Upgraded to 10 GB for our 3 smart phones. 2 basic phones now $20 higher?

We have 3 smart phones and 2 basic phones on our plan. When we upgraded to 10 GB for the smart phones, the basic rates went up $20 per phone. Why? Basic phones do not use data.

Looks like you'd get the $10 off of the basic phone whether on Edge or not. You say basic went up by $20 each? So you were paying $10 per basic line? Whenever you make a plan change that affects all lines like a package deal, you may give up aspects of your old plan. Basic phones do use data, or at least the CAN. Even a single basic phone by itself on More Everything is $20 for the line and $20 for 500 MB of data or $5 for 700 min and pay as you go data.

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Why Nokia engineers don't make our smart phones report crash details, as in MS Windows XP?
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This is a good idea. There should also be an option to disable prompting for those who don't want to participate.
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Ugggh - Say it isn't so - changed policy on upgrade pricing on smart phones on basic phone line

I had been waiting until my son's basic / dumb phone line was eligible for an upgrade to purchase the iPhone 5. People had told me if we bought the iPhone 5 on his line and then re-activate his basic phone line then I could use the phone on my line (thereby keeping my unlimited data). I've also heard people do this and sell the phone on ebay. Now, a Verizon rep told me that you have to keep the new phone active on the line for 90 days or else they will charge you back for the full price of the phone. Grrrr -- it seems like they closed this loophole. Can anyone confirm or deny it with a link to where it says this in the Verizon 'fine print' on the website (I can't seem to find it)? I'm really disappointed!

MichelleLong wrote:
It was a corporate store. I hadn't heard that before which is why I posted the question. I wondered if Verizon had closed the loophole on getting upgrade pricing and switching the phone to another line to keep the unlimited data.
It may have been a Verizon "authorized reseller" which is NOT a corporate Verizon store - places like the mall kiosks or storefronts that look very "Verizon" may be a reseller. You need to check the Store locator to be sure which are, in fact, corporate stores.
And for the record, the "loophole" (which really isn't a loophole at all, it's always been available) that allows you to upgrade one line and use the phone on another (upgrade transfer, buddy upgrade, whatever you want to call it) is still in place; there are no 90-day restrictions. If the store you are dealing with is telling you that you need to keep the phone active on the line for 90-days or face penalties, then it is NOT a Verizon corporate store.

Can only upgrade basic phone to basic phone?

I have three lines on a share everything plan. Two smart phones and one basic phone. The only line eligible for upgrade is the basic phone line. So, I went to a local VZW store today not only to pay my bill but to see about upgrading the line with the basic phone. The rep at the store told me that I could only upgrade a basic phone for a basic phone. He said that only smart phones can be upgraded to smart phones. This is just ridiculous. I chose not to upgrade my phone. In fact, I now plan to switch to AT&T.

You were told wrong. The only difference will be a $40 line fee instead of the $30 line fee, and you may consider increasing the data pool if you are adding another smartphone to the mix. But there is no reason at all why you would HAVE to put a basic phone on that line. The rep was wrong.

Can you downgrade from smart phone to basic phone?

I added two lines on my account for my parents. They do not however use smart phones. But I got their lines with the iPhone 5 and switched it to my line. They ordered flip phones from ebay, however when the 5 came in they didn't have them available yet to I just put my iPhone 4 on the lines. Now the flip phones are in and I'm getting an error when I go to activate device. Its before I even put in the MEID number, saying can not process at this time. Is there a limit of times you can switch phones within 24 hours? And is it even possible to downgrade from smart phone to basic line?
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Yes you can. if you are on the share everything plan then the cost per phone will go from $40/month (smartphone) to $30/month (feature phone).You will still have the data plan at the cost it is now since that is shared between all phones on the plan. If you have a grandfathered tier plan you should be able to drop the $30/month data plan for their specific line.
Since they ordered the phones off ebay, you will want to make sure those phones will work on VZW. If they do then switching to the flip phones should be pretty simple. you will likely have to call VZW to get everything set up.

