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[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] unknown010690:
Could you send me qcn?

I think SPC is wrong.

SPC 000000
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] SKA67:
I burned this file Mi Max 2.

https://en.miui.com/thread-1901536-1-1.html

And now the partition is not corrupted

Do not let it burn

There is a way to format
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] unknown010690:
You use qcn of mi max 2 for restore qcn for mi 8?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] The War Profiteer:
same chipset, shouldn't matter.
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] DimitrisVerlis:
Does it worked? I have a broken Mi Note 3 because of a lost imei, wifi and Bluetooth Mac address!!!
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] SKA67:
no

This is a mistake
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] unknown010690:
You don't have a backup qcn like me?

What is qcn, you restore in pictures?
[Xiaomi Mi 8 Questions & Answers] The War Profiteer:
no, it isn't.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] gtuansdiamm:
i have a tmobile pixel 3a

and i want to permanent sim unlock it before i finish paying it off

anyone know how?
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] razrlover:
Search web used to be about to do it a couple ways to do without paying off,

temp unlock for travel or you can unlock after like 90 days i think.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] krabman:
Depends on your credit rating and how long you've been there but if those two are good the travel thing works every time.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] pookguy88:
will the travel unlock option permanently unlock it?
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] dhoang:
I was able to unlock my OnePlus 6t by contacting T-Mobile on Twitter. I will try it again with the 3a and report back.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] krabman:
Roger.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] pookguy88:
I thought travel unlocks were only temporary?
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] gtuansdiamm:
in the device unlock app it does say travel unlock is only good for 30 days
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] krabman:
That would be a new thing then, I've done it twice at Tmo and unlock was permanent. My apologies if they've changed their policies.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] gtuansdiamm:
it might be phone dependant

i remember when i unlocked my s7 edge over 2 years ago the travel unlock was temporary back then as well
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] edufur:
This is why people should switch to Google Fi. I don't have the unlock problem. And I get access to all the towers with no extra charge for tethering.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] engMTW:
When the T-Mobile Pixel 3a is SIM unlocked via official channels, the OEM Unlocking option becomes available. FYI. Same thing is the case with EE (UK) Pixels.

There is no way, at the moment, to unlock the phone without getting T-Mobile to agree to do it.

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Google Fi is a ripoff for all but the lightest users of data. Though T-Mobile postpaid isn't exactly a bargain either.......there are better options than either, if one is well served by T-Mobile's network.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] pbanj:
Fi isn't really a rip-off. You forget that you get access to multiple carriers towers. So sure the data can be a bit pricey, you will pretty much always have signal. I've used TMobile in the past, and it was good but good luck traveling outside of the city you live in.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] gtuansdiamm:
depends on a lot of things. I do a 4 hour road trip in upstate ny a multiple times a year and i have great service the entire time aside from maybe 10m of my drive despite most of it being in the middle of nowhere. Also I easily use 20+gb of data a month and that sounds pretty expensive on fi. (my record i think was about 53gb when my home wifi was out for a week)
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] pbanj:
Fi has price protection thing. So you don't pay after like 5gb.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] krabman:
Yep, Fi tops out at 6 gigs, after that it's on the house. This makes the bill just slightly more the full ride on Tmo if you reach their cap.They have a throttle at 23 but that seems to be seldom used in the same way Tmo seldom throttles phones when you go over their cap, 27 now?. Data overseas is much better on Fi because you get full speed unlike Tmo were you get cut down to somewhere in the ballpark of pretty darn slow. You also never have to worry about getting your phone unlocked and the word tethering doesn't exist there, it's your data, you burn it however you please. They'll even help you hook it up if you give them a call.

I don't think Fi is as bad as is being made out.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] rantoca:
I believe for fully unlock need to pay off completely or buy it straight off ,happy to my galaxy 9
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] gtuansdiamm:
tmo had raised the cap to 50gb but yeah they dont really enforce it afaik

but good to know fi does cap out

but still a fair bit more expensive than what i pay on tmo
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] krabman:
I just looked, it's 26 gigs right now on Tmo. My Fi bill maxed out is 8 dollars more than my Tmo bill was, keep in mind I need and use the 15 per month on the international or it would be 23 less on Tmo. But that's on the cap, my actual bill on Fi last month was 39 bucks which isn't something you'll get on Tmo.. That isn't always the case of course, I'm often capped as well, it depends on where I'm at and what I'm doing.

A lot of people are scared of Fi because they like to hear the word unlimited yet it would probably be cheaper for many, not a few. The average mobile data used per month in the US is 1.8 gigs a month according to Mobidia; you can find other numbers a little higher and lower but it is much less than most people think. Many people are in wifi most of the day and and more importantly during the vast majority of their data usage time. But folks get nervous without the word "unlimited" because they might get caught short that way in their minds, unlimited is very reassuring. The reason the carriers are making even more money now with unlimited data is because unlimited plans were priced higher than their hard cap plans but most people never touched it anyways which leaves them selling the same product for more. You can't make this stuff up, math is cruel.

