OK, I bought an iPhone 5 from Apple store in Emeryville, CA yesterday for full retail (I did this because my phone plan is from my employer and they are not allowing us iPhone 5's yet) . . . i didn't realize the old SIM would not fit in the new phone.
Plan A: go to AT&T store to see if they could change the SIM for me and activate the new phone under my existing number.
Plan B: cut/file the old micro-SIM to nano-SIM size and see if it works. There were conflicting accounts on the web if this would work.
Plan C: tell my employer IT dept that I lost my iPhone4s and that I bought a new iPhone5 (with my own money) and ask them to activate it for me.
Results:
Plan A: Alas, since my phone plan is with my employer this did not work . . . service was good though and they did try.
Plan B: This worked! I used a nail file to basically file down all of the edges of the micro SIM until they matched the dimensions of the nano-SIM. I tried using sandpaper but I was finding that I couldn't file the edges straight . . . nail file seemed to work better. You may need to file the overall thickness of the micro SIM just slightly. Some reports on the web say you don't need to do this but in my case it didn't slide in smoothly (and I didn't want to force it) until I did this.
Plan C: I did not need to test this thankfully
I am on AT&T here in the US so YMMV but I can confirm this works for AT&T phones using Mirco-SIM
Hope this is helpful to some!
Plan A: go to AT&T store to see if they could change the SIM for me and activate the new phone under my existing number.
Plan B: cut/file the old micro-SIM to nano-SIM size and see if it works. There were conflicting accounts on the web if this would work.
Plan C: tell my employer IT dept that I lost my iPhone4s and that I bought a new iPhone5 (with my own money) and ask them to activate it for me.
Results:
Plan A: Alas, since my phone plan is with my employer this did not work . . . service was good though and they did try.
Plan B: This worked! I used a nail file to basically file down all of the edges of the micro SIM until they matched the dimensions of the nano-SIM. I tried using sandpaper but I was finding that I couldn't file the edges straight . . . nail file seemed to work better. You may need to file the overall thickness of the micro SIM just slightly. Some reports on the web say you don't need to do this but in my case it didn't slide in smoothly (and I didn't want to force it) until I did this.
Plan C: I did not need to test this thankfully
I am on AT&T here in the US so YMMV but I can confirm this works for AT&T phones using Mirco-SIM
Hope this is helpful to some!