How To Transfer Tracfone Service From Old Tracfone To A New Phone

I've been using Tracfone for about x years, and accept had about 8 phones, i after the other, using the same phone number. Just bought a new Moto e5 with 1 year service, 1500/1500/1500. My electric current phone has well-nigh 1 year service remaining, and most 13 gig of data, 13,000 texts, and 11,000 minutes. Don't use it all that much, though information technology is my main phone. The only issue I've had with TF so far comes when activating a new telephone & making certain my previous minutes, etc get transferred to the new telephone. Terminal time I did this, TF assist said I may have to Eat my existing minutes. "NO F'ING WAY" was my response, and I was able to get the onetime fourth dimension added to the new phone/time. I do have an online TF business relationship which lists my current balances, and several former phone, dorsum to 2012, but does not specifically list my electric current Samsung Luna Pro which I am replacing as my current phone. I'd like to activate the new phone AND accept all my existing minutes transferred to it while keeping the new minutes, etc. What is the best/quickest/virtually straightforward fashion to accomplish this?

Thank you equally always!

You could put the Luna sim in the E5. I think they're both nano. You'll have the same phone number and balance. Just don't activate the luna with a new sim. Throw it in a drawer. As far as anything account related, your E5 is your luna. You won't get the 1500/1500/1500 only you'll accept your old balance. Or...you should be able to activate with transfer, the E5 with your aforementioned number and balance (not a new number) and get it all.
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Thanks for the quick reply. I thought nearly that, just wasn't sure the Former SIM in the new phone would as well include the NEW full year of service & minutes. If I stick in the new SIM & there'south an issue (like none of the new service being there) is that reversible just by removing the SIM?

Speaking of SIMS & microSD's, the Moto 5 has a trivial "hatch/tray" you release with a pin to insert SIM & SD. The back is non fifty-fifty removable, without a estrus gun (it's glued on). PITA. Each new generation of these things seems to be nigh given the Possessor/USER less & less access & command over THEIR device.

You already know the drill. You actuate the new phone SIM with a transfer from the old telephone SIM. The new phone's built-in "minutes" volition appear later on y'all have washed this. The minutes will non appear until the new SIM is activated either by starting out fresh with a new telephone number, or activating with a transfer from a previous SIM (the SIM is the primary holder of the account).

So technically, you could just stick the old SIM into the new phone, but yous wouldn't get the built-in minutes that way.

The greatest problem is the amount of balances you lot accept congenital upwardly. Tracfone sometimes makes executive decisions on the spur of the moment and whittles downwardly the balances when they become a whiff of them during a transfer.

I would do the transfer through Corporate this time and make sure you get what you are entitled to.

It'due south not a big deal to use the SIM tray. You don't have to remove the back or the battery in social club to alter the SIM. You won't accidentally damage the dorsum.

Yous might wonder about the sticker with the IMEI on it that is usually stuck in the battery compartment. The SIM tray usually has a trivial sticker on it with the info in example the phone dies and you need to know the number. The inexpensive phones or refurbs may not take this, merely an average phone should.

Quote Originally Posted by DanCalling View Post

My electric current phone has nigh 1 year service remaining, and about xiii gig of information, 13,000 texts, and xi,000 minutes.

Yeah, your balances are as well loftier for prophylactic. At that place is a history of TF seeing this as fraud, and hard to testify otherwise. It's difficult to get such high balances without spending a lot of money. Non the norm for near TF users, thus the scrutiny.

Quote Originally Posted by Lisme View Post

The SIM tray commonly has a little sticker on it with the info in case the phone dies and you demand to know the number. The cheap phones or refurbs may not take this, simply an average phone should.

Yeah, even the TF models have the IMEI on the removable SIM tray. On my TCL LX information technology is very small-scale and lightly painted, which requires a good magnifying lens to read. The IMEI is ever in the phone somewhere in Settings....About phone.

Quote Originally Posted past Lisme View Post

You might wonder about the sticker with the IMEI on it that is ordinarily stuck in the bombardment compartment.

I'm familiar with that sticker which used to be under the batt & the info it contains. It is on the back of this 1.

Quote Originally Posted by loboheeler View Post

Yep, your balances are too high for safety. There is a history of TF seeing this as fraud, and hard to prove otherwise. Information technology's hard to get such high balances without spending a lot of money. Not the norm for most TF users, thus the scrutiny.