In any event it does sound like you're better off on Tmo and I recognize a good many would be the same. I'm not saying Fi is straight up better, I'm saying it can be better for a lot of people.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] engMTW:
Sprint's network is worthless, and that's the 'other towers' you get access to. Project Fi costs Verizon money for T-Mobile/Sprint's network. Kinda a rip off.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] gtuansdiamm:
maybe i have a promo plan?

when i check the site it says 50gb and its been this way since sometime in 2017

https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/mydatausage
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] krabman:
Not sure, I'm on FI now, my old plan says 27 for prioritization throttling and at 50 the speeds can be reduced until the end of the billing cycle. That was the original unlimited plan which I changed to the senior one plan or whatever they call it last yearish.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] zPacKRat:
Fi is not for everyone, I have 3 lines (1 of which was a free offer) for 100 bucks a month and we can easily push 70-100GB between all 3 lines. So Fi would cost me 170 a month plus taxes and fees.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] pbanj:
Funny because when I had fi I spent most my time on Sprint's towers and it was fine. I would leave it on Sprint's towers because like every other time I've had TMobile, it's fine when you're in a city, but you're screwed the moment you go out of it. This was true 15yrs ago and is still true today. This is also across multiple states, so it isn't an isolated thing. They're only good if you live in densely populated areas.

Also Fi added us cellular towers too, which depending where you live are most likely the only towers you can get on. I've lived in places that Verizon had to roam onto us cellulars towers. Sprint typically gets decent signal most places but the quality can vary greatly, although this has become less of a problem over the years(people never forget and still circlejerk around it).

The fact that the other guy didn't know about the cap change, and you didn't know about them not just being T-Mobile and Sprint towers makes me think neither of you have looked into Fi past the original announcement.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] edufur:
Where do you come up with that figure? Fi stops charging after 6GB on the family plan. So you pay $20 per line, and 10 per GB until you cap at $60 + $60. So... 120
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] engMTW:
Sprint is Americas worst network. They do not add value. Was not aware of US Cellular being part of Fi, but i also do not put value on that as few live in US Cellular areas.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] pbanj:
it is 20 for the first line, 15 for each extra, so a base cost of 50 for the 3 lines. when you add phones the data max cost is raised [IMG="fi"]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/399670410565910529/578322171588247553/unknown.png[/IMG]

just because you don't put value into something does not mean others do not. it also doesn't mean that people don't rely on said service. i haven't been on fi in a while and switch to verizon as I'm on a buddies plan now and for my wifes line and mine it only costs us $35 a month. but if that ever changed i would go back to fi as the price was cheap and we always had coverage.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] engMTW:
Cool. Glad it works for you. It does not, however, work for people that consume a meaningful amount of data.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] pbanj:
and how doesn't it? for one line they stop charging after 6gb and start to throttle after like 15gb(which is right around where most will) so most one line will cost is $80 which is right around the cost of most post paid plans and you get access to multiple towers not just one.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] engMTW:
You’re stuck in a stupidity loop, just just repeating the same things again and again. Most carriers do not actually throttle - deprioritizing is not the same thing. Afaik, Fi actually throttles to a useless 256kbps. $80 is a lot for access to T-Mo, Sprint and some regional networks - the vast majority of people would not extract any utility from Sprint/the regionals.

$80 is firmly in the post paid price range. I don’t want to continue debating this with you unless you have something new and interesting to bring to the table.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] pbanj:
I'm the one stuck in the loop, yet you're the one who thinks "just because I see no value, it has no value to anyone". I also already said it was in the post price range, the difference is you get access to 3 sets of towers instead of just one. So sure you may not find value in it but there are plenty of people who will and do find value in it. You're trying to write something off because it has no value to you, yet I'm the one "stuck in a stupidity loop". I find no value in dsl or dial up, but I'm not going to say they have no value as for some that's all they can get for internet.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] krabman:
Throttling on Fi is about the same as Tmo, you're not going to run into very often and then only if you're very much an unusually high data user. The US usage numbers I posted earlier were not wrong, the average US user will never run into throttling. Back when I was using a ton of data on Tmo I never ran into it even when I was over and I haven't seen it on Fi yet either. Looking at numbers alone Fi is best for some single line users and/or possibly multiple line users when they are usually on wifi because these users can come out ahead or break even. Heavy users on a family plan obviously wont. This is just math, we all are doing our own and acting accordingly.

