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[Nexus 4 General] FallN:
No, you lose any money on that account (the $150) if you transfer the old account /number to the new account. So i would suggest not setting up a new line until you're closer to $1 on the old account.

Why not switch your current Pay as You Go plan to the $70 Unlimited Everything for 2 months then with only $10 or less left, start the new $30 line and begin porting your old number over?

I'm in the same position with money left over on my original account but it's only $14. I have the old SIM in a little flip phone and am making some calls on that to burn up the $14. Once i get near $1 left, I'll port my old number to my new $30 line. ;)

Sent from my Nexus 4

Addition: I got an automated text message from TMO letting me know I've hit 4GBs of the 5GB data at "4G" speeds.

I'm not worried. I'm right on track as i planned. I've got exactly 7 days left in this billing cycle. Want to go past 5GBs to see how bad the speeds are when they throttle me, lol. :D

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I'm in NYC. And I have this plan. Hi! :)

I've had the $30 plan for exactly 3 weeks now and I'm loving it. Good data speeds, unlimited texting and MMS. I've used more than 4GBs of data so far on cellular. I've used about 10 of the included 100 minutes because I've been using my Gold Rewards line for voice calls mainly in order to burn up the remaining money so I can then port my old number over to the new $30 line. ;)

The $50 plan is very nice but as you can see its more suited for the heavy TALKER while the $30 plan is best suited for the heavy DATA USER.

First, you need to assess if you are a heavy talker. If you are then clearly the $30 is NOT for you. You'd have to jump through crazy hoops using dodgy workarounds and often shaky VOIP to make and take your many phone calls. Not so good.

But if you find you really don't talk on your phone much and spend more time texting, emailing and using data then clearly the $30 plan is right for you.

Look over your recent usage and choose the plan that works best for you. You might find that the $50 is exactly the plan you need. Only you can decide.

Good luck. :)

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
So I tried again, and still doesn't work. Seems like I'm not alone, either. What version of the GV app do you guys have? I'm assuming you are using the nexus 4, if you aren't please let me know which phone and OS version. I tried with completely stock unrooted 4.2.1 on my N4 and it still didn't work. I have the sms forwarding on the web disabled, but that shouldn't matter (see the post and flowchart linked by osi13 above).

My GV app build is 0.4.2.72
[Nexus 4 General] stradevarius:
I'm on this plan right now with only the T-Mobile number (Google voice to come) and it's fantastic in Davis, California. HSPA+ everywhere!
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
OK I found why the inconsistencies with reports. This will only work when texting to another GV number. I don't know if it's a new change on the way it works, or if it's been like that for a while: http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=166020

I also found out why it wasn't working for me. Apparently GV doesn't work like that post/flowchart anymore. They changed it so both those settings are actually synchronized now. Change one on the web, it'll change on the phone and vice versa. Also, regarding not being able to get the messaging app to display the messages, you need to change your phone type to "mobile" to be able to get the "receive messages on this phone" option. I had it set to "home" so I could share the number, but that's not as important to me right now.
[Nexus 4 General] ziddey:
Oh, that's silly then.

One of my friends has GV, but doesn't use it as his main number. When he texts me from his cell to my GV, it shows as being sent from his GV. So when I reply, it forces him to have to use GV and becomes messy.
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
I'm trying to work out something here. I've gotten as far as getting the native messaging app to actually send from the GV number, and also do notifications. This is by using the GV SMS integration app, setting the forwarding phone to "mobile" on the GV website options like on my post above, and setting the GV option to send to messaging app. The problem with this is that you're now getting double texts, one that the SMS integration app plants on the messaging app, and the other one that comes directly from GV. The notification that actually comes up is the one from the GV app, so the one that SMS integration puts in there still doesn't notify you. If the SMS integration app could let you choose only to integrate sending, it would be just perfect.

So if you're OK with double incoming texts, this should work. I'm mainly interested in the quick reply option in the notification bar.

What I'm trying to do right now, is to get the Go SMS Pro app to do it, but it seems to have the same problems. It doesn't notify with sound and vibration when the SMS integration app puts the text there, but it does put up a notification icon in the status bar. I was trying to get this notification icon to trigger sound and vibration via Tasker, but then the notification stopped appearing.

