Using deactivated, reset phone

[jfhallst]

I recently deactivated my old but still functional Verizon Incredible to move to a newer model phone. Even after deactivating it I discovered I could still use wifi, play games, etc. I was planning on giving the phone to my kid for these purposes but there was stuff on the phone I didn't want him to have access to so I did a hard reset. Now the phone won't let me go to the desktop unless I complete the activation sequence. I obviously don't want to do that because I assume it will deactivate my new phone!

Is there anything I can do to force the phone to skip the activation sequence and go directly to the desktop?

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[tweebee]

Go through the activation sequence. It will fail. Then do it again. After a few tries, the app will crash and let you through.

[macdoc]

I am also interested in this. I have the original DInc and want to upgrade. I want to give this to my wife. If I deactivate this phone can my wife still have wifi capability and Google Voice in a free Wifi area

[jfhallst]

Sorry for being a bit of a weenie about this, but I have to admit that I'm a bit nervous to proceed with the activation sequence... Won't going through with the activation process end up transfering service from my current new phone back to the old one? I just want to make sure I understand why the activation will fail before I try it.

(I probably should have foregone the hard reset... things were working fine before I did it!)

[tweebee]

Sorry for being a bit of a weenie about this, but I have to admit that I'm a bit nervous to proceed with the activation sequence... Won't going through with the activation process end up transfering service from my current new phone back to the old one? I just want to make sure I understand why the activation will fail before I try it.

(I probably should have foregone the hard reset... things were working fine before I did it!)

If you already moved your number to a new phone, then doing activation on the old Inc will fail. I've done this many times when unrooting and resetting my old Inc.

[jfhallst]

it worked just as you said. Thanks!