nothin

u can use verizon but u have to let customer service do it or if there is a store like metro where u are thy do it and actually give u a 55 dollar credit to start

Everything is back to normal. It fixed itself like we both thought would happen.

No prob man. How is it working today?

yeah thats the same thing I was thinking. thanks though

i think verizon is doing something to the network because yesterday my moms phone was acting up too and i notice my signal drop and rise to full bars every so often. i also did a *22899 a few times and at one point last night it didnt go through but when it did i still had the same PRL. so its not you, its probly them messing with the network (theyre soon to release 4G so preparing for that and stuff). take your battery out and restart. other than that, let it ride. in a day or 2, do the *22899 again.

My phone line is busy when someone calls me.

It didn't work Drew. And also I can't check my balance by calling *369 anymore either

dial *22899 and let it re-update and see if that worked

I have a problem. I have the samsung delve on my alltel prepaid account and everything was workin fine, but recently I stop recieving calls. I can make calls and send and recieve txts only. Can anybody help me? I thought about getting it a couple days to see what happens idk

hey Pam. i agree.. whoever didnt take a chunk out of alltel while they were still around must like to spend some $$. fortunately though, the shark (verizon rep) is right about being able to get a verizon phone and keep your alltel plan. but you can do it yourself from your verizon prepaid account. not all verizon phones will activate on our grandfathered alltel prepaid plans but few will. i tested 2 so far that i know will. BUT... why not just get an alltel branded smartphone or something? you may have not known but us ex-alltel peeps are able to use any alltel phone you wish, smartphone or regular. i recently found out though that the new touch screen alltel phones WONT work (excluding the samsung delve) including the htc snap and the samsung freedom. but all others WILL. dont know if you read already but i have a new alltel blackberry tour, have unlimited text and nights/weekends and data is unlimited and i pay $20 a month total (my 2 features @ .75 cent a day = $20 a month). if she wants to use the data features of the phone if its a smartphone she gets, i would recommend she gets the unlimited nights and weekends feature because thats the only way data is "free" or "unlimited". use it during the day and itll use your minutes..

any other questions, hit me up.

I loved ALLTEL!!!! Verizon prepaid plans just don't compare to the $.75/day we have for prepaid. HOWEVER, we have a problem. Daughter's VE465 Motorola is "going down" and she needs a replacement. Our two features she has is unlimited texting and free Alltel/verizon mobile to mobile. The dude I talked to at Verizon was not a lot of help w/what phone we could replace it with and still keep our Alltel plan. He said we could upgrade to a verizon phone and keep our Alltel prepaid plan. I'm not sure about that. Anyway, she'd like possibly a phone to do the web stuff if possible and not pay extra on our plan for it. Any ideas? Or, I think she's just be happy w/a replacement phone w/camera.

oh.. you say it mentions "data sessions". well if it says it by name then ya... its gonna charge because its set up the right way. i kill data daily with my blackberry and when i used to use my samsung phone and its not reported as data sessions... i guess is why its free. but still.. unlimited nights should be free..

thats weird.. even with my old regular phone, data was free at night because data is billed as minutes. what im concluding from what youre saying and from what i know- if the phone was pre set up with a contract, its correctly set up, so thats why its charging you. because my blackberry is brand new and i figure its why im getting it free due to the fact that its not provisioned the right way (for a contract). like when we activate it on our prepaid accounts, the system doesnt configure it correctly or doesnt know to configure the data side of it which equals free data. but then im not sure because my blackberry curve i used to have was set up on a contract before and data was still free at night..

unless its a blackberry only thing. but my old regular phone was a samsung and it was free at night. hmm.. i dont see how it would charge you guys though when data = minutes and you have unlimited nights. i even tested an LG regular phone and data is free at night too. im gonna soon buy a brand new smartphone other than a blackberry for my sis and test to see if its free.

Well, I thought that she wasn't going to get charged for nights and weekends, but I guess I was wrong. I checked her account & it's still charging her 10 cent/minute for "data sessions". I guess there is nothing we can do, but just use WiFi which is fine...I just tell her to shut her data off.

great to hear man, i was wondering how that was going. sorry to hear though that the data isnt unlimited like it is for me.. 1 out of 3 or 4 reasons is why. but reguardless, glad that it worked out for you Rob!

