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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
Just signed up to cricket from stt. This is part of email from cricket. I hope its a routine email and I don't end up with port problems.

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[https://www]

Thanks for Your Order

Order Number:*

Ordered on*February 10, 2015

Hi Michael,

Thank you for your Cricket Wireless order. We are hard at work to get your items shipped out. Once your order ships, you'll receive an email with your tracking number.*

Your Number Transfer Request:

We've been working with your current wireless company to transfer your phone number, but we’re experiencing a delay. We'll send you a status update as soon as we can verify the transfer (within 72 hours
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
I made the switch to cricket just a few minutes ago. From stt. Went very smoothe without a hitch. Was without service for maybe 2 min while I swapped Sims. Ported number just fine.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
First pic is on cricket . second pic on stt in same place at home. How the cricket speed caps work out OK.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
OK, so now I have to dial the area code with every number. Didn't have to ever do this with any carrier. Why would cricket be like this and stt att is not? Kind of annoying.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frigidazzi:
I've had to do that for every phone number with any carrier for many years now.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
Wow. I've never had to, ever. I'm in Indiana
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frigidazzi:
Yeah it could be location based. I remember like ten or more years a go people were making a big stink about it here in Oregon
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GadgetLady:
With Cricket, I have to enter the area code with all numbers. I'm in southeastern NC.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitedragonz83:
I've always added area codes, but most likely it is due to how Cricket Wireless has a proxy through Florida. I noticed I don't receive Amber alerts and such for this area, but have for a place in Florida since joining Cricket/AIO Wireless over a year ago.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HockeyZ39:
If anyone has a referral code, shoot it my way via PM. Going to sign up today.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markdapimp:
Looking to join cricket tomorrow/today.

PM me also if you want to ref me
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gforceroy:
If anyone has a referral code you can shoot it my way via pm. I am going to switch from straight talk to cricket. :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
If anyone needs a referral and info on a flawless port from stt to cricket..pm me.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GadgetLady:
So, what's the flawless port secret? Getting ready to switch my father-in-law to cricket from ST.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FLrodney85:
Call straight talk, figure out the magic sequence of prompts to follow to get a real person, have them transfer you to the port department, demand to have number released. Make sure you have the port started already from crickets side though. You account number is either your phone number or your Sim card number of you did the bring your own phone program. The pin is the last 4 of your phone number.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
Get on stt acct. Be sure you have a pin set up. You need a pin and the last 15 digits of your stt Sim card is your acct number.

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Pin is not the last 4 of phone number. If you have to set a pin in your stt account online. I have don't this with 3 lines from stt to cricket. If you decided you want to just put in the last 4 of phone number for pin. Be ready for delays and problems. I followed that advice with first line. What a mess
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kellybrf:
random question. my girlfriends data usage has skyrocketed this month; she generally uses 1-2gb but is at almost 3 with half the cycle left. I looked at her usage logs online and have noticed a number or large data usages 200-500mb) early in the morning, like 3-4am. the only thing that could be doing that is auto updates from the play store, but those shouldn't be anywhere near that big, but the bigger issue is that we're at home and therefore connected to Wi-Fi. is there any app that can give me specifics about what activity is going on?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitedragonz83:
Under the Android settings for Data Usage you can view Wi-Fi usage and see what apps are being run in the background and downloading a lot of data.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kellybrf:
I'm not worried about Wi-Fi usage, it's only cellular data that counts against the monthly limit. what I'm saying is that she's getting decent cellular data activity overnight a) while sleeping and b) when the phone should be connected to Wi-Fi
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FLrodney85:
Under Settings/Wi-Fi/Advanced(click the 3 little dots in the top right). See if the "keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" option is set to always, only when plugged in, or never.

Hope that helps.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kellybrf:
thanks, but that option is already checked.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espy1:
Has anybody gotten MMS to work with Cricket on 5.x.x?

I can only get it to work on 4.4.4 even after redoing APN settings.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kellybrf:
haven't had any issues. it just worked after upgrading, didn't change anything.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] espy1:
I'll have to give it another go and see what happens.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
My MMS works on cricket and made no APN change at all. Just put in Sim card and it works. As to high data usage . is the phone auto backing up things to Google plus or some place when plugged in.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kellybrf:
no, it does that as it goes so there shouldn't be any batch backups (though most of those are set to only backup on Wi-Fi anyway.) still, the bigger issue is that the phone is at home and connected to Wi-Fi when there large cellular chunks occur
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HarryCooter:
I switched to cricket from the $30 T-Mobile plan from Walmart. I get fantastic LTE signals just about everywhere I go now and have not seen edge once while traveling. I have the $50 5gb plan , and the extra $20 I'm paying now is worth it to have fast data where ever I go now. And I am running a stock unrooted N5 on 5.1 with no SMS or MMS issues.

