Use the order status page to activate your phone https://www.metrobyt-mobile.com/order-status The link in the email is bad. Credit to SKV4M
If you have port in difficulties with GV number call 800-518-7519 and them you have a land line and they will complete your port.
GV port is not complete until you get a confirmation email from google, and you get a text message from Metro 611 that the number transfer is complete.
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The short version, you must call Metro to make sure any/all the number(s) you are porting over that previously succeed Port Reservation but failed Payment are not locked now to metro reservation once locked to metro they will not work with a new order or another wireless company. This deal is killing me softly, now I remember why I avoided Metro for so long
Use a VPN
Different credit card #
Add a fake apartment # to your address (if you live in a house)
This has worked for me in the past.
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I'm thinking of porting out the second line, effectively make my account to being back to 1 main line. Does anyone know if this would allow me to order the third device?
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Can the Metro iPhone 16e or 13 be used on T-Mobile or need it unlocked.
What are you guys going to do with the phone if this is not your primary?
It seems the "loophole" of being able to use Metro-locked phones either on T-Mobile or T-Mobile MVNOs has mostly been closed. The last time I saw claims of a phone that still did this was last year I believe, and it specifically was a Motorola razr.
On phones like iPhone 13 with a SIM slot (that can use a SIM card as opposed to newer phones with eSIM only), some people claim to have success using a "device" called RSIM, which is a little "wrapper" that folds around the SIM card (and apparently still squeezes into the slot without damaging it) and "tricks" the phone into thinking some other service's SIM card is actually a Metro SIM card, allowing functionality. But I have no idea how or if they work and if there are caveats.
If your TF phone still can make/receive calls/texts today, try texting BALANCE to 611611 from that phone. If it comes back saying your phone is inactive, then your phone has become a zombie.
Since your phone has a TF eSIM, I think you'll have to keep that eSIM in that phone to keep using its service because you can't transfer that eSIM to another eSIM or pSIM. If you try to do a transfer, TF will say that phone number not active or can't be found in their system.
On a side note... how does one transfer the phone plan to another phone? It doesn't seem to be accepting my Pixel 10 IMEI #s when using the change device under my account.
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