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I found the following helpful info from reddit about the $10 "stay connected plan" downgrade for the 2nd month(but please correct if you experienced differently):
1. Turn OFF autopay. Autopay will renew your current plan and will do so 2-3 days before your new plan starts so it will take you buy surprise.
2. Wait until 24-48hrs after your initial 30 day plan has lapsed. If you try to change your plan to a $10 plan prior to it lapsing, it will start immediately. You are safer to wait a day and the phone will unlock on total day 61 or 62 after activation and two month-long blocks of service. If you do it on the last day of the existing plan you may end up with 59 or 58 total service days because you lost a day and then you'd need to add an entire third month to hit 60 days.
3. When you add the plan (after it has lapsed), if you have other lines make sure you are specific that you are changing the plan for this line and adding only to this line. Total likes to say "oh we just consolidated your billing date," but what they may do if you have another line is poach days from this new service. They may give you 20 days on the line you requested it for and 10 on the other line if that syncs a billing date. Then you'd need to add a third plan again. Ask to be specific that they NOT do this.
4. If you have 1000 points on your rewards account (which you might get for adding a line), you can redeem these over the 611 support line for the service plan instead of paying cash. This plan is not visible on the website. Do not redeem these points for coupons, just refer the support agent toward them.
Double check the service end date once confirmed to ensure it is indeed 30 days after the present. If not, they will adjust it.
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There has to be a lapse before you can order the $10 plan. You cannot order it as a regular plan. The idea was that it is a retention plan for people who otherwise would leave and actually did do, not just threatened.
The 60 days does not have to be continuous. It is a running count and it stops and starts as needed. That is what they have said. There are actually two counters, active days and paid days for the imei. They BOTH have to be satisfied. The computer computes them. It is all supposed to be just mechanical. (But date misunderstandings can occur). You can call periodically and ask what the counters are to avoid misunderstandings.
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Anyone with the same issue?
I hope that I get my phone too.
- Do as before, new phone, new sim, change to $10 plan after 30 days
- New phone with old sim, wait 60 days
- New phone with new sim 30 days, change to old sim 30 days
- New phone with old sim 30 days, change new sim 30 days
I am interested in #4 as it would use up the old sim card 🤔 but for safety would probably go with #1, the others 2,3 would cost more keeping the $10 service active.I suspect its like standard tracfones where the sim is linked/married to the imei of the phone or doing anything else would not work, require chat/csr/new sim or reset the unlock timer.
Some Reddit post say that it's easy swap, some say need to buy new sim card and transfer but none say if it would satisfy the 60 days. Also other option, convert old sim to esim and try 2,3,4. Worst option would be to port old phone number into new sim, converting the $10 plan to $30, then convert back to $10 😅
anyways, thanks for the deal OP and commentors for the help 😁
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- Do as before, new phone, new sim, change to $10 plan after 30 days
- New phone with old sim, wait 60 days
- New phone with new sim 30 days, change to old sim 30 days
- New phone with old sim 30 days, change new sim 30 days
I am interested in #4 as it would use up the old sim card 🤔 but for safety would probably go with #1, the others 2,3 would cost more keeping the $10 service active.I suspect its like standard tracfones where the sim is linked/married to the imei of the phone or doing anything else would not work, require chat/csr/new sim or reset the unlock timer.
Some Reddit post say that it's easy swap, some say need to buy new sim card and transfer but none say if it would satisfy the 60 days. Also other option, convert old sim to esim and try 2,3,4. Worst option would be to port old phone number into new sim, converting the $10 plan to $30, then convert back to $10 😅
anyways, thanks for the deal OP and commentors for the help 😁
You need to have 60 days of paid service before phone qualifies for unlocking. Carryover service from another phone is not considered paid service on a different phone so won't qualify for unlock.
SIM swapping is never a good idea with TW/ST/TF. Best advice is to play by the rules if you want a phone unlocked at 60 days.
In my area Att/Dark star is the best signal, tmobile/light speed is mid, and worst is verizon/warp. Hopefully works ok for my att mvno, if not then I have to switch to tmobile network😑. Thanks to these phones I at least I know that verizon is the worst signal for my area of SoCal.
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Same here.
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