Check your About Phone in settings and see if an update was automatically installed.

 

lol

 

What is your PRL under settings - About Phone - Status?

 

You will be the envy of all stock ICS users if your version is 4.03

 

One, he's not trolling. During the last major outage others reported this and.found their PRLs changed from 15098 to 62452 or something similar. One guy did a battery pull and facfory reset to try to stop the update but his phone kept autodialing the number.

Two, that number is not preloaded in your contacts. If i factory reset my phone and don't log back into my account during set up, then I have no contacts period.

Three, *22899 is a shortcut way of callinv *228 then option 2. I used it all the time to update the PRL on my 3G phones.

I don't mean to sound harsh, but it's ridiculous to accuss someone of trolling when yku obviously don't know all the facts. Doesn't that make YOU the troll, instead?

And I honestly don't know if it was known to brick the older 4G phones as this is my first one, but I can assure you that by setting *22899 as a contact and dialing it thats way will not only update your PRL on the GNex, but will not brick this phone.

 

Mr. OJ is right. The OP isn't a troll. Not even a little bit.Same thing happened to me several times during the outages.

 

I'd really appreciate a lesson on PRL and if I should do anything to update my device. I am stock. Also I am a former Alltel subscriber. I mention this because when I went back to my VZW store to inquire about my poor reception, the associate asked if I was a former Alltel customer. He then mentioned something about PRL and did something on the computer that he said might help my reception issue. FWIW...it didn't.

 

This is an auto dial that many people have reported on many forums. I'm willing to bet it happens all the time without people even knowing. From what I understand it does not show up in recent calls either.

 

Are you guys able to dial *22899 manually? Every time I've tried I immediately get a "Call not sent" message.

 

If you add the number to your contacts, it will let you dial it. OP, if *22899 is in your contacts, remove it and it shouldn't be able to dial it again.

 

I think at some point your PRL did change. AFAIK everyone had a PRL of 15098 until some of them experienced this strange self update which changed it to 52642.

 

When I first received mine, I went through the activation sequence but it wouldn't activate. The phone then started repeatedly dialing that *2289 over and over unable to activate. I had to shut it down to make it stop. This happened more than once (eachtime i powered onit would start dialing) and I finally had to shut it down and call Verizon.

 

I am still at 15098 and my Nexus is rooted if that means anything.

 

Interesting, my post was deleted.

*228 updates your PRL on a 3G type phone. Preferred Roaming List. AKA which cell towers to use. It has nothing to do with an Android update.

edit: 4G phones update the PRL on a reboot.

 

Yes it was and for good reason.

 

Just did this and my PRL went from 15098 to 52642

 

I just dialed *22899 (from my contacts) and my GN also "updated the PRL from 1508 to 52642. Is this supposed to help with reception? in 4g or just 3g?

 

I don't know what it does but it made zero difference for me as far as reception. Still at the same dBm and asu as before on both 3g and 4g.

 

people have been reporting this *22899 activity since December 15th. nothing new. several threads about it here and on AC. It just updates your roaming capability. the improved reception would only be noticeable in the places where you'd be in roaming, not in your home area.

 

Yup, just did this and my PRL updated to the same.

 

Huh, my stock GN is 15098 after a bunch of reboots

 

I think it just is for which tower or area the phone looks for signal from. I think it more pinpoints your area if you move around from one area to another or vice versa.

 

This happened to me twice today. I had the radios turned off because I was in a theater and when I turned them back on, it auto-called - the first time I manually hang up and a few minutes later, it called again. I listened to it the second time and it just sounded like a normal activation was going on. Very strange. Never happened to me before on my Droid or Bionic (that I was aware of).