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[Nexus 4 General] gagdude:
for those people who actually dont mind you saying "hold on let me call you back" (because it's a rude thing to strangers, but friends and family should understand/not care), you can just have them download the vonage app, and it has incoming from vonage for free.

I invited the people I talk to most. works nicely
[Nexus 4 General] Mr Ian B:
Congrats on your last post, it was your 2000th and helpful. Will use that line next time for incoming calls. LOL

Ian B
[Nexus 4 General] conundrum4000:
Can you walk into a retail store and get the sim activation kit then activate online or can you only order it from website?
[Nexus 4 General] revamper:
It's supposed to be an online exclusive.
[Nexus 4 General] jeffmhasty:
The sim activation kit is $10 in store, but online it will only cost you $0.99 and free shipping. If you can wait, it is worth it.
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
Assuming you meant "same" instead of "game", is it documented that the Vonage mobile app uses g.729?
[Nexus 4 General] c0LdFire:
I'm not 100% sure. Someone testing the app here on XDA, however, claimed that's what he found it uses. I'd love to find out for sure. When the stars align and CSpSimple actually gives me good quality (rare) G.729 certainly sounds similar to Vonage.
[Nexus 4 General] donec:
The stores here do not carry the activation kits they carry the micro sim cards and can activate your phone for you but claim to require a special service according to the phone you have and cost more than online.
[Nexus 4 General] conundrum4000:
Okay I'll just have to be phone-less for a few more days then. :)

Thanks!
[Nexus 4 General] K0dos:
I ordered my Sim online it came in the mail a few days later. It was only a little over $1 with tax and shipping us free.
[Nexus 4 General] donec:
It took me 3 tries to get my micro sim activation kit and over a month from T-mobile, but received money on my card for the hassle.
[Nexus 4 General] Spartoi:
I tried getting this plan and the following steps:

1. Buy Activation Kit: http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-phone/T-Mobile-Prepaid-SIM-Activation-Kit

2. Buy $30 Refill Card

3. Activate Sim

4. Choose Plan

When I tried to get the $30 unlimited data and text plan with 100 min I was not eligible. The reason being is that you have to get a $30 activation kit from walmart (which require purchasing a new phone). So, I dunno how anyone else has managed to get this, but I was unable to. Just a warning to those who were going to follow these steps.
[Nexus 4 General] milan03:
Looks like the $70/month Unlimited/Unthrottled plan is coming out for T-Mobile Monthly4G prepaid!

"Some good news for Monthly4G customers as your opportunity to take advantage of T-Mobile’s Unlimited 4G data plan finally arrives on January 9th. T-Mobile’s Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data plan is “Perfect for video chat, streaming music/movies/TV and playing online games” with all the pleasures of a no-contract environment.

The new $70 Unlimited plan will replace the current $70 Unlimited talk/text and 5GB data plan starting next Wednesday. The introduction of this plan shows T-Mobile’s continued efforts to remain serious about their prepaid offerings, now their biggest growth driver. With the addition of MetroPCS’ customers later in the year, T-Mobile’s Monthly4G offerings are likely to take an even bigger piece of the pie as at least some of those customers are likely to jump onto T-Mobile’s no-contract offering."

http://www.tmonews.com/2013/01/t-mobiles-unlimited-data-plan-coming-soon-to-monthly4g/
[Nexus 4 General] altimax98:
I only bought the activation kit and went online when it came, setup my card on autopay and it worked... Took about 10 minutes for the card to actually become active though
[Nexus 4 General] ziddey:
can you be more specific about how you went about activating? sounds like you did it wrong.

you can get a bit of a runaround if you call in, but they absolutely can do it. On the website, it's as straight forward as it gets, assuming the system is willing to take the activation code that day.

It's supposed to be "exclusive" to walmart and tmobile.com, but a rep can do it if you call in. If you goto a tmo store or indirect, they will not activate the plan for you.
[Nexus 4 General] HarryH123:
They most likely don't give those bonuses like no minutes used with T-Mobile to T-Mobile calling because the $30 Plan already gives a great deal for the money.
[Nexus 4 General] Mr Ian B:
Weird. That is the kit I got which comes w $3.xx dollars of credit. Went to Tmobile site and activated it and the $30 plan was an option for new customers. I then called Tmobile and they ported my phone. Took about 4 hours for the port to start ringing in the Nexus phone although I got the ported successfully text in the Nexus 4 within 30 mins of activating the SIM card. I am coming from Walmart AT&T Straight Talk. You can also call Tmobile reps and they will honor it as I was told by their reps.

