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[Nexus 4 General] RealiZms:
Your post, dumb.:cyclops:
[Nexus 4 General] kzoodroid:
If after 2 full business days your number isn't ported over I'd call Boost and see whats up. My Verizon account was closed the minute they ported the number over, I can't even access it any more. Check and see if you can get into your boost account. Also did you change your APN's to ST's and reboot your phone?
[Nexus 4 General] Heartbreak:
Does anyone know why it says "Home" instead of AT&T or T-Mobile while on Straight Talk? If so, anyway to change it to AT&T. I'm just glad it doesn't say Straight Talk.
[Nexus 4 General] kzoodroid:
ST has been throttling people down to EDGE speeds after the 100MB per day limit (numerous posts in here about it) is reached not just the monthly 2GB limit. Some people say deleting the proxy in the APN settings helps to keep them from seeing your usage. As you are probably throttled already you'd have to wait till the end of your billing cycle for them to bump the speeds back up. Or call and try to get a helpful CSR to do it but that might be doubtful.

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I believe everyone on ST has that and there is no easy way to change it. Here's a thread discussing changing the carrier label, post #3 and #4 are the ones you want to look at.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2015685
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
Dang my port from Sprint took about 5 minutes
[Nexus 4 General] aron7awol:
I've done 3 ports from T-Mobile and 1 from Verizon, all to Straight Talk and they all happened in 5-10 minutes. Much faster than my previous experiences porting from T-Mobile to Verizon and from Verizon to T-Mobile.
[Nexus 4 General] evperry:
Close to cancelling my Solavei because of Google voice issues

So while Solavei has been a very good mvno for me, I've had a problem with Google voice for the last few weeks. When I dial a number it dials a second Google exchange number like usual but it displays the Google exchange number on my screen only not the number I'm dialing.

Anyway, I've checked other Sims and don't have the issue and put the old card back in the galaxy and had no issues. I then called customer service and but they didn't know what to do.

I really don't wanna switch out of solavei but I'm headed to straight talk or simple mobile if this can't get worked out.

The good thing about the mvno world is that they are cheap, the bad thing is that the customer service is non existent.
[Nexus 4 General] RealiZms:
What the hell is going on where everyone gets their number ported in 5 minutes and I'm going on 24 hours? It's from Boost to ST...shouldn't be this difficult.
[Nexus 4 General] Lttlwing16:
Any luck with that? Did you get any progress..or did you find its a giant waste of your time like I did? Curious.

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Their customer support would love to speak to you...if you can hold for 130 minutes...
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
Do this....when calling them press option 1 then wait until u hear the options, then press option 5 and when a male recorder comes on he will say that they will call u back, that way u don't sit on hold so long and wait for them to call u. If you don't hear that option hang up and dial again, sometimes it works with option 1 after pressing one for English too. Just FYI.
[Nexus 4 General] Cwebb03:
Ditto. My number from Sprint transfered so fast I didn't even take note of how long it took. It was probably under 2-3 minutes easily. At least Sprint could do SOMETHING right
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
Dang it so Dallas is not part of the 42+ on T-Mobile ( yet)

http://androidandme.com/2012/12/car...or-att-and-unlocked-phones-in-23-metro-areas/
[Nexus 4 General] DOHCtor:
It is. It's just not part of the refarmed 1900MHz band.
[Nexus 4 General] kzoodroid:
I think Boost Mobile only has one employee, hence the delay.
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
Hmmm I travel a lot through out the Dallas area and never gotten those speeds.
[Nexus 4 General] DOHCtor:
You're on T-Mobile ST and never get those speeds?
[Nexus 4 General] AshtonTS:
I was feeling really crappy when I got home yesterday, so I didn't get to call them. I'll try tonight, and if I get anything, I'll be sure to let you guys know.
[Nexus 4 General] nibrwr:
Lol +1
[Nexus 4 General] nmeurett:
I just switched over to Straight Talk when i got my Nexus 4 love it so far and I was able to set up the internet but had 2 questions? I got the AT&T sim card and still am unable to send out Picture Messages and also can not figure out how to access my voice mail? Any help would be very much appreciated!
[Nexus 4 General] nibrwr:
I use Google Voice for VM, so can't help there.

