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• Save $100 with any $45 or higher Plan Purchase Required
Straight Talk raised the price to $99 from $49
-This means you can no longer use the loophole of buying it via the Straight Talk website.
It is still $49+ instore
So the steps would be:
1. Buy the phone instore, activate on Straight Talk (any 30 day plan). The online activation process has not worked for many, it's recommended to activate by phone. Instructions to activate through an automated phone service are HERE.
2. Text UNLOCK to 611611 to confirm the Automatic Unlock Date it will reply with exact date. (You will likely need to send this message twice, as it often doesn't reply the first time)
3. Don't have your account on auto-renew, plan cancels after 30 days
4. Wait for 61 days after your activation date
5. The iPhone SE is now unlocked automatically
Walmart In-Store
The Promotion price isn't automatically taken off at normal checkout in-store it rings up full $149 price even with Plan. Need a Straight Talk rep instore to get the discount. They needed to enter the phone and plan on their terminal to get the discount to apply. Then they will scan the sku on the Walmart POS to check out.
If none above works ask for Manager to override it show them the listing on walmart.com if still won't sell it at promotion price tell them its false advertising since they lured you to store and won't honor the promotion price.
https://i5.walmartimage
Website shows non-instock online at local walmart stores but they did have them in Electronics. Back of Phone Cardboard says ST SE3.
Link to Walmart Website [walmart.com] (All stores show OOS, so you'll need to go in the store to check stock).
In-store activation requires providing your first name, last name, and a unique email address for each phone. You cannot use an email address from an existing Straight Talk account. Thank you to cvesper, Orang3Beard, LCL121, and Impulse_shopper for the information.
Make sure you provide your email address and the Walmart/ST rep does not input a random one, otherwise your phones will not have a ST account, which could be problematic if need to check the status of your phone's setup online or if you run into any difficulties (like with the service plan not being included with your account due to an error by the Walmart/ST rep). Thank you to llenrad for the information.
In-store checkout flow, according to MrSlickitySlick:
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Warp computerCreate new order Straight talk Purchase with activation Next New customer 1st name,last name New email $35 plan Asks for device imei Print documents and then check out at regular Walmart register Ps mobile rep and Walmart electronics rep are 2 different associates, most Walmart reps won't know what they are doing, some mobile reps don't even know what there doing, try your luck |
Got my order for 2 phones delivered today, and got them both activated to start the countdown clock on the unlock. For anyone who bought one just to activate for the one-month plan you purchased and unlock, the easiest way is the automated phone service (the online process wasn't working for me):
1) 1-877-430-2355
2) Press 2 to Activate Device
3) Press 2 for a New Number
4) Follow voice prompt to enter IMEI, ZIP code, create PIN, etc. When asked by the prompt if you want to "add to an existing account", say "No". If you purchased a plan with the phone, it will recognize this and automatically activate the SIM for the plan.
If the wireless rep has having difficulty, try this (thanks, busbeepbeep):
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I spent 2 hours in my local Walmart as the wireless rep wasn't familiar with doing straight talk transaction.Passing this one in case it helps, once they generate the bar code from the Warp, my person was having issue cause she'd bring that to the walmart register and it would only show up as "special order, ST 35 plan" and not the phone. Then she'd scan the phone UPC, which would show $149. After much back and forth, we figured out needed to scan the WARP barcode and then scan the 2nd barcode on the phone, not the top UPC barcode, and it showed up as $49.99. Total after tax for me was like $99. |
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1) 1-877-430-2355
2) Press 2 to Activate Device
3) Press 2 for a New Number
4) Follow voice prompt to enter IMEI, ZIP code, create PIN, etc. When asked by the prompt if you want to "add to an existing account", say "No". If you purchased a plan with the phone, it will recognize this and automatically activate the SIM for the plan.
When the voice prompt tells you to power on the device, the instructions were incomplete and unclear. If you've never activated a phone before here are the steps:
1) Attached to the box for your phone is the associated SIM card in a pouch; remove and punch out the nano-SIM.
2) Using the SIM tool in the iPhone box (or a small paperclip), pop out your SIM card tray and insert the nano-SIM.
3) Re-insert the SIM tray into the iPhone and power on the phone.
4) Go through the setup process; I recommend connecting to WiFi when prompted to make things go faster.
5) Your phone should be activated within a few minutes of being powered on with the SIM inserted, assuming you went through all the steps in the automated phone activation.
I'm not going to waste my time going there, but thought I'd help others. Be sure to call the local Walmart you are going to, ask if they have the phone in stock (both stores said online they didn't have stock, but both stores did have them in stock) and ask if they have the WARP system for activation. Good luck everyone.
