Warning, don't use *228 on Verizon

[JayInNJ]

Found out the hard way that dialing *228 on Verizon not only is unnecessary, but will lock your sim card to 3G. The only fix is to get a new sim. It used to update the roaming list on 3g, but serves no purpose for 4G.

 

[anon(2353369)]

Really?

 

[Leilan]

How?

 

[JayInNJ]

Not sure why or how but after doing this today I searched and found numerous reports on this. It is supposed to block you from calling that number but it didn't for me. I forgot to mention this is when you use option 2 at the prompt. Easy but annoying fix.

 

[Raptor007]

This has been the case since LTE capable phones have been rolling out on Verizon. *228 is not needed and is in fact not a good thing to do on an LTE capable phone. But it is always good to remind users and especially new users getting an LTE Verizon phone for the first time.

 

[carraser891]

*228 is only for 3G only phones on Verizon

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