Off season storing

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Jeremy Collins

• February 03, 2019 20:15

Hey what is the best things to do with these cams during the off season. I have Verizon and they are added to my account . I have the premium app also . I heard that after a long period of tim being off the sims will have to be replaced. I would rather pay for credits and let them run every so often if that's the case. Any insight is appreciative!!

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  John Lockburner

  • February 03, 2019 20:32

  I like to leave mine going year round. You can put them in your back yard or just check out new places in the woods. If you do store them make sure all the batteries are removed. If it's a 3g Verizon definitely don't deactivate it, you won't be able to reactivate it again

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  Elizabeth Swoope

  • February 03, 2019 22:53
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  The SIM expiration applies to AT&T Buy-A-Session SIMS. I’m not sure about any others. With BAS, if the data plan has expired and is not reactivated and the device is not removed from the account (freeing up the SIM), the SIM expires after 60 days (I think). I have had success removing a device with a freshly expired SIM and reactivating the SIM later.
  
  If your camera is not sending pics, it won’t use credits. That’s separate from your data plan, though, unless you are using the Spartan plans. If you don’t want to pay for premium service, switch the camera to auto and get your pics via text or not at all (they’ll just go to the portal) or turn send off completely.

  For a 4G camera, you may be able to suspend service, but it may be cheaper just to leave it on your account than to have to pay to have it reactivated or unsuspended or whatever it is that has to be done.

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  Jeremy Collins

  • February 04, 2019 01:58

  I wasn't gonna deactivate them or nothing like that . I'm not worried about using my credits . I was just gonna take them down , take the batteries out . Store them in my
  House . But when I get ready to use them this August I didknt want them to not work because sims had been cut off or whatever!

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  Elizabeth Swoope

  • February 04, 2019 02:00

  Electronics sometimes don't do well when stored. I'd at least run them as regular cameras. Just turn send off.

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  Jeremy Collins

  • February 04, 2019 02:20

  Okay good enough I'm just gonna run them like always turn the delay way down , thanks!!!!

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