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    Cant Use my EV-DO Card on SONY TXN15

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by kimnicho, Oct 17, 2008.

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    kimnicho Notebook Evangelist

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    Okay, getting the Sprint WWAN card activated on my Used TXN15 has been quite an ordeal. I decide to buy a NEW WWAN card from eBay and verify with Sprint that the card is indeed NEW. I swapped out the cards which was a pain as I didn't own the right philips head screwdriver and activated the card over the phone. Problem is that the Computer still shows the OLD ESN ....is there no way to override this? I would have thought it would do it automatically...any suggestons?!? Sprint says to call SONY but would rather not pay $29.95 for the call as it is out of warranty. Is the card and laptop forever tied together?
     
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    Seems like I need to do an ESN swap but is that through Sprint or SONY?
     
    kimnicho, Oct 18, 2008
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    Seller of card helped me out. I had to reinstall OLD card, remove it from DEVICE Mgr, Shutdowmn, Install Card, and have Device Mgr search for New Hardware...Success!
     
    kimnicho, Oct 20, 2008
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