MediaNet instead of BB Data plan. Hack?
- I have a Curve 8310 with At&t, they know I have it, but it's not contracted to them. I do not want to pay $30 for the BB Data Personal plan, thats as much as I pay for 7MB/s at home, I want the Unlimited MediaNet plan for $15. I have Opera Mini, and my TCP settings are as follows:
APN: wap.cingular
Username for APN: [email protected]
Password for APN: CINGULAR1
What will I not be able to do/do with the medianet plan using Opera Browser, and what settings need to be changed?10-26-08 06:59 PMLike 0 - the only thing that doesn't work is the push email feature, and instant messengers downloaded from blackberry's site (yahoo, aim, etc.) although you can easily remedy that with 3rd party apps. the rest works just fine. I have prepaid with unlimited media net, not BIS and those are the only drawbacks.10-28-08 07:33 AMLike 0
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This is intriguing! I was not aware that people had other options when it came to Blackberry data plans. Good thing I haven't had a chance to get the Bold yet!
Ever since I saw this thread earlier today I've been reading up on this subject, and I am begining to think that there is absolutely no reason for me to not bypass the $30 AT&T BIS data plan and opt for this $15 alternative!
I even found a website that has a tutorial on how to activate the native BB browser and pushmail! I think I will have to give this some serious consideration before I walk into an AT&T store on November 4th and pick up my first Blackberry.
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to upgrade to the Blackberry Data Plan from the Generic Data Plan in case the generic plan does not work out for me? Or is that sort of thing set in stone for a while once you sign a contract?Last edited by BBnewbBB; 10-29-08 at 02:15 PM.
10-29-08 01:13 PMLike 0 - thats what i was thinking too coz before my friend gave me his bb curve my plan was a media net bundle so i put my sim card onto the curve and its works fine for me i mean for now. So the question to all you AT&T USERS, EMPLOYEES , ETC ETC . IF YOU HAVE A BLACKBERRY IS THE BLACKBERRY PLAN THE ONLY PLAN THAT WOULD WORK WITH THE PHONE COZ I KEEP HEARING PEOPLE SAY YOU NEED TO GET THE BB PLAN BUT I SEE PEOPLE WITH BLACKBERRY PHONE'S AND THEY DONT HAVE THE BB PLAN AT ALL THEY JUST HAVE THE MEDIA MAX UNLIMITED FOR $30 AND THATS WHAY CHEAPER THAN THE BB PLAN FOR $50 WITH UNLIMITED DATE& TEXT10-29-08 02:10 PMLike 0
- thats what i was thinking too coz before my friend gave me his bb curve my plan was a media net bundle so i put my sim card onto the curve and its works fine for me i mean for now. So the question to all you AT&T USERS, EMPLOYEES , ETC ETC . IF YOU HAVE A BLACKBERRY IS THE BLACKBERRY PLAN THE ONLY PLAN THAT WOULD WORK WITH THE PHONE COZ I KEEP HEARING PEOPLE SAY YOU NEED TO GET THE BB PLAN BUT I SEE PEOPLE WITH BLACKBERRY PHONE'S AND THEY DONT HAVE THE BB PLAN AT ALL THEY JUST HAVE THE MEDIA MAX UNLIMITED FOR $30 AND THATS WHAY CHEAPER THAN THE BB PLAN FOR $50 WITH UNLIMITED DATE& TEXT
It is set, in the billing system that provisions everything, to make you have the blackberry data plan, with the phone's IMEI. In short, if you have the phone placed on your account, you're not going to be able to get Media Net applied. The BB data plan offers the full potential of the phone and if you just have the MediaNet, you'll not get that. It'll be half-assed.
If you have the MediaNet, with a BB, on your plan, grats! Just hope you don't have to make any changes to your account or it will force the rep. to cancel the changes, remove the data plan completely or have you apply the BB data plan.
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to upgrade to the Blackberry Data Plan from the Generic Data Plan in case the generic plan does not work out for me? Or is that sort of thing set in stone for a while once you sign a contract?Last edited by Inifekt; 10-29-08 at 06:10 PM.
