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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Being billed per GB has, for better or worse, caused me to actually bother paying attention to my usage and using wifi when I otherwise wouldn't have bothered. 8 GB in a month seems really high for non-wifi data, I'm impressed. Isn't bandwith shared among phones on the plan? I imagine that is more to convince families to switch to fi over just individuals.
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As a father with an eleven and fourteen year old who watch a ton of YouTube, I, for one, welcome our Bill Protection overlords.
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Bandwidth is shared but the data charge cap changes depending on how many users you have. 
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THF13 posted:Bandwidth is shared but the data charge cap changes depending on how many users you have. It should be noted that the throttling only occurs to individuals that go above 15gb, that limit isn't also shared. I've heavily considering switching to that T-Mobile plan since I've been feeling the itch to stream music and stuff more often, so this is pretty great news. I used to be on Sprint, so if I somehow manage to get to 15gb I'll be used to the throttled speeds 
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I think this has been discussed previously in this thread, but I"m feeling pretty entitled. I want to bring my wife in on my plan, give her my 5X and get myself a motox4. Can I just order the phone and start the plan and just swap around the SIM cards?
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Bloodplay it again posted:It might work, but I've been reading a lot of horror stories on Reddit about poo poo just not working right after replacing the battery. Plus, the right-side of my camera glass is cracked and I don't think I can pry it off without breaking it into a million pieces. You can get replacement glass on eBay. Honestly it's not that bad. Spend 20ish bucks and have a working phone or spend a few hundred for a new phone. As far as batteries go Huawei apparently doesn't have batteries available to unaffiliated repair places. So I'd assume all the Huawei marked batteries are counterfeit and that's what people are having problems with. B.H. Facials fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Jan 17, 2018 |
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B.H. Facials posted:You can get replacement glass on eBay. Honestly it's not that bad. Spend 20ish bucks and have a working phone or spend a few hundred for a new phone. As far as batteries go Huawei apparently doesn't have batteries available to unaffiliated repair places. So I'd assume all the Huawei marked batteries are counterfeit and that's what people are having problems with. Oh poo poo. Thanks for the link. I might actually spend $20 or so to try and get this battery replaced now. Have been checking out other carriers and occasionally looking for secondhand Pixels, but that's probably gonna be the cheapest route.
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Jago posted:I think this has been discussed previously in this thread, but I"m feeling pretty entitled. I want to bring my wife in on my plan, give her my 5X and get myself a motox4. Can I just order the phone and start the plan and just swap around the SIM cards? Why do you hate your wife?
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FogHelmut posted:You'd be looking at a $80 a month plan for 6+ gb on Fi. The unlimited plan I'm on right now doesn't have zero rating for anything since I'm paying for full quality. They only zero rate if you do the plans with traffic shaping. That's their cheaper plan. Mine is $95/month currently. I'm mainly trying to see if going to Fi is truly T-Mobile + Sprint or if I'm actually going to get into a situation where I get punted to inferior backhaul or an overloaded tower on Sprint simply because that signal is stronger than T-Mobile right then. If it's a net gain in coverage, this seems like a good idea. If it's going to cause more headaches, then maybe not. I'm also looking that I should be able to get a discounted Moto X4 AND unload a still currently functional 5x via trade in. Net cost of that phone would then be sub $200 and would make a great spare. Then I'm out of my 5x guilt free. bull3964 fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Jan 17, 2018 |
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Jan 17, 2018 23:13
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There's a free app that you can use to force switch carriers, so no need to worry about being stuck on a bad tower or anything.
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Bloodplay it again posted:Oh poo poo. Thanks for the link. I might actually spend $20 or so to try and get this battery replaced now. Have been checking out other carriers and occasionally looking for secondhand Pixels, but that's probably gonna be the cheapest route. Seriously the glass is what took me the longest to get past. If mine hadn't been intact I'd've just busted it right out. Beyond that pretty simple, just don't go hulk on anything.
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bull3964 posted:an overloaded tower on Sprint simply because that signal is stronger than T-Mobile right then. This is certainly a thing that I've experienced, and yes there are apps that can force you to switch, but it can be a constant struggle in some areas.
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The carrier switching is pretty moronic, usually. It'll jump from a perfectly usable and fast 3.5 bars of Sprint to 3.6 bars of t-mobile for no goddamn reason and interrupt whatever you're doing while it does so, or jump onto a carrier with no service where you are for no clear reason. It needs more user control, like "ask before switching if the phone is in use" and "always be on $carrier when at $location"
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If you're a tinfoil hat type and you're getting bad reception, go into the "privacy" settings in your Fi app and see if you've turned off the toggle switch of "network diagnostics". I always turn off settings like this, but after turning it on a while back this correlated with a huge increase in reliability and signal when I am in a certain part of my house. I was having a lot of trouble getting any reception in a room I am often in, but now it works very well. I don't know if this is why the improvement happened, and I haven't tested turning the toggle off again to see if that makes a difference, but if you're really annoyed with low bars it's at least one more thing to try.
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Javid posted:The carrier switching is pretty moronic, usually. It'll jump from a perfectly usable and fast 3.5 bars of Sprint to 3.6 bars of t-mobile for no goddamn reason and interrupt whatever you're doing while it does so, or jump onto a carrier with no service where you are for no clear reason. It needs more user control, like "ask before switching if the phone is in use" and "always be on $carrier when at $location" Yup, more interactivity with what tower your phone is using is exactly what I want from a carrier.
