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[Nexus 4 General] dynamicpda:
If you're not limited by the tower, I have read anecdotally that the $30/mo TMO plans are rate capped.
[Nexus 4 General] InvalidUsername:
How is everyone getting this plan? When I click "change plan" in my tmobile account, it's not listed. :confused:
[Nexus 4 General] trent25:
You cannot change to it. It's for new customers, as in you have to activate and pick it up during activation.

Even if you get on the $30 5GB plan and then change away from it even if for one day, you cannot go back to it. So never miss a billing cycle and keep enough money in your accounts.
[Nexus 4 General] glebonator:
minutes

I really want to switch to this plan, and 5GB is just right... but oh god those voice minutes! What are people doing to settle for 100, voip everything?

Also there is no free night/weekends either, right?
[Nexus 4 General] bryceb04:
I would guess att, but not for sure. It was definitely better when stopped for gas.
[Nexus 4 General] Jungsoo:
Does anyone use T-Mobile in the central Jersey area? More specifically near Princeton. I'm thinking of switching from Straight Talk and their abysmal data speeds.
[Nexus 4 General] Eric-1987:
Can some one post the APN for T-Mobile lte? The thread was deleted.
[Nexus 4 General] kingoftowns:
loving this plan so far, you guys. data speeds are money in my area, especially coming from Sprint, and considering whenever I am on WiFi I kick over to GrooveIP and use my GV number VoIP style the 100 minutes should be enough, I'm only on my 3rd day though so will have to see.

if I end up needing more minutes I am going with GoSmart Mobile's plan of $45/month for unlimited talk/text and 5GB of HSPA+, they are owned and operated by T-Mobile so should work perfectly.

loving my N4!
[Nexus 4 General] ziddey:
same as regular, except apn is fast.t-mobile.com
[Nexus 4 General] Eric-1987:
How do I enable LTE? I did that and I get H+ connection but no LTE and I am getting around 6-10mbps connection. Should it say LTE? How do I check?
[Nexus 4 General] ziddey:
lte isn't out yet. use the search
[Nexus 4 General] Eric-1987:
I did and people said they got LTE with their phones already. Why do you think theres a tmobile APN? I'm in Vegas.
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
Also IPv4/IPv6

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] ziddey:
oh you're in vegas. ok search for what to add/change in your build.prop for lte.
[Nexus 4 General] Eric-1987:
I searched the web and came up with putting the code in the dailer and changing it to LTE? Is that what you mean? I didn't see anything for LTE in build.prop tweaks.
[Nexus 4 General] machostallion:
Same thing happened to me. 2 days before my first 30 days ended I got a $30 pin from callingmart and entered it into my tmobile account. The Web and phone app both showed the funds were there but for some reason the account wouldn't pull the credit automatically. I had to call in which took at least 15 min to straighten it out. They had no explanation as to why it wouldn't use my credit.
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
I've had the LTE APN and had it changed in the testing menu to LTE for a while now and nothing yet. Southwest Vegas.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] Eric-1987:
I live near south point and Fry's. Where are you? I don't know the area like that.
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
Fort Apache and Russell. Not too far from you.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] paulieb22:
I had the same exact issue my first month. Had to start a chat session with T-Mobile to resolve it. Interestingly, I had to escalate to a supervisor to get it resolved... first level support just said I had to wait up to 24 hours and that there's nothing she could do because the plan is a "special Wal-Mart plan". The supervisor also offered no explanation as to what caused the problem, but he was able to resolve it and my second month went through with no problem.

Might just be something to keep in mind for anyone about to reach their first payment date on the $30 plan.
[Nexus 4 General] keijikage:
My first month I didn't renew by the time the text message they sent me stated, but I paid in the day between payment due and the start of the next cycle- I also ended up losing data that first day.

Made a call to CS and told them there was a balance in my account, but it wasn't deducting to renew my service. About 2-3 minutes all in and they reactivated my service.

Now? I just make sure I carry a balance in my account before payment for the next cycle is due, which is in reality a day or two before the cycle ends.
[Nexus 4 General] baiju2012:
...

How do I set up my auto-pay to always be ahead of the billing date??

...

