Why does my phone say, Initial Programming Required!

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Call your service provider to have it reprogrammed.
This means maybe someone deleted the basic programing features of your phone like phone number. or the system ID got bumped by a software error. or it could be that the phone just got flashed. i know the code to program the phone but if you don't know about internal programing it will do more damage than good. since it will kill your phone if any wrong settings is applied.
Best bet is to have your service provider tell you the programing code and settings to be changed. because they will be telling you over the phone what to do.

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hi have a nice day!
You can do a factory setting reset and try again.

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That means you have to activate it. somehow it got deactivated. i would call verizon and have them reactivate it.

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under settings, go to phone settings, then NAM select, then select NAM1

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You should just have to dial *228 if it is a vzw phone...should regrogram it