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By the way, I'm thinking that Google is actually moving forward with GV integration on Android. Apparently it doesn't give you anymore the silly option of replying to an alternate seemingly random phone number so the contact would see your GV number (IIRC that's what it was). Now that option is the same as the one in the GV app to receive messages on the messaging app. Hopefully they'll integrate sending from the GV number soon. If you go to your GV settings on the web, you'll see the "Caller ID (outgoing)" option has a note: "this setting currently only applies to text messages; calls will be included soon." Which should mean that we'll have the option when calling from one of the forwarded phones to set the caller ID to our GV numbers.
[Nexus 4 General] dynamicpda:
same here. i paid the ETF to get out. The signal reception is so much better than the gnex on vz lte.
[Nexus 4 General] baiju2012:
My experience. I got N4 on November 20 in the first batch delivered. I opened the T-Mobile account on the same day. For the first week I was in SF bay area on vacation. The data speeds on T-Mobile network were incredible. I am now back to Columbia MD area. Data speeds here are as good too. I have ported my number from Verizon. Installed GrooVe IP app ($5) from play store. Linked it to my GV account. So my main number is on T-Mobile and the new number is the GV. As GV is free in US and Canada, I can call and receive calls to any number. Very happy with $30 plan on T-Mobile with N4. I am saving $40 a month with much higher data speeds.
[Nexus 4 General] Ajfink:
Had T-Mobile for over a week now. Great speeds and service in most places I've been so far - except my house. I knew it would be EDGE at home going into this, so NBD. I have WiFi there anyway.
[Nexus 4 General] overlord727:
This is good to know since I live in Columbia MD and just ordered a T-Mobile prepaid Sim. I have AT&T right now and I am lucky to even hit 2mbps...
[Nexus 4 General] z0mbie112:
I plan on switching to this, right now I have simple mobile, but saving $20 a month sounds attractive to me. :D I haven't read through the entire thread, but vonage seems to be a good app to use for wifi/data calling, right? What would the best way to go about this be?
[Nexus 4 General] eksasol:
Vonage is very reliable for our going call.

Just buy the microsim activation kit from tmobile prepaid site. Activate it with the $30 plan, but each time fill with an extra $10 or more. Each extra $10 will get you an extra 100 minute of talk time in case you run out of time.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Nexus 4 General] z0mbie112:
Okay, cool. I did a few test calls with vonage on my Nexus S before my N4 came and it seemed pretty good. And the extra $10 thing sounds good too. I've already got my micro sim, I'm just waiting till the end of the month so I can get the most of the last $50 I spent with simple. What about for incoming calls though?
[Nexus 4 General] BBM-Lee:
I tried it, no notification on text messages... Did not 'break' my phone though when I went to uninstall so all good in the end, just buggy app right now

you know, the $10 thing is a very reasonable solution for people who need 150ish minutes or so
[Nexus 4 General] frusso21:
I saw/used it too.
[Nexus 4 General] biggiestuff:
Whatever minutes you don't use, do they carry over?
[Nexus 4 General] gagdude:
Unfortunately not
[Nexus 4 General] m3lover1:
Yea the integration app didn't show notifications while I was on stock rom rooted. It works though with aokp. Have it where when I receive text with native msg app I get sound and notification. And incoming and outgoing SMS is from my gvoice number
[Nexus 4 General] ziddey:
Ah, looks like it is a trial. Don't know how I missed it... Still works, but there's a nag message to buy on every GV SMS received
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
Which aokp rom are you using?
[Nexus 4 General] m3lover1:
The latest build, aokp_mako_unofficial_Dec-11-12.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2025939
[Nexus 4 General] Terminator713:
My phone is arriving tomorrow :D and i am going to be using the tmobile $30 plan!

1) When do i cancel my current service? (Verizon).....i assume it's after i transfer my number?

2)Does the 30 day period start when i activate the SIM Card and account? Or does it start at the beginning of the month?