My date was 20th of the month. They screwed it up for me too. I had to call them to resolve it. After that experience, I changed the auto-pay date to first of the month. I guessed, if I lost 5 days a year (6 days in a leap year),I still have four years before they reach me.

In your case, if you want the maximum time, set your auto-pay to 2/6, the day after they charge your account. But you can choose any date in that week and be worry Free for few years.

I am thinking of using callingmart.com next time as the 5% savings with no tax (6%) savings add up. Hope this helps.
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
Straight Talk offers Tmobile byop service. Is that what your refering to as offering abysmal data? If so then switching to tmobile wouldn't help you as it would be the be results.

If you're on their att byop and tmo has better service thrn you might consider switching to their tmo version.
[Nexus 4 General] farmerbb:
Well this morning I successfully ported my number from my existing T-Mobile postpaid plan to this one. The entire process took literally ten minutes from starting the activation process online to having working service. Couldn't be happier with my phone service right now.
[Nexus 4 General] gagdude:
My guess is he's talking about the throttling ST does that they never lift
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
Congrats, usually they only allow new activations. Existing can't switch, once you switch out you can't get back on either.
[Nexus 4 General] Corunir:
I was speaking with a T mobile CS rep over the phone about my abysmal signal inside my warehouse. LTE is supposedly active on the Strip. I was asking if it required a different APN setting. Was informed it did not.
[Nexus 4 General] milan03:
Can any of you guys go to the location and verify that?
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
Anyone else get page load / data access lag?

I tired using the lte apn and tired setting gsm auto prl. But it seems to still have a delay.. Any fixes or settings to try?
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
I can try later today. Going to the apple store later. (Wife's 4S)

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] SnowBeer:
I ordered a tmo Sim which I haven't activated yet. My plan was to do so for a month on a new number to see how it works in the locations I usually am at. If I'm satisfied, I plan to port my number over to that t mobile prepaid account. Are you saying they might not let me do this and keep the $30 plan because it is new accounts only?
[Nexus 4 General] ziddey:
You can port at a later date. You can't change TO the $30 100min 5gb 4g monthly4g from any other plan. It has to be setup when the sim is activated.
[Nexus 4 General] lazer155:
Really? So you're saying if I switch out of tmobile by porting my number to another carrier then switch back in to get the $30 per month 4g plan, they won't let me do that? Even if when porting my number back to the $30 tmobile plan, I get a new sim?
[Nexus 4 General] ziddey:
You cannot reactivate an old sim... you'd be activating a new one, so yes, you can sign up for the $30 100min 5gb plan......
[Nexus 4 General] sashusmom:
VVM/GV

This post has to do with using google voicemail and tmobile visual voicemail.

When I ported my main number over to google voice several months ago, I wasn't quite sure how it was going to work. I read tmobile voicemail had to be turned off on your account, and I read it didn't. So I started with doing nothing.

I read if you extend the pick up of tmobile's voicemail (there is a setting to change, but can't remember where, sorry!), and google voicemail kicks in first, then all your google voice number calls will go to google voicemail. This worked. I get 6 rings and my google voice picks up.

If I called my tmo number, it went to tmo voicemail. It goes 7 rings so that makes sense.

I read about tmo visual voicemail last nite, and getting it to work on monthly 4g. I downloaded the app last nite, started it, and it just hung. Didn't load, it stalled and said communication problems or something like that. Tried 3 times and gave up. I went on tmobile live chat and asked about it. They told my it would work with monthly 4g- asked what kind of phone I had, Gnex, and it should work. I told them it failed last nite, but I would try again. I don't know if she did anything on her end, but when I opened the app today, it was loaded and ready to go. It is working for my tmo calls very well. You can also stop the ringing early, send directly to voicemail with a text to the caller, and it goes to your tmo VVM, not google.

So tmobile visual voicemail does work on monthly 4g. Now, my tmo calls go to tmo visual voicemail, and my GV calls go to google voicemail. If I had this tmo VVM initially, I may have skipped google voice totally and used tmo. I can still give it a try by turning off google voicemail. But I do like the text message containing the messages. You have to pay $3.99/month for this on tmo VVM.

