It's Official... VERIZON SUCKS!!!

[MacMagus]

Something similar happened to my brother on Sprint.

All that he wanted was a new phone with the same phone number as the old one, which fell apart. (It was one of those POC Samsungs.)

They transferred the wrong number to his new phone.

Then they told him that for technical reasons they couldn't deploy two phone numbers to the same phone in the space of x-weeks so they sent him a second phone.

Then they charged him for two accounts.

In attempting to resolve it, they canceled his plan and "accidentally" put him on a family plan with a 5 year contract.

Eventually, he got them to knock it down to a 2 year contract and somewhat favorable terms... but they wouldn't take him off the family plan without charging him a huge cancellation fee for one of the phones even though he insisted that he never requested a second phone or a family plan.

Ultimately, he arranged a barter deal with one of his friends for the second phone. He pays for both phones and his friend does odd jobs for him.

[M A V I C]

I've had Sprint, Verizon and ATT. Verizon sucks the most, followed by ATT and Sprint. I've gotta get a new sprint phone in the coming days

[onthedownlow]

All depends on who you ask, apparently.

Even in Sprint's World Headquarter's town/city...they are not ranked #1 in customer satisfaction and service. Verizon was #1...Sprint was #3 and less in other polls.

[OWC Jamie]

That's not Verizon per se, that 's your local Verizon employee(s) +/or management that sucks.
Do you live here : ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiotville,_Oregon

[incognegro]

re: BitPim: looks like there's 0.9.10 available, i have 0.9.07.

[haikuman]

[quote billb]That's not Verizon per se, that 's your local Verizon employee(s) +/or management that sucks.
Do you live here : ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiotville,_Oregon
Been with Verizon since "98" they have made mistakes ...sure... but then in 8 years
I remember I have made a few myself *(:>*
Rudie*(:>*

[macphanatic]

incognegro,

Search the web for Alltel's Razr firmware and directions for flashing the Razr. Alltel uses the same network technology as Verizon. Be careful and do it at your own risk. This firmware replaces Verizon's botched OEM firmware and restores functionality and speed to the phone. Verizon tends to do this on many of their phones and this may have been the reason that an Apple/Verizon deal never came to be.

[sscutchen]

[quote incognegro][quote sscutchen]I've got 4 LG 8300s from Verizon. Connect them by bluetooth to my Macs. Transfer ringtones, pictures, address books using BitPim.
Did you have to hack the phone? This won't work with Verizon RAZRs.
To get pix off my RAZR for free, I have to use a USB cable & BitPim on a Win2K PC.
No. I didn't hack the phone.

I did have trouble trying to get two phones to talk on one computer. Took a while for me to figure that out.

And I had intermittant problems getting the phone to actually update the BitPim database.

But I eventually got everything moved that I wanted. I put mp3 bits onto the phone that I use for ringtones. And I moved pics from the phone down to the computer.