Good luck,

Ian B

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Correct, no mobile to mobile, nights and weekends minutes are free. All minutes on phone incoming or outgoing count towards the 100. I am using vonage mobile for all my outbound calls which are free since over Internet and not over cell lines. For my long talkers callers, I have invited them through vonage app to install for free and call me through it. If they can't then decline the call and you call them back through your vonage app for free. Now this is only true for USA calls and Puerto Rico afaik. Reception on bondage mobile has been clear and excellent.

Ian B
[Nexus 4 General] SilverRubicon:
I was able to get the $30 plan by the steps.

1. Buy activation kit from tmobile online ($0.99)

2. Buy nexus 4 from google.

3. Register phone and port number online at tmobile.

4. Done.

No trip to Walmart. No phone calls, no salesmen. Couldn't be easier.
[Nexus 4 General] pedxing:
I've been messing with all kinds of VoIP options and have to say that the easiest with the best quality is use your minutes for incoming and use Vonage for outgoing.

Many VoIP solutions work fine for outgoing. All of your frustration will come from getting good quality and reliable service for incoming calls while not killing your battery life. VoIP registration sucks and sucks hard when you're moving around between networks with wildly varying speeds and firewalls with nats and so on.

I figure for 45 bucks i get 250 incoming minutes and unlimited outgoing. That's plenty for my use. And hey every now and then i only spend 30 because i don't go past 100.
[Nexus 4 General] Karl_in_Chicago:
Same here

Easy peasy.
[Nexus 4 General] acegolfer:
I agree that for most people on thie $30 plan, using Vonage Mobile is a great compromise. This will be ideal, if your friends can also install Vonage Mobile. It uses push notification so there's almost 0 battery drain.

One small price you have to pay is lack of android integration. Try calling a restaurant from Google Maps. Not a fun experience.
[Nexus 4 General] Spartoi:
Maybe its because I called T-Mobile and not online, but the rep said she couldn't do it. :(

EDIT:

Decided to recall T-Mobile after reading some posts here. I spoke to a different rep and he was able to change my plan. ZOMG.
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
Do you remember the thread? I could only find one but the guy wasn't sure and there were no sources either.
[Nexus 4 General] baiju2012:
Same experience for me. I am doing the same thing, plus my office contact # is GV using GrooVe IP. This way I save minutes when office folks call me.

Device: Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] pedxing:
True true. I've used your guide (which is awesome) and still have csip installed for outgoing calls that have to be from the native dialer.

Ironically i ran out of minutes today on my plan and still have 10 days left in the cycle. :rolleyes:
[Nexus 4 General] whahn1983:
I believe I read that Vonage uses the iSAC codec. It's the way they handle things like data rate, packet loss, and echo cancelation that give their app an advantage over using csipsimple with another PBX provider even with the same codec.
[Nexus 4 General] pkrboo:
I am here for a few months and want to get a short term sim. T mob seems the one to go for BUT i went into a Walmart yesterday and they said the do not do seperate sims.

How do I get one? I don't think can order online as I don't have an american credit or debit card.
[Nexus 4 General] ziddey:
A T-Mobile store should sell you an activation sim kit for $10. They won't be able to activate this plan but you should be able to do so online or by calling in. After you have established the right plan you should have various methods of adding the balance

Or you could get a prepaid/gift credit card.
[Nexus 4 General] overlord727:
Has anyone else had any trouble porting their number over? I got through step 4, but when it comes to step 5 where I need to add funds, I keep getting an error. Do I need to wait for my number to port? This was at 10:00pm last night EST and it still has not ported as of 9:23am EST.

I am waiting for my number from google voice to port back to tmobile. I did unlock my number and input the pin/account number as was said on the google voice site so the port should work properly.

Thanks!

