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China’s largest online direct sales company, JD.com, is celebrating the November Singles Day Festival today. JD.com is like our local online shopping but they ship worldwide for FREE. Today (November 9, 2015) it will provide its customers with great savings and FREE-bies! They have Just 5 cents offers, Flash Sale, and Name brands with coupon codes to save up to $20.


Adding to this celebration, they are offering FREE $10 for every new member/customer who sign-up at JD.com using the code I7525G (copy-paste the code to the referrer box on the sign-up page). When you sign-up, use this code I7525G and you will get $10 coupon that can be used for your purchases. If you don't use that code, you will only get $5 free. If you want to purchase from their site, you only need to use the code to products which cost 5 cents more. That is, you only need to purchase at least $10.05 single item and it will be shipped to your location for FREE. You can use Paypal, GCASH Amex Card, SmartMoney Card or any VISA or Mastercard Card to pay for your goods.

Here's my checkout, I've used the $10 coupon already and have purchased this item worth $16.34:

I already received the item on December 29, 2015. The item was as described but with a bit of delay due to shipping.

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Smart Communications has stopped their LTE promos (i.e. LTE50 and Unlisurf) last October 31, 2015. These were replaced with the new SURFMAX and SURFMAXPLUS promos. Same speed, same denominations, BUT with limits. According to their Surfmax guidelines, the promo allows subscribers to enjoy all day surfing up to 800MB/day at optimal speeds and once this is consumed, all day surfing services will still be active but connection quality may vary until 12 midnight. There you go, sounds familiar with Globe's Fair Usage Policy (FUP), eh? So, nothing is unlimited now in the Philippines. We live more with limits? Internet should be a wide universe with no boundaries, we are paying for it so, we should get the best out of it!


Smart offers the following denominations for their new Surfmax promos:

SurfMax Promo denominations, keywords and validity. Click to enlarge.

The Surfmax promo is available for Smart Postpaid, Prepaid and Smart Bro users. Better use the SurfmaxPlus if you are in an LTE-covered area and your internet device is an LTE-capable one to ensure that you have the fastest internet speed.


How to Overcome the 800MB Limit of Smart's SurfMax and SurfMaxPlus?
We are all very disappointed with this new restriction in their internet promo, right? But Smart provided us a solution to get past their 800MB bandwidth limit usage. As stated in their guidelines:

Upon reaching their Smart SurfMax daily limit, subscribers may also switch to any Smart Big Bytes offering to continue enjoying optimal speeds. For a complete list of Smart Big Bytes packages, they may also visit www.smart.com.ph/pages/bigbytes.

So, the number 1 solution to prevent being throttled to slow network speed is to register to Big Bytes. Once you received a text from Smart notifying you that you have already consumed 800MB data, you only need to register to a Big Byte promo to revert your internet network speed to normal. It did not mention the denomination, so we prefer the cheapest one, the Big Byte for PhP5. To do this, send BIG5 to 9999 and wait for the confirmation then restart your modem and voila, your internet speed should be back to normal even if you have consumed the 5MB data from BigBytes and your Surfmax promo is not yet expired.

For Talk 'N Text users, you can send BIG5 to 4545. You can also register to SAMPLE to 4545.

Number 2 solution is to register to their SurfMaxPLUS promo using a Jump-In SIM card. Do not use SmartBro or KickStart Sim, these two are very strict when it comes to capping. They are so much updated with your internet data usage.

Number 3 solution is to register to their SurfMax promo using a KickStart Data SIM. If ever Smart notified you with the 800MB limit, turn off your modem for 30 mins and reconnect after that 30 mins. But most probably, Smart will not send notification using this SIM and this promo.

Number 4 solution is to restart your modem/broadband stick once you receive the 800MB usage notification. By turning your modem off, you allow it to change its IP connection and thus giving you a chance to get a nonthrottled IP. This works with KickStart Data SIMs.

Number 5 solution is to download more than 1GB files when you are enrolled in the promo and never mind the notification that you have used the 800MB data. If your download speed is maintained after you receive the notification, then say "My SIM is Great!" This works with some Jump-In SIMs but not all the time. So, try at your own risk.

Number 6 solution is to resend the promo code once your speed is throttled. Just resend the SURFMAX promo code to 9999 or 2200 even if you do not have enough load. Just ignore the insufficient load balance notification and restart your device. You can also use the SmartBro dashboard to register to SURFMAX. When you do this, make sure that you DO NOT have load greater than PhP49.

Update December 8, 2015: All SURFMAX users, expiration in this promo is until every 11:59PM. So I suggest you register after 11:59PM, i.e. 12:01AM, to have your subscription last for two days. Example, you register in Dec.8, 2015 12:01AM, your expiration will be on Dec 9, 2015, 11:59PM. That's two days for the price of PhP50.

Alternative for Unlimited Internet Without Limit
Instead of subscribing to SurfMax, subscribe to UnliSurf. Though Smart have announced that Unlisurf is no longer available, this promo is still available in your retailer store's SmartLoad Menu. You don't need to keywords to register, you only need to go to your suking tindahan and ask the SmartLoad retailer to load your Smart SIM with UnliSurf. They can also load your SIM by texting UNLI50 (your number) and send to 4122.