I would also add that there is some anecdotal stuff being trotted out here that doesn't gibe with the reality. T-Mobile has much, much, much, better coverage now than it did back when. I gave it a go a couple decades ago and it essentially didn't work unless you were in the middle of a city or on the freeway. Sometimes not even then. Quickly dumped it which back then cost me hundreds in an early termination because it just flat was untenable. Tennish years ago I kept hearing about improved coverage and looked at the maps and decided to give them another shake. Guess what, those maps weren't entirely lying, it was much better and a viable alternative in this area. Since then they'e been building towers like crazy and it shows. They got their reputation for poor coverage the old fashioned way; they earned it. They have now fixed that but have yet to shed the reputation they spent so long building up. People have long memories.

I think I'm out here, I don't have much else to add and I wasn't trying to derail the thread in the first place. I had only been trying to point out that Fi can be great for some users, that it wasn't without merit. I apologize for my part in helping push this thing off on a tangent.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] pbanj:
my experience with t-mobile is less than 2yrs old at this point(I've used them off and on for 15+/- years now in different cities, and states and it has always been the same). they claimed to have great coverage in the city i lived in, you got like 2 bars when outside, god forbid you went inside a building. the city we live in now they also claim great coverage, you are lucky to get a bar when outside. what is funny is you mentioned on the freeway, that was the one place you would get full bars, was if you were near the interstate. what was funny is at&t claimed they had coverage but not great coverage, but they had way better signal than t-mobile in the same spots.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] Char_G:
I was able to SIM unlock my 6T just last week via T-MobileTwitter, not paid off but I've been with them for a long time, post paid..
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] engMTW:
This is not true. Fi throttles to a useless 256kbps at 22 gigs, T-Mobile doesn’t throttle at all. This major factual error makes the rest of your post useless.

The part of Fi that is viable for lots of people is the T-Mobile part, and there are ways to buy that part for far less and without data caps/throttling.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] Uzephi:
T-Mobile is really useless if you go into any small town in AZ. Only Sprint and Verizon are in snowflake, AZ for example. If you relied on only T-Mobile, you'd only have Edge. Concho, AZ only has AT&T and Verizon data. (Some parts of Concho only have Verizon) T-Mobile again is only Edge there.

So saying Fi is only viable for T-Mobile is a fallocy. T-Mobile has plenty of dead spots in Phoenix as well. Going around any of our mountains in the city (cave Creek, Camelback, south mountain, etc) CDMA works better than their GSM counterparts. I don't know the why, but T-Mobile never had any signal, not even 1x, when driving past cave Creek and cactus. Never had an issue with Verizon or Sprint around that corner. Go to downtown Phoenix and be in a "high usage" status. You won't even get more than 100kb/s with how congested T-Mobile's towers are downtown.

Yes, Fi is situational, if you have great service with Tmo and never leave the city, then stay with them. I visit family friends in small towns and need the carrier options due to the first paragraph.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] pookguy88:
what did you say/ask to get them to unlock it?
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] engMTW:
Yes, T-Mobile is a network that has coverage in places people actually live. Sprint is a network that is uselessly slow everywhere.

The scenarios you give are ‘you should be on AT&T or Verizon’ scenarios. They are not mainstream.

Your ‘CDMA works better than GSM’ stuff is quasi technical nonsense, FYI.

If something works for you, it works for you. But that thing doesn’t work for many, many people due to a variety of reasons, mostly the data cap and the horrid pricing.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] Uzephi:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake,_Arizona I guess those 5500 aren't people.

The point is, why be restricted to one carrier's towers?

Eh, just speaking from experience and most people in this big city will most likely have the same issue.

I agree, most users never leave town or go camping to actually notice dead spots or live in a city with larger than average hills made of limestone and copper deposits to experience dead spots from various carriers.

If staying with one carrier's towers has never made you lose connection, more power to you.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] engMTW:
Yes, that’s a very very VERY small number of people.

Because having more data for less money is better than having access to a uselessly slow network?

If something works for you, yay. That thing doesn’t work for most people, though. Bring something new to the table or stop posting about this. I am tired of lapping you folks.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] pbanj:
you're not lapping anyone. you're acting like an entitled kid, trying to ignore a good chunk of people. you've brought literally nothing to the table, he gave a population of one place not multiple. pretty much the entire state of New Hampshire is like that unless you live in say Nashua, Manchester, Concord, or one of the other bigger cities. and even in those cities T-Mobile, and At&T signal isn't consistent. your entire argument is based around you, and guess what? the world doesn't revolve around you.

oh also if you want to talk about "mainstream" both AT&T and Verizon have more subscribers than T-mobile. they each have almost 2x the amount of subscribers.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] Uzephi:
No need. You still haven't touched on other points. You brush off a good chunk of what we say because it doesn't apply to you.