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I am looking for Basic phone with sliding QWERTY keyboard, that will text and send pictures without a data plan.
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I was using my Droid 4 but without Data turned on it will text but will not send pictures.
My daughter is sending me an LG-505c so I am hoping that will work but I would still like to get my calender on the phone also.
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The LG ENV3 will work without a data plan, as will several of the older "multimedia" phones and basic phones. My husband is still using an LG VX 5400; my mom uses an LG VX 5200 and both send and receive picture messages (though they are small). Samsung Sway, Alias, LG Voyager, EnvTouch - all of these work without a data plan, and will send and receive texts.

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I am eligible for an upgrade on my basic phone that I own. Since there are only a small amount of basic phones, is it possible to own a smart phone but without a data plan?

There are only two basic phone with full keyboard that is available online, but was hoping that it would be possible for me to own a smart phone without needing a data plan.

You can own and use a smartphone on wifi only, without a data plan, but you will not have the capability to use it as a phone on Verizon's network. To activate a smartphone and have calling (phone) capability, yes, you do need to have a data plan for the smartphone line. You CAN have a minimal data plan, and use it on wifi primarily - but yoju DO need a data plan.

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Alright, right now on our plan we have two smartphones and one basic phone. We've had the basic phone for about 6 months, and wish to upgrade it to a smartphone. We also would like to switch to Verizon's "Share Everything" plan. Is there a way to do this without paying ridiculous fees to get out of the basic phone's two year contract?
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To expand on what tikibar1 has said, paying the ETF on the basic phone and starting a new line of service would only be helpful if you didn't mind getting a new phone # for the person currently on the basic phone.
However, if this is not a problem, the ETF on a basic phone is MUCH less than the price you would need to pay in order to receive a full retail iPhone.
The ETF on a basic phone is $175 less $5 for each month of your contract you have completed. Since you have had the basic phone for 6 months, your ETF would be $145. A full retail 16 GB iPhone 5(for example purposes only), on the other hand is $649. The discounted price for that same iPhone 5 is $199. So even if you were to pay the ETF and the discounted price on the iPhone 5($145 + $199 = $344) you would still be getting a ~$300 discount on the iPhone 5 from the full retail cost.
Additionally, the chances of being able to find a used iPhone 5(in good condition) for less than that price would be pretty slim.
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I have older Family Share Plan containing basic phones, as well as smart phones (with tiered 2GB/$30 monthly data). When they are eligible for upgrade, will any new smart phones added to the plan be able to receive the same 2GB/$30 data that other phones currently on my plan receive?
The more unreasonable options seem to be requiring every single person on the plan to switch into Share Everything, or booting the person looking to get a smartphone out of the plan. Neither of these are a viable option.
Thanks for any help clearing this up!

The $30 per month is for 2 GB of data, in addition to whatever you are paying per month for voice/text/insurance/taxes, etc. When you do switch, if you aren't aware of it, do it on the first day of your billing cycle so that you don't run into proration.
And some people are reporting that some Corporate stores try to convince people that they'll save money on the Share Everything plan. Some will save money, some won't. Just do your homework, know what plan you want, and read your new contract before signing!

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Upgrading a 3-node Hyper-V clusters storage for £10k and getting the most bang for our money.