Anyone can do this. :victory: Just google exactly what you want to accomplish and everytime my answer was popped up and usually lead to an xda thread!:laugh:

I can't remember exactly what I did, but I do know I did not shut off tmo voicemail to get google voicemail to work. You can't use the conditional call forwarding type of setup. Everything has to be set manually. I did not change any forwarding numbers. Just timing. And tmo chat was a huge help. I think she might have provisioned my account on her end but I can't prove that.
[Nexus 4 General] farmerbb:
No need to switch out of T-Mobile then switch back in. Like ziddey said, you just order and activate a new sim online, and input your current T-Mobile number when it asks if you want to keep an existing number. A new sim card activation means you're perfectly eligible for the $30, 100 minute plan.
[Nexus 4 General] Eric-1987:
No lte on the strip for me.
[Nexus 4 General] vendetta718:
This plan is great for the price but the reception especially building penetration sucks.
[Nexus 4 General] Jungsoo:
This is the case. The general consensus for where I live is unfortunately that tmo has very poor service in my area.
[Nexus 4 General] Mr Ian B:
I currently have $33.00 balance on the account. My monthly renewal is tomorrow. Do I need to move money or does it automatically pull $30 from my $33 balance and renew the plan?

Tia,

Ian B
[Nexus 4 General] kennyh327:
My first month just ended and I was in the same position with the same amount and they just drew the money out of the account and renewed for another month.
[Nexus 4 General] Mr Ian B:
Ok, thanks. Actually looking again it was due today but, $30 not pulled. Called tmobile and she said as long as I have $30 balance, it will auto renew. It did not today and went to maintenance status. She fixed it on their end and asked me to power off phone for 2 mins and the phone should be good to go.

Ian B
[Nexus 4 General] testrider:
And tmobile charges not per month, but for 30 days. So it's not always on the same day of each month. Strange. For example, last month I was charged on 25, and this month I was charged on 24.

Sent from my SGH-T989
[Nexus 4 General] bozzykid:
It usually goes through the day after they say it does in my experience. If you would of waited another day, your new 30 days would of started. It always uses your balance for the recurring plan or if you are over your minutes it uses your balance for calls at .10/minute.
[Nexus 4 General] Censura_Umbra:
Little off topic, but I read in a nexus 7 thread about a $20 plan with talk and text and 1.5 GB of HSDPA+ anyone know about this plan? Not sure the number of minutes or texts
[Nexus 4 General] lazer155:
Does anyone know if roaming is allowed (for voice and text, I don't mind if data isn't covered) on this monthly 4g plan? This thread suggested it was: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2028493

So far this plan is working great on my N4 but I occasionally go out of town to areas that are covered by tmobile's roaming with at&t and would like to know if I would be able to utilize that roaming coverage. If I can, do I have to enable roaming in the mobile network area of settings where the roaming check box is or is it automatic?
[Nexus 4 General] sashusmom:
I have read on several sites that voice roams, but data does not. Would think that text will roam along with voice too.
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
5Gb for $10 more seems the better deal.

ATT has a tablet plan 2Gb for $25.

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There is a guide, it explains that prepaid do not roam at all.

That post thread seems to be referring to 4G plan, but doesn't make it clear if it's referring to prepaid or contract.
[Nexus 4 General] sashusmom:
This is off of tmobile's support site

http://support.t-mobile.com/message/205219?tstart=0

1. Jan 3, 2013 8:45 AM (in response to lkoleszar)

Re: Does monthly 4G include Service Partner voice roaming?

Hey Ikoleszar,

No Annual Contract customers can roam domestically on selected networks as long as we have roaming agreements in that area. Data in those areas will not work. This may be something we can troubleshoot on the device. Do we have roaming turned on depending on the device?

Let us know

-Drew

howardforums also agree- they also say texts roam too.

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1764614-Voice-Roaming-with-Monthly-4G
[Nexus 4 General] Censura_Umbra:
I agree it is a better deal, but I often have WiFi, so I could probably survive with only 1.5gb, and why not save the $120 a year?
[Nexus 4 General] efan3719:
Has anyone experienced high upload speeds but non existent download speeds? I got about 700 to 800 kbps up but 10 to 50 kbps down. I've been trying to fond out if I'm just in a bad service area but no one on the T-Mobile forums has answered me.
[Nexus 4 General] Edw00d:
I have the $30 4G Monthly plan. Voice and Texting do indeed work with Roaming. Worked great. No data, of course.
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
Me neither. Drove up the strip with LTE only enabled and then LTE/GSM/CDMA back down.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
Notice their reply, annual contract customers get to roam.

