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Re: Why is tmobile the only phone service blocking premium text?
thank you, Syaoran, for providing such a cogent answer. and there i was, thinking the worse again, without having any real knowledge, so I remain a dull blade. and a dull blade is dangerous. restricting short codes is certainly a good thing then...T-mo prob does quite a few things right...I'm just aggravated in general,,,I think their website is clunky and unintuitive, as is the structure of this forum. But I come from the typewriter age and one black phone in the house era.(and Roman numerals)... Our current era demands a rugged self-reliance, a willingness to be learning all the time, and does seem to me to have too many variables, too many moving parts. also did I mention I am simple minded, or it might be that everything around us seems to be getting vastly more complicated a lot faster than I can handle. I have high hopes for T-mo. They seem to be doing a lot of the right things, but I wish they would be more transparent, maybe provide more tutorials. Really appreciate your expertise and your kindness in giving so many excellent answers and sharing your knowledge with the community. It helps a lot. thanks again….11Visto2likes0ComentariosRe: How to Activate Samsung watch LTE
@kronikole@magenta10419802 and other trusty and intrepid explorers going where no man (or woman) has gone before. I love reading these stories and realizing it's not just me. The way the forum is set up also leaves a lot to be desired. T-mo, you could do better than this. We are all relying on your good will as we ferret our way through this system of lack of proper signage, documentation, and software. This thread is over 3 years old, but I hate to say it , still relevant. Today is Oct.1, 2021. I thank God I did not have to go through what most of you had to do. But it is still very far from seamless and intuitive. You do not need the 'Digits' app. You need the Samsung Wearables app and then another Samsung app piece of software for the SS watch 4, which is comparable to the latest Apple watch coming out later this month or so. The t-mo documentation at this point is better. But I do not think every step is totally spelled out. I am assuming the SSwatch 4 device should be able to communicate with any/every other device of any brand as long as they are all connected to the internet in some way. The watch functions as kind of an access point to one of your phones and uses it as a base. The watch is not a standalone device which is not made clear by anyone. Its number is never used, but is like a number assigned to a hotspot device, used as an indentifier in their system, as far as I can tell. You do most everything from your mobile phone with/thru the Samsung Wearables App. Your phone must 'find' and 'recognize' the watch first, and then you can jig with the settings, AND it is much easier to do that on your phone, not on the tiny format of the watch. I may be crazy, but I keep two phones going, and having or being able to leave one at home (as a backup and a spare) and just use the watch would seem to offer some utility, but I wish someone along the way had properly explained how this all worked. I am going to play with this thing for a couple of more days before I decide to return it. thanks for the use of the hall.4Visto1like0ComentariosRe: how do i report a dead zone?
thx for your remarks, DrNew and Ann….if it is any consolation, many of us also suffer some of the same issues, and are trying to fight the same battles with all the Telcos…..they are very ready to take your money every month, but they are very fuzzy about the details of their 'service', preferring not to give us more info than they 1)-think we can handle, or 2)- want us to know. I'm also a retired guy and have some time to look at some of this. Getting a signal depends on the tower location and what frequencies they are broadcasting, and what radio frequency bands you have in your device to receive them….it is actually extremely complicated, as is all of our 'tech' nowadays. (there are many 'G's, maybe 10 or 15 types of data transmission, how it is sent and received) If you have the right radio band (on your device) for the one they are using to broadcast their signal, then you will get a connection. If you do not have, say band 66 on your device, but that's the one they are sending on, you will not get a good signal. Speed test apps can help a little. But they are more or less constantly taking "towers" down and putting them up, and they have no interest in informing us about the specific frequencies they are using, and which devices will work 'better' with which bandwidths. They are interested in selling you a $1000 phone as often as possible and locking you into a long contract. ( instead of actually being honest about what you can expect ), and it is very complicated…...it just does not feel right if you have paid for a device and service, but cannot get a signal….just my two cents...3Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Trade in our phones or carry a separate FM Radio?
@mr_l84 and the other good folks- thanks for asking those questions and others for providing some decent answers. for some strange reason, the telcos and a lot of people do not seem like they are living in the real world. we could use some sensible devices which would provide basic features designed for just some of the situations you described so well…...there are a lot of things which could be better designed, but the big companies seem more like Dilbert cartoons...7Visto1like0ComentariosRe: I am about to give up on TMobil
@tmo_mike_c@formercanuck@fireguy_6364 I still maintain it is a trust issue. They do not want us to know. They are following Google's arrogance and deciding what they want to decide. I cannot believe they do not know exactly what is going on with their network: where their subscribers are, what the traffic is, what the signal strengths and speeds are. Sometimes a rep will tell you if there is a problem going on with a local tower, but I think they themselves cannot see it. If they crowdsourced all that data, they would know exactly where new towers were needed. I regularly test speed using several different apps (speedof.me, Network Sell Info Lite, Open Signal, and Speedtest) . Usually it is under 10 Mbps. If I visit an urban area, it is usually much better than my semi-rural area. If they wanted to be transparent and their customers to be educated, they would not be so secretive about their network. I do think they are making a concerted push to be number 1, and they may not want their two competitors to know the real extent of their coverage, either. At least that is what I hope, and that one day I will wake up to a consistent 20 Mbps signal. They have made a lot of progress in the last year. I am still betting on them, for what it is worth. I just wish they would treat us in a more open-handed way.2Visto1like0ComentariosRe: I am about to give up on TMobil
The elemental problem is that they lie. Most of you know that. If they really wanted to be transparent, at least there would be a constant in the equation. When everything is variables, you cannot solve the equation. My service is fubar. T-mo could help a lot if they provided an app of some sort so we could accurately monitor and report back the true signal, but I think they are afraid to do that AND they do not trust us, or themselves. Everything in this world works on trust. You cannot do real business unless you have a trust relationship with your partners. Unfortunately, as much as we would like to trust t-mo, they have consciously decided it is more expedient to lie. We know it is a very (extremely) complicated network. America is failing right now all over the place, but it cannot see it. It comes from the top down. "Promise her anything, but give her Arpegge"2Visto1like0Comentarios