As far as MMS, are you using ST's APN settings? Try changing the MMSC to end with .33
[Nexus 4 General] franchise:
Yea I used the APN settings from here: http://m.straighttalksim.com/view/page/p/90268/straighttalksim-data-apn-settings-att

But left the proxy and port blank and I can receive MMS fine and get 6.75mbs download speed in Lexington ky
[Nexus 4 General] nmeurett:
Yes that is how my settings are set up but it does not allow me to send pictures in a text. I can receive multimedia text messages though?
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
I used T-Mobile ST fro a week and never got above 13mbs

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Post a screen shot of your APN settings
[Nexus 4 General] marty331:
I activated on ST ATT on Nov 29, I've used 1.21GB and I am throttled.... So pissed.
[Nexus 4 General] madwad123:
I've been with ST for over a year. Currently using my ATT Atrix on ATT ST. Downtown Pittsburgh I'm pulling between 1-2mbps and pushing .5-1mbps. Just outside the congested down town I'm getting over double that.

My plan with my Nexus 4 is to try the $30 t-mobile plan. If not happy, try the ST Tmobile plan. If not happy, back to ST ATT.
[Nexus 4 General] Skenzin:
Thats odd. Im rocking an ATT Atrix on ST 60 miles away in Wheeling. I already have my ST MicroSIM.
[Nexus 4 General] droidmakespwn:
That's the same as mine. Maybe it's your speed test app settings being weird. How do you know straight talk sends everything through Chicago?
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
Question: if I'm on ST and have a AT&T sim and want to switch to a T-Mobile one in the middle of my plan...what do I do? And can I?
[Nexus 4 General] droidmakespwn:
Prepaid plan? Just order a new sim and port your number to it when your monthly cycle is about to end.
[Nexus 4 General] ketjr81:
I think I'm going to get a T-mobile SIM from straight talk and just cut it down to the micro size, I live in Seattle and T-mobile should be pretty good here.

Right now I'm on virgin mobile, it wont take much to be any better than what I have now.

I thought about the T-mobile $30 plan, but I really don't want to go through the trouble with minutes and using apps to call people.

Considered Simple Mobile too, but I heard they just cut peoples accounts off quick if you use data. I haven't heard too much complaints about straight talk data, I don't use a lot of data anyways. Mostly just browsing, apps and some youtube.
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
I'm on straight talk already, just want to switch to T-Mobile and not AT&T network on ST.
[Nexus 4 General] Uh60m Pilot:
I am amazed with straight talk. I just switched over but I have had outstanding reception and great data speeds. I am coming from Sprint so no surprise that it is an improvement. I am sold!
[Nexus 4 General] mrcanant:
You are the champ!

Just cleared the proxy line, and tested three websites, Engadget, theverge, and the other one. The completion time almost reduced by 30%! Thanks man! ST rocks now!
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
On Straight Talk using T-Mobile are we suppose to see the H+? I only see the H.
[Nexus 4 General] Hero_Guy:
Just curious, does Walmart carry the AT&T straight talk sim card in stores? I'm getting spotty T-Mobile coverage at my house.
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
Yes ask a representative
[Nexus 4 General] Hero_Guy:
Cool thanks!
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
No prob I went to three different ones and didn't find one until I asked. By the way they don't sell them seperately, you will have to buy it with a new activation card kit. The easiest way to get one is from the website they over night it to u
[Nexus 4 General] ZappiestOyster:
Not sure if someone can answer this: I am getting spotty TMO reception at my house. Can I get an ST prepaid AT&T SIM to see if my signal improves and then port my number later?
[Nexus 4 General] Hero_Guy:
That's fine. This is actually my first time experimenting with a GSM network. The fast speeds from T-Mobile is nice but their voice kind of sucks even though their map days otherwise.
[Nexus 4 General] TooSlo:
If you go this route, shoot me a PM with your experiences. I'm on ST through the AT&T SIM, and while speeds are decent, they are pretty much the only provider that has service in outlying areas such as Woodinville and Monroe. Sadly I work out that direction so service is a necessity.
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
I had At&t for around 3 weeks and have had T-Mobile for 3 days. So far T-Mobile has better speeds, and coverage is weaker on it as well.

I am going to try At&t next month with micro Sim.
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
Oh oh...on T-Mobile I am not able to send picture through text....
[Nexus 4 General] ketjr81:
You probably need to update your APN settings for tmobile on ST instead of ATT.

