• LG Classic Flip

chaimzalman They match and i called tracfone many times, each time after 20 minutes they say they need to transfer me to someone higher and then they hang up on me!

      • FlippyLevel 6 - Platinum Elite Member

        • Post #278

        Atusb Welcome to tracfone. Wait for your phone to be unlocked and switch service providers.

            Flippy Pic messaging is more unreliable with other carriers on the LG Classic

                • FlippyLevel 6 - Platinum Elite Member

                  • Post #280

                  chaimzalman Not more unreliable than not working at all....
                  The other choice is keep hammering away at TracFone reps... If you call the
                  Tracfone Executive Dept
                  8006264883 EXT 3324
                  Sometimes you may have a slightly less horrible experience.

                      Flippy thank you, but they give you same stuff and doesnt work

                        17 days later

                        I have the LG classic flip that I purchased within the last year from a Jewish company, slightly used and unlocked so it could work with my T-mobile plan. I noticed a few months ago that sometimes my texts were coming in delayed, or calls weren't going through, so I switched my sim card to a different phone. I did receive an email before the summer from T-mobile Archie that my service might get cut off, but I'm not sure if the problems I'm having are because of that or not. (Since my phone isn't technically supposed to work with T-mobile, when I go onto my T-mobile account, they do not recognize the model of my phone, so there might not actually be a problem with my phone model)
                        I would like to switch back to my LG flip because its much easier to use than the Alcatel I've been using in the meantime, but it's hard to know if I am missing calls or texts are coming in late on the LG. I do have the phone under warranty so I plan on calling the company. I just wanted to see if anyone else was having these issues with their calls/texts not coming in or coming in late.

                            Archie The LG Classic does not work especially well on T-Mobile. It doesn't have all their bands.

                                2 months later

                                Flippy So I got around to reading it, and looked up my IMEI, but it's only 14 digits so I can't check compatibility with T-mobile - for that you need a 15 digit IMEI. I googled what it means when IMEI is only 14 digits and found [Login to see the link] saying that the phone is only CDMA capable. From there I went to [Login to see the link] page about CDMA networks, but I don't really understand it. Can someone explain it to me?

                                    • WwhynotLevel 5 - Gold Elite Member

                                      • Post #288
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                                      Archie different bands are different ways the phone sends and receives info. CDMA bands means the phone work with Verizon but your 4G data (and your calls) are being sent and received with (Voice hd) LTE (I think CDMA was Verizon’s 3G network and was phased out)

                                          whynot so how can I check if my phone is compatible with Tmobile if to do so I need a 15-digit IMEI, but my phone's IMEI only has 14 digits?

                                              Archie it might work with T-Mobile but on a 3G level. See if you can borrow someone’s T-Mobile sim and test it in your phone.

                                                  whynot I have Tmobile. see my posts above Archie Archie - I stopped using it because I don't think all my calls and texts were coming through (but no way of knowing for sure how many weren't coming through). I would want to switch back to it but I need a phone that I know is working, so for now I'm using a TCL FLIP Go 4058W.
                                                  But if there was a way for the LG to work on Tmobile reliably, I would go back to it.
                                                  Only other alternative is maybe if I can get a comparably cheap plan that would work on that phone (right now I'm paying $20 a month for Tmobile)

                                                          whynot T-mobile closed down their sprint cdma 3g network and u cant activate a new device on t-mobile if its not volte-voice over lte compatible Us mobile is a cheap alternative and works with a lot of good flip phones unlike Tmobile resellers like tello are only compatible with junky phones