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[Nexus 4 General] Karl_in_Chicago:
I did same as you - primary # is GVoice and switched from Sprint late last year. You need to call T-Mobile support and ask them to disable voice mail. This conversation may take a bit. On my call it took a while before the person understood that I was asking to turn OFF voice mail instead of restoring vmail service.
[Nexus 4 General] :
So T mobile rep just paid my next cycle for free.... All this over a technicality.... I love tmobile.
[Nexus 4 General] biggiestuff:
Only if you let it ring all the way through. If you end it in anyway it goes to the t-mobile primary voicemail system.
[Nexus 4 General] Karl_in_Chicago:
That has not been my experience
[Nexus 4 General] biggiestuff:
I know if you're on the regular non-pre-paid accounts it goes straight to google voicemail, but on the pre-paids if you try to end the call via the swipe end feature it'll go to the regular t-mobile voicemail system where you have to type in a number to get to the mailbox. If you let it ring through or just silence it then it'll go to google voicemail. Are you using grooveip or sparephone or is it just ringing directly to your phone?
[Nexus 4 General] Karl_in_Chicago:
Since I'm at home I just tested this. Called my Gvoice # from my home land line. When my cell rang I swiped to the red "don't answer" phone icon. The land line call was then picked up by Google Voice and prompted me to leave a message, which I did. My phone then immediately received the usual notifications that I had new voice mail. Seems like it is working exactly as I expect/want.
[Nexus 4 General] plasticarmyman:
I just downloaded tmobiles Visual Voicemail app...so I don't answer my phone and return calls using Vonage...its way easier and less hassling of tmobiles reps
[Nexus 4 General] abdi7451:
Does this $30 plan even exist?
[Nexus 4 General] androidfoshizzle:
Just search T-Mobile prepaid hit activate
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
You tell me.
[Nexus 4 General] Karl_in_Chicago:
Renewed my and my wife's plans last week.
[Nexus 4 General] abdi7451:
Weird, couldn't find it on the front page. You would think they would flaunt a $30 plan, but its no where in sight.

Is it this?
[Nexus 4 General] mitchdickson:
Keep scrolling down.

Right below the Pay by the day section.
[Nexus 4 General] SonicYan:
Click on browse plans beside that image of $70 to the left.
[Nexus 4 General] androidfoshizzle:
Towards the bottom of the prepaid page
[Nexus 4 General] abdi7451:
Thanks for the help guys. Sucks they don't have like a $25 plan with unlimited talk and text, but no web plan.
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
They have another $30 plan that's 1500 minutes of talk, unlimited text, and 30 MB of data (so close to no data). It's $30 on the dot.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2
[Nexus 4 General] toanau:
Currently I am on the T-Mobile $70 could I down grade it to the $30 plan?
[Nexus 4 General] baiju2012:
Nobody mentioned it recently, but one can download the T-Mobile voice mail on this plan. It saves minutes to call the T-Mobile voicemail if in case one uses it.

Nexus IV
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
Nobody mentioned it because it's common knowledge lol.
[Nexus 4 General] baiju2012:
Yeah. But not for the new guy.:D

Nexus IV
[Nexus 4 General] leebo:
Must be me :rolleyes:
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
That would happen normally, but they have the T-mo voicemail disabled. In this case if you call the T-mo number it will ring indefinitely until it just stops, and if you call the GV number and the call is rejected it will keep ringing until GV picks up after the 25 seconds GV allows the phones to ring.
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
Just so you guys know, prepaid SIM cards are free. Add it to your cart, use the promo code 99SIM, and then proceed to checkout. The price should go $10.00 -> $0.99 -> $0.00 (at checkout). I just did this myself to have a backup SIM card.

It's good until July 1st. Doesn't seem to want to work on the MicroSIM kit, but it worked on the full sized SIM for me. You can cut that down to MicroSIM size very easily.
[Nexus 4 General] :
Just started this plan a couple days ago on my iPhone 5. All I did was go to local Walmart to buy the kit and they luckily had one more in stock. It cost $40 which includes your first months payment. The kit itself comes with a micro sim but my iPhone 5 required nano. So to get it working with my iPhone 5 you have to buy a nano sim from a tmobile store for $10-20. However I had an extra nano sim laying around so I didn't have to pay anything. To get the plan go to tmobile activate website for prepaid users. Input the activation number, the sim card serial (USE THE SIM CARD YOU PLAN TO PUT IN THE PHONE) and your phone IMEI. Once you input all of those you choose a new phone #, choose the $30 plan etc and you're basically set to go.