Andrew-
Daughters Treo Pro arrived today and everything works like a gem! She was using up minutes during the day so I just had her turn off the data. She was using our home WiFi during the day and will be able to use her unlimited nights and weekends through the Alltel networks. Really sweet!
We travel a lot so it's going to be handy checking in for our flights using it instead of dragging out my laptop every where we go. THANKS A TON for all the help!

Rob

I was using Alltel prepaid before Vorizon bought them. The reception now is horrible and ive tried multiple phones and nothing changed and i have never had more dropped calls than i do with Alltel. I asked them to put up a tower in my area and they refused because Vorizon ownes most of their operations.

That's exactly what I was thinking as far as calling in and asking data to be turned off.....no reason too and like you said, one reason for them to give me grief.

..no offense to him but cellgeek doesnt know what hes talking about. or atleast i never heard anything like that. were prepaid. theres no way for you to call in and have data turned off. its a standard feature. itll only charge you by the minute for using it during the day because you have unlimited nights and weekends. besides, if you call in, theyre gonna give you problems for having a smartphone. if you can have data turned off, what would be the reason for even having a smartphone? dont worry about it and dont let it bother you, its NOT an extra fee to pay and you wont get penalized for using it. on the blackberry, theres an option to turn data off and on whenever you like. i guess they did it like that because smartphones consume a lot of data and i know that a blackberry is constantly communicating/synchronizing with the network. before verizon bought us out, i used to have data turned off during the day so it wouldnt kill my minutes and then turn it back on at night. but as i mentioned before, this new blackberry data is free. im not 100% sure if its because i bought it brand new and it was never provisioned for a contract/blackberry plan and by me activating it, it completely bypasses all that or if its because its unlocked (it came factory unlocked so if i wanted to, i can put an at&t or t-mobile sim card in or any sim card and can use it besides using it as verizon/alltel). or if its because when verizon bought us out, that blackberry never existed for alltel yet, so by me having it, its completely unrecognized by the system. my regular cell charges data by the minute.

so ya, just go online and put in that ESN. dial *22899 and you should be good. no need for service books with any other device. im not sure if you use voicemail or not but THAT you can call in to turn off, if you want. i know the code to dial to have it turned off but since verizon took over, some alltel codes dont work. just tell customer service to turn voicemail off and itll save some $$$.

Andrew-

We went with the Treo Pro. It's on it's way and I'll be activating/registering it once it gets here.

So, I'll go on to our Verizon online account and change devices & put in the new ESN for the Treo. Then I'll dail *22899. That should be it right?

I know CellGeek suggested calling Verizon and demand that data be turned off.
I should probably wait to see if my data works first then call IF it is charging me correct?

Thanks again for your help, I'll let you know how the Treo works.

the HTC mogul would work but just know that its an older phone. id go with the treo out of the two for the fact that its newer and packed with features. the treo is touch screen, has wifi, is EVDO rev.A, etc.

I found a couple of others that my daughter is interested in....another Palm Treo Pro and a HTC 6800 Mogul. Any knowledge on either of those? I was leaning toward the Treo, but she seem to like the Mogul.

ya... whoever wrote that saying the 8330 has wifi is wrong. for more info on the alltel branded phones, check em out on the alltel website. you cant go wrong there. i wouldnt get that samsung i910 either because alltel never had that phone. whoever is selling it either is confused or trying to make money from a "flashed" phone. if it doesnt say alltel on it, it wont work. i was just looking at that same phone the other day. i bought my blackberry tour brand new still in plastic from ebay. great phone! theyre still selling them. i did also buy the alltel LG touch brand new- should be here tomorrow or day after. gift for someone. the seller only had 3 and i took the last one. certain phones you can not find, but when you do, get it quick!

BTW, do you know much about the Samsung SCH-i910?