It applies to plenty of people or the carrier aggregation wouldn't be a thing. More data for less money... You do know how many people use over 15 GB? Apparently only 1%. You're the 1% please talk like you're 99% of the rest of the world who know how to use WiFi and don't worry about ever getting near that. I, on average, use 4GB/mo. This is because at home I have WiFi, at work I have WiFi.

But you are right, for the 1% T-Mobile might be the best option. This month was a high usage month... Not even 2/3 towards the "cap."

Again iterating what pretty much all carriers state: normally less than 1% will surpass the "cap." So your argument of less data for more money doesn't really hold ground if 99% won't even reach that. So how will it not work for "most people" if they don't reach that amount of data at all? Until you provide a document where "most" people reach this "cap." I will rest my case.

Edit: my experience in a big city is from Phoenix, AZ. Every carrier has a weak point here. Downtown is congested horribly for T-Mobile, Westridge (desert Sky pavillion) area is horrid for Sprint. Good luck getting a stable connection by Superstition Springs for Verizon. With Fi, I will aggregate to a better carrier. That is the major plus for me. Instead of having spotty connection in certain spots around this 85 square mile city with millions of people, I will get reliable connection when one carrier's towers is busy.

Example: when I lived near 43rd and Glendale, my roommate couldn't get a reliable T-Mobile connection in half of our house due to a tower having issues. You know how long it was down? 3 months. For 3 months my roommate didn't have service in half of our house due to a tower failing. This is in a major city on the border of Phoenix and Glendale. Just on that tower I would estimate a good chunk of T-Mobile customers ran into this issue.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] krabman:
Its not an error, they do throttle, and yeah, they run you right down to what they describe as 2G. While not having measured it I can tell you it's mighty slow. my son runs into it fairly often but then again he is one of those rare very heavy users. On Fi the total number of users who have ever been throttled at any time is less than 1%. I thinks this easily covers my statement saying "you're not going to run into very often and then only if you're very much an unusually high data user" quite well. Meanwhile with Tmo most def throttling and defining that throttle as 2G which is about 50 kbps I'm thinking that Fi throttle might not be so bad after all.

But go ahead and keep right on not knowing what you're talking about, quoting out of context: You may yet win the internet. Good luck, I'm really out this time, last word is all yours.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] engMTW:
What are you even talking about? T-Mobile does not throttle uses on One plans - the plans with actual unlimited data. This is factual, regardless of what you say. Google Fi does throttle at 22 gigs until the end of the billing cycle.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] PhoenixPath:
This has gotten incredibly off-topic....Some people like Fi. Some people like T-Mobile. Some people like Sprint. Can ya'll just be Okay with that and not take it as your personal mission to convert anyone?

Back to the topic:

SIM unlock for any device on T-mobile can be requested prior to the 40-day mark, and prior even to the first payment being made. If you are not a new account and are in good standing with T-Mobile, they will generally unlock your SIM over direct message on Twitter (T-Mobile Help) without much hassle. I've done this on my 6T (two weeks after buying it) and my Pixel 3a XL (3 days after buying it).

Both times, I simply told them I needed the bootloader unlocked to install some software (truth) and that I could not do that while the device was carrier locked. They looked up my account and, in the instance of the 6T, sent the SIM unlock right then. For the PIxel 3a XL, it wasn't fully deployed through their systems yet and it took them 3 days to get the unlock sent through (Direct-Messaged Friday night, was able to unlock via the app on Monday).

Again, this will likely not work on a new account, or if you've recently missed or made a late payment.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] pookguy88:
did you have to use it at all on any of your lines first?
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] PhoenixPath:
Both devices had been used by me on my line prior to attempting the SIM unlock. They need to be able to see the device/IMEI in their system, so I would assume; yes.
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] pookguy88:
hmm ok, you wouldn't know how long you have to use them on the line before they see it on their system would you?
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] PhoenixPath:
I do not; but I do know an easy way to check. Log into your T-Mobile account online and check your usage or bill where it lists your lines. If the device shows up there rather than what you had previously on that line or "unknown", it's in their system. :good:
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] pookguy88:
thanks!
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] JkdJedi:
Glad I bought an unlocked Pixel 3A..
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] cstark27:
Thanks. You helped with my attempt to get my 3a XL successfully unlocked. :good:
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] PhoenixPath:
omg...I helped the guy who makes those awesome modded camera apks!. *blush*

don't fangirl. don't fangirl, don't fangirl

Cool. So, uh...you got one of the new Pixels, huh?

dammit. that was stupid. of course he did. he just said he unlocked it

///runs out of the room///
[Google Pixel 3a Questions & Answers] dhoang:
Hahaha. I was able to get TMobile to unlock my 3a as well. Even though I did the same for the OnePlus 6t, this one took more convincing. But same result nonetheless. Time to unlock the bootloader. ?