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[Nexus 4 General] kawaski47:
I am getting my ST ATT card tomorrow for my gnex. I am on sprint now and am waiting to be kicked. I can't wait to see how much faster my gnex is!
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
On 3G with sprint its like being on dial up internet. Once you get ST on at&t or tmobile....wait you can't use that Gnex on ST...??

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Has anyone gotten Google Voice to work as the voicemail carrier with ST?
[Nexus 4 General] kawaski47:
The phone I'm using now is my old evo. I ordered a gsm gnex on ebay when I saw how delayed the n4's are
[Nexus 4 General] EpiphanyMachine:
Yes, you can change the voicemail forwarding numbers and ring delay using standard gsm codes. You cannot disable forwarding though so if you use the two gv accounts trick both numbers will forward to the same voicemail.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

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This isn't true, at least in my experience. An mvno like st can't throttle data, att does it. I have gone over both "limits" and not had an issue. If u do get throttled you can call st and have them reprovision your data, which after a phone reset stops the throttling ( i haven't done this yet just read about it)

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Nexus 4 General] Hero_Guy:
"Reprovision" what does that mean? First time gsm and prepaid user here
[Nexus 4 General] Jess813:
Question....so I decided to go back to ST att and its been like 4 hours and still no service! I called them and after being on hold for about 40 minutes they said to wait another 4 hours! Has anyone gone through this?!
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
BTW, I think (actual) Tmobile has a trial. That would be the best way to "test" tmo in your area before committing.

Tmo speed is certainly faster,but it's useless if your coverage is spotty. I went with AT&T at least for it's consistency.

Supposedly Tmo has been upgrading thier towers/network. But here in Miami-Dade/Broward county in Florida it's still spotty.

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You can use either/or hot swappable. BUT you need separate service for each SIM with different number for it, paying the monthly for each. You could use a Google Voice as your main number and forward those calls to either/or both numbers/SIMs.

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No, Walmart does not sell the SIMs online or in their stores. They are only sold online via straightalk's websites.

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No, once you activate the SIM it has the number you activated it with. You can only port a number to a new inactive SIM at the time of activation you go through port/activation.
[Nexus 4 General] jlear3:
Not that I know of for mms, and my + is there only if I am using the data, for example I don't have the + as I type this but when I hit submit it will pop up.

Nexus 4

Cyanogenmod nightlies

Faux kernel
[Nexus 4 General] ritchea:
I'm not certain, but that was the way it worked on the Galaxy Nexus. Something about saving battery power by not really maxing out the connection until it was needed. I haven't noticed on the N4 as I was running QS mod with 3G icon while on 4.2.1 and the icon never changed. Since 4.2.2, I have the H back but haven't been off wifi to attempt any downloads. See post # 3. And further info on concept called Fast Dormancy.
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
I wonder if there's a tweak to keep connected to HSPA+ 42 at all times. I'm getting fantastic battery life right now so I'd like to see what kind of impact there would be if it was constantly connected to it. I'd be willing to give up some battery life for quicker speeds.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] minieod:
i dont think ST supports that , does it?

I'm on solavei and they have full access to the hspa+ 42
[Nexus 4 General] jlear3:
Yes
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
I'm on ST and have HSPA+ 42. I'm using a ST T-Mobile sim card. If you're using the ST AT&T sim, you're getting HSPA+ 21.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] rock7632:
Where did you get a T-Mobile compatible micro sim? On Straighttalk and Walmart.com I only see the standard sim card for T-Mobile
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
Might depend on your area. I had a choice between the two.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] 3UR0TR45H:
Been on ST AT&T for about 6 months and was on Verizon before that. Quite disappointed with 260kbps download speed so I decided to spend $10 on a T-Mobile prepaid sim and their speed 14mbps. My question is: can I expect the same speed from ST Tmo?
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
Yes

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] ketjr81:
You have to cut the sim card down and it will work. You can just use a pair of scissors or there are special tools for it at stores and online.
[Nexus 4 General] 3UR0TR45H:
Thank you! This is awesome
[Nexus 4 General] mario24601:
I tried this, worked fine. Good connection and speed but my N4 got hot. Not terribly hot but warm, something that never happens with att Sim. Anyone else experience this?
[Nexus 4 General] minieod:
Question. Why do you guys use ST? For a few dollars more .... You can run solavei and have double the data cap.
[Nexus 4 General] Slender Troll:
Because it's the cheapest, and for those of us who are on a budget, that usually is the best option. For me, this is why:

