anthonyborn

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.

dwd3885

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.

anthonyborn

Tried that.. When it fails it only gives a dismiss option then goes right back to the activation screen.

Berry2Droid

As of right now theres no way to skip it. If you fail activation all you can do is retry. The moto droid was te 4 corner touch thing, this phone has nothing. I work for vzw and checked our tech bulletins in the same place i found ti for the moto droid, and there was nothing there. Sorry sir.

darkfiber

Keep trying activate > end call over and over again. Apparently the activation app crashes or lets you in after a number of failed attempts. I don't recall the specifics but I did just send an exchange incredible back and this worked for me.

wtfdan

Yeah I also experienced this. After like an hour of try, I realized that if you keep failing to activate, the phone will actually let you go on. just keep trying

nickreich

Thank you for your service, sir. I hope you can get into your phone.

GrandMasterB

Does booting in safe mode help at all? Power off then back on pressing the MENU button when you see the logo appear.

(shot in the dark I know)

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Steven58

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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anthonyborn

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!

Steven58

Bump

jgigs

I can assure you it can be bypassed. I did it by accident on my phone. Since it was an accident I have no idea what I did back then...

ilinimud

I bypassed mine on accident too. Didnt have a number yet (thanks Verizon) and when i prompted for my numer twice and i didnt put one in, it ended the call and i had access to the phone.

bwthor

dwd3885 is right. I just received a replacement and this is what I did...

1. Attempt to activate, and end call 3-4 seconds into it. On the second attempt, it came up asking if I want to skip this step.
2. Enjoy!

Curtai

so can you still install apk s to the phone?

0Jeanine0

I just did it by accident also. I was in the activation circle of hell, clicked to call *228, once the bot answered, I realized I wasn't following the directions above and clicked the back button...and it let me click next/skip until the activation process was over and now I'm at the home screen.

xgcunexpected

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

imrandroid

...........................................
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.

Crashumbc

You might try the droid 2 forums, every phone is different (unfortunately)

kmcdonal8

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??

Seoulsister86

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

dorkdorkdork

Ending the activation call three times will skip the screen.

Does anybody know how to change the MDN of the HTC Incredible? Going to the NAM via ##778 does not work as mentioned.

Been stuck for days.

kmcdonal8

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.

kmcdonal8

So still no luck! Have you, or anybody else find a way to fix this? It seems like there HAS to be a way to get my phone to work.

Any help out there??

kevinf5

I found this on another website and it worked on my Motorola Droid 3... I had to do it multiple times until I got it but yes it did work...

1. On the Welcome screen with the touch the android to begin icon, do the following:

2. Tap the top left corner of the screen then

3. Tap the top right corner of the screen then

4. Tap the bottom right corner of the screen ( just above the grey bar along the bottom with emergency dial and change language in it) then

5. Tap the bottom left corner of the screen ( just above the grey bar along the bottom with emergency dial and change language in it).

6. That’s it, should pop up the home screen shortly, if not retry. Remember not to drag your finger, simple tap top left, top right, bottom right, bottom left.

sdrawkcab25

That doesn't work on the incredible

SUPERGALAXYS

this worked on the droid x2 for me

Kian926

any updates on how we can bypass the activation?

Kian926

i tried cancelling the call activation multiple times and also tried editing the settings by dialing ##778,theres no way that i can change the MDN settings..

anyone able to bypass the activation?

sdrawkcab25

Try letting the activation fail, don't cancel the call.

Kian926

already tried that..... still no luck;(

any suggestions that worked for you guys?

Kian926

already tried that,............but still no luck;(

any suggestions that worked for you guys?

ginnyh123

I am also trying in vain to skip the setup on a new to me G1. I have an H2O SIM card installed for voice calls and plan to use my home wireless network for data as I had done with a prev G1.

The tapping in the 4 corners does not work. I proceeded and tried to login repeatedly, allowing the login to fail 5x in a row - still NG.

Cannot find a way to access my home network b4 setup. No idea what Android level is installed. Any help appreciated !

expatchic

I had the exact same problem as I, too, am in Afghanistan. Basically, here's what you need to do to MANUALLY program the phone:

On the dialer, enter ##778, and press 'call' and the 'Edit Mode'.

Put in the password, which is TYPICALLY 6 zeros: 000000

Now for the fun part:

Press 'NAM Settings'

There are 3 things you need to set here:

MDN = your 10 digit phone#

MIN1 = your 7 digit phone#

MIN2 = the area code of your phone#

Press the 'back' key and go to 'HOME SID/Home NID' settings

Press 'Home SID/NID #1', and change the first value to '189' (Leave the 65535 alone).

Now press your 'menu' key to bring up the 'commit modifications' "button". Press that. At this point your phone will reboot, and SHOULD talk to the local network. (You might have to go into Network Settings and change it to 'global', but it should detect the network on its own).

NOW...the problem I had w/my Incredible 2 was I couldn't edit the MDN field. The ONLY field in the whole lot that was not editable.

I'm sure you've read all sorts of posts about 'HTC DIAG' and 'CDMA WORKSHOP'....I actually got the HTC DIAG to work (sets up your phone to act like a modem), but was having a terrible time w/the CDMA WORKSHOP.

I found another program that was MUCH easier to use: cdmaDevTerm
1) it's a zip file so you don't have download yet another program to read the 'rar' file of CDMA Workshop. 2), fairly straight forward. With Workshop, I couldn't figure out how to edit the MDN field. With cdmaDevTerm, it will scan your com ports for you; you don't even have to tell it which one. It was super easy to set the MDN#. You can also use it to set the other fields, or if you're a little timid, you can then edit them from your phone. cdmaDevTerm is free BECAUSE it's a Beta test, so I couldn't find any instructions, but it's pretty intuitive.

I hope this helps you....I was going nuts trying to get my phone back up after I was forced to do a factory reset.

-Karen

¿kernelpanic?

First, I want to say thank you to all of the troops on here!

Second, I am devTerm author--it was designed to fix all the things that bothered me about cdma workshop when I used workshop on a daily basis, so it should be fairly similar for most basic phone tasks like this.

As you stated there is not alot(read:any?) of documentation for cdmaDevTerm, so if you have any questions please feel free to ask.

CdmaDevTerm can be found at cdmaworkshoptool - A utility that parses cdma worksop items: NV Item reads(to remove plain text) and bin dumps(to find SPC/MSL) and converts MEID/ESN from Hex to Dec AND Other CDMA Tools like cdmaDevTerm - Google Project Hosting or chromableedstudios

As for bypassing the activation screen it seems there are many different models discussed on this thread, but the general idea for many of the '*228 provisioning based' activation screens is if a phone has not yet had the NAM programmed it will try to activate the phone.

If memory serves the way this generally happens is when the phone boots, it compares the MIN to the expected 'unprovisioned' MIN which is generated from the MEID(but I supposed it could be based on any number of NV ITEM fields).

edit: You should note too, that your MIN is not always the same as your phone number. It is best to get both the MDN and the MIN directly from your service provider.

Last edited by ¿kernelpanic?; May 2nd, 2012 at 09:51 PM.

roberth300

I found the trick that worked on my Samsung galaxy s.
On the language screen:
Volume up 1 time, down 2 times, up 3 times & down 4 times.

alohabudi

Hi, this did not work for me because there may be a change in the new software. I did a factory reset and am in Budapest. I now can't get past the activation screen and the step above won't let me change the MDN. Anyone have any success in getting around this issue on newer D Inc software??

sdrawkcab25

Let the activation fail 3 times and it will skip it.