I thought it was going to take me a while to get this plan since I read horror stories of people dealing with tmobile and walmart trying to get this plan but I got it all done in under 10 minutes. I also get LTE here in southern california too.
[Nexus 4 General] SonicYan:
Which iPhone is this, the one from at&t? Yeah basically did the same thing, picked up the kit at a local Walmart. I picked the 2nd to the last one, I wonder if we went to the same store. :P

Makes me want to root my phone just to get lte.
[Nexus 4 General] jblazea50:
can anyone suggest/recommend any cheap 4g tmobile phone to test out this service?

thanks
[Nexus 4 General] bozzykid:
The Nexus 4?
[Nexus 4 General] :
Factory unlocked iPhone 5 from Apple. The revised one that was released in April. I get LTE without rooting or anything.
[Nexus 4 General] SonicYan:
Guess I'll have to ask elsewhere if LTE would work on an AT&T iPhone on T-Mobile prepaid. =P I've read about the newer iPhone working but not the one released by At&t.

Just to clarify, I wanted to root my Nexus 4 to get LTE. Was just wondering about my wife's iPhone.
[Nexus 4 General] bozzykid:
Sure, it will work just fine for LTE. What the non-PCS enabled iPhone 5 (AT&T version) won't get is HSPA in non-refarmed areas. So you will be stuck on Edge unless you are in an area that is refarmed. But LTE will work fine anywhere T-Mobile rolls it out.
[Nexus 4 General] SonicYan:
Didn't know that, thanks.
[Nexus 4 General] RootTheMachine:
So I just drove 6 hours going to Iowa from Illinois. My phone on T-Mobile prepaid showed either gprs service or roaming on some network called i-wireless most of the trip. My AT&T phone showed full bars of H+ the entire way. Is this coverage just the way T-Mobile is or would it not be roaming if I was on postpaid?
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
You would have better roaming availability/options if you were on postpaid. T-Mobile is more of a network for urban areas (cities), as far as I can tell. I live in NYC and it's great. But I know that most people don't live in a city and need to rely on Verizon or AT&T.
[Nexus 4 General] pjd2011:
Please spare any redundancies as I've only made it through about 30 pages on here.

I am ordering a Nexus 4 for my roommate. I'm looking at this plan through T-Mobile. The thing is she is very electronic illiterate so I'm going to try to stay away from Google Voice components so she just has one number to worry about. With that being said..

- Is the Vonage app the best thing for her minutes? It will call as her Tmobile number and use data correct? She can just use the stock dialer but use Vonage to make the call? She will just have to tell the person who calls he that she will call back.

- The T-Mobile voicemail app can be accessed through an app all using data, right?

- If I activate LTE on the phone will LTE work with this plan? She commutes around Detroit so LTE should be on its way soon!

Thanks Guys!
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
1. If you're friend is tech-illiterate and talks a lot on her phone, I don't think she should be on this plan. Put her on Solavei; $49 a month for unlimited talk, text, and 4GB of data with LTE.

2. Going by the above, if you're looking specifically to get LTE, I don't think you should get a Nexus 4 because it's not "officially" supported. But that's just me. You'll get LTE if it's available in your area and you have the correct modem. It's part of the plan.

3. The Vonage app, as far as I know, requires a Vonage account and makes calls using THAT number over data.

4. Yes, the T-Mobile Voicemail app will save you minutes by downloading your Voicemail over data.
[Nexus 4 General] js365:
Thanks for sharing this. Definitely would like to give it a try.
[Nexus 4 General] gagdude:
3. The Vonage app actually uses number spoofing so it will use whatever number you want it to use as long as it can send an activation text to that number
[Nexus 4 General] lilgiz:
3. The Vonage app does not need a Vonage account to make calls. I believe it only needs an account to receive calls
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
Alright, I was wrong. However, I still don't think it's good for someone who knows nothing about technology to rely on the Vonage app to make calls. I stand by my other points.
[Nexus 4 General] ziddey:
Vonage is about as simple as it gets and quite reliable. Recent versions finally included integration with the native dialer. I've made great calls over hspa/lte/wifi. A whole lot less involved than setting up an intricate voip / google voice solution, and automatically uses your tmo number. Only "issue" may be battery drain, but for someone who doesn't know anything about technology, just blame it on the phone
[Nexus 4 General] meats:
I'm on the road a lot for work and was wondering if anyone can recommend a good calling card for domestic calls that is considerably cheaper than 10c/minute that Tmobile charges for overage.