EDIT:

So I called T-Mobile and apparently google voice has a bunch of requests for number transfers, so it should be done tomorrow. I can add funds to my account after I get the successful number transfer text whenever I get it. In the meantime, the lady told me my AT&T can still be used and to keep checking the sim card tomorrow for the text message.
[Nexus 4 General] Psilocin:
So if you are porting out your Google voice number, then does that mean you have to pick a new gvoice number to replace it? Or was this number that you are porting out to tmobile a number that you ported to gvoice for a while and now the gvoice will revert back to the original gvoice number that you had before you ported?
[Nexus 4 General] TerpU82:
I wonder how long it'll be free to make 3000 minute calls/month?
[Nexus 4 General] overlord727:
I plan on picking a new google voice number to replace it. My current one was ported over form an old carrier as a placeholder until I finally made it over to t-mobile. If gvoice did MMS, I wouldn't have ported it but its still so limited as of right now... In any case, I'll just pick a new one.
[Nexus 4 General] revamper:
I'm loving this plan!
[Nexus 4 General] Androyed:
Damn, that's cheap. Stupid Netherlands. I'm paying 17 dollar for 100 minutes/sms and 1GB, and that's like the cheapest you can get.
[Nexus 4 General] Mr Ian B:
Vonage mobile will help you till end of month.

Ian B
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
That's not bad at all, I'm sure quite a few of us would take that for 17 bucks. Only problem for me would be the 1GB, but that can be worked around, I mainly use it for streaming music.
[Nexus 4 General] altimax98:
That would be insane for my wife
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
My throttled straight talk ends tonight. So I took a ride to my local tmo. They don't sell the sim kits without activation anymore. They can't activate this plan either. It's online offer only.

Like others mentioned, at walmart you have to buy one of their tmo phones and they can activate it on this plan, but don't sell the sim alone.
[Nexus 4 General] Bloodawn:
does anyone know how long Vonage's free call offer is gonna last? all it says about it on their site is its a limited time offer.
[Nexus 4 General] Mr Ian B:
Last I read all of 2013.

Ian B
[Nexus 4 General] Rakeesh_j:
How do you guys like t-mobile in general? I'm looking at switching to them from sprint.

Sprint is slow as ****. They should rename themselves to Crawl, as that would describe them better. They should also call it the "An upgrade is coming! Network" because they always say a network upgrade is around the corner but it never does. They charge an extra $10 a month for anybody who owns a smartphone, and they call it "premium data". Their "premium data" is about the same speed as 2g.

That said, anybody who has been with sprint, how does t-mobile compare to them? I'm a bit hesitant due to a possible "grass is always greener on the other side" syndrome.
[Nexus 4 General] gagdude:
Speeds pretty much blow Sprint out of the water. There is a sacrifice of building penetration and coverage (the refarming should help this). If you live in an area that has good coverage, then T-Mobile is great. If you travel a lot to rural areas then the spotty coverage gets you.
[Nexus 4 General] raiderep:
I would echo these comments. I am almost through my second month on tmo and not missing sprint at all. I am in a good tmo coverage area which I checked on before making the switch, I recommend you check your area for coverage too. Speeds are way more than I need and that's all I was ever hoping to get from sprint. And 30 bucks a month speaks for itself! If its right for you I say join us and leave the contract carriers behind, freedom and gsm phones are the future in my opinion...at least I hope so because consumers deserve more control over this locked down industry.

Sent from my Nexus 7

Edit: forgot to add that rural coverage is way better than sprint was for me but that's just my experience, YMMV as usual ;)
[Nexus 4 General] Rakeesh_j:
I very rarely go to rural areas, but sprint coverage is terrible in those areas as well, assuming it even exists at all. I live in the phoenix metro area, and sprint will probably never offer 4g here (for the last four years, they've been saying that it is coming here in a few months) meanwhile I pay the premium data fee.

I'd switch sooner rather than later if the nexus 4 were available for purchase.
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
Sprints always used the excuse "we're updating our towers right in your trouble area".. All of metro Miami...

Their unlimited is like a Ferrari on a one lane pot hole traffic filled bike lane..

Tmo is really the fastest data I've ever used. But building penetration was an issue whwn I was on them last, which was 8-9months ago. I just order prepaid sim to test $30 plan and see if they have gotten any better in my area. If they have I may keep service or switch to solavei (tmo mvno)
[Nexus 4 General] altimax98:
I agree 100% with the above post. I live in Lakeland Fl with 1900mhz Tmobile H+. I was with Verizon. I switched and honestly I can say nothing has changed with the way I use my phone. I have far superior coverage then Verizon had in my area and although it isn't quite LTE speeds I still get constant 8down.

