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[Nexus 4 General] wideasleep1:
I see..just wanted to be clear, to register this plan on any phone requires a new SIM activation. You can migrate out of this plan any time, but to get this plan back again always requires activating a new SIM. That seems to be the only requirement for this plan, that doesn't match TMobile's other plans. The reason, I think, is because it's lower overhead to keep this automated (phone prompts/online), and consequently no activation fee.

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We have had reports from users that CSR's were unable (didn't have the coding,etc.) to apply this plan. That may have changed.
[Nexus 4 General] HTCMDA:
I switched to it. Didn't go to Walmart, didn't do it online. I called and asked.

Sent from my SGH-M919
[Nexus 4 General] wideasleep1:
That's rare.
[Nexus 4 General] Caebron:
It may just be a matter of luck which CSR you happen to get on the phone. Not unheard of.
[Nexus 4 General] gabriel1946:
Have a quick question in about to switch to this plan and was wonderingif you guys are able to tether fine? USB and WiFi?
[Nexus 4 General] cmb6:
I wifi tether with no difficulty, so long as I tether to an Android device or a web browser using an Android user agent. If I tether to either Windows or Chrome OS and do not change user agent, T-Mobile will, after a little while, block it unless you pay $15 per month to tether.
[Nexus 4 General] HTCMDA:
I tethered playing world of warcraft for about 10 hours over a week. No issues
[Nexus 4 General] gabriel1946:
Can one if u fellas link me to this plan? I've been looking for a hour and cant find it only dead links.. Ty :good:
[Nexus 4 General] HTCMDA:
It's not on their website anymore, it USED to be.

EDIT: If you want this plan, buy a $30 sim card starter kit from walmart (it comes with a sim card and your first month of air time for this plan). OR call t-mobile and switch to it. *just make sure you get directed to the prepaid department*
[Nexus 4 General] gabriel1946:
Yea i seen that too.. needless to say i went too Walmart and those employees were so confused by that plan.. " never heard of it" so now i cant find where to get it
[Nexus 4 General] HTCMDA:
You shouldn't have to speak to anyone man. Just go where they have prepaid time cards, back in the electronics section OR the cell phone center and look. It's a package you can pick up physically. And setup is done online or by phone. If you don't see one they are probably sold out try a different Walmart. There are 3 Super stores within a 10 mile radius of where I live. LOL I'm sure you'll find one brother.
[Nexus 4 General] gabriel1946:
Does it look like the regular 30$ prepaid card? That's all they had

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Is this it? http://mobile.walmart.com/ip/T-Mobile-SIM-Kit/24099996?type=shop-by-department
[Nexus 4 General] HTCMDA:
Nah. It's gonna be the size of a CD case or maybe a tad bigger. It also might be inside a plastic box that they have to open. But you should still have the ability to walk it to the cash register yourself

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Yes that's it.
[Nexus 4 General] gabriel1946:
Thank bro for the help by the way.. So im assuming that sim kit is it.. Is it hard to set up or relatively easy online?
[Nexus 4 General] HTCMDA:
Yes that sim kit is it. And it's super easy. If you can read and type in a sim number you can do it lol. And you're welcome.
[Nexus 4 General] gabriel1946:
Koo koo ill be getting it tomorrow.. Thanks again brotha
[Nexus 4 General] HTCMDA:
Np, you're welcome. Ohh. If it doesn't come with the right size sim card for your phone. Just follow the steps to activate and when you're done go to a tmobile store and swap Sims. They will hook you up free. That's what I did going from my galaxy s2 to s4.
[Nexus 4 General] gabriel1946:
Right on.. Yea the sim in using now i had to cut.. Another question after the 5gb do you run out of data or is it throttled? And what does it get throttled too?
[Nexus 4 General] HTCMDA:
Data is unlimited and after 5gb it goes to edge speed aka 2G....I found out the hard way after getting my S4..LTE will eat some data lol. Just don't use speedtest apps 20 times in a row for a week smiling in awe because the data is fast. You'll be good
[Nexus 4 General] gabriel1946:
:laugh: that's exactly why i was asking..5gb is pleanty of data but i use my phone like a computer Haha
[Nexus 4 General] HTCMDA:
I never went over about 2.5gb even when tethering my galaxy s2. But hell yeah I went over 5gb playing with the speed test app over and over. Now that's out of my system it's actually a pretty hard task to get that high for me.. Even tethering for world of warcraft (without using speed test)
[Nexus 4 General] osi13:
I highly doubt it. I've hit over 20Mbps down a few times, in various different areas.
[Nexus 4 General] thebest:
ulaw works, I just mean that Speex works with both ulaw and g729 disabled. When I attempt to enable g729 only in the Asterisk Sip settings it doesn't let me dial out.