Hi all, looking for some discussion and advice on a few questions I have regarding storage for our next cluster upgrade cycle.
Our current system for a bit of background:
3x Clustered Hyper-V Servers running Server 2008 R2 (72TB Ram, dual cpu etc...)
1x Dell MD3220i iSCSI with dual 1GB connections to each server (24x 146GB 15k SAS drives in RAID 10) - Tier 1 storage
1x Dell MD1200 Expansion Array with 12x 2TB 7.2K drives in RAID 10 - Tier 2 storage, large vm's, files etc...
~25 VM's running all manner of workloads, SQL, Exchange, WSUS, Linux web servers etc....
1x DPM 2012 SP1 Backup server with its own storage.
Reasons for upgrading:
Storage though put is becoming an issue as we only get around 125MB/s over the dual 1GB iSCSI connections to each physical server. (tried everything under the sun to improve bandwidth but I suspect the MD3220i Raid is the bottleneck here.
Backup times for vm's (once every night) is now in the 5-6 hours range.
Storage performance during backups and large file syncronisations (DPM)
Tier 1 storage is running out of capacity and we would like to build in more IOPS for future expansion.
Tier 2 storage is massively underused (6tb of 12tb Raid 10 space)
Migrating to 10GB server links.
Total budget for the upgrade is in the region of £10k so I have to make sure we get absolutely the most bang for our buck.
Current Plan:
Upgrade the cluster to Server 2012 R2
Install a dual port 10GB NIC team in each server and virtualize cluster, live migration, vm and management traffic (with QoS of course)
Purchase a new JBOD SAS array and leverage the new Storage Spaces and SSD caching/tiering capabilities. Use our existing 2TB drives for capacity and purchase sufficient SSD's to replace the 15k SAS disks.
On to the questions:
Is it supported to use storage spaces directly connected to a Hyper-V cluster? I have seen that for our setup we are on the verge of requiring a separate SOFS for storage but the extra costs and complexity are out of our reach. (RDMA, extra 10GB NIC's
etc...)
When using a storage space in a cluster, I have seen various articles suggesting that each csv will be active/passive within the cluster. Causing redirected IO for all cluster nodes not currently active?
If CSV's are active/passive its suggested that you should have a csv for each node in your cluster? How in production do you balance vm's accross 3 CSV's without manually moving them to keep 1/3 of load on each csv? Ideally I would like just
a single CSV active/active for all vm's to sit on. (ease of management etc...)
If the CSV is active/active am I correct in assuming that DPM will backup vm's without causing any re-directed IO?
Will DPM backups of VM's be incremental in terms of data transferred from the cluster to the backup server?
Thanks in advance for anyone who can be bothered to read through all that and help me out! I'm sure there are more questions I've forgotten but those will certainly get us started.
Also lastly, does anyone else have a better suggestion for how we should proceed?
Thanks