10-29-08 06:03 PMLike 0 - I'm sick of people saying you absolutely have to have the BB data plan no exceptions: False. Get an old regular phone that's not in use, put your sim card in it, call at&t, tell them you switched phones, and you want to add the medianet unlimited feature, they will have you press some buttons on the phone or look behind the battery so you can read them the imei, they'll add the $15 plan, and then you put your sim card back in your bb. Don't worry, this is not against any rules, laws or regulations, and they can't tell which phone you're using from their end. Make sure your options/advanced/tcp settings are the same as mine from my first post, download opera mini from your pc, install it, and you're good to go, why would you rather use bb browser anyways? Opera is way better. . The average consumer does not need the features that come with the outrageously expensive bb data plans. They will do fine with opera, and gmail and IM+11-03-08 12:40 AMLike 0
- I'm surprised this is working for people. My fiancee's sister has a Samsung Blackjack II and somehow added the MediaNet to her line but still got charged data usage on top of the MediaNet plan. She had to call AT&T and talk with them for a while to get them to remove the charges and add the right plan that worked with her phone. I was under the assumption that all PDA/Smartphones had to have the $30 data plan to function like a smartphone.11-04-08 11:18 PMLike 0
- Without the expensive pda plan, you won't get push email, pin messages, blackberry browser (sometimes), blackberry messenger, and instant message clients from the blackberry web site. You will have to use Opera Mini for web browsing, its the best anyways, and a third party email app like Gmail (its as fast as push anyways), and third party instant messenger. Everything else will work like normal including upgrades, gps, text and multimedia messages.11-16-08 08:40 PMLike 0
- Without the expensive pda plan, you won't get push email, pin messages, blackberry browser (sometimes), blackberry messenger, and instant message clients from the blackberry web site. You will have to use Opera Mini for web browsing, its the best anyways, and a third party email app like Gmail (its as fast as push anyways), and third party instant messenger. Everything else will work like normal including upgrades, gps, text and multimedia messages.11-16-08 10:32 PMLike 0
- hmm this is interesting... me and my friends have a family plan which consists of 3 people and we have the 30 dollar unlimited text so that breaks down to 10 bucks a person. if i add the media net unlimited ($15) that means i'll only be paying $25 bucks for unlimited text and unlimited internet! yay?
can someone confirm what features can and cannot be used like blackberry messenger, yahoomail, google maps, facebook, etc....?Last edited by chinkster; 11-17-08 at 10:17 AM.
11-17-08 10:14 AMLike 0 - Someone just did two posts above yours.
Without the expensive pda plan, you won't get push email, pin messages, blackberry browser (sometimes), blackberry messenger, and instant message clients from the blackberry web site. You will have to use Opera Mini for web browsing, its the best anyways, and a third party email app like Gmail (its as fast as push anyways), and third party instant messenger. Everything else will work like normal including upgrades, gps, text and multimedia messages.11-17-08 10:41 PMLike 0 - Bla1zeCB OGAnd then AT&T does IMEI sweeps, removes the medianet plans and charges you for the services. Lol, see it on a daily basis and if ya say " I had mine for xxx months, years" whatever, it just means they havent made it around to your IMEI yet, in the end it will be removed from all accounts, especially nowadays with AT&T enforcing it more and more each day.11-17-08 11:41 PMLike 0
- Bla1zeCB OGI'm sick of people saying you absolutely have to have the BB data plan no exceptions: False. Get an old regular phone that's not in use, put your sim card in it, call at&t, tell them you switched phones, and you want to add the medianet unlimited feature, they will have you press some buttons on the phone or look behind the battery so you can read them the imei, they'll add the $15 plan, and then you put your sim card back in your bb. Don't worry, this is not against any rules, laws or regulations, and they can't tell which phone you're using from their end. Make sure your options/advanced/tcp settings are the same as mine from my first post, download opera mini from your pc, install it, and you're good to go, why would you rather use bb browser anyways? Opera is way better. . The average consumer does not need the features that come with the outrageously expensive bb data plans. They will do fine with opera, and gmail and IM+
Last edited by Bla1ze; 11-17-08 at 11:47 PM.
11-17-08 11:43 PMLike 0 -
Without the expensive pda plan, you won't get push email, pin messages, blackberry browser (sometimes), blackberry messenger, and instant message clients from the blackberry web site. You will have to use Opera Mini for web browsing, its the best anyways, and a third party email app like Gmail (its as fast as push anyways), and third party instant messenger. Everything else will work like normal including upgrades, gps, text and multimedia messages.11-18-08 10:51 PMLike 0
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