Thread: What to do First ? - (Update) Failed to activate
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Old 12-04-2009, 12:31 AM
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Re: What to do First ?
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Originally Posted by TdiDave View Post
Good advise. I tried to activate and dang thing would not take the programing. Even tried to do a manual programing with the tech folks at verizon and no luck. It gets a few bars after a hard reboot and will dial the *288 but its dosent go out to verizon it picks up USCellular. Then after we try the manual entering of the numbers in the ##778 it no longer gets any signal.
They said they will have to send me a new device. But it sound more like it the programing not hardware ???
Always start with manual programming. Sprint is the same way. Hands-free activations rarely work, and when they do half you're services get messed up.
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