Psa: Do not dial *228!!! - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4

I was being a dumbass and dialed *228 thinking it will update my PRL and improve my signal. Immediately after programming, I was limited to 3g connection. I lost 4g/LTE connection. I fixed this by going to the Verizon store and asked them for a new SIM card, which was free of charge.
*228 is for 3g phones ONLY. Not for the GS4, unless you like 3g connection speeds...
It is a relatively simple solution, but it can also be easily avoided. Save yourself the trouble, and don't make the same mistake I did.

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space_pimp said:
I was being a dumbass and dialed *228 thinking it will update my PRL and improve my signal. Immediately after programming, I was limited to 3g connection. I lost 4g/LTE connection. I fixed this by going to the Verizon store and asked them for a new SIM card, which was free of charge.
*228 is for 3g phones ONLY. Not for the GS4, unless you like 3g connection speeds...
It is a relatively simple solution, but it can also be easily avoided. Save yourself the trouble, and don't make the same mistake I did.
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When you have cable TV and nothing seems to be on you get bored. When you get bored you try to improve your cell phones data connection. When you try and improve your data connection you use *228 when you use *228 you limit you data speeds to 3g and it requires a new sim card. Avoid using *228, ditch your cable TV and sign up for for direct tv. Lol

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thunderbls said:
When you have cable TV and nothing seems to be on you get bored. When you get bored you try to improve your cell phones data connection. When you try and improve your data connection you use *228 when you use *228 you limit you data speeds to 3g and it requires a new sim card. Avoid using *228, ditch your cable TV and sign up for for direct tv. Lol
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Hahaha!! So true, well said

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well duh lol.
but if you do happen to dial it, lte will eventually come back on in the next week, phone just auto prl's now so it takes a little.
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joshm.1219 said:
well duh lol.
but if you do happen to dial it, lte will eventually come back on in the next week, phone just auto prl's now so it takes a little.
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Oh really, that's interesting. Thanks for the heads up!

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I believe stock touch wiz blocks from dialing it
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thunderbls said:
When you have cable TV and nothing seems to be on you get bored. When you get bored you try to improve your cell phones data connection. When you try and improve your data connection you use *228 when you use *228 you limit you data speeds to 3g and it requires a new sim card. Avoid using *228, ditch your cable TV and sign up for for direct tv. Lol
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Now that IS funny!!!! :good: :highfive:

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joshm.1219 said:
well duh lol.
but if you do happen to dial it, lte will eventually come back on in the next week, phone just auto prl's now so it takes a little.
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Do you have to be on touchwiz for auto prl to fix?

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jamesd1085 said:
Do you have to be on touchwiz for auto prl to fix?
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don't think so but I'm not sure
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I did that once. Apparently you wipe the SIM card when you do that and you have to get a whole new SIM card. I was having data issues as well and thought, I'll just reprogram the phone with *228. Yeah, no that didn't work.
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Well unfortunately I found this thread after the fact. Can anyone confirm what joshm said? Will it come back in a bit or should I just give V a call?
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pacman9889 said:
Well unfortunately I found this thread after the fact. Can anyone confirm what joshm said? Will it come back in a bit or should I just give V a call?
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I made the same mistake too. I waited a few days and no 4G/LTE came back. I tried going to the local corporate store and they wouldn't even talk to me as I was running a custom recovery & rom (on MDK bootloader!). I went to one of the retail stores and they helped me out with a new SIM card.

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thunderbls said:
When you have cable TV and nothing seems to be on you get bored. When you get bored you try to improve your cell phones data connection. When you try and improve your data connection you use *228 when you use *228 you limit you data speeds to 3g and it requires a new sim card. Avoid using *228, ditch your cable TV and sign up for for direct tv. Lol
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That's funny!!
ROFL!!
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Terri M said:
That's funny!!
ROFL!!
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Thank you .. I had just got through watching the eye patch one before reading this thread so... good times.

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So is there a way to do the equivalent of *228 for your LTE that updates the prl for your 3g?
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beez1717 said:
So is there a way to do the equivalent of *228 for your LTE that updates the prl for your 3g?
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if u accidently press *228 shutdown phone take sim out wait five minutes and then puy sim back in and reboot should auto push back to 4g prl
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ebsk8er06 said:
if u accidently press *228 shutdown phone take sim out wait five minutes and then puy sim back in and reboot should auto push back to 4g prl
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4g prls are checked for updates when phone is cut off and cut back on after a 5 min period, what I was told from verizon a year ago
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ebsk8er06 said:
if u accidently press *228 shutdown phone take sim out wait five minutes and then puy sim back in and reboot should auto push back to 4g prl
Sent From My Hyperdriven S4
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4g prls are checked for updates when phone is cut off and cut back on after a 5 min period, what I was told from verizon a year ago
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another way to get prl back is to clean flash a rom and the system automatically does a prl update on boot if other steps dont work
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I did this a month or two ago and lost my 4g. What I did was contact Verizon Support (via web chat but you could call them). I told them I accidentally dialed *228 and lost 4g and asked them if they would manually push a PRL update to my phone. The technician had me power off my device and when I turned it back on all was well, had 4g again.
This saved me the awkwardness of taking my phone into a store where they would see it was rooted with a custom ROM.

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Sadly, found this thread too late. I dialed *228 and had to go get a new sim. At least no questions were asked at VZW.

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Yeah . . I did it too lol

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If you want to change your connection or update your prl's there's a code you can typee in the phone dialer to bring up a hidden menu.
In the dialer type *#*#4636#*#* and then go to phone information and scroll down and change the option to CDMA/LTE and that always works for me.
I've heard of a few people that this hasn't worked with,but other wise it has always worked for me.