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Bought Nexus 4 from Google..how do I get a micro sim card from tmobile?

Just pop into a retail store? Anyone done this? Did tmo charge you? I have a bigger one in my HD2 currently.

nyvram1 said:
Just pop into a retail store? Anyone done this? Did tmo charge you? I have a bigger one in my HD2 currently.
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Either go to a retail store and ask for one ( they may give you one for free ), or order one online. It's 99c

Dubya dubya dubya dot tee mobile dot com.

Or they could cut the current one
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sorry guys..just saw this in the other tmo thread:
"Micro sim cards are free at T-Mobile store or 99¢ if you want it mailed to you. "
thank you!!

Yep. I purchased an iPhone 5 off contract (don't worry I hated it and returned it within 5 days) and went into a T-Mobile store and they gave me a micro SIM on the spot, free of charge.

T-Mobile website is currently 'out of stock' for the micro sim activation kit (i want the prepaid 100 voice, unlimited text, 'unlimited' data plan). According to the online chat person I talked to, the kit should be back in stock in 24 to 48 hours.

I just did a chat session on their website. Asked for a Micro-SIM to use with the Nexus 4 and the rep in the chat gave me a link to order, and verified the order number went through. I did this at 4PM. Literally at 9AM in the morning our mailroom guy handed me a package with the SIM inside.
All for $1 and change...lol

amdhunter said:
I just did a chat session on their website. Asked for a Micro-SIM to use with the Nexus 4 and the rep in the chat gave me a link to order, and verified the order number went through. I did this at 4PM. Literally at 9AM in the morning our mailroom guy handed me a package with the SIM inside.
All for $1 and change...lol
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Did you need an activation code? I am not currently a T-Mobile customer.

pointNumberOne said:
Did you need an activation code? I am not currently a T-Mobile customer.
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Call 611... and activate through them
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Definitely just go to the store and get one. I called 3 stores in the atlanta area (near my house, near my work, on the drive there) and they all said they have a crap ton of them in stock and will give you one/activate it in store for free, or (if you prefer) will cut your normal sim with a hole punch type of thing for free as well.

I'm a prepaid Tmob subsriber and I went to my local store where I go to refill my account every month, the guy there said that a microsim would
cost 20 bucks!
Planning to order one online now. I would still be able to retain my number, right?

I just got one for free in my local T-Mo store. Google doesn't anticipate even shipping mine until today, so I asked them not to activate it. You can activate it from 611 or from their website once you get the phone - obviously that will kill your existing phone so hold off before doing this.

pointNumberOne said:
Did you need an activation code? I am not currently a T-Mobile customer.
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Waiting on my Nexus to arrive so I can go through the steps. I hope it won't be a pain...

If I am using Straight Talk ( or planning on using ) is the sim card different?

droidd3v said:
I'm a prepaid Tmob subsriber and I went to my local store where I go to refill my account every month, the guy there said that a microsim would
cost 20 bucks!
Planning to order one online now. I would still be able to retain my number, right?
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I'm a prepaid suscriber too, and was wondering the same thing. I talked over their online chat system to a rep and he said the online order won't be able to retain my number?!
Anyone else here on prepaid but managed to get it for free at a Tmob store?

Yes..you need their sim..
Straight talk doesnt let you stream media I think..
Microsim..go to tmob site..got mine for .99 cents..
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[Q] What to ask ATT for a sim?

I just bought an unlocked Nexus 4, but am currently on a non-data plan with ATT. After I attempt to cut my regular size sim card and fail, I'll have to head down to the ATT store. The thing is, I would like to try and leave data off on my phone and not add data to my plan, and use my Nexus like this until my contract is up and I can switch to T-Mobile. My question is, what can I tell the ATT rep to get them to give me a micro sim without them wanting to see the phone I'm going to stick it in and subsequently add data to my plan?

What I do with Rogers here, I just go in and ask to buy a microsim. Take it home and call in and say you want to update you iccid(number on sim card). If they ask why on the phone I say I damaged my old one and bought a new one. If they ask in store why I just say I am buying one for a friend

Do you know how much they will charge? From searching around, they would likely give me on for free if I can word it right...

Summdumkid said:
Do you know how much they will charge? From searching around, they would likely give me on for free if I can word it right...
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I don't know, I'm guessing $10 maybe

I have att. I just went into the store and said I need a microsim and without any questions or concerns the guy just proceeded to give me one so I think you should be fine. Unless micro sim is exclusive to smart phones, they aren't going to ask to see your new phone.
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ATT wanted $26 for a new SIM from me. So I walked over to the T mobile store and bought one for like 10 by buying 3 pay as you go days worth. I then used that Sim as template to cut down my old att Sim with a kitchen knife.
If I wasn't on the cheep with a family plan on ATT I'd be on T-Mobile in a heartbeat.
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Just say you need a new sim that's what I did and go it for free.

