Upgrade using another phone on my family plan

I have a family plan. One of my regular non data phones is eligible for an upgrade, but my Iphone 3G is not. Can I go to ATT and sign a new 2 year contact on the non data phone and upgrade my 3G to a 3GS? I don't want a data plan on the other phone, I want to keep it the same as it is.

While i dont have the other phone in my posession at this time. your response did click in my brain to check options under messages in my settings. At this time i turned anything on there off and changed my passcode in case this was not a accident..i'll see what happens and update my findings.

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You'd need to do an Assumption of Liability. From this link:
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note # 2 under Assumption of Liability.

Question about upgrading a phone on a family plan

I have four phones on a family plan, 3 smart phones and 1 basic phone for my elderly father.
The first three phones (including mine) are still under contract until 12/13. The basic phone
is eligible for an upgrade. I would like to use that upgrade to get a new phone for myself but
keep the basic line for my father. Can I use that upgrade to get another phone and move it
to my number and keep the 4th line as a basic line without data for my father?

Yes you can do that. In fact if you log into your account it gives you the option to switch upgrades. Just so you know even though you are using his upgrade HIS contract will be the one getting extended not yours.

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I am on a family plan where I have a smart phone and my father and mother have normal non-data phones.
My line is not due for an upgrade until June 2012.
A verizon rep told me that I could use my father's upgrade to pre-order and activate an iPhone 4S and then re-activate my father's non-smartphone on his phone # and activate the iPhone 4S on my own phone #.
Once activated on his phone number they will add the Data plan; but once I reactivate his old non-data phone I will no longer need the data plan.
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If you have an online account with Verizon Wireless, you can transfer the upgrade from one number on your account to another number on your account (for example, transfer the upgrade from your father's phone to your phone).
Sign on to verizonwireless.com. Log in with your user ID and password. Click on My Verizon, and select Upgrade Device. Below each phone on your account, there will be an upgrade device date, and a link to Transfer Upgrade. Click the link and it will ask you which line you want to transfer from, and you can transfer the upgrade to your phone. You won't need to switch the data plan on your father's phone at all.
I just did the same thing on my account to be ready for the new phone tomorrow. Hope this helps!

Can you only upgrade one phone on a family plan?

My Verizon wireless contract just expired this month and I am looking for a new phone. Currently I do not have a smartphone and neither does my brother, who shares this family plan with me. He has decided waht phone he wants, but I'm still deciding between a Droid 3 and waiting for the Droid Bionic. My question is, can I sign up for a new 2-year contract now and he upgrades his phone but I keep my phone until the Droid Bionic comes out? Will I be able to do this and get the Bionic at promotional 2-year contract pricing?

Each line on your Family Share plan has its own contract. That means you can upgrade them independently of each other, but if you choose to upgrade them at different times, they will have different contract end dates (which might be a consideration in the future if you wind up looking to switch carriers for whatever reason). Also, you're only able to take advantage of Buy-One Get-One offers if you have at least two lines available to upgrade.
You can certainly upgrade your brother's line now and your line later, as long as you are OK with the two lines having different contract end dates.

Upgrade to iphone - downgrade part of family plan

I am currently under my parents family plan. Our contract ends in November 2011. I would like to get the iphone soon. My father would like to downgrade his plan to something with less minutes. I would like to keep the same plan i currently have with my blackberry but would like to upgrade to the iphone. Would i have to wait until the contract ends to make all these changes? if not then will there be any charges beside the fee for the new phone itself?

mrod929 wrote:
I am currently under my parents family plan. Our contract ends in November 2011. I would like to get the iphone soon. My father would like to downgrade his plan to something with less minutes. I would like to keep the same plan i currently have with my blackberry but would like to upgrade to the iphone. Would i have to wait until the contract ends to make all these changes? if not then will there be any charges beside the fee for the new phone itself?
You can change your calling plan at any time, it will not affect your upgrade eligibility or contract. There will be no extra charges for changing your plan. If you and your father are on the same account (I'm assuming you are) when he changes the minutes, just remember that your line will have fewer minutes to use as well, as they are shared among all lines on the account.

Another Carrier - Individual into Family Plan? In-Store?

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I am in a similar boat. I would also like to order the Galaxy Nexus, and I have a single line plan already on Verizon that I would like to urgrade into a family plan. However, I want to buy online. How do I change from single line to family online?