I've tried wifi calling with mixed results and would like to have a calling card option so I don't burn through my 100 minutes. Since 1-800 calls are free at most hotels, this seems like a good solution. Also, sometimes I'm in an area without good T-mobile reception.

Ideally I'd like to not have to carry a card around and have my CC billed monthly. Any advice would be appreciated!!!
[Nexus 4 General] leebo:
How do you get it to use the native dialer? I don't see anything under the apps settings.

Speaking of settings, apparently there aren't any, or almost anyway. My brother complains that my voce volume is low when I call him using the Vonage app, but there are no settings to adjust my mike sensitivity, like there are in the GrooveIP app.
[Nexus 4 General] ghostlobster:
I'm confused by what the actual goal is here... in order to use a calling card, you'd have to make a call to a toll free number first, which would use your mobile minutes, regardless of the fact that it's to a toll free number. Now, if you're saying that you would use a landline for those calls, then I'm not certain that a thread about the T-Mobile $30 prepaid plan would be the right place to get an answer.
[Nexus 4 General] meats:
I would be using the hotel phone, not my cell phone, i figured other people with this plan might have a similar situation.
[Nexus 4 General] pjd2011:
This is my biggest concern. If she could use the stock dialer but opt to call using Vonage it would be perfect.

In regards to LTE not officially being supported - that's no big deal. I figured I would activate it if the plan worked for sh!ts and giggles and since it does I still may do this.

Even if she goes over her minutes by a bit it would still be cheaper than $50 a month.
[Nexus 4 General] ziddey:
If it doesn't prompt you, you need to goto app settings, all, phone:

Scroll to launch by default and clear it.
[Nexus 4 General] leebo:
On mine it says, "No defaults set".

I also have GrooveIP installed. When I hit the phone icon to make a call, it asks me whether I want to make the call using the default mobile network or GrooveIP, but not Vonage.
[Nexus 4 General] toanau:
Has Anyone deal or experienced with the T-Mobile/ Walmart $40 unlimited
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
You mean the $30 plan with 100 minutes, unlimited text, 5GB (unlimited EDGE afterwards) plan?

EDIT: Oh I checked out the Family Mobile plan on Walmart. It says $45 a month for Unlimited Talk and Text. That's pretty crappy.
[Nexus 4 General] chunjaenim:
I see these...

http://www.walmart.com/cp/Family-Mobile/1076544

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Family-Mobile-WebPak-Refill-Card-40/15120407

Is this through T-Mobile?
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
It is, but it's a ripoff:
[Nexus 4 General] chunjaenim:
Well, not sure what defines as a 'ripoff', but it is pretty crappy.

1Gig at 3G speed, regardless of number of accounts? So if you have 3 members in your family plan, all 3 get to share 1Gig at 3G speed.

http://www.walmart.com/cp/1083044
[Nexus 4 General] toanau:
my brother just sign up for this plan. i told him to go with the $30 plan. what is the draw back of this plan?
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
The $40 Walmart plan is unlimited talk and text with ~1GB of data (not mentioned if LTE is included). If you're a talker/texter but not a big data person, that seems fine.

The $30 T-Mobile plan is 100 minutes of talk ($0.10/minute afterwards), unlimited text, and 5GB of data (including LTE), with unlimited EDGE afterwards. If you're not a big talker, or you don't mind paying a bit more per minute after the initial 100 (or you don't mind VoIP apps), this is a better value.

If you do the math, if you go with the $30 plan and talk for 200 minutes total (~3.3 hours), you'll end up paying $40 for the month. So unless you're planning on talking for more than 200 minutes, the $30 plan is a better value.
[Nexus 4 General] toanau:
Currently I have the T-Mobile $70 plan. Could I change it to the $30 plan?
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
No. It's only available at signup. You might be able to find someone who can switch you to it, but I highly doubt it because the rep would be breaking the rules. Also, if you switch from the $30 plan, you can't get it back.