Oh andi don't even notice the 8mbps cap, I have not seen any buffering or latency issues at all. I don't know why I waited to switch for so long!!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
Yeah same here . I switched 3 lines from Tmobile. I was in an edge area with them. Now I have LTE most of the time and H . H is cometely usable

2 nexus 5s and one iPhone 5. None of the 3 have any MMS or any.problems at all. All 3 phones were from Tmobile.

I have the 20gb for $60.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marksedge:
My name is mark and I em to guilty of switching from tmo to cricket and satisfied with the price plan and coverage .f#ck yeah!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lazer9:
Lol... T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 user here. Also have my gf's Avant on my T-Mobile plan. Have had nothing but continues issues with both phones. The WiFi calling feature is helpful since otherwise, I can barely keep a call/signal in my home. Many dropped call areas and dead service in my area say 20+ miles around me.

Thinking strongly about porting to Cricket in near future as AT&T service coverage seems much better in my area. I also understand I will save on the normal carriers regulatory & taxing fees as cricket according to their website doesn't charge these? Plus a 2nd line credit of $10... Not really concerned with data as I mainly connect to WiFi.

Anyone want to hook each other up with the "referral", feel free to PM me..

Curious, anyone else located in or around Western Pennsylvania / Eastern Oh comment on crickets service?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FunDionysus:
ST to Cricket soon

I still haven't made the switch. My StraightTalk prepaid $45 card runs out early May so thinking it's about time for me to switch. Any new Cricket discounts/specials going on?

Whats the cheapest/fastest way to get a Cricket SIM?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
On there website. 99 cents. Pm me for a referral and save us both $25
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FunDionysus:
Cricket online checkout doesn't support seperate billing and shipping address

For the StraightTalk service I'm currently on I had to buy a $10 SIM but there was no activation fee and did not have to bring in to store.

But Cricket Wireless website suggests if I bring phone in phone I will get a SIM for $0.99 but also have to pay $25 activation. That's kind of disingenuous. Why not just say activation is $25.99.

But Cricket website doesn't say anything about charging for online activation. So I decided to buy SIM online (ship in two days for free) and order one month prepaid online.

However Cricket Wireless online checkout system reports they won't ship SIM to a PO Box. However my credit card billing address is a PO Box and we don't get mail at our physical address, (but of course we receive UPS/FedEx shipments). But since Cricket checkout system does not allow don't allow a separate shipping and billing address, it appears I am out of luck trying to get this order processed online, and will have to go into the store and pay the $25 activation fee.

Not sure if this is worth the bother.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joshmccullough:
It looks like you can buy Cricket SIMs/activation kits online at Amazon.com now, I don't know how the price compares to other methods but figured I'd at least let people know just in case.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
Quite a few businesses wont ship to po boxes. Too many shady things go on with po boxes. Not saying that's your case at all.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joshmccullough:
I hadn't considered that, thanks for putting it out there! :)

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How are you finding the data speeds? I know Cricket limits to 8Mb/s; the most I ever do is stream music, maybe download a ROM once in a while but I'm pretty happy with the one I've got right now so probably no need to dl hundreds of MBs in a sitting any time soon.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
No problems with speeds here. I even stream HD video on phone and using hotspot
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marksedge:
Pretty decent for the money ,I got the 20gb for 60 plus auto pay drops that to 55(5 off credit ) and happy over all ...stream tube ,spotify ,chrome and other apps nicely with less to no buffering .I'm in the la area so far so good
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lazer9:
Not real pleased with cricket customer service atm, or does cs really exist at this company? Anyhow, I guess I have one cricket SIM on the way and possibly another for my 2nd line.. The following days will tell if I port over to their service or file a claim with my cc.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
Never a problem here. What's the problem you have.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lazer9:
A lot of run arounds, hard to get simple answers... Long story, hours wasted... Just hoping both SIM's arrive later today as promised and I can link the plans as I was told... Will update you later.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
Never had any problems at all . I found it best to get the first sim them add them one at a time to your account. Prevents you from having to go thru the linking accounts. Hours dealing with that seems a bit strange. Hope youndont have any problems.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lazer9:
Not sure I understand this process.. So I currently have my main line (Note 4) & secondary gf's (Avant) w/ Cricket SIM's due to arrive today. I would assume then based on what you suggest to SIM / port her line in first? Then call Cricket to combine the two accounts before moving my main line? But cs indicated (I thought) that both would need up and activated on Cricket before the accounts could be combined... I may have been told this wrong.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] embhorn:
I am going through this now also. I am porting four lines (3 from StraightTalk and 1 from Virgin Mobile) and adding a new number for a 5th line.

