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T-Mobile EDGE Problem (Sidekick PAYG Plan Related)
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For what it's worth
I'm having the exact same problem kevin889 had - email works great, texting and phone too - but Safari and all other apps are down for the count.
I tried the same approach of 'creating a sidekick username' through customer support, but this didn't get me too far the few times I tried - apparently I should have had one already. Making one up doesn't work too well either
At any rate, the main reason why I'm posting this is that the last representative I talked with said there was a massive outage of data services and anything that was web based/used port 80 is down for the count. The rep wasn't able to give me a concrete date of when service would be restored, but if it wasn't back by Wednesday they would be very surprised. The rep also mentioned that I should probably ask prepaid for a refund for the days that I wasn't able to get on.
This may not be the case for everyone, but I just figured I'd pass it along. Best of luck to everyone, and if it turns out that I do need to find a workaround, I'll post what I can find (I'm a software engineer)
I'm having the exact same problem kevin889 had - email works great, texting and phone too - but Safari and all other apps are down for the count.
I tried the same approach of 'creating a sidekick username' through customer support, but this didn't get me too far the few times I tried - apparently I should have had one already. Making one up doesn't work too well either
At any rate, the main reason why I'm posting this is that the last representative I talked with said there was a massive outage of data services and anything that was web based/used port 80 is down for the count. The rep wasn't able to give me a concrete date of when service would be restored, but if it wasn't back by Wednesday they would be very surprised. The rep also mentioned that I should probably ask prepaid for a refund for the days that I wasn't able to get on.
This may not be the case for everyone, but I just figured I'd pass it along. Best of luck to everyone, and if it turns out that I do need to find a workaround, I'll post what I can find (I'm a software engineer
)I'm having the exact same problem kevin889 had - email works great, texting and phone too - but Safari and all other apps are down for the count.
I tried the same approach of 'creating a sidekick username' through customer support, but this didn't get me too far the few times I tried - apparently I should have had one already. Making one up doesn't work too well either
At any rate, the main reason why I'm posting this is that the last representative I talked with said there was a massive outage of data services and anything that was web based/used port 80 is down for the count. The rep wasn't able to give me a concrete date of when service would be restored, but if it wasn't back by Wednesday they would be very surprised. The rep also mentioned that I should probably ask prepaid for a refund for the days that I wasn't able to get on.
This may not be the case for everyone, but I just figured I'd pass it along. Best of luck to everyone, and if it turns out that I do need to find a workaround, I'll post what I can find (I'm a software engineer
The best thing to do right now is to just wait it out and ask for a refund when the outage is over.
That might work. I am hoping it is an outage, not a block. I don't want to go through that...
More accounts of it being blocked for iPhone users.
It's reported on T-mobiles twitter:
http://twitter.com/TMobile_USA
And here:
http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/board/message?board.id=Prepaid&message.id=468#M468
It's reported on T-mobiles twitter:
http://twitter.com/TMobile_USA
And here:
http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/board/message?board.id=Prepaid&message.id=468#M468
@Krayoni - Would you mind sharing what you said to the representative to that? Did you flat out mention you had an iPhone, or did you play it off as a sidekick?
would love to know also?@Krayoni - Would you mind sharing what you said to the representative to that? Did you flat out mention you had an iPhone, or did you play it off as a sidekick?
Nope that what the told me the first time the second time i was told it was blocked time will tell.
Quick Update
Last night I spent about 2 hours or so going back and forth with T-Mobile. They were very nice and helpful, but unfortunately they tried resetting everything they could on their end and we had no luck. My account was credited for the past few days of outage (and then some), but I don't think there's much else we can do at this point.
Apparently the outage is no longer here, and there's something specific to Danger's servers. I'm going to see if there's any way I can impersonate a sidekick or try some form of tunneling and/or proxy and I'll see what I can cook up. More to come soon.
Anybody have any luck otherwise though? If so, please post how you did it
Last night I spent about 2 hours or so going back and forth with T-Mobile. They were very nice and helpful, but unfortunately they tried resetting everything they could on their end and we had no luck. My account was credited for the past few days of outage (and then some), but I don't think there's much else we can do at this point.
Apparently the outage is no longer here, and there's something specific to Danger's servers. I'm going to see if there's any way I can impersonate a sidekick or try some form of tunneling and/or proxy and I'll see what I can cook up. More to come soon.
Anybody have any luck otherwise though? If so, please post how you did it
Last night I spent about 2 hours or so going back and forth with T-Mobile. They were very nice and helpful, but unfortunately they tried resetting everything they could on their end and we had no luck. My account was credited for the past few days of outage (and then some), but I don't think there's much else we can do at this point.
Apparently the outage is no longer here, and there's something specific to Danger's servers. I'm going to see if there's any way I can impersonate a sidekick or try some form of tunneling and/or proxy and I'll see what I can cook up. More to come soon.
Anybody have any luck otherwise though? If so, please post how you did it
Some had luck with a proxy looks for the links above...
T-Mobile is offering unlimited text and internet for $19.99 with the flex month to month plan. I think I'm going with this because it's still cheaper than AT&T.
Flex Month to Month phone plan = $29.99
Unlimited Data and Internet = $19.99
$50.....This seems to be the least expensive for me at this point! Let me know what you think!
Flex Month to Month phone plan = $29.99
Unlimited Data and Internet = $19.99
$50.....This seems to be the least expensive for me at this point! Let me know what you think!
I gave in and switched to that plan for my 2g iPhone. Data works fine but the plan doesn't have unlimited text. It has 300 anytime mins, free N/W and unlimited data
yuck not for me then. think im gonna go palm pre when it goes out on verizon next year.