3 Phones on current family plan - Can i Switch a phone(#) without penatly?

Here is the situation:
My girlfriend pays for the Family Plan and has 3 phones on it (hers, her mom's, and her EX-boyfriend).
I have an individual account which I am currently eligible to update my phone (which i wanted the Droid X), BUT my contract ends in MAY I believe.
Her ex-boyfriend refuses to give the phone back as well as refuses to pay his part of the bill (it being in my gf's name, she is kind of stuck paying his part). So, my question is: What is the most economical way for her to deal with it???
I believe she still has quite awhile until the contract ends, so it's NOT worth her paying the bill each month, BUT she also does not want to cancel his phone because of the early termination fee.
Are there any ways for her to get out of this WITHOUT a fee (keeping her other 2 phones on, but getting rid of HIS)?
MY idea was: taking his phone (and changing the number figuring that way the fee would probably much less - just the cost of a number change, BUT he is not giving the phone back).....
Is there any way Verizon would cancel his phone/# and add mine (guessing i'd have to wait until MAY ), and not add a fee since it would still be 3 phones?
Any other ideas would be GREATLY appreciated!

jbluemke wrote:
Here is the situation:
My girlfriend pays for the Family Plan and has 3 phones on it (hers, her mom's, and her EX-boyfriend).
I have an individual account which I am currently eligible to update my phone (which i wanted the Droid X), BUT my contract ends in MAY I believe.
Her ex-boyfriend refuses to give the phone back as well as refuses to pay his part of the bill (it being in my gf's name, she is kind of stuck paying his part). So, my question is: What is the most economical way for her to deal with it???
I believe she still has quite awhile until the contract ends, so it's NOT worth her paying the bill each month, BUT she also does not want to cancel his phone because of the early termination fee.
Are there any ways for her to get out of this WITHOUT a fee (keeping her other 2 phones on, but getting rid of HIS)?
MY idea was: taking his phone (and changing the number figuring that way the fee would probably much less - just the cost of a number change, BUT he is not giving the phone back).....
Is there any way Verizon would cancel his phone/# and add mine (guessing i'd have to wait until MAY ), and not add a fee since it would still be 3 phones?
Any other ideas would be GREATLY appreciated!
Your GF AGREED to pay her ex's phone bill for two years. She is stuck with it.Changing numbers or replacing with your phone will not eliminate the responsibilty she agreed to.
Some ideas, her and him could do an assumption of liability if he is willing... I suspect he wont.
What I am going to suggest MAY force him to take the phone onto his own contract..... Suspend the line. She can choose to continue to pay or not. Without paying she can go three months and the contract is extended three months. Bit if he wants his number bad enough he may agree to take the line over when he finds the phone is DOA.
if he refuses to take the line, She needs to decide which is cheaper, paying the monthly bill (which if she suspends and still pays, she can choose a much lower plan) or whether the ETF is cheaper. But no matter what, short term I would suspend the line so it does not work.

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This page implies not, only a balance on your account would be used, not a credit card : Family purchases and payments - Apple Support
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Upgrading Multiple Phones on a Family Plan

I have been reading through posts on these forums and have yet to find a concrete answer to my situation. My wife and I have the nationwide family talk 700 plan and she is the primary number. When I login to our account online, it says that we only have 3 months left in our contract (up on 3/14/2011). When I click on upgrade it says her phone can be upgraded now at a discounted rate, but not my phone. We both want to get a Droid and add a data plan, however I would like to get the Droid R2D2 phone soon before they stop selling it as it is listed as a "limited edition" model. So if I were to use her line to get the phone now and activate it with my number, would she still be eligible to upgrade her phone on 3/14/2011? It is a little confusing to me that her phone is upgradeable now, but mine is not. Can someone verify my thought process here and let me know if what I am wanting to do is feasible? Also please point out any caveats with this process that I failed to realize. I understand that I will also need to add an additional data plan to our bill for each smart phone we activate. Perhaps this R2D2 phone will still be around in March and I should just wait to upgrade both at the same time??

