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Root cancelled!!!

biggie80 said:
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Here's the letter the sent. They said they warned me before but I received no prior warning. I'll get a better pic as soon as I can.
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Thanks for the update! Much appreciated.

If you were to fight them in court and they would say that they did send you a letter or some sort of notification, it would be wise to check all of your contact information that they have on file. Your phone number(s), postal address(es), e-mail(s), and the like that you've given to them to use. Sometimes I forget that I've given a company one of my pieces of information and they tell me that they've sent one to _____ but I never check it so I never got it which could land you in some problems.
 
I'm not going to pursue anything. It's over and done with and I don't have the $ for it anyways. I am guilty of abusing what they said and I did use it for downloading stuff. I just didn't realize I used so much data cause it doesn't show it on the website. I just wanted to give a heads up to people who use free wifi tether apps to be careful.
 
So I'm guessing you have to rack up a ton of data usage for this because I was away from wifi for a week and used 1 gb over wifi tether and was getting worried lol. I use the built in CM7 wifitether.
 
I'm sure your ok with 1gb cause I used 29gb when they booted me. just dont stream movies or download extremely large files.
 
An UrgeTo Dance said:
So I'm guessing you have to rack up a ton of data usage for this because I was away from wifi for a week and used 1 gb over wifi tether and was getting worried lol. I use the built in CM7 wifitether.
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Well, as long as you were not roaming, I'd say you are fine. :D

just be sure to watched it ;)
 
biggie80 said:
I'm not going to pursue anything. It's over and done with and I don't have the $ for it anyways. I am guilty of abusing what they said and I did use it for downloading stuff. I just didn't realize I used so much data cause it doesn't show it on the website. I just wanted to give a heads up to people who use free wifi tether apps to be careful.
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So you can't go back with Sprint whatsoever right? I'm curious does this affect your credit? And did you have to pay your last bill? Hmmm this is seriously interesting Sprint is getting cheap and playing us with the "unlimited plan" B/S :L
 
ndh777 said:
I had heard of this happening in other areas of the net. To be careful make sure:

1. Limit your data usage and keep an eye on it from your Sprint online account or anywhere else possible. Don't let it go over 5GBs in a month because I have heard that that is the silent *limit* when they begin to look into your account.

2. Watch downloading you do especially if it is illegal and torrents. Sprint has a legal right to terminate you and contact the authorities just as any ISP would have. Our ISP for one of our houses contacted us and told us to cease and desist or else the authorities would be called and would be granted a warrant to check our home as they had done before to another family, so they say.

3. Watch your roaming. Sprint says that it is unlimited but it's not entirely true.

4. I've heard that the 5GBs per month is a 3G only thing and that 4G is truly unlimited but if you hit 15GB or more, just know they will be checking into your account because that's a lot for our small phones to be doing in a 30 day span.

You can download torrents directly to your phone using a torrent client called "tTorrent" and I think there may be some others that allow torrent downloading from the Market.

Glad to hear that you resolved the situation. :) That's better than others that I've heard from other places on the net.
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I'm a bit over 5GB I have 904.29MB on 3G - 7.51GB on 4G and only 46kB on 3G roaming. I use the wireless.tether app a lot since my GF needs it for her phone. Am I ok?
 
Android_Ascend said:
I'm a bit over 5GB I have 904.29MB on 3G - 7.51GB on 4G and only 46kB on 3G roaming. I use the wireless.tether app a lot since my GF needs it for her phone. Am I ok?
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As long as your not downloading/streaming movies it should be ok. You would have to use a lot of data for them to look into why your using so much. So if your just surfing the web, downloading apps, and maybe playing an online app game you should be just fine.

Android_Ascend said:
So you can't go back with Sprint whatsoever right? I'm curious does this affect your credit? And did you have to pay your last bill? Hmmm this is seriously interesting Sprint is getting cheap and playing us with the "unlimited plan" B/S :L
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Yes I can not go back to Sprint. I don't know if its ever or a limited time. They waived the termination fees and the only thing I have to pay for on my bill is what Sprint didn't provide as a service, basically stuff I have billed to my phone I'm still liable to pay for. As for my credit I don't think it will hurt it.
 
biggie80 said:
As long as your not downloading/streaming movies it should be ok. You would have to use a lot of data for them to look into why your using so much. So if your just surfing the web, downloading apps, and maybe playing an online app game you should be just fine.
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Well I have downloaded movies and music, using tTorrent :l

biggie80 said:
Yes I can not go back to Sprint. I don't know if its ever or a limited time. They waived the termination fees and the only thing I have to pay for on my bill is what Sprint didn't provide as a service, basically stuff I have billed to my phone I'm still liable to pay for. As for my credit I don't think it will hurt it.
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I would suck if i was cut, plus I owe $252.76 hahahaha i owe that by the 3rd of January the only other company that would take me is AT&T :O
 
9to5cynic said:
To everyone getting kicked off:

Could you just go to Boost, Virgin, or Metro?
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I was thinking that too but I was with Virgin and their service, even though it's on Sprint in the US, pales in comparison to the parent company. You can't roam on Virgin, took me forever to find that out, so if you're in a bad coverage area you can't roam onto another carrier's signal.
 
just seems to me, if I am paying for unlimited data, that's what I should be getting no matter how I am getting. That puts a new meaning to "you get what you pay for", because in this case.........your not .
 
It's tricky, and not quite black and white (especially when tethering is considered). I remember months ago reading an analogy that was like this:

If you go to an all you can eat buffet, you can eat and eat and eat. But you can't share that food with friends. So the food is the data, and sharing with friends is tethering. But (again) that's not quite all there is to it. Very tricky, because if the data is only going to one device (and the phone is just forwarding it) we really are not sharing it with friends.. Tricky business.
 
If your using Sprint's device, to give a non-Sprint device access to Sprint's network, and not paying Sprint for that non-Sprint device's access, its illegal in terms of their TOS agreements.

In the buffet analogy, its like paying for a child's buffet, but having the child get alot more food and take it all to daddy instead lol
 
So I guess this would be a great warning to people who use tether to watch there data usage! If your trying to get booted now you know a great way, LOL!!!
 
I've been averaging 1 gig a month of total usage. I have recently started using a wifi tether, but I don't see myself getting up to 2 gigs.

I find it rediculous that carriers with limits can dictate how you use that data. If I pay for 2 gigs, those are my gigs...doesn't matter if I use a PC or not. I should not have to pay another $30 to get this access.

However, Sprint, in offering unlimited data, has a right to restrict how that data is used. When they say unlimited, they mean as much as your phone can use...not as much as you, your neighbor, anyone at the airport...so on and so forth.

So IMHO, Sprint is the only carrier who should even have the right to tell you how to use your data...the others can all suck a .....
 
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