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Resolved Verizon iPhone 5S Sim Not Valid?!?
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what carrier are you on? im having this issue with verizon. called apple and everything looks fine on their end (it is provisioned for verizon). said to take it back to the apple store or they can have the engineers try to figure it out but that could take a few days - if it is in fact a server issue.
Verizon as well. I took mine back they gave me another one and BOOM same thing. They are my next call!
We purchased 2 Verizon 64GB from Apple Retail. Have the same thing happening on both. Old SIM, new SIMS, no difference. Called Apple and supposedly it is being escalated to an engineer. It seems to be Verizon phones not activated at either Verizon or Apple.
Apple can find no issues, back to calling Verizon again. We should share some info here maybe it will help?
I had THREE new 5S's do this in a row, with different sims including my 5 SIM that works fine in the 5. In fact I'm running the 5S sim in my 5 right now :\
I had THREE new 5S's do this in a row, with different sims including my 5 SIM that works fine in the 5. In fact I'm running the 5S sim in my 5 right now :\
They are not ringing you up right. They need to refund the device to a gift card, re-ring it, choose upgrade, full retail price, keep your current plan, and enter your account info (phone number, last 4 of SSN, etc). This will get you activated (worked for me), but I can't place or receive phone calls.
We have a business account that they cannot touch. There's should be no reason they can't just sell a Verizon retail phone like they have had during all of the previous releases and have it activate it correctly. We've been doing this for years with no issues until this release.
Sorry for this question:
Not familiar with this. Would that mean after its fixed this evening, all the verizon phones will now work when we activate them later ? Will the ones, if you know, that are still in Process to be shipped will work when they arrive, or do we have to bring them in for replacement? I will understand if this cannot be answered by you.
Thank you
It appears as of right now the issue ONLY involves those of us who (correct me if I'm wrong?) were paying full price for the phones. I would assume once all of the info is imported into the activation DB it should be smooth sailing from here on out.
So you're saying for those of us who paid full retail this is the issue? I'm glad I searched for this because this is my dilemma. Paid full retail at Apple corporate store for the VZW phone because I didn't want to lose my unlimited data plan. So, it's because of the full retail that the issue is?
I spent a few hours with Apple trying to resolve it. I even was able sync and restore my phone by pulling out the SIM. That let me restore from backup in iTunes. But when I put the SIM in, I do get Invalid SIM.
Just got off the phone with VZW, too, and she said the same thing that was stated above. A note just went out saying it's a server issue or something.
I surely hope this gets resolved soon.
Yup EXACT same scenario that prompted me to post this. Seems to be the only common thread between all of us.
Me too
Yes, it's just crazy. I even emailed Apple technical support rep that was helping me and he said yes three people in his building are having the same issue.
Agreed. I have to admit I do find a strange comfort in the fact that others are having the same issue
Agreed. I have to admit I do find a strange comfort in the fact that others are having the same issue
Same here! Man, hope this gets resolved soon. I'd love to use the phone I waited hours in line for...
I'm in the same boat, bought the 5s at full price with Verizon, and "SIM isn't valid". Called Verizon and their rep confirmed that my 5s in Space Gray was in their system.
Hmmph. I'm assuming a lot of you with the same problem bought the phone at full price to keep your unlimited data? Maybe this is their way of (not) thanking us. Oh, well I vouge to crank as many GB's through this thing as I can this month...already at 8 GB and still have 20 days to go
Hmmph. I'm assuming a lot of you with the same problem bought the phone at full price to keep your unlimited data? Maybe this is their way of (not) thanking us. Oh, well I vouge to crank as many GB's through this thing as I can this month...already at 8 GB and still have 20 days to go