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Has anyone had any data problems on Straight Talk? Do they throttle after 2GB or anything like that? I have actually been deciding between ST and T-mobile prepaid. On one hand I don't want to worry about how many minutes I use and another I don't want to worry about data usage and throttling.

I really don't use that much data but if I do pass the 2GB I don't want my connection to go to a crawl.
[Nexus 4 General] RealiZms:
Well I've exhausted all my efforts trying to get everything working with only one APN. It's just not happening for me. Aside from that I've struggled to get 1MB down! It's no different from Sprint:(

Edit: Guess I just needed 2 apns. MMS and data work....still crap speeds and I'm covered in att so shouldn't be an issue
[Nexus 4 General] Lttlwing16:
Spoke again with straight talk this morning and the gentleman told me that I had indeed been throttled and that there is nothing they can do on their side until the 30 day period has expired. I did some digging around online and found that if your rooted you can navigate to data/system/throttle. If there are two files in there, then you are definitely being throttled. You can delete these two files, and then change the permissions on the throttle folder to prevent writing. Read and execute only. This may prevent future throttling.

My next pay cycle starts Jan 7. I will have to wait until then to see if it works.
[Nexus 4 General] kzoodroid:
Only problem with that is they don't throttle you from the phone end but from their end.
[Nexus 4 General] Lttlwing16:
Right but perhaps this will prevent them from writing identifying info they need to throttle..? Any idea what that folder is used for?
[Nexus 4 General] kzoodroid:
That is something Google added to android for whatever reason and has been there for as long as I can remember, Version 1.6 is what I started on. There are literally hundreds of threads on this and people claiming that removing it eliminates throttling. There are even mods people have made claiming to do just such, one is called bunker buster and some guy made it for the Incredible a couple years ago. And of course it did nothing.

From the Incredible forums March 2011:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=987029
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
Really? ST ATT does throttle, TMobile I don't think so.
[Nexus 4 General] franchise:
ill recheck to see if i can still send, im running CM and have been since i got the phone, idk if that makes a difference..

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yea just checked and it sent fine
[Nexus 4 General] strra:
i activated on nov 28 and used just under 1gb before they throttled me. i'm back to normal now after a call
[Nexus 4 General] marty331:
Good to know. But I'm still pissed. My usage was not close to excessive... Will I go through this every month? If my coverage is good enough on T-Mobile I'm switching.
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
You might and trust me if they do then I will consider leaving as well. I am going to try out ST T-Mobile for this month and see how that goes. I heard they don't throttle you like ATT does on ST. Even if T-Mobile has decent coverage in my area they don't offer unlimited for $45
[Nexus 4 General] ctowne:
$38.24 a month ain't so bad :rolleyes: http://www.crazygametime.com/item/straight-talk-prepaid-airtime-refill-pin-us-45-30-day/#buy
[Nexus 4 General] krahim786:
Straight talk using tmobile here.

Every time someone asks if St throttles t-mobile users as well as ATT, someone always chimes in saying yes of course. But through all the forums I've read about this exact discussion, I've yet to come across one user who has actually been throttled while on tmobile.

This is my usage via tmobile for the past month . Not throttled. I have two other lines on ST ATT in my family. Both have been throttled using the same formulas stated above and also in all other forums.

So again, has anyone actually been throttled while on tmobile St?
[Nexus 4 General] nibrwr:
Does ST (and other MVNOs) do the throttling? It sounds as if carriers themselves (AT&T) throttle, and ST requests a reprovision from AT&T with each new billing cycle
[Nexus 4 General] kzoodroid:
From what I've been able to find, ST just pays AT&T and TMobile to use their service so any throttling would be on AT&T and TMobile's end as ST has no infrastructure to do it. This would make sense as most if not all those saying they are throttled are on ST AT&T and AT&T is very aggressive with throttling.
[Nexus 4 General] nibrwr:
That's what I was thinking. Fortunately, I haven't experienced throttling with a ST AT&T SIM. If I do, I'd probably switch to a T-Mobile SIM or T-Mobile itself
[Nexus 4 General] kzoodroid:
Here's an article saying Straight Talk monitors the lines then flags accounts for excessive use, I'm assuming once the account is flagged its AT&T that does the throtteling for them.

http://waazzupppp.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/the-straight-skinny-on-straight-talk-data/

Edit: some people claim that by removing the proxy from your APN settings you remove ST's ability to monitor your data usage. As I use so little data per month, on almost 100% wifi, its hard for me to confirm this.
[Nexus 4 General] marty331:
Jess let me know how it goes. I'm doing the $30 plane direct from T-Mobile, 5gb at 4G but only 100 min of talk time.

