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Was your current unlimited plan transferred to iPad 2 successfully?
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Yes, it does. Just remove sim card from old iPad and swap. It will pick right up where you left off.
Seems to me it'd be easier and less risky to switch the SIM than it would be to rely on AT&T personnel to make a SIM number switch for your account.
I'd like to know as well, I don't have the original SIM, so I need to have AT&T transfer it. I don't have the iPad, I am transferring the unlimited account to my brothers iPad and I'm wondering what I need to do and what info I will need if I call. Or is it easiest to go to an AT&T store?
Same here, just had to reset network settings, enter my email and password and was good to go, unlimited for life!
I called, and they switched it for me. I read somewhere that that was the better way to do it.
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But now I can't activate the old one under the currently offered plans. Think I need a new micro sim now, as the old and new iPad have the same "phone number." So by "better" I guess it means more inconvenient as I'll now have to go to an AT&T store to get a new sim card.
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But now I can't activate the old one under the currently offered plans. Think I need a new micro sim now, as the old and new iPad have the same "phone number." So by "better" I guess it means more inconvenient as I'll now have to go to an AT&T store to get a new sim card.
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So it sounds as if switching SIMS card is the only way to go without buying another for the former.
For some reason I thought opening up the iPad even to switch SIMS would void the warranty. But I guess if something did go wrong it could be switched back.
The iPad is unlocked, meaning the SIM is designed, and expected, to be replaced. I've done this abroad and it's one of the big selling points of a GSM iPad.
My SIMM switch worked right away. I did call AT&T today and gave them the my new IMEI number. They told me it was just record keeping. I didn't want my iPad1 buyer to hijack my unlimited plan, but then again I kept the original SIMM for the iPad2.
Does the iPad 2 contain an ejection tool that works for iPad 1? I seem to have misplaced mine.
Does the iPad 2 contain an ejection tool that works for iPad 1? I seem to have misplaced mine.
Yes thee was a SIMM tool in the packet. It was round, not flat like some of the others I've seen in the past.
Does the iPad 2 contain an ejection tool that works for iPad 1? I seem to have misplaced mine.
Use a paperclip. To answer the question though, it does. Apple went real cheap on it this time though. Before it was shiny and pretty, now it looks like something that came from the USSR.
No need to transfer Sim
You need to go the link below, log into your account, and change the IMEI number of the new device and it will work. It is device based not sim based meaning that if you change the sim and not the device information u may lose the unlimited plan. Prior to this i swamped my SIM into my wifes Ipad and had the same issue had to explain to ATT to get it back
Https://dcp2.ATT.com/OEPNDClient/
You need to go the link below, log into your account, and change the IMEI number of the new device and it will work. It is device based not sim based meaning that if you change the sim and not the device information u may lose the unlimited plan. Prior to this i swamped my SIM into my wifes Ipad and had the same issue had to explain to ATT to get it back
Https://dcp2.ATT.com/OEPNDClient/
You have that right. I thought I had read somewhere that the old ones might have been made out of that "liquid metal" as some sort of a test. Though the one I had from iPad1 was had a flat shape. Not sure if it would have worked in the round hole of the iPad2. I can't remember the shape of the hole on the iPad1.