Quick Start Instructions
Activating your Motorola V265 phone
To start your Cricket service, just follow these easy instructions:
- Charge your battery overnight.
- Read these instructions and have a pen ready before you call to set up service.
- If you have signed up for Cricket service, a valid Social Security or Driver’s License Number will be required to activate your phone. Please have this information ready when you call to activate your phone.
- Once your battery is charged, call 1-800-CRICKET from a different phone.
- A Cricket representative will give you your new Cricket phone number. Please write this number in the green box on the inside of this brochure for future reference.
- Program your Cricket phone number into your Cricket phone using the instructions on the following page.
Programming Your Phone
- Turn on your phone using the (RED POWER/END) button
- To program your phone, press *228 SND and listen for instructions.
- If your phone fails to program over the air, please refer to the keypad instructions below.
- From the Main Screen enter 74663# then quickly press the center Menu button two times
- You will see ENTER SUBSIDY CODE
- Enter 333333 (3 six times)
- Press the right button to select OK
- You will see the USER ACTIVATION Screen
- Press the right button to choose CHANGE for MIN
- Press the CLR key for 4 seconds to erase all numbers in the field
- Enter your new 10-digit Cricket Mobile ID Number (MIN)
- Press the right button to select OK
- Arrow down twice to the MDN field
- Press the right button to choose CHANGE for MDN
- Press the CLR key for 4 seconds to erase all numbers in the field
- Enter your new 10- digit Cricket Phone Number (MDN)
- Press the right button to select OK
- Press the left button to select DONE. DO NOT ALTER ANY OTHER VALUES.
- Press the left button to select EXIT – Your phone will reset







