Auto-Dial 22899?

[Laramie]

***Tinfoil Hat Time***

My phone did this about 4 separate times, each time my phone was on my nightstand which is an absolute deadzone. Yesterday, I finally walked to the kitchen, and the call connected and the programming music. Phone hasn't tried to dial since.

Interesting note, I can now steadily send texts from areas of the house/property where I couldn't when I first got my GN. Not sure what happened, but maybe the roaming list does have something to do with data/towers/etc.

Whatever the case, I have noticed a slight increase in ability to send texts and make/receive calls in spots that used to be dead.

 

[packisback]

My phone first did this a week ago when Verizon had the nationwide data outage. I figured it was related to that and thought nothing more of it until today. I am working this week in a remote area with absolutely no cell coverage (no voice, 1x, 3g, or LTE). The phone tried to call *22899 but of course couldn't connect to anything. It then continued to try to call *22899 over and over again and each time I would end the call knowing it couldn't connect. The phone continued to try to call until I finally got annoyed and shut it off.

Has anyone been able to get an answer from Verizon as to why this is happening. They act confused when I explain it to them and ask if I want to exchange the phone for a new one (which I don't because I don't think it is something wrong with my individual phone).

 

[daso]

Mine did it two times right around the outage and never happened again. I called VZW and they said it was due to the GN trying to find service. Load of BS, but it never happened again.

 

[joat25]

ditto here, even posted about it around a week ago. seemed to do it several times after i got it (which was also around the time of the 4g outage).
i assumed it was related to an incomplete activation or update.
hasn't done it for about 2 weeks so i imagine it got what it needed.

 

[sdiego]

Since it won't let you manually dial that number, I learned if you just program the number as a contact, it then will dial out. I am here in San Diego Ca. and I went from I think 15095 to 52616. I may try again in a different part of the city and see if it changes again. I don't see really much difference in my case.

 

[cj100570]

I'm actually starting to get annoyed by this. My phone has been doing it a few times each week. What's troublesome about this is that there's no indication it's happening unless you just happen to see it. I've never had any phone auto dial for updates!

 

[fillossofer]

So I'm sitting at my desk with my Nexus beside me when all of a sudden it just places a call to *22899. I heard that wonderful Verizon music playing for a few seconds, then the call terminated. Read through this thread and my PRL is 52642 (rebooted and stayed the same). To my knowledge this is the first time it has ever done that, but I'm not liking it one bit. It sounds like people are seeing it happen when the phone is in poor coverage areas, and that's all well and good, but you'd think Verizon would consider it a feature and be forthcoming about it. I'm looking at the phone thinking I've downloaded a dialer and will be charged for a call to Zimbabwe or something.

 

[TheJ0hnman]

Since it won't let you manually dial that number, I learned if you just program the number as a contact, it then will dial out. I am here in San Diego Ca. and I went from I think 15095 to 52616. I may try again in a different part of the city and see if it changes again. I don't see really much difference in my case.

Due to my curious nature I gave this a go as well. Went from 15098 to 52642 in Cincinnati, OH. I do not see any marked improvement in signal strength (still at around -100 dBm mid-30s-ish asu). I do, however, have 4G back afterwards, which for future reference has been widely reported to be out around the country today. It could well be coincidence, but I had switched data off/on ~30 minutes prior to see if 4G was back and it did not return at that time. I'm hoping my signal strength will improve at work, where I've been drifting in and out of service inside the building, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[kath00]

I am in San Diego, Ca and mine says 15095 strange.

I was on a cruise this past week and found my phone autodialing 22899 also a few times! I panicked and called Verizon when I got back so I didn't get charged teh $2.50 ship rate for each of these wierd calls! Very strange!

I too live in San Diego but we were near Cabo when I saw the phone do this! I am not sure how many times it actually did it though...

Katherine

Edited: Verizon is actually unable to tell me how many times it dialed or whether I will be charged for the calls or not given we were on a ship!?!?! My billing cycle ended today and they told me to call back in 5-7 days so we can review the calls. Amazing that htey can't actually look at the charges and call list until AFTER the cycle closes. ARGH.

 

[metsnfins]

15098 in Philly suburbs

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[Nex2knotN]

I had the same thing happen to me as well and I did some research and ran into this information on another Android forum and found out the Over-the-Air Programming (OTA) and what it does:

*228 option 1

-Programs the MDN, MIN and Home SID into the phone, downloads the latest PRL, and sets the lock code to the last 4 digits of the MDN.

