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LG840G

aqua3 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 03:05:57 GMT

Hi, bought this last year around this time, ( my first Tracfone) now it's almost time to buy more minutes..... What is the best /easiest way to go about this , and, will I automatically continue with the triple minutes etc ? TIA

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cantdrive55 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 03:45:43 GMT

If you are happy with your phone, the simplest way to go is to purchase the one year service with 400 minutes card. You can buy the card for $99 at Walmart or Target, or any number of places. You can add the time & minutes on your phone by following the instructions on the card. The minutes will automatically triple. Both QVC & HSN will be having special deals on phones coming up for the holidays soon, if you have any thoughts on upgrading.

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GCR18 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 03:49:47 GMT

The easiest way is to buy another tracfone phone bundle. Once you start looking at prices, you'll quickly see just buying minutes/air time costs more. You can either use the new phone or put the new minutes on the old phone. You don't have to wait until your time runs out on the old phone. Any time you have left will stay on the old phone (if that's what you keep) or move to the new phone. So you don't lose that time either way.

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GCR18 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 03:56:57 GMT

On 10/25/2014 cantdrive55 said: If you are happy with your phone, the simplest way to go is to purchase the one year service with 400 minutes card. You can buy the card for $99 at Walmart or Target, or any number of places. You can add the time & minutes on your phone by following the instructions on the card. The minutes will automatically triple. Both QVC & HSN will be having special deals on phones coming up for the holidays soon, if you have any thoughts on upgrading.

When it was time to do something with my tracfone, I found buying a new phone was a better option. I bought E226238 on the q when it was a TSV. It's currently $79 with free shipping. I like the phone better than the LG840. Just my preference.

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Meeras — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 04:08:12 GMT

simply add 400 mints card..

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aqua3 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 04:20:01 GMT

Thank you all for your help..... For my needs Iv'e been pretty happy with this phone, so may just get the 400 min. card ....

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cantdrive55 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:26:43 GMT

On 10/25/2014 graycatsrule said:
On 10/25/2014 cantdrive55 said: If you are happy with your phone, the simplest way to go is to purchase the one year service with 400 minutes card. You can buy the card for $99 at Walmart or Target, or any number of places. You can add the time & minutes on your phone by following the instructions on the card. The minutes will automatically triple. Both QVC & HSN will be having special deals on phones coming up for the holidays soon, if you have any thoughts on upgrading.
When it was time to do something with my tracfone, I found buying a new phone was a better option. I bought E226238 on the q when it was a TSV. It's currently $79 with free shipping. I like the phone better than the LG840. Just my preference.

I did that once, too. I have been reading the TracfoneReviewer blog about new and upcoming offers on android phones. I would like a better camera, WIFI and maps & directions. It would be worth it to buy the phone you got and transfer the minutes to 1500 each talk, text and data to an android after the holidays.

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Big Sister — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 06:00:08 GMT

sassy lassy, this may be of help to you in getting some bonus minutes when you add your 400.

As mentioned in post 6 go to google and search for TRACFONE REVIEWER BLOG.

Scroll way down until you come to TRACFONE PROMO CODES. If you are able to buy the 400 mins, you may get 250 bonus minutes.

I just found this site thanks to cantdrive55. I have bookmarked it for my own use.

IHTH

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Nuttmeg — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 08:53:31 GMT

Tracfone is not a high end smartphone. The best bet is to buy a new phone bundle. A card with 400 minutes cost $99.00 for 365 days.

A link to promo codes. http://tracfonereviewer.blogspot.com/p/tracfone-promo-codes.html

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hckynut — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:29:58 GMT

On 10/25/2014 sassy lassy said:
Hi, bought this last year around this time, ( my first Tracfone) now it's almost time to buy more minutes..... What is the best /easiest way to go about this , and, will I automatically continue with the triple minutes etc ? TIA

Do like I've done for many years. Look over on hsn and they will usually have a newer phone and it will cost you less than adding a years worth of minutes on it's own. Stay with TracFone because in my opinion, their use of 2 of the biggest providers, have given me better connections with no dropped calls than my wife with Sprint/Virgin Mobile or T-Mobile alone.

