tonic posted:

Does anyone know if the bill starts running on a Cricket SIM immediately when you order it? It looks like you have to pay for a month of service up front when ordering a SIM card and I vaguely remember someone mentioning that it did, but I wasn't sure. I guess it makes more sense that it would start once the SIM was activated.


E-mail sent. Thanks!

TraderStav posted:

How do I generate a referral through Cricket? I see no mention of this from the site.

Bisty Q. posted:

Also, I'd take a referral, because either way I'll probably put a family member on the plan. Can someone email me one? (Just put John Doe, I don't think the name really matters

Cojawfee posted:

This is mine:

http://www.imgur.com/SlQ8q0I.png

Cojawfee posted:

What of MMS is it? There was one group text that my phone would absolutely not send anything in. I could send texts in other group texts just fine. But the one I could receive but couldn't send.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

Samsung Galaxy Light for T-Mobile seems to be a decent phone for about 120$ (via amazon), anything in the neighborhood that blows it out of the water for about the same price?

Mr. Blastaway posted:

I got it working finally and apparently the setting are on Crickets website. Thanks everyone. BTW, does the cricket referral system only work during the sign up process because I forgot about it when I signed up a few weeks back?

Edit: wrong link

Ludwig van Halen posted:

Does anyone else have issues with iMessage on straight talk?

I wasn't having problems for a while then it stopped working completely if I wasn't on wifi. I found out that installing the apn profile made it work again, but still every once in a while an iMessage fails to send, but I have 3 bars connection. Is there any fix for this or should I switch to cricket or something?

It could just be that AT&T has shoddy coverage so cricket wouldn't fix it. Although other apps work on data while iMessage is timing out. Or maybe straighttalk is throttling imessage?

TLG James posted:

Looking to replace my GS3 in the next 6 months or so. I just can't understand why the Moto X doesn't have a micro sd card, but the G does. Hopefully they release a G with LTE soon.

whatever7 posted:

Why? because google hates users.

whatever7 posted:

I can't hear you over my gozillions of offline videos, podcasts and audiobooks.


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eddiewalker posted:

Depending on how high the outright price is, wifi calling on the just-announced iPhone makes the T-Mobile "dork plan" look even more tempting.

I'm a little scared to jump ship from my ATT contract plan with some grandfathered discounts, though. Do the android devices that already have wifi calling on T-Mo support it on prepaid plans?

edit: "If you have a Pay In Advance line, calls made over Wi-Fi deduct from the plan bucket just like regular calls." ...oh

clockworx posted:

Hoping someone on Verizon Prepaid with an iPhone an answer this question.

My wife has an existing Sprint account that is going out of contract, an Apple Store gift card from trading in her iPhone 5 (she's using a temp phone) and wants to switch to Verizon Prepaid with an iPhone. My understanding that the Apple Store doesn't sell new Prepaid lines on Verizon, and if you're not opening a new line, they only sell you a Verizon iPhone if you already have an account number to check upgrade eligibility against.

So this is her plan:
Open new verizon prepaid line with a junker phone, porting in her Sprint # to close her Sprint account.
Use newly-opened Verizon prepaid account to check upgrade eligibility , and hopefully be allowed to buy off-contract iPhone due to no upgrade eligibility.

The last step is the part that I have no idea about whether or not it works. Will Apple let you go in with an existing Verizon prepaid account to buy an off-contract phone from them? Yes, she could buy directly from Verizon, but she already has the gift card.

eddiewalker posted:

If I text "what" to 96500 on my AT&T contract phone, I immediately get a text back with the last three songs on the radio.

If I do it on my wife's tmobile contract phone, I get an "access denied" reply.

On GV, the texts seem to go through but I get no response.

