stupid ? Verizon activation

[akatcl]

Just finished playing with my new 6900 and want to activate it (GPS seems to be working even with the cdma antenna off). I don't know if it's because I'm not in my home area or because they are onto the custom rom but activation fails by *228,2 *228,1 *228,3 (followed by *228,1) and even by typing the esn into the website. This is a brand new unactivated phone. The fail message says to call customer service. Are they going to realize it's a custom rom?

[fwaits]

Just finished playing with my new 6900 and want to activate it (GPS seems to be working even with the cdma antenna off). I don't know if it's because I'm not in my home area or because they are onto the custom rom but activation fails by *228,2 *228,1 *228,3 (followed by *228,1) and even by typing the esn into the website. This is a brand new unactivated phone. The fail message says to call customer service. Are they going to realize it's a custom rom?

Nah, just tell em you recently flashed the 6.1 ROM update, or you Master Reset the phone and even after *228 you can't get the phone to authenticate calls. They will re-establish it in the system and you'll be good to go.

[akatcl]

Nah, just tell em you recently flashed the 6.1 ROM update, or you Master Reset the phone and even after *228 you can't get the phone to authenticate calls. They will re-establish it in the system and you'll be good to go.
Gave them a call. The woman I spoke to had me dial ##778 which didn't work (because of nfsfans's dialer app that came with his 6.5 package, I guess).
Any thoughts?

[kilroy1stcav]

Gave them a call. The woman I spoke to had me dial ##778 which didn't work (because of nfsfans's dialer app that came with his 6.5 package, I guess).
Any thoughts?

Try ##778# that should do it. Or you can go in to your file explorer and under the windows folder run the EPST.ink

[akatcl]

Try ##778# that should do it. Or you can go in to your file explorer and under the windows folder run the EPST.ink

I should have updated the thread... I figured out the ##778# thing this morning but then the password was not 000000 so I had to run getspc.exe to retrieve it. Now, they've gone through the manual set up and, with them doing a couple things on their end, I'm HALFWAY (maybe 1/3) there:
(1) the phone dials but thinks it's roaming (and this mght have something to do with *228 not working...)
(2) Data connection does not work. I recall seeing how to fix this (it is missing some password info or something) and am looking for the thread now... (if someone knows where it is I'd be much obliged) .

I've made 3-4 calls to verizon now, each but the last ending suddenly when they suggested I do a hard reset. :)

Truthfully, I swear there's some issue with my account that requires voodoo everytime I need to activate a phone. This was my first custom rom but on two different numbers with a handful of pda phones, I can't remember the last time an activation was smoothly. A phone on my other line was roaming mysteriously for a while too and only remedied when I activated a new one.

Thanks all!