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Also for the activation, my personal experience with these phones has been that the warranty start date tracks with the Apple-activation part of the phone, not the cell service activation. I activated a couple of these phones both ways back in November (service and physical device) and the warranties on those show as good through Nov 2024. However on a couple of other phones, I activated the ST lines when purchased in Nov (service expired last month) but I left the phones sealed in box and never opened them or touched them in any way until they recently unlocked. I just opened and activated (the device, not service) two of those phones last week and they both show warranty coverage through Jan 2025 based on Apple's "CheckCoverage" website. When you say that you "turned the phone on", did you just turn it on and then shut it back off or actually run through the phone setup to get to the point of using it as a Wi-Fi device? Because I believe that getting to the part where it says "activating device" during setup may be the key step where it communicates with Apple's servers and considers the device active, updates warranty info, etc. If you just turned it on and then back off before getting to that point, I don't think that would count from Apple's activation perspective.
As for the port out, others have reported doing that in the past without affecting the unlock, but it could be a source of complication of there are any issues. (In other words, I suspect that it should not cause a problem, but it's not really the recommended way.)
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Basically after you input the imei on https://www.tfwunlockpo
Also for the activation, my personal experience with these phones has been that the warranty start date tracks with the Apple-activation part of the phone, not the cell service activation. I activated a couple of these phones both ways back in November (service and physical device) and the warranties on those show as good through Nov 2024. However on a couple of other phones, I activated the ST lines when purchased in Nov (service expired last month) but I left the phones sealed in box and never opened them or touched them in any way until they recently unlocked. I just opened and activated (the device, not service) two of those phones last week and they both show warranty coverage through Jan 2025 based on Apple's "CheckCoverage" website. When you say that you "turned the phone on", did you just turn it on and then shut it back off or actually run through the phone setup to get to the point of using it as a Wi-Fi device? Because I believe that getting to the part where it says "activating device" during setup may be the key step where it communicates with Apple's servers and considers the device active, updates warranty info, etc. If you just turned it on and then back off before getting to that point, I don't think that would count from Apple's activation perspective.
As for the port out, others have reported doing that in the past without affecting the unlock, but it could be a source of complication if there are any issues. (In other words, I suspect that it should not cause a problem, but it's not really the recommended way.)
Your experience with the warranty start date corresponding to the Apple activation rather than the wireless plan activation is also consistent with what I observed with my first ST phone which I had powered on last November but had not gone through the process of activating and setting it up. Last night I activated the phone and saw that the warranty was good until Jan 2025, this was prior to activating the ST plan.
Thanks for the heads-up that I may encounter issues with the device unlock after porting the number away from ST. As my device unlock date is in March and we won't be doing any international travel until the summer, that should hopefully give us enough time to resolve any unlocking issues that may arise.
One last thing - I finally got around to porting my other line to my second ST plan. While the port for my first plan last night completed instantaneously, this time the port was stuck in pending status for several hours. I had done the plan activation and port through the ST website, the same way that I had done last night, and also used the same ST account (email). But this time it had "remembered" my port-in info, and I had clicked the "view and edit" button as I wanted to double check that the account number and transfer PIN was correct but even after clicking the button this information was still masked out. I went ahead and submitted the form without changing anything. I suspect that clicking the "view and edit" button is what messed things up - looking back I should've re-entered my account and transfer PIN. After waiting a but and seeing that the port had not gone through, I logged into my ST account and could see that the second line was showing as inactive and there was the option to activate a device, so I clicked it and went through the process again, and again it had "remembered" my port-in info. But after submitting this time, the port was still in pending status. Going back to the plans page to look at the line, this time there was no longer the option to activate a device on the line. Thinking that something was wrong, I called into ST support. After explaining the issue, they originally wanted me to wait a bit but I explained that I thought I had entered the porting info incorrectly and then they were happy to transfer me to the porting team. I was on hold for about 10 minutes (even though the estimated wait was 30+ minutes). The porting guy took a look and he mentioned something about having received the porting request from the billing department, but the port info was missing? Anyways, I gave him the info and he submitted it manually and the port finished in about 2 minutes. Whew, what a relief that was as today was the last day of my billing cycle with my previous carrier.
Edit: Erase complete phone fixed it for me as well.
Edit: Erase complete phone fixed it for me as well.
1. go sickw.com to check if it's actually unlocked or not, if it's showed as unlocked on sickw.com, then that means it's unlocked actually.
2. If sickw.com showed it's locked, then you can go tfwunlockpolicy.com to check if it's eligible to unlock. If it's is, you can trigger unlock process manually there. If it's not, double check if 60 days passed, if it passed, then you have to call tracfone to ask why.
611611 said unlock date was 1/10 and the phone setting said SIM locked. What Am I doing wrong?
611611 said unlock date was 1/10 and the phone setting said SIM locked. What Am I doing wrong?
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