Did you check your contract to see if you were in violation? > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael T. Tangorre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 9:02 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Verizon, WTF > > A couple of months ago I buy the Motorola E815 cell phone > when I switch my cell service back to Verizon from Nextel. I > went with the E815 for the Bluetooth capabilities knowing > fair well that the OBEX profiles were disabled by Motorola at > the request of Verizon. I don't understand this. The purpose > of disabling OBEX profiles on MY phone is of NO concern of Verizon. > Their only focus is forcing me to use their services to get > Media (MP3s mostly, pictures, and some ring tones) on my > phone. If Bluetooth allows me to do this via OBEX and does > not use their airwaves or resources at all how can they > restrict this? Well, I went ahead and hacked the "seem" on my > phone enabling all the features that I felt I had a right to > enable since I paid for the phone, I own it, and nothing I > enabled uses Verizon's resources... > AT ALL. So, I have a problem with my bill the other day and > call up Verizon. > They tell me I need to update my firmware and give me > instructions to do so. > I attempt to do so and it fails. I am then told to send the > phone in or take it to my local shop for "evaluation". I go > into Verizon and they take my phone out back and come back a > minute later and say "You violated the terms of service > agreement and are stealing services". I say... "really? > how?". He goes on to tell me that the "seem" and firmware > have been modified. I say "and?". He says "that violates the > service agreement". I went on to tell him how nothing that > was enabled uses Verizon services nor does it affect the > phone's ability to function with Verizon's service in any > adverse way. He replies "we have reset the seem and firmware > to updated factory defaults, please refrain from modifying > these in the future". He hands me my phone and calls for the > next person in line. > > Fuck that! > > I ask to talk to the manager. The manager comes over and I > explain the situation for which I get a very negative > response.. "you can't do this.. > blah blah blah... you need to buy our Mobile Office Toolkit > and cable ($99) if you want to use sync your phone with your > contacts, etc". I said "Excuse me... you can't tell me what I > can and can not do when using my phone while at the same time > NOT using any of your services". He proceeds to tell me that > I can be arrested, blah blah and fined blah blah blah. > > What the hell is this all about? How is me enabling Bluetooth > OBEX profiles in order to store files and contacts on my > phone any business of Verizon's? > How can they control my phone that I own? > > I don't get it. Needless to say, I am updating my contacts, > MP3's, and bare bones Eclipse application onto my phone as I > type this.. all via Bluetooth. > I went home and hacked the seem again. > > Has anyone else heard of such crap? Anyone else hack their > seem and have some new features to share? :-) > > > >
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