cell phone/PDA expert.....need help

centermass181

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I have a LG VX 4700 cell phone with Verizon as a carrier. The phone is set up for Two way, and option I dont really use, and have disabled.

I broke the screen yesterday, and am going to need to replace it, but was curious if anyone knew if theres a PDA phone out there that I can just plug my sim chip into, and keep rolling.....

Any help...............
 
....although now Im looking and there doesnt seem to be a Simchip in this phone, like a nextel.....


Hmmmmm.

be advised, I dig holes and drive trucks for a living, so keep the advice simple.
 
Verizon CDMA phones do not have SIM cards, afaik, with the
exception of the worldphone thing they sell that does CDMA and GSM,
but thats a rare case.

That aside, you can go on ebay and buy any E911/GPS
capable verizon phone and have them do an ESN swap on
it. Course I dunno what your replacement cost is and the
like. You got them to disable the 2 way feature and not
charge you money for it? Verizon flat out told me that they
coudlnt have non-ptt plans on a PTT phone, so that's why I ended
up ditching my PTT phone.

-Mike
 
Check eBay??

Also look here:
http://www.howardforums.com/

I don't know if there is a Verizon forum. I haven't been a Verizon customer in a number of years.

Verizon may repair their phones, they used to have real trained Techs at least in their Chestnut Hill store. Worth checking.
 
Verizon CDMA phones do not have SIM cards, afaik, with the
exception of the worldphone thing they sell that does CDMA and GSM,
but thats a rare case.

That aside, you can go on ebay and buy any E911/GPS
capable verizon phone and have them do an ESN swap on
it. Course I dunno what your replacement cost is and the
like. You got them to disable the 2 way feature and not
charge you money for it? Verizon flat out told me that they
coudlnt have non-ptt plans on a PTT phone, so that's why I ended
up ditching my PTT phone.

-Mike

If he is taking that phone to the sandbox, he shouldn't get it with a GPS for obvious reasons.[wink]
 
They didnt disable, I just went thru the menu and shut it off, the company pays for it, so I dont care, but Im going to replace this one, as Im the one who broke it.

Ill ck this out,

Mrs WW, PM inbound
 
If he is taking that phone to the sandbox, he shouldn't get it with a GPS for obvious reasons.[wink]


Maybe I botched the terminology.... I think "E911" is required, not
GPS. Basically the FCC requires that all new phones that
are activated have the new tech in it that enables police, etc, to
locate a caller that has dialed 911.... its not necessarily GPS, but
triangulation of sorts.

I ran into this problem once because we have an entire box FULL of
used CDMA phones at work. (they work but are merely a few yrs
old.) If these phones were actually activate-able, I'd
probably even give one to Centermass for free, but verizon wouldn't let me
activate any of them, because they didn't have that location feature on
them. They gave me some BS about how federal law won't let them
activate them.

-Mike
 
They didnt disable, I just went thru the menu and shut it off, the company pays for it, so I dont care, but Im going to replace this one, as Im the one who broke it.

Ill ck this out,

Mrs WW, PM inbound

Since the company supplied it check and see if they have the insurance. Many do. Then you can get a replacement for a nominal fee.

As for replacing a phone with an all in one, I thought long and hard on this as I am pretty tough on the gear myself. If I loose my phone, I loose my phone. If I loose my Palm, it is backed up on my computer. If I loose a combo unit or break it, I am out a lot more. The chance of me breaking my PDA is slim as I leave it in the truck but loosing an all in one in a crawl space or some glamorous spot like that is a real danger for me so I stick to two pieces of gear rather than one.
 
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