Anybody have the new onstar/verizon package?

[guyzilla]

I'm fixing to get it and despite having to sign up for 3 years safe and sound package and switching over to the verizon family plan it sounds like a pretty good service?

[DRTYFN]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by desertfox:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Dick Renaud:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by desertfox:
Ahhhhhh..so that's it! LOL And here I thought I had a cool sat phone. Okay, so if that's the only difference, I'll take it! It works like a champ!

I'm locked into my current cell phone service - but when it's up, it'll be Verizon for me. One stupid question.....when the H2 phone is just
part of your Verizon service, do BOTH phones ring when you get a call - the one built in and the one on your belt?? Or does the second phone have a seperate number? I know, I know, I am technically challenged. I spend more time in the saddle than even in my beloved Hummer!
</div></BLOCKQUOTE>

The onstar has its own number. You can forward the Verizon calls to the onstar phone. Two choices-Forward immeadiately or after four rings. You turn the forwarding on by dialing a code. I am putting it in my new H2 and my new Motorhome so I can forward it to which ever unit I am in. My wifes phone also can be forwardes to either. It actually works like regular call forwarding.You could use Verizon call forwarding without the onstar program to forward calls to you onstar phone but then you could not use the verizon minutes. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>


Thanks for the intelligent discussion. Can the "On Star" phone be the one and ONLY Verizon phone...or does it have to be a second line? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
The line in your H2 is separate and maintained by OnStar but carried by Verizon.

[PARAGON]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by PhilD:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by PARAGON:It is picking up the word (t i t) in (s t i t c h e d) and editing it using auto censor rules. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>*** & s***ched work fine for me </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

[ROX]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by DennisAJC:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by PARAGON:
Rocks,

Some good hemostatic gauze and dermabond or butterfly strips are good additions to your kit for situations like that. Hemo-gauze is expensive but will stop severe bleeding situations and in some cases seal off the wound helping to prevent further infections. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Or a roll of DUCK tape. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Don't think I wouldn't! I did have a good enough kit to stop the bleeding, and thank goodness it wasn't a huge cut, but mostly it was the Freak Out Phactor. They sell a kit for that?

The derma bond probably wouldn't have worked. Hemostatic gauze? I'll be looking into that. (Sounds like something to use on Canadians that get a little too lippy. Oh, that's Homo-static gauze. )

Thanks for the advice. Any other suggestions for the ultimate first aid kit?

[Dick Renaud]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by desertfox:
Ahhhhhh..so that's it! LOL And here I thought I had a cool sat phone. Okay, so if that's the only difference, I'll take it! It works like a champ!

I'm locked into my current cell phone service - but when it's up, it'll be Verizon for me. One stupid question.....when the H2 phone is just
part of your Verizon service, do BOTH phones ring when you get a call - the one built in and the one on your belt?? Or does the second phone have a seperate number? I know, I know, I am technically challenged. I spend more time in the saddle than even in my beloved Hummer!
</div></BLOCKQUOTE>

The onstar has its own number. You can forward the Verizon calls to the onstar phone. Two choices-Forward immeadiately or after four rings. You turn the forwarding on by dialing a code. I am putting it in my new H2 and my new Motorhome so I can forward it to which ever unit I am in. My wifes phone also can be forwardes to either. It actually works like regular call forwarding.You could use Verizon call forwarding without the onstar program to forward calls to you onstar phone but then you could not use the verizon minutes.

[HummerNewbie]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by H2 Rocks:
Edit: Why did it block S***ched up? What's going on here? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Just asked the same thing in a thread on the H3 side. I saw it did it to somebody else and it did it to me earlier. Not sure what is going on.

[timgco]

wow- Rocks, sorry to hear your little one needed s***ches.

DAMN

[Boss Hoss]

I have a 2005 so i have the verizon service. I am currently having issues with my onstar not connecting but my personal calling minutes work like a champ. I do a fair amount of traveling and i have yet to find a place where my trucks phone does not work, even though many where my cell phone doesnt work. I use my personal calling minutes frequently and i highly recommend it.

[PARAGON]

because of all the whining, mostly from the H3 owners, it appears Jason has enacted the censor feature on the message board software. It is picking up the word (t i t) in (s t i t c h e d) and editing it using auto censor rules.

Thank all of the whining members.

[DRTYFN]

t!tties...

[H2Finally]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by PhilD:
H2F, a man with such a beautiful wife shouldn't be using foul langauge anyway </div></BLOCKQUOTE>****$$!! #$%****@#!! **&^%$!!! **&^^@@#$$**()!!!

[PARAGON]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by DennisAJC:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by PARAGON:
Rocks,

Some good hemostatic gauze and dermabond or butterfly strips are good additions to your kit for situations like that. Hemo-gauze is expensive but will stop severe bleeding situations and in some cases seal off the wound helping to prevent further infections. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Or a roll of DUCK tape. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>I thought that was a given. If you don't carry around Duck Duct tape with you then you are simply not prepared for anything.

[mr.jeepster]

I don't know about the whole "package" deal, but I do know this - out in the middle of the Mojave desert, where there is NO cell phone reception, the sat phone in the H2 works perfectly. For that reason alone, we signed up for the safe and sound plan (1 year) and bought 60 minutes of cell phone time. Pretty cheap insurance, really!

[CLAYDOG]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by PhilD:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by desertfox:
but I do know this - out in the middle of the Mojave desert, where there is NO cell phone reception, the sat phone in the H2 works perfectly. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>OnStar just uses Verizon cell service, no sat phone ability. The only satellite ability of OnStar is GPS. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Right on the money Phil. The differance in reception as I understand it, is that a vehicle mounted phone is alowed a much higher power output(3 watts compared to 1 I think) and has a much larger antenna than what you can get in a hand held unit.

[H2Finally]

Just testing: ****!

[Orbital H2]

Here is the link to the site.
www.verizonwireless.com/onstar
Other than the fact I like my other cell coverage, it would be a good reason to switch.

[PARAGON]

Rocks,

Some good hemostatic gauze and dermabond or butterfly strips are good additions to your kit for situations like that. Hemo-gauze is expensive but will stop severe bleeding situations and in some cases seal off the wound helping to prevent further infections.

[HummerNewbie]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by PARAGON:
because of all the whining, mostly from the H3 owners, it appears Jason has enacted the censor feature on the message board software. It is picking up the word (t i t) in (s t i t c h e d) and editing it using auto censor rules.

Thank all of the whining members. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I figured it must have been some sort of sensor.

No whining from me

[DarthKarl]

I have the verizon/onstar plan. It works great and it is a whole lot cheaper than using those pre-paid minutes from onstar.

I was lucky enough to already have my wireless plan through verizon. Basically all that happens is the onstar phone is added as an additional line onto your existing plan (I think the current cost is 9 or 10 bucks more a month). Nearly all of your current verizon plan features attach to the new line (of course there is no txt messaging and I think call waiting doesn't work) Then you get a new phone number from verizon and thereafter the in-car phone works like it always has, but your plan time shows up as part of your verizon minutes.

For me it has been great. Before, I rarely used the onstar phone. Now whenever I'm in the Hummer, it is the primary cell phone I use.

[HummerNewbie]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by CLAYDOG:
Right on the money Phil. The differance in reception as I understand it, is that a vehicle mounted phone is alowed a much higher power output(3 watts compared to 1 I think) and has a much larger antenna than what you can get in a hand held unit. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Right on the money other than the hand held units are 0.5 watt so you are getting six times the power out of the OnStar unit.