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Tethering root and data cap

So I know it really isn't unlimited data and its only 5gb cap but does that include wireless tethering for root users
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Don't know where you got that info but it most definitely is unlimited, there is no 5GB cap.

There is no cap, and Sprint doesn't know about your tethering provided you're using a Market app.
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Well it using the 3g data even if its a market app and I've read numerous times about the 5gb data cap they just put in place if u google it. It says 4g is unlimited but 3g is 5gb
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i went well over 20gigs this month using 3g and my bill was still the same... no throttling either. your fine.

There is NO cap for 3g/4g on Sprints network at all. There are people using 11GB+ a month with no overage fees(I am not one of them). There is how ever a roaming cap of 300MB.

And one more thing since I'm on a family plan I got a call asking how I already used 1gb and that we now have a 5gb data cap its all over google.
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Would you be so kind as to link us to where this claim is made? I googled it and everything I found says unlimited, including Sprint's website.

No Cap
I Then When Pass 5 10 20G On My Phone Tethering I Still on All Day and my bill be the same every month
The Only thing Might Happen Is The Severs Be Busy At Times N My Internet Runs Slow or my Internet dnt Be respondn

all over google? link please... im not buying it. Dont you think they would of called me since i used 27gigs this month and my bill was the same?

youngkalico said:
I Then When Pass 5 10 20G On My Phone Tethering I Still on All Day and my bill be the same every month
The Only thing Might Happen Is The Severs Be Busy At Times N My Internet Runs Slow or my Internet dnt Be respondn
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Huh?
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I passed 5g tethering to my laptop and ps3 two months in a row
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touchjon said:
Well it using the 3g data even if its a market app and I've read numerous times about the 5gb data cap they just put in place if u google it. It says 4g is unlimited but 3g is 5gb
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nope, they did have a typo on sprint's website that said that but it was changed a long time ago. If they wanted to they could easily find out if you are tethering though.

The 5gb on 3g cap is for the data cards that you plug into a computer this does not apply to sprint phones now at&t & verizon....
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as far as I can tell, its all unlimited, I had one month with almost 3gbs of roaming, no extra charge

There is no limit on 3G or WiMax data usage.
The sole limitations are as follows:
1) Your roaming data usage cannot be larger than your on-Sprint data usage, or else you will incur fees.
2) We will all smack you if you get ridiculous data usage, and Sprint then turns around and increases prices for unlimited data plans and/or eliminates unlimited data plans because of bandwidth hogs like you.

+1 There is ABSOLUTELY NO cap on phone data, only the broadband cards. I went through this last week with customer support then decided to ask our Sprint rep at Best Buy to confirm. The phone plan has absolutely no cap and if you use wifi tether they cant tell anything besides your phone is using data.
For anyone else wanting to argue this, hop on Live Chat with Sprint and verify

There may be a cap if he has a family plan. The $10 that every Evo owner used to moan about entitles us to no cap. However, Sprint has confirmed that any phone that doesn't pay this charge, including data cards, will be capped.
If his family is all on one plan, and only he has the Evo, they may be capping him somewhere.

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Hahahaha! I was wondering the same thing! Trying to read what that guy wrote was almost impossible.

i recieved a phone call from my father not sprint saying i used 1gb of the 5gb cap and me him and my bro have a 4g phone. maybe it is cards only but i dont know why he would tell me that. i pay the 10 extra too

ive been throttled lol

like the title says. ive been throttled. now my phone is usless. cmon i only got to 5gb thats all. . now i have to wait .

b0ricuaguerrero said:
like the title says. ive been throttled. now my phone is usless. cmon i only got to 5gb thats all. . now i have to wait .
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LOLZ...how did you manage that? I'm a long-time customer so I'm hoping that I have a true "unlimited" plan that I paid for. I think the limits only apply to recently signed up customers.
<fingers crossed>

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LOLZ...how did you manage that? I'm a long-time customer so I'm hoping that I have a true "unlimited" plan that I paid for. I think the limits only apply to recently signed up customers.
<fingers crossed>
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i dont recall. maybe i was tehtering, to watch netflix on the ps3 at my home girls house who knows lol .ive been with tmo since 05-06
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At least you take it lightly
Honestly, 5GB is a lot and if you are using your phones tethering to run your home internet well gotta put that one on you...haha. How many movies did you stream and were they in HD? =)
Throttling always stinks though...I am fairly new to TMO but is there a way to pay more to get it turned back on? Luckily I am on a huge business plan so we don't have throttling.

