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T-Mobile USA Rolling Out Software Update for Existing Unlocked iPhone Customers

willryan42 said:
Chatted with a T-Mobile rep online and told them VMM wasn't working for me. They said I had "extended voicemail" on my account, but not VMM. They activated VMM for free without any issue, and said it should be working on my phone within two hours.
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I honestly don't think that is the reason because I don't have visual voicemail on my account either, but report back.

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Kar98 said:
OK, on my iPhone 3GS, VVM was available immediately after a reboot, on my wife's 3GS, it took a reboot and a couple minutes of wait time. Neither of us had to sign up for anything.

On mine, I got it through iTunes, on hers, through General/Software Updates on the phone.
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Same here, but you need a data connection.
 
desimaniac said:
I'm on the 50/monthly prepaid "simple" plan but i did this for you :). I believe tmobile support are calling the new plan "simple" And its not postpay. No new accounts will be postpay from what i understand. When I called up to get this a few days back they said I could get the old plan with the older prices (start off with like 200MB data) or the simple plan with 500MB and hotspot, but I would need to pay a deposit but there's no contract since I was bringing my own iphone and if I left, whenever, I'd get my deposit back. So to get more data, I just paid the deposit to get in the simple plan.

So if you are on the simple plans' 70/mo unlimited you should be able to get it. But if you are on the old 70/mo one then that one wouldn't.
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I certainly appreciate you assisting me.

If you receive a bill in the mail or online for services used for a specific date range, that's a post-pay plan. If you're saying "no new account will be post-pay" that means no one is receiving a bill for services and everyone must pay upfront. Isn't there a credit check required for the Simple Plan, because they are billing you?

I really am trying to make sense of all this. I understand the Month-to-Month plans are obsolete in a sense because there are no more contract plans. Hence, no need to distinguish with the name Month-to-Month 4G.

With the Simple Plan are there still hidden taxes, surcharges, or fees or do you just pay sales tax and the 911 fee like the pre-paid (Month-to-Month) plans?
 
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Terrin said:
Same here, but you need a data connection.
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Well, yeah, but seeing how the update is in the range of ten kilobytes, EDGE should suffice ;)

Although... I haven't been outside of DFW in months, and I don't know if you get data while roaming these days.
 
seanmeir said:
Yes they did, my verizon iphone 5 got the carrier update OTA in Salt Lake City, Utah. Still seeing EDGE here, though.
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The original comment was about Verizon iPhones and Verizon carrier updates and the list provided by Apple on the site that was linked. Thus the reply about not being sure what the T-Mobile update had to do in relation to that.
 
SCIONTX said:
I certainly appreciate you assisting me.

If you receive a bill in the mail or online for services used for a specific date range, that's a post-pay plan. If you're saying "no new account will be post-pay" that means no one is receiving a bill for services and everyone must pay upfront. Isn't there a credit check required for the Simple Plan, because they are billing you?

I really am trying to make sense of all this. I understand the Month-to-Month plans are obsolete in a sense because there are no more contract plans. Hence, no need to distinguish with the name Month-to-Month 4G.

With the Simple Plan are there still hidden taxes, surcharges, or fees or do you just pay sales tax and the 911 fee like the pre-paid (Month-to-Month) plans?
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I have to pay for the month in advance. I signed up for the service a few days ago and even though I paid the deposit that time, I got the bill to pay for the month in advance now.

This is what the bill shows:
6.67 for the partial month (4 days)
50 deposit
50 first month
3.22 other charges
10 in taxes and fees (in Texas if that matters)
-50 for paying the deposit at the store.
Balance is what's due. (I'd tell you what that is but they charged me an extra deposit and an activation-even though there isn't one-for the temporary number while I was being ported in, called to get that fixed, and now waiting for it to update with the correct balance).


I'd recommend you go to a tmobile store and see if they can get you switched to simple WITH hotspot. Won't hurt to try.
 
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desimaniac said:
I have to pay for the month in advance. I signed up for the service a few days ago and even though I paid the deposit that time, I got the bill to pay for the month in advance now.

This is what the bill shows:
6.67 for the partial month (4 days)
50 deposit
50 first month
3.22 other charges
10 in taxes and fees (in Texas if that matters)
-50 for paying the deposit at the store.
Balance is what's due. (I'd tell you what that is but they charged me an extra deposit and an activation-even though there isn't one-for the temporary number while I was being ported in, called to get that fixed, and now waiting for it to update with the correct balance).


I'd recommend you go to a tmobile store and see if they can get you switched to simple WITH hotspot. Won't hurt to try.
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This was very helpful, thank you.
 

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bozzykid said:
Perhaps fast is just for the iPhone 5. What are you using?

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The carrier update didn't do anything to coverage. All it did is show 4G when you are connected to HSPA+. Before it showed 3G for both (which is should but stupid carriers like it to say 4G). It will not affect speeds in anyway (it is just a display change).
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I have a 4S and for both sections it is the fast settings.

