1. Trade in device and use that credit to pay off phone in 36months while keeping phone plan. For UU on verizon this comes up to (100avg x 36) - 300 Walmart GC
2. No trade in, but pay off phone immediately within 3 days of receiving to avoid activation fees. For the iphone 15 pro, this comes up to be 999- 300 Walmart GC regardless what plan you choose.
Follow steps included this wiki to port out your locked device to other carrier.
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Same for 2021 and 2022.
AT&T details
Order/cancel? Activation starts on ship date (or store activation date). AT&T does not prorate after 3 days, so if you don't receive the device by the 3rd day you have to pay for the entire month of service.
To get the activation fees waived (if you're not cancelling within 3 days) be sure to sign up for AARP. It can be free or almost free
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- Contact AT&T over chat and ask them to waive your activation fee since it's an AARP benefit. This will save $35/line.
- Set up autopay from att.com or MyAtt app to save $10/line/month (debit; or credit -$5/month).
- Do you have AT&T fiber home internet? Contact AT&T over chat to "bundle" home internet plus wireless for a $20/month discount. You can also sign up for home internet after getting wireless to receive the same $20/month discount. There are loads of sign-up offers include $350 gift card back for new customers https://slickdeals.net/f/17073514-new-at-t-fiber-customers-purchase-at-t-fiber-internet-plan-300mbps-get-up-to-350-in-reward-cards-or-logitech-g-cloud-gaming-handheld-device-6-200-reward-card
- Pay off installment plan from MyAtt app or at att.com. You can do this as soon as activated/device ships.
- Turn on iPhone and let it activate with the pushed AT&T eSim (should be automatic once connected to wifi). Make a phone call.
- Transfer the AT&T eSim to another unlocked iPhone. "Use eSIM Quick Transfer on iPhone" Procedure https://support.apple.c
om/en-us/HT212780
- Make a call on the unlocked iPhone. Check in myAtt or att.com and check every few minutes until the unlocked iPhone shows up in your account as your device.
- Request unlock https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/ as a non-ATT customer, with non-ATT phone# and email for the new iPhone
- Check email and click to acknowledge unlock request. May take a few minutes to receive this.
- Wait for unlock approval email. It could take only a few minutes or up to a day
- new iPhone will be unlocked once you try a different provider eSIM. You can either use a new eSIM or transfer one from your other iPhone.
- If you want to, cancel AT&T service over chat or phone so that you don't go beyond 3 days post activation. If you instead want to keep the service, do everything I mentioned above to bring your monthly cost down.
Edit: AT&T chat is closed on the weekend I called reseller support and they refused to cancel the line and said I had to wait 30 days. I had to port out to another carrier.- Call *PORT on the new iPhone to get a porting pin. You also need your wireless account number (displayed when you login to att.com).
- I had a great experience porting to usmobile.com for their 50 day free trial. Just sign up and fill out the details including port (AT&T Postpaid, account number, port pin). Transfer completed in minutes!
Verizon details
- check out the recent iPhone 13 community wiki on unlock (60 days on iPhone 14/15!), pay off, 3 day rule etc. for Verizon
https://slickdeals.net/f/17028796-verizon-or-at-t-128gb-apple-iphone-13-new-or-added-line-8-30-mo-for-36-months-299-total-more-free-s-h
- We haven't found a way to unlock the iPhone 14/15 like we did the 13 because it has an eSIM assigned that gets activated on boot, and no physical SIM card. Also the phones are showing Verizon locked and not flex reseller policy. It will automatically unlock 60 days post activation however.
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Ya didn't think of mentioning that OP?
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Be careful with cancelation before you receive the phone. It still need to confirm but i bet all the phone ship to us is flex policy so it need to activate on US cellular network.
Hopefully the eSim swap work, let us know how it turn out. When do you suppose to receive your phone ?
Not sure what to do. This is much trickier than going the Verizon route.
Your best option is borrow your friend ATT eSim
Not sure what to do. This is much trickier than going the Verizon route.
Are you on IOS 15.x, I think if you upgrade to IOS 17 it gives you more eSim transfer capabilities. I am not sure but I think so.