efenili said:
At least you take it lightly
Honestly, 5GB is a lot and if you are using your phones tethering to run your home internet well gotta put that one on you...haha. How many movies did you stream and were they in HD? =)
Throttling always stinks though...I am fairly new to TMO but is there a way to pay more to get it turned back on? Luckily I am on a huge business plan so we don't have throttling.
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i usually do no more than 2gb a month. but i guess i went ape **** this month. must of been a few movies. i only tether when her wifi is down. now i have to wait until the 2nd of next month
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b0ricuaguerrero said:
i dont recall. maybe i was tehtering, to watch netflix on the ps3 at my home girls house who knows lol .ive been with tmo since 05-06
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How do you get that screen on your phone? Want to know my bandwidth usage.

KidTech said:
How do you get that screen on your phone? Want to know my bandwidth usage.
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It's the T-Mobile "My Account" App
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tmobile.selfhelp&feature=search_result

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LOLZ...how did you manage that? I'm a long-time customer so I'm hoping that I have a true "unlimited" plan that I paid for. I think the limits only apply to recently signed up customers.
<fingers crossed>
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Nope. Everybody gets it after 5.
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The_Biz said:
Nope. Everybody gets it after 5.
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lol i did 5.09

look for speed test on the market, its an app
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look for speed test on the market, its an app
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he wasnt asking for that. he wants to know how much data he has used for the month. thats the my account app. you mistaken it for benchmarking the network speed

i upgraded to the 10gb cap because I burn through data like no tomorrow.
before I updated my plan I couldnt check my data use but they did throttle me.
many times before I had ran xbox live and world of warcraft through my phone and never got throttled. So I think they are watching closer!

How much for the 10 GB cap?
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I hit the 5gb soft cap of the old "unlimited plan" about 6 months ago. I stream slacker radio from my desk almost all day every day. I hit it 2 days prior to my cycle so it was ok I think that month i hit 5.5gb's lol

Its like 60
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this is my first data package, il prob b under 2 gb

b0ricuaguerrero said:
i usually do no more than 2gb a month. but i guess i went ape **** this month. must of been a few movies. i only tether when her wifi is down. now i have to wait until the 2nd of next month
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wholey shizzzz, that is barely usable !

Wow thats cool about the T-mobile "my account" app, I had never used that before lol. Maybe all this bloatware isn't as worthless as I thought? Regardless I'm interested to see how much data I'll gobble up a month with this phone...

Ouch that hurts to even see that. [email protected][email protected]$
Hang in there...
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i usually do no more than 2gb a month. but i guess i went ape **** this month. must of been a few movies. i only tether when her wifi is down. now i have to wait until the 2nd of next month
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i went over my 5gb data last month cause my internet went out and i tethered to my desktop. i did it for about 5 days (mostly nights when i am at the desktop) streaming youtubes and show series. my bill cycle was ending so i didnt care if i get capped but it really sucks because its god awfully slow..

Sprint getting ready to remove unlimited?

I upgraded my line to the SGS3 yesterday and now I'm noticing that my usage says certain usage out of 4 GB. Not sure what's going on but it appears like Sprint may be removing the unlimited data feature soon? They've been changing a lot of things on their website lately.
Anyways, Overstew sent me this picture of his usage.
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Anyone know what to think of it or are we just being paranoid?

Very interesting. Can you hop on their support chat and ask why you're showing a 4GB data limit? Mine is still showing unlimited, but I have not made any account changes or upgrades since 9/2011.

Unlimited Data is practically the only thing keeping me on Sprint. Hell, even T-Mobile is better...

Just noticed that's my screenshot lol.
I'll chat with them and see but I don't really see myself getting an accurate answer from Sprint reps.

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Just noticed that's my screenshot lol.
I'll chat with them and see but I don't really see myself getting an accurate answer from Sprint reps.
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That's weird looking/ First is shows there's a 4Gb limit on 3g and then it shows same 3G data being unlimited. Did you photoshop this overstew?

Look at the date. It says from 7/1 to 7/1...
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Lol, I think the more likely scenario is it's a website bug.
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might it me an LTE thing since they are bring out their new connections out, its only happening on the SG III?
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Looks like they prorated it for some unknown reason. The dates that say 7/1 to current are still unlimited.
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Maybe it's just a 4GB limit per day.

It might have been a bug with the 1 second Leap Second that happened at the end of last month. Just a guess since the billing cycle for the 4GB above is from 4/1 to 4/1.
For more information on it, click here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

It's a website bug, I've had customers come in before showing the same thing.