This is the d/l I used http://asterisk.hosting.lv/bin/codec_g729-ast18-gcc4-glibc-core2.so

cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor : 0

vendor_id : AuthenticAMD

cpu Family: 16

model : 10

model name : AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T

stepping : 0

cpu MHz : 3850.369

cache size : 512 KB

fdiv_bug : no

hlt_bug : no

f00f bug : no

coma_bug : no

fpu : yes

fpu_exception : yes

cpuid level : 6

wp : yes

bogomips : 7700.73

clflush size : 64

cache_alignment : 64

address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
[Nexus 4 General] gagdude:
What do you highly doubt......? :confused:
[Nexus 4 General] osi13:
I highly doubt prepaid users are being throttled. Obviously once you go over 5GB of data, you'll be throttled to 2g, but I still haven't come close to that.

Try the "codec_g729-ast18-gcc4-glibc-opteron-sse3.so" build. It may work, but I'm not 100% sure. Barcelona may work too.

To determine if G729 has been loaded, get to the command line and type "asterisk -vvvr" then you will be in the asterisk CLI. Once you're there, type "core show translation" if there are only dashes under G729, then it hasn't been loaded. By the way, have you restarted asterisk? type "amportal restart" to do so. This needs to be done after installing a codec.
[Nexus 4 General] Vanhoud:
Prepaid users are throttled.... That's why we have data caps lol
[Nexus 4 General] gagdude:
I think he was talking about the 5GB cap
[Nexus 4 General] Ichigo:
It's you! :eek:

Sent from my Kindle Fire
[Nexus 4 General] M2oSa:
Hi there,

I don't think that my question has been asked before so I'll try to be clear.

I am currently in a family plan, with my sisters @ TMobile.

Now, I want the $30 Plan, but I also want to keep my number.

I read the previous pages and understood that my current account can be transfered from PostPaid to PrePaid.

Here's the question, If I transfer to the $30 plan, will I still be in the family plan or I will have my own thing?

Thanks ;)
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
Your own thing, but I'm not sure if you can just transfer from an existing account. Best bet is to port your # to Google Voice and then just open a new $30 plan. Don't give that number to anyone and call customer service to disable that voicemail. This assuming you don't have any problem using Google Voice, which I think is much better than regular carrier's voicemail.
[Nexus 4 General] lt_knox:
Can someone who switched from MetroPCS tell me how long it took to port their number?
[Nexus 4 General] M2oSa:
If I do that, what about my current contract with Tmobile?
[Nexus 4 General] gagdude:
If you are still in the 2 year contract, by porting your number to GV you are terminating it, and would have to pay the ETF
[Nexus 4 General] adi_scorpios:
My friend just transfered his metro pcs to tmobile they said it will take 24 hours to port number to tmobile.
[Nexus 4 General] quarksurfer:
I am switching from gnex to n4. Sipdroid works on the gnex as usual, but on the n4 is says "registration failed (401 unauthorized)". anyone else get this? all I did was install the sipdroid app, then set up the same username and password as worked on the gnex...
[Nexus 4 General] kzoodroid:
The $30 plan is for new activations only you can't transfer accounts.
[Nexus 4 General] testrider:
Are there any other free site like pbxes.org that can be used with sipdroid/csipsimple? Thanks!
[Nexus 4 General] readams:
I'm sorry if this has already been answered but I don't see it anywhere. What happens if you go over the 100 minutes on the prepaid plan? I assume it switches to like $.10/minute? Or does it get cut off? If it switches to per-minute fee seems totally worth it since you'd have to average going over by 300 minutes/month. If it just gets cut off then it could be a real problem.
[Nexus 4 General] Vanhoud:
I believe it just gets cut off unless you decide to add more money into your prepaid account
[Nexus 4 General] Pheno.menon:
It gets cut off but they warn you when it gets low and you can add more funds right from your phone with tmo app so it's not really an issue.

