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Re: Flashed phone many times, now can't authenticate phone?

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Originally Posted by jmorton10 View Post
You don't need VZ's help if you have another VZ phone you can activate.

It can be an old $10 flip phone. You go to verizonwireless.com & create an account (it's free)

Then you go to where it says you can change phones. You turn off your existing phone (remove the battery) & type in the ESN or MEID from the old phone & tell them to activate it (it only takes a minute & the site tells you what to do)

When the old phone is activated, make a couple calls to make sure it works then wait about ten minutes & shut it down.

Now use the exact same procedure to re-activate the TP2 again & it should work fine. This procedure forces a DMU reset.

~John
I have tried this in the past and it would not let me activate the phone back on occasion and I had to call them anyway, but now I had to explain why I went to an old phone and back to my current. After having to authenticate recently myself, I would rather dial *8899 and tell them I hard reset. Just my experience.
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