On Oct 16, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Tracy,
My 5S finally showed up this morning after I found out yesterday that the
UPS delivery guy delivered it to the store here in my town where they sell
Apple product. Unfortunately I didn't realize this until shortly before 6 PM
when they were already closed so he couldn't get it back from them until
this morning. Oh well, a bit more anticipation built-up never hurt anybody.
Anyhow, the setup process is about as simple and easy as it can get and
Apple's "It just works" definitely applies here.
I took the phone out of the box and even before I turned it on put my new
Nano SIM into the phone. Tracy, I am in Canada and while I know AT&T and
T-Mobil use SIM cards, I don't think Verizon does as they are still a CDMA
carrier. I have to leave it somebody else to confirm his and to explain how
your phone number is activated, but I assume it might not be that different
as with a SIM where you have to do it by signing in on the Verizon website.
After I inserted my SIM I plugged in the Lightning cable since while a new
phone usually has a good amount of charge, I just wanted to make sure it had
power and also because I know plugging in the cable turns the phone on.
After a little bit the phone vibrated and I knew it was at that point on.
Another advantage when Voiceover is not on yet is that if you plug the phone
in it will vibrate once when it comes on.
I waited a maybe 10 more seconds to make sure it was ready, then I pressed
the home key 3 times and Voiceover came on.
I selected English from the list of languages, then my location/country and
so on.
The setup process is very straight forward, you can join your WiFi right
there, you are asked to sign in with your Apple Id and then you can enable
iCloud, iMessage and Facetime, Find my iPhone, SIRI and all that.
The first time I was asked to enter text, I think it was for my WiFi, I
right away turned the rotor to typing mode and selected touch typing since
touch typing is not enabled by default.
It probably took me 6 or 8 minutes to go through the entire setup process.
You are also asked I think at the end if you want to set up as a new phone
or restore from a backup. I chose new phone here, but I am now going to
restore from my encrypted iTunes backup.
Once the setup process was done I had a notification right away that a newer
version of iOS was available. I went into Settings and installed the iOS
7.02 update.
While it was doing the iOS 7 update I signed into my mobile carrier's
website to activate my new Nano SIM which I had already received a few days
ago.
I use Koodo here in Canada which is a MVNO owned by Telus.
I clicked on "Mobile Phones" and then on "Change Phone".
From here I had 2 radio buttons to choose from, one was "Upgrade my Phone"
and one was "New SIM Card in my current phone". I chose the first, clicked
next and was now asked to enter the SIM Card Number. I had already written
that down so I just copied it and pasted it, clicked next, confirmed one
more time and it was done.
At that point the update was also done and when my phone came back on
Voiceover was talking and my new SIM worked.
I now first went into Voiceover settings and downloaded the Enhanced Quality
voice for US English, then the Australien one and then I added German and
downloaded the high quality german voice.
Now after I send this I will restore from my encrypted iTunes backup. At
first I thought I start over, but I already had gotten rid of as many apps
as I could by uninstalling those I don't use a lot. I also unsynced all my
music and photos because I wanted a smaller backup and quicker restore
process. This way I get back the important apps, my email accounts will be
restored as will be my Favorites in the Phone app and my text messages.
I use Office 365 which is hosted Exchange from Microsoft for my business
email and Outlook.com for my personal accounts so as soon as these accounts
will be restored all my email and contacts will sync to my phone again and
there is nothing I will have to do here to get all of that back.
OK, good luck with your 5S, it's unbelieveable fast and everything seems to
happen instantly.
Oh, you are also asked to set up Touch ID during the initial setup. You can
choose to do so later, but I did it and I used my right thumb. It asked me
about 10 or maybe more to put my thumb on the sensor, it's a good idea to
rotate it slightly and put different areas, just the tip, a bit further back
etc. It will tell you when it took enough readings and that too seems to
work extremely well and it's super fast.
Lastly, I just received a call and I picked it up with a 2-finger double
tap. I put the phone to my ear and to my delight I had no issues like I did
on my 4S with the call going to speakerphone or switching back and forth. So
far I couldn't be more pleased with this phone.
Regards,
Sieghar
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Traci Duncan
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 9:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Verizon iPhone 5/5s users
Hi all,
I'm excited to announce my iPhone 5s should be arriving today. This is my
first 4g/lte device.
Does the sym card come already installed?
Was the set up process fairly straight forward?
I read the directions found here:
http://businessportals.verizonwireless.com/support/how_to_use/iphone-5-upgra
de.html
and they look pretty easy.
Any tips to go along with those instructions?
:) This isn't my first set up, but like I said, my first 4g/lte device.
Fingers crossed, I'm mighty excited! Off to back up my device and back up
my Mac for good measure. ;)
Traci
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