*228 option 2,

-Only downloads the current PRL.

*22890,

-Automatically performs option 1 without having to press 1.

*22891

-Automatically performs option 2 without having to press 2.

*22899

-Automatically performs option 1, plus applies changes specific to data cards.
Note: Do not perform *22899 on any device that is not a data card.


*22888

-Unassisted OTA for Prepaid phones


It sounds like *22899 contains PRL information for the voice network and the difference between it and *228, option 2, is that *22899 contains data network information that has to be authenicated separately. It would send a data bracket at the beginning of the call that authenticates your esn for use on their (insert generation number here) network.

So does that mean it forces PRL information on VZW phones with official OSes on them. That is why it phone home to VZ? I'm no expert, so maybe someone can chime in and verify or fill in the details.

 

[KoukiFC3S]

Mine did that yesterday when the LTE went out.

Freaked me out. I thought I got a virus.

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[MBSMD]

My GN autodialed the *22899 about 30 minutes ago. Interesting thing is that my 4G is no longer working (never shows blue signal bars nor the 4G logo) and no data connection; data works in CDMA-only mode. Could it have self-fried the SIM card?

 

[Tom in Bristol]

So does that mean it forces PRL information on VZW phones with official OSes on them. That is why it phone home to VZ? I'm no expert, so maybe someone can chime in and verify or fill in the details.

Appreciate the info and yes VZW probably does it when they change the PRL...and what else?

I've posted this screenshot in two Bionic forums with no responses but wonder if it has something to do with this auto-dial topic.

My PRL is unchanged since launch purchase 9/8/11 and is 15075. I discovered this activity on the Bionic while checking Battery stats during the outage yesterday. My Recent Calls log does NOT show any auto-dialled numbers like those you listed, but I'm really curious about this.

Hope there are some experts here that will chime in.

 

[Tom in Bristol]

Appreciate the info and yes VZW probably does it when they change the PRL...and what else?

I've posted this screenshot in two Bionic forums with no responses but wonder if it has something to do with this auto-dial topic.

My PRL is unchanged since launch purchase 9/8/11 and is 15075. I discovered this activity on the Bionic while checking Battery stats during the outage yesterday. My Recent Calls log does NOT show any auto-dialled numbers like those you listed, but I'm really curious about this.

Hope there are some experts here that will chime in.

*Bump*

 

[FrankXS]

*Bump*

Man, I can't hardly believe it. This is a bug, big time, in the GN. I'm not being facetious or trying to be rude. 4G phones are "provisioned", including updating the PRL automatically, every time they are restarted. A 4G capable phone should never dial any number starting with *228. And, AFAIK, any PRL starting with 50xxx is a non-4G PRL. A 4G PRL should start with 15xxx. Not good. A bug. Some left-over code that should have been taken out. Yeah, this is just my opinion...........

-Frank

 

[JoeMimic]

Mine is doing this like crazy too but I can't even activate mine. I called the activation number and she said something about my phone order being in a switch and that eventually it would work itself out and activate on it's own.

 

[MBSMD]

Man, I can't hardly believe it. This is a bug, big time, in the GN. I'm not being facetious or trying to be rude. 4G phones are "provisioned", including updating the PRL automatically, every time they are restarted. A 4G capable phone should never dial any number starting with *228. And, AFAIK, any PRL starting with 50xxx is a non-4G PRL. A 4G PRL should start with 15xxx. Not good. A bug. Some left-over code that should have been taken out. Yeah, this is just my opinion...........

-Frank

Interesting. My PRL is listed as 52642. Don't know what that means, but my phone auto dialed the *22899 today. My 4G is working again (I posted earlier that it had dropped out, but it seems to be back up).

Edit: others on XDA forums have the same PRL, so seems not to be an issue I guess.

 

[sdiego]

I never had it auto dial any number, but set 22899 as a contact, and then dialed out. I did this a day or two ago, and went from 15095 to 52616 and didn't see any difference. However I ported another number to VZW today online, and when it ported out a few hours later, it changed again and now it's back on 15095. I am here in San Diego, Ca. I don't understand any of this. I will leave it for now.

 

[6spd]

This happened to me too, either yesterday or the day before.. can't remember.

I just hit end call every single time it happened and it drove me nuts! I was about to toss my phone against the wall!

Should I have let it dial through? What the hell is this PRL thing you guys are talking about?