Transferring Upgrade on VZW

[Chess]

All:

I am on a month to month contract still rocking my old GNEX.....

I am up for an upgrade but dont want to give my unlimited data up.... I am thinking iphone 5s or an note 3... havent decided honestly....

But what I want to do is transfer my upgrade to the other line I have that is my old ladies... get her to buy one of those 2 devices... get it activated and then when I get home deactivate it and get the new device on my line and keep unlimited data....

Does anyone know if this will work ?

 

[T_Yamamoto]

You can't transfer an upgrade to another line (I do believe)

But if that was possible that'd be rad

 

[maevinj]

You can't transfer an upgrade to another line (I do believe)

But if that was possible that'd be rad

Actually, I think you can transfer your upgrade to another line.
https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/273484/

 

[trmiv]

Don't transfer the upgrade through Verizon, you'll lose your unlimited. Buy the device on the other line, activate the new device on that line. Then take the SIM out and replace it with the SIM from your GNex, and you've got a new phone.

I just did this with my mother-in-law's upgrade on my line. She had a dumbphone, so I took the upgrade and got an S4. Activated the S4 on her line, then swapped my sim into the new S4 and her sim into my wife's old Droid Razr.

We were planning on upgrading her to a smartphone, so it was easy. Now if your other line doesn't already have a data plan, and you don't plan on keeping the new data plan after this, it's more complicated.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Possible from this article.

http://www.droid-life.com/2013/09/17/keep-unlimited-data-verizon-upgrade/

 

[Chess]

You can't transfer an upgrade to another line (I do believe)

But if that was possible that'd be rad

yes you can it at least tells me I can when I log in

 

[Chess]

Don't transfer the upgrade through Verizon, you'll lose your unlimited. Buy the device on the other line, activate the new device on that line. Then take the SIM out and replace it with the SIM from your GNex, and you've got a new phone.

I just did this with my mother-in-law's upgrade on my line. She had a dumbphone, so I took the upgrade and got an S4. Activated the S4 on her line, then swapped my sim into the new S4 and her sim into my wife's old Droid Razr.

We were planning on upgrading her to a smartphone, so it was easy. Now if your other line doesn't already have a data plan, and you don't plan on keeping the new data plan after this, it's more complicated.

Other phone is a droid maxx hd which has a data plan....

I was talking to my buddy that works for verizon and he told me If I DO transfer the upgrade I dont lose the unlimited........ interesting huh..... Id say so

 

[Chess]

Possible from this article.

http://www.droid-life.com/2013/09/17/keep-unlimited-data-verizon-upgrade/

Looks like Option #2 could be a winner winner here....

Its sad I am still debating between the iphone 5s and the note3.... doh

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Looks like Option #2 could be a winner winner here....

Its sad I am still debating between the iphone 5s and the note3.... doh

I am too except I don't know what Android phone I'd be getting. Not a fan of the big phones.

The iPhone 5s looks great right now but I'd lose GoogleMusic and tethering :\

 

[Chess]

I am too except I don't know what Android phone I'd be getting. Not a fan of the big phones.

The iPhone 5s looks great right now but I'd lose GoogleMusic and tethering :\

I am with ya on man on that... googlemusic rocks and so does tethering... until they JB it... which who knows when that will be.. *sigh*

 

[trmiv]

Transferring the upgrade to another line via the online account tool or via customer service will definitely make you lose unlimited. I know because a few months after I took my mils upgrade via sim swap I transferred my upgrade to my wife online. She lost unlimited. So just do the sim swap.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I am with ya on man on that... googlemusic rocks and so does tethering... until they JB it... which who knows when that will be.. *sigh*

I think I've decided what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna sell my Verizon line. The cost of low minutes, degrading service, and monthly bill is getting to me. Plus I have to jump through hoops to protect my unlimited line and getting upgrades.

I'm gonna switch to T-Mobile. I realized that I am using a user agent mask to by pass their block anyways so going to Apple wouldn't be a problem. In addition if I end up not liking apple I'd just switch my phone out in 6 months. By that time there will be the new nexus and the galaxy s5

 

[Chess]

Transferring the upgrade to another line via the online account tool or via customer service will definitely make you lose unlimited. I know because a few months after I took my mils upgrade via sim swap I transferred my upgrade to my wife online. She lost unlimited. So just do the sim swap.

I think you are wrong on this... I have talked to 3 verizon guys that I am friends with and they have informed me that you can do it and do it the way I want to do it with no issues :hmm:

 

[trmiv]

I'm not wrong on what I'm explaining, it looks like we're actually pretty much talking about the same thing. From what you've described in your first post, you are doing exactly what I'm talking about to keep unlimited, which is swapping SIMs.

What I was trying explain for you or anyone who could read this in the future is, don't make the mistake of using online transfer tool. If you do it that way, the line receiving the upgrade will lose the unlimited data (I misread your post and assumed your other line had the upgrade not yours). Even in the sim swap scenario, if your other line has unlimited data now, it will lose it in this process. There is no way to purchase a subsidized device on Verizon and keep unlimited on the line that actually used the upgrade (unless you can somehow convince a manager or rep, which is a long shot at best). So as long as someone in this process is OK with not having unlimited afterwards, you're good.

When I did my upgrade, my mother-in-law's line had an upgrade so I bought the phone on her line, and did the sim swap. In her case she didn't have a data plan at all, so there was nothing to lose. But when my wife wanted a new phone, I used the online tool to give her line my upgrade. In that case she lost her unlimited data since her line got a subsidized device.

The sim swap thing does have some issues though. After I got my S4, I had an issue with the wifi. I brought it to a Verizon store and they had to swap it out, and it was a massive pain because the phone wasn't being used on the line it was purchased on. They seemed completely puzzled by this fact. To give me a new phone since I was in the 14-day window, they had to refund me my money for the original purchase, then re-charge me for the new device (and in the process I somehow got 7 cents difference back due to some kind of tax difference between my local store and online purchase), activate the new one on my mother-in-law's line (who then lost service for like 20 minutes in the middle of the day without me informing her....oops), then do the SIM swap again. Took me an hour and half to get that all resolved.