Just a heads up AT&T does regular IMEI sweeps. They also have the play store Nexus 4's IMEIs on file as smartphones so eventually they'll force a data plan on you.

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Just a heads up AT&T does regular IMEI sweeps. They also have the play store Nexus 4's IMEIs on file as smartphones so eventually they'll force a data plan on you.
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This. A thousand times this. You may get away with it for a while, but short of changing your IMEI (illegal I believe), you will get caught.
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Don't have ATT, but the other day when I got the phone I just went to the T-Mobile store and they had a little tool that will cut your sim to a microsim for you

VZW Activation issues

First off, I am a current VZW customer switching from a Note 4 to the Nexus 6p and so far I'm having some trouble.
So I just left a local Verizon authorized dealer (not VZW corporate store) where the sales rep assured me repeatedly that my new 6P will NOT work on Verizon's network. Saying it has something to do with the specific bandwidth of the VZW network... Idk the networking side of things is completely foreign to me. He even went as far as to refer me to other carriers, saying the Cricket store right next door would activate it for me.
I left dissapointed, but called VZW customer support as I sat in the parking lot. The girl I talked to had absolutely no problem sending me a new nano Sim card for my 6P.. However, with as easy and smoothly as it went, I'm hoping the sim will already be activated to my account when it arrives.
But on the chance that it is not, am I correct in believing that as long as I can get a hold of ANY nano sim phone I can take that into VZW and have them activate the card for me?
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Yes
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starscream86 said:
First off, I am a current VZW customer switching from a Note 4 to the Nexus 6p and so far I'm having some trouble.
So I just left a local Verizon authorized dealer (not VZW corporate store) where the sales rep assured me repeatedly that my new 6P will NOT work on Verizon's network. Saying it has something to do with the specific bandwidth of the VZW network... Idk the networking side of things is completely foreign to me. He even went as far as to refer me to other carriers, saying the Cricket store right next door would activate it for me.
I left dissapointed, but called VZW customer support as I sat in the parking lot. The girl I talked to had absolutely no problem sending me a new nano Sim card for my 6P.. However, with as easy and smoothly as it went, I'm hoping the sim will already be activated to my account when it arrives.
But on the chance that it is not, am I correct in believing that as long as I can get a hold of ANY nano sim phone I can take that into VZW and have them activate the card for me?
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You could have cut the one from the Note down and been up and running in minutes.

Yeah.. I considered it.. Honestly as I'm now sitting here with the new phone in my hand and no Sim I still may.
Of course I don't have a cutting tool and I'm bad at small precision stuff lol i can barely handle a screen protector application.
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The Nexus 6P works beautifully on Verizon. That guy is as full of $h1+ as a Thanksgiving turkey. Once you get that nano SIM from VZW, call VZW, tell them you want to replace that Note 4 with your own device. Give them your IMEI and SIM card numbers, and you'll be all set. Put the SIM into your 6P and you're rocking and rolling
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starscream86 said:
Yeah.. I considered it.. Honestly as I'm now sitting here with the new phone in my hand and no Sim I still may.
Of course I don't have a cutting tool and I'm bad at small precision stuff lol i can barely handle a screen protector application.
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I bought a SIM cutter/punch from Amazon before the phone arrived.

tech_head said:
I bought a SIM cutter/punch from Amazon before the phone arrived.
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Yeah.. My sim from VZW will be here tomorrow. Can any of you speak on the matter of them sending an activated or unactivated sim? I'd assume it would be activated but she didn't specify.
If it's not active I might just order a sim cutter
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It won't be. Once you get the SIM, call customer service and tell them you have a new SIM for a device you already own and you want to activate it.
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oldblue910 said:
The Nexus 6P works beautifully on Verizon. That guy is as full of $h1+ as a Thanksgiving turkey. Once you get that nano SIM from VZW, call VZW, tell them you want to replace that Note 4 with your own device. Give them your IMEI and SIM card numbers, and you'll be all set. Put the SIM into your 6P and you're rocking and rolling
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Thanks! So no need to even borrow a friend's phone to have them activate the Sim or anything like that?.
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starscream86 said:
Yeah.. I considered it.. Honestly as I'm now sitting here with the new phone in my hand and no Sim I still may.
Of course I don't have a cutting tool and I'm bad at small precision stuff lol i can barely handle a screen protector application.
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That verizon rep is either clueless or a liar. I bought a sim cutter off amazon and cut my Verizon Note 4 sim down. Took 30 seconds from start to finish and worked immediately.
Alternatively, I couldn't cut my wife's note 3 sim down to a nano for her new Moto X Pure so we went to a Verizon Authorized reseller and asked them to activate a nano sim for us. The guy was super nice and said he could do it but they had to charge $20. He said the Verizon corporate store would do it for free...I opted to pay the $20 to not deal with actual Verizon employees.
I sort of wish Verizon's network wasn't so good..their client service is so bad.

