twogurusindrag

As I'm continuing to dig, it seems what I called a "kill code" is the carrier "locking" the phone, which would prevent me from using the phone with another carrier. Does that sound more correct?

So I'm a student that got upside down in his phone bill with Verizon about 6 months ago. I put my phone on airplane mode before they cut my service, and have only been using airplane mode with wi-fi because I was afraid they'd send a kill code (so I couldn't use the phone) until I was caught up (never going to happen). iTunes can't see my phone in airplane mode, so I can't load media on it. Is it possible to block carrier access so I can take it out of airplane mode without completely resetting the phone? (Can I order a sim from somebody else and get phone service?) Is this kill code thing just my imagination? I am 100% ignorant of iOS capability and have never jailbroken any of my iPhones. Thank you.