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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Holy poo poo Verizon sends a ton of spam at their users. In the 4 days I've been a Verizon customer I think I've received 7 texts from them and just as many emails. I need to dig around My Verizon and find the options to leave me the gently caress alone. "Check out our stores for iPhone 5 accessories!" No gently caress off!
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Jeratain posted:I went into a Verizon store and wasn't given much help, so I'd like to see if anyone here can give me good advice. Find a place that can ship you a nano sim cutter before saturday. Then buy a local sim card.
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Sep 25, 2012 22:46
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Don Lapre posted:Find a place that can ship you a nano sim cutter before saturday. Then buy a local sim card. Or cut down a micro with a pair of scissors. Either way stupid easy to make this happen.
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goku chewbacca posted:There are two models of iPhone being built for the world. So is the A1429 that the rest of the world gets the same as the one that a Verizon customer would buy, and for the "rest of the world" the CDMA radio and the LTE 13 & 25 bands for Sprint/Verizon just get turned off in software? In other words could I take my Verizon iPhone 5 to Europe, put in a SIM from a supported carrier listed on that page, and get LTE?
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Sep 26, 2012 02:27
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kitten smoothie posted:So is the A1429 that the rest of the world gets the same as the one that a Verizon customer would buy, and for the "rest of the world" the CDMA radio and the LTE 13 & 25 bands for Sprint/Verizon just get turned off in software? Probably but I don't believe it's been tested.
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Sep 26, 2012 03:25
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Is anyone else totally loving stocked about the Inc-X? Granted, it hasn't been announced but it looks legit and boy I cannot wait to replace my original Inc. (I've been waiting for a non-AMOLED screen phone that was worth a poo poo for months)
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Psimitry posted:Is anyone else totally loving stocked about the Inc-X? Granted, it hasn't been announced but it looks legit and boy I cannot wait to replace my original Inc.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Holy poo poo Verizon sends a ton of spam at their users. In the 4 days I've been a Verizon customer I think I've received 7 texts from them and just as many emails. I need to dig around My Verizon and find the options to leave me the gently caress alone. "Check out our stores for iPhone 5 accessories!" No gently caress off! They also do that to current customers. When I upgraded my unlimited data line to a 4G phone a few months back they spammed the poo poo out of me for like two weeks straight.
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Psimitry posted:Is anyone else totally loving stocked about the Inc-X? Granted, it hasn't been announced but it looks legit and boy I cannot wait to replace my original Inc. I'm also still using the original Inc. It has been a great phone but even after messing around with custom ROMs, I was never able to get Android running lag-free. I've been thinking about getting the Note II but I'm waiting to see the specs on the HTC device. I'm not too optimistic though because HTC seems to be trending toward putting undersized, non-removable batteries in their phones. And if it really will have a 1080p screen, then the battery life will be completely hosed.
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Sep 26, 2012 06:00
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:It'll probably stop quickly. They tend to send out a bunch whenever you change a plan or phone, then it drops to pretty much zero. Yeah the only emails I get on a regular basis are billing information once a month and when LTE coverage expands. I did get an iphone email last friday but nothing about it since then.
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Sep 26, 2012 06:10
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Psimitry posted:Is anyone else totally loving stocked about the Inc-X? Granted, it hasn't been announced but it looks legit and boy I cannot wait to replace my original Inc. Nope. I don't want to carry DIX around in my pocket.
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Sep 26, 2012 14:14
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Endless Mike posted:Nope. I don't want to carry DIX around in my pocket. I was able to fit a Galaxy S3 in my pockets with ease. As well as a One X. Not too concerned about the DIX not fitting. YMMV I guess. The battery life is a concern. I've seen conflicting reports on the battery. Some say it will be the same battery as the One X, others say it's a 2500mAh job. And yet others are saying it will be the same as the OneX but the 2500mAh will only be in the Nexus 5 version. It's all so confusing. I wish Verizon would just make an announcement on it.
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Indeed. Never would have looked twice at that without your saying that. 
