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by kissickas 4076 days ago
Absolutely correct about restarting your phone. I even restart mine twice after I change SIM cards (not a T-Mobile guy).

What's your experience with Google Maps at the free 2G speeds? That would be my first question when it comes to travel.
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ngoldbaum 4076 days ago
Fun thing to keep in mind when traveling in mainland China: maps for use outside China are shifted by a few hundred meters, presumably in a lame attempt to confuse an invading army.

https://polastre.com/2013/02/what-the-map/

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stingrae 4076 days ago
I have not run into this issue in China, perhaps this has changed since.
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Someone1234 4076 days ago
> What's your experience with Google Maps at the free 2G speeds?

"Unpleasant." What I'd strongly recommend is to download the map using offline maps before you leave. If you wait for Google Maps to download the data over the 2G/free tier you'll be in for a very long (10+ minute) wait.

I did not do offline maps before I left, but mostly we were on tours so we didn't really need them. But if I was e.g. exploring a city or doing something on my own, you'd definitely want to do offline maps if you wanted to use Google Maps on their free tier.

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growse 4075 days ago
Worth noting that not every country lets you offline a map. There's a list of countries you can offline a map for here: https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/2650347?hl=en

It's a long list, but there's some notable / surprising absences (e.g. Brazil, Spain).

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borgel 4076 days ago
I used TMO's free international 2G (with a 2013 Moto X) in Japan for two weeks. Maps was not a problem. It was slower then I was used to over 4G, but certainly fast enough to look up transit directions and search for places.

I was very satisfied and would gladly use them again. Having transit directions made spontaneous travel much easier.

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