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Originally posted by RalphEBurns
I'm considering buying a particular 7135 that is currently on US Cellular and bringing to over to my Verizon service. The seller has the unlock code, and I've called Verizon with the ESN # and customer service says they forsee no issues.
Has anyone else done this? Does this sound like it'll work fine?
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*Many* have brought 7125s from other providers to VZW. I believe the steps would go as follows:
1) Activate the ESN with VZW. Call customer service to do this. It should be free? If you are establishing a new account with VZW there may be a $35 charge?
2) Reset the unlock code to 000000. I believe that this may be necessary for the VZW Over The Air programming (OTA) to work.
3) Do *228. If your ESN is activated this should get you into VZW OTA.
3a) select option 1) Programming your phone. This downloads your VZW phone number and some other configurable values (note: this does not do anything like download firmware).
3b) select option 2) Download the latest Preferred Roaming List (PRL). I think this is included in step 1 but it can't hurt to do it again.
Worst case, and you may want to do this anyway if you have old firmware, you go to a VZW store and have them flash it and do the OTA stuff. Make sure the store has a tech who does this and has done it a few times already -- seems there is a bit of a learning curve there.
good luck,
-Quick