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This has only started recently, less than a week. My battery is just getting its ass kicked.
My day to day is work, on WiFi, always full barrs Sunday - Sunday. I stopped spectrum mobile from gps location yada yada but it doesn't do anything or help.
Ditch spectrum
But the price and reception is too good.
The app. Not the service
Might be able to disable it with adb?
What is it? Never saw it. You can unistall it
Spectrum is an ISP that has recently started mobile service. My guess is if you buy a phone through them they install this spyware app that you can't remove.
With adb ?
Idk, I don't have spectrum
Totally unrelated, but I’m wondering if you saw the Boost post a couple of days ago: it is not private and sends your data to advertisers 😢 Maybe seek for an alternative? There are many ☺️
Uninstall spectrum mobile app. Reevaluate in 48 hours
You cannot uninstall the app but I did uninstall the updates and then denied access to everything possible on top of location.
You can. ADB is your friend.
https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/
pm list packages | grep '<OEM/Carrier/App Name>' you can try to see with spectrum
Oh this is awesome. Thank you
No worries! Note that it doesn't really uninstall it, I mean it does but the app is still there, available for you to be reinstalled in case it's an essential app, in that case do:
adb shell cmd package install-existing <package_name>
So save the app package name somewhere. It uninstalls the app for the current user but it's still available in the system (it doesn't run if you uninstall it, no worries)
Can you not? Is that an android thing or an America thing?
Its an Android thing. Carriers pay OEMs to install bloatware and spyware on the system partition, where it can't be removed. Apple simply doesn't allow it.
Its easy enough to avoid by not buying from the carrier but sometimes the carrier will also sell you them for dirt cheap and with payment plans. Also the OEMs themselves will install their own invasive bloatware.
Carriers also has the final say on your update, and they are the ones signing it.
Updates go from: Google ---> OEM ---> Carrier. Extra delay for critical patches for security vulnerbilities. Hackers are very happy about this
Spectrum is so bad bro. The line is $40/mo for a 50GB data cap.
US Mobile is $34/mo (when you pay for the year up front) and includes 100GB of QCI 8 data on Verizon and then truly unlimted data @ 1Mbps. They support AT&T (darkstar), T-Mobile (GSM), and Verizon (warp) and if you activate via eSIM, you can change them at any time. So if you're going on a trip and you don't get service with Darkstar, you can swap to Warp for the weekend if you want.
I've been using them for about a year now and they're badass. I pay $96/yr (I pay up front) for service. Only includes 2GB of data, but I'm home or at work all the time, so it's not been an issue. Everything else is unlimited.
I pay 5.99€/month for unlimited voice and SMS, plus 200gb/month. 4G only, no 5G, but who cares.
For a little bit more (9.99€ without shopping for offers) you get unlimited* data on 5G too.
But in my mind that way too expensive.
5.99€/month
Non-US. JFC.
What is your carrier? We don't have unlimited data here, I pay 9 USD per 6 months for total 50 GB, no calls, no SMS.
Kena Mobile, a low cost operator of TIM. Its a "welcome back" offer after I had switched to a different operator, they offered back this which was cheaper and better coverage in my area.
This is for US-specific carriers. As much as we'd love to have such low cost data, that's just not a reality here.
My plan is exclusive to carrier's data only SIMs, the SIM card has a phone number but cannot receive calls. I don't think I can call even emergency services. Using a 2nd SIM with no plan to receive calls and the outgoing calls are always over WhatsApp. The point is if you look for data only SIMs you may find cheaper plans.
US carriers are wise to that already. The biggest cost with US carriers is data - one can get a really cheap no-data plan with texting and calling for next to nothing, but a data-only SIM will still be like $20/mo at the minimum.
Is it unfair? Absolutely. Unfortunately we in the US always get the shaft because corporations have much more power than the people.
Excuse me but what the hell are these prices? 34$ a month for 100GB of 5G data? 8$ a month for 2GB? This is a rip off
As Childish Gambino says: "This is America"
Are you insane? The same plan at Verizon is $65+/mo and it uses traffic shaping to limit your video quality to 480p. lol. It's effectively half the price. Not even to mention that on Verizon you're limited to 60GB/mo;
Unlimited data is restricted to on-device smartphone usage. After exceeding 60 GB/mo of 5G Ultra Wideband, 5G or 4G LTE mobile hotspot data, mobile hotspot data reduced to speeds up to 3 Mbps when on 5G Ultra Wideband and 600 Kbps when on 5G / 4G LTE for the rest of your monthly billing cycle.
You realize there are other providers than verizon, and places outside the US, right? The US is absolute shit for everything like this, service providers of both line Internet and wireless data. An example, here in Sweden it's about $12 a month for 50GB with unlimited calls and texts, and no "traffic shaping" (never even heard about that). 100GB is $17. And how the fuck would you use up more than 60GB of mobile data per month?
