There are new data points from 9/14/23 on which seem to indicate that the BYOP SIM trick below no longer works. (i.e. Even though the deal is still available to people who have been Fi members for a while, someone who just activated a BYOP SIM won't see the instant discount and only see the 24-month credit offer). Therefore, I'm crossing out the info about the BYOP SIM trick.
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* Added on 8/1/2023 by hpham_53: It's still 3-4 months away until people doing this deal will be close to completing their promotion. But I'll go ahead and add the info below on how to verify that your promotion was Earned, and how to Cancel/Pause Fi service after that.
* How to Verify that your S23 promo was Earned:
There's a countdown in your Billing-->Fi Savings-->In Progress that shows how many more days your Fi service has to remain active. The countdown will never say zero day. On the 120th day, it will stay at "1 more day". On the morning of the 121st day, the countdown should say "Stayed (past tense) active on Fi for 120 days in a row". Then later in the day, the In Progress column disappears, and the promo discount gets moved to the Earned column. At that time or later, it's safe to Cancel or Pause your Fi service.
You can use this Date Calculator: https://www.timeanddate
Enter your activation date as the Start Date, select Add 121 days and it'll show the date when it's safe to cancel/pause your Fi service.
* How to Cancel your Fi service:
In your Fi account, click on Account-->Your Plan, scroll down until you see "Leave Google Fi". Click on that and follow the on-screen instructions. You'll have the options to Let Go your Fi phone number, or Transfer To Another Provider. (There used to be an option to port it back to Google Voice, but I think it's no longer available). If you choose to let go your Fi number, your Fi service will be cancelled IMMEDIATELY. If you choose to port out, your Fi service will remain active until your Fi number has been ported out to another provider.
* How to Pause your Fi service;
In your Fi account, click on Account-->Your Plan, scroll down until you see "Pause Service". Click on that and follow the on-screen instructions. Your Fi service will be paused and Automatically Resumed after 90 days, unless you cancel it before 90 days are up. Once it's Resumed, you can leave it Active, or Cancel it, or Pause again (I don't know how many times you can Pause). If you have a lot of remaining referral Fi credit (which is not refundable), you can choose Pause instead of Cancel to wait and see if there will be new Fi promotions in the future to use up your Fi credit.
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You buy the s23U and you have to activate the physical sim that ships with the phone to start the countdown clock. During the 120 days can you migrate the psim to an esim or would that be too risky to screw up deal ?
You buy the s23U and you have to activate the physical sim that ships with the phone to start the countdown clock. During the 120 days can you migrate the psim to an esim or would that be too risky to screw up deal ?
Thank you again. I want to start off with using it as a pSim but may want to change to eSim during the 120 days but when and if I would do that I would check with support and get an email transcript to document it.
As I mentioned I have a Fi account with credit. It was canceled so I reactivated it and they are mailing me a pSim. Do you know if my service will start billing again automatically, or only when I activate the sim? Thinking of holding off but dont know what will happen.
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Google FI is also shipping Samsung S23 Ultra devices with E-Sim . One of my friends who got the Black S23 Ultra today had an E-SIM installed . The device was manufactured in 2023 start months similar to mine but the Lavender S23 Ultra which I own got a physical sim
There is a little variation in the user screens shown but at the end the result seems to be same. Google FI app will detect the SIM is active on another device and once we agree to transfer the SIM details the e-SIM is activated.
Now will need to wait for 24 hours till the countdown starts. I had one question what is correct process to remove the E-Sim installation completely from the phone if a guide is available based on the previous Pixel deals which apparently came with E-Sims
Everything is fine. The promotion date is counting down since day 1. I will port-out to google voice when its 121 day and show earned $600
Google FI is also shipping Samsung S23 Ultra devices with E-Sim . One of my friends who got the Black S23 Ultra today had an E-SIM installed . The device was manufactured in 2023 start months similar to mine but the Lavender S23 Ultra which I own got a physical sim
There is a little variation in the user screens shown but at the end the result seems to be same. Google FI app will detect the SIM is active on another device and once we agree to transfer the SIM details the e-SIM is activated.
Now will need to wait for 24 hours till the countdown starts. I had one question what is correct process to remove the E-Sim installation completely from the phone if a guide is available based on the previous Pixel deals which apparently came with E-Sims
Everything is fine. The promotion date is counting down since day 1. I will port-out to google voice when its 121 day and show earned $600
Everything is fine. The promotion date is counting down since day 1. I will port-out to google voice when its 121 day and show earned $600
There was a post recently from someone who ported in a number after the countdown has already started, but that was done with assistance from FI Support.
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There is a little variation in the user screens shown but at the end the result seems to be same. Google FI app will detect the SIM is active on another device and once we agree to transfer the SIM details the e-SIM is activated.
I had one question what is correct process to remove the E-Sim installation completely from the phone if a guide is available based on the previous Pixel deals which apparently came with E-Sims
Thinking more about it, it could be that when Fi ships a phone to an existing member, they assign the current Fi number TO THE IMEI instead of the pSIM as I previously thought. When that phone is activated, it'll use the pSIM if installed, else it will use the eSIM. Back when Fi shipped the Pixel 7 without a pSIM, most of us activated it with the eSIM, but some people went out and bought a BYOP SIM to activate with their Pixel 7. The promotion worked either way.
Like another member said, you can use the phone's SIM Manager function to remove the eSIM, or reset the phone which will ask if you want to clear out the eSIM or leave it alone. I don't know what effect it has on the promotion if the phone has Fi service via eSIM and you remove the eSIM.
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