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Psimitry posted:I was able to fit a Galaxy S3 in my pockets with ease. As well as a One X. Not too concerned about the DIX not fitting. YMMV I guess. Most people are going to have a problem fitting a 5" DIX. Especially if they arn't used to one that size.
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Don Lapre posted:Most people are going to have a problem fitting a 5" DIX. Especially if they arn't used to one that size.
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:And just because you can fit something bigger doesn't mean it's going to be comfortable. Probably the best thing to do would be to make a cardboard simulacrum and carry that around for a week or so to get a feel for it before buying. I'm sure you could look around online and find fake DIX that would be good for simulating the experience of having one. AppleCobbler fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Sep 26, 2012 |
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:And just because you can fit something bigger doesn't mean it's going to be comfortable. Probably the best thing to do would be to make a cardboard simulacrum and carry that around for a week or so to get a feel for it before buying. God drat I still just about piss myself every time I think about that poo poo again. Someone needs to find the actual posts and repost them here again. Great stuff.
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AlexDeGruven posted:God drat I still just about piss myself every time I think about that poo poo again. Someone needs to find the actual posts and repost them here again. Great stuff. Granted, I'm new to the thread, but this doesn't sound like a completely unreasonable thing to do. However I'm sure someone went all  with it it it went completely off the rails.
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Sep 26, 2012 19:14
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AlexDeGruven posted:God drat I still just about piss myself every time I think about that poo poo again. Someone needs to find the actual posts and repost them here again. Great stuff. I really like the idea of some nerd making a cardboard phone and carrying it in his pocket. Unless you are wearing girl jeans, almost any phone is going to fit in your pocket just fine.
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Sep 27, 2012 02:16
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I dunno man, back in the day some of those HTC slider-bricks were pretty fiercely oversized.
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God drat I hated my HTC Apache.
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I also hated your HTC Apache
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Holy poo poo Verizon sends a ton of spam at their users. In the 4 days I've been a Verizon customer I think I've received 7 texts from them and just as many emails. I need to dig around My Verizon and find the options to leave me the gently caress alone. "Check out our stores for iPhone 5 accessories!" No gently caress off! The worst part is that the messages all come from different numbers so it's not like you can make one Verizon contact and assign it no ring/text tone.
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Ezrem posted:The worst part is that the messages all come from different numbers so it's not like you can make one Verizon contact and assign it no ring/text tone.
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:All of mine come from 900080004000. I have it saved as a contact. I have 3-4 different numbers that I've gotten texts from, although some are account change and/or billing related.
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Sep 27, 2012 03:13
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The only texts I get from Verizon is one telling me that my bill is ready to view and one that thanks me for paying my bill. Sounds like you guys need to fool around with your settings on Verizon's site.
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They only send you stuff when you can get a new phone and right after. I was getting texts from Verizon for a while and then once the hype around getting a new phone died down, they stopped texting. I'm sure they'll start texting me again in a year when my upgrade is available again.
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I just had a frustrating experience with switching devices on the Verizon site. I had an iPhone 5, with SIM card A attached to line A, and a new SIM card B that I got from the Apple store that I wanted to use to move the phone to line B. So I replace line A with another device, which apparently kills SIM A for 24 hours. Alright, that's why I have SIM B. So I do a device switch for line B, giving it SIM B's number, and I get confirmation of success. I go back to the My Verizon page, and now see that there is no indication that anything went through; it still shows the old device on line B with no "pending order" status. I try it again and SIM B is now killed (for 24 hours I guess, like SIM A). Welp. I don't understand why we have SIM cards for LTE when it's going to be just like the IMEI for CDMA phones. Actually, this is even worse because of this dumb waiting period; at least with CDMA phones you could switch instantly, even if you had to do it through the website. And here I was thinking that we were finally going to be able to painlessly switch out SIMs between devices like with GSM phones. Edit: And now I just realized that the old device on line B doesn't work anymore either. Welp!!! Hikaki fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Sep 27, 2012 |
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You can switch SIM cards painlessly between devices, I do it all the time. The problem you are describing is switching lines to different SIM card cards.