The way the Cricket website works, you have to establish the lines one at a time. So order a phone/SIM, wait for it to come in, activate it, rinse/repeat. This is a real PITA since they also require signature on delivery for phones, and they will only ship to the billing address of your credit card.

Ordering a SIM was slightly less annoying, in that they don't require signature on delivery for just a SIM card.

I did notice that you can activate the card right after it ships (before you receive it) using the phone number and the order number. So this could speed up the process slightly.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
It is a sligjt pain but worth the effort in savings. I did 3

Ines one after another so I didn't have to combine. Worked out well
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lazer9:
Well, I got the cricket Sims, was simple to activate. Then proceeded to do what previous rep had told me. Called cs to request the two lines of service I ported to them be combined into one account and to get my $10 per mo discount.... Took one hour to even explain what I was trying to accomplish. Finally when he responded like he understood, he stated there would be a charge to combine the 2 phones to one account.

Let's just say I got a little angry at this point and asked to either speak with his supervisor or I was proceeding to file a claim with my cc company and send the SIM's back.

After another hour with his supervisor, things were finally made right. I was given one account for both phones and told I would immediately get the $10 credit per month even off of what I already paid... $80 something...

Took another hour to actually get me an account login setup. Both men spoke in very broken English and we had a very difficult time understanding each other and I had to spell my name to the supervisor 6 times and he still got it wrong in my account.

So far the service itself is great but I wonder how many potential customers they have scared off.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
Wow. Never experienced angry anything like this with cricket. Stt yes. I ported numbers one at a time adding them to my acct on line. Once I changed a data plan and did that all online. Very easy and problem free. Seems much easier to do it the way I did. Guess saving money on plans is a trade off.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FunDionysus:
I didn't want the SIM shipped to the PO Box. I wanted it shipped to the physical address. The billing address for the credit card is the PO Box. The problem is Cricket Wireless checkout system doesn't support a separate shipping and billing address. I've never come across this obstacle in my years of doing ecommerce. No problem with Amazon.

And when I went into physical Cricket store they said they could accept a PO Box for billing. Also stated that lots of people have problems activating online and end up coming into the store and ending up paying the activation fee. I asked if they thought that was an issue and both kind of smirked, saying no, that's how they get more business in the store and would have to charge me $25 activation.

I promptly went across the street to Walmart and reupped to ST BYOP for another month. Will find a Cricket non-corporate kiosk next month and see if they will accept my money without charging an activation fee. Hopefully they have CSR skills above what I observed at a corporate store.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
Just follow the online instructions and guidelines . I do a lot online and seen quite a few that won't ship to a different address than bill to. Or to a po box. I used to sell a lot on line as well. And ran into people trying to.pull non sense with po box or different billing and shipping addresses . in no way am I saying you are trying to pull any non sense. Just saying I can understand why they do it that way.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] embhorn:
Hmmm... I just got a text from StraightTalk. They are upping my full-speed data allowance to 5GB/m. Gotta love competition. I'm still porting this line to Cricket at the end of the month, though.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FunDionysus:
Choose your poison

As stated, unable to get Cricket Wireless online to send me a SIM as credit card billing address is a PO Box. and online doesn;t support a separate shipping address.

ST BYOP now 5GB/month for $42.50 (with auto pay). Will entertain moving again in one month.

With Cricket for add'l $13.50 will get you add'l 5GB. But with Cricket you get no voice/text roaming, likely higher latency and throttle to 8mb/s.

But with Cricket when run out of data can add data at 1GB increments at $10/GB.

With ST, when run out of data throttled way down to 64kb/s for remainder of 30days or until purchase another 30day card.

Choose your poison.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
Cricket is the way to go. Stt doesn't roam either. You just pay more for the service. If you think you won't be happy with 8mbps . I wouldn't go to cricket. Never a problem here. Even on H I stream video just fine.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lazer9:
Just so I understand this "roaming" talk regarding Cricket as a new customer in the USA. Am I correct that as with the bigger company/plans in understanding as long as we are within the states that we won't incur any roaming charges or is there something more I need to know or setup on my phone to prevent any charges?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
On cricket you will not roam. You will only use the att towers. I've only encountered 1 short area of no service. That's always been a dead area here for me on any carrier I've used
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mathcolo:
I ported my line over to Cricket's $35/month (with auto pay) plan from the T-Mobile $30 plan today. I'm doing it for a few months while I'll need better rural coverage from AT&T. The number port was immediate, and everything seems to be working as expected. No issues on my Nexus 5, MMS and data working out of the box with my new Cricket SIM.