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I had the proxy removed since day one and got throttled.
[Nexus 4 General] movielover76:
Throttling

I switched to Solavei, from ST. In NJ T-mobile coverage is almost the same as AT&T, you often have less bars, but the data is still faster and T-mobile doesn't deprioritize mvno traffic. I had issues on ST with an AT&T sim during peak hours voice calls would cut out constantly and I'm pretty sure that's a mvno problem, because I don't experience the same problem with my AT&T postpaid work sim. You can get past the daily limit throttling by not putting the proxies in the APN, but they can still throttle you if you use too much data in a month and you can't get past the deprioritized traffic on the AT&T network.

I switched from ST because after 3.5GB in November, with a t-mobile sim. I got a call from ST telling me they were going to disconnect my service if I didn't change my habits and I was worried about having my service disconnected and losing my number. Solavei has a clearer data policy 4GB at 4G and then throttled just like a t-mobile plan and I can use google voice for voicemail (on ST you can't on the T-mobile network.)

Also you get roaming privileges on Solavei, you don't on ST T-mobile.

I feel more comfortable not having to worry so much about being disconnected, the Solavei sales pitch scheme might suck but I think the plan itself is better than ST. I'm not trying to sell Solavei, I won't even post my link, just wanted to share what I've found trying multiple mvno's, I've been on prepaid since I bought the GSM Galaxy Nexus. Of course if T-mobile has crappy coverage where you live, your better off the ST with an AT&T sim.

I've been on ST T-mo and AT&T, Simple Mobile and Solavei.
[Nexus 4 General] HyperM3:
Ugh, I switched from an ATT contract last may to an ATT sim with ST. Since then on 3 different phones I have had nothing but issues with MMS. I finally switched to the T-Mo sim on ST yesterday and I am still having MMS issues. I cant send or receive from anyone but myself. Reading the post above, I also didnt know that I cant use my Google Voice on the T-Mo sim which is disappointing.

Since I do use MMS quite often it seems like for that reason alone Im going to have to go back to either ATT or T-Mo directly and pay to play. I had really been on the side of an MVNO telling everyone how they can save money and whatnot. But if there are all these issues that cant be worked out, its not about saving money anymore, its about saving my sanity.
[Nexus 4 General] c0LdFire:
MMS should be (and, in my experience, IS) 100% fine with these MVNOs as long as your APN is set correctly.

Granted, I find MMS useless (biased long term Google Voice user speaking). Email is a far better platform, and is obviously capable of sending over WiFi...
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
Agreed with everything
[Nexus 4 General] HyperM3:
My APN has been confirmed to be set up correctly throughout the history of being on Straight Talk. I use google voice for my voicemail but I dont use it for more than that. Regarding the sending pics through email, I have too many family members and friends who just use MMS to send pics.
[Nexus 4 General] grayson73:
I don't have any issues sending or receiving MMS with Straight Talk T-Mobile.
[Nexus 4 General] HyperM3:
Maybe it takes over 24 hours sometimes to make things work from a port? I just finally had an MMS go through to someone. I need to feel like this is going to work everytime, not just sporadically. Ill give the T-Mo Sim a month and if it fails on me I just cant stay with ST.
[Nexus 4 General] movielover76:
APN

Your apn settings must be off, or you have extra apn's stored on your phone.

