Number porting to GV - my experience
Rick:
Quote from: klrwaffles on February 25, 2012, 10:37:26 am
Planning on doing this, but don't have a unlocked phone to test out the ports with. Anybody try to do this without the phone?
Anybody have a suggestion on an unlocked or tmobile phone to buy for this?
Thanks.
You're not going to do it without a phone, or at least some type of device that can take the SIM card and receive phone calls. I actually ported via T-Mobile and a device that I had temporarily that took SIM cards, but didn't get text messages. Had to drive to T-Mobile store to get the pin number they texted to the account...
You can buy an AT&T prepaid phone for $5 - $10 on sale, but it won't take the T-Mobile $1.99 SIM card. The one I bought for $4.99 is now $14.99.
klrwaffles:
Quote from: Rick on February 25, 2012, 10:42:51 am
Quote from: klrwaffles on February 25, 2012, 10:37:26 am
Planning on doing this, but don't have a unlocked phone to test out the ports with. Anybody try to do this without the phone?
Anybody have a suggestion on an unlocked or tmobile phone to buy for this?
Thanks.
You're not going to do it without a phone, or at least some type of device that can take the SIM card and receive phone calls. I actually ported via T-Mobile and a device that I had temporarily that took SIM cards, but didn't get text messages. Had to drive to T-Mobile store to get the pin number they texted to the account...
You can buy an AT&T prepaid phone for $5 - $10 on sale, but it won't take the T-Mobile $1.99 SIM card. The one I bought for $4.99 is now $14.99.
Seems most people are using t-mobile to do this that is why I mentioned them.
Would this work? http://www.walmart.com/ip/T-Mobile-Nokia-1616-Prepaid-Cell-Phone/15833748
Rick:
Quote from: klrwaffles on February 25, 2012, 11:56:02 am
Quote from: Rick on February 25, 2012, 10:42:51 am
Quote from: klrwaffles on February 25, 2012, 10:37:26 am
Planning on doing this, but don't have a unlocked phone to test out the ports with. Anybody try to do this without the phone?
Anybody have a suggestion on an unlocked or tmobile phone to buy for this?
Thanks.
You're not going to do it without a phone, or at least some type of device that can take the SIM card and receive phone calls. I actually ported via T-Mobile and a device that I had temporarily that took SIM cards, but didn't get text messages. Had to drive to T-Mobile store to get the pin number they texted to the account...
You can buy an AT&T prepaid phone for $5 - $10 on sale, but it won't take the T-Mobile $1.99 SIM card. The one I bought for $4.99 is now $14.99.
Seems most people are using t-mobile to do this that is why I mentioned them.
Would this work? http://www.walmart.com/ip/T-Mobile-Nokia-1616-Prepaid-Cell-Phone/15833748
It should work fine, any T-Mobile or AT&T prepaid phone. You'll need a few minutes, depending on how many calls you get on your landline during the porting. I bought an AT&T initially, but had the T-Mobile SIM card for the other device I didn't use, so it was cheaper to use it then to activate the AT&T phone I spent $4.99 on.
klrwaffles:
Got my t-mobile phone today to start the port. So I returned to http://www.obihai.com/porttutorial.html for instructions, and noticed the "sanity check". For some reason, I didn't notice this before.
So, my 763 number is getting the Ooops! This number appears to be from an area we don't currently support.
I'm inclined not to believe this. I did a check on a different mobile number on 763 and it said it could do it. So area code shouldn't be an issue. And when I did the check within my google account, it gave me both errors listed in the sanity check:
Porting your mobile number to Google Voice is unavailable
Your mobile number can not be ported at this time.
- This number appears to be from an area we don't currently support for porting.
- We currently don't support porting from your carrier. We apologize and are working on adding support for more carriers.
I don't want to loose my number (I can just transfer it back to my land line if needed).
So what does the Obi forum think???
MacOverAll:
Did you check to see if the number was available to port to Google prior to the t-mobile port being complete? I'd wait until you get the welcome text with the ported phone number, wait about an hour and then check on GoogleVoice site.
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