starscream86 said:
Thanks! So no need to even borrow a friend's phone to have them activate the Sim or anything like that?.
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Nope. The Nexus 6P is in Verizon's database as a Huawei H1511. That's how it'll show up on your account.
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I came from Verizon Note 4 as well. I just walked into my local Verizon Corporate Store and he activated a nano sim for me right there. Probably took 10 mins and I walked out with the 6P activated. If the nano doesn't come activated, I'd call verizon or take it to a corporate store instead of an authorized dealer.

Wish I had just gone into the corporate store at this point.. Seems that has been pretty successful for most. Oh well, nano sim will be here tomorrow and I'll be sure to go back in and prove to that rep that he was wrong.. He VERY clearly informed me
"even though the guys on xda say it will work, I promise you it won't. I would have gotten one month's ago. But I went with the LG V10 since the 6P won't work on Verizon"
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Authorized retailers are the worst. These guys are 3rd party companies who just resell Verizon's services. They always want to push you to buy a branded phone instead of bringing your own, and they often charge higher prices for devices than corporate stores. Also a lot of them charge "programming fees" of $15 or $20 on top of traditional activation fees if you're doing a new line. Many also charge for SIM cards, anywhere from $20 to $30 whereas corporate stores will give them to you for free. Authorized retailers are a racket and should only be used if absolutely necessary. Verizon corporate stores generally offer a great customer experience in my dealings with them.
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A sim cutter would have saved you a lot of issues. I popped my nano out of my Droid Maxx, put it into the 6p and it was good to go. The only thing "not compatible" on the 6p for verizon is visual voice mail.

oldblue910 said:
Authorized retailers are the worst. These guys are 3rd party companies who just resell Verizon's services. They always want to push you to buy a branded phone instead of bringing your own, and they often charge higher prices for devices than corporate stores. Also a lot of them charge "programming fees" of $15 or $20 on top of traditional activation fees if you're doing a new line. Many also charge for SIM cards, anywhere from $20 to $30 whereas corporate stores will give them to you for free. Authorized retailers are a racket and should only be used if absolutely necessary. Verizon corporate stores generally offer a great customer experience in my dealings with them.
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My local corporate store is a sh!t show... Expect a 1-2 hour wait minimum before you ever even speak to an associate. In the past I have avoided the corporate store at all costs. But this may change that.
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starscream86 said:
My local corporate store is a sh!t show... Expect a 1-2 hour wait minimum before you ever even speak to an associate. In the past I have avoided the corporate store at all costs. But this may change that.
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Make an appointment. You can do that on verizonwireless.com and it'll save you the waiting.
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I also have a project fi SIM on the way.. Maybe I'll end up dropping big red all together. Or at least use the contract free bargaining chip to score some extra data or something haha
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If you leave and go to Project Fi, wait a week then call VZW's customer loyalty department and you might be surprised what they'll do for you
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starscream86 said:
"even though the guys on xda say it will work, I promise you it won't. I would have gotten one month's ago. But I went with the LG V10 since the 6P won't work on Verizon"
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Make sure you go back and show him your activated 6p on Verizon [emoji14]
I also went to a corporate store with phone in hand and they activated with a new nano sim on the spot
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Verizon easiest way to proceed?

My girlfriends sister currently has LG G3 with Verizon. She just paid it off and the phone started to go bad. So Newegg had a good deal on 6P 499.99 64GB +free 50$ Newegg GC.
Last week I was able to get the month2month discount back for that line it was really rough,had to tell them if they don't all the lines will be gone to att,which they will sooner or later just waiting for some cell phone deals in bestbuy. Anyways I had the Moto X Pure and what would happen was the discount would fall off because the system would see the phone as unlocked with no image etc.
What's the easiest way to proceed without cutting the current LG G3 sim? I asked the rep to send me a nano sim card. I am just afraid activating a new sim card online on verizon or with rep will trigger the system to remove the discount.
Worst case scenario i'll go to a cell phone store and pay 10$ to cut the micro-sim.
Any tips?

You can go in and get a nano sim and have it activated without them modifying any account.
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masters said:
You can go in and get a nano sim and have it activated without them modifying any account.
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You mean go with the free sim card sent to any Verizon store and have them activate the sim? I can do the same thing online though. What would be the benefit of doing it in store? the problem is on Share Everything plans those greedy people at Verizon took those discounts away,unless you really try hard to get it back.