Transmission sent from my Galaxy Nexus.
[Nexus 4 General] jaybeeunix:
They don't cut you off -- They charge you $0.10/min, but it's pulled from your account balance immediately.

http://support.t-mobile.com/message/196903#196903
[Nexus 4 General] gabriel1946:
Ill be using it for league of legends and maybe some other games.. I was worried tethering would be a problem good to know it'll work fine with no extra fees.. I look forward to the lte greatness i guarantee imma go over from playing with the phone too much Hana
[Nexus 4 General] wideasleep1:
Since it's online/phone only, there are no links to 'get' the plan, but it is mentioned on the prepaid page, scroll down to Pay By The Day:

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans
[Nexus 4 General] moxiot:
hey guys. awesome thread. quick question:

can you upgrade to the 70$ unlimited data and switch back to the 30$ 5gb while keeping the same number? im asking because i will be without home internet for about 2 months but want to keep the same number.

thanks
[Nexus 4 General] rpstrongbad:
Nope but you cant go back to the 30 plan... But you can restart it at any point ... It happened to me one time I ran the out of the data and had a week left so I just called and had them start the next cycle early
[Nexus 4 General] whitedragonz83:
You can upgrade fine, but to go back you need to be a "new customer". Not sure you could make that claim if you attempt to re-sign up and port a number from T-Mobile to T-Mobile.
[Nexus 4 General] wideasleep1:
Not exactly...you simply need to activate a new SIM and port the 70plan number during activation. It is all automated.
[Nexus 4 General] photec2:
Same here. I'm on PA Beta6
[Nexus 4 General] shahankur3112:
Links for the plan

Buy sim from here - prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/sim-card

activate over here - prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-activate

If you have unlocked device you can tether as much as you want
[Nexus 4 General] testrider:
What'd a good way to tether? I have a rooted Note 2. Thanks.
[Nexus 4 General] cmb6:
I have always used the tethering setup and toggle that are baked into custom ROMs.
[Nexus 4 General] jjflemin:
Anyone else having issues with Groove IP on T-Mobile? As of yesterday afternoon outgoing calls have no incoming voice and I do not receive incoming calls, but get the missed call notification. Everything works properly when connected to wifi, so I believe the network is the issue. I also know 3 other people that have the same issue as of yesterday afternoon.

Any ideas?
[Nexus 4 General] Ztones:
I opened a case with T-Mobile with my same exact issue. Everyone's symptoms are exactly the same, and all started Wednesday afternoon. The technical support escalated it to engineering, and asked for 72 hours to try to get to the bottom of it. The more people call the better.
[Nexus 4 General] jjflemin:
The people I talked to insisted it was groove ip's problem unfortunately. I will call again today and keep trying to make a case.
[Nexus 4 General] Ztones:
What helped me was arguing that I know five other users who's issue started happening exactly at the same time and only on T Mobile's network. There are only 4 components to this: the phone, groove IP, Google and T Mobile. It cannot be the phone or groove IP if many others are experiencing the same thing at the same time (not to mention the fact that I had wipe the phone and reinstalled everything clean). It can't be Google because then it wouldn't work on wifi. This leaves T Mobile. My Tech troubleshooter from t-mobile had me delete the data from Google IP and restart the phone. While I had the phone off she did something on her end to refresh something on T Mobile's network regarding data coming to my phone, then after I restarted the phone. It still didn't work, then she asked me to try on wifi and then it worked perfectly. That seemed to be the tipping point, when she escalated it to engineering. Whatever that means. But I was told to give it 72 hours. Yeah, I think we need to make some noise to T Mobile.
[Nexus 4 General] sashusmom:
There is actually a 5th component. GV is dropping their support of 3rd party apps. Maybe Groove ip i the first to lose GV support?
[Nexus 4 General] Ztones:
Not really, because then it wouldn't work over wifi either. The only other possibility is Google voice blocking T-Mobile for some reason, since this only occurs on T-Mobile's network.
[Nexus 4 General] moxiot:
i have a question guys. up until the last refill I was never charged taxes (i pay with a debit card) now i am being charged taxes when i attempt to refill.

the only thing that has changed is I upgraded to a galaxy note 3 (ebay). Anyone else being charged taxes to refill as of late?
[Nexus 4 General] Ztones:
You can buy credits / pin from Callingmart and they don't charge taxes.
[Nexus 4 General] cmb6:
Did your state's sales-tax law change? In addition to Calling Mart, you can buy refills on eBay or target.com (5% sale ends today, but the refill cards are likely out of stock online) to save yourself sales tax.
[Nexus 4 General] werdrew:
Hey guys, I've had the $30 T-Mo plan for some time, have tried using GrooveIP, Talkatone, Spare Phone, PBXs, and pretty much everything with every setting imaginable. Just wanted to let you know what works for me..

