New PPC6700 - Need Help With Cricket

[marke]

Hi everyone,

I just got a new PPC6700 (new in the box, as in never used), it already has Windows Mobile and is supposedly got Cricket software on it to. There's a Cricket directory I can see on it with some *.prl files in it.

So, I want to get this phone working on Cricket first before I load Apache on it, to be sure it works Ok. But, I can't figure out how to do it. I gave Cricket my ESN and I did the typical *228 thing for new phones, but that doesn't work. I get that message - something like "The number of spc attempts failed 15 times from the network."

Anybody know how to get past this? Any help will be greatly appreciated. I'm an old timer with Windows (and Linux) but entirely a newbie with Windows Mobile, so I'm sort of clueless what to do to get it hooked up.