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Go Phone Sim in a 680 Questions.
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Posted by: Hooterville

I got an old 680 from a friend that I traded a Razr for.

I called Cingular and tried to activate it as a Go Phone for my Daughter (I'm tired of her racking high bills) and they told me I could not use that phone as a go phone.

I put in a Go Phone sim from another phone in the 680 and it seems to be working fine.

Will Cingular be able to tell that she is using a 680 with this sim and shut the phone down or should I have no problems?

I was just wondering as the IMEI number on the 680 is different then the one from the Go Phone sim?

Thanks.

Posted by: eimajuno

It really does not matter which phone she is using the sim in. I have a customer that has a go phone account and he uses a treo 650. No problems so far and he has been using it for about a year like that. I don't think that any data will work with the go phone sim in the phone.

Posted by: Hooterville

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Originally Posted by eimajuno

It really does not matter which phone she is using the sim in. I have a customer that has a go phone account and he uses a treo 650. No problems so far and he has been using it for about a year like that. I don't think that any data will work with the go phone sim in the phone.

Yes, the data is working with the Go Phone sim.
I was just wondering if Cingular would shut it down if they found out she was using a 680 as a go phone?

Posted by: johncase3

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Originally Posted by Hooterville

Yes, the data is working with the Go Phone sim.
I was just wondering if Cingular would shut it down if they found out she was using a 680 as a go phone?

I don't know what a 680 is but I have been using my go phone sim in a Treo 600 and a Treo 650 for nearly a year and never had a problem. I hang on the prepaid forums and never heard of anyone getting cut-off for using a sim in a different phone. (Even if you did - just get another sim!)
Yes, data (even email) works fine but at $10/meg you don't want to use it very often unless you want to go broke!

Posted by: Hooterville

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Originally Posted by johncase3

So the Go Phone Sim you are using with the 650 is from a different phone and was registered with a different IMEI number then the 650?

Posted by: johncase3

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Originally Posted by Hooterville

So the Go Phone Sim you are using with the 650 is from a different phone and was registered with a different IMEI number then the 650?

Yes. The sim came from a Nokia I purchased for $29 off the Cingular web site. The account really relates to the s/n of the sim. The s/n of the phone is really a secondary issue.