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Larry wrote:

> Tonight, the data timer is a little over 3 minutes and the byte counter
> suddenly reads a little over 37KB of data usage I'm not going to be paying
> for. The phone was on, it has no email account or any addresses in any
> system. They were all carefully deleted before PagePlus. Why would it run
> a couple of weeks before suddenly using 37KB of overpriced Verizon data?

Who knows? Could have been something someone sent you, i.e. MMS. 37KB at
$1.20/MB would cost you less than a nickel. Don't spend too much time
with customer service over that much money!

"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
news:4ae68f8c$0$1636$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
> Larry wrote:
>
>> Tonight, the data timer is a little over 3 minutes and the byte counter
>> suddenly reads a little over 37KB of data usage I'm not going to be
>> paying for. The phone was on, it has no email account or any addresses
>> in any system. They were all carefully deleted before PagePlus. Why
>> would it run a couple of weeks before suddenly using 37KB of overpriced
>> Verizon data?
>
> Who knows? Could have been something someone sent you, i.e. MMS. 37KB at
> $1.20/MB would cost you less than a nickel. Don't spend too much time with
> customer service over that much money!

There have been a few threads over at HowardForums.com's Page Plus forum
about "mystery" data charges showing up on some accounts. The longest is
here:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1567255

I don't think anyone has put together any kind of commonality (e.g. always
brand X or model Y phone, or only happens on Tuesday nights, etc.)- it just
seems random.

I've never seen any such charges, but I've disabled EVDO/1x data on my two
PP Samsung phones- they can only fetch data via CSD, which is still free.
(They do run up several hundred minutes a month in unbilled CSD calls
however, since they're both set to fetch IMAP email and sync
contacts/calendar data a few times a day, and that stuff transfers slowly at
14.4k!)

"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote in
news:ULDFm.15366$MZ1.13066@newsfe11.iad:

> I've never seen any such charges, but I've disabled EVDO/1x data on my
> two PP Samsung phones- they can only fetch data via CSD, which is
> still free. (They do run up several hundred minutes a month in
> unbilled CSD calls however, since they're both set to fetch IMAP email
> and sync contacts/calendar data a few times a day, and that stuff
> transfers slowly at 14.4k!)
>
>
>

Thanks for this info. I couldn't call PP on the phone this morning, busy
as hell for an hour. So, I submitted the webpage ticket asking them to
shut down any and all data service to the phone....or else.

I'm not going to tolerate a nickle here and a nickle there data or voice
"leakage" from my precharge. That's unacceptable to just blow it off and
let them get away with it. They all know exactly what they're doing and
I'm NOT a loyal customer of anyone.....as you well know by now...(c;]

How do I disable any and all data connections from a Motorola ROKR Z6m?
Any info on that is MOST appreciated! I'm also terrified of Celltop which
is still on the phone if you press the wrong button. Know how to dump all
these bogus apps not listed on the apps list?

--
Larry

At 27 Oct 2009 19:38:44 +0000 Larry wrote:

> Thanks for this info. I couldn't call PP on the phone this morning,
busy
> as hell for an hour. So, I submitted the webpage ticket asking them to
> shut down any and all data service to the phone....or else.


They'll do it. My older PP phone's account has data disabled (it was
activated) before PP offered data, and I never called to have it enabled.
My newer one was activated during the dta "era" but I haven't had any
unauthorized charges yet (knock wood!)


> How do I disable any and all data connections from a Motorola ROKR Z6m?

> Any info on that is MOST appreciated! I'm also terrified of Celltop
which
> is still on the phone if you press the wrong button. Know how to dump
all
> these bogus apps not listed on the apps list?


Sorry- I can't help you there. The last Moto I used remotely regularly
was a StarTac!

Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote in news:K8SFm.47918
$4E.5119@newsfe08.iad:

> At 27 Oct 2009 19:38:44 +0000 Larry wrote:
>
>> Thanks for this info. I couldn't call PP on the phone this morning,
> busy
>> as hell for an hour. So, I submitted the webpage ticket asking them
to
>> shut down any and all data service to the phone....or else.
>
>
> They'll do it. My older PP phone's account has data disabled (it was
> activated) before PP offered data, and I never called to have it
enabled.
> My newer one was activated during the dta "era" but I haven't had any
> unauthorized charges yet (knock wood!)
>
>
>> How do I disable any and all data connections from a Motorola ROKR
Z6m?
>
>> Any info on that is MOST appreciated! I'm also terrified of Celltop
> which
>> is still on the phone if you press the wrong button. Know how to
dump
> all
>> these bogus apps not listed on the apps list?
>
>
> Sorry- I can't help you there. The last Moto I used remotely
regularly
> was a StarTac!
>
>
>
>

Got a nice message from PP this morning. All data access had been
disabled and I won't be bled by data usage. I have not tested to see if
data is still there, just read his message. He did something else for
me because when I followed his instructions to connect the phone number
to the new online account I set up...I DID get the SMS message on the
phone with the phone's activation code to put in the webpage to complete
the transaction.

Then, looking around inside the new account, I found I could turn off
SMS and Voicemail from the online account page, securing my phone from
those nonsense charges to the account balance.

You CAN turn it all off and just have a PHONE to make PHONE CALLS,
nothing else....at least so far.....

SMS has to be running on the phone so PP can send you the setup
activation code to connect that phone number to the webpage account
online.....then you can dump it for good.

--
Larry