My other alternative is to just suck up the first month. I'm on the $60 value plan. I can try to get the fee waived with AARP - and then hopefully get the $75 offer back from Chase if they count the device payment triggers the first payment of the offer.
For some reason my account already has a usage meter , and says 2 days left (see attachment)
After 5 hours I tried again and it's went through. No cancellation yet and it's been 20 hours now at this point. Luckily it hasn't been sold out or high in demand to the point of door buster style. I'm Verizon with upgrade if that helps.
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My other alternative is to just suck up the first month. I'm on the $60 value plan. I can try to get the fee waived with AARP - and then hopefully get the $75 offer back from Chase if they count the device payment triggers the first payment of the offer.
For some reason my account already has a usage meter , and says 2 days left (see attachment)
MyATT portal will show the new line the moment it shipped, but it could mean the time starting for you already, or i could be whenever you first activate the phone. it is similar on my case when i did it a couple weeks ago.
Do you have any other line on that account? the 2 days count down there mean your bill is 2 day aways from finish it cycle and generating a bill for this month.
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Walmart will only allow the phone to be shipped to the address the account is under "which is not my address." Can I in theory buy this and in a couple weeks activate it without any issues?
Does the cell plan have to be upgraded in anyway to get this deal?
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No other lines on my account - brand new
Be careful about the cancellation. If you cancel the line before requesting the unlock, your phone will stuck in limbo. Which is whenever you request unlock it will show : Because you canceled your service less than 14 days after you bought your device, we can't unlock it. pretty much the system detects that you canceled the line, so the IMEI is removed from the network. So system won't approve the unlock request even you pay off the phone. The reason is because when they ship you the phone, ATT reserved a phone number for that IMEI. so the moment you cancel the line, IMEI is removed from ATT database. system detects as you return the phone, it will remove that IMEI and the number and reserve it for the next customer to activate it. the only way to unlock is to reactive that phone number assign to the IMEI, or ATT rep manual add your IMEI to a new phone number and that mean activation fees ($35).
for the 2 days count down, i have no idea.
Your best option is borrow your friend ATT eSim
Use ATT eSim from friend and request unlock from ATT?
Be careful about the cancellation. If you cancel the line before requesting the unlock, your phone will stuck in limbo. Which is whenever you request unlock it will show : Because you canceled your service less than 14 days after you bought your device, we can't unlock it. pretty much the system detects that you canceled the line, so the IMEI is removed from the network. So system won't approve the unlock request even you pay off the phone. The reason is because when they ship you the phone, ATT reserve a phone number for that IMEI. so the moment you cancel the line, IMEI is stick with that number and somehow system wont approve the request. the only way to unlock is reactive that phone number assign to the IMEI, or ATT rep manual add your IMEI to a new phone number and that mean activation fees ($35).
for the 2 days count down, i have no idea.
Use ATT eSim from friend and request unlock from ATT?
The moment you borrow your friend eSim to activate the phone, the system now show your IMEI active under your friend number. So request unlock will have to be submitted under your friend as ATT MEMBER. Or move the eSIm back to your friend's phone and ensure the system now show his IMEI then you can try to submit the unlock request as NON-ATT MEMBER. the goal is to ensure your IMEI is not associated with any account.
The 60 days requirement is only apply for new account, due to the number is actived less than 60 days. if your phone is paid off and under a number that is older than 60 days the request will get approved.
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Be careful about the cancellation. If you cancel the line before requesting the unlock, your phone will stuck in limbo. Which is whenever you request unlock it will show : Because you canceled your service less than 14 days after you bought your device, we can't unlock it. pretty much the system detects that you canceled the line, so the IMEI is removed from the network. So system won't approve the unlock request even you pay off the phone. The reason is because when they ship you the phone, ATT reserve a phone number for that IMEI. so the moment you cancel the line, IMEI turn to a ghost as it is stick with that number and somehow system wont approve the request. the only way to unlock is reactive that phone number assign to the IMEI, or ATT rep manual add your IMEI to a new phone number and that mean activation fees ($35).
for the 2 days count down, i have no idea.
Can't I transfer esim to another phone and then request unlock, then cancel?
Also I would think Sunday is three days from today
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