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Re: Phone Hacked
As @philesterhousesays, many different types of attacks. Edward Snowdon has an interesting video, discussing some of the NSA toolkit attacks (listening and viewing while making the phone appear to be off for example) but points out that the vast majority of people are not going to subject to these types of attacks. If someone such as a spouse has physical access to your phone, then certainly spyware of varying sophistication can be used. But again, you would hopefully be aware if that was a possibility! The more common, as referenced by @philesterhousewould be stuff spamming you with ads and/or trying to steal credit card/passwords etc. Various scanning programs offer some protection against these types of things.9Visto1like0ComentariosRe: phone outage $100 ?
This screams "scam" even apart from the typos, the whole scenario is unlikely. A real offer wouldn't be "$100 free gift", it would be something like a credit on your bill, paying $100 for a temporary less than one day outage is far too much, and you don't want to survey just people who have experienced an outage, Consider the recent data breach. That, which was truly serious, got something much less meaningful than $100 "gift"! Finally, those that blocked the sending number, what do you think that achieves. Almost certainly an innocent spoofed number.1Ver0likes0ComentariosRe: Unlocked s21 Ultra showing as "Unknown Device" and not supporting 5G or Extended Range LTE on My Mobile account
apatcas wrote: Bought a t-mobile branded Z-flip 3 from Samsung. Getting T-mobile updates and T-mobile crapware installed but the device is Networklocked to T-mobile and showing as an unknown device on my dashboard. This is really bad customer service. I'm about to submit a FCC complaint also. What would be the grounds for the complaint? Presumably not just that it shows as an unknown device on a web page? If T-mobile can't unlock it once you meet the conditions, then that would make sense.1Ver0likes0ComentariosRe: Feature Request: Configure 2FA Options Available
I suspect being able to disable SMS verification codes would be a false sense of security. Given that people are able to do the SMS hijack, it doesn't seem a huge leap for them to socially engineer the "need" for it to be turned back on ("I lost the phone that had GAuth on" for example)10Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: Unlocked s21 Ultra showing as "Unknown Device" and not supporting 5G or Extended Range LTE on My Mobile account
I brought over a Samsung S10e from Verizon and a new unlocked S21 Ultra (bought from Samsung). The 10e is identified correctly, the Ultra is unknown. So I don't know if porting brought over info from Verizon or it's just somewhat random. Of course, about from identifying the model, little of the other stuff like checking lock status, works0Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: Device Trade in Finance vs. Payoff
Mitch581 wrote: Okay, so I called T-Mobile this evening and got the lowdown on payments and early payoff. If you buy one of the new phones and want to pay it off early, you can, however you need to wait at least two billing cycles for the first credit to show up. Once that hits your account you can pay off your phone and the monthly credits will continue. Now, with that being said, she did state that my phone will still remain locked for t24 months and can be unlocked after that. That's interesting and different from Verizon, where once you pay off the device, any credits you receive stop. On the other hand, once you pay off the device early, you only need to wait 60 days for unlocking19Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: Given wrong plan and now pending...
newishuser wrote: tomwil wrote: newishuser wrote: (I was also thrown by the 1 day bill, Aug-6 to Aug-6 costing $70, but once explained I was OK) Can you tell us what they explained to you for the full-month charge for one day? Good question! The answer satisfied me at the time ("It's REALLY for Aug 6 - Sep 6") but now I have got my second bill which covers Aug 7- Seo 6 it's hard to avoid the belief that I was charged a full month for one day, as I originally thought. Plus, the explanation blurs the distinction between prepaid and postpaid! Anyone have a good justification Looking at the second bill again, it does claim that the plan covers to Oct (so plan is different from billing period?) So I guess the real test is when you get the final bill, if timed correctly there shouldn't be a charge.2Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: Given wrong plan and now pending...
tomwil wrote: newishuser wrote: (I was also thrown by the 1 day bill, Aug-6 to Aug-6 costing $70, but once explained I was OK) Can you tell us what they explained to you for the full-month charge for one day? Good question! The answer satisfied me at the time ("It's REALLY for Aug 6 - Sep 6") but now I have got my second bill which covers Aug 7- Seo 6 it's hard to avoid the belief that I was charged a full month for one day, as I originally thought. Plus, the explanation blurs the distinction between prepaid and postpaid! Anyone have a good justification2Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: Given wrong plan and now pending...
I have been with Verizon and precursors since 1988(and was also an employee) so I didn't switch lightly either. It's just that outside various states such as FL, Verizon has nothing like the price point compared to the T mobile's,55+ for two people. Cheapest VZW unlimited is $120 + taxes, so for $50 a month savings I am willing to tolerate a few teething pains!5Visto1like0ComentariosRe: Given wrong plan and now pending...
I also switched from Verizon to the 55+ (but just plain Magenta) so I was expecting to pay $70 a month. A few hours later i checked the t-mobile account I had set up and saw I was being charged $100, basically two single 55+ lines. I called and was told it would be fixed, but,like you, it took some days to show up. But it was eventually corrected. (I was also thrown by the 1 day bill, Aug-6 to Aug-6 costing $70, but once explained I was OK)5Visto1like0Comentarios