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True, I save by not having wifi or additional internet at home. :D

It all depends on your usage. I'm out and about a lot. Used 1.5Gb in a week of light use on my phone.
[Nexus 4 General] Eric-1987:
Did you add the build.prop tweaks for it?
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
No. I'm not rooted.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] magicriggs:
This maybe a dumb question but I'm going to ask it anyways. Since T-Mobile prepaid is first party does it get some of the perks as postpaid customers get, such as roaming. I know with third party prepaid companies such as ST their is none. I'm on straight talk ATT and I know I'm bound to its towers and only its towers. I would love to jump to this plan but coverage is a issue in my area. Any info would be appreciated.

Edit: Nevermind found the answer on the previous page. I read the first 20 pages of the thread and didn't see it asked so I skipped to the previous page and found my answer.
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
Straight talk DOES have a roaming agreement between ATT and TMobile on its plans. At least for voice/text. It's written in the TOS.
[Nexus 4 General] mohitrocks:
Err for just calling, would Talkatone work?
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
Talkatone works but for me, the sound quality is fuzzy.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
I use talkatone, but vonage sounds better.
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
Yeah I use Vonage Extensions from time to time. My data has to be good because of the terrible lag with low signal speeds and drop offs. Pretty sure I'm just gonna switch to ST so I don't have to worry about all that.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] milan03:
Did you try both epc and fast APN settings? IPv4/6 on fast, etc?
[Nexus 4 General] acegolfer:
I compared the following 7 different free VoIP solutions that go well with this plan. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2057887

GrooveIP

talkatone

Vonage

pbxes/sipdroid

simonics GVGW

PIAF (asterisk)

pbxes/callcentric/csip

Try all out and see which works best for you. Different strokes for different folks.
[Nexus 4 General] Eric-1987:
I don't think I can use an android phone without flashing roms/rooting. Too many things I use require it. I love flashing.
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
Yup.

I used to be a flashaholic with my past 2 phones but decided not to root this phone for 2 reasons.

1) It runs how I want it to out of the box

2) Flashing ROMs/kernels took up A LOT of my time

I'm by no means a novice at hacking/modding, just chose not to do it this time around.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] OJ in Compton:
How do I remove Web Guard from this plan? Is the only way to do so to sign up for a My T-Mobile account?
[Nexus 4 General] thebryceee:
You have to change it on settings online. It didn't work for me and had to call CSR.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] chexuma:
The only way I could remove it was to speak with a customer service representative. And even that required calling twice.
[Nexus 4 General] revamper:
Worked fine when I made an account and removed it online.
[Nexus 4 General] madmike413:
I removed it online but it did not take, I called cs and they turned it back on and then off again and no more wg!
[Nexus 4 General] joch256:
I'm currently already a T-Mobile prepaid customer, but I'd like to switch to this plan as I just got my nexus 4. Is it possible to port my number over to my n4 after I get it activated?
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
Yes you can.
[Nexus 4 General] sashusmom:
I had a PAYG prepaid plan on tmo. I was able to not only transfer the number, but the balance as well. You just have to have a new activation kit on hand and if the rep says they can't do it, thank them, hang up, and try again with a different rep. I did it after hours with their outsourced calls- sounded like the Phillipines. Took me 2 calls and it was done.
[Nexus 4 General] sooner82:
I signed up for this plan right when I got my Nexus 4 and am loving it. With google voice, all I do is scan my NFC stickers at work and at home to forward my number to the correct phone. I rarely actually have to recieve calls on my cell. My first month is almost over and I've only used 11 minutes so far.
[Nexus 4 General] jaybeeunix:
you can port after using the "temporary" number for a while. i did that to try t-mobile before canceling my vzw service.

when you're ready to port, tmo's porting support line is available directly at 1-877-789-3106 m-f 8am-midnight, sa-su 8am-10pm eastern.
[Nexus 4 General] jgreemo:
Working great so far...

