Using the Phone as the primary internet source - Page 4

pokerpot · #31 (**permalink**) 05-16-2010, 10:17 PM

I traveled a lot last month and was tethering the whole time. I have no idea how it happened but when I looked at my bill it was 22 gigs!

I was so shocked and my heart stopped for a second but nothing came of it. Wonder how much you need to go over for Sprint to say something.

So I take it if I keep it at around 5-7 gigs per month I should be OK? I have three phones on my account and my girlfriend and brother never use data so seems fair enough to me that I get a little extra.

**nrfitchett4** · #32 (**permalink**) 05-16-2010, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by boredandtattooed

you needed to tether, as "a last option", for 10+hrs?? lol, nice try...

and no, didnt work right out of the box... why you think every noob has to make a post about how to get it working, its obviously not plug and play.. and if you have a custom ROM, its already cooked in..

look at page 167 of the sprint tp2 manual.
http://www.sprint.com/cdma/assets/pd...ch_pro2_ug.pdf

and fyi, I was working out of town and barely had 3g signal, no 4g like I do in town, and no wifi where I was at, so I like I said, last resort.

**austin420** · #33 (**permalink**) 05-16-2010, 10:33 PM

i betnow that the evo plan has truly unlimited data, they will be more strict with the 5gb cap. they didnt just randomly decide to do away with phone as a modem and introduce this new unlimeted data add on for nothing.

**nrfitchett4** · #34 (**permalink**) 05-16-2010, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by austin420

i betnow that the evo plan has truly unlimited data, they will be more strict with the 5gb cap. they didnt just randomly decide to do away with phone as a modem and introduce this new unlimeted data add on for nothing.

i wonder if you can get the 10.00 add on and a true unlimited data plan even without the evo. they aren't calling it a 4g fee, but a premium data fee.

**boredandtattooed** · #35 (**permalink**) 05-17-2010, 02:25 AM

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Originally Posted by nrfitchett4

look at page 167 of the sprint tp2 manual.
http://www.sprint.com/cdma/assets/pd...ch_pro2_ug.pdf

and fyi, I was working out of town and barely had 3g signal, no 4g like I do in town, and no wifi where I was at, so I like I said, last resort.

the manual can say whatever it wants, does it work out of the box, is it plug and play, absoluetly not.. therefore you had to install a hack to get it to work.. how do you think it says Sprint for ICS and not phone as modem... how do you think you changed that??? by installing something!

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Originally Posted by nrfitchett4

i wonder if you can get the 10.00 add on and a true unlimited data plan even without the evo. they aren't calling it a 4g fee, but a premium data fee.

and no... no matter what they call it, its because you have access to the 4G network, no other phone in the US has wimax access.. as i dont control sprint, i cant say in the future there wont be, but not anytime soon...

in the future, cell plans will all be based on megabytes/gigabytes and not minutes.. sprint says in about 2 yrs they anticipate.. so everything will be premium data then youd assume http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2361784,00.asp

THE-COPS · #36 (**permalink**) 05-17-2010, 02:57 AM

It's probably truly unlimited because the connection is so fast. What is the max speed of 4G? I forget, but could you imagine how fast your data usage would accumulate vs a 3G connection? I think in the same time it would take you to get 5GB of data on a 3G, you'd have gotten 100GB on a 4G connection.

tx_dbs_tx · #37 (**permalink**) 05-23-2010, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by pokerpot

I traveled a lot last month and was tethering the whole time. I have no idea how it happened but when I looked at my bill it was 22 gigs!

I was so shocked and my heart stopped for a second but nothing came of it. Wonder how much you need to go over for Sprint to say something.

So I take it if I keep it at around 5-7 gigs per month I should be OK? I have three phones on my account and my girlfriend and brother never use data so seems fair enough to me that I get a little extra.

I recently have been experiencing NO EVDO signal from my home location tower. Everywhere else I go EVDO works fine. I have talked to Sprint tech support everyday for the past month and they kept having me reset my TP2's data by doing a "data restore". I told them that it's not my phone because EVDO works everywhere else except when i'm at home on the tower nearest to where i live. They tested the tower and initially told me the tower tested fine. Then a couple days later they said it tested bad and they put in a trouble ticket. Sprint said it would be fixed in apx 24 to 48 hours but I still have no data and it's been several days. my phone will show EV in the upper tashbar but as soon as i try to use any app the uses a data connection my phone immediately switches to 1x. I suspect Sprint has blocked EVDO at the tower where I live. On one of the phone calls to Sprint tech support, i overheard the techs reading notes on my account and she said "... EVDO blocked... bla bla bla." When i asked what she was talking about she changed the subject and made it sound like she was writing in the trouble ticket. Why would the tech use the term "blocked" if she was writing a trouble ticket for a customer experiencing trouble with evdo signal while at home only????

No customer support rep has mentioned anything about excessive data usage on my account yet but this makes me wonder what's really going on. After complaining to sprint cust support everyday for the past month, I finally have evdo working again on my TP2. It's actually much faster than it was before.

**gTen** · #38 (**permalink**) 05-23-2010, 02:26 AM

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Originally Posted by THE-COPS

It's probably truly unlimited because the connection is so fast. What is the max speed of 4G? I forget, but could you imagine how fast your data usage would accumulate vs a 3G connection? I think in the same time it would take you to get 5GB of data on a 3G, you'd have gotten 100GB on a 4G connection.

current 4G is not that fast and currently it is capped..if you are using an average Rev A connection expect 2-3X speed improvements.

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Originally Posted by tx_dbs_tx

No customer support rep has mentioned anything about excessive data usage on my account yet but this makes me wonder what's really going on. After complaining to sprint cust support everyday for the past month, I finally have evdo working again on my TP2. It's actually much faster than it was before.

Maybe the tower was being upgraded at the moment so they blocked EVDO temporarily?

tx_dbs_tx · #39 (**permalink**) 05-23-2010, 02:43 AM

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Originally Posted by gTen

current 4G is not that fast and currently it is capped..if you are using an average Rev A connection expect 2-3X speed improvements.

Maybe the tower was being upgraded at the moment so they blocked EVDO temporarily?

That's the conclusion I come up with also. Good thinking, there bud!

**nrfitchett4** · #40 (**permalink**) 05-23-2010, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by boredandtattooed

the manual can say whatever it wants, does it work out of the box, is it plug and play, absoluetly not.. therefore you had to install a hack to get it to work.. how do you think it says Sprint for ICS and not phone as modem... how do you think you changed that??? by installing something!

and no... no matter what they call it, its because you have access to the 4G network, no other phone in the US has wimax access.. as i dont control sprint, i cant say in the future there wont be, but not anytime soon...

in the future, cell plans will all be based on megabytes/gigabytes and not minutes.. sprint says in about 2 yrs they anticipate.. so everything will be premium data then youd assume http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2361784,00.asp

you can say what you want, but when i tethered in the beginning, my phone was stock with only mobile shell on it. no hacks, but believe what you want.