3) I've noticed people say to buy reload cards from callingmart.com and use coupons to get it even cheaper ( like $2 less), but which card is used for the T-mobile 100 minute, unlim text and web? All i can find is this (sorry can't post links yet)

http://www.callingmart.com/products/wireless/ProductDetail.aspx?ID=265

but the $30 denomination says it refills 1500 minutes and texts.......?

Thanks for any help!
[Nexus 4 General] 3rdstring:
1) When do i cancel my current service? (Verizon).....i assume it's after i transfer my number?

Yes. When you trasfer your number it will cancell your Verizon service.

2)Does the 30 day period start when i activate the SIM Card and account? Or does it start at the beginning of the month?

It starts when you activate it.

3) I've noticed people say to buy reload cards from callingmart.com and use coupons to get it even cheaper ( like $2 less), but which card is used for the T-mobile 100 minute, unlim text and web? All i can find is this (sorry can't post links yet)

I've always used the one that is auto loaded to the phone. I can generally find a 5% coupon code & pay $95 total for $100 credit to my T-Mo account.
[Nexus 4 General] BodegaBay:
A couple of posts mentioned that when porting, you have to use the same account name from carrier to carrier (i.e. from AT&T to T-Mobile)?

I'm on a family account on AT&T and will be the only one to leave for T-Mobile, but my wife is the primary owner, will I need to open the T-Mobile under her name just to port my number over?
[Nexus 4 General] altimax98:
I believe all you need to do is have your wife authorize your AT&T account to release the number. I could be wrong though
[Nexus 4 General] gagdude:
Well. Just activated the plan and got my nexus. Porting took 20 MINUTES. Holy crap

Edit: nvm incoming calls and texts not working yet

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] belair56:
On Monday it took 3 hours for the port to complete. At one point I sent a TxT from my N4, received reply on my Verizon galaxy nexus. But at 3 hours or so my Verizon account was toast.
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
I tried with aokp yesterday, and the notifications of the SMS integration app did work, but replying from the notification drawer's quick reply still showed the carrier number. From the app, all seems fine. So close.

I suppose Go SMS pro should work well though, but I prefer to use CM anyway. Hopefully Google steps up soon. Still haven't received any reply from the SMS integration developers.
[Nexus 4 General] m3lover1:
Hm weird...IIRC when I replied from quick reply it showed my gvoice number, although I can't test that out right now because I'm running CM10.1. Flashed it yesterday to try it out after I accidentally borked my AOKP while messing with it and forgot to nandroid before. :o

Can confirm on CM10.1 that the notification of the SMS integration app doesn't work. So I turned on notification from the gvoice app as a workaround.

Anyways, I ported my number to gvoice on Friday of last week, and it took until Wednesday before I started receiving text messages...
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
Which build did you try? I did the latest at the time, on the post (11/8), but there was another one by roman dated 11/12 on the goo.im site.

As an aside: I'm running AOKP on my N7, but man, isn't the updater in CM10+ a godsend. If you're settling on CM, you might wanna check out the cyandelta app.
[Nexus 4 General] m3lover1:
Tried the 12/11 one for aokp. Never heard of cyandelta..will check it out.
[Nexus 4 General] donec:
There is a setting in Google Voice where you tell Google Voice to use you Google Voice number as your caller ID. Maybe changing that on your friends Google Voice will fix that.

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Why/how does the extra $10 get you an extra 100 minutes? I have a feeling that is only on the mothly plan and not the prepaid or pay as you go plans.
[Nexus 4 General] altimax98:
My guess is .10 a minute x 100 minutes = $10 :)
[Nexus 4 General] donec:
When I called T-mobile they told me that with the pay as you go plan the unused minuts get rolled over but they do not call it that.
[Nexus 4 General] Terminator713:
How do you get in touch with an actual live person on the phone? Internet messed up while activating sim card and now it won't take my activation code?

tried calling #'s on site and sim kit, but it just goes to an automated robot that is useless
[Nexus 4 General] farangutan:
Last night I activated the sim kit on the web 30$ plan. It was a pain, wouldn't register and I refreshed the browser and reentered a few times to get the buttons to light up so that I could continue the activation. I started on a tablet. But that didn't work so I did it from my GNEX.
[Nexus 4 General] yomuppet:
Correct
[Nexus 4 General] sethlo:
Bring Ring

I haven't seen any one mention this great app: Bringring

It allows you to easily toggle which phone numbers ring when someone calls your google voice number.

