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    spoffy
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    ...after a year and a half, it's finally started going to crap.

    It's an LG L1150, which I purchased on an AT&T contract. Within the last week or so, it's started intermittently not picking up or dialing calls. Apparently, in order to replace it, I will have to upgrade to a comparable Cingular plan, which I'm not sure I want to do. So I have a couple questions:

    Is there anything I need to look out for when switching over? Any Cingular plan drawbacks or hidden plan features?

    Alternately, couldn't I just buy the same exact phone from a third party and switch the SIM card over? Seems like it should work and be about the same cost as getting a new phone (especially when I factor in learning curve and replacing accessories.) Anything I should be aware of?


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    Quote Originally Posted by spoffy
    ...after a year and a half, it's finally started going to crap.

    It's an LG L1150, which I purchased on an AT&T contract. Within the last week or so, it's started intermittently not picking up or dialing calls. Apparently, in order to replace it, I will have to upgrade to a comparable Cingular plan, which I'm not sure I want to do. So I have a couple questions:

    Is there anything I need to look out for when switching over? Any Cingular plan drawbacks or hidden plan features?

    Alternately, couldn't I just buy the same exact phone from a third party and switch the SIM card over? Seems like it should work and be about the same cost as getting a new phone (especially when I factor in learning curve and replacing accessories.) Anything I should be aware of?
    Just make sure the phone you buy is either AT&T or UNLOCKED. Switching your SIM into the new phone is not a problem as long as you make sure of this. If you get a phone that's locked into another carrier, putting your SIM into it will prompt you for an unlock code, and if you input the code wrong too many times it could fry your SIM. Good luck



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    Just to add to Brad's answer, you can even buy a different LG model that's compatable with the accessories you already have, most of the time some model have interchangeable accessories...oh and the the sim will not fry, but it will just get locked out from being used if you enter the wrong code after three tries.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony E!
    oh and the the sim will not fry, but it will just get locked out from being used if you enter the wrong code after three tries.
    LOL hence the reason Tony E moderates Cingular and I moderate New Member Help . I'll just go back to my own forum with my CDMA-usin' self. SIM card? What's that?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Brad729
    LOL hence the reason Tony E moderates Cingular and I moderate New Member Help . I'll just go back to my own forum with my CDMA-usin' self. SIM card? What's that?

    Brad that is not true, you're doing a heck of a job here and i could use all the help i can get...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony E!
    Brad that is not true, you're doing a heck of a job here and i could use all the help i can get...
    Aww I was just havin' some fun. Ya gotta laugh at your own mistakes sometimes... the important part is learning from it and knowing better next time



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    Quote Originally Posted by Brad729
    Aww I was just havin' some fun. Ya gotta laugh at your own mistakes sometimes... the important part is learning from it and knowing better next time

    That's good to hear, i don't always have the answer to every question posted on this board either, but a good suggestion like the one you made on your reply always helps and hopefully the OP will appreciate that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony E!
    ...oh and the the sim will not fry, but it will just get locked out from being used if you enter the wrong code after three tries.
    So just to clarify, it's an either/or thing? "Either" it needs to be an AT&T phone, "or" unlocked. Not an "unlocked AT&T" phone. (Sorry, I'm a technology ignoramous. The thought of screwing up the SIM card gives pause...)

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    Quote Originally Posted by spoffy
    So just to clarify, it's an either/or thing? "Either" it needs to be an AT&T phone, "or" unlocked. Not an "unlocked AT&T" phone. (Sorry, I'm a technology ignoramous. The thought of screwing up the SIM card gives pause...)

    spoffy
    That's correct, either AT&T OR unlocked. And Tony said you wouldn't screw up your SIM as I previously stated, that was a piece of misinformation I got from reading someone else's thread



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    Sorry for the confusion Spoffy...


    if it's an AT&T branded phone you don't need to worry about the phone being unlocked only if it's branded to a different carrier i.e. Cingular, T-Mobile.

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    being that the phone is att, and 1.5 yrs old, is it possible that the sim is 32k. if so, will that sim work with a newer gsm phone which usually run on 64k cards. i ask because i swear another user and i discussed this before and it wouldn't work that way.

    i guess this is aimed at tony.



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