Finisher1 posted:

All right, now that the data limits have been extended I'm think I'm ready to go ahead and take the plunge on Cricket. Before I do though, does anyone have any recommendations for smartphones from them? I'd have gone with the Moto G, but that's been out of stock every time I've checked, and I'm not really in the mood to spend ~$500 on one of the Galaxy models. The Sonata and the Overture are both tempting, being free after rebate, but I've never used a ZTE smartphone and I'm not sure about their reliability.

Also, would anyone be willing to give me a referral?

Finisher1 posted:

The Motorola website is already selling 2nd generation Moto G's for $180. Is there any advantage to spending $200 on the LTE variant of the 1st generation versus just going ahead and buying the new one?

Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:

I'll have to post a trip report. Just got in 2 2nd Gen G's yesterday. Been playing around with them at home, but haven't gotten over to the tmobile store yet to pick up sim cards. I was also debating on getting the LTE 1st gen but I figured I'd go for the new one. However, looking up the IMEI on the tmobile website yeilds no results for which sim card to get. Also there are literally no cases anywhere for the 2nd gen. Maybe they'll have some at the store.

Just excited to finally GTFO verizon.

tonic posted:

As a current Cricket pro plan customer, how do I get the double data promotion?

Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:

Thanks for the input. You say it might take a little while, do you mean I won't be able to activate it? Or should I just be able to pop a micro SIM in and be all set?

Man_of_Teflon posted:

Thinking of switching to Cricket. I need to get a pair of basic phones for my parents - any good source for cheap refurbs, or should I just go for the "LG True" that Cricket sells for $30?

Jeff Goldblum posted:

If I already have an unlocked phone, would I be able to get a referral and use it to get into the Bring Your Own Phone setup? This additional data gig looks pretty appealing, as I really only need 1GB to handle a little minimal browsing/searching on top of the work I've done making my phone 90% internal GPS/data reliant.

It's just too bad I'm switching a Verizon number and not a T-mobile one, I'd really like that $100 credit...

Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:

So I tried tmo with the new Moto G, and the coverage at my house isn't as good as the coverage map implied. Probably going to Net10 as AT&T covers it all with no gaps.

Had a question about their 2 people family plan: does is the 3gb shared or per line? It's 5 bucks cheaper than if you do both lines separately with auto-refill.

Also the OP needs to be updated with new pricing http://www.net10wireless.com/#/plans

Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:

Can I ask what the difference is? Is it customer service?

With Cricket for 2 lines would it be 45 per line with auto-pay and then 10 bucks off second line = 80/mo??

Radbot posted:

Merv Burger posted:

I assume that the $100 switch credit for Cricket can apply if you're switching from a pre-paid T-Mobile account? Can you also stack the $25 referral on it, too?

Thinking about switching since some life changes makes the lack of LTE or HSPA everywhere in my area a bit of a deal breaker, and the poor building penetration makes me a little frustrated, too.

carb0nex posted:

Any goon know how difficult it is to switch from StraightTalk to Cricket? I have been on ST since January, but a few times a day, I get zero service out of no where in places I have always gotten service. I don't know if it's ST or AT&T, but I'd still like to switch for all that extra data.

clockworx posted:

Does Cricket hit you with an activation fee if you order online? My wife did her signup in-store, and paid $10 for the sim and another $20 for activation (or $25, I forget).

nimper posted:

So if you're on the T-Mobile dork plan and you have a Google Voice number, you can use the Hangouts dialer to do unlimited VOIP calling and it's no longer a dork plan.

I just started this week and so far Hangouts has only used about 3mb of data (including texts/chats) for 10 or so phone calls.

Cojawfee posted:

8Mbs is good enough for anything you're going to do on your phone unless you are torrenting very large linux ISOs.

Brock Landers posted:

As far as bandwidth goes, that's correct. Ping times are higher on Cricket too because of their proxy. As a Cricket user who was previously on both Att and Tmobile, I can say that the delay caused by higher pings is ever so slightly more noticeable but not at all times.

carb0nex posted:

Yep, 10 digit number, my email, and the referral code. It gets submitted, then a day-ish later, I get an email saying it failed. I received the code 10 days ago, so it shouldn't be expired.

