If you have multiple Android phones, you might now always want keep each device active. But that doesn't mean it's a paperweight. But resetting a phone brings you back to the pesky activation screen in many cases. Luckily you are able to bypass this so that you can access all the features within the phone, without having to actually activate it on your account. The diagram shows exactly how its done, but here's a simple breakdown. • Tap top left hand corner • Tap top right hand corner • Tap bottom right hand corner (above grey banner) • Tap bottom left hand corner (above grey banner) Following these simple steps will allow you to skip the activation, and jump right back into using your device. The only downside to this is that usually upon rebooting the phone, you will have to do the same pattern, but that's only a small price to pay in comparison to the option of actually activating the device. Activate T-Mobile G1 without Data Plan. Create a Google account, 2). Tags: activate without data plan, android. Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. Just so I'm sure, if you've wiped the DROID and do this bypass, then the carrier, in my case VZ, won't see me as using this device? I don't want to be doubling the use of my VZ data plan of the other phone. I know, it's a stupid question since I'm bypassing the activation, but I'm a little OCD and want to know for sure for sure for sure that I'm just using the wifi and no data plan. This phone still shows the cellphone signal strength as really good, so that bugs me a bit and make me working that it's somehow pinging the cell tower and using plan data. This may work for you. On my MT3G, tapping the four corners only worked when there was NO sim card in the phone. Without the sim card, it would bypass, but unfortunately, it would only take me to a screen that said 'no sim card, emergency calls only.' At this screen the phone didn't allow me to do anything. None of the buttons worked (home, menu, etc). When there WAS a card in the phone, tapping the four corners would NOT bypass. It just stayed on the 'touch the android' screen. So here's what worked for me: 1. Insert valid sim (I used the sim that I had in my activated phone. If you don't already have a sim, you can use a friend's sim). Touch the android to start 3. I skipped the tutorial because I already know how to use the phone 3. At the 'Set Up Your Google Account' screen, I chose the 'Set Up Later' option at the bottom. This gave me access to the phone. I shut down and removed the sim from the phone, rebooted and the phone booted right up to the home screen with a 'no service' message. I was then able to fully access all menus and settings. (NOTE: I didn't want to simply log into an account with the sim in the phone because I don't really know how sim and google accounts are tied together and I didn't want to mess up my other phone/account. I'm sure the answer is on the internet somewhere, but my main goal was to simply get full access to the MT3G without linking it to a carrier/data account, so powering down and removing the sim was the simple solution). Once I was in (sim card removed), I put the phone in airplane mode and set up wifi. (The factory reset installed 2.2.1 which allows wifi in airplane mode).
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