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Root VZW Cracking Down On Rooted Phones?

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RJT185

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Hi Yinz,

A couple days ago I decided to try Fusion again, so I booted it up and I couldn't get my phone to activate to matter how hard I tried. I then SBF'ed, and tried Liberty ... and after 5 attempts to *228 Option 1 my phone into activation no go. At that point I panicked and SBF'ed and stayed in stock and tried to activate and it took a couple tries before I had it up and running. Now this was all in the period of maybe 3 hours total, so it could have been a server side issues with activations in general ... but recent talk about VZW tracking phones running uncertified software and rooted stock firmware made me jittery.

Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Perhaps even getting capped as far as download/upload speeds on 3g?
 
I would say it was just a temporary problem. Just make sure not to use tether unless you are paying for it. If they start cutting off rooted users, there will be a lawsuit, and Verizon will lose.
 
From my reading on multiple android forums, it seems that there are often issues with VZW's *228 service. Chances are it was a problem on their end, not yours.
 
I ran into this issue recently after flashing back to stock sbf. When i ended up calling verizon to activate I asked why this time the phone itself couldnt handle this and told him what a hassle it was. He stated something along the lines of "since it was a data plan phone that any reactivation would require a call to verizon." I just laughed at him knowing it wasn't the case.
I have since had to reprogram 2 times(i'm constantly trying new things with my phone) and have been able to *228 press 1 to activate.
To sum it up, looks like it was just an issue on their end.
 
*228 doesn't work every time, I had problems on it even when I had my BlackBerry. There is a large strain on the network services right now with the IPhone having been released recently. Just keep trying and it has nothing to do with you (legally) rooting your device. The only thing they (verizon) can do about rooting is either accept it or refuse you service, if they did that, they lose money.
Just don't tether without paying for that bandwidth, that's what they're mad about anyway...
 
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