I was thinking about exchanging my daughters Blackberry for this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Samsung-SCH-i910-OMNIA-Alltel-Cell-CDMA-/390216176401?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item5adab25311

Rob

Ya I'm sure I did something along the way the messed it up. Thanks for all the help. As far as the Treo goes, we didn't get it. It was the Blackberry or the Treo and we went with the Blackberry.

I purchased the Blackberry with a 30 day money back guarantee & in the description the store said that the 8330 WAS WiFi capable which I know now is not true. So I believe we are going to be returning it and trying a different phone and once again try to get the free data.....especially if I can get one with WiFi.

I let you know if I run into any problems with it.

Thanks
Rob

Rob sorry it didnt work for you man. too bad i cant do it myself for you. it worked for me on my old alltel blackberry curve and this new alltel blackberry tour. not doubting you didnt try what i said but i bet a small mistake is to blame.

ya, youre not gonna be able to register it on the alltel blackberry site and have the service books pushed to it because youre prepaid and dont have BIS or BES on the account. those are contract paid services. there are ways to have the service books put on manually and will have the features working the same way but again, youd have to do it through desktop manager. i got GPS, over the air provisioning update, etc working like that. everything demands a servicebook on a blackberry. with that said though, out of the box brand new, i didnt need to have any service books to have free data or to load up opera mini or anything.

by the way, how is your daughters palm treo working out? im gonna buy a brand new LG chocolate touch soon for someone as a gift. ill still stick around for further help, just let me know.

Man, I have tried everything and still no go. I tried downloading the opera mini multiple times w/ multiple versions and the desktop manager will not recognize it as a compatible program for this device.

I saw one website that suggested registering at my Blackberry Web Client website and have my Internet Browser Service Books sent to me. I did not do that as I figured I'd need a paid data plan. Man, I'm frustrated at this point.

Thanks again for you help, I'll keep trying....
Have a great 4th!
Rob

one other thing i remembered was to dial ##000000 (6 zeros) and press green button. make sure your SIP User ID is your number@bb.alltel.net and if thats right, for the SIP password, put in "alltel" and click menu button and click save. the phone will restart. did you make sure youre running the lastest update? you should be running 5.0

to get opera mini to load, you need to load from the website and save it on your computer somewhere. go in desktop manager and click on Application Loader. click add/remove applications, go all the way down to the bottom of that list and see if opera mini is down there and if it is, select it to load it. if its not down there, click browse and select the location of where you saved it and then load it up like that. im not sure if all up to date versions of desktop manager has the modem option in it, but mine has it. if it does, you can set up the phone as modem right there. or i also use verizon access manager and it also controls the phone. the origional browser is gonna be missing on the blackberry because it knows that you are prepaid and took that service book away. but as i mentioned, you really dont even need it because opera mini does that same thing

Andrew-
I've tried all those steps. I originally registered the phone online and then did the *228. I went back and re-programed with te *22899. Downloaded desktop manager and synched. Took battery out and re-booted. I am getting capitals 1XEV. Still nothing. My browser is not even showing up on the desktop.

I thought maybe the browser is missing so I tried downloading mini opera as you suggested; however, when I try to load the mini opera application via desktop manager the manager tells me that there are no available programs to add. Is there any other way of getting the mini opera on my blackberry without using desktop manager or I am doing something wrong?
Thanks again for all your help.
Rob

also, go to options, advanced options, host routing table, click menu button and click "register now"

hmm... when you activated it, did you dial *22899? try that. that one is known to turn data "ON" on your plan or activate the data settings/a smartphone. when i was still "alltel", everything worked perfect for me the first time around. and though verizon took us over, its still working exactly the same, infact better than when i activated it when we were alltel. im trying to think of other pointers... you may wanna download desktop manager and synchronize the blackberry so it updates to the latest version.

...

also, a work around to the browser is to download opera mini. its better than the origional blackberry browser and is a work around to having to install service books thatll bring it up on the phone. do you see the signal saying 1XEV in capital letters or 1xev? if its in lowercase letters, reguardless of you having the data feature on from the options, that means the network has your data turned off. let me know if that works or not.