Aye I'm pretty "aberrant" in a diverseness of ways... ;-) Basically I'm an old man with few contacts & I simply don't use the phone that much. As well, when I practice have to make a long telephone call, I apply one of my 2 GV numbers off the PC via Chrome. Gratis, ya know. Not sure what you lot hateful by "too high for rubber," WHOSE prophylactic??? As far as them thinking the history is "fraud", why?? They should have a record of all the minutes bought & used on this number (once again, same number since 2010 or then, only TF number I've ever had), so I see no problem, bated from TF just trying to steal my outstanding residual, which would non surprise me. When I 1st began using TF, I would purchase my service fourth dimension & minutes from Pinzoo https://www.pinzoo.com/wireless-refi...airtime-cards/ but after finding HSN, I notice with my level of consumption, I can get a year'south service, more minutes than I'd need for that yr, AND A Make NEW Phone for less than 100 bucks. Ofttimes every bit low as $60, similar this Moto e5. Many people pay that much or more every calendar month. Granted, they probably make way more jail cell calls than I do, but all the same.

Quote Originally Posted past DanCalling View Post

Not certain what you hateful by "also high for safety," WHOSE safe??? As far as them thinking the history is "fraud", why?? They should have a record of all the minutes bought & used on this number (again, same number since 2010 or so, only TF number I've always had), and then I come across no problem, bated from TF just trying to steal my outstanding balance, which would not surprise me.

The advice confronting carrying a high residue is for the safety of your balance. TF has a Fraud Prevention Dept that seems to operate on the principal of "Execute first, Pardon after". When they an account that exceeds a "threshold", they automatically assume that information technology was obtained fraudulently and accept some of it away. The (unpublished) threshold used to exist around 5000, at present it seems to be around 10,000.

When TF take abroad some of your balance, you'll have to prove how you built up that high amount. TF volition merits they have no records of your redemptions. Do yous have records of when you redeemed your airtime? If so, how is information technology recorded? Your written notes don't hold water.

Quite a few of us, myself included, have had some units taken from u.s. by TF. A few years ago, I lost around 1500 texts and 1500MB. I don't use text and information much, so I didn't bother fighting TF to get them dorsum.

To protect myself, on the 1st of each month I do a balance check using the app, then take a screenshot. It shows my phone number, bucket balances, As of Date/Time. But if I have to fight TF for lost units, I'll even so accept to prove that I did not employ them. So to avert the hassle, I keep my rest under 10,000.

Since yous have a Tracfone branded phone and not BYOP, when you purchase Whatsoever airtime from Tracfone online you are offered 365 service days for $49.99. But you can determine if you want to fight Tracfone for your remaining airtime every twelvemonth. A solution would exist to actually use airtime rather than to just permit it build up higher and higher each year.

And then, I'thousand GUILTY until proven INNOCENT? Having worked in law, I don't think and then. To brainstorm with, since i clearly don't utilise these phones that much, why would I go to the trouble of figuring out how to "steal" minutes? And if their system is that hackable (which I dubiousness) that's TF'southward consequence to address, not the consumer'southward.

Quote Originally Posted by DanCalling View Post

So, I'm GUILTY until proven INNOCENT? Having worked in police, I don't think then. To brainstorm with, since i clearly don't use these phones that much, why would I go to the problem of figuring out how to "steal" minutes? And if their system is that hackable (which I doubt) that's TF'southward issue to address, not the consumer's.

Except information technology'south not that way in real life.

Quote Originally Posted by DanCalling View Post

So, I'chiliad GUILTY until proven INNOCENT? Having worked in constabulary, I don't recall so.

We're not proverb what TF do is right. We're just telling you the ugly fact. Practice what y'all want with your telephone.

Tracfone has some absurd business models. At that place are usually expensive ways and cheap ways of doing the same thing. Anyone with a modicum of internet research can observe HSN and see that one tin can go three or four of these cheap deals and really load upwardly for the hereafter. Of course, that results in things that Tracfone doesn't like. Tracfone wants to see paid airtime beingness loaded at to the lowest degree one time a year. The maximum plan comes with 365 days, which should forcefulness the average customer to purchase something. But there is aught stopping someone from daisy-chaining several HSN deals together. Information technology'southward totally Tracfone's error. They are practically giving away phones and airtime and then punishing people who are just buying what's offered. Information technology'southward inevitable that balances will trend high.

I sympathize that they are trying to attract new customers. Merely they are falling into their age-quondam trap of miscalculating the savvy of current customers who read blogs. The original "fraud bug" were the upshot of poor control of promo codes and bonus minutes and two-fers and other stuff they were giving away. Any flaws were soon exploited. That was with one-bucket feature phones, and there were either absurd balances or fifty-fifty quantities of "harvested" phones existence sold to overseas dealers.

There were sellers on eBay with phones loaded up with practically free minutes. Eventually, Tracfone got a handle on the situation, but information technology took a while. A lot of suspect phones got deactivated.

Tracfone is not skilful at cause and upshot. They allow their ad to accept errors. The CSRs take to take the rut and I'thousand not sure they have even seen a Tracfone to have personal feel.

I stay with the company considering I take airtime invested and at least I feel that I accept a handle on how to work things. This outfit is trying to be all things to all people and has too many twists and turns. It is too easy for a customer to feel cheated.