i have an old nokia 5165 cell phone i was wondering how to activate it on a pay as u go plan?

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Answer by Summer S
Unfortunately, you will be unable to activate a 5165. Those phones were sold under the Cingular network when we supported the TDMA technology. We no longer support that technology. Cingular was the only wireless carrier to have TDMA. The next most compatible to that network is CDMA, which is supported by Sprint and Verizon Wireless. Your best bet would be to go into a Cingular store and get a Go Phone…. this is our prepaid service. Right now, there is the Motorola c139. This phone is 39.99 in store with a $ 40 mail in rebate, so it ends up being free.

Go online, too. There are a few Go Phones available that are only 30 or 40 dollars.

Hope this helps!

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I found my old nokia cell phone. It has so pictures of my friends and stuff on it. I want to look at them, but its not charged so i cant turn it on. I lost the charger for it. Can anyone tell me how to charge it without the charger?

Answer by susanne m
If you have a usb for the phone, you can link it to your computer and it’ll charge or you can go buy another charger.

Answer by xmesmriznbeautyx
yea some phones have usb portals, if your phone does your can connect it to the usb and charge it on the computer.

or you can try this….im not sure it works but iv always wanted to try, hope i helped a little…:)

Instructions
Step1
Get a USB cord and cut off the end that doesn’t fit into a computer. Use your pliers to pull off and expose approximately an inch of wires. Use the knife and wire strippers to expose a little less than a centimeter of the black and the red wires within the USB cord.
Step2
Remove the back of your cell phone and take out the battery. Find the positive and negative signs on the back of the battery near the gold or silver metallic portion (the terminals) of the battery that connects to your phone. Remember that black is negative and red is positive. Place the exposed red wire over the positive battery terminal and place the exposed black wire over the negative battery terminal.
Step3
Place the battery back into the phone making sure the exposed red wire is on the positive battery terminal and the exposed black wire is on the negative battery terminal as you pop the battery back into the phone.
Step4
Plug the USB cord end into your running computer and let the phone charge for a few minutes. After a few minutes, unplug your phone and power it on.

Answer by Bakhtiar Kasi
Most Nokia phones can’t be charged using a USB cord so i’m not sure if that will work for you – but if you’re willing to, buy a charger for your phone online and it shouldn’t cost that much – there are also “adapters” that hold phone batteries and can charge them so you can use that too…

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Low resolution video clips taken by a Nokia 2760 mobile (cell) phone in 2008 from the train of my regular commute past the hill of Heanor. Made as part of the project “Spring-time for Heanor” for “Considering Silesia” by Mik Godley “Heanor was declared the second-most English town in the country, after nearby Ripley, with almost 90% of the population being English in origin.” The region around Heanor has a comparable social, industrial and topographic landscape to my ‘native’ West Yorkshire coalfields — gritty and “workman-like”, a million miles away from the England portrayed by the films of Hollywood and Ealing, or the watercolours in the galleries of English beauty-spots — ideas of England that are entirely alien to me. Lower Silesia in Poland and the Czech Republic, similarly, has hills and low mountains of great brooding beauty, together with post-Communist era problems — equivalent to our own post-industrial upheaval — of closed coalmines and declining heavy industry. Whilst Heanor might not be an obvious choice for landscape painting, my spring of 2006 ‘reconnaissance’ of the town and its environs revealed aesthetic as well as social/cultural interests — the rolling fertile fields of its hills, the landscaped pit-head parklands and giant Tesco’s supermarket suggesting the hopes, and difficulties, of renewal to what has been a decaying coal-mining market town – presumably now dashed by the present economic circumstances. In spring 2007 I embarked on a photo …