Works nice with goove ip. You toggle on chat and toggle off your tmo number if you want to make sure all your calls are on voip.

Alternatively, you toggle off chat and toggle your tmo number back on if you want your calls to go over the tmo network.

Simple and works great.
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
If you're using groove IP, those same guys have an app called Groove Forwarder that does the same, but automatically. If you're gonna spend $0.99 that's probably the best bet. Talkatone premium has its own service like that, but since they use their own servers for compression, they do it server-side so if you for some reason don't have internet, the server after a certain interval of time that it can't connect to your phone, will change the forwarding to the phone automatically.

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The 100 minutes you get with the $30 plan do not, but you can have credit that gives you extra minutes (100 for $10). Those $10 or whatever other extra amount you have, will remain in the account. So for all intents and purposes, only the extra minutes do "roll over".
[Nexus 4 General] altimax98:
GrooveIP works without having to toggle it based on WiFi connection... The ONLY issue I appear to have is that when it is toggled it seems to stop messages coming through to the phone that are forwarded from Voice as well, even though I've checked the box that forwards them through
[Nexus 4 General] radiocycle:
I haven't read all 69 pages but...

I got a message from TMo that said: "...Unsure how many of your 100 monthly mins you have left? Just dial #MIN# and press "call" to see your balance instantly"

Well, when I do that I get a message that says, "You hve 000 included minutes remaining. Addl mins are charge at $0.00 a min. Your $30 UL Web and Text (5GB at 4G) is active until 12/26/2012."

I've chatted with customer 'service' at least 4 times now and they always say the same thing: they are submitting a ticket and to wait 72 hours and try again. Has anyone else tried this #MIN# (#646#) and received a credible response??

I don't mind that it doesn't work for this great plan and my N4 really but then, don't send me a text message telling me that I have this feature!

radio
[Nexus 4 General] gagdude:
If you want to check your minutes just use the T-Mobile my account app, has all info on your plan. Has widgets too

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] V8vroom:
It is gone, thanks."The T-Mobile service in my area is too limited to live with, so I have a new, never activated Sim for the Nexus 4. First one to pm me with their address gets it."
[Nexus 4 General] fiercepersian13:
Could someone in Sacramento tell me how the nexus 4 performs on data?
[Nexus 4 General] keijikage:
Any of the $ amounts from callingmart will work - they are "dumb" cards that simply put money in your account. T-mobile does not care what the cards were originally for, only that you carry enough of a balance!

Sometimes when a calling card pin is too new, it may not work on the website - don't freak out and call the automated number to enter in your PIN.
[Nexus 4 General] pakit:
Hello users of the hidden gem tmobile plan. Ive been using Groove IP for a good amount of time now and I still can't figure out how to add people to the favorites tab.

Am I just stupid??

Came from the Galaxy Nexus on Vz so far I am completely amazed at tmobiles network. Maybe that's just because I'm in the suburbs of Atlanta but seriously I'm getting 15-30mbs down with 75-100ping loving it! It has so much better reception than the galaxy nexus on Verizon. Already used 800 mb in one day I probably need to slow down. Does anyone know how useable the network is after the first 5gb?
[Nexus 4 General] nukedukem:
I see people talking about using GV Lite but I am wondering if that is actually possible on a prepaid account? I can't activate the service because prepaid doesn't have conditional call forwarding and the activation won't go through. Are people really doing this and how?
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
I don't even use the Groove IP dialer, it's very lacking compared to, say, the default CM one or even the stock one. So, consider integrating Groove IP with the native dialer, it's in the settings.

Regarding after 5GB, it's not exact, you may go over a little bit, but when it kicks in, it's pretty horrible. I get about 100 kbps (that's kiloBITS), give or take a few.

