How Do I Transfer My Tracfone To A New Phone

How To Transfer Your Tracfone Number

And Keep Your Minutes

Run across how to transfer your Tracfone number from your old to your new Tracfone and go along your minutes! In fact, you can see the whole procedure I went though in transferring the minutes and the phone number from an quondam Motorola V170 to an LG 225 camera telephone.

The phones available today have changed, but the procedure is still pretty much the aforementioned. However, you do get an added do good when you transfer your number to one of their Android handsets.

Gear up your New Phone (LG 225)

Take your new LG 225 and

Peel off plastic protectors
Install battery and back cover
Plug in the charger to your phone and an outlet.
Turn information technology on

Make sure you have a indicate. While you can complete your transfer online, your changes won't exist reflected on the phone until you lot are back inside signal range. This may be an result in houses where cell telephone reception is poor.

Get Online

Become to the Tracfone.com website and click on the Light-green Activate button.

On the side by side page choose the Transfer Number option on the Active/Reactivate drop-down card.

activate tracfone website button

transfer tracfone number drop-down menu

Since you already take an old Tracfone, and then click on the existing customer button. And then login to your Tracfone account. If y'all don't have i however, you tin register for one now.

tracfone existing customer confirmation

Cull the option to transfer a number from another Tracfone, and, below that, cull the model of your new Tracfone. Then choose the model of your old Tracfone.

select old and new tracfone models

Serial Numbers and Lawmaking Entry Mode

Now nosotros beginning the nitty gritty of the procedure to transfer your Tracfone number and minutes betwixt the ii phones. You lot volition identify your phones with their series numbers. Then you lot volition go into Code Entry fashion on your old phone, take the results you see on the phone, and enter them on a spider web form to complete the transfer.

Entering Serial Numbers

On the Phone Upgrade page enter your new Tracfone's IMEI number. Below cull the telephone from which to transfer. If your former phone is not registered in your business relationship, and so "click here" to add it to the list. With both sets of information added, click submit.

Lawmaking Entry Style

Now you will transfer Tracfone minutes to your new phone.

You take to go into lawmaking entry mode on your old Tracfone. Yous must follow your specific instructions on the spider web page. These instructions will probably be unlike depending on your phone then the moving-picture show below is only an example. Please follow your specific instructions.

code entry mode to transfer tracfone minutes

If everything goes okay, you are asked to ostend that you lot will be getting the correct number of minutes. If the number is correct, get alee and confirm it. In my case, I actually had about 217 minutes which Tracfone rounded up to 220. Also, in my case, I performed this process on the last day of service of the sometime Tracfone, so no days of service are added.

If the number is not correct, click No, and you lot volition probably be asked to contact customer service.

Success!

successful transfer of minutes

That's it. Now y'all turn the new Tracfone off and back on. Look for a few minutes for the minutes to show up on the phone. Y'all volition get the usual 20 minutes and 60 days of service for activating the phone.

phone confirmation of transferred minutes

So there it is. I hope yous institute it useful.

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