Changing Cell Phone Carriers...Question?

I have the Family Share Plan, I have the primary line, I am eligible for an upgrade.  My daughter has a phone and is eligible for an upgrade on 7/10/12, my son has the 3rd line and is also currently eligible for an upgrade.  I'm thinking about trying a different cell phone carrier and can't seem to find out if I will be charged for canceling my Verizon service on all 3 lines.  I can't seem to get any answers, does anyone know how this works?

You need to forget the "eligibily for upgrade date" and look at your actual "CONTRACT DATE" which is 24months from when you activated your phones.
If you decide to move another carrier, you can keep your phone number. All you have to do is 1) dont disconnect your service from VZW before you talk to your new carrier that you want to transfer to. 2) you need to make one of your childrens phones the primary account, and make your line an "addon" line or secondary number.  You have to becareful about doing this because you may loose things like unlimited data on that number that is being switched to become the primary line. 3) Have the new carrier do the number transfer. They will automatically notify VZW through the GOVT CLEARINGHOUSE that you are no longer a VZW customer on that one phone number. VZW will then disconnect that line from their billing and will send you a final bill on that line.
Be sure to ask questions from your new carrier about the process.

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    [–]lechnito[S] 2 points 1 year ago
    I can confirm that the phone is currently at 4.1.2 and that I wasn't prompted for an OTA update.The fact that both the Android OS and Reddit News processes were simultaneously using an extremely large amount of data is unlikely to be a coincidence... 
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    [–]omgmrjmako/PA, deb/Carbon 3 points 1 year ago
    That is very curious that the spikes happened at the same time.I'm curious. It may have put at least some of that 2.6GB somewhere. You could use a data visualizer tool to see if you can find it, which may lead to more clues. 
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    [–]omgmrjmako/PA, deb/Carbon 2 points 1 year ago
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    [–]mistrbrownstone 0 points 1 year ago
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    [–]lechnito[S] 1 point 1 year ago
    Although I'm not really up to speed with the Android platform, I come from a UNIX background so I feel comfortable running commands. How do I pull up a bash terminal? Do I need to root the phone first? 
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    [–]lechnito[S] 1 point 1 year ago
    Got it. I downloaded a terminal emulator but unfortunately those processes no longer exist.Does Android keep a generic log of system level events like /var/log/syslog? 
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    [–]omgmrjmako/PA, deb/Carbon 2 points 1 year ago
    I don't think so, and I know you'd need superuser permission to read most of the files in /var/log anyway. I'm not super familiar with how Android does its logging, but I do know that the two files of interest are the logcat and dmesg. 
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    [–]sh0nuff 1 point 1 year ago
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    [–]kindofabuzz -4 points 1 year ago
    Quit installing pirated apps. 
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