Reactivating a Phone Without Service I recently got an old HTC Droid Incredible 2 with Verizon, that doesn't have service anymore. I wanted to give the phone a "clean slate" so I did a factory reset. However, when I booted it up again, it said that it needed to make a phone call (through Verizon) in order to re-activate, and will not let me proceed without doing this. I have pretty much no idea what I should do now. I could try rooting it and installing CyanogenMod or something, and hope that it would work, but I'm not sure if an unactivated phone can do that. What should I do?
I finally figured out how to fix this. I don't know if this is the best way to do this, and if this is unique to just this phone, but here's what worked for me:


Rebooted the phone
Unlocked it at the lock screen that popped up
When I came to the activation setup pages, I pulled down the notifications shade
"Quick Settings" >> "All Settings" >> Home Button


I'm not sure how exactly this worked (glitch or bug, maybe?), but it did. Thanks for all the help!