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Hikaki posted:So I do a device switch for line B, giving it SIM B's number, and I get confirmation of success. I go back to the My Verizon page, and now see that there is no indication that anything went through; it still shows the old device on line B with no "pending order" status. For what it's worth, after you put the SIM number in, did you put it in the phone and turn it on? I didn't think the device would show up on there until the phone used that SIM to connect to the network.
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bull3964 posted:You can switch SIM cards painlessly between devices, I do it all the time. Yeah, now that I think about it, you're right. The iPhone uses a nano-SIM and the old device uses a micro-SIM so that was necessary. I do still wish that I didn't have to register the IMEI though, but I guess in a few years when we drop CDMA that will happen. kitten smoothie posted:For what it's worth, after you put the SIM number in, did you put it in the phone and turn it on? I didn't think the device would show up on there until the phone used that SIM to connect to the network. Yeah I turned it on and let it attempt to activate. It was weird, the old device couldn't make calls, but it still had a 3G connection that it could access. Everything seemed to sort itself out this morning though. I guess the system is just slow at night?
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Putting the IMEI in probably isn't required to work, they just require it cause they do. It probably allows them to properly provision things like visual voicemail since they know you are using an iphone.
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Hikaki posted:I just had a frustrating experience with switching devices on the Verizon site. I had an iPhone 5, with SIM card A attached to line A, and a new SIM card B that I got from the Apple store that I wanted to use to move the phone to line B. So I replace line A with another device, which apparently kills SIM A for 24 hours. Alright, that's why I have SIM B. So I do a device switch for line B, giving it SIM B's number, and I get confirmation of success. I go back to the My Verizon page, and now see that there is no indication that anything went through; it still shows the old device on line B with no "pending order" status. I try it again and SIM B is now killed (for 24 hours I guess, like SIM A). Welp. For what its worth, I swap between my gnex and razr maxx quite a bit. Google voice bitches but the phone themselves have no problem activating without me doing anything and everything working just fine within a few min of powering them on. It feels a lot like being on GSM, Just a slight delay for text/voice activation. Data is always instant. Am I just lucky?
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EbolaIvory posted:For what its worth, I swap between my gnex and razr maxx quite a bit. Google voice bitches but the phone themselves have no problem activating without me doing anything and everything working just fine within a few min of powering them on. It feels a lot like being on GSM, Just a slight delay for text/voice activation. Data is always instant. Last night I tried swapping the SIM between my iPhone 5 and my old Galaxy Nexus, because I was working on an Android app that I needed to test on a real live network. It was exactly what I came to expect from a GSM carrier. Voice and data worked immediately, no hiccups at all. The "My Verizon" website updated pretty much immediately to reflect what device I was using. I don't use the iPhone visual voicemail and prefer Google Voice. My call forwarding settings for voicemail were preserved going from one phone to the other and back.
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kitten smoothie posted:No, you're not. That's awesome! I'll keep that in mind.
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Hikaki posted:That's awesome! I'll keep that in mind. Yeah, once you have migrated your accounts to SIMs and have gotten past the initial transition it's quick and easy. I picked up a cheapo adapter to be able to use the nano-SIM from the iPhone in micro-SIM devices like the Nexus.
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So this is apparently how Verizon resellers drum up business in Utah... Seems to be a good approach.
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I have a dumb question: I have two lines on my contract, line A and line B. Can I swap phones from A-B? Like use line B's phone on line A and vice versa? I'd have to imagine verizon could do this but just want to double check. GF is about to get a galaxy 3 and wants to swap it for my bionic (thats love right there).
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ExtremeODD posted:I have a dumb question: I have two lines on my contract, line A and line B. Can I swap phones from A-B? Like use line B's phone on line A and vice versa? I'd have to imagine verizon could do this but just want to double check. GF is about to get a galaxy 3 and wants to swap it for my bionic (thats love right there). Yeah, its called an equipment change and its pretty common.
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