Don't bend, cut, trim or modify the SIM card in any way. Avoid exposure to magnets or extreme temperatures. Keep the SIM card clean and dry at all times. Not saying not to swap sim cards, just saying potential downsides. Review the following tips for troubleshooting and handling a SIM card: Avoid touching the gold contacts.
Can potentially save an unnecessary call to support.
If it's an upgrade from Verizon, just let the included sim activate. If the new phone doesn't come with a sim card, by all means swap an existing in if it's compatible. One man lost 1 million dollars to this fraud. This gives them access to financial and other data, and the ability to switch the users passwords. Advising a customer to swap their sim card instead of letting the one their phone shipped with would be poor advice for when things don't go as planned. This evenings news featured a warning about thieves who request that a users phone number be transferred to their phones. Verizon only offers portable jack packs and they recommended not using them as home internet since the battery can swell if left plugged in. The other, that I would like to dial in is a (tablet) sim on the (postpaid) side)-BUT it is limited to 15 gbs, as a HOTSPOT.
Trying to find one to use as home internet with their 150 gig hot spot plan. In an ideal world, you pop in an existing sim and everything works. ARCHIVED THREAD - Verizon compatible 4G LTE sim card router. I've lost track of failed activation calls I've had over past half decade related to sim card swapping. Telling any customer to activate a phone elsewhere is a sorry lazy employee.Īre you telling me the 4G nano SIM card that I originally activated in an iPhone 5s and has since been used in a Lumia Icon Windows phone and six different Android phones since shouldn't be activated and the SIM cards that came with those various phones ( now gathering dust in a box somewhere in my home) should have been activated instead? It even shows up in the Verizon account as a secondary device. I had to do this when my 5g phone was defective so I swapped chips, I am actually using a 5g chip in my 4g Samsung a20.
If you upgraded from Verizon, the phone is set to activate with the included sim card.ĩ times out of 10, all you do is make sure both phones are off then only turn on the new one to activate.Īs far as the indirect rep is concerned, they s u c k. A Verizon 5g sim card will work in a 4g Verizon phone the only thing is you won't get the 5g benefits but you still will get full 4g LTE. Swap your sim card if you bought an unlocked phone.