Ok this is my first post and I see tons of ppl getting flamed for being dumb on here. Got my N900 yesterday. I have the Even more Plus plan (with 1000 minutes as if that mattered) for 69.99. I hook the phone up, voice and texts works fine but for data... I get the Tmobile symbol with a little 3G next to it but when I go to click on it, it says "internet connection failed" almost immediately. I came on here and saw the other APNs people are using. (the phone was preset to internet2)
I inputted epc.tmobile.com and connect and it SAYS I'm connected at 3G and 3.5 and does NOT tell me the connection failed (I even get the proper connection icon next to the Tmobile service symbol, but no pages are loading.
So I tried the wap.voicestream.com, connect the phone (everything appears to be good) and then open a webpage and I get this message on a web2go webpage "Subscription Upgrade Required.. Your current plan is not compatible with this device. Please click here to view your plan options."
Do I need to call these peckerheads or am I doing something wrong? Because as far as I understand I believe my Even More Plus plan should work... grrrr
Oh and it may be of value to note that yesterday before I fired up the N900 my SIM was in a tmobile/htc shadow and the internets worked just fine on that.
Elgringo,
TMO uses different APN settings for different phones. The epc.tmobile.com is used for 3G phones like the Android phones and smartphones. It is also the most reliable of all APN settings. wap.voicetream.com will work also if you had the right data provisioning feature on your plan. Basically continue using epc.tmobile.com cuz it works.
yeah im on internet2.voicesteam.com and i tried to switch to epc.tmobile.com it says its connected, but when i browse the web it says my data plan is not compatible with this phone or something. I changed it back to internet2 and works.
When i first received my phone it was set to internet2, I noticed browsing even youtube the videos would stutter and were not very impressive, I was bummed to say the least. The other day I switched it to epc.tmobile and youtube works, the vids stream smoothly and not much stuttering. So far as I can tell epc seems to be working better in my area.
So what I wound up having to do was call Tmo support, talked with someone at Tier1 who obviously thought I was smarter than they were, then talked to someone at Tier2 who wasn't much better who immediately sent me to Tier3 where some helpful guy got me hooked up right. He said the epc.tmobile.com was the one I wanted and he took the imie number (whether he needed it or not), said it would be working within 48 hours and within 2 minutes life was good. Gotta say I love this phone...
I have the $9.99 unlimited plan. Initially, I thought I was on 3G since I was getting 1/.8Mbps whereas I was getting 1.25/.26 on AT&T 3G. However, when I go to Settings -> Internet Connections -> Connections -> T-Mobile Internet, the connection type indicates GPRS (pre-configured settings, and the access point name is: internet2.voicestream.com). How do I connect via 3G speed connection instead? T-Mobile's coverage map shows that 3G is available in my area.
Edit: The signal indicator next to the battery life indicator switches back and forth between 3G and 3.5. Does that mean I'm connected via 3G and not GPRS (2G)? Or is the signal indicator supposed to constantly remain at 3.5? Also, does the circled double arrow simply mean I'm connected via mobile internet and not wifi? Or does it mean I'm connected via GPRS?
At first, I thought I was since the bandwidth speed test showed 1Mbps which is slightly slower than AT&T 3G. Then I saw that the connection type for the connection settings indicating that it was GPRS which is typically associated for 2G/2.5 internet. Also, someone mentioned in this thread that T-Mobile 2G speed was pretty fast. I also recall reading that T-Mobile was due to increase their 3G speed to at least 3Mbps and another poster in this thread mentioned he got around 4Mbps. Then I saw the switching back and forth of the 3G/3.5 signal indicator when connected. Hence, confusion.