Current Plan:
Upgrade the cluster to Server 2012 R2
Install a dual port 10GB NIC team in each server and virtualize cluster, live migration, vm and management traffic (with QoS of course)
Purchase a new JBOD SAS array and leverage the new Storage Spaces and SSD caching/tiering capabilities. Use our existing 2TB drives for capacity and purchase sufficient SSD's to replace the 15k SAS disks.
On to the questions:
Is it supported to use storage spaces directly connected to a Hyper-V cluster? I have seen that for our setup we are on the verge of requiring a separate SOFS for storage but the extra costs and complexity are out of our reach. (RDMA, extra 10GB NIC's
etc...)
When using a storage space in a cluster, I have seen various articles suggesting that each csv will be active/passive within the cluster. Causing redirected IO for all cluster nodes not currently active?
If CSV's are active/passive its suggested that you should have a csv for each node in your cluster? How in production do you balance vm's accross 3 CSV's without manually moving them to keep 1/3 of load on each csv? Ideally I would like just
a single CSV active/active for all vm's to sit on. (ease of management etc...)
If the CSV is active/active am I correct in assuming that DPM will backup vm's without causing any re-directed IO?
Will DPM backups of VM's be incremental in terms of data transferred from the cluster to the backup server?
Thanks in advance for anyone who can be bothered to read through all that and help me out! I'm sure there are more questions I've forgotten but those will certainly get us started.
Also lastly, does anyone else have a better suggestion for how we should proceed?
Thanks
1) You can use direct connection to SAS with a 3-node cluster of course (4-node, 5-node etc). Sure it would be much faster then running with an additional SoFS layer (with SAS fed directly to your Hyper-V cluster nodes all reads and writes would be local
travelling down the SAS fabric and with SoFS layer added you'll have the same amount of I/Os targeting SAS + Ethernet with its huge compared to SAS latency sitting in between a requestor and your data residing on SAS spindles, I/Os overwrapped into SMB-over-TCP-over-IP-over-Etherent
requests at the hypervisor-SoFS layers). Reason why SoFS is recommended - final SoFS-based solution would be cheaper as SAS-only is a pain to scale beyond basic 2-node configs. Instead of getting SAS switches, adding redundant SAS controllers to every hypervisor
node and / or looking for expensive multi-port SAS JBODs you'll have a pair (at least) of SoFS boxes doing a file level proxy in front of a SAS-controlled back end. So you'll compromise performance in favor of cost. See:
http://davidzi.com/windows-server-2012/hyper-v-and-scale-out-file-cluster-home-lab-design/
Used interconnect diagram within this design would actually scale beyond 2 hosts. But you'll have to get a SAS switch (actually at least two of them for redundancy as you don't want any component to become a single point of failure, don't you?)
2) With 2012 R2 all I/O from a multiple hypervisor nodes is done thru the storage fabric (in your case that's SAS) and only metadata updates would be done thru the coordinator node and using Ethernet connectivity. Redirected I/O would be used in a two cases
only a) no SAS connectivity from the hypervisor node (but Ethernet one is still present) and b) broken-by-implementation backup software would keep access to CSV using snapshot mechanism for too long. In a nutshell: you'll be fine :) See for references:
http://www.petri.co.il/redirected-io-windows-server-2012r2-cluster-shared-volumes.htm
http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=12844
3) These are independent things. CSV is not active/passive (see 2) so basically with an interconnection design you'll be using there's virtually no point to having one-CSV-per-hypervisor. There are cases when you'd still probably do this. For example if
you'd have all-flash and combined spindle/flash LUNs and you know for sure you want some VMs to sit on flash and others (no so I/O hungry) to stay within "spinning rust". One more case is many-node cluster. With it multiple nodes basically fight for a single
LUN and a lot of time is wasted for SCSI reservation conflicts resove (ODX has no reservation offload like VAAI has so even if ODX is present its not going to help). Again it's a place where SoFS "helps" as having intermediate proxy level turns block I/O into
file I/O triggering SCSI reservation conflicts for a two SoFS nodes only instead of an evey node in a hypervisor cluster. One more good example is when you'll have a mix of a local I/O (SAS) and Ethernet with a Virtual SAN products. Virtual SAN runs directly
as part of the hypervisor and emulates high performance SAN using cheap DAS. To increase performance it DOES make sense to create a concept of a "local LUN" (and thus "local CSV") as reads targeting this LUN/CSV would be passed down the local storage
stack instead of hitting the wire (Ethernet) and going to partner hypervisor nodes to fetch the VM data. See:
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-native-san-on-two-physical-servers
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/sw-configuring-ha-shared-storage-on-scale-out-file-servers
(feeding basically DAS to Hyper-V and SoFS to avoid expensive SAS JBOD and SAS spindles). The same thing as VMware is doing with their VSAN on vSphere. But again that's NOT your case so it DOES NOT make sense to keep many CSVs with only 3 nodes present or
SoFS possibly used.
4) DPM is going to put your cluster in redirected mode for a very short period of time. Microsoft says NEVER. See:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh758090.aspx
Direct and Redirect I/O
Each Hyper-V host has a direct path (direct I/O) to the CSV storage Logical Unit Number (LUN). However, in Windows Server 2008 R2 there are a couple of limitations:
For some actions, including DPM backup, the CSV coordinator takes control of the volume and uses redirected instead of direct I/O. With redirection, storage operations are no longer through a host’s direct SAN connection, but are instead routed
through the CSV coordinator. This has a direct impact on performance.
CSV backup is serialized, so that only one virtual machine on a CSV is backed up at a time.
In Windows Server 2012, these limitations were removed:
Redirection is no longer used.
CSV backup is now parallel and not serialized.
5) Yes, VSS and CBT would be used so data would be incremental after first initial "seed" backup. See:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff399619.aspx
http://itsalllegit.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/dpm-2012-sp1-manually-copy-large-volume-to-secondary-dpm-server/
I'd look at some other options. There are few good discussion you may want to read. See:
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1209963
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/316868-server-2012-2-node-cluster-without-san
Good luck :)
StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS

Can my husband and I use the same e-mail address/AppleID for our 2 phones, our iMac, and our Macbook?

Can my husband and I use the same e-mail address/AppleID for our 2 phones, our iMac, and our Macbook?
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We both have itunes and apple ID's of our own right now, but since getting married, we are deleting these e-mail accounts and sharing one. How can we make this work?

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