How To Manually Reactivate Your Moto Droid

[soba1]

Thought I would share this just in case.
I loaded Cyanogen then Smokedglass; followed by the
radio band update which makes u have to reactivate your phone.
During the reactivation process my dial pad wouldn't come up
so I called VZ and enevntually a tech had me manually reprogram
my phone. Fwiw here are the steps

Dial ##7764726
Press Call Button
SPC Password=000000
Go To User Activation
Look for MDN=8182223333 (Enter your phone number)
Look for MIN=8182223333 (Enter your phone number)
CDMA SYS ID= # (whatever number that is assigned to your area)
Go back to home screen then phone should restart and then reactivate.
U may not need it but just in case I thought I would pass this on.

PS I was informed that during the over the air reprogramming.
U can slide out the kb as well.

 

[mwhartman]

Thanks. Like you, I'm running Cyanogen and have the same problem with my dial pad not being available. I've not have any problems with my phone so I did not seek a solution.

Mike

 

[rooster.droid]

couldn't you just do a *22891 which automatically programs your phone?

 

[Droids]

*22891 updates the Preferred Roaming List, same as dialing *228 and option 2.

*22899 activates the phone, then updates the PRL, same as dialing *228 and option 1.

I'm surprised a VZW tech would walk someone through all those steps to re-activate a phone. Yikes.

 

[rooster.droid]

thanks you are right droids.

 

[JCo352]

Yea, when I flashed cyanmod, I just used my keyboard, since there was no dialpad.

 

[PetRiLJoe]

*22891 updates the Preferred Roaming List, same as dialing *228 and option 2.

*22899 activates the phone, then updates the PRL, same as dialing *228 and option 1.

I'm surprised a VZW tech would walk someone through all those steps to re-activate a phone. Yikes.

I see no reason why a VZW tech would not do this. It's not as if they are teaching us a new trick. But I am glad you provided us with the info soba1. Thanks.

I have had at least two phones in the past which had problems (one was a Windows 5 smartphone , XV6700 I upgraded to WM6) and another was a regular cell phone that both required similar instructions. The instructions were almost identical. I recall calling the help line late at night so I could not take my phone into the store, and for whatever reason they decided this was the best solution. They probably did nothing that a VZW tech wouldn't do, because all they ever do is wipe my damn phone and start over because that fixes 99% of the problems everybody has when there is know immediately known fix.