Good luck trying to get anywhere near 4gigs on 3g
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They'll eventually dump unlimited, it's just a matter of time. I'll be switching to Verizon that same day.

mine still says unlimited on 3g/4g. Must be a mistake on ur acct.

Your inlet allowed so much on roaming networks.Sprints still unlimited.
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They'll eventually dump unlimited, it's just a matter of time. I'll be switching to Verizon that same day.
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There is no other reason to stick around, especially if you're on a family plan.
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Ascertion said:
Maybe it's just a 4GB limit per day.
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To tell you the truth I wouldn't mind if they did something like this. 4GB a day but still have unlimited data so u can use like 120GB in one month or maybe like 3GB or something. This will stop ppl that use wireless tether for free and download torrents all day and hog up all that bandwidth. Lol
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Sephirothvfc said:
To tell you the truth I wouldn't mind if they did something like this. 4GB a day but still have unlimited data so u can use like 120GB in one month or maybe like 3GB or something. This will stop ppl that use wireless tether for free and download torrents all day and hog up all that bandwidth. Lol
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a packet is a packet, doesn't matter if it comes from a phone, a computer, or a leap frog toy that your 2 year old son wiped his boogers on. anyone with a clue would know you can torrent on your phone too. did you also forget that some people have done away with cable and simply stream netflix and hulu via HDMI from their phones to their TVs? what about some of the new games that require hundreds of MB of additional data to be downloaded to your sdcard before you can even play it? should they get charged tethering fees for not tethering even though they're using the same amount of data as someone who is?

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a packet is a packet, doesn't matter if it comes from a phone, a computer, or a leap frog toy that your 2 year old son wiped his boogers on. anyone with a clue would know you can torrent on your phone too. did you also forget that some people have done away with cable and simply stream netflix and hulu via HDMI from their phones to their TVs? what about some of the new games that require hundreds of MB of additional data to be downloaded to your sdcard before you can even play it? should they get charged tethering fees for not tethering even though they're using the same amount of data as someone who is?
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Cellular data was never meant to be a replacement for your home internet connection.
If you're going to stream Netflix or Hulu to your TV from your PHONE connection, then yes, I think you should get charged for that.

Finally got unlimited 4G

I finally got to it, I set my data plan to the new unlimited 4G and wow what a relief. I wasn't throttle for a few days but didn't have time to call tmobile.
I know this isn't new, but **** it. I'm excited haha, I included a ss of the difference of speeds.
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Awesome dude. I got it too and surprisingly I've still only used about 4gb in the past like 20 days.

I finally had to switch from my 5GB "unlimited" to truly unlimited when I got throttled for the first time. Took all about 10 minutes for me to get mad enough to switch.
Come to find out I'm actually saving money when it's all said and done because I was on an old 3,000 minute plan that just wasn't as cost effective as the new plan.
Plus now I'm stoked no throttle worries because ever since I got my Nexus 7 I have been using quite a bit of data. I'm already at 2.7GB with twenty days left in the billing cycle lol

I couldn't take it either, what a pain it was. I'm saving money too. I was paying $35 a month for the 5GB 'unlimited' but now I pay 30.
Now I can use data without worry, it's definitely worth it.
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I get amazing data without lte
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Damn me too, got a text saying I hit my 5GB limit this morning, just got off from 611 switched my plan to the unlimited one, ten bucks extra but I think it's totally worth it.

Wait what do you guys mean unlimited off the prepaid plan... How?
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I think it's not exist for prepaid, $20 for value plan, or $30 for classic plan

I dont have unl 4G just unl 2G data, 100kb/s isn't to bad for me especially when I am always connected to a WiFi hotspot 90% of the time when I use my phone. Though when I am able to afford it I am probably going to switch to unl 4G because I mean who doesnt want unl 4G? lol

I had 2Gb and after a month switched to unlimited.
My WIFI is completely off, so far I used 4Gb in 10 days.:good:

Those speeds don't seem to fast I get around 20mbps !

Made the switch to T-mobile back in October and got my first smartphone along with it.
Went with the Value plan for myself along with two other phones.
Unlimited 4G was included and we pay roughly $134 monthly.
Love the fact that I never have to worry about data usage or caps.
However, I am pretty much the only one that uses the data connection on their phone. And I don't use too much.
The coverage in my area just isn't good. Tested a few different modems and found one that helped to increase the data to about 5-12 mbps at home and school.

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Those speeds don't seem to fast I get around 20mbps !
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Yeah, I get around 15mbps myself.

