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Jbird

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Posted: 04/17/08 02:36pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

Verizon 1X backdoor now disabled in south Texas (Corpus Christi area). I guess I need VCAST. Do I need to do anything to my phone (LG8300) once I subscribe to VCAST in order to access 1X? (My phone settings are all as instructed by Mr Wizard and everything worked a few weeks ago).


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Posted: 04/19/08 12:35am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

NO changes, just call them up, add vcast to the account for your 8300, if they ask them your nephew ( or some other family member ) showed you how , he checks sports scores and weather on this phone

there's an added advantage to this, NO plan minutes are used, you don't have to wait till night or the weekend to do your email


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Posted: 04/22/08 12:33pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

from a msg I got on HOFO

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- My location is Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor, Michigan (30 miles west of Detroit). I don't tether a lot but I first noticed "dead DUN" on 4/18


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I set my LG 8300 up for 1x only last week and got national access for a week before 'not authorized' showed up when logging on. In the meantime, I chalked up 100 bucks in MB charges. I guess Verizon was keeping track before they cut me off.

Mr Wizard, are you sure VCast doesn't charges minutes or MB's?

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what is your current account, AMC or the NEW nationWide accounts

the NW accounts are $1.99mb, unless you have a data feature on the account like vpak or BBA

on the NW accounts all data is MB not minutes, its either pre-paid like vpak/vcast/BBA or its PER mb, $1.99 mb, $100 would be 50mb, at that charge rate,

how many MB was listed ?

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Another question born of ignorance as I try to avoid 59.99/mo for internet access as I travel now that Verizon has shut off my 1X ability. Can I just subscribe to an ISP such as Juno, use my LG8300 as modem to dial up, get slower speed browsing using my Verizon minutes? Mr Wizard?? Or any other experts? Seems like somebody suggests this on the Howard forum, but that forum is way over my head.

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MrWizard wrote:

what is your current account, AMC or the NEW nationWide accounts

the NW accounts are $1.99mb, unless you have a data feature on the account like vpak or BBA

on the NW accounts all data is MB not minutes, its either pre-paid like vpak/vcast/BBA or its PER mb, $1.99 mb, $100 would be 50mb, at that charge rate,

how many MB was listed ?


I just updated my plan to a shared 700 minutes. Nationwide? I think my old plan was Americas Choice but has been changed to the most current.

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I have the nationwide & the $15 Vpak/vcast for mobile web, i had too change in Dec when , i got my new Voyager phone, no choice, it was the only way i could activate it.

but ON wed i switched phones, i'm testing a xv6900 HTC 'Touch' pocket pc. and i had too switch to the $45 data feature.(still on the NaTIONwide account NO way to go back to AMC after 5 months) to make full use of the mobile internet & data services, if ( at the end of 30 days ) I go back to the voyager and the $15 service , depends on how well i like this phone and IF i can get the NEW $30 PDA data plan that came out on the 14th but is only available for (3) phones and this one isn't on that list of (3) , that feature-plan is supposed to be rolled out to more WM-OS smart devices soon. ( depending on what vzw means as soon )

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I have another report from Tenn ,Knoxville area, about 1xDUN no longer working,

* This post was edited 04/27/08 12:29am by MrWizard *

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at&t has a Unlimited MediaNet add on for $15.00 a month, no texting, just data. It is for phone data, browsing. It is not unlimited though, there is a 5GB cap. It is not supposed to be used for tethering but they have not shut anyone down for doing so. Only for going over the cap.


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