MMS works perfectly fine to Straight Talk AT&T or T-mobile.
[Nexus 4 General] Lttlwing16:
Interestingly, when I went to enroll for solavei they said the IMEI for my n4 was incompatible with their service...
[Nexus 4 General] Examiner19:
http://androidandme.com/2012/12/news/how-to-setup-the-nexus-4-and-google-voice-for-solavei/
[Nexus 4 General] HyperM3:
I just got mms working. Took almost exactly 24 hours to fully port.
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
Hard to believe, because if you can call then you can receive/send MMS
[Nexus 4 General] HyperM3:
Not true, mms uses data not voice. Different parts of the APN.
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
Oh OK... Then why does my moms flip phone send and receive pictures with no data or Internet application?
[Nexus 4 General] HyperM3:
You can receive picture messages without actually paying for a monthly data plan. She will just get billed for each individual MMS she sends or receives.
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
What? Lol are u talking about? Lol she has unlimited talk text and no data
[Nexus 4 General] HyperM3:
Tell her to check her bill then. She will see charges like $.22 or something like that for each MMS she sends or receives without paying for a data plan.
[Nexus 4 General] fresh_TD:
Not true...I had a "NO data" plan for a while and was able to send and receive MMS at no additional charge;);)
[Nexus 4 General] ctowne:
This is true. Stop bickering :banghead:
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
That's why I didn't reply....anyways back on subject has anyone gotten ST to work with Google Voice as the Voicemail? I had it working with ATT but now I'm on TM ST and its not working....any ideas?

With ATT I typed *004*my number # then send and it worked, not with T-Mobile though
[Nexus 4 General] nibrwr:
Works perfect for me with ST AT&T
[Nexus 4 General] :
No. Tmo doesn't allow conditional call forwarding on prepaid (so mvnos don't allow it either - with the exception being Solavei maybe). It won't work. I switched back to the ATT sim and gvoice voicemail works flawlessly. You're out of luck unless you switch back
[Nexus 4 General] ctowne:
One more month and then I finally get to switch over to ST :beer:
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
I figured....thanks for the quick reply.
[Nexus 4 General] yahoowizard:
I feel this question might have been answered earlier on, but not sure how to search and don't want to go through 43 pages either.

So, the way Straight Talk works is you get EITHER T-Mobile or AT&T? The speeds on T-Mobile are wonderful, as is the coverage of AT&T, but yeah, there doesn't seem to be that overlap. Also, I've been hearing mixed answers, but is there no data cap on Straight Talk? I've seen 2 GB mentioned by a few people, but some other people claim there is none as long as you're not tethering.
[Nexus 4 General] Slender Troll:
What's the youtube video link?

Outdated yet young Motorola Photon 4G
[Nexus 4 General] Lttlwing16:
Correct, ST comes in 2 flavors:

Att Sim activation kit : Generally better coverage, with more aggressive data throttling. If you get "flagged" your using 2g the rest of the pay cycle. Google Voice works for voicemail.

Tmo Sim activation kit: Weaker coverage (area dependent). Less aggressive data monitoring, although it exists. 4g speeds apparently are faster, if available in your area. No Google Voice voicemail.

I am going to try one more month of Att flavor and be more mindful of my data. I.e. using WiFi often.

A third option is to buy a smartphone from ST, activate/port your number to the Sim, then take the Sim out and put into your n4. This uses a whole different set of apn's and apparently the monitoring is less aggressive on their side. Refurb smart phones go on their site for as low as 50 dollars. In addition you have a backup phone should something happen to your n4, and you need a repair.
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
90% correct 10% is the tethering. I can't answer this...yet. Till Santa "brings" me my Nexus 7 ;)

ATT from my experience throttles, and not T-Mobile.
[Nexus 4 General] RealiZms:
Got a question here about the speedtest app.. Does anyone else have a problem with it just hanging or freezing? I don't really understand it.. My APN settings are set properly and my speeds "seem" to be good. But whenever I try to run a speedtest it just seems to crash or freeze. Anyone else experience this?

Before you ask I'm using the dual APN method so MMS will work(tried everyway with one and it wouldn't work). On the "Straight Talk" apn the proxy and port are left blank.....
[Nexus 4 General] movielover76:
Don't know why they said that my n4 works perfectly, I even called to see if I could get a micro Sim but they wanted the imei first, as I didn't want to wait when I got my nexus 4 I bought a Sim cutter instead of ordering a new sim.

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Throttling is variable on st, it depends on the area , how congested it is and how many st customers are in your area. 2gb is generally considered safe, at 3.5gb I got a call threating cancelation
[Nexus 4 General] yahoowizard:
They can kick you off for using too much data?
[Nexus 4 General] abhipati:
Can someone throw some light on unlimited international calling on ST ?? Do we need call different number in order to connect to international number ?(like most of calling cards ) if yes how is the call clarity
[Nexus 4 General] marty331:
You just need to remove proxy and port from your APN settings.
[Nexus 4 General] RealiZms:
Oh hey thanks pal. But if you read my post you'll see I've already done that...