Sent from my Nexus 4/Nexus 7
[Nexus 4 General] NYZack:
When you add in taxes and fees, Solavei is way more expensive. When I bought my Straight Talk plan on walmart.com, I paid only sales tax, a total of $48.99 for a month. When I started to sign up for Solavei, taxes and fees added *21%* to the cost (in NY), for a total of about $59 for a month. That's $10 more a month. Moreover, Straight Talk lets you use AT&T if you want, which has significantly better coverage (though slower).
[Nexus 4 General] kzoodroid:
Why is this even in the ST thread, if we had wanted Solavei we would've signed up for it.
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
I'm using the T-Mobile ST sim so I get at least 1 more GB than Solavei

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] mclain1:
coverage is why my reasoning from my jump from T-mobile to straight talk. I got no data coverage on T-mobile where i live. I wanted to try Solevei but no coverage. On straight talk ATT, i get HSPA my entire drive to and from work. I have to say, straight talk is working awesome for me.
[Nexus 4 General] ctowne:
+1.. T-Mobile has terrible coverage if you aren't in an urban area
[Nexus 4 General] hardaysknight:
I'm using ST with the AT&T Sim. I started being throttled at around 1gb of data usage. Anyone else experience this? Any way around it?
[Nexus 4 General] cj1171:
alternating restrictions?

Hey all,

I'm done with this being capped crap so I'm switching to a ST T-Mo sim today. My question is, will I be able to do the same transfer process back to my AT&T one and pop it back in when I go on, say a vacation to an area where I'm going to need the better coverage?
[Nexus 4 General] jonathan3579:
That's disappointing to see you guys getting throttled like that. I'm using Straight Talk (T-Mobile sim) and I regularly use 5gb+ and I've never been throttled. I've heard AT&T is getting worse and I even considered switching for more reliable HSPA+ but not after this. :eek: Hopefully they'll allow T-Mobile LTE once it's live. I'll keep dreaming anyway.
[Nexus 4 General] mjpado:
New THROTTLE from STRAIGHTTALK!!!

I have been using ST for the last 2 years. This past November I bought a Nexus 4 and had to buy a SIM card to activate my new phone, my old ST phone was on the Verizon network (CDMA). I decided on the AT&T SIM because AT&T has a much better reputation for signal strength. Plus the 5-7Mbps is plenty fast for what I do with my data connection. Yesterday I noticed my downloads were extremely slow to load. Perplexed, I ran a speed test and to my astonishment my "speeds" were only averaging 250 kbps not 5,000-7,000 kbps. I became a bit agitated because I noticed this at almost 2am. So I spent the next hour and a half trying to figure out how this happened. I couldn't get my data for the month because I updated to 4.2.2 earlier this month and factory reset the phone after the update. I believed there was no way I got to 2gb before the 9th of March (service contract end date). I checked my data counter from the update and I had only used 422MB since the 18th, and nothing over 100MB; averaged around 50MB. At MOST it would be around 1.5, probably closer to 1 gb. This morning I called ST managers hot line and spoke to a rep. I acted as if I was a novice just in case they noticed I was streaming to much (to them), which I wasn't or, tethering (which I was to my N10 for two nights during the blizzard while the power was out) neither of those cases were the reason according to them (FYI I didn't tell them I tethered). The rep went back and forth in trying to figure out what the issue was with my data. I REPEAT it was not due to data usage or tethering. The conclusion after a total call time of 1:18 (the first 15 minutes was on hold waiting to speak to a rep) was, I was primarily using the phone in a "new primary location" and the "system" recognized this and slowed my data connection. To resolve this situation ST is sending me a new AT&T SIM card which I have to activate with a new number for the primary use area. I know I can port my number over to Google for $20 and then port it back, but I feel I shouldn't have to pay for this. ST explanation to me was that is the only way for me to resolve my data issue is with a new number and newly activated SIM card in my new local area.

