Help With A Number Transfer

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[justme4now]

My neighbor lady was told that her 20 year old LG vx8300 phone was coming to an end in December.
(3g)

Well she saw, and bought one of those bundles on HSN that has 1500 min/dat/text along with a Samsung smartphone.
(A02s)

She wants to keep the same phone number from the old phone and I thought that I could help her.
Yea well ... that ain't working out so well!🙄

All of the "transfer your phone number" instructions I have run across deal with the more modern smartphones, not these 20 year old flip phones!😬

Is there any way to do the "keep your number" change-over on two very different devices?

If any of you can help I will forever be in your debt!👍

Btw: The old phone is on Verizon's services and the new Samsung with the 1500 minutes is a Tracfone bundle which is also owned by Verizon.

As I said, any help will make life a little easier ... For me! Lol

The culprit that I need to get the info from..

I took a picture of the tag that sits beneath the battery. Anything I can use?🥴

[justme4now]

Hopefully this will make sense to ... Someone!?🙃

[ConservativeMind]

In my experience, she needs to be okayed for the phone number transfer and loss of contract at Verizon, but first should check with Tracfone to see if they do normally handle phone number transfers from Verizon.

[gitmo]

I did that a couple years ago, but it took getting a phone company tech on a call.

[ought-six]

Call Tracfone Customer Service, and they should be able to help you.

[Lurkinanloomin]

When I switched to Redpocket, I just notified Verizon I was porting my number and Redpocket synched it to my new phone.

[drSteve78]

Not an expert, but Verizon customer since Alltel

There should be an online activation, under her account, (which you may have to set up, will need an old bill for account info) that allows ‘bring your own device’ or equivalent. The ESN Hex number identifies that phone.

Or call Verizon. Or go to Best Buy geek desk. (Best Buy does Verizon, and others. Everyone working in cellphone department can do this.)

[Spktyr]

You will have to call the phone companies - Verizon will have to release or transfer the number to the new company, and the new company will have to know to accept it and where to assign it to. Call the new company first - they may be able to do it without you having to call Verizon.

[Bullish]

She was using a 20 year old flip-phone Seriously?

[drSteve78]

Point of reference , i have a Florida business landline number from 1978 that is still to this day my business number on an iPhone.

[TomGuy]

Since the old and new are with different carriers, you likely will need to call Tracfone.

This should be under the topic of ‘bringing your phone to Tracfone.’ The Tracfone website might offer better instructions.

[siamesecats]

It does to me. Years ago I had an AT&T Go Phone. I didn’t use it much and I kept losing money, and it would go out of service, only to pay for more service so I would have a working phone, and the same thing over and over again. So, we decided to go with Pure Talk, and to keep my number, I had to call AT&T to get the “account number” not the phone number, of my phone to give to Pure Talk. So, that may be what you need to do, get the “account number” of the phone. Good luck!

[TChad]

I don't know if this will apply in your case, but when I recently transferred a phone number to a new phone, my provider required the IMEI number of the new phone.

I located the IMEI number under "Settings" on the new phone.

[meatloaf]

I just went through something like that dealing with tracfone. Mine was a tracfone to tracfone number xfer BUT it shouldn’t make a difference,

The key is after talking to two tracfone agents in the Philippines I was then transferred states side. That took about an hour of mostly waiting.

Start the tracfone activation process by calling their 800 number. Doing it online didn’t work.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I had a Nokia 3585 from 2002 to 2019, loved it and hated to give it up.
Still works.
Sort of, no carrier will give service.

[bray]

The new service should be able to port the number over. It normally takes a couple days.

[Do_Tar]

Do not cancel the Verizon account. The moment you cancel an account the number is gone.

It should just be a matter of going to Tracfone > Activate My Phone > Keep My Number.

Once activated, and you verify that the number is now connected to the new phone, it’s safe to cancel Verizon. If you keep the Verizon account open they should just issue a new number.

Keeping a contacts list is a little more involved.

[George from New England]

“Point of reference , i have a Florida business landline number from 1978 that is still to this day my business number on an iPhone.”

If you miss paying the $50/mo business rate to a ma belle company, pls send it to me @!!

[justme4now]

A big “Thank You” to all who jumped in trying to help.
I think that I am going to have to do what I wanted to avoid .. call Verizon.
Oh, for those that don’t know .. Verizon now owns Tracfone.

[Roccus]

JOKE!!!

Been trying to cancel my Tracfone acct. Was paying about $7/mo to keep # alive and roll-over my mins.
IMPOSSIBLE!!!
Waiting to see if my calls to VISA to stop paying will get this accomplished.

[MayflowerMadam]

My husband has used his 20-year-old LG flip phone until last year. Then when we changed providers he had to get a new one. Although the new one flips, it’s still Android based, and a PITA.

I’m considering going back to a non-smart flip or old BlackBerry and am trying to rely as much as possible on Garmin for navigation to see if it’s dependable. The main reason I have an Android is for navigation, otherwise I only need talk and text and minimal data.