[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
That was awesome, yeah you helped a lot. Not totally as I have to find out for sure what is going on with Verizon. To make things easier for those who understand Verizon Bills, I have attached my real bill with a tiny amount of personal information redacted in a pdf file in a zip, attached to my last post #7473.

Anytime I tried taking limited minutes, like 500, then 600, then 700, I would end up just going over it a little bit and got slammed with a LOT of extra money on the bill. $1 a minute can KILL you pretty fast, especially if you are not aware that it is happening until you get the bill! I can go back and look at past bills and try to come up with a "safe number" for minutes and try that. The problem is after killing Comcast, this is the only phone I have, but I did not use the house phone *very* much, some but not a lot.

I wonder why I have to buy a new phone to try and get back the totally Unlimited plan, especially if I can buy it elsewhere and not from Verizon. ...and pay full retail? Whoa! The Razr is not SO important, other than it is a working fairly decent smartphone but, it *is* rooted. I have to be careful. Verizon will try very hard to get me into that "no way in hell root trap" and I am not going for it. There is no reason in hell why I cannot have a rooted phone. Look how much fun we have here? If given your choice, and even if it cost you at least *something*, reasonable, I doubt very much that you would give up root willingly, am I right?

Dude, my contract ran out *years* ago. I wasn't even aware of it but Verizon called me about it, said I could take a new phone and contract, keep what I have and stay, and if I stayed, I would get grandfathered in to unlimited lifetime data. THAT is the entire reason I am still on Verizon with this phone, paying this bill.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 for $79 is something I would kill for, even with a 2 year contract with unlimited. It can be rooted and rommed, or at least XDA says so here. OMG, the Samsung Galaxy S5 is gorgeous, look at the specs!

See, that is what I want, that Galaxy S5 at a cheap price with contract and I want my unlimited data. Are you going to root yours now?

[MENTION=5362796]Dwillian[/MENTION] thank you so much for responding so quickly. It is late, I am really upset, I do not fully understand bills and household finances, I cannot balance a checkbook to save my life. But I know right now I am in real trouble and every dollar matters. I do NOT spend $5 without thinking about it very, very carefully right now. I posted my real bill so that with your input, we might get some members who know more about this or it might spark something in you if you see the real bill on what is best to be done. Comcast blew it. They just went totally insane with their own rules and started literally "taking" money I do not have, cannot give, and NEVER agreed to pay. They also cut many of the perks they gave me to sign on and it did not take very long to happen. When I have to use the electric money one month to restore services, I am in trouble. Do it again and I have to take another loan which is deeper trouble, it has to stop. It didn't. By the time they cut me off, on the 5th time in a row, I would never speak to them again, pay them again, and sent their stuff back UPS.

Verizon is pricey, I *think* but they never got "that stupid" with billing. Sprint is now showing TV commercials where they will cut your bill in ½ and pay up to $350 to buy out your contract, if you switch. Is that a good idea? Don't know. Have to wait and see what everybody else in here is getting and what it costs. This is a bit personal but I trust everyone here, and I feel you trust me. I would only do this here, nowhere else, even though Google can get almost anyone here if they search the right way. I did not publish anything damaging, harmful, or that can be used against me for ID theft or anything else.

I am not happy anymore with the Verizon I am getting, not after hearing all of this. I could save up to $75 a month, it seems, and still have what I have. Just not sure about this "you have to buy a new phone stuff". I do not mind giving up the Razr, but giving up root makes me an XDA spectator and I would die if I had to sit in the bleachers instead of playing with all the rest of you. Thank you. Thank you very much. It is now 4 AM and I am going to

try

to wind down and sleep. Goodnight my friend. :)