SIM card unlock for the Sprint variant ?

Does anyone know if a method to unlock the SIM card has been found on the Sprint variant?

its not locked

The sim card itself is locked, but you can just take it out and throw any other carriers sim in and it should work dandy.

I'm using TMobile on my sprint version

No so.
What they do now is when you go into the Sprint store they activated on the network and try to download updates so you can factory reset it however when you do and you put in a new Sim card it gets stuck on activating cellular service when you try to enter Sim card and after that is not of the sprint it basically just says invalid Sim will have to work on and unlock method

so what happened was i got them to exchange it with an unopened one, t-mobile works just fine. going to try att and "maybe" pop the sprint sim in however one might assume (I have little working knowlege) that if a sprint sim is put in it carrier locks it?

any more info on this?

from what I heard from here and on this reddit post" https://tinyurl.com/essentialsprint" it only locks if a sprint sim is put in first activating it with another sim keeps it unlocked gonna try this method when i get mine thursday. hopefully this works and ill pay off the cheap lease promotion they have which allegedly can let you get the phone for as little as 130 or so then use it with my mint sim service.

glasscitysd said:
from what I heard from here and on this reddit post" https://tinyurl.com/essentialsprint" it only locks if a sprint sim is put in first activating it with another sim keeps it unlocked gonna try this method when i get mine thursday. hopefully this works and ill pay off the cheap lease promotion they have which allegedly can let you get the phone for as little as 130 or so then use it with my mint sim service.
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I'm really curious if this works. Keep us posted. I would love to score one and use it on T-Mobile. I've heard some people have had success harassing live chat support into unlocking them.

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I'm really curious if this works. Keep us posted. I would love to score one and use it on T-Mobile. I've heard some people have had success harassing live chat support into unlocking them.
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Sadly they forced me to activate in store so I'm sim locked for 50 days then they will unlock it but I may try harrasing live chat lol cause sprints service is a hit or miss here in Toledo ohio

The lower option for end of lease payment is an extra. You still have to pay the whole amount when deactivating from Sprint. plus the lower amount you see as your End Of Lease buy out price. Yes after activating the phone first with Sprint the Sim will be locked. If you are traveling outside the country and you have been a customer for years Sprint will unlock your sim for International Usage. But for Domestic usage no. As long as the phone remains Unpaid on the Lease program they will Not provide the Msl to Unlock the device. In order to get the Msl the device will have to be Fully paid.

These phones are shipping locked before you put a sim in now. It happened to my and hours of calls to Sprint won't change a thing. I have to wait 50 bloody days. There's a thread for this on slick deals where this is explained in red text.

Weird, I just called and paid it off, and requested unlock and guy submitted for me right away. He said 24-48 hours, so I'll update this when I know more.

MSL is easy to get on other phones. Is that all you need to unlock?

JoRocker said:
Weird, I just called and paid it off, and requested unlock and guy submitted for me right away. He said 24-48 hours, so I'll update this when I know more.
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keep us posted im keeping mine a few days before I pay it off to make sure i have no errors id need to return it for although so far so good especially after upgrading to the oero beta. hopefully getting unlocked is that easy cause id rather be back on my cheap mvno plan with this phone lol but 50 days isn't too long a wait if not

glasscitysd said:
keep us posted im keeping mine a few days before I pay it off to make sure i have no errors id need to return it for although so far so good especially after upgrading to the oero beta. hopefully getting unlocked is that easy cause id rather be back on my cheap mvno plan with this phone lol but 50 days isn't too long a wait if not
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Less than 24 hours with phone and paid off. I am now unlocked.
More details:
Purchased through flex lease on 10/14 on Free BYOD line
Received phone 10/15 then immediately called to pay off ($90+$30).
After payoff I asked to have a ticket submitted for unlock. My rep said that was fine, since I legally own the device, and promptly did it for me.
10/16 it's unlocked
If you're wondering who I spoke to, I went through tech support instead of traditional customer service route.

Please verify total cost of phone.
$25 down.
$5*18 months
$30 payout?
Some taxes and fees?
$145? +Tax

avd said:
Please verify total cost of phone.
$25 down.
$5*18 months
$30 payout?
Some taxes and fees?
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That's right. Just taxes and no fees.
I believe total was low $150s.

Black Friday comes early. They are going to shut this off I'm afraid.

I picked one up yesterday at the Sprint store. Sealed in the box. I took it home, unboxed it, and powered it on with my Verizon sim and it immediately connected to Verizon LTE and I tried a T-Mobile and it worked perfectly too. So I guess that trick still works to unlock the phone?