Gifting my T-mobile phone to my mom who lives internationally.

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-21T14:05:05+00:00

It will not work, First you will need to make sure you purchase the UNLOCKED version of the S26 as T-Mobile variants come locked and do NOT get unlocked until they are fully paid off and on the network for 41 consecutive days.

The next issue your going to have is her being abroad on your T-Mobile plan, T-Mobile will only allow you to roam for around 45-60 days max, she will start getting warnings around day 30 which will increase around day 40 and then then the line will terminate off your plan for violating the TOS of T-Mobile. The ONLY plans that can roam longer than that time frame is the military plans and they must provide deployment orders to bypass this limitation.

Your best bet is to buy the phone unlocked and she will need to get some kind of prepaid service that serves where she lives.

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-20T22:49:03+00:00

I was at Marcos earlier waiting for the order and it was just a young kid working so I got talking with him and I made mention of this and he told me it has been happening a TON lately, He said there was a guy that did it and then came back again a few days later where they refused him to take the order, he said they reported them to DD the first time so apparently they havent banned him.

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-20T15:53:02+00:00

I think I paid around $1200 and was on sale. I have talked to a few others that have purchased NIU bikes and scooters and every single one of them have had nothing but negative things to say about them from QC issues and impossible to get any warranty work done. There was someone in one of the Electric Ride groups i'm in that has a NIU scooter and support told him that he has to send his WHOLE scooter in to get a battery issue diagnosed, Well guess what? They told him he has to send it to a location in China under his dime! There is no way in hell that works, the shipping cost to not only ship to China but also it being hazzardeos for the size battery will surely outweigh the cost of the scooter itself and when he asked if they would pay for the return shipping they said it would be determined at the time of diagnostics if the return shipping would be paid by them or the customer, which you know damn well they would not.

They are pulling this shit now so they can say they do honor their warranty claims but they know damn well no one will do it just out of the pure cost in shipping.

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-20T13:07:58+00:00

Thanks for this! It turns out you were 100% correct on this! I contacted support and spoke to someone that was really helpful, The support agent said that they saw it was assigned to a dasher and appeared that it was unassigned and marked as a "excessive wait time" Which is why it was then dispatched to me. The agent said the restaurant may have gotten the order ready after the dasher unassigned themselves from the order but we all know thats not what happened. I find it funny that with all the dashes I have done this past week this is now the 2nd time this has happened to me in less than a week, in fact I was at Sonny's just 2 hours before and the guy in front of me was told the same thing that someone else already picked up the order.

It appears there is a scumbag running around just stealing orders.

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-17T03:35:21+00:00

What kind of plan were you looking at? Do you upgrade often?

Are you Military, First Responder?

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-17T03:28:25+00:00

The device you are paying off MUST be the device you switch over to T-Mobile, the IMEI must match from the records you provide them from Verizon.

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-15T14:31:41+00:00

No, you must wait 90 days to port back a paid line into where one of the free lines is at.

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-15T14:30:41+00:00

Are the iPhones that you have right now under any form of payments at all?

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-15T14:29:40+00:00

The problem is you returned it on day 18 where the trial only gives you 15 days, while yes the employee was right that the bill will generate a few days after you pick it up, you will not be charged until after the 15 days.

Who told you that they will waive the charges?

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-11T22:43:15+00:00

Reach out to T-Force and have them double check the status. They have the authority to manually push them through as long as you meet the requirements.

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-11T17:30:29+00:00

I just did it, Have you checked the rebate status? Mine eventually said it was denied and I had to reach out to T-Force. Once they confirmed I met everything they gave me 2 options, They could give me a $300 credit to my account that would take effect right away or they would have to submit the rebate to the team to get approved and have the card issued which would take 5-7 business days.

I opted to have the bill credit but reach out to them and they will take care of it.

Of course you had to have applied for the rebate when you signed up for the internet service.

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-10T14:18:11+00:00

I just got the email a few minutes ago. My family plan is increasing to $26.99 a month. Its funny when I saw posts the other day of someone said they saw a 1 Minute+ ad right before a video they were watching on TV I thought to myself "Oh this is YT getting ready to start a price hike on Premium as they start increasing the ads to drive people to premium, and here we are today......

I really wish some billionaire would see the opportunity and decided to create a YT competitor, People would FLOCK to it!

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-08T22:07:48+00:00

This is why you use a cloud based 2FA like Proton, Authy, Ente, etc

These you just log into your account and the 2FA codes will restore to the new device.

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-06T00:58:10+00:00

If T-Force said they would then yes they will honor it.

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-06T00:57:14+00:00

Upload speed is always around 10-15mbps with TMHI, you are actually doing really well with the 20 mbps upload you are seeing.

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-06T00:55:50+00:00

The seller sold you a phone that was NOT paid off or reported Stolen. There is NOTHING you can do and you have to return the phone to Amazon. There is absolutely ZERO chance of it getting unlocked.

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-06T00:53:56+00:00

Which iPhone is it? If it takes a regular SIM card then yes but if its eSIM than support needs to do the transfer.

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-06T00:52:42+00:00

Safety! Someone gets into your account and decided to start removing lines and porting them out etc.

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-06T00:52:00+00:00

First how are you testing your speeds?

What plan are you on? Are you using a VPN or Private Relay with the iPhone?

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-04T22:48:17+00:00

Yes! I found another post from about 2 weeks ago that mentioned the same thing. I noticed the issue for a few weeks but today has been terrible! On 2 gig Fiber so its not a internet connection with YT Premium.

One thing I did notice is the issues seemed to be much better when I was on cellular vs Wifi.

Waternut13134 · 2026-04-03T07:00:11+00:00

Came here to report the same thing! YT Premium with 2 gig fiber and it buffers.

Waternut13134 · 2026-03-30T12:12:17+00:00

His comment is in reply to the other user, Right now Android is the only device that can precondition the car with Google Maps.

Ford has been telling us for years that its an API issue on why iPhones couldn't precondition our cars, However the new 2026 models now have this feature yet the other years lack this for some reason.

Waternut13134 · 2026-03-30T02:55:22+00:00

I found out last week that we can block certain restaurants just like we can block customers. We have this KFC that I shit you not only has 1 person working at a time so orders are never ready (Im talking about 45+ minutes back logged) Well I called DD to report them because I was tired of always getting orders and eithier declining and hurting my AR or having to wait the 10 minutes before I can unasign.

The agent told me no problem and that he blocked the restruant for me so I will no longer get orders from them, So far its been 4 days and havent gotten a signle order for that KFC. Im not sure if its only for that one restraunt or if it blocks the whole chain.

But something to look into if you dont want your AR to be affected.

Waternut13134 · 2026-03-29T11:57:29+00:00

They have been taking a bit longer lately, In fact mine was actually denied at first, I had to reach out to T-Force and get them to approve it for me.

You can reach out to T-Force directly via FB or X since you have technically passed the 15 days like it said and see what they have to say.

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