No *228 with Sim Card?

[Grenex]

The charge is my first phone with a SIM card. In effort to help my battery life, I tried to do a *228 and option 2 to update my roaming. Apparently this is not avialable on SIM Card phones? I get a message saying the SIM Card is updated almost immediately and the call ends.

 

[mboverst]

Funny you mentioned it. My Visual Voicemail has been acting screwy all day and I tried the old *228 + 1 trick which has sometimes worked in the past, and got the same instantaneous message. I'm not sure what the reason is.

Off-Topic: Is anyone else having VVM issues today?

 

[diverbelow]

Funny you mentioned it. My Visual Voicemail has been acting screwy all day and I tried the old *228 + 1 trick which has sometimes worked in the past, and got the same instantaneous message. I'm not sure what the reason is.

Off-Topic: Is anyone else having VVM issues today?

Off-Topic answer, not using VVmail but using Google Voice and it works great on the Droid Charge.

 

[whitenessj]

+1 on the Google Voice.. the visual VMail option works even better than on my incredible

 

[cdunn05#AC]

*** If you do *228 on an LTE phone, it blows the SIM card and you'll need a new one. With LTE phones, you CANNOT do *228.

*** I repeat, DO NOT use *228 for activation.

 

[rorkin]

*** If you do *228 on an LTE phone, it blows the SIM card and you'll need a new one. With LTE phones, you CANNOT do *228.

*** I repeat, DO NOT use *228 for activation.

sales guy told me the same thing.. Kind of hard to believe that the sftware could not prevent this..
awfull poor design

 

[Skatedawg]

Dont do it

VZW call center advises not to the the *228 with 4G sim cards. It will mess up the card or the phone. Thats what i heard from them anyways.

 

[imnuts]

SIM Card phones get their PRL info automatically, and I'm guessing that when it pulls the LTE info it needs, it downloads the CDMA info as well.

 

[Grenex]

VZW call center advises not to the the *228 with 4G sim cards. It will mess up the card or the phone. Thats what i heard from them anyways.

FYI: I did it about 3-4 times before I knew this. My phone did not ignite into flames, or explode. No harm appeared to occur, but I now know it is not necessary to do on LTE phones.

 

[uefcommand]

Hey guys its true you do not need to do *228, it will not work. oh and it will not harm your phone trying to do it the system knows there is a Sim and will not send any updates to the phone. I know this as i work in VZW Tech! thanks guys, it would be funny for the phone to burst into flames that would teach people LOL...


BTW *228 is not a fix all the fix all is the reboot after the *228.



Have a great one and oh btw i am having the same issue with VVM and i have reported it on up.

thanks

 

[mboverst]

Hey guys its true you do not need to do *228, it will not work. oh and it will not harm your phone trying to do it the system knows there is a Sim and will not send any updates to the phone. I know this as i work in VZW Tech! thanks guys, it would be funny for the phone to burst into flames that would teach people LOL...


BTW *228 is not a fix all the fix all is the reboot after the *228.



Have a great one and oh btw i am having the same issue with VVM and i have reported it on up.

thanks

Thanks! Reassuring to know since I did it :-[