ErikTheRed posted:

So I'm looking to switch onto Cricket next week, as I have a new Moto X coming on the 30th. Is there a way to get the activation kit ahead of time? I couldn't find a way to order it without having to enter an IMEI. I know I'm just being impatient but I'm dying to get off of this GS3.

Also, I'll take a referral.

A question on this too: eventually we'll be adding two more lines, can a referral be applied to each of those as well?

carb0nex posted:

I just finished talking to a support person and he says I had to redeem the referral code before activating my account. The referral requires a Cricket number, and a Cricket number requires an active SIM card and phone number.

Does the guy who referred me need to do something on his end? I don't know.

TLG James posted:

Isn't that still worse than Criket?

Unless GoPhone isn't limited to 8 mbps or whatever.

ThermoPhysical posted:

The more interesting part is the lawsuit that the FTC hit AT&T with last week about throttling when they claim something is unlimited.

Granted, it probably won't get far as they tried the same thing against Verizon and I believe they just threw money at it all until it went away but...yeah.

http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2014/10/ftc-says-att-has-misled-millions-consumers-unlimited-data

Vykk.Draygo posted:

Can someone toss me a referral for Cricket please?

poppingseagull posted:

I feel like Cricket is terrible with IT. Constantly had issues trying to sign up. Now I can't enable auto-pay (tech support said the auto-pay server is down) and the app on my phone errors out every time I log in.

Meanwhile, I can only sign up for one line at a time online? So annoying. I want to transfer 3 lines and don't want to do it one at a time. Meanwhile I tried to go to the store and the only "stores" within 30 minutes are gamestops. I went to two and both said they don't have Cricket set up yet.

crondaily posted:

Anyone have this slowness issues on Cricket while using straight talk?

eric posted:

Anyone's cricket speeds better? I'm now getting sub 100ms pings and maxing out the download in Las Vegas.

tonic posted:

Where is everyone having all these issues with Cricket? Never had any issues in Northern California. Pretty much always on LTE, 8/4mbit speeds, quick page loads. Only thing I've ever noticed is that their app seems to be down at night a lot, making it difficult to check data usage.

Going to bum me out if their service is slipping, been recommending it to a lot of people.

Rastor posted:

T-mobile only just recently started rolling out 700MHz service, which has much better coverage than their other bands. If you're in the painted part of the map, the TM coverage situation may be improving for you.

Allaniis posted:

I ended up getting that Moto G LTE for the $75 rebate from Cricket. How's the rebate situation with Cricket?

whatever7 posted:

First month free

Khanstant posted:

I was referred to this thread after posting in the Sprint thread how done I am with their bullshit. After reviewing the OP, seems like my two best options are the tmobile dork plan or Ting. I actually talked quite a bit with Ting on the phone earlier. I really pretty much never use data, looks like 311mb since Dec 8. 8.55GB on Wifi. ~117 texts, not too much time spent talking.

I know Ting will let me keep my number and Nexus 5 and pay part of my ETF, does T-mob pay any ETF and let me keep my number, or is that what this business about GV is about. I'm too old and stoned to learn a new number and I know there are people who have my number but I don't have theirs, so switching numbers isn't a good option for me.

I'm still kind of floored, I've been paying this poo poo company between 50-100 bucks a month for like 8 years, I clearly don't matter to them as a customer, and it looks like the best option is to seriously pay someone else less money for essentially the same service, possibly even using the same cell towers?? This poo poo is bonkers, but whatever, it sounds like I can got from a 100 bill I can't afford and makes me hungry, to a reasonable price and the only catch really is the early termination fee Sprint does so they don't actually have to feel penalized when we switch. Whoever I do end up with is getting a personal Nobel Prize, Obama-style, simply for not being Sprint. Can one get a refund on unused data? I must have a TB or two over the years paid for and never used hahaha.