I'll be honest, after all of that testing and messing around, I've settled on using Skype. I got the first month free (you can get a premium account for 30 days free, then I pay $2.99/month for normal account). I've never gotten such a clear call quality with absolutely zero echo.

So now I pay $33/month, I use the 100 minutes for incoming calls (if I get close to going over I just start calling the people back), then use skype for ALL outgoing calls which only uses my data, of which is unlimited. Anyway, with Google changing voice policies and no sign of Groove getting better, this is what works for me, just thought I'd share! Good luck!
[Nexus 4 General] wideasleep1:
You and I reached the same conclusion, after all sorts of configurations. Skype wins for the time being, and is well worth the meager expense (I bought a Skype number too).
[Nexus 4 General] brizmontay:
supgent cles

I'm having the same problem as well. I went as far as resetting my phone to factory settings.
[Nexus 4 General] HTCMDA:
I personally use the vonage app. It's free, and uses your same number. No need to have crap routed through 20 stations just to get a call forwarded... That seems dumb to me. Use the vonage app and talk for like 3000 minutes
[Nexus 4 General] Postal Psycho:
but doesn't skype require the recipient to also be on skype? My son's elementary school probably can't be skyped.
[Nexus 4 General] werdrew:
That's for free skype to skype calling. They also offer monthly subscription services which allow you to call any number (both landline AND mobile) to anyone in the US and Canada (they offer other countries and worldwide plans as well). The subscription I use costs $2.99, which is completely worth it to me when added to this T-Mobile plan.

Vonage has worked for others, but I still got lag and echo. Groove IP scattered and the person on the other end would get horrible reverb echo. With Skype both myself and the other side sound like a landline. No more apologizing to the person on the end of the phone.

I just looked and wasn't able to find the free Skype Premium offer that I got in December, but I would still recommend trying it for a month. It's only $3, then you'll at least know.
[Nexus 4 General] Nicraz:
I lasted about 7 months on this plan and I was also paying Skype $2.99/month. But it was just getting harder and harder to stay within 100 minutes. Recently, I had a couple family emergencies and realized I just didn't want to deal with this anymore. So I changed to the $60 plan. It was good while it lasted.
[Nexus 4 General] Postal Psycho:
If the proposed dropping of XMPP third party support happens next month and groove ip and others no longer work, then I will have to ditch this plan.
[Nexus 4 General] jjflemin:
Any update on the T-Mo/GrooveIP situation? I haven't heard back from customer service yet.
[Nexus 4 General] Ztones:
No unfortunately. T-Mobile was useless. I reopened the case after the first one was closed, but I'm not expecting much. What I did find out that it seems to be regional. Not every T-Mobile customer is experiencing this, but many are. I'm in the NY area. Where are you?
[Nexus 4 General] jjflemin:
Well, that explains us being in the same boat... I'm in NYC. Thanks for the update, I figured as much.
[Nexus 4 General] highnoteuser:
jjflemin brought me over here from a thread I started on the same issue (http://xdaforums.com/nexus-4/help/voip-mobile-network-problem-t2668639)

I actually use Spare Phone most of the time and ended up getting GrooveIP because it stopped working. Same symptoms though and further explained in my post linked above. I am in Fl for what it's worth.

I'm just trying to hold out long enough for Google to integrate Voice into Hangouts like they did for the iPhone... otherwise I guess I'll try skype if I have to.
[Nexus 4 General] Ztones:
Groove IP dev wrote me back and said that he thinks it's something on T-Mobile's end. I also found out that hangouts is also having trouble connecting. Hopefully T-Mobile will fix this soon!
[Nexus 4 General] Fire Ball:
Yep, I just tried to do a Hangouts video chat with my gf while she was on T-Mobile LTE and I was on WiFi. Strangely enough it didn't work! We video chat on hangouts all the time normally. I wonder what T-Mobile did to mess it up, lol.
[Nexus 4 General] highnoteuser:
My Hangouts didn't work either... And we are not alone: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=50660711

So now I don't have Hangouts or my Google Voice number to communicate with... This is getting lame
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
I used to be on the $30 plan. I've been on the $70 plan since around October or November, and was able to use Hangouts video chat like a week ago. I'm also in NYC. It seems T-Mobile may be doing something to people on the $30 plan to get them off of it. Maybe they want to scrap the plan? It doesn't make sense that it's only happening to people on the $30 plan.
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
Needs to have more info. Here in LA with the Nexus 5 stock it's working fine on LTE. Just tested right now by calling my iPod Touch with another account.
[Nexus 4 General] Fire Ball:
My gf and I are on the unlimited postpaid plan and hangouts video chat would not work for us yesterday so it is not just people on the $30 plan. She was on T-Mobile LTE and I was on WiFi. She has an LG G2 and I have a Nexus 5. Try using hangouts video chat again. I'm pretty sure it was working last week but now it's not.

