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justarep |
1. RE: Ringer help Please
Oct 12 2009, 2:09 AM EDT
1) Do you have the data plan?2) Has it worked prior to about a week ago? Do you find this valuable? |
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emwilson07 |
2. RE: Ringer help Please
Oct 13 2009, 5:25 PM EDT
mine isnt working either, i dont have to data plan but why should i? just to make to alerts work properly? its sooo annoying, is there any way to shortcut around it
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justarep |
3. RE: Ringer help Please
Oct 13 2009, 7:39 PM EDT
"mine isnt working either, i dont have to data plan but why should i? just to make to alerts work properly? its sooo annoying, is there any way to shortcut around it"For whatever reason, the data plan is required for text messages to trigger an alert. You can set a reminder for 2 minutes after to alert you. Do you find this valuable? |
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emwilson07 |
4. RE: Ringer help Please
Oct 13 2009, 8:19 PM EDT
this phone is soo worthless
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justarep |
5. RE: Ringer help Please
Oct 14 2009, 1:37 AM EDT
"this phone is soo worthless"Hello, it's a (semi-)smartphone. If you wanted something drop-dead simple, get a RAZR. Do you find this valuable? |
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Paradise2118 |
6. RE: Ringer help Please
Oct 15 2009, 1:42 PM EDT
A RAZR siunds REALLY good right now!! At least I could make and receive calls and have my phonebook contacts without all of that being taken from me...
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justarep |
7. RE: Ringer help Please
Oct 16 2009, 2:35 AM EDT
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Calling should work just fine. The Sidekick is DESIGNED to work with the data plan, specifically because it backs up your data on the Sidekick data server instead of saving it locally. This way, if something happens to your Sidekick... such as, it gets wet, or stolen... when you get a new one, everything re-downloads immediately onto the new one.
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failxfail |
8. RE: Ringer help Please
Oct 16 2009, 9:29 PM EDT
its still annoying that you need to have data just for the phone to go off when you get a text. or access an IM client. i already pay for my texts and Ims so why should i have to pay extra to get alerted to them? Do you find this valuable? |
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justarep |
9. RE: Ringer help Please
Oct 16 2009, 10:04 PM EDT
"its still annoying that you need to have data just for the phone to go off when you get a text. or access an IM client. i already pay for my texts and Ims so why should i have to pay extra to get alerted to them?Because you bought a smartphone and it's reliant on the data service. I'm not sure why this was set up this way, but that's how it does. Do you find this valuable? |
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failxfail |
10. RE: Ringer help Please
Oct 17 2009, 12:21 AM EDT
still, they certainly took a long time to tell people that a data plan IS required. we're on generation number what of sidekicks, and they bother to tell us earlier this year? i really wasted my money on my kick. I dont want data on my phone, i have no need for it. I bought it for the keyboard, not the internet. a little over a month after i bought my kick, i cancelled the data, as i found no use in it, and then it starts messing up. i talk to tmobile, and they they it requires data. and they changged the site to say that to. but i bought mine before it changed, and they wont refund me.and its still stupid that you cant even use an IM client without data. I can use it on any other phone without data, and i pay for every month to, so the kick pretty much continued to waste my money. they really need to fix its data dependency, cause as we've learned theyre unreliable with it. i can live without free ringtones and games and apps, but i dont see the need in paying for something i never use just for a phone to work. until they fix it tehy've lost me as a customer Do you find this valuable? |
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princessajs21 |
11. RE: Ringer help Please
Oct 17 2009, 12:55 AM EDT
AMEN!! I spent teo hours on the phone fighting with T-mobile today! And all i got out of it was that i need a data plan or my phone will never work right again!!
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