled them many times and WiFi was only working in GB (stock) and ICS ("stock" from HTCdev) and in nothing else (custom roms).
[HTC Desire S] freefreefreaky:
I already did that(!) except "then [install] the kernel". How do I install a kernel (zip?) and where do I get a kernel I need?
[HTC Desire S] teadrinker:
Have you tried custom sense-based roms, or only aosp?
[HTC Desire S] SimonTS:
The Kernel IS the boot.img file. I'm just suggesting that you try to do the whole thing from scratch.
[HTC Desire S] freefreefreaky:
I tried those two:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1776256

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1805450

...don't know if sense based or aosp.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Yossibi12:
Hello everyone,

I have a problem and need some help please.

i tried to change rom in my device and made this steps:

unlock the phone with HTCDEV and then flash the viper ROM, after that my phone dosn't load and stock on htc logo.

after that i realize that i made a mistake because my phone is unlock but still s-on.

i searched for guides and posts and still dont now what to do...

need some help guys... tnx.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] JehC:
If you want full s-off head over to prototype7's guide in the dev. Section.

sent from my paranoid android
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] Yossibi12:
actobod sonoma

tanks for your comment but i cant find it. can you send me a link please?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] ThePhantom97:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1751796
[Motorola Atrix 2] demonoid phenomenom:
Hi all, I was wondering if there's any way possible that volume rocker (change tracks via volume buttons)you know , like cm roms , can be aplied to an ics based rom , tried to find ways to do that, but with no luck , any help would be appreciated, already tried to dig into it, but the only thing i was able to find was the numbers associated to the volume keys , if anyone has a link to a tutorial would be great, i really want to do things on my own, rather than asking someone else to do it for me all the time

thanks in advance

Sent from the gray stuff inside my skull
[Motorola Atrix 2] Apex:
Have you tried editing the keylayout file to match CM's? Not sure if it's as easy as that, but might work...

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[Motorola Atrix 2] anikadam:
i had tried my hand at this before, but couldnt find a way to remap volume keys to change tracks.. yet.. but what i did was remapped my volume keys to wake the screen when its locked... and let my camera hard key to skip tracks.. its quite handy when u want to just skip to the next track..

it involves compiling and decompiling the android.policy.jar, so if youre interested i can help you out..

also before all this, theres one app which worked fine on my A2, Tactile Player, it can skip songs both ways and also play/pause the songs via the power key.

it works fine, but theres always this icon in the status bar when the app is on.. you can double press the volume keys, up key for next and down key for previous.. its definitely worth trying.. you can find the app in Playstore, i was using the free version..

The paid version lets you get rid of the status bar notification and also adds a widget to the homescreen to toggle the app on/off.

Edit: Actually i did manage to change the volume rockers to change the skip next/previous songs but then i would lose the main volume changing function, somehow i couldnt get to make both the functions stick. Give tactile player a try..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] codeman0624:
I come from the good ol' days of the Samsung Fascinate, and I recall several people in those forums saying that when flashing a new ROM, to always make sure that your battery was at 100% before you flash it. Otherwise it would affect your battery life.

What are your thoughts and experiences? Should I be worried about flashing a new ROM when my battery is less than 100%? Or were people just being superstitious? Is it not an issue with the S3?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DroidOnRoids:
Affect battery life? As in on screen times and overall longevity? It doesn't work that way. I've flashed roms with 15 percent before and I consistently get the average battery life of what the phone is capable of reaching.

I don't know where those people got that idea but you don't need to flash at 100 percent. Your battery won't die that quickly during the flash install too.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] josh995:
I've never hear of that, but you definitely do not have to have a 100% battery before you flash.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] codeman0624:
I believe their reasoning was that having the battery at 100% gave the new ROM the proper "starting point" when it comes to measuring the battery. But good to know it doesn't seem to matter for you guys, thanks!