Well that's the long and short of it, so if anybody has moved and activated a new ST SIM card in another area from your original location, be aware your data will be affected after approximately 2 months. BTW my move was from Florida to RI. This did not affect my service when I first moved here with my old phone. From June thru December on my old ST phone my service remained the same without disruption.
[Nexus 4 General] jhax01:
The random factor is what I don't get. My wife and I have had ST AT&T for the last 1.5 yrs and have certainly used it like it's unlimited -- zero throttling. Now our speeds aren't exactly setting anything on fire, but they are good enough, 2-4Mbps down, 1Mbps up. I would rather have T-Mobile's speeds with the N4, but when I tested their prepaid, all it did was switch constantly between 3g and H+ with only 1 or 2 bars of service available. Needless to say, battery life sucked.
[Nexus 4 General] jlear3:
Anyone know if you can force to am data from att or from tmobile? I heard you can roam between the two never really anything more. I get no h+ at work or home but when I go to cities it'd be nice to get 20mb/s
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
I considered it after you tipped me about the enrollment fee being waived and sim went down to $9.

Really compared the contracts it's a good deal, in that it includes roaming and fully works with conditional call forwarding (google voice).

But I am on the Tmo/walmart $30 plan and although $49 is only $20 more for unlimited minutes (comparatively). When I realized they charge $10.18 additional tax in FL as well reoccurring monthly. That became $59.18, I see that is double what I am paying now...

Straight Talk with Tmo sim is the more cost effective, as long as they keep with their current variation of unlimited. ST AT&T sim, that's another (bad) story...
[Nexus 4 General] mjpado:
Not good news for AT&T STRAIGHTTALK users

The more I search the internet the more evidence I find that AT&T is pushing Tracfone to the side. The way I am reading it and experiencing is AT&T is slowing data connection to a crawl. Many people are finding their speeds almost non-exsistant. And the way they are getting away with it is you still have unlimited data but, useless speeds. StraightTalk told me they are going to send me another AT&T SIM card however, I cannot find one anywhere online for purchase. I know ST has stopped providing AT&T service for new customers but it looks like the beginning of the end for existing customers. AT&T is pissed that so many people are using their service and they are not reaping maximum benefit and profit. What I fear is, I'll get a new SIM (AT&T) with the same slow speed result, from there I'll be told it would probably benefit me to get a T-Mobile SIM card since my data needs cannot be met by my present SIM. I hope I am wrong but intuition tells me different.
[Nexus 4 General] joey3002:
Just ran a speed test. I'm getting 3500kbps down but only 175kbps up

I looked back at my previous results and used to get 800+

I do zero streaming and only check email mainly.... No way I'm near a limit.
[Nexus 4 General] Loggerhead87:
Do you guys have to pay any fees or taxes with straight talk? With my prepaid T-Mobile plan it's a straight 30 dollars without any additional fees when I pay online.
[Nexus 4 General] Slender Troll:
The only taxes we have to pay are when we buy the refill cards.

Sent from my Nexus 4/Nexus 7
[Nexus 4 General] Loggerhead87:
So refilling online through the website is $45.00 flat?
[Nexus 4 General] Slender Troll:
I think so, not sure, as I've only had ST for about a week. Haven't had the chance to autofill my account.

Sent from my Nexus 4/Nexus 7
[Nexus 4 General] ketjr81:
Nope, if you refill through the straighttalk website you pay taxes and some surcharge it was just over $50 for me. I don't plan on doing it that way again.
[Nexus 4 General] K0dos:
At least with auto pay they charge fees just like postpaid but they are only a couple of dollars. Of you buy a refill code or card this may not be the case. I get a $2.50 discount for using auto pay so my monthly bill is $46 and some change.
[Nexus 4 General] kzoodroid:
I have auto-refill on my account and I pay an additional $5 in taxes and fees so the total bill is $50. I would assume this depends upon your State.
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
That all depends on your city state sales tax.

In Florida I pay taxes for $30 tmo, $32.10 total online and stores. Unless buying from callingmart.

For ST I pay $45 plus sales taxes, $48.15 total.

