Ugh cant use my phone till tomorrow as the sim was sent with my wifes number...
That's similar to what they told me. But I wasn't using anybodies number but my own.
This story really needs it's own thread but I'll follow the rules. Got the phone around 12:30. Unpacked, followed directions. Everything seemed OK.
I attempted to call and I got a Verizon message. OK, sometimes it takes a few minutes. Waited about 15 and tried to call it. Message said this number does not have a voice mail box.
So I called Verizon. They told me, gee, sorry, but you're going to have to wait 24 hours. Oh yeah? And what about all my contacts that did not transfer even though I used the back up. "Go to a Verizon Store."
I get to the Verizon store and guy says sure, it's 20.00 to transfer contacts. I said, yeah, right. He said, yeah, that's what it is. Unbelievable. I say OK, but I guarantee I'll get that $20.00 back.
Well the guy is shooting the breeze with me and I'm like hey man, lets get going. He says whoops. We don't have the connector.
Well, I did, in my car and I came back with it. Took about 35 minutes. I got a million duplicate contacts, totally fubar. Guy tries to get phone started, said he don't know what's up with that. Hands me the phone and says get out of here before I charge you $20.00
Now you know humor is one thing but putting me on like that, that's horse manure. I'm thinking about complaining to Verizon.
And I'm not buying this 24 hour story and when I make up my mind that I'm done taking crap I get serious about it. So I told the rep on the phone the story about how it's not working. She says it's her understanding that it's just like that on numbers like icoater is using. She gets me to level 2.
He goes on with me quite a while, hook up to iTunes. I'm showing bars but 3G only. He says he's calling Apple.
So then I'm on eternal hold and he tells me I need to take the sim card out. Now there is a tiny whole where the sim card is. I get a paper clip but it's not firm enough to pull it out. I got a letter opener and I got the sim card out.
He tells me to put it back in. Challenge time because when it came out it popped right out and I don't know what's up and what's down Finally common sense helps me figure out how it goes and I put it in. But now there is a round knob where I pulled it out. I plug into iTunes, it says no sim card. Did this 2 more times.
Then I realized that what I needed to do was somehow mold the aluminum hole back into shape or it just wasn't going to work. I tediously went at it and put the card back in. Success. But.
I have a slight burr on that hole I used to open it with. Brand new but dinged. Bummed me out.
Anyway that's my tail of woe. Now back to deleting all these extra contacts.....Oh....iTunes would have restored those for me too without making a ton of duplicates but nobody told me that.
Not a great start.