But here are things to remember:

You don't get as great coverage in buildings. Normally it isn't bad, and it isn't every building. For instance I get No Signal inside of little stores in a closed top mall. In the walkways I get H+. I get no signal most times in target, but signal next door in Publix (grocery store). I work on the middle floor of a medium sized 5 story building, I get coverage everywhere but a few rooms in the middle of the building. Penetration is OK, and spotty. But if you absolutely need it, then there is better.

The lag switching from power saving 3G to H+ is a little annoying, especially when Google Music has streaming issues, because of the throttle back it naturally does. The latency causes a little lag when refreshing Twitter and other things but honestly for 1/4th what I paid with Verizon, I can deal.

Otherwise like I said above I really cannot say there has been any glaring defect with the coverage I have and I am getting phenomenal battery life. Easily 4 times what I got on my LTE Nexus
[Nexus 4 General] Cafe Colado:
Anyone have any experience with this plan in Puerto Rico?

Also when it says "New activations only. Available exclusively in-store at Walmart, on Walmart.com, and T-Mobile.com.", does that mean I can only have this plan for the first month?
[Nexus 4 General] Ludacon:
It just means that you can switch a current line over to this plan.
[Nexus 4 General] Mr Ian B:
+Infiniti. I left Sprint a month ago and totally satisfied here in Cedar Park with TMobile. Never look back and tired of Sprint's promises that never came true. I use vonage mobile for my outbound calls and invited my friends that I talk for long periods of time and it is flawless.

Ian B
[Nexus 4 General] conundrum4000:
Just bought/activated this plan at a local T-Mobile store in the mall.

At first the lady said she wasn't sure if she could activate the plan due to it being an online only plan, but she was able to activate it and setup my account for me.

Yeah it was $10 (really $7) to get the activation kit, but since I broke my old Sprint phone and didn't want to wait for the sim activation kit in the mail this worked out fine for me.

$10 is still cheaper than overnighting the kit.

I called T-Mobile to port my Sprint number, after giving him the info, he started to say Thank you for Choo*** the phone cut off, and my number port was complete.. wow!

Internet speed is AMAZING coming from Sprint. And the call quality with the Vonage app is pretty good.
[Nexus 4 General] imthekingbk:
Anyone having wonky issues after porting your number to this plan? I moved from Verizon so I could get a Nexus 4 and now I am always getting duplicate text messages.
[Nexus 4 General] lazer155:
Duplicate as in some on your N4 with tmobile and a copy on your old verizon phone? If so that is normal for about 1 day while the port completes. I was told by the tmobile rep I talked to while getting my $30 prepaid plan that it is called dual service and only happens for the period of time it takes for the number to port completely.
[Nexus 4 General] imthekingbk:
I've been using it for a week. I meant I am getting duplicate messages on the Nexus 4.
[Nexus 4 General] lazer155:
Not sure about that. Sorry. :confused:I thought you had duplicates between 2 devices. That's strange.
[Nexus 4 General] meriko:
Built-in tethering doesn't work for me anymore on the $30 monthly4g plan. I've tethered less than 100MB and used less than 1GB in data within a month, but when I try to tether now, I get redirected to t-mo page to learn about hotspot service. Has it happened to anyone else? All stock on nexus4.
[Nexus 4 General] acegolfer:
It never happened to me but it has happened to many ppl. Do a search for the fix. It involves User Agent string.
[Nexus 4 General] altimax98:
Its the UA. I had mine tethered all day long at my parents house to my Nexus 7 without any issues at all. I've done it multiple times already with no redirects.
[Nexus 4 General] meriko:
I'm reading about user agent, but does it mean that now i'll have to change the user agent string on every browser/computer that I tether to? (for info, that all started when I had to help a friend with his laptop and needed a connection and ended up tethering and launched chrome, no issue there, but came in the evening home and tried tethering on firefox and got the dreaded t-mo page. Prior to that, I had no issue tethering.)

edit: Ok, got it working using UA switcher on Firefox. A bit inconvenient to do it on every browser/computer that I use, but that's life.
[Nexus 4 General] whahn1983:
I'm currently on the T-Mobile 30 plan however I use several hundred minutes a month and VOIP is just not working out for me so i am considering switching to straight talk T-Mobile. Anyone have any experience with straight talk? Last month I only used 800mb of data so I'm easily within the 2gb/100mb/day cap. I am worried that with straight talk, regular T-Mobile users will get priority on hspa+ and bandwidth and I will see less signal coverage and data rates. Is this the case? Besides losing coverage in Puerto Rico and Hawaii are there any differences at all?
[Nexus 4 General] conundrum4000:
Anyone have trouble with MMS on this plan? I can't send or receive them.

