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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Unfortunately, it does matter. Both Verizon and Sprint are being anal about only activating Verizon/Sprint-only iPads. For Verizon, they do activate the SIM card but the IMEI of your device has to be whitelisted (Verizon-branded), before they'll activate your SIM. You can get around this limitation by activating on a Verizon device and then moving the SIM card to the non-Verizon device. Sprint is even more backwards as it seems they're activating the MEID of the device. I have yet to hear of anyone successfully being able to use a non-Sprint iPad with a Sprint SIM card.
You'd hope so, right? Unfortunately, both Verizon and Sprint are being very backwards when it comes to BYOD. I really hope corporate policy changes in the near future to allow for BYOD.
As it stands, you've got the following options if you want easy activation:
Verizon iPad: Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile
Sprint iPad: Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile
AT&T iPad: AT&T, T-Mobile
T-Mobile iPad: AT&T, T-Mobile
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So up to Friday, 1/24/14, I was a Sprint customer with 3 phones and an iPad 4 on my (Retina) account. I was in T-Mobile considering switching and I had my iPad with me. I asked the CSR that was helping me if the iPad could be switched since it had a SIM in it. He went in the back and found an active SIM somewhere, put it into my Sprint iPad 4, 2 minutes later I was streaming HD video from Dish Network Sling Box and watching ESPN. The iPad was even displaying the T-Mobile account information under the Cellular Data screen. It worked well!
The problem came in putting my Sprint card back into the iPad. It just kept Searching for the network. I tried a network reset, a full system reset, a forced erase via iCloud and nothing worked to get the iPad from Searching .... until I went to the Apple store and they hard flashed it by being plugged into a computer with iTunes, holding Power and Home buttons 2 full seconds after the Apple logo appears in the screen. That timing was critical to allowing for the flash. After a flash a quick restore of a backup from before I put T-Mobile's SIM in the iPad, I was up and running again on Sprint.
I will more than likely switch the iPad to T-Mobile after the iPad is paid off from the One Up program.
Quote:
Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Unfortunately, it does matter. Both Verizon and Sprint are being anal about only activating Verizon/Sprint-only iPads. For Verizon, they do activate the SIM card but the IMEI of your device has to be whitelisted (Verizon-branded), before they'll activate your SIM. You can get around this limitation by activating on a Verizon device and then moving the SIM card to the non-Verizon device. Sprint is even more backwards as it seems they're activating the MEID of the device. I have yet to hear of anyone successfully being able to use a non-Sprint iPad with a Sprint SIM card.
You'd hope so, right? Unfortunately, both Verizon and Sprint are being very backwards when it comes to BYOD. I really hope corporate policy changes in the near future to allow for BYOD.
As it stands, you've got the following options if you want easy activation:
Verizon iPad: Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile
Sprint iPad: Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile
AT&T iPad: AT&T, T-Mobile
T-Mobile iPad: AT&T, T-Mobile
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