07-24-2020, 11:34 AM
Sorry this took so long, I didn't get the emails for your posts!
I based my convo off of this Lightphone FAQ.
I told them that I wanted to get switched to CDMA-less status. They kept trying to assure me that my phone (Samsung S10) would work when they shut off the CDMA network. I basically had to brow beat the tier 1 tech into letting me through. It might help to have the SIM in the pinephone when you contact them to try to speed things up.
Once I got through to the tier 2 tech, they also tried to reassure me that my S10 would work, but seemed to understand what I was trying to do when I told them I was trying to develop for a new phone (slight lie, I know).
Other things of note are it may be possible to get the pinephone added to Verizon's database (there's some form the tech has to fill out). My tech also said they might have to convince the system that the pinephone was a different CDMA-less device, so that could be the ticket? They seemed unsure if the changes they made would persist, but so far they have.
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions/there's anything I can do to help, or if you get it to work!
I based my convo off of this Lightphone FAQ.
I told them that I wanted to get switched to CDMA-less status. They kept trying to assure me that my phone (Samsung S10) would work when they shut off the CDMA network. I basically had to brow beat the tier 1 tech into letting me through. It might help to have the SIM in the pinephone when you contact them to try to speed things up.
Once I got through to the tier 2 tech, they also tried to reassure me that my S10 would work, but seemed to understand what I was trying to do when I told them I was trying to develop for a new phone (slight lie, I know).
Other things of note are it may be possible to get the pinephone added to Verizon's database (there's some form the tech has to fill out). My tech also said they might have to convince the system that the pinephone was a different CDMA-less device, so that could be the ticket? They seemed unsure if the changes they made would persist, but so far they have.
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions/there's anything I can do to help, or if you get it to work!