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Originally Posted by Splitter
No, that's the rub. I checked my mail and a few web sites no more than 10 - 12 times over the last month. There is absolutely NO WAY I used more than 5 - 10M of data.
That's my problem with them. The rep said the phone calls home (using data) all the time and that I should have been told that. I'm gonna use that when I talk to them again tomorrow. That, my friend, is BS.
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First, tell them that your home computer swears that it never answered those calls, so you should not be charged for uncompleted calls.
Second, there have been threads for a long time about this on PPC phones. When the 6600 first came out there were many threads about $2000 monthly data bills. Turning off the data connection does not keep the device from re-establishing a connection whenever it sees fit, and something on your phone is initiating the data connection. I remember someone saying that setting a password on your data connection will work, so that it will not connect without you entering the password. Search for that and give it a shot.
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I found this post, it is for a Sprint user but hopefully will work on Verizon too...
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Originally Posted by nuguy
Instead of delgeting the sprint connection, just put anything in the password field. The password needs to be left blank, so this way if you (or your phone) tries to connect to vision (sprint) the user/password will pop up. If you choose to connect simply delete the password, don't save the setting and connect, if you don't choose connect you will not be charged anything as you are not connecting to their network.
You do not get charged by sprint for using free wifi - but sprint and verizon both have there cs reps so brainwashed about the word data... I think if you told them you have digital data on your phone you need to back up before doing a hard reset they would tell you they need to charge you for the data...
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