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    minkmink_84
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    can u download ringtones with tracfone


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    Re: tracfone

    not yet, in a few months you can



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    Re: tracfone

    do you know if anything else is coming with the release of the ringtones?



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    Re: tracfone

    If I buy a tracfone phone can I unlock it and use my t-mobile sim card?



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    Re: tracfone

    anyone know?



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    Re: tracfone

    Quote Originally Posted by HappyMan
    If I buy a tracfone phone can I unlock it and use my t-mobile sim card?
    I don't think Tracfone is GSM. It will need to be GSM in order to be used with T-Mobile.



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    Re: tracfone

    it says it is a gsm phone.



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    Re: tracfone

    Tracfone uses CDMA. Not GSM.



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    Re: tracfone

    Quote Originally Posted by HappyMan
    If I buy a tracfone phone can I unlock it and use my t-mobile sim card?
    No. Tracfone uses special frimware that only allows tracfone SIMs to be used in tracfone phones. Non-tracfone SIMs wont work in a tracfone phone. And tracfone SIMs wont work in a non-tracfone phone. This is in the firmware and cannot be unlocked. All you can do is reflash a tracfone phone. But the tracfone SIM would still be useless without a tracfone phone.

    In other words, no, a tmobile SIM wont work in a tracfone.

    BTW. Tracfone is GSM, CDMA, and even in the past TDMA. It all depends on the area you sign up in, and what type of phone you buy. If you get a GSM tracfone it will roam for free. If you get a CDMA tracfone then roaming outside of the local coverage area will roam at 2x the local rate.
    Last edited by roberts1953; 07-28-2006 at 05:13 PM.



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    Re: tracfone

    I thought that if a phone has a sim card, it is not cdma.

    Anyhow, I have a tracfone and an unlocked razr v3. The tracfone sim does not work in the razr--it will not acquire a network and only allows emergency calls.

    I guess thats the firmware discussed above. Is there any way to hack the firmware?

    Thanks!
    Last edited by skinny puppy; 08-15-2006 at 05:28 AM.



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    Re: tracfone

    Quote Originally Posted by skinny puppy
    I thought that if a phone has a sim card, it is not cdma.

    Anyhow, I have a tracfone and an unlocked razr v3. The tracfone sim does not work in the razr--it will not acquire a network and only allows emergency calls.

    I guess thats the firmware discussed above. Is there any way to hack the firmware?

    Thanks!
    CDMA, TDMA, and AMPS use an ESN, not a SIM card.
    GSM and iDEN use SIM cards for their respective technologies.

    Any phone, even unactivated, will allow 911 calls. FCC mandate.

    You can reflash the tracfone phone. It would then work with any other GSM SIM on a compatable GSM network. But the Tracfone SIM would no longer work in the Tracfone phone. Nothing you can do about using a tracfone SIM in a RAZR until Tracfone comes out with a Tracfone RAZR (highly unlikely).
    Last edited by roberts1953; 08-22-2006 at 02:01 PM.



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    Re: tracfone

    Quote Originally Posted by roberts1953
    CDMA, TDMA, and AMPS use an ESN, not a SIM card.
    GSM and iDEN use SIM cards for their respective technologies.

    Any phone, even unactivated, will allow 911 calls. FCC mandate.

    You can reflash the tracfone phone. It would then work with any other GSM SIM on a compatable GSM network. But the Tracfone SIM would no longer work in the Tracfone phone. Nothing you can do about using a tracfone SIM in a RAZR until Tracfone comes out with a Tracfone RAZR (highly unlikely).
    actually the sim will work in a tracfone that is reflashed until tracfone finds out you are stealing min(billing on phone, sim only works with certain imei)



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    Re: tracfone

    I have heard that these phones are now unlockable but does anyone have any info on them? Funny thing becauase and arab bunch of men were arrested as I read recently after buying a huge pile of these at a Wal Mart etc,,,, make you wonder what was going on?



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