Swap Esims between two phones back and forth
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on 27-10-2024 10:25
Hi, is it possible to swap an Esim between two phones.
After being pickpocketed on holiday, I choose to take out a cheaper handset at night.
Hence the need to swap an Esim between handsets when I need to?
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on 27-10-2024 15:01
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on 27-10-2024 15:01
Surely there must be a way of getting a SIM into the phone in the first place?
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on 27-10-2024 15:11
The phone has a normal sim tray but the problem occurs when you fit the supplied front cover to the phone.
It has a sticky backing to fix it to the screen and covers the sim tray, so removal is difficult and can pull off the factory fitted screen protector.
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on 27-10-2024 17:36
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on 27-10-2024 17:36
I am not sure @Mark_Bags that what you are proposing is a viable long-term proposition. If you intend routinely swapping your SIM between two handsets, that sound like a recipe for breaking one or other 'phone, damaging the SIM or losing the SIM.
Depending on how much you use your cheaper handset when you are out at night, I would have thought that looking at cheap PAYG SIMs might be preferable. 👍
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on 27-10-2024 18:18
I imagine that would be far too confusing for friends to know which number to contact them on.
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27-10-2024 19:00 - edited 27-10-2024 19:00
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27-10-2024 19:00 - edited 27-10-2024 19:00
O2 have a feature accessible from MyO2 now known as "Call Divert" - just means @Mark_Bags would have to remember to take off the divert when they come back home after a night out on the town... and set it up a couple of hours before leaving the house, naturally. A cheap and cheerful O2 PAYG SIM would do - mind you, for calls made back to friends and family while out on the tiles, there *would* be a new number appearing on the called handset.
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27-10-2024 19:05 - edited 27-10-2024 19:09
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27-10-2024 19:05 - edited 27-10-2024 19:09
I'm not aware that you can divert to and from a PAYG sim?
Not only that, but message threads would be disjointed and WhatsApp messages could not be diverted.
Having two different numbers is no more a solution than swapping sims.
If the risk or perceived risk of losing the phone is high, take out a good insurance policy and take steps to protect the phone like everyone else does.
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on 27-10-2024 21:43
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on 27-10-2024 21:43
Divert would be from good (contract) phone to roustabout PAYG,
but yes, keeping one's wits about one is always the best approach.
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