* Activating the Fi S24 phone
When you get the phone:
1. The SIM is already installed in the phone, although the phone box is sealed.
2. Turn on the phone, connect it to WiFi and log into the same Google account that was used to purchase the phone.
3. Download and install the Fi app from Google Play Store.
4. Leave WiFi ON. Run the Fi app. It will insist that you turn Data ON. Go ahead and turn Data ON. It might use a few MB of Data before switching to WiFi. If FI charges you for that Data at all, it will be 1-3 cents added to the 2nd bill.
5. Go through the activation process with the app which will transfer your Fi service from yourl old phone to the S24.
6. Your S24 phone should be activated on Fi then. Make some test calls/texts to make sure that the phone is working on Fi.
* Tracking Your Promo Discount
Log into your Fi account on the web site. There's a countdown in your Billing-->Fi Savings-->In Progress that shows how many more days your Fi service has to remain active. About 24 hrs after you activated the Fi SIM, the In Progress Tracker should show a checklist with entries like: Bought a phone, Got a discount, Activated the SIM, Stay xxx more days on Fi. Make sure the "Activate the SIM" entry is checkmarked and it shows 120 days to go. Then for a few days after that, keep checking the In Progress to make sure the countdown is decreasing each day. The countdown is updated at the same time each day (around the time of day that you activated the Fi SIM).
* How to Verify that your S24 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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Steps I took as a former Fi subscriber to get this deal: https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=
Strong recommendation: For people who activate service on a BYOD device to become an existing customer, wait a minimum of 24 hours (recommended 48 hours) before purchasing the S24. Those who activate and purchase the same day usually have major issues. The countdown timer will not be triggered and you will have no choice but to forfeit the discount or return the phone. You can try to contact support and ask to escalate to a specialist which may or may not have success and will likely eat up your return window.
For those that purchased same day, it seems that given early data points including mine that
Fi has manually approved the promo after escalating. Unknown if this will consistently be successful by others in future, though.
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Thought it's a 24 Month Bill credit?
"Get reimbursed over 24 months
Receive $27.09 off each bill for 24 months
The credit is tied to the person who activated the device"
Sorry for the ignorance but I'm new to Google Fi deals!
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I was a Google Fi user last year for the s23 ultra deal. have not been a user recently.
I have a s23 ultra 512 gb that I think I'll sell locally for at least that much so I think my upgrade should be free. Did the same thing last year. Any discount promo codes or cash back to stack ?
think I'm gonna lock this in. beats the $400 Samsung charged me yesterday. I could care less about the $150 in accessories that were sold out. just give me a lower phone price !
I was a Google Fi user last year for the s23 ultra deal. have not been a user recently.
I have a s23 ultra 512 gb that I think I'll sell locally for at least that much so I think my upgrade should be free. Did the same thing last year. Any discount promo codes or cash back to stack ?
think I'm gonna lock this in. beats the $400 Samsung charged me yesterday. I could care less about the $150 in accessories that were sold out. just give me a lower phone price !
* US Bank Cash+ credit card has 5% back category for cell phone service.
* Paypal Mastercard has 3% back on anything paid with Paypal. Fi accepts Paypal.
* US Bank Cash+ credit card has 5% back category for cell phone service.
* Paypal Mastercard has 3% back on anything paid with Paypal. Fi accepts Paypal.
Never mind, the verbiage on the offer page is:
"An existing Fi customer is someone who currently has Fi service or whose last day of Fi service took place within the last 180 days."
I had my last invoice August 26th of last year; and 6 months prior to today's date of 1/19 is July 18th. Thus, I'm a "current" Google Fi customer. Thanks Google! In for one!
Nevermind...maybe that's the intent? I do see the terms in the 1st post. Just don't understand why the 120 days showed up yesterday in my Fi account, but it disappeared today.
Basically when you activate, it will come back. You are not off the hook for the 120 days =) I asked the same question a page back and hpham posted the link for me to and it worked
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* US Bank Cash+ credit card has 5% back category for cell phone service.
* Paypal Mastercard has 3% back on anything paid with Paypal. Fi accepts Paypal.
I didnt have the AMEX offer. I have the Alt Reserve which I used but it won't trigger as a proper Google Pay transaction so I wont get the 4.5(3 +1.5 redemption). I should have used my Blue Cash which I think has high cb for online retail transactions
I'm not currently a Google Fi customer and never have been, so signed up the same day this deal was posted with a flexible plan. Could not activate via eSIM as my Pixel 3 was incompatible, so had to wait for a physical SIM. That came in the mail today - took two days since ordering. Put it in my phone and activated my plan and got a new number this afternoon.
I've been continually re-checking the Google Fi store hoping to see this discount pop up, but as of yet, no dice. Just figured I would post my experience here in case anyone is in a similar boat to me. Seems that lots of people asking in the thread here, but it seems very few are willing to gamble the $20 it takes to find out. Figure I'll take one for the team here.
I'll update this post over the next few days if things change and the deal pops up. My guess is there's still a pretty good chance the deal will pop up for me, I'm just waiting on my account information/billing information to fully propagate through Google's backend servers. Maybe I'll know by Monday.
Is there anybody who has got promo discount by signing up the old email using eSIM but number port-in rather than new number ?
Can you downgrade to the cheapest plan once you order?
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