If you want a "full on smart phone" you can also wait until hsn has a sale on a Samsung Galaxy SII or SIII, and you can get a monthly prepaid plan for as low as $35 per month.

If you are like myself that rarely uses a cell phone, stick with something like I have which is a Samsung Centura, which is not a full smart phone in my opinion, but you can e-mail/get on the net/text/download and all those features. This phone is just more difficult to operate these features and is not near the phone as the SII and SIII I mentioned above.

My older phone had only 3 weeks left on the time before expiration and to add the 365 days to it would have cost me $120. I bought the Century for $79.99 delivered and it came with 1200 minutes talk time/1200 texts/and 1200 of data. With this they added 3 more months to make it 15 months and also transferred over my over 4,000 minutes. This 4,000 was also added to the "texts and the data plans". So $80 divided by 15 months? That is $5.33 per month for me.

I plan on doing the same thing again but my expiration is not until August 2015 so I won't be looking to buy for quite awhile.

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151949 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:55:44 GMT

When my year runs out I usually buy a new phone because it is just as cheap as just buying min. However, the phone I am using now has a 2 year warranty so I will probably go to tracfone's website and buy time when I need to.

Definitely, before I would add min to a 840G I would look at the deals you can get on an android phone - they have some new ones now or just get the LG android phone. They are so reasonably priced now. Are they an I phone - no - but they also don't cost what an i phone does and will let you see if you like the idea of having a true smart phone, and not have a contract.

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151949 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:02:14 GMT

On 10/26/2014 nutmeg3 said:
Tracfone is not a high end smartphone. The best bet is to buy a new phone bundle. A card with 400 minutes cost $99.00 for 365 days.

A link to promo codes. http://tracfonereviewer.blogspot.com/p/tracfone-promo-codes.html

Not everyone needs to or wants to pay for - an i phone or a high end samsung phone.

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aqua3 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:13:31 GMT

Good morning,

Again, thank you all for your input.... I don't need/want a smart phone, just need it mainly for calling and texting......

If I were to get a new phone how easy is it transferring all info/pics. etc. to the new phone ? I do not want to loose any pics...... Thank you

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dobiesrule — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:27:18 GMT

I don't think you can transfer the pics. Perhaps you could email them to your computer?

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glb613 — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:30:23 GMT

On 10/26/2014 sassy lassy said:
Good morning,

Again, thank you all for your input.... I don't need/want a smart phone, just need it mainly for calling and texting......

If I were to get a new phone how easy is it transferring all info/pics. etc. to the new phone ? I do not want to loose any pics...... Thank you

Use your backup. Don't have one? You need to find out how to synch with your computer or e-mail them to yourself. Never have only one copy of anything you can't afford to lose.

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Big Sister — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:27:16 GMT

On 10/26/2014 nutmeg3 said:
Tracfone is not a high end smartphone. The best bet is to buy a new phone bundle. A card with 400 minutes cost $99.00 for 365 days.

A link to promo codes. http://tracfonereviewer.blogspot.com/p/tracfone-promo-codes.html

nutmeg, thanks so much for putting the link up for the OP. I am not able to do that.

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aqua3 — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:45:42 GMT

Thank you nutmeg, this is great info.

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SeaGal — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:36:59 GMT

sassy lassy, go to tracfone.com, click where it says airtime at top of the page, a drop down box will appear, select 'pay as you go'. Buy your time that way, you dont have to go anywhere to buy a card to add time.

Yes it will show on your phone as triple minutes, your phone is programmed to triple your minutes automatically.

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crazy4bears — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:25:51 GMT

I too purchased the last TSV android and have over 1,000 in talk and 1,000 in data time left on it. My text is down to 127 so I am ordering the TSV with the newer phone as it isn't going to be that much over the 99.00 and I will have a newer phone. I sure wish Tracfone would come out with just a TEXT card. They have come out with a data one but a TEXT one would be great! Maybe they will in the future.

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aqua3 — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:42:52 GMT

Thank you again Everyone for all the helpful tips and info.

SeaGal, I'm just across the pond from you on the Kitsap Peninsula......

Go Hawks !