But no additional fed tax, access fees..
[Nexus 4 General] spoongti:
What the heck. here in Cali, Its just the amount of the prepaid card. Taxes are not charged for the prepaid amount or for anything prepaid in California. It's weird that other states have their weird laws.
[Nexus 4 General] c0LdFire:
A SIM card is a tiny piece of plastic. It does not generate heat, nor can it influence anything else to generate heat. It either works or doesn't, there's no 'in between' that could cause problems with a phone.
[Nexus 4 General] cj1171:
Incorrect. If they switched from AT&T to T-Mo and don't have as good coverage, the phone could absolutely heat up because it's trying a lot harder to find/keep connected to towers. Granted, the heating up would likely be if something is using data and making it try to seek a quality data connection with the tower, but definitely not out of the realm of possibility...
[Nexus 4 General] c0LdFire:
He was inquiring about the possibility of cutting a SIM down to micro-SIM size causing more heat. That is improbable.
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
I recently read tmobiles policy on network/ tower access/ priority. It all depends on how congested the network becomes, if it affects their post paid which get priority, they start slowing mvno customers but it's temporary.

At&t does the same but their conjestion doesn't get alleviated and their automated system throttles mvno customers more long term or permanently. Regardless of what you may or may not be using data for. Even if you don't use anything it will throttle you to a crawl in hopes it helps their premium customers.

My wife hardly used her phone. Less than 500kb (not mb or gb) in a whole month, hardly any text and since its locked iphone no MMS even.. And shes been throttled, where even google.com won't open.. St techs want to call her, I'm betting they want her to switch her att Sim for a tmo one...

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It's probably tmo's signal is not as strong in your service area and the phone has to work harder finding and holding a signal.
[Nexus 4 General] Slender Troll:
It has nothing to do with congestion, it's all about squeezing as much money out of the consumer as possible, without getting into trouble.

Sent from my Nexus 4/Nexus 7
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
Anyone have working discount coupon for a Sim? Tried wootsim, says invalid and simsave, rmnst both get taken out with either only a Sim or a Sim pin bundle in cart.

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Its all about serving their customers first, over some mvnos customers. True its about money, their customers pay a premium. Why pay a premium if Joe some gets the same service for half?

T-Mobile was smarter, but they have less customer base and can do what they did, they made $70 service unlimited. So their premium customers wouldn't think about jumping ship for an mvno offering the same or similar for less. Which is basically what st tmo is for $45 (old $70 plan)

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You could cut it wrong, have the pins aligned wrong and or bend the internal connecting pins. You could even short out the phone. Sims are usually supplied 1.8/2.95v+-
[Nexus 4 General] scottx .:
Been using straight talk since I got sick of att raping me every month.

Works really good here in South Texas. I've gotten a few people to switch to it.

I thought about T-Mobile. I think the data speeds would be much faster. I'm good though for $45 a month.

I cut my regular sim down myself with a pair of scissors yesterday and then today my cheapo amazon sim cutter showed up.
[Nexus 4 General] Loggerhead87:
I'm also wondering about this. $15 for a SIM card seems a little steep.
[Nexus 4 General] Cwebb03:
Getting throttled after 1GB. Just happened the other night. I haven't passed the 100mb threshold in over 10 days, and was fine up till now. Wish there was a better way to get cheap AT&T :/
[Nexus 4 General] mario24601:
This was my thought too. Or could be that phone works harder to keep connection. Either way it is heating up little more with cut Sim but could be way I cut it or something else. I just got att Sim from st so will try that. Hope its as good and stable as my reg att one. Should be.
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
Been going 200mb+ for the past few days on ST T-Mobile sim. Still have full speed.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] Loggerhead87:
So you cannot buy TMO SIMs in-store and there's no discount for buying online?
[Nexus 4 General] peaceman0306:
I just renewed my subscription in the last week and my speeds went from 5 & 6 to 0.12 with ST this really sucks
[Nexus 4 General] peaceman0306:
Is there anyone in NC that could tell me if the T-Mobile Sims card from straight talk is better than the At&T?
[Nexus 4 General] Slender Troll:
The best thing to do would be to check att's and tmo's coverage maps for your area, as it varies quite a lot

Sent from my Nexus 7/Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
Generally (keyword: generally), AT&T has better coverage and building penetration but T-Mobile has faster speeds if your city has HSPA+ 42. The AT&T sim has a much lower threshold for soft data caps, anywhere from 1.5gb-2.5gb (and in some instances worse) whereas you could probably get away with at least 5gb on T-Mobile.

