How to swap a Pay Monthly SIM to PAYG?

[Anonymous]

Hi guys

My brother kindly gave me his old Samsung S4 phone to upgrade my S2 at Christmas.  He left his Pay Monthly SIM in and reset the phone.  I then transferred everything via SwapMySim over to his SIM not realising that the 2 SIMs are totally different (took me days to figure out why I couldn't send texts but could do everything else).

SO I'm now just wanting to get info on whether I can just buy a new PAYG SIM & then do the same process again to transfer my details, or is there anything else I need to know before doing so. in order to keep my same number etc?
Thanks

[Cleoriff]

Best of luck @Anonymous (you may need to change your user name when it's sorted)

[Anonymous]

LOL - the user name came out of a vexed reaction to it taking me an hour (!!!) to actually manage to get the forum software to firstly accept my previous login which it wouldn't, then I had to reset my password which it then wouldn't accept #in Firefox, but would when I used IE.  Finally after lots of hassle on that score, it then wanted my User Name but wouldn't accept any of the 4 previous more mundane ones I wanted, so finally almost for a joke I tried the IGiveUp, & whaddya know - THEN it was happy & I could finally post

But you're right - may well change it if all goes well tomorrow - we'll see. 

[Cleoriff]

You obviously are the type to persevere ...so good for you. Oh and welcome to the forum by the way...

[MI5]

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@Anonymous wrote:

But you're right - may well change it if all goes well tomorrow - we'll see. 

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It'll be "IGiveUp_Again"

[Cleoriff]

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@MI5 wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

But you're right - may well change it if all goes well tomorrow - we'll see. 

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It'll be "IGiveUp_Again"

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Should be "INeverGiveUp".....

[Anonymous]

Good luck @Anonymous you may even be connected when you walk out of the store, that's happened for me the past 2 times I've upgraded 

[Curr946]

I agree with @Anonymous, normal done time you're out of store

[Anonymous]

Ok - looks like I may go & change my nickname after all   - finally, FINALLY sorted - took 4 hours in the end, but at least it's all done & hopefully I'll have no more hassles from here on. 

Now, if I could ever just get this flaming forum software to play ball it would be great - but hoping to not need to return for a bit so not going to fight with it - says I'm logged in, then wants me to log in before letting me post, and then coming up with errors when I try - go figure!!

Thanks to all for your help, info & above all humour along the way.  Really appreciated!!

[MI5]

You know where we are now..... If you can ever log in again

[jonsie]

You can always start over again....we know who you are.....