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Help Bypassing Activation Screen with No Service Available

anthonyborn

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I'm a soldier stationed in Afghanistan and I received an INC in the mail today that I ordered a week ago. Charged the battery, powered it on and discovered that it requires service activation in order to use it. I ordered it to use the WI FI capability here until I reactivate my Verizon service when I get home this fall.

I have read several threads in different forums discussing procedures to bypass the activation screen and I've tried them all. Tapping the corners in a clockwise motion or canceling the (*228) activation call and rebooting 3 times. I even contacted Verison and HTC technical support and they couldn't figure it out either. They think it's because I have no cell phone service here so cancelling the activation call method doesn't work.

Does anyone know how to bypass the activation screen from the ##778 command on the emergency dialer. I have read where it's possible to bypass using the A-KEY command.
 
I'm a soldier stationed in Afghanistan and I received an INC in the mail today that I ordered a week ago. Charged the battery, powered it on and discovered that it requires service activation in order to use it. I ordered it to use the WI FI capability here until I reactivate my Verizon service when I get home this fall.

I have read several threads in different forums discussing procedures to bypass the activation screen and I've tried them all. Tapping the corners in a clockwise motion or canceling the (*228) activation call and rebooting 3 times. I even contacted Verison and HTC technical support and they couldn't figure it out either. They think it's because I have no cell phone service here so cancelling the activation call method doesn't work.

Does anyone know how to bypass the activation screen from the ##778 command on the emergency dialer. I have read where it's possible to bypass using the A-KEY command.

the way i got around it was by dialing *228 and the system just failed to activate. THen once it fails you can continue or skip.
 
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I don't have an answer for you, but I want to say something.

I want to thank you for serving our nation. You are appreciated. You are a true hero. I always move support threads to the support section, but I'm going to make an exception to honor you. Thank you and God bless you.

Oh yeah, enjoy your incredible!
 
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First I would like to say thank you for the tremendous support you show us everyday..You are great Americans!

I finally figured out how to bypass the activation screen when no phone service is available.

1. Select emergency call and dial ##778.
2. Select edit and enter service password 000000.
3. Select NAM Settings.
4. Change Mobile Directory number to 0000000000 (Ten digits).
5. Change MIN1 to 0000000 (Seven digits).
6. Change Mobile Country Code to 000 (Three digits).
7. As you back out "Commit the Change".
8. The phone will auto reboot in 10 seconds.

Worked like a champ!

I wrote down the original numbers so I can restore its configuration when I return to the states.

Thanks again!
 
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if all that other stuff dont work, i just called verizon as i have a phone that no longer has a plan, spoke to a nice tech support person named Danielle (i think thats spelled right) and she gave me these steps:
1 turn the phone off then back on to get to the language select screen
2 press volume up, volume down, back, and search one at a time in quick succession
3 viola
i know this works on my lg vortex, but i dont know about any other phones
 
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First I would like to say thank you for the tremendous support you show us everyday..You are great Americans!

I finally figured out how to bypass the activation screen when no phone service is available.

1. Select emergency call and dial ##778.
2. Select edit and enter service password 000000.
3. Select NAM Settings.
4. Change Mobile Directory number to 0000000000 (Ten digits).
5. Change MIN1 to 0000000 (Seven digits).
6. Change Mobile Country Code to 000 (Three digits).
7. As you back out "Commit the Change".
8. The phone will auto reboot in 10 seconds.

Worked like a champ!

I wrote down the original numbers so I can restore its configuration when I return to the states.

Thanks again!

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hey it's not working on my droid 2 global, when i dial ##778 in emergency call, it just says: "dial fail! only emergency and OTA calls can be dialed!.... ok....
no other option appears like Edit or anything else.
 
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hey it's not working on my droid 2 global, when i dial ##778 in emergency call, it just says: "dial fail! only emergency and OTA calls can be dialed!.... ok....
no other option appears like Edit or anything else.

You might try the droid 2 forums, every phone is different (unfortunately)
 
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I tried that. It won't let me change the Mobile Directory Number! I looked in those other threads. Seems like a few other people were having that same problem.

Nothing else works: tapping 4 corners, resetting, dialing *228 & end ~8+ times. Also the Vol up, down stuff. 2 different methods! Nothing. Email sent to HTC. Hopefully they have some answers for me.

Any other ideas in the mean time??
 
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I tried that. It won't let me change the Mobile Directory Number! I looked in those other threads. Seems like a few other people were having that same problem.

Nothing else works: tapping 4 corners, resetting, dialing *228 & end ~8+ times. Also the Vol up, down stuff. 2 different methods! Nothing. Email sent to HTC. Hopefully they have some answers for me.

Any other ideas in the mean time??


Have you heard anything back about this issue?? I'm in the same boat. I'm in south Korea and nothing seems to be working :(
 
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Haven't heard anything new. Talked to HTC. Only advice was to do the "call and end 3 times" to skip activation. Doesn't work if you do not have a signal! I'm in Costa Rica, and it seems like there's service (according to the Verizon map) somewhere north of me. I suppose I'll try taking a bus and heading up until i get a signal.

I'll keep you posted. No other ideas have came to me in other threads either.
 
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