My first month with unlimited data i used 48gb of data without tethering last month i used 38gb of data. Its fast enough that i don't even worry about WiFi even at home. I'm really loving the t mobile right now
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Holy crap that much data without tethering what do you do??
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You're making me jealous of those speeds haha. My connection at home is just horrible. It goes from 4G to edge to ml data at all then to edge, etc. It's just a big hassle
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I hate it when Philly dont get the love from Tmobile, from 160+ cities that got full HSPA speed, philly aint one of them.
Average I got around 4-6 Mbps, some area 9, my home tower is worse, not even 2 Mbps.

Tmobile throttle unlimited data hogs starting August 17th

http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/13/t-mobile-cracks-down-on-data-abusers/

Seems like it won't affect people using a vpn, since it's all routed through 1 ip and it doesn't seem like they are determining this by how much, but if they detect you using torrent apps and things like that. Still alot of the changes T-Mobile are making lately seem to be anti consumer, ie Jump not being every 6 months anymore, trying to do away with corporate plans before the backlash, raising prices on plans, and now this. It's making me want to jump to prepaid honestly.

Tmobiles throttle is ridiculous too. Im talking slower then 1x. Ive been throttled 3 times now in the past year and the max download speed for all 3 times was .15mbps and yes you read that correctly and I typed it correctly. POINT ONE FIVE Mbps for download and thats on LTE and HSPA

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Tmobiles throttle is ridiculous too. Im talking slower then 1x. Ive been throttled 3 times now in the past year and the max download speed for all 3 times was .15mbps and yes you read that correctly and I typed it correctly. POINT ONE FIVE Mbps for download and thats on LTE and HSPA
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Seriously if they start doing this, I'll just go on straight talk for $45 a month with 3gb of data or Cricket.

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My bad guise.

T-Mobile will waste tons of money and resources trying to do this. They're already a distant number 3 carrier...just when demonoid comes back torrents are once again on the radar.
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Only "illegal" tethering and torrenting everyone else is fine
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Only "illegal" tethering and torrenting everyone else is fine
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Well, I'm screwed.

Well I'm not in that bunch hopefully it won't affect me too much
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it says "they could have their data speeds reduced for the remainder of their billing cycle" not that they WILL

I get throttled pretty much every month. And it sucks especially at super slow speeds.
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Midnight_Rider said:
it says "they could have their data speeds reduced for the remainder of their billing cycle" not that they WILL
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I've only gotten 4G around town the past few days where before I had full LTE. Seems legit.

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T-Mobile will waste tons of money and resources trying to do this. They're already a distant number 3 carrier...just when demonoid comes back torrents are once again on the radar.
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Demonoid. Ewww send me a pm dude. Much better safer alternatives
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I get throttled pretty much every month. And it sucks especially at super slow speeds.
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well I called last month and they bumped me up for free as a courtesy. But 3gbs is not enuff especially when youre on the road and alot of free time :-/

And throttled again til September 3rd.
Went to xda.com took 3 minutes to load. But yet I run a speed test says 30s. So tmo obviously doesn't throttle some connections like speedtest. Which is shady as hell in my book.

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And throttled again til September 3rd.
Went to xda.com took 3 minutes to load. But yet I run a speed test says 30s. So tmo obviously doesn't throttle some connections like speedtest. Which is shady as hell in my book.
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Damn if they are gonna throttle you, you might as well go prepaid on Cricket or Straight Talk. $45 for unlimited talk, text, and 3gb of data each month.

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Damn if they are gonna throttle you, you might as well go prepaid on Cricket or Straight Talk. $45 for unlimited talk, text, and 3gb of data each month.
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I only pay 10 bucks a month for unlimited talk and text and 3gb of data
Plus ATT throttled Cricket to 8mb download on LTE at all times.

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I only pay 10 bucks a month for unlimited talk and text and 3gb of data
Plus ATT throttled Cricket to 8mb download on LTE at all times.
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Damn that's a good price.

I pay 30 a month for unlimited data and 7 gigs of tethering.

tethering on GNF1 V3
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I pay 30 a month for unlimited data and 7 gigs of tethering.
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does tethering works on the GNF1 V3 ROM OR is it something extra i have to flash for it to work becuz when i turn it on i see the connection on my laptop but it want connect says unable to connect. OTHER THAN THAT roms runs great

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does tethering works on the GNF1 V3 ROM OR is it something extra i have to flash for it to work becuz when i turn it on i see the connection on my laptop but it want connect says unable to connect. OTHER THAN THAT roms runs great
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I haven't implemented it yet.