I'm on an N4 unlocked and rooted with the stock rom. The T-Mobile plan has been excellent so far, with a few minor limitations. 100 minutes is thin but I picked up an ObiTalk 100 and set it up with Google Voice (ported my Sprint number and using call forwarding to the hand set). Also using Tasker and the Locale GV Integration to automate call forwarding to the Obi and my work phone based on location or manual entry. So far, so good and since I live right on the coast in So Cal, I usually had a very spotty connection. T-Mobile is better (I was using the Sprint Airave) and the Obi is as good as a regular land line through GV.

Data speeds are also much faster than what I was seeing on Sprint (OG Evo 4G), so I'm stoked with that. Google Voice has also worked really well, with the known issues. The native sms app I don't use due to the number issue, so I have to use GV for text and vmail. I had T-Mobile customer support deactivate my Tmo voicemail and so far it's been flawless for both rejecting calls and letting them ring to voicemail. I had heard of issues with rejecting calls going to some Tmo prepaid black hole, but GV picks up a declined call and will also pick up after about 25 seconds of ringing. Not sure why others had an issue with declining calls, but so far so good.

What's not so cool is obviously the 100 minutes but for $30 a month, the workarounds have been perfect and I keep $10 of extra dough in my account for any overages. I was paying almost $90/mo for sprint so it's a steal. Not great coverage at work, but then it wasn't very good here on Sprint either, so that's a wash.

Also, the T-Mobile rep who helped me in the store went the extra mile and got me set up with a sim and the $30 plan even though it was only supposed to be available online or through WalMart. Props to the kid for saving me some time!
[Nexus 4 General] ehwhoknows:
Unlimited texting and google voice, are people using it?

It seems most people are using google voice in conjunction with this plan. As I understand it, when using google voice, texting will come out of your data plan right? So I'm wondering, are people taking advantage of the unlimited texting aspect of this plan? Or are people generally just texting through google voice so it comes out of their data plan?

Thanks in advance.
[Nexus 4 General] acegolfer:
I can't speak for everyone but I only give out my GV number to my friends. I barely remember what my Tmo number is.

We also have ppl using tasker to use airplane mode when on wifi to save battery. So texting using Tmo cell won't work.
[Nexus 4 General] svengalis:
I wish I would have known this before, I could have saved $20, I got misinformed.
[Nexus 4 General] baiju2012:
I use texting on t-mo network. I really use that with all my friends as 100 minutes are limiting. But I love this plan on Nexus 4. Saving $40 a month. Can't be happier.

:D
[Nexus 4 General] killswitch11:
Just switched to this plan yesterday! Even though T-Mobile's customer service is HORRIBLE, this seems like an awesome deal. I'm not really planning on doing much regarding the 100 minute thing. I've tested the Vonage app out from home over my wi-fi network, and so far so good. The calls tend to cut out a little but I can live with it.

On a sidenote, why is it T-Mobile employees are so confused by this plan? The lady at the store yesterday didn't really know what I was talking about when I asked about the $30 plan, and then told me I would be forced to change my phone number. I called bull**** and got hold of T-Mobile myself and it wasn't a problem at all to port my existing number to this plan. I hope it works out since its pretty awesome going from $80/month to $30.
[Nexus 4 General] graffixnyc:
I have a post paid AT&T account (contract) that I use my GS3 on. I wanted to get the fastest data speeds possible when I get my N4(21 as opposed to 42) so I just ordered a activation kit from TMO. I'll see how I like it. Since I'm still keeping my GS3 at least until my AT&T contract is up 100 minutes is plenty(I also have a work BB for calls)

I'm also going to try Straight Talk TMO sim for a month and see how I like that
[Nexus 4 General] revamper:
Straight talk t mobile is the same thing as prepaid t mobile...?
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
No. One is offered directly by tmobile the other is a reseller.

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Originally this plan was only offered and obtainable at Walmart ( hence the walmart plan ). It only recently became available and can only be activated online using a new sim ( new activation ). Most stores know nothing about it as it's not offered nor can they activate it at the store. Unless they apply for you online.