Provide Address and Photo Id proofs. You may receive a confirmation call form customer care and then your number will be re-activated. Can I reactivate a deactivated SIM card? Once a SIM card has been deactivated, it's not possible to reactivate it.
Moreover, deactivating the SIM card returns the phone number associated with it to the pool of available phone numbers. It is therefore impossible to keep the phone number associated with a deactivated SIM. How do I reactivate my government phone? Upon reactivation of your phone, you may be assigned a new telephone number. Can I give my old TracFone to someone else? Do SIM cards expire if not used? Generally unused SIM cards will expire if there is no cash balance on the account. Of course on a contract as long as you keep paying on a monthly basis everything is OK.
It also appeared that text units decreased at 2 per text rather than 1 per text - maybe because it hit BOTH apps??? What setting change is needed to text just over WiFi and not hit my text bucket? Maybe a different app? Yes, you need a different app. Textra mostly just makes texting look better and a few other things.
What you need is an app that doesn't use cell networks for texting, such as Whatsapp, Line, and many others. The downside with these apps is that your friends also need to have these apps. Yes, that is correct, on Android 0. And texts are characters, so if you send or receive texts longer than that, it will cost more. When I check my balance I get a number like this for my text balance: How can I tell how many actual text I have with this? Google Hangouts can be used for texting, and even phone calls, when you have a wireless connection.
The new Hangouts is the transition from the old Google Voice, although you can still use the voicemail features of Google Voice with Hangouts and your Tracfone. Do minutes on smartphones carry over as long you continue to add airtime before you run out like on my lgg? That is correct Suzuki.
I highly recommend upgrading to the new Android Tracfones. I'd like an explanation of how I can transfer my nearly minutes from an old very not-smart phone to a new Android. Perhaps I've just missed that info. Thanks so much for the article. Have been trying to get it activated for the last 2 days with tracfone 3 different reps. As of writing this, still not done. But the one question none of them could answer was where could I go to find my balance of minutes My old phone had the display right on the screen.
Now I know. Is that another option? For android, you'd be charged one text minute to receive the text itself and then charged in addition for however much data it takes to download the photo.
It depends on the app and how much you're using it, i. The benefit to using a texting app with your data is that data airtime cards can be purchased separately if you run low, whereas there are no airtime cards that can buy only texts. Yes, the Tracfone My Account app works great. You can also check your balance on Tracfone. This is probably somewhere, but I haven't it: can you apply your text units to your data?
I don't text much but I am going through the data units. If you can't, then when you buy "minutes," are they allocated equally to all three catagories? If so I will always be running low on data units! Yes, each time you add minutes, it adds more time so it is good to have some left over when you add new.
Sorry to be obtuse, but can text or data minutes be used as phone minutes if they start to build up and I am running out of phone minutes? I am a new tracfone owner with the pop icon phone. Thanks so much. Should I or is there a way to turn off the data so only wifi is being used? Just wondering about the one year card, I'm assuming that you get total minutes with the triple offer? I use "text free ultra" both on my LG Ultima and my android tablet.
Only when im away from home, or a known WIFI network, and have to use the cell network does it charge me for the texts. Then place its Widget so you can see at a glance approx how much time you have in each category. There is a green band with a circle on it that tells you when the last time you queried Tracfone for an update, and when you click on it, it will go and get an update. Then you will get a text message with the current numbers which will also register on the widget.
I do this once a day when wifi is available. Very simple. I'm wondering if I buy minutes for one month on a phone, and then don't buy any more minutes, will I still be able to use Wifi on the phone? Well, Lulu that sounds like it is possible since one doesn't need the phone number. Tracfone is only providing you with communications over cell towers. Once you have the phone, you can set it up with the apps you want, and then let your phone number lapse, but then you would only be able to use it when you had a WiFi connection.
Seems a strange request, but you probably have a good reason to not buy a tablet or Kindle etc. Perhaps others will have a different opinion. Nice Anime, Lulu, G-. Thank you so much for this. Just set up a Tracfone Moto E and was going crazy trying to find the balances. Just downloaded the app. Open question to everyone who's using one now: Given the difference in allocation of units, would you say you buy more time-cards while using a smartphone tracfone, vs before on older phones?
Or is it about the same? I don't seem to be using any more of the phone time than I did with my older phone, and perhaps less as now I text some calls rather than voice. I still don't use much of the data because I haven't gotten used to doing my internet work on the phone's small screen, and don't send photos or docs by phone.
But then I'm retired and not into social media because of the insecurity issues those things present. I have a non-android iphone 5. On a mi card How much talk? How much Text? How much Cellular data? Data is separate cards. I have the lg 41c i use it very little. I had mins to start. My call duration shows i used 10 hours since feb However the min count is now So tracfon says i used 25 hours. Tech support was no help they want the date the minutes diappeared. Any ideas how to verify on my phone?
Can they get a monthly usage? Help thanks. I believe minutes cannot be split up, so if you only made a 40 second call, you will be charged for 1 minute. If you made a 1 minute 10 second call, it would charge 2 minutes. Anyone confirm this? Can I buy just a data card? I have over text and talk minutes,but only 3. What is causing me to use so much data? If I buy a Tracfone and spend most of my time at my home yes I have wifi , will my calls not deduct from my talk minutes?????????????????????
If you mean using your phone at home for a call, you will be charged for the minutes. It is a phone and a computer for text, data, email.
Yesterday I traveled One hour and 10 minutes using Google Maps and used 3. To turn on quickly, put your finger on the top of the screen and pull it down. The screen changes to six boxes and I assume you will see something like it.
Tap on Data and GPS etc. Try swiping down from the top of your screen to see if there are buttons to turn on and off GPS, Wifi, Data, change brightness, font, mute. Of course if you have messages etc that will show up first until you deal with them. I keep data and gps turned off always unless I am in need of maps or needing to sent data.
There were a lot of apps already installed on my phone and I use the one that is labeled "messages" If you tap on the center bottom icon on the home screen, a few screens of Icons come up.
Find the one labeled Messages and use it. No ads, free. Hold the icon and move the widget to where you want it to have it readily available. I have not activated yet. It offers triple talk, text, and data. If I use Facebook a lot will this drain my data quickly? Try and think of your smartphone as a phone and computer. Do your FB work when you have wifi available and it is just a computer, not using min, text, data.
See above comments to turn off data, etc If you do FB away from wifi then of course you have to pay for the use of the cell service. Get a My Account app and use the widget to keep track of your usage. Then do 10 minutes of FB while sitting in the park and then update your account app uses text and you will have an idea of how much it is costing you for those 10 minutes.
Then do it again but just post a photo, and check your account again. Do tracfone cards expire even if they are not added to a phone? Yes, they expire one year from the date of purchase. The date displayed is your service end date. Your unused minutes, text and data will not expire with active service. And with some plans, you can double or triple your minutes. Basic phone:. Use the table below to see how TracFone's monthly plans stack up against other prepaid providers.
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