At around 2 PM EST, I had used this link http://verizonwireless.com/activate/ to activate my iPhone 4 on prepaid, and the process appeared to have gone through all well, and the ESN shows it's linked to an account and the number is active, and it told me to dial *228 on my phone to finish it and program the phone. However, I cannot do so because my iPhone constantly shows Searching... and No Service and it refuses to connect to Verizon towers.

I am stuck on the process. For 4 hours, I've restarted, reset, restored, done everything to the iPhone and it still won't connect. It just shows No Service and shows the Waiting for Activation message on the iPhone and whenever I dial *228 it says iPhone is not activated and gives me the options to Try Again and to Ignore.

The number was a port from StraightTalk phone, so does the activation just have to take longer or is this iPhone screwed?