Nexus One & T-Zones

still working today. i wont update you all again til it stops. works on 3g too, and i didnt even have to play with settings

still working today. i wont update you all again til it stops. works on 3g too, and i didnt even have to play with settings

Thanks man. That's very valuable information.  BTW, you seriously need to update your profile, lol.

It's worth noting that my phone is still listed as "Moto RIZR" on my.tmobile. So maybe they havent rescanned my IMEI yet or something.

activated N1 this morning over wifi. plugged my sim in around 12pm and t-zones has been working perfectly since. will it keep working? who knows... ill keep you all posted

Thanks for the report -- just to clarify, when you say you have t-zones, are you referring to the $5.99 data plan that they call "T-MobileWeb" inside My T-Mobile?

Anybody try it out on the $10 web2go plan yet?

activated N1 this morning over wifi. plugged my sim in around 12pm and t-zones has been working perfectly since. will it keep working? who knows... ill keep you all posted

Thanks for the report -- just to clarify, when you say you have t-zones, are you referring to the $5.99 data plan that they call "T-MobileWeb" inside My T-Mobile?

yes. $5.99 T-zones. APN was automatically detected as epc.tmobile.com

It's still working for me today.

I'm quite sure it will stop working if T-mobile ever starts carrying the phone. They do IMEI scanning and this is how they stop the data use.

A few possibilities:
1) They don't have the unlocked N1 IMEIs, can't identify phone, never will
2) They don't have any IMEIs yet, but will in the future, and will lock out old data plans
3) They have the IMEIs but aren't doing anything with the info

I'm of the opinion that they do not have the IMEIs yet. On my.tmobile.com, my phone has now changed from my old phone to "image not available". So they know that I have changed phones, but they haven't identified it.

I tend to believe that the current situation is just like the Google Ion: when and if T-mo starts carrying the phone in stores, they will lock ALL models of the phone out of old data plans, just like they did with the Ion/MT3G.

But there are also reports of people using old data plans with CLIQ & Behold2. So who knows.

@ Brad...

Do you have all the features that a person would have for the android data plan?  email, internet, mms, android market, all google apps, etc...

@ Brad...

Do you have all the features that a person would have for the android data plan?  email, internet, mms, android market, all google apps, etc...

And to add on top of this, does your 3G work at full speed?  Can you run the Speedtest app in the market and see what speeds you get on 3G?

Yep.  I think that they might be only getting reg. services...but I am waiting for him to respond.

@ Brad...

Do you have all the features that a person would have for the android data plan?  email, internet, mms, android market, all google apps, etc...

And to add on top of this, does your 3G work at full speed?  Can you run the Speedtest app in the market and see what speeds you get on 3G?

does tzone only work with unlocked version? what about $179 version? Is that locked to Tmobile?

I believe it should work, the phone is not supposed to be locked to only T-Mobile, even if you get it w/ a plan. It should be the same exact phone, just "locked" with a T-Mobile Plan.

Just adding to the reports here.  I've been using an unlocked Treo 650 in Portland, OR with T-Zones $5.99 since 2005.  Earlier they had T-Zones restricted to web & email only, requiring use of a proxy.  Could still tether through Bluetooth though, as long as the proxy was used.  Occasionally they'd open it up completely, and then lock it down again.  But a while back (year or more? can't recall) they opened all ports, ditched the proxy, and left it that way.

Got my N1 yesterday.  Popped in my ancient SIM (got it in 2003 originally) and everything's running beautifully, 3G and all.  My.tmobile.com still has no idea what phone I have when I log in.

I hope it stays this way for at least 9 months.  Then I'll have made up the difference between the fully subsidized price and plan, and my current $43/mo plan and the $530 I paid.  I guess there's not a way I could've gotten the $179 price anyway, since I'm already a T-Mobile customer.  I'll make up the difference for the existing customer price even faster.  After that, it's all gravy.

