Switching SIM between iPhone and BB help?
- Hey all.
I am an OLD user of these forums but was dragged into the iphone curve a few years ago. I was debating on getting a new blackberry for my upgrade and tried to use my old 8310 blackberry. I did a memory erase a long time ago in case I lost it. Anyway, I put in my sim card and can make calls but cannot receive or send text messages AND i cannot set up a personal email account. Therefore telling me I should stick with the iphone which i rarely ran into problems.
PLEASE, someone help me solve this problem I was on hold with AT&T for over an hour and I cannot afford to wait with working 80 hour weeks. I am rarely hold and time is valuable when I am.
Can someone please tell me step by step what i can do? I hope to be able to sswitch my sim back and forth from this to the iphone for a month. I was really hoping to like being a blackberry user again so please help!10-02-10 12:45 PMLike 0 -
- Hey guys, thanks I didn't realize you need it specified to the phone. Does any ATT subscriber know if you can change this back and forth or once i get switch to BB data do i need to get the 2 year again with iphone EVENthough it is MY phone for two years? Also, if I get the BB plan can i still use that plan if I switch between other phones other than Iphone? If I can use the BB data still on other smartphones besides iphone I think I made my choice already. Thanks for the info!10-02-10 09:12 PMLike 0
- You're going to find that the phone portion will be compatible no matter which plan you are on (making phone calls).
Data will be a different issue. The iPhone uses a different data path. The BlackBerry goes through RIM's servers. If you set up your plan to use a BlackBerry data plan, you won't be able to get the iPhone to connect to RIM's servers (security issues) - won't happen. If you have the iPhone data plan, then you won't have any connection to RIM's servers and service books (no e-mail, no BIS data, no service books for SMS/MMS).
You might be able to switch between iPhone and Android, but not between BlackBerry and other data plans.10-03-10 03:23 PMLike 0 - Get on a BB data plan. All you need to do on the iPhone is unlock the APN. Then
it works just fine. I switch sims between my iPhone and BB all the time.
http://forums.crackberry.com/f99/how...a-plan-348311/10-03-10 04:35 PMLike 0 - Hey guys, thanks I didn't realize you need it specified to the phone. Does any ATT subscriber know if you can change this back and forth or once i get switch to BB data do i need to get the 2 year again with iphone EVENthough it is MY phone for two years? Also, if I get the BB plan can i still use that plan if I switch between other phones other than Iphone? If I can use the BB data still on other smartphones besides iphone I think I made my choice already. Thanks for the info!
You'll need the IMEI number from the phone you are activating as well.10-03-10 11:11 PMLike 0
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