I can assure you the final bill is not prorated if you were billed in advance. If you want to be credited back, wait until you get the final bill and call at that time. We don't adjust unbilled charges. Technically you have been charged, but it is easier to wait until you get the bill after cancellation.

Btw, I didn't exactly formally cancel. I ported 2 #'s by calling Vzn. So doing a successful port cancels an acct automatically, right?

ATT customer service told me I cancelled on the 19th, which was 2 days into my billing cycle.

Yes, when you port out, it cancels the lines right away. What I would do is call in when you get the last bill and ask to be credited back. Most reps would credit because AT&T is big on customer service and satisfaction right now. Plus they like people to leave with a good taste in their mouth for when things go south with your current provide, you may consider coming back.

ya i dont think so at my work you dont get proration back when you port out in the middle of billing cycle you will be charged the full month cause if you cancel they set it up for end of billing cycle

He does make a real good point:

"Post paid" or monthly bills are actually paid in advance. It's why most times when you first sign up, your first bill is larger than normal (part of first month, all of second month, new-line-activation fees).

So if you paid your bill for the end of March and your now 2 days into that "bill" you have actually paid for April and service you are not using. Assuming you have no ETF, you should actually get money back.

Do you work for AT&T?

My Company sells Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and a wide variety of prepaid phones.

I sell and use AT&T, but I don't work for AT&T.

The reason I use AT&T is that's what my GF and her family has. I pay $10 a month + data for my phone. Previously I had Sprint and was fairly happy with them.

I don't mean come across as mean but, Werner you are wrong. When you are billed in advanced, you are not credited back when you cancel in the middle of the billing cycle. The terms and conditions actually state this. The final bill is not prorated for advanced billing. We advise people cancel on the last day of the billing cycle. I know it isn't fair but I deal with escalations like this everyday.

Thats good to know. I had a customer close an account and the rep told me that they should recieve a check for the rest of the bill cycle that they had already paid for.

I remember reading you was from Vegas. Didn't know if it was a coverage thing. I once had to n95 as well. Loved that phone have the iphone now. Thinking of switching to the nexus one. Not sure if I want to hold out for the desire. Been with at&t/cingular for over 10 years had good service not look to switch anytime soon.

Yeah, I was with Cingular/ATT for just over 8yrs myself. Not just wireless, but everything, pretty much my whole life is about change right now, pre/2010-post/2010, I just want *everything* in my life to be different than before 2010, so I'm all about new & fresh things right now in my life.

If you do get an Android phone just make sure it says "With Google" much better that way, no bloatware.

Sometimes change is good. If I could walk into a store and buy the nexus one I would. I dont like to buy things offline. Want to see it hold it first.

I can understand that. Prior to getting my DRoid I watched a lot of YouTube vids of the Droid and I also asked fellow Phone Scooper Menno quite a few questions.

leaves a *LOT* to be desired. I won't buy a Yahoo Android. Thought just makes me feel dirty inside :/

I'm holding my vote until I'm due for an upgrade, which should be sometime this fall. At that point more AT&T Android phones should be out.

Hopefully AT&T will also have 7 and Palm by that time as well so I'll have more of a choice. I have a Droid at work and it's a solid phone. Thankfully there's a lot more competition out than when I got my iPhone, as I very much dislike Apple.

iPhone, Blackberry, Droid, 7, palm... so many choices looming.

Yep, the. Droid is definetly solid and very, very well built. I even watched a YouTube video of someone trying to scratch the screen and it wouldn't scratch, its made of gorrilla glass, which is scratch proof. I have a nice blue case coming that I got on eBay for only $8, damn good deal, and its coming from California so it shouldn't take too long to get here.

If you have any questions about Android, I'm more than willing to help you out with them. I haven't handled an N1 directly, but I am running 2.1 on my (rooted) droid, so I'm familiar with the OS.

I'm with Jay on this one though.. If you are staying with ATT, your best bet for android is unlocked.

I can tell you that one of the coolest features of android atm is the voice search (I use it all the time) and voice to text. Without the Google search widget, it doesn't work and ATT's move to yahoo removes that widget.

I hope they at least let the Desire through unscathed.

Thanks Menno. And I love that you did not go into the speach about how I need to switch to verizon. I have the iphone (3Gs) now, nothing wrong with it just ready for a change. Its just getting old. I have unlocked phones before. (N95 and N97) N95 was great n97 not so much. Out of the OS what one do you like the most, and why. I stuck between ordering the N1 and waiting on the desire.

I won't tell someone to switch from a carrier they're happy with.

Out of the SenseUI and Stock OS you mean?

It's a hard question. I never really messed with the Sense one for more than a couple of minutes here and there. I love the feel of it though. It does feel more cohesive than the stock OS, and it ads some new features (Scenes.. which allows you to totally change the look of your phone depending on what you are doing).

On the other hand, I can't really complain that much about the Stock OS. It works very well, it just takes a bit longer to learn, and it's more customizable than Sense after you do so.

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Thanks Menno for the reply. I run yahoo email and all my contact are with outlook on my computer. With android can I sync with outlook and am I able to get email from any server on android devices. I know I have to set up a gmail account, but am I still able to do these other things.

2.1 brings native syncing with Yahoo (yahoo blocked it initially). You can continue using yahoo if you wish, but I think you might be pleasantly surprised by gmail if you've never used it before.

For outlook contacts, there is not "plug in and sync" option for getting your contacts over. The easiest way to do this is to export them from outlook as a .csv file and then import them into gmail once you get it set up (you can look how to do this by logging into gmail from your computer).

Your contacts will then sync to your phone (you can set the phone only to show contacts with phone numbers in the contact list to prevent confusion) and then when you go into the mail app (yahoo) and start typing someone's name it will auto complete fo...
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It sounds like its just an extra step to get my contact sync'd.

I dont have a love for yahoo or anything just is what the wife and I have used sence college. Everyone I know emails to my yahoo account. Dont want to have to contact everyone to tell them I switched email addresses. Would be the same way if you had to let everyone know you have a new phone number after 15years.

It is an extra step, but once you set up outlook to sync with Gmail, all your contacts will be updated wirelessly so it's a "set it and forget it" kind of thing.

you can set your gmail to forward your yahoo email to your gmail account. and then put in your sig "this is my new email address" that way you don't miss anything your friends send you, but you can reply with your new account.

I know, switching emails sucks though... I kinda had to cause I made my first email when I was 13 or so so it was something I deff don't want submitting with my resume's.

As for the phone number issue.. Google's trying to do away with that using "Google Voice." that way it doesn't matter what phone you're on, people can always call your number to...
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