u/Envoyager

edit: spoke to an online agent that says she was unable to find neither IMEI number in their system, so at least that's good that it's not 'flagged' or anything like that

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The reason:

>We're sorry this phone is not compatible with our network.The device associated with the IMEI you entered has already been activated. Please verify the information you have entered and try again.

I bought this phone brand new in factory sealed box. How is it possible it's already been activated? The model is SM-S938U1 S25 Ultra. Has this happened to anyone else when checking the IMEI on the verizon byop sign up page?

Both old and new phones are factory unlocked. New phone would only have one physical SIM slot and that would be used with a second phone number I have with another service.

Alright so right now I have two physical Sims. One is on US Mobile "dark star" (uses underlying att network) and the other sim is on TracFone using TMO as the underlying network (I've been grandfathered in during the Verizon acquisition). I'm finally porting my TracFone number over to G-Fi and I'm just waiting on the new physical sim.

I'm just assuming it will be fine and I understand I can't take full advantage of 5g speeds due to missing mmWave chip and band N71. Fortunately I haven't had much issue with coverage being in a fairly dense area.

Going through some threads, I'm seeing issues with number porting and/or partial service or none at all.

So it seems like the flash timing is poor when snapping the pic. My pictures are still dark after snapping the pic even if the flash itself seems bright enough.

So I'm a little flustered today trying to port my longtime (and grandfathered) Tracfone ATT number to USM. I've confirmed with TF support the IMEI I need to use as the account number, the zip code, and received the transfer PIN through text. Yet, it's still hung up 9 hours later after starting the process in USM "Add a Line". Tracfone support says they don't see a port request.. USM says to talk to TF since on the Line page says still waiting on a response from the other carrier. From all the reading, I was under the impression the whole process wouldn't take more than 15 minutes or so. Now i'm worried that some glitch in between the two carriers is going to get my phone number lost. Anyone else had a similar experience?

So in the app, I tried to increase the quantity to 2 so that way weighing both together would get it close to 2.25 pounds but obviously it doesn't let me. I went ahead and just grabbed two anyway and weighed them both together. The supplier of the cherries (which must be new because I've not seen bags of cherries there before) only uses smaller bags.

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Am I asking for a deactivation?

So I am aware that Tracfone was required to grandfather in customers that were still running their TMobile and AT&T SIM's on their phone up until late 2024 I believe. I know that I probably should have transferred out by now but I guess I got too comfortable. I've yet to receive any emails or anything on when my services will be cut.

Question is: has anyone had any trouble moving your grandfathered SIM's to a new unlocked phone, such as service cutting out because of a new IMEI detected on the network? I ask because AI is telling me that it's possible for a new, unrecognized IMEI with your grandfathered SIM gets rejected since TracFone is able to reject new devices not running on the Verizon SIM.

I just need to keep Tracfone just a tid bit longer so I can transfer out my phone numbers to US Mobile or other MVNO...