Worst case, activate a new SIM and do an in-house-port of your number (port it from your old T-Mobile account to your new one) if your number isn't in Google Voice.
[Nexus 4 General] sashusmom:
You can get a new activation kit, call CSR, and tell them you have a new activation kit and you want to switch to the $30 plan. They will also switch your number for you. I did it. If they say no hang up and call again. It took me 2 calls to get someone who would do it. You need to call the prepaid CSR number. Be very specific about what you want to do and specific about the plan you want to switch to and make sure you tell them you want to keep your number. Worth a shot. I know others have done it too.
[Nexus 4 General] mattybaby:
Free T-Mobile Prepaid Phone Micro SIM Card Activation Kit

The T-Mobile Prepaid Phone Micro SIM Card Activation Kit is back in stock for free with promo code 99SIM. The kit is normally $10 + tax. The Micro SIM card fits in the Nexus 4. http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/phone-sim-card
[Nexus 4 General] ShinnAsuka:
its technically not free? for example if i bought 2 i would have to pay 2 dollars, not saying its a lot of money, but it isn't exactly free? How do you get it to be free lol?
[Nexus 4 General] TG2708:
Ok i have the plan activated but need to pay monthly (not a problem). If I should not pay for a month will I lose the plan? I know I will have no service though.
[Nexus 4 General] plee3:
I just ordered a new SIM using the 99SIM code and although it shows up as 0.99 in the shopping cart, when you checkout the final price is 0.00 (free).

Hope this helps... plee3
[Nexus 4 General] SonicYan:
Curious about this as well.
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
I forgot how long they give you, but there is a time period where you're ok. Look it up.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2
[Nexus 4 General] muzhik:
anyone have any experience with S4 on this plan? hows VOIP working for you outside wifi coverage area? thx
[Nexus 4 General] GriffenD:
No I believe you have about 3 months until you'd need to pay again. After that I believe the plan is forfeited and it becomes a pay as you go account.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] Gorilla*:
Questions.

I have read a bunch of pages so here goes.

I have a Droid DNA on verizon and i checked and it has all the required T-mobile bands except 1700mhz..

Will this make data unusable?

Basically i have a micro sim coming in the mail, and am going to activate my DNA using this plan so i can test it out along side my verizon service..

If all goes well i will just port over.

I want to know that I will be able to get 42mbps hspa+ on the DNA or atleast 21 so i can test it to the full potential.

IF i activate my DNA on this plan, cant i just swap between my sims during the month to get both verizon and tmobile?

I would get a temporary new number on tmobile...

Im basically concerened about not having the 1700mhz band and how that will affect service...

Thanks all..

Oh yea.. So i wanted to try VOIP apps instead of minutes i heard vonage, grooveip, and talkatone were the best.

Thanks all.
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
You will only get HSPA+ 21 and it will only be in refarmed areas. Most areas use AWS (a combination of BOTH, as in you need both, 1700 and 2100 MHz). You won't get LTE with the DNA.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2
[Nexus 4 General] Gorilla*:
what about having the device on 2 carriers active at once on 1 imei?

Will it allow this, or will tmobiles website know the imei is in use on verizon?
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
It doesn't matter, so no. It's worth mentioning that the Verizon S4 and onwards support T-Mobile LTE (AWS LTE).

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
Hey guys, someone told me a way around the 15 Mbps throttle and it worked. I tried this on my Note 2. Using a file explorer with root access, go into /data/system/throttle and delete the contents. Then either put your phone into GSM Only mode and back to LTE/WCDMA/GSM mode or reboot (so the files regenerate). After, immediately go back to /data/system/ and set the folder permissions of the throttle folder to Read and Execute only (remove Write permissions).

You should be able to hit above 15 Mbps now (network permitting):

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2
[Nexus 4 General] k0lega:
Remember you from the EVO days. Glad to see you ditched HTC and sprint!:good:
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
HTC is not so bad. Sprint? Don't even get me started. I even worked for them.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2
[Nexus 4 General] flight243:
Do you guys know if the so called Regulatory Programs Fee is really charged to the prepaid sim cards available at http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/phone-sim-card ?

I was about to buy the Micro Sim Activation Kit to have connectivity in my next trip to the US (~1month) but right after checkout and before payment at the bottom of the page the terms & conditions clearly stated that I would be charged this 'Regulatory Programs Fee' on a monthly basis, and to be honest, even though it's just $1.61 per month I don't want to be paying even when I'm back to Europe.