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I've only seen one person talking about it here, I didn't even know before that what the "Lite" version offered, but it seems it won't allow for VoIP, so there's not much point of using it with this plan, unless you are OK with using your carrier minutes with a GV voicemail.
[Nexus 4 General] nukedukem:
I'm interested in replacing the tmobile VM with Google's VM service. That's all I want it for, not the VoIP. Do you know if it's possible to setup just the voicemail?
[Nexus 4 General] gagdude:
For that all you have to do is download Google Voice and it will give you a quick and easy setup
[Nexus 4 General] ghostrid3r:
Callingmart is offering 5% off on Wireless refills, apply the coupon code below at check out for savings.

code: hldys125

Happy Holidays! :o
[Nexus 4 General] nukedukem:
Hmmm I can't seem to get it working. During the setup process it tries to change the voicemail number but it fails. Have you done this successfully on a prepaid account?
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
That doesn't work with the prepaid plans. You'll have to call in to disable the T-mo voicemail, but I'm not sure how GV Lite works exactly. With the regular GV I did it and it works fine.
[Nexus 4 General] sethlo:
In my experience, if forwarded to chat and the phone number simultaneously sometimes causes unwanted behavior.
[Nexus 4 General] nukedukem:
Would you mind sharing how you set up GV voicemail with your prepaid TMobile account? I have a GV access number from a previous phone and my tmobile phone is registered but, but when I try to activate voicemail with the code it gives me to dial, it fails because there is no call forwarding. And are you able to use the GV app to view and listen to visual voicemails? Thanks
[Nexus 4 General] altimax98:
I think its a logic issue with Google Voice. It appears that forwarding calls is the only way to retain text message abilities through to the phone, even though you tell it to only forward messages.

Very annoying
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
This is only if you want to receive texts on the messaging app, you can still use the GV app. Using the messaging app is incomplete right now, since you can't send messages from your GV number through it. You can try the GV SMS integration app, but that doesn't work well with the stock firmware or CM10.1. Seems to work with AOKP, but I couldn't get quick reply to reply with my GV number.

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What code? Without doing anything, the GV voicemail is going to be active when they call you to your GV number. If you set GV to forward calls to your mobile, then the T-mobile voicemail may answer before the GV voicemail does, so you just wanna disable the T-mo voicemail. You lose the T-mo voicemail, but it's fine if you are just using your GV number.
[Nexus 4 General] altimax98:
I love using the stock app though.. I know GV still works but this issue is server side and not with the stock messaging app since the 'receive with stock messaging app' changes a server side switch and not on the device itself... It really does suck though
[Nexus 4 General] andy o:
Yeah, I'd rather use the stock messaging app too, especially on cm10.1. Apparently they're doing some stuff cause it changed relatively recently. Before, the text forwarding option on the web was distinct from the "receive texts in messaging app" option in the GV app. Hopefully Google fixes this cause I wanna use Talkatone with the dynamic forwarding option, which enables or disables call forwarding depending on if Talkatone is connected.
[Nexus 4 General] roffiscoder:
I just got a Sim today. They said it would take 24 hours to kick in. Has anyone else had this experience.:)
[Nexus 4 General] gagdude:
Activation should be instant, porting might take a while
[Nexus 4 General] altimax98:
My Sim took about 15minutes to activate... I was freaking out because the GSM Galaxy Nexus is the first GSM phone I've had and I thought it was a Micro Sim like my CDMA Nexus was... Uhhhh nope Lol. When it finally worked I had a sigh of relief.. No porting for me though.
[Nexus 4 General] donec:
I just called 1 800 672-5390 and a person answered.
[Nexus 4 General] ericshmerick:
I just tried to buy a refill on callingmart using the 5% coupon and it have me an error...after taking my $28.50. This is the first time this has happened. Should I be worried?
[Nexus 4 General] nukedukem:
OK thanks thats where I was getting confused. I want GV voicemail for my tmobile number not a GV number. I can't do what I am trying to do on a prepaid account. I did find the tmobile Visual voicemail app which is mostly what I wanted. Now I wont waste minutes checking my voicemail. Thanks for clearing that up for me!
[Nexus 4 General] bryceb04:
I got that the first time I ordered Virgin mobile and again when I started buying cards for t mobile through calling mart. I think it's a security thing on their end. They'll call you to verify the order and push it through.