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For those who said they enabled the free hot spot in their my-tmobile account page, I have unlimited $70 plan and there is nothing mentioning hotspot anywhere.
 
Kinda confused,

Does the 30$ unlimited text/ data (5gb @ 4g) & 100 min call. prepaid plan still have a hotspot option? , for free?

If not, can I block this this tmobile carrier update ?
 
SCIONTX said:
Where does it say mobile hotspot is an option specifically for the prepaid (month-to-month) $70 plan (Unlimited 4G)? According to this it isn't:
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Correct, it's not an option for the $70 unlimited plan. On one of my phones on the $30 100 minutes 5GB data plan, it is an option for $15, not free.
 

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T-Mobile's HSPA+ (really 3.5G and not true 4G LTE but appearing as 4G next to the carrier name) is screaming fast in my area (Martinez, CA 94553). It blows away AT&T's HSPA+ (no results available to display) AND my U-Verse Broadband! Results below:
 

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vanluuk said:
Ok, so not even 500 mb for free?
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That's right, you have to pay. I posted a screen shot above.

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So in two accounts:

$30 100 minutes 5GB data, hotspot costs $15, no free option
$70 unlimited all, no option for hotspot anywhere.

I have the $70 sim in my Nexus 4 and the $30 sim in my 4S and another $30 sim in my 3GS. I haven't tried a unlimited sim in my 4S yet to see what happens.
 
vanluuk said:
Kinda confused,

Does the 30$ unlimited text/ data (5gb @ 4g) & 100 min call. prepaid plan still have a hotspot option? , for free?
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Not free. $15/month. And I don't think that option was ever free.

If not, can I block this this tmobile carrier update ?
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You can always say "later" when the update pops up.
 
Anybody else seeing Edge/4G radio switching issues?

Ok so we got the wonderful update, on my end it just popped up on my phone and I installed it. Now one thing i'm seeing is that i'll look at the phone and see 4G and all of a sudden it will switch right back to lovely bleeding Edge (E). I noticed this all over the place today (Northern NJ, and down the shore). It just doesn't seem to lock on 4G. It seems to me that this is a radio firmware issue that Apple/Tmobile need to work out and likely an update will be released real soon to address this. Anybody else seeing this? I'm going to report it to tmobile and hope you all do the same. I don't want to go back to AT&T (just ported over Friday) but the Edge data connection is just too crapy for me to get things done.

-Mike

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theFATangel said:
T-Mobile's HSPA+ (really 3.5G and not true 4G LTE but appearing as 4G next to the carrier name) is screaming fast in my area (Martinez, CA 94553). It blows away AT&T's HSPA+ (no results available to display) AND my U-Verse Broadband! Results below:
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Actually your results are not that great but i'll take that any day over the crapy bleeding Edge that i'm getting all over.

-Mike
 
I just installed tetherme in Cydia and have tethering back.

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mikefla said:
Ok so we got the wonderful update, on my end it just popped up on my phone and I installed it. Now one thing i'm seeing is that i'll look at the phone and see 4G and all of a sudden it will switch right back to lovely bleeding Edge (E). I noticed this all over the place today (Northern NJ, and down the shore). It just doesn't seem to lock on 4G. It seems to me that this is a radio firmware issue that Apple/Tmobile need to work out and likely an update will be released real soon to address this. Anybody else seeing this? I'm going to report it to tmobile and hope you all do the same. I don't want to go back to AT&T (just ported over Friday) but the Edge data connection is just too crapy for me to get things done.

-Mike

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Actually your results are not that great but i'll take that any day over the crapy bleeding Edge that i'm getting all over.

-Mike
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Mine stays on 4G and hasn't switched to anything else since the update but I live in a great coverage area here in Denver.
 
Here's some speed tests done in Virginia (Herndon) and Washington DC.

The slow ones are Herndon and the fast downtown DC - Alexandria/Ballston.

In general I've been getting better 4G coverage from where I used to get 3G/Edge and also LTE where it was 3G before. Looks like the refarming has been to HSPA+ and LTE.
 

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boccabella said:
4G, yeah right.
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That is pretty crappy.

-Mike

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bozzykid said:
HSPA+ "4G" works good for me.
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Now this is pretty decent, not bad at all!

-Mike

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denisclc said:
I am in Cleveland, OH.
Sometimes I get 3G (very rare). Friday I had full signal, and did this speed test. I could create a mobile hotspot until then.

Since friday i can't get 3G, only Edge. Now I did the carrier update, got visual voicemail, lost mobile hotspot, and the networkis still on Edge.
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I'll take this speed any day!

-Mike

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mr0c said:
Here's some speed tests done in Virginia (Herndon) and Washington DC.

The slow ones are Herndon and the fast downtown DC - Alexandria/Ballston.

In general I've been getting better 4G coverage from where I used to get 3G/Edge and also LTS where it was 3G before. Looks like the refarming has been to HSPA+ and LTE.
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Wow! What phone are you using?

-Mike
 
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