Anyone else ever notice this about switching phones?
If anyone else is like me, they constantly switch phones throughout the year..and i dont know if anyone else has noticed this but when you switch from one phone to another, if you take the old phone that was deactivated, and you just make a call with it (although it wont go through), while that call with the old phone is in progress, you wont be able to make or receive a call with the phone you just activated. If someone calls you it will go right to voicemail. And if you try to make a call it simply wont go through.
I know this sounds pretty stupid, but just wondering if anyone has ever noticed this. I'm guessing its a cdma thing, but wondering if there is a way to clear out the esn or whatever so the deactivated phone is completely deta...
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I know this sounds pretty stupid, but just wondering if anyone has ever noticed this. I'm guessing its a cdma thing, but wondering if there is a way to clear out the esn or whatever so the deactivated phone is completely deta...
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Yeah, turn your old phone off before you activate the new phone. Once the new phone is activated, LEAVE THE OLD PHONE OFF. If you leave both on immidiately upon switching phone, you may occasionally get conflicting serial numbers. The only way to completely preclude this from happening is to keep the old phone OFF after the new phone is activated...
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Yah i know to keep the old phone off, but what if you are returning that phone to best buy or somewhere and they start messing with the returned phone and you're on your way home not able to receive or make calls? I know that they supposovly ship the phone back and reset everything but you never know.
Haha i know this is pretty stupid because its unlikely, but im just weird and worry about stupid crap like this.
Haha i know this is pretty stupid because its unlikely, but im just weird and worry about stupid crap like this.
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If you go in and manually program the old phone to have a phone number of all 0's that should stop the conflicting serials.
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youcan manually program a random number in it so your phone number will not be transmitted when you try to use it. Eventhough your serial number is not active your number is still in the old phone so you probaBLY confuse the system since it recognizes your phone# but not your esn, so hand program your phone and make your number all 0000 or something and that should stop.
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Do you know how to do that though? I've tried and I can't figure out a way to clear out the number from the old phone.
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depends on the phone, most phones are MENU 0. Motorola's are usually 74663 # MENU MENU. It really varies by phone.
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depends on the phone, most phones are MENU 0. Motorola's are usually 74663 # MENU MENU. It really varies by phone.
Just tried what you said, doesn't work. Thanks anyway though.
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Well i'm just wondering in general..but say the razr or my samsung a670.
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well if you tellme what phone than i can tell you how to do it, they all program differently. I guess you could also just go into your menu, network setting, nam selection, and switch phone to nam 2, i guess that would be a generic way to fix the problem.
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how about for the razr? i think i'm returning it to wait for the 8300.
i appreciate it.
i appreciate it.
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74663 # clr clr, select nam 1, then select your number, put what ever you want in there then your good
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