Disclaimer: I cannot guarantee that all these tricks will work to prevent your SIM from being throttled once you have consumed the 800MB data. It's effectiveness is a case-to-case basis. Your location/area is a determinant of its success as well as the SIM you are using. Since Smart is still in the process of upgrading their system, once or twice you will encounter a glitch in their network. You might even use their one day promo for more than a week, or you might end up not being able to connect to the internet even if you have just registered to the promo.

Try at your own discretion. 


Credits to all testers and all the feedbacks of users.
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Great giveaway for Touch Mobile users! Try this while it is still working. You can call your loved ones, friends and family any time of the day, unlimited.

How to Avail of Free Call to Any Network for TM users?
Just dial +1051*(11-digit cellphone number any network) and press the call button.
Example: +1051*09175678901
NOT Working as of December 2, 2015. 


That's it! No cut-off for every call. I have tried it and it's working even without load.


Credits: to the original sharer. A friend just told me about this.

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Since many had been complaining that the internet data allocation included in this Globe's Cheap 1100 Allnet Texts for 30 Days has access to Facebook but with no pictures, an anonymous user has commented a way to gain access to FREE Facebook with enabled pictures. But some users still complained that it is not working for them. As for my case, I also tried the promo and I was given 30MB allocation per day but after the 30MB is consumed due to lots of pictures showing in Facebook, one will revert to the use of FREE Facebook access but with no images. The tutorial below will let you use FB for FREE and will let you browse your friend's uploaded pictures.


How to Access FREE Facebook with Enabled Images in Globe/TM?
Requirements:
-Globe/TM Sim card even with zero load
-Facebook App or your internet browser (Opera Mini, UCWEB, Chrome, Firefox, etc)
-Mobile phone/tablet or your broadband stick/modem

Procedure:
1. Go to write messages of your phone/tablet or broadband stick/modem. Then send the following keywords:

SURFALERT ON to 8888 and wait for confirmation.
SURFALERT OFF to 8888 and wait for confirmation.
SURFALERT ON to 8888 and wait for confirmation.

2. Open your Facebook app or Facebook page (using your internet browser) and start using it with enabled images. Done!

Alternative Procedure:
When accessing Facebook, use b-m.facebook.com
All done! 

Note: Your Facebook access cannot play FB videos. This tutorial only enables pictures to show. 

Credits to my friend who shared this simple life hack. 

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I got a Samsung Smart Gravity phone from my aunt last week and I tried to tweak this 2011 model phone to keep up with the fast developing Android world while typhoon #Lando is slowly making his downpour. I rooted the phone and updated the firmware because the stock ROM feels lousy (though this phone has only one existing working custom ROM up to this date). So far, it's snappy now but I encountered a certain problem, the network signal won't stick with the 3G strength, it is always in EDGE even if it is a 3G phone.

New! Unlimited Internet with Unli Call and Unli AllNet Texts For Less Than PhP10/Day (TNT/Smart)

So, I browsed the net and read so many helpful tutorials that opened new horizons to my not-so-varied Android experience. And I came up with this tutorial that will help Android users to back away from the 2G/EDGE signal and empower their phones/tablets with 3G/4G signal using the different mobile networks in our country. This works for most brands such as Samsung, Cherry Mobile, Huawei, Sony, etc. Just try this tutorial and comment below if it did not work with your phone brand so I can update this post.

Disclaimer: This tutorial will NOT prevent your SIM from being blocked/throttled by your network due to heavy downloading or bandwidth overuse. It only provides users with simple tweaks to let their device experience the 3G/4G speed instead of the EDGE/2G speed by default.

How to Make Your Android Device (Phone/Tablet) Stick with 3G/4G?
To get rid of the sluggish 2G/EDGE signal of your device,
1. Grab your phone/tablet and dial *#2263#. This will bring your device to its Service Mode.
2. Three options will display in the screen and I bet yours will have asterisk (*) in the Automatic option. Now, tap {2} WCDMA Band Preference to choose this option then hit the back button of your device twice after a page confirms your selection.
3. Done. Check the network status by dialing *#0011#. Your device should say that it's now using the WCDMA band.

Service Mode Screen (*#2263#). Set it to WCDMA Band Preference.

Note:
-Make sure that your device is a 3G/4G capable phone. If not, the WCDMA/H+/HSPA+ will not stick. Your device will not connect to a network or it will revert back to GSM (Auto).
-This signal eats up much battery compared to the primitive 2G/EDGE signal. So, have a handy powerbank with you.
-You don't need to be rooted to make this work. 
-If it did not work, just follow the steps again and choose Automatic in the options to restore your previous settings.
-This tutorial is very helpful for those not-so-advanced 3G Android devices that didn't have these options in their Settings Menu.

Other secret codes that may come handy with your Android device:
*#*#4636#*#* (or *#*#INFO#*#* for easy memorization) - it can show your device info and network status. You can edit DNS in your device here, you can PING Google using your phone to check your internet access and you can also set the internet mode here (GSM, LTE, WCDMA, etc).

Phone Info Page

*#197328640# - For advanced users of service mode. It will bring options to debug screen, network and phone control, RF and other technical stuff. 

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