I'm having problems near LA. Didn't work between a G2 on LTE and my Nexus 5 on WiFi.
[Nexus 4 General] highnoteuser:
It appears that I am back in business with no change on my part... Anyone else as lucky? *knock on wood
[Nexus 4 General] Ztones:
Yeah! It's working! Finally! :)
[Nexus 4 General] highnoteuser:
I am being told that my VoIP call quality (WiFi and 4G) is like night and day compared to what it was before the outage.
[Nexus 4 General] Ztones:
Hm.... I wasn't told that. Did you check if your settings changed?
[Nexus 4 General] highnoteuser:
No. I actually used to turn the mic gain down to about 15% to help eliminate the echo. After it started working again I was first being told that I sounded very low so I bumped it to 50%, checked for echo, then bumped to 100% and was told it sounded like a normal land line with perfect volume and no echo. Score!
[Nexus 4 General] ModusPwnd:
Unsupported device!

I've been using the $30 plan for years.

Now it won't let me renew. The T-Mobile app says "unsupported device". Under data plan check it says "Non-compatible data plan alert". I guess this is the new version of the app that is doing this. I suppose I shouldn't have been using the T-Mobile app, but even under the web page it had my correct device all these years...

Any ideas how I can get this working again? Uninstall the app and renew my plan via the web? Get a new sim card? Anybody else have this problem?
[Nexus 4 General] testrider:
I never used their app to renew. I always go to their web site, log in and renew by entering my Visa. Have you tried renew on the web site?
[Nexus 4 General] ModusPwnd:
No, I'm afraid it wont work and I will lose my money... Perhaps I should just try it anyway.
[Nexus 4 General] Sumanji:
I pay via the web site using auto-renew - it charges my card automatically at the start of every month and tops up my "reserve fund" for any out-of-plans calls I make.

Pretty much like being on post-paid :)
[Nexus 4 General] JamesRep:
How about the range?

How is the Cell coverage for T-Mobile? I have often wondered how the signal coverage compares to other providers? AKA is it great as long as you do not put a toe outside the city or does it work farther out?
[Nexus 4 General] fortunz:
The thing about tmo and sprint is not that they have iffy coverage everywhere. Where I went to college they easily had the strongest and broadest signal with the fewest spotty areas, beating att, sprint and verizon, and there were no issues traveling in nearby rural areas or on the interstate. That's obviously not going to be everyone's experience everywhere.

And with roaming agreements, your issue with signal isn't that it doesn't work, but that data speeds drop.
[Nexus 4 General] Sumanji:
The biggest problem I have with T-Mo is the signal penetration into buildings.

Since they use higher frequencies, I often get 3-4 bars of LTE in open space, but then drops to one bar of Edge or no signal at all when I move into a building.

I really hope they snap up some 600 MHz spectrum next year....
[Nexus 4 General] ModusPwnd:
I uninstalled the T-Mobile app, renewed online and it seems all is well. Thx!
[Nexus 4 General] cmb6:
I've been very pleased with T-Mobile's coverage. I've had a better experience with it than with Sprint or AT&T.

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I get refills from Target or eBay and keep a balance in my T-mobile account. I especially like it when using a Target Red card when Target has a 5% off sale.
[Nexus 4 General] whitedragonz83:
If you can put it on your credit card as protection (~$800), starting next week you could be loaned an iPhone 5s and test their network for free.

http://www.t-mobile.com/TestDrive‎
[Nexus 4 General] marekca:
Remaining minuts

Hello.

I wanted to check my remaining minutes by ussd code #min# (#646#) and I got from TM answer like on screenshot. Can somebody check this problem?
[Nexus 4 General] testrider:
I got the same thing for the last few weeks and I couldn't get my remaining minutes unless I log in to the web. This is really sucked! When dialed #BAL# it just gave me my balance in $.