Wanted to chime in just in case anybody else is on the fence about this. :good:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joshmccullough:
Does Cricket have some form of visual voicemail as a standard feature, by chance?

EDIT:

Nevermind, looking at their website right now, apparently they do. Wow, this 'Google' thing could really catch on one of these days :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
I use you mail . its pretty cool
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lazer9:
Heard of that.. I think... But unsure what advantage it has? Can you somehow set it up to dictate voice-mail like the "full" visual voice-mail giving it in text format?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] embhorn:
I use Google Voice. It transcribes your VM and emails/texts you the message.

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I just had the dumbest interaction ever with Cricket support via chat. I was trying to add the fifth line and order a SIM. The website kept giving me the error "This address has already been used for the maximum number of orders". The chat guy said I had to go into a store to get the fifth card. I was like, "Aren't they going to charge me $25 for that?" He says, yeah, that's the only way to add another line.

So I told him I had exhausted his helpfulness, and closed the chat. Then I changed the billing address of my CC to my work, and proceeded to order the fifth card from the Cricket website, thus time without the error.

These people are turning away money?!?! It's crazy to have to jump through hoops to pay someone money for something.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dicecuber:
Why is this thread so long? Lol
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 31ken31:
Why not? Makes for interesting reading
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dicecuber:
You need to get a life :D
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mathcolo:
Yeah, they do indeed :) I got it installed a few days ago—I think I prefer the T-Mobile visual voicemail app because the Cricket one doesn't hide the standard GSM voicemail notification (and I get double notified as a result). Not really that big of a deal though!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mathcolo:
I've been on Cricket for about 10 days, and things have mostly been going well. I'm having a weird issue now though—when I'm on LTE and a call comes in, the phone, as expected, drops down to HSPA. But when the call ends, instead of jumping immediately back to LTE, it drops to No service for maybe 4-5 seconds until it comes back with LTE. Anyone else noticed this?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
Mine does exactly the same thing . hasn't been and shouldn't be a problem.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ldubs:
Hey all, I'm on T-mo in NYC right now and believe it or not have some signal issues in various places - and definitely have issues when I visit my in-laws in SC with coverage. I'm thinking of switching over to Cricket. They state they have same signal strength as AT&T, are folks finding this the case? Also I do use hotspot on my Nexus so that my son can play on his tablet while we're out to dinner, but the chat rep said that's only allowed on Cricket phones, "not other carrier phones". When I explained it was a Nexus, he got rude and closed the chat. So I'm thinking hotspot hack. yes?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spookytay:
I've been using AIO/Cricket for about two years now. It's a great service for the price, I've never really had any issues with signal strength. I live in Columbus, Ohio and I do travel to a few places out in BFE and I still manage to get a good signal. Not always in all places, but I've noticed a drastic change over the last two years of improvements in those outer lying areas.

I'm able to use hotspot without a problem. I don't use it much or that often so who knows if it's monitored in some way. The only thing Cricket does, as opposed to AT&T is that you are limited on your download/upload speeds. I've never had any issues, as I'm not streaming any hardcore high bandwidth stuff to my phone, but if you are using your hotspot connection with another device, that may be a limitation for you.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ldubs:
Excellent. So for hotspot did you have to do the SQL hack or did it work straight out of the gate?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spookytay:
I'm going to say no, because I don't know what the SQL hack is

ok, I checked out what the hack is, no I did not go through that lengthy process, maybe you will, since it seems you use Hotspot way more than I do. I tend to only tether when I'm at work and our internet goes down and I need a connection to get stuff done, and since it rarely goes down, I barely use it, but it does work.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ldubs:
Perfect. I shouldn't need it that often, but the process should be the same - guess I'll have to try it and see. Too bad my T-mo pre-paid just renewed, literally this morning.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mike102871:
I used hotspot on my nexus 5 now on my nexus 6. Only few times I've had problem with cricket LTE service in busy areas. Like at cedar point. Speed was like edge. I force phone to H in those situations and still have a usable 4 Mbps speed.
[Moto G General] Deleted member 4515662:
Few details if you will...

1- are you soak test registered?

2- is this 5.0.1 to 5.0.2 ? or 4.4.4 to 5.0.2 ?
[Moto G General] SK Chowadry:
No I am not registered in Soak test. Its an update from 4.4.4. to 5.0.2

I have tested this in Two Moto G XT 1033

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Wait will over soon. Cheers