Mags wrote:
I have been reading through posts on these forums and have yet to find a concrete answer to my situation. My wife and I have the nationwide family talk 700 plan and she is the primary number. When I login to our account online, it says that we only have 3 months left in our contract (up on 3/14/2011).Each line has it's own contract - but if you got the phones together originally, then you would both have the same end date. When I click on upgrade it says her phone can be upgraded now at a discounted rate, but not my phone. The primary line is eligible at 12 months fro an annual upgrade - you can get a new phone at the two yr contract price, a $20 upgrade fee, and no NE@ discount is given, and the primary line's contract is extended two years.
We both want to get a Droid and add a data plan, however I would like to get the Droid R2D2 phone soon before they stop selling it as it is listed as a "limited edition" model. So if I were to use her line to get the phone now and activate it with my number, would she still be eligible to upgrade her phone on 3/14/2011?If you use HER upgrade now, then her line will not be eligible. However, your line will remain eligible for upgrade on 3/14/11, so she can use YOUR upgrade and activate the phone on her line.
It is a little confusing to me that her phone is upgradeable now, but mine is not. As explained above, the primary line is eligible for an ANNUAL upgrade, if the base plan is $49.99 or more - there is an additional $20 fee and the NE2 discount is forfeited till the next go round.
Can someone verify my thought process here and let me know if what I am wanting to do is feasible? It is. Also please point out any caveats with this process that I failed to realize. I understand that I will also need to add an additional data plan to our bill for each smart phone we activate. Perhaps this R2D2 phone will still be around in March and I should just wait to upgrade both at the same time?? You can dwait....but your plan as outlined above will work too. If the R2D2 is no longer available in March, you won't be kicking yourself....

Just called trying to swap my Iphone 5 on another line on my family plan...

and a rep stated that they were unable to at the moment, and that the system was getting so many requests that they could not be done until after 12am tonight. She didn't seem to say anything about having to get another SIM card, said she would give me a call back tomorrow and go through with the process.
I asked her if it would be any quicker in the store, she said it might or might not be. Being as all information goes to the same place, more then likely she said it wouldn't matter.
If anyone has any input, please let me know.

I have read SO many different posts this week with different instructions on how to handle this. My iPhone is due to arrive in the next hour via FedEx and now I'm confused.
1. Do I or do I not activate it before I attempt the swap?
2. Is it a given that the Nano SIM will have to be swapped if I'm changing number?
3. Is the Nano SIM card truly necessary for the phone to work (I've even heard different answers to this question, believe it or not. Someone in another thread said it would actually work okay without it but wouldn't make international calls)?
Does anyone have a success story today on how they accomplished this? I'm definitely all ears!

Ios 7 is so nauseating I have to use another phone.

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But here are some tips than offer improvents using the proper settings...
The following is from user RandomName42, who provides lots of ideas. It seems much of this may have come from this article:
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At any rate, RandomName42's post follows ---------------------------------------------------
The font size doesn't affect the font size of the icons, which the new folder layout makes even harder to read than it is against a regular background.
I deal with migraines and avoid bright light where I can, so figuring out how to work around Apple's design on this one is going to be huge. I'm encountering (and working on finding a way to avoid) huge unbroken bright spaces in the OS. I've known for a while that, at work, my monitors will eventually give me headaches but my iPad wouldn't. I'd been using the iPad as a break from monitor glare to stop them from kicking in full-blast. I didn't realize until yesterday that it was because so much of my iPad screen is darker - deeper greys, for example, in the settings menu, than the blue of my menus in Outlook. I had the new iOS for about 10 minutes before the first migraine started. I love Apple's attention to aesthetics and design mentality, but goodness they use migraine triggers a lot in this design.
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General -> Accessibility -> Bold Text to ON. You may still have to squint a bit but letters will be ~much~ easier on the eyes.
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Remember your brightness setting needs to be lower than it looks. This one seems obvious but surprised me with the frustration it causes. When you open the lower dock that has the brightness control, it darkens the rest of the screen. If you set your brightness so that what you want to look at seems right, it will brighten further after you close the menu and go back to it. I don't have a feel yet for how much lower I need to set the brightness, but I assume that will come with time. Also: Setting brightness higher makes the menu itself brighter to look at, so judge headache likeliness with that in mind.
Settings -> Wallpapers & Brightness -> Auto-Brightness to OFF. This OS is super on-the-ball about adjusting brightness automatically. Which is awesome sometimes, but less so when you manually set the brightness, go back to the screen and watch it change from what you just set it to. You may end up with darker screens than you want until you adjust the setting, but you won't end up with brighter screens than you want.
We'll probably just have to deal with the big fuzzy bar across the bottom of the screen and having to look more carefully at the big fuzzy squares behind folders now. It helps to think of them as Monet menus.

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