APN shows as epc.tmobile.com

PS- I am totally blown away by this phone handheld computer.  The physical design is awesome.  The display is fantastic, and the user experience is smooth.  It's exactly what I wanted.  I got my wife an iPhone for Christmas, and she likes it a lot.  The Nexus One though, it's perfect for me as I love to tinker/customize and would've felt too restricted in Apple iLand.  My only learning curve is the soft keyboard, but I'm starting to get the hang of it already.

i have had the same experience with tzones and my iphone, used to have to require the proxy and then at some point tmobile said "screw it" and just let it work normally. My hunch is that they figure most will get out of the tzones when upgrading phones to get a subsidy and they'll HAVE TO get the other more expensive data plan. Also MOST people really don't know about it, you have to remember the geeky tech crowd who knows about it is TINY compared to their customer base.

activated N1 this morning over wifi. plugged my sim in around 12pm and t-zones has been working perfectly since. will it keep working? who knows... ill keep you all posted

Thanks for the report -- just to clarify, when you say you have t-zones, are you referring to the $5.99 data plan that they call "T-MobileWeb" inside My T-Mobile?

yes. $5.99 T-zones. APN was automatically detected as epc.tmobile.com

Is MMS working correctly?

i have had the same experience with tzones and my iphone, used to have to require the proxy and then at some point tmobile said "screw it" and just let it work normally. My hunch is that they figure most will get out of the tzones when upgrading phones to get a subsidy and they'll HAVE TO get the other more expensive data plan. Also MOST people really don't know about it, you have to remember the geeky tech crowd who knows about it is TINY compared to their customer base.

I have to agree - the number of people with T-zones has to be really low and is only getting lower since people will upgrade and have to get the full plan. For the number of people with the 5.99 plan it probably isn't going to be worth their while bothering with it if people are will to buy the phones at full price.

I mean they have never had a problem with the 5.99 plan on windows mobile or any other phone besides Andriod devices. I don't understand why they have targeted android devices.

i have had the same experience with tzones and my iphone, used to have to require the proxy and then at some point tmobile said "screw it" and just let it work normally. My hunch is that they figure most will get out of the tzones when upgrading phones to get a subsidy and they'll HAVE TO get the other more expensive data plan. Also MOST people really don't know about it, you have to remember the geeky tech crowd who knows about it is TINY compared to their customer base.

I have to agree - the number of people with T-zones has to be really low and is only getting lower since people will upgrade and have to get the full plan. For the number of people with the 5.99 plan it probably isn't going to be worth their while bothering with it if people are will to buy the phones at full price.

I mean they have never had a problem with the 5.99 plan on windows mobile or any other phone besides Andriod devices. I don't understand why they have targeted android devices.

They targeted android devices because they probably figure it would be the best platform to get people to move off the t-zones and to also keep track of their android specific line from a data/reporting/tracking perspective.

I had an iphone 3gs that worked great with tzones/web2go but only after entering both APNs, 1 for internet and one for MMS.

 Fast forward to today, the same deal. You have to go into the Nexus setup for the APN and add another APN, using the info for the iphone I was able to get mine working just fine. It has 3g, internet, all google services working, MMS working, market working, everything works just as my G1 did on the Android plan.

 I didnt use tmobile subsidized pricing I paid full price for my nexus, that way if web2go does stop working I wont have to have the data on it unless I want it...some say its a shame to not have it on this type of phone, but honestly I am on wifi at home and use it. I work in a family paving business so honestly when I am on the job site I dont use my phones unless I have to as they seem to have a high fatality rate in my line of work lol.

so is it absolutely confirmed that nexus one works with t-zones?  does it matter if purchased subsidized by tmo, unlocked by tmo or even the rumor att version (which would have different 3g bands thereby not subject to the tmo 3g android band?)

currently have iphone and curious about the nexus one but want to keep my 5.99 tzones plan

so is it absolutely confirmed that nexus one works with t-zones?  does it matter if purchased subsidized by tmo,

If you get a subsidized N1, you also have to agree to get the $80 Talk+Text+Web Even More plan.  T-Zones is not compatible with that plan and will be removed from your account.