Droid X won't activate

A couple of hours ago, my girlfriend tried sending me a few text messages, and none went through. I had Handcent installed, cleared it's cache, restarted, pulled battery, restarted, uninstalled Handcent, restarted, used the native SMS application to send txts to multiple persons (some on VZW, some not), nothing would be sent or received. Eventually got frustrated, and wipe my phone. Now it fails to activate, update or anything else. Anyone have any idea what's going on? I even logged on to VZW's website via my laptop, and it won't retrieve ANY information other than my name.

wmspencer wrote:
A couple of hours ago, my girlfriend tried sending me a few text messages, and none went through. I had Handcent installed, cleared it's cache, restarted, pulled battery, restarted, uninstalled Handcent, restarted, used the native SMS application to send txts to multiple persons (some on VZW, some not), nothing would be sent or received. Eventually got frustrated, and wipe my phone. Now it fails to activate, update or anything else. Anyone have any idea what's going on? I even logged on to VZW's website via my laptop, and it won't retrieve ANY information other than my name.
If you have not had any resolve on this issue, please PM me your name, mobile number and contact number so I can look into this issue for you.
Thank you!

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