Straight Talk MMS & Data fix!

1) However, if you (like me) like to get a new phone every year (each new iPhone release),

Which is a huge waste of money. You really need to keep a phone for 2 years to break even on the return on investment. That assumes you are buying the phone up front.

2) That's why I ended up switching from Net10 to Sprint's Framily Plan.

I'm not familiar with this plan, what I am familiar with is that my daughter was on Sprint and we couldn't hold conversations until I switched her to Straight Talk.

3) So, I can finance my new iPhones every year, which is much better than coming up with $650+ each time I upgrade.

How is that better? You are paying a higher price for the phone and you are locked into a contract with termination fees hanging over your head.

4) Back to the savings - after 2 years, you've only saved enough with Straight Talk or Net10 to cover the cost of buying a new iPhone.

Explain how a phone that pays for itself is a bad thing. I'm curious how you can to that conclusion.

5) You can option for another 2GB of data for $10 more. You can also add tethering, which is important to some users.

You have a good point here. Savings doesn't help if you can't use the phone the way that you need to.

6) Sprint's unlimited doesn't get throttled, like Straight Talk and Net10 (2.5GB each).

Straight talk throttles after 3GB now.

7) With some of the plans from the different big carriers, especially Sprint and T-Mobile, they're starting to get back some of the customers that were lost to these prepaid plans. Thank you T-Mobile for getting the ball rolling.

This depends on your experience. I Switched to T-Mobile for the great data plans and Unradio service. It was great in theory. In practice I found myself without signal near my home and around where I work, which is smack dab in downtown area of the city. How could you not provide signal in metropolitan area, T-Mobile?!

I'M not sure what I'm doing wrong. I put in the SIM card that brings up TFW and press that for cellular network and take out SIM very immediately and then put in new SIM card and toggle to notes back and forth until it says Verizon again. But it's still not working. I wonder what I'm doing wrong. I have an iPhone 5 from Verizon and it used to work with the SIM card that brings up TFW but straight talk wants me to use a new SIM card now and it won't give me email or Internet. Help please!!!

I was just trying to figure out why I could not get my Verizon iphone 4s to connect to the cellular network. It was saying "could not connect to cellular network, you are not subscribed to a cellular network service". That is not true, as I am. I was able to get my phone service working but no the data network.

Here is how I successfully activated my phone after a lot of trouble shooting:

Use the packet for bringing a Verizon CDMA phone from your activation kit. There are 2 packet options. One is for AT&T, do not use this one.

Call straight talk right off of the bat and ask them to activate your phone. Keep pressing '0' to get a real human.

You will need to supply the network key purchased from an activation kit, your MEID and some other person details.

DO NOT PUT THE SIM CARD IN YOUR PHONE!

***if you were receiving the message that I was, this may be because you put the SIM card in your phone...***

~Mark

I finally fixed my problem. I updated iTunes and I deleted the Straight Talk profile under general in settings and my phone is back to normal. Straight Talk couldn't figure out what was wrong and couldn't help me so I'm glad with the suggestions on the Apple discussions helped! Thanks!!!