[ABuehrlen]

Hey Guys I've had my Pearl for a few months now and a buddy of mine decided to get a new iphone 3g so he sold me his curve for $100. his loss my gain lol. Now im trying to figure out if I need to do an imei change or if I can push my faves and service books to it. Im holding off on the data plan because my wife and I just got on a family plan together and I want to see how things go bill wise before I add data. What do you guys think? should I do an imei change or just swap my sim card over?

[NickfromIL]

Just swap your SIM card, and log into your BIS site and change you PIN/IMEI there, you should be good to go

[ABuehrlen]

Can I log into the BIS even though I dont have data?

[NickfromIL]

No BB data plan, then no need for that step.

Sorry I missed that

[ABuehrlen]

Which is what I figured but will my faves transfer over though?

[NickfromIL]

I am not sure, but if you use the switch device wizard in Desktop Manager they might.

[ABuehrlen]

you know what I mean by myfaves right?

[NickfromIL]

Yes, the T-Mobile Fav-5 application. I have never used it personally, as I have Verizon, but I am familiar with the app.

[NickfromIL]

OK, I have confirmed, swapping your SIM card the My Favs will transfer

[ABuehrlen]

ok cool wasnt sure if you understood what I meant about myfaves. Sorry didnt want you to think i was talking down at you. No pun intended there. Can you think of any situation where I might need to call them to do an imei change just for future reference so ill know?

[NickfromIL]

You shouldn't need to, unless you have your BB lost or stolen then maybe report the IMEI stolen. That is the one thing I am jealous of GSM for, the ability to just swap a SIM card out and go.

[ABuehrlen]

I hear ya I love that too!! Im eally excited I wanted a curve at first but couldnt afford it and now Im happy I waited I got a better deal than the 250 minus a mail in rebate.

[NickfromIL]

For future reference, Amazon.com usually has really good deals for T-Mo BBs

[ABuehrlen]

yea but my credit wasnt right at the time and I had to get flex pay. :[

[NickfromIL]

Understood, many of us have been there at one point or another.

[Ricky-Ray]

Originally Posted by ABuehrlen

Can you think of any situation where I might need to call them to do an imei change just for future reference so ill know?

If you have insurance on the phone then I would call them and change the IMEI. If you lost the curve and called it in their system would most likely still show that you had a Pearl and would send you a Pearl as a replacement.

Besides it couldn't really hurt to give them a call. Doing an IMEI update only takes a few minutes.

[NickfromIL]

Good call on the insurance, I didn't even think about that.

[ABuehrlen]

Thanks for the tips fellas Im gonna follow your suggestions.

[sugar]

Originally Posted by ABuehrlen

Which is what I figured but will my faves transfer over though?

Just did that on Tuesday. Switched from a pearl 8120 (gave it to my wife) to a curve 8320.
Myfaves transfered without a glitch. Went on the TMobile site and changed the EMEI # for both her BB and mine.
No problem to report.

[CBR900RR]

Originally Posted by ABuehrlen

Hey Guys I've had my Pearl for a few months now and a buddy of mine decided to get a new iphone 3g so he sold me his curve for $100. his loss my gain lol. Now im trying to figure out if I need to do an imei change or if I can push my faves and service books to it. Im holding off on the data plan because my wife and I just got on a family plan together and I want to see how things go bill wise before I add data. What do you guys think? should I do an imei change or just swap my sim card over?

If your buddy have a data/email plan on the curve before, you might want him to log into his BIS account, put a 0 in Device PIN and a 0 in Device IMEI to release the curve from his account, so when you ready to activate the data plan, your buddy's personal email won't get push to the curve.

And I got this from a tmo rep before, dial #686# and send to register you phone and sim.