[mynamewastaken]

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I have two phones, each with it's own number, both on the same Sprint account. One is a 6700 (let's say it's number is 555-111-1000) and one is a 6800 (let's say it's number is 555-222-2000). What I want to do is swap the numbers so the 6800 becomes 555-111-1000 and the 6700 becomes 555-222-2000.

I know about ESN swaps, and I plan to do this myself on-line. The question is, what'll happen to the number currently assigned to the 6700 when I put the number from the 6800 on it? and will there be any issues with the assigning the 6700's old number to the 6800 after it has spent any amount of time floating unattached?

Going to a service store isn't viable - the nearest is a 120 mile round trip. I don't have a 3rd unused phone available to shunt one of the numbers to either.

[Sting23ray]

Originally Posted by mynamewastaken

Sorry if this has been asked before, but search is down right now... (connection to localhost:3312 failed)

I have two phones, each with it's own number, both on the same Sprint account. One is a 6700 (let's say it's number is 555-111-1000) and one is a 6800 (let's say it's number is 555-222-2000). What I want to do is swap the numbers so the 6800 becomes 555-111-1000 and the 6700 becomes 555-222-2000.

I know about ESN swaps, and I plan to do this myself on-line. The question is, what'll happen to the number currently assigned to the 6700 when I put the number from the 6800 on it? and will there be any issues with the assigning the 6700's old number to the 6800 after it has spent any amount of time floating unattached?

Going to a service store isn't viable - the nearest is a 120 mile round trip. I don't have a 3rd unused phone available to shunt one of the numbers to either.

call the service number and select activation.... i did the same thing last week.... it had to be done by a Sprint rep.... it took her no time to do it...

[vman51]

I don't think you can do this online unless you have a 3rd phone thats not attached to a number..

youre going to have to call tech support, or have get a somewhat knowledgeable rep to do it for you..

[laurkar2006]

I think you need to call a Rep to have them do it for you..That is the nice things about the cell phones that have sims you can swap whenever you want...

[Bad am i]

Do you know if you switch phone numbers like this do you lose your phone upgrade? Someone at customer service told me this but I find that hard to believe.

[Dead_Rebel]

You're not swapping numbers, you're actually swapping phones. ESN swaps DO NOT affect upgrade eligibility or contract expiration.

[mynamewastaken]

Originally Posted by Bad am i

Do you know if you switch phone numbers like this do you lose your phone upgrade? Someone at customer service told me this but I find that hard to believe.

I know that if you switch your service from one phone to another, that does NOT affect your contract or upgrade eligibility.

[michaelvanle]

As mentioned by previous posters, you cannot do this yourself unless you have a spare ESN laying around to swap it into. If you call Sprint, they will most likely dig into one of your older ESN's and swap it out that way. Or they may just have a dummy ESN somewhere that they can use.

Just be careful you might lose Power Vision if you have it. They did this for me about a year ago and there was some issues. The rep used an older ESN that is regular Vision phone, and it messed up my plan because I have Power Vision. I caught it in a couple of days though, so it was fixed.

[Dead_Rebel]

Walk the rep along in the process, you can usually make up a dummy ESN from your own ESN. if yours is say 0762256453 then you can try sequential numbers to make a dummy. (Obviously it will be from a real phone somewhere, but it's just temporary. ) EX: 0762256454, 455, 456, etc.

[mynamewastaken]

Originally Posted by Dead_Rebel

Walk the rep along in the process, you can usually make up a dummy ESN from your own ESN. if yours is say 0762256453 then you can try sequential numbers to make a dummy. (Obviously it will be from a real phone somewhere, but it's just temporary. ) EX: 0762256454, 455, 456, etc.

I don't like the sound of that at all.. maybe I have 0762256454 but 0762256455 belongs to someone else, and now their phone/plan is screwed up!

[Dead_Rebel]

LOL no it's not! Can't do an ESN swap if it's in use. :P That's when you move along and try the next number. Way more reliable results as a rep than trying to use that god awful dummy esn tool. You're also guaranteed to get not only the same vision/powervision set but the same phone MODEL as well.

[TheTruckGuy]

Originally Posted by Dead_Rebel

Walk the rep along in the process, you can usually make up a dummy ESN from your own ESN. if yours is say 0762256453 then you can try sequential numbers to make a dummy. (Obviously it will be from a real phone somewhere, but it's just temporary. ) EX: 0762256454, 455, 456, etc.

Thats not right! I dont know now! but some longtime ago when I worked for 3rd party agents, we got different commission for selling new sprint phone and only by the first activation on the handset would we receive the new phone activation. if there was a return, we too had to return the handset to the dealer and would not activate that handset to someone else coz we'd not receive commission. So its not right to activate so some esn u dont know. if u/someone has a broken phone use that or the sprint rep must be able to do it.
This would be the itenary for your serivice:
handset A to temp phone.
handset B to handset A
temp phone to handset B.