iphone 5 sleep/wake issue

[davemchine]

My phone has an eligible serial number and I have been having problems with the button for about a week. Since my closest store is over 120 miles away I've arranged for the mail in option but that leaves me without a phone for at least a week. Can I remove the SIM from my phone and use another phone during that time? I'm with verizon.

[Carm]

The SIM swap should work.

[rgG]

You would have to do an ESN change with your iPhone and another compatible Verizon CDMA phone. The SIM swap only works with GSM phones.

[Carm]

My bad. What Rhonda said. Got them cornfused

[rgG]

Carm wrote:
My bad. What Rhonda said. Got them cornfused

Too much birthday cake. All that sugar clouded your mind.

[davemchine]

I think I'll just borrow my youngest daughters iphone for that week. She hasn't become physically attached to it yet. I wonder if I can forward all my calls to it?

[Carm]

Yes Rhonda.

Call forward verizon.
http://m-support.verizonwireless.com/mob....tp_2.html

[silvarios]

rgG wrote:
You would have to do an ESN change with your iPhone and another compatible Verizon CDMA phone. The SIM swap only works with GSM phones.

I thought Verizon LTE used SIM cards and the cards could be swapped with other Verizon LTE phones? No?

To the OP,
If you have another LTE Verizon phone, try swapping SIM cards and see what happens. It should work. You will however need to disable iMessages or it will screw everything up (assuming the new phone isn't an iPhone).

[silvarios]

rgG wrote:
[quote=Carm]
My bad. What Rhonda said. Got them cornfused

Too much birthday cake. All that sugar clouded your mind.
No, Carm is correct. Or at least he was at one time. Verizon definitely used to allow LTE sim swapping, but admittedly, I haven't checked into the current state of affairs in 2014.

[rgG]

silvarios wrote:
[quote=rgG]
[quote=Carm]
My bad. What Rhonda said. Got them cornfused

Too much birthday cake. All that sugar clouded your mind.
No, Carm is correct. Or at least he was at one time. Verizon definitely used to allow LTE sim swapping, but admittedly, I haven't checked into the current state of affairs in 2014.
Apparently you can swap the SIM, but only if you are putting it in another Verizon LTE device. My bad. I assumed that Dave probably had an older "spare" phone lying around that would not be a 4G device. I also thought the SIM was locked to the device, but apparently it isn't. Here is a link.

http://m-support.verizonwireless.com/mob....tp_2.html