Comments for ArkieNet

Comment on A Guy’s Plea by Shawn Builds

Shawn Builds — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 05:25:00 +0000

This is a good post. I am very much ‘guy’.

Comment on Google Fi Dialer Codes by BitGirl

BitGirl — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 17:29:57 +0000

Thanks for the info. Kept getting a Sim 2 not provisioned error. Spoke to Google Support. They gave me a different code to call and that didn’t resolve my issue. This list did with FI Auto and Switch Sim code. Sad when I figured this out more than the hour spent with a tech guy talking down to me on Google Support.

Comment on Google Fi Dialer Codes by arkieguy

arkieguy — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 21:06:15 +0000

In reply to BS. Thanks!

Comment on Google Fi Dialer Codes by BS

BS — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 01:59:12 +0000

From Google Fi – device’s network logs.

The next time you experience this issue, open the phone dialer app on your device and enter *#*#FIBUG#*#* (*#*#34284#*#*). This collects and sends us the information that we need.

Any data you send from your device will only be visible by the Google Fi engineering team. Per our data retention policies, this data automatically deletes after 30 days.

Comment on Google Fi Dialer Codes by D

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:09:56 +0000

total lifesaver. thank you so much for posting this.

Comment on Google Fi Dialer Codes by ruiner

ruiner — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:19:42 +0000

extremely useful, thank you so much

Comment on Fi on a non-Google phone is like mowing your lawn with a weed eater…. by arkieguy

arkieguy — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 15:11:55 +0000

In reply to Kim. By "locked off of Sprint", I meant that the phone probably can't be activated on Sprint for another user. You should be fine switching the activated Fi sim between phones. However if you sell the phone to a 3rd party, they probably wouldn't be able to activate it on Sprint or any of the Sprint MVNO's (like Project Fi).

Comment on Fi on a non-Google phone is like mowing your lawn with a weed eater…. by Kim

Kim — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 01:54:14 +0000

In reply to arkieguy. I'm using a OnePlus3 and I have a Nexus 5x. The 5x has not been blocked off of Fi. I switch between the two phones occasionally and quite frankly, the lack of Sprint or US Cellular doesn't seem to be an issue because I have not run into any coverage issues using the One+ on Fi.

Comment on Fi on a non-Google phone is like mowing your lawn with a weed eater…. by Michael Nelson

Michael Nelson — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:42:58 +0000

It feels like the biggest takeaway here is that there are implications for the Google phone that you use to activate Fi on — the “surrogate” phone. Otherwise, short of Google killing your Fi service, the only other gotcha is that the Fi app doesn’t work on your non-Google device. T-Mo coverage is fantastic!

A lot of readers of this article likely are on the Google bandwagon already (they have a Nexus 6/5X/6P), and they want to explore other options. So tying up a surrogate phone isn’t a big deal.

You get exactly the phone you want, on arguably the most reasonable plan out there, on arguably the least evil service provider. Where’s that great hacker satisfaction you get from cruising off the beaten path?

Comment on Fi on a non-Google phone is like mowing your lawn with a weed eater…. by Kareem

Kareem — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:48:07 +0000

Keep in mind that “Weedeater” is a brand of a lawn mower! 😛