Texting problem

[Darnoldguy]

I was visiting a friend and did not have cell service at this home.  He has a wireless network and I was able to log on it.  I was unable to send texts while at his house.  Is this normal?  This is a replacement that was replaced because my original died.  Anyway I think this wasn't a problem with the other phone.

[bcram11]

I would say it would be normal.  Texts and voice use the CDMA network to operate. WiFi only accesses the internet and not Verizon's network to my knowledge. This would be why your texts are not being sent. 

[vereyezuhn]

The above poster is correct, you must have service with Verizon to text and call. Wifi is only for internet/data purposes.

[DaisyP_VZW]

Thank you to the community members who have replied.

Hello Darnoldguy,

I can certainly understand the importance of staying connected.  However, if you did not have service while you were at your friend's home you would be unable to use text messaging even if you were able to login to a Wi-Fi connection.  If you are traveling outside your home area and would like to check coverage area at your destination please feel free to visit the following link.  I also recommend next time you travel to dial *228 press send and select option 2 from your handset to activate your roaming capabilities before you leave your home area.

[Wildman]

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DaisyP_VZW wrote:

Thank you to the community members who have replied.

Hello Darnoldguy,

I can certainly understand the importance of staying connected.  However, if you did not have service while you were at your friend's home you would be unable to use text messaging even if you were able to login to a Wi-Fi connection.  If you are traveling outside your home area and would like to check coverage area at your destination please feel free to visit the following link.  I also recommend next time you travel to dial *228 press send and select option 2 from your handset to activate your roaming capabilities before you leave your home area.

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Daisy I wanted to verify this information, I thought that the *228 and option 2 only updates the roaming tower but I thought user had to contact Verizon or through My Verizon to activate the roaming option for when you are roaming out of area, what am I doing wrong because when I tried that it only updated my local roaming towers.

[B33]

Am i seeing some fuzzyness on this i always thought as wildman said  *228 option 2 was to update the Tower PRL's.  an for Roaming you had to go to the my verizon Site  an the section for roaming to activate it.  or call them to do this. But i also thought the plans we have we would'nt have to worrie about this too much any way.

Time to do some back reading or a phone call to Verizon.

[Wildman]

From what I have always understood that when you are planning on traveling into a area that isn't covered under Verizon coverage and the system switches to the Extended Roaming Network you have to have the system activated to grant your device access to those providers towers but when you in a Verizon covered network you can use the *228 and option 2 to grant you to roam access to Verizon's partnering towers that Verizon has a agreement with to use at no charge.

Maybe I have misunderstood how this worked...

[B33]

Well you know i'm scrtchin my head on this one wildman but i guess we dont have to worrie to much as folks don't like to travel as much but its still nice to know or remember how this works. so your bill does'nt scare you when it comes.

[TamaraH_VZW]

Wildman-

You are absolutely correct in your thinking! As long as you are in the USA your billing should not have any additional roaming charges. (Unless you are near the Canadian border)

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Wildman wrote:

From what I have always understood that when you are planning on traveling into a area that isn't covered under Verizon coverage and the system switches to the Extended Roaming Network you have to have the system activated to grant your device access to those providers towers but when you in a Verizon covered network you can use the *228 and option 2 to grant you to roam access to Verizon's partnering towers that Verizon has a agreement with to use at no charge.

Maybe I have misunderstood how this worked...

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