BG 21 on Thursday 2/13.
TY everyone for all assistance here! I'd never been to HS or much to Disney at all and not for ~ 10 years. Started from scratch several months back planning, downloading
MDE, learning it, etc. So if I can do it, there should be hope for all, and MTFBWY. Love Star Wars and loved all the SW stuff at HS and will go back; feel very fortunate got a BG and for the whole day and experience.
My steps:
-Left walking from Dolphin 6:45
-Had bags. Stayed to right. Through security and then tapped magic band and through.
-Sitting on ledge about 50 feet from Anaheim Produce (by Tower of Terror) by ~ 7:10?
-Wasn't trying to RD any ride and had heard full Verizon bars there and wanted out of huge mass of people shoulder to shoulder, and to sit. Also had brought in breakfast and ate there.
-Checked to make sure tix for day said 0 days left for both in party -- i.e., that both recognized as in park.
-Iphone 11. Closed all apps swiping up. Shut off phone. Turned back on. Turned off Wifi, location, and bluetooth on phone and latter 2 in MDE specifically. Have not seen anyone talking about doing the latter, but practicing at home seemed fine and thought couldn't hurt. I had several days earlier updated my app to 5.8? But perhaps not 5.8.1 which actually might have been better?
-Closed MDE
-7:57 re-opened MDE. I have seen reports to open at 7:59:50 but that just made me too nervous in case of glitch opening. Other in party on iphone 6 was using that method.
-When iphone switched to 8:00, I hit "Find out More." I had previously seen that iphone was synchronized exactly to some recommended time sites so didn't bother having those open separately. Join Boarding group was red. Hit that, and went through normal steps of selecting party. BG 21.
-Very happy but then noticed at first, only I showed in the BG and we headed to guest services. However, on way, other in party saw on her phone she was in the group with me, and then mine switched to including us both about 30 seconds later -- awesome!
-The iphone 6 was getting through as well at 8:00 and may have gotten a regular BG, but I got it first. Iphone 6 had purposefully not updated app to 5.8 and was also on Verizon full bars, wifi off.