Is it for real or a mistake from T-Mo? If this fee is really charged, is there an easy way to cancel the account once I'm back home and not using the line?

Thanks in advance!
[Nexus 4 General] New Optimus:
on any prepaid account those fee's are included in the monthly charge. Say you decide to go with the $30 100 min plan you put $30 in the account ( using ebay or some other discounted place) and pay $24-28 right, when your renewal date comes up that $30 sitting in your account is taken, thats it.
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
It's $30 flat. You're not paying $31.61, and you can unlink your card and let the account "die" at any time if you want. That's the purpose of prepaid; you can stop at any time.
[Nexus 4 General] bozzykid:
If you pay through your T-Mobile account, you will be charged tax so it is more than $30. You can get better deals elsewhere obviously.
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
I'm confused, my first month's bill was $30 on the dot, paid through my card.
[Nexus 4 General] baiju2012:
You must be from a State which has no sales tax. Is that true?

Nexus IV
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
NY? Could be.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2
[Nexus 4 General] sashusmom:
NY definitely has tax.
[Nexus 4 General] baiju2012:
I don't know then.:)

Nexus IV
[Nexus 4 General] chopchopw:
Number switching

Hey guys; I could not an answer by searching so I thought I would ask you guys.

I just got a tmobile prepaid plan with a new phone number as porting over my at&t number would cost me 200 in early termination fee; however, I was wondering if I could still port my google voice number over. Would tmobile allow that?

Thanks in advance
[Nexus 4 General] GriffenD:
I believe so but you have to pay something like $20 to google to "unlock" your google voice number. After that's complete you can call T-Mobile customer service and ask them to port it over.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
Depends. If you paid to bring your number into voice, you don't pay to port it back out.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2
[Nexus 4 General] chopchopw:
Hey guys, I know that I can port over if I start a new service with tmobile; however, I already did choose a random number from tmobile prepaid and just want to change it to my google voice number to avoid the google voice app (it is so slow on my note 2) and just plan to use vonage to make outgoing calls. Would I be able to do so without activating a new service? I could not find any information on a case similiar to this.

Thanks!
[Nexus 4 General] GriffenD:
Ah good to know, thanks!

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
You can do that. That's exactly what I did. When I left Sprint a year ago and went to Straight Talk AT&T, I ported my number to Google Voice in case they ever tried to close my account for too much data usage (a common occurrence on Straight Talk). But when I switched to T-Mobile, the data was clearly defined as unlimited (after the 5GB of 4G/LTE speeds), but I still was skeptical. So I went a week with a random number while my real number was still in Voice. After a week of testing out the service, I called them up and said I wanted to port over my number to overwrite the random number. Took them a few minutes to do, took a day or two to kick in. You get a text letting you know it worked, and then you reboot the phone to let the phone register on the network with the new number.

BTW you can save minutes calling voicemail by using their Visual Voicemail app.

Things you need to know when you port in AFTER activation:

1. When you port over a number afterwards, it "resets" your T-Mobile account, so you need to re-setup auto-pay if you had that set up originally.

2. It activates a stupid web filter on their end that you need to go to a store to turn off (so they know you're 18 or older, since anyone can get a prepaid phone). I know, it's dumb. Worst case you do it over chat or phone, but it requires that you fork over your SSN. In store, you just need ID (if you look young, obviously).

3. BEFORE you port your number from Voice, you need to unlock it here. If you initiate the port before, it will get rejected: https://www.google.com/voice/b/0/unlock

4. Your phone number and account number (when you're asked) are the same number. Your password is your Google Voice voicemail PIN. If you don't have one, set one up for the sake of porting.

Overall, it's easier to port during the initial activation, but you can also do it afterwards if you don't mind #1 and #2 that I stated above.
[Nexus 4 General] chopchopw:
Thank you so much Product!!! This is exactly what I was trying to find an answer for. Added in too much extra money to the account by mistake last night when I was setting it up; would be sad to see it go to waste if I have to open a new account. Just one last question, did you have any problems with the google voice number after you ported it over? I heard it had some problems with texting and incoming calls from other gv numbers.

Thanks!
[Nexus 4 General] Product F(RED):
Not really; worked fine. I mostly use Whatsapp anyways, so if there was initially an issue, I wouldn't know about. Everything's fine now.