Anybody have the new onstar/verizon package?

[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.

[DRTYFN]

<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!
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I thought you knew everything. That's a pretty basic common sense thing.

[H2Finally]

Damn!

[mr.jeepster]

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!

[ROX]

I was recently faced with a Bummer of a situation. And Scarey.
I was on a trip through central Idaho, on my way to visit family, and my Son fell on some rocks, (in a gravel spot) and split his forehead open. No biggie, except he hit a vein, and the amount of blood pouring out of his head was astonishing. I have a pretty good first aid kit, but I was worried that something more serious would happen. I was able to get the bleeding stopped, but I had no where to go to get him s***ched up. NO PHONE service for 60 miles back the way we came, and no service for 100 miles the other way. (Hummers truly are not fast cars.) On Star would not work. When I finally did get phone service we were still 100 miles from town, and the clinic.
I am always on remote roads,(this time I was on a paved highway) and I was considering a satellite phone just in case of another, more serious emergency, and I'm nowhere near pavement.

Anyway, I'm thinking of switching to Verizon too, just for the convenience of having it on the same bill.

Edit: Why did it block S***ched up? What's going on here?

[Dick Renaud]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by 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!
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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. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

DRTY is right on. The onstare line is simply added to your Verizon account and your Verizon minutes are used instead of the expensive Onstar minutes. If you call forward your Verizon phone to the onstar phone with the immeadiate call forward it will work as if it is the only phone. But keep your cell handy, the computer burps once sometimes and you have to reset the call forward.

[mr.jeepster]

<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?

[guyzilla]

I too have the safe and sound package and 100 minutes but problem is the minutes do not roll over and they are about $.40/minute. With the verizon package you can use the minutes thru verizon which equals about $.10/minute.
As far as the phone goes you are right, i get outstanding reception with my car phone. Only issue i have is the voice command frequently messes up (no way to dial with window down as well).

[4churchill]

we just did the upgrade for someone on their 04 H2...we had to get them a new module something or other and they had to sign up for 3 years of the safe and sound plan. your dealer can just fax a form to onstar and collect the $450 or so dollars form you and the part is automatically shipped ot the dealership for you. Its an easy process

[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?