ok i have a question for some. i am still getting emails on my iphone 4s even tho i switched the line to the 5 cant make calls or send texts but still getting emails any ideas?
Maybe connecting via wifi?
ok i have a question for some. i am still getting emails on my iphone 4s even tho i switched the line to the 5 cant make calls or send texts but still getting emails any ideas?
This process has been a complete failure by Verizon so far. Not knowing the correct way to switch a line, then no sims available if they do it wrong....what a complete waste of time. Had I known this, there would have been no point in preordering since they assured me it was a simple process multiple times. Now I'll have a nice shiny iPhone 5 sitting in a box...perfect guys, just perfect.
OMG I am so frustrated, you have no idea.
Verizon reps on the phone claim that I cannot transfer the iPhone 5 into my old UDP line without losing the UDP. I told them all I was doing was a device swap.
I bought a new iPhone 5 with the 2GB option ($9.99 line + $30).
My UDP line has an iPhone 4S.
All I want to do is swap the devices, I'm not even cancelling the 2GB plan on the dumbphone line, because someone is going to use that iPhone 4S.
I have a new SIM ready to go.
Can someone please confirm that this is working, and what argument should I use??
There are some sucess stories on this thread ( hope they are more than stories)
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1449064/
Not exactly success...more like none of their phones will work at this point. Can't activate the new one and killed the old one. Seriously Verizon?
From what I've gathered, we either have to wait 24 hours for the SIM card to activate on a different line (has anyone confirmed this?) or get a new one. So if the VZW store doesn't have any, can we just waltz into an Apple store and ask a VZW rep in there for one?
I'm a tad confused with all these stories bouncing around.
Correct, but the issue seems to be much broader than just the SIM card. After you get the new SIM card, there are issues in keeping your unlimited data with the new phone even it it comes from another line...
so has anyone tried not turning the thing on and calling verizon yet?
This worked for me...The Verizon lady worked her magic. She had to refresh their screen, attach the sim to the line it was supposed to be on, I turned the phone on, activated it even though it said it was the wrong line, but then when I restored from my iP4 and restarted, it was activated on the correct line.
She said that she had tried three others before me, but it didn't work. For some reason it worked for me. She was very knowledgeable and she said the problem was that Apple affiliated the sim to whatever line you used to upgrade.
From what I've gathered, we either have to wait 24 hours for the SIM card to activate on a different line (has anyone confirmed this?) or get a new one. So if the VZW store doesn't have any, can we just waltz into an Apple store and ask a VZW rep in there for one?
I'm a tad confused with all these stories bouncing around.
After an hour I finally got the 5 on my UDP. Had to order the 5 on my dummy line and activate it, then had to get a new sim for my UDP. Verizon stores only have very few nano sims, mine only had 3 -.-
My store also says they got an email from corporate that you have to wait 24 hours to do an "ESN change" on the existing sim. So that is an option.
She claimed they wont even give out micro sims because of that, but I might try going in anyway later today.
So it seems I got it to work without getting a new sim card and doing it over the phone. I did not turn on the iPhone 5. The rep told me to go on the website and go to switch a device. I did it through there and I had the option to keep unlimited data. It worked just fine. I called up Verizon after to make sure I still had unlimited and the dummy phone line had no data plan on it and was all confirmed.