Andrew-
Need a little help. Activated my daughters Blackberry Curve 8330, but can not connect to internet or send data. Have data options on....is there any trick to this?

hey cc. what are you needing that you want the service books?

okay andrew I have been following your reply for ages and everything works but how do I add service books step by step because I have a curve on alltel and I can not get right

Sweet. Thanks again!

yup, ANY alltel branded phone WILL work for us, including data cards. Verizon stuff WONT work (unless its 1 or 2 of the regular prepaid phones). dont worry about having a data plan or anything, were prepaid so we couldnt get that anyways. for us, data is taken out by the minute so reguardless of your use, itll just be using your minutes. when youre using unlimited nights and weekends, its free of course. for ME.. its not charging me at all and im using data all day. one of my old alltel prepaid cells, it charged me by the minute for data during the day, but with this blackberry, its all free.

Andrew, thanks for the reply and the info. I found a Palm Treo Pro on eBay that is an Altell phone for my daughter..I was a little hesitant to buy it, but since you say ANY Altell phone will work, I'll take your word. Any Verizon Blackberry should work as well correct? I found a really nice one with WiFi so she can access the web without using the data plan (if we were to be charged)
Thanks again for all your help!

Rob

sup everyone. havent posted on here in a long time but im back to answer a few questions. im also on a grandfathered alltel prepaid plan and i have unlimited nights and weekends and unlimited text which equals out to $20 a month. verizon bought us out but we ARE still able to activate ANY alltel phone or device on our now verizon plan (because were still using alltel systems techincally). before the merge with verizon, i was using an alltel blackberry curve. im now using a brand new alltel blackberry tour and am NOT getting charged to use anything data capable on it. i get to use full EVDO rev.A and its not using my minutes. its great because i use it as a modem for my laptop, i listen to pandora on it, use the browser, etc and i dont get charged anything. the best of both worlds (verizon service and alltel smartphone). hit me up if you have any other questions, i know a lot about this stuff!

CellGeek or anyone else who might know.

My daughter is on the old Alltel pay-by-day. She has unlimited text, & nights and weekends for 75 cents a day. Her phone is going out & wanted to know if a Blackberry Curve would work without the data plan. I've heard conflicting stories, but I'm guessing as long as we call to turn off data with Verizon it should work fine.

Thanks in advance!!!

i have alltel and itz o.k. i guess.i have the new unlimited plan for 55 a month and it is great. but the only thing i dont like is that when you go onto the web the want you to buy a 1.99 day pass or a 5.99 month pass and i dont understand why when everything is supposed to be unlimited. so really you get everything unlimited but the web and i hate it. but as far as service goes its perfect ive been with them for about 4 years and ive only lost a call about 3 or 4 times and im way in alabama.

To put a blackberry or any variable smart phone on a pre-paid plan, make sure you first call your prepaid company and demand that all data be shut off on your account. This allows your blackberry data phone to be on a non-data plan and not have your phone racking up minutes due to data charges. Than go to (EX. Alltel U Prepaid) website, and put your blackberry on here. Now you want to get really technical you can just get a phone with wifi, now that datas off your phone will download only at home bases IE WIFI HOTSPOTS. This does not incure data charges and lets you have a smartphone on a prepaid plan with all avail features!

it will not let you bluetooth songs from different peoples...so sad

MY activation won't start and i called *228 and every other # too

They make it hard to get support for your phone. They leave you with the automated system, and expect you to know how to fix it.

Can I use a verizon phone with my alltel prepaid account.

Anyone looking for a Great Plan Should check out Page Plus , they use the same service as Alltel (Verizon Towers) And It's $39.95 Unlimited Talk & Text Every month

I JUST RECEIVED MY ALLTEL BLACKBERRY CURVE N ACTIVATED ON MY PREPAID ACCOUNT ONLY PROBLEMS IS I DONT HAVE INTERNET BROWSER.IT JUST SAYS YOUR DEVICE DOES NOT HAVE BROWSER CONFIGURATION SERVICE BOOK ENTIRES.SO DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW I CAN DO THIS W/O CALLING ALLTEL

can anyone tell me how to get the browser service books

@ Ivan you can activate a smart phone on an pre paid plan reason being that the phone has to have an data plan