Stock rooted with franco kernel r29.
[Nexus 4 General] clockcycle:
As their systems update, towers forwarding will be updated. But until that's complete you have the wonky port limbo..

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Oh if this is true for everyone, I'm gonna have to rethink. I'm guessing even though they claim 5gb 4g as your limit they prefer you use a lot less. Which blocking tether would help accomplish.

Anyone confirm if this is true with wifitether app as well?

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You can not tether at all on straight talk. If you're needing that feature. They eventually detect and throttle. There is no caps. They do as they please when they please, at least on att side. Tmo users may have similar results as the sister mvno simple mobile. YMMV
[Nexus 4 General] Josh16061:
A tip I picked up from the T-Mo store after MMS broke on my old GNexus with every new ROM flash: Send an MMS to yourself. Any picture will do. When I say "to yourself", I mean type out your full number with the country code (1 for US, such as 1-555-555-0000) in the contact area. Once you receive it from yourself, they should be working again. I had to do this when I first got my Nexus 4. If that doesn't work, stop by a store and ask if the APN settings look correct. Best of luck. :good:
[Nexus 4 General] conundrum4000:
Update: mms works with built in app but not go sms. Hmmmm.
[Nexus 4 General] alphahere:
What is the best user agent to use?

Sent from my dumbphone.
[Nexus 4 General] Mr Ian B:
I am down to my last 5 mins and just added $10.00 to the account. Once I use those 5 minutes, will the minutes go into the negative and start subtracting from my current $13.50 balance or automatically add 100 more minutes for the $10.00 I just added?

tia,

Ian B
[Nexus 4 General] kingwaffle:
Scenario:

1. I sign up for T-Mo pre-paid account. I get a new number and pay the $30

2. I wait 2 weeks and then port my old Verizon number to the new T-Mo plan

3. A month passes and I re-up the $30 plan.

4. 7 days into the new cycle, I decide to port my number to Google Voice

What happens to my TMo account? I'm assuming it dies, and then I have to turn around and sign up for it again? Has anyone else done anything similar? I am worried the GV port is going to take extra-long since I had sort of recently ported that same number from Verizon to Tmo and now Tmo to GV.
[Nexus 4 General] 3rdstring:
It will subtract from your ($13.50) balance at $0.10 / per minute.
[Nexus 4 General] Mr Ian B:
Awesome, thanks for info. This plan is working for me along w vonage mobile. Just added $10 for those moments I forget to use vonage or need to take an incoming call now.

Ian B
[Nexus 4 General] eksasol:
Use an Android tablet or iPad user agent.

Sent from R800at
[Nexus 4 General] MTSDAN:
has any body heard of or use solavei?
[Nexus 4 General] revamper:
It should cancel your t mobile account and you will have to sign up again.
[Nexus 4 General] sporez:
I ported a number from Verizon to tmo and a month later from tmo to Google voice. It worked fine and the number took the usual 24 hours to port to gvoice(plus a couple days for texts to work). I wouldn't worry about porting 2 times close together.
[Nexus 4 General] milan03:
The thing is, voice quality on T-Mobile is so good, head and shoulders above other US carriers, and it makes me wanna talk more lol.

Now that HD Voice is enabled network side, and that Nexus 4 supports it, calling another HD Voice capable device on T-Mobile is freaking amazing!

I also loaded $10 to my account for this particular reason. :)
[Nexus 4 General] SWOLEGASM:
HD voice

lol. does someone want to call me so I can hear for myself what HD sounds like?? :victory:

just kidding. i'm too shy.
[Nexus 4 General] alphahere:
I did all this in a week. You don't have to wait. Your T-Mobile account will be toast.

Sent from my dumbphone.