I've been using the T-Mobile sim and have used around 4gb of data with no warning texts (yet anyway).

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] ajbattaglia83:
I'm getting ready to renew after my first month I have a feeling this is going to happen to me I have already watched my speeds decrease
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
http://offers.straighttalk.com/

A free (Samsung T528G Reconditioned) phone tacked on to a Refill / Pin Card at $45. It's easier to resell phone to recover some of the monthly service costs. Available using zip code 12121..
[Nexus 4 General] lowrider262:
Isn't that phone for the Verizon ST service?
[Nexus 4 General] dEris:
I like family mobile

[ Nexus⁴ / AOKP b4 / Tapatalk / Apex Pro ]
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
Sorry I was on a laptop which it's keyboard was whacky and was planning on editing that post to add details.

It's essentially a free phone tacked on to a Refill / Pin Card at $45. It's easier to resell phone to recover some of the monthly service costs ;)

Also found a few sellers on ebay that have the Tmobile BYOP SIM at $13 shipped, but would prefer the free or $10 working coupon codes instead.
[Nexus 4 General] scottx .:
Still using it after a year and five phones. Had to cut it down to micro for my 4.

I was going to switch to T-Mobile monthly 4g but I didnt want to drive to the city for a sim. I don't use many minutes at all.
[Nexus 4 General] Slender Troll:
Relevant:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...t-1-5gb-per-month-t-mobile-remains-unlimited/

I know this is for net10, but this should clarify that ATT is not cutting the data to 1.5 GB on ST ATT Sims. Yet.

Sent from my Nexus 4/Nexus 7
[Nexus 4 General] ctowne:
Anyone else have problems with their ping on ST AT&T?
[Nexus 4 General] kzoodroid:
All that article says is ST wouldn't respond when asked if they were being limited to 1.5 GB too.
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
Network performance and data speeds are identical* Unless there is congestion, on your current tower or area, then T-Mobile customers are prioritized over mvnos'.

Only working APN I know is the one that comes on the card, same as on website support section.

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My guess would be this is also the reason for why they have decided to remove AT&T Sims from the ST site as well. Either because they could not come to an agreement with their (att) unlimited data inconsistency and month long random throttling. Or perhaps a boycott of sorts because of the same..
[Nexus 4 General] SX0T:
Would you mind sharing your APN settings? Your speeds seem pretty great, and I am suck sitting here with ATT Straight Talk and getting 0.23Mbps.....nobody seems to be able to help me, Straight Talk customer service included.
[Nexus 4 General] mjpado:
I Believe ST and AT&T ARE DONE!!

I have been to a few Walmarts in the past week and I can report to you that ST and At&t look done. The only ST prepay phones available on the shelves are the Version covered smart phones (you can tell by the red country coverage map) and some lower end non-smart phones. All other phones are removed. This leads me to believe ST has asked Walmart to remove any phone that has an AT&T SIM card it. Especially now that Net10 has made their announcement regarding AT&T SIM's. It is just a matter of time before the ST announcement considering both companies are under the same parent company. It is too bad, I enjoy my AT&T with ST, but I will NOT pay the prices that AT&T wants. They are today's robberbarrons. Data is extremely inexpensive to move, they are trying to make you believe that it isn't. It is a golden goose to telecom companies and they don't want to lose a cent. If it comes down to it T-Mobile here I come even if it means less reception. Hopefully in the next year or so T-Mobile will figure out building penetration.
[Nexus 4 General] mario24601:
So what happens to those using att ST? Will they eventually get dropped?
[Nexus 4 General] Tunasty:
Do you get problems with the internet?
[Nexus 4 General] Slender Troll:
I doubt it, but our data will probably be limited. (I say "our" because I use ST ATT)

Hopefully this doesn't happen.

Sent from my Nexus 4/Nexus 7
[Nexus 4 General] ctowne:
That sucks. I'm assuming you have hspa in your area, correct? I'm just using the stock APN for ST minus the proxy.
[Nexus 4 General] Slender Troll:
http://wirevalley.com/ultimate-apn-settings-for-straight-talk-with-android/

These are the settings I use. I don't think I have ever had my phone on 3G. It has either been on H or R or E.

Sent from my Nexus 4/Nexus 7