liljonnyboy

In order to bypass the initial activation, am I correct when I say that all I need to do is tap the corners of the screen in a clock wise formation starting with the top left corner? I want to do this because I want to compare battery life of activation vs battery life w/o activation. If I do this, how do I activate it after I pass the first activation? Sorry for the excessive use of the word "activation" lol

SamMax

Or keep ending the call when initiated.

irishpride

The only way I've heard to bypass activation is tapping the 4 corners like you said. It worked for the Droid & Eris, I don't see why it wouldn't work for the Inc. If it does work, to activate it just call *228 and follow the directions.

FullMetalMikey

The 4 corners tap does not work on the Droid Inc. However, if you activate, end the call, and reboot the phone 3 times, it will let you skip the activation screen. Just tried this on my DInc right now and it worked.

Feels Good Man

Jeez. Just activate the phone and enjoy it. Whats the purpose of testing pre-activation battery life? Who is really going to use this phone unactivated?

bggann

If I understand correctly you are saying "start the activation call but end it before it is really activated", right? Then reboot 3 times.

If you completed the activation call - then it's activated and no need to skip it....

taradylan

well, in some retail locations like best buy, they don't always get activated demos for consumers to test on, and that's why it's necessary for someone to have a way around it.

GrandMasterB

Or myself who just bought an Incredible for my daughter to use as an iPod/gaming device so she will have the most bad@$$ iPod in town

Worked like a charm, Thanks guys.

GMB

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Medion

Here's another method, the one I used while I was overseas.

[ANSWERED] - Bypass activation - xda-developers

If you ever need to activate your phone, just dial *228 and reprogram the phone.

CDDrouin

I keep trying to activate my phone overseas in europe, but i don't have service. I did everything that people kept saying to do but it's still not working. I was able to get into the editing screen to change the phone numbers to 0's but the one it won't let me edit is the MOBILE DIRECTORY number. There is no option to edit that one. Does anyone know why it won't let me or how i can fix this.
I also tried crashing the system but it doesn't work either. Please help!

CTD

Same thing here.

Thanks for any assistance.

alohabudi

Also having same issue. Have looked over many posts but haven't found a solution. I am living in Budapest and just did a factory reset and now can't get the device back up and running. Just emailed HTC support for a solution.