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It should send the data on both carriers and then deduplicate it and also not tell us or the carriers about it
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Lutha Mahtin posted:If you're a tinfoil hat type and you're getting bad reception, go into the "privacy" settings in your Fi app and see if you've turned off the toggle switch of "network diagnostics". I always turn off settings like this, but after turning it on a while back this correlated with a huge increase in reliability and signal when I am in a certain part of my house. I was having a lot of trouble getting any reception in a room I am often in, but now it works very well. I don't know if this is why the improvement happened, and I haven't tested turning the toggle off again to see if that makes a difference, but if you're really annoyed with low bars it's at least one more thing to try. Whenever I'm home or at the office, I put my phone into Airplane Mode then enable WiFi. Since I'm using WiFi Calling I don't have to worry about reception issues.
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air- posted:Looking at switching to Fi - how well do the data only sims work abroad? They work great. I have one for my wife, a couple for myself and one for my mother. They all use them in different countries (US, Canada, Netherlands and Kenya) and as long as data roaming is turned on they work perfectly. You just have to activate them all yourself.
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Javid posted:The carrier switching is pretty moronic, usually. It'll jump from a perfectly usable and fast 3.5 bars of Sprint to 3.6 bars of t-mobile for no goddamn reason and interrupt whatever you're doing while it does so, or jump onto a carrier with no service where you are for no clear reason. It needs more user control, like "ask before switching if the phone is in use" and "always be on $carrier when at $location" Yeah no thanks. I've only ever had issues with Fi not knowing whether to use wifi or the cell towers  And that seems to have been sorted out, was over a year ago.
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I'm glad I discovered FiSwitch because of this thread. Both phones I've had on Fi have loved to just hang out on one spectrum with no signal while the other one is just sitting there with 3+ bars and LTE. I don't get it.
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Is FiSwitch better than Signal Spy?
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Chaotic Flame posted:Is FiSwitch better than Signal Spy? I believe the Signal Spy guys have contacts that work for Project Fi so...that might be a good thing?
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Well Google finally decided to not gently caress people with a 5x on a device replacement plan, not sure what happens if you already got hosed: http://www.androidpolice.com/2018/01/21/moto-x4-android-one-now-offered-replacement-faulty-nexus-5x-phones-project-fi-lieu-crappy-53-payout/
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Good news for me. I've been dreading bootloop day since I got my 5x in 2016.
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Just saw the data protection stuff. So, my bill is capped at $80 regardless of data usage? That seems like a pretty decent deal, though I'm not up on what other carriers are offering these days.
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T Mo $70, Verizon $85 plus fees, and ATT $90 plus fees for unlimited (all those prices include a $5 autopay discount).
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Anyone here using Hangouts to handle SMS? I've abandoned Pushbullet because it seems the developers have too and now I'm really bummed out about the inability to send out SMS from my desktop. I know MMS is hosed in general unless you participate directly from a phone, but I'm wondering if Hangouts is okay to go back to for one-to-one messages from my computer.
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IAmKale posted:Anyone here using Hangouts to handle SMS? I've abandoned Pushbullet because it seems the developers have too and now I'm really bummed out about the inability to send out SMS from my desktop. I know MMS is hosed in general unless you participate directly from a phone, but I'm wondering if Hangouts is okay to go back to for one-to-one messages from my computer. I use hangouts for SMS with no issues. I can receive MMS messages fine regardless of if I'm on my PC or phone, I haven't tried sending MMS from my PC anytime recently so I'm not sure how well that works or not.
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THF13 posted:I use hangouts for SMS with no issues. I can receive MMS messages fine regardless of if I'm on my PC or phone, I haven't tried sending MMS from my PC anytime recently so I'm not sure how well that works or not.
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I use Hangouts for SMS/MMS on the phone, along with the desktop web version. Still works great.
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Yea, there is a chrome plugin or whatever for hangouts, it'll look like a separate window and all. That's how I use it.
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IAmKale posted:Anyone here using Hangouts to handle SMS? I've abandoned Pushbullet because it seems the developers have too and now I'm really bummed out about the inability to send out SMS from my desktop. I know MMS is hosed in general unless you participate directly from a phone, but I'm wondering if Hangouts is okay to go back to for one-to-one messages from my computer. I've been using pushbullet to send sms from my desktop for a long time, was there a change recently so you can't anymore?
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ILikeVoltron posted:Yea, there is a chrome plugin or whatever for hangouts, it'll look like a separate window and all. That's how I use it. I just have a pinned tab in Chrome for Inbox, and that thing chimes whenever I get a text. Works great.
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Cabbit posted:pinned tab I didn't know one could do that!
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I like Hangouts alright but had better luck with Signal.
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I use an app called Join to text from Chrome. It does most of the stuff pushbullet did.
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I'm just glad I'm not completely out of the loop by still using Hangouts. There's all those other options out there and I was worried I was on the same level as the really old people still paying for AOL.
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nocal posted:I use an app called Join to text from Chrome. It does most of the stuff pushbullet did. It's all good, though - I didn't really use actionable notifications anyway, so being able to send SMS from Hangouts is the perfect substitute for Pushbullet for me. fknlo posted:I'm just glad I'm not completely out of the loop by still using Hangouts. There's all those other options out there and I was worried I was on the same level as the really old people still paying for AOL. 
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IAmKale posted:It's weird to me that Hangouts is usable for SMS if you're on Fi, but not as an SMS handler for non-Fi users. I guess with Fi being able to handle SMS and phone calls over the internet they're able to integrate better into Hangouts?
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IAmKale posted:It's weird to me that Hangouts is usable for SMS if you're on Fi, but not as an SMS handler for non-Fi users. I guess with Fi being able to handle SMS and phone calls over the internet they're able to integrate better into Hangouts?
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