It states: " How do I get my trade-in payment?
After your device is processed, you'll receive a credit for the assessed value. If you've paid for your new device in full, the trade-in credit will be refunded to your credit card within two billing cycles. Otherwise, a monthly credit will be applied to your Device Payment Plan in equal parts over the duration of the plan, starting within two billing cycles.
Additional details will be provided in your trade-in email from Assurant."
If your device is paid in full it is supposed to go back to your credit card. I have done 4 of these and on all 4 they credited my Spectrum account, however each time a very short phone call with CS resulted in the credit going to my CC.
If you need a $40 trade-in phone for this deal:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Straig...243529
If above phone not available, here is a $50 phone for trade-in deal:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Tracfo.../456429801
WARNING
Make sure to turn it on and see if your phone can activate. Walmart is not properly scanning these phones and trade ins are getting denied because of anti-theft. Buy these phones in store if you can! try to activate online and if error take the whole phone box package to store and have them rescan and reissue back to you or get replacement. check to make sure IMEI of "new" device can be activated online before you leave store
if above can't fix your problem then do the following:
1. Reach out to straight talk CS and ask them to escalate with issuing ticket
2. They will tell you to do the following: Email [email protected] with name, contact number, ticket number (this is created by chat agent) and attach receipt proof and picture of IMEI (I took a picture of the card that has the IMEI and sim card number on it).
3. You should get email about 24-48 hours later that it can now be activated
4. If they ask you to activate with phone plan then buy this $15 plan and give them the PIN and other relevant information they ask for
https://www.target.com/p/tracfone...A-87908383
Takes roughly 15 minutes to come in after purchase to hit email.
5. If they didn't ask to activate on tracfone then visit https://www.straighttal
6. Insert sim if not already in, turn off phone and turn back on. Make a test call. If call won't go through wait 5 minutes. You'll probably get some texts from Tracfone and calling should work. They suggest to turn off and on again if not, but I didn't need to.
$25 at Amazon: (slow shipping)
https://www.amazon.com/TracFone-M...B0C7LNLS9P
Store trade-in is YMMV
- Most stores will uphold the promotion - if not, go to a different store
- Device usually needs to be in stock - some stores will ship if not in stock
- Stock is usually low and sells out fast - may need to try more than once
- Higher storage options are usually not available in stores - only online
- Tax is dependent on state - some charge MSRP, some charge discounted price
- Doing too many trade in in short amount of time might get your account flagged - only online is available then
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Don't know how to do that though lol
Repped.
0. Phone will be factory reset so take a backup of your files before starting! Install required android drivers (google it)
MAKE SURE YOUR PHONE IS UNLOCKED & LOGGED OUT OF SAMSUNG / GOOGLE ACCOUNT just in case.
1. Go to this link and download the latest "patcheD" version of ODIN
https://xdaforums.com/t/patched-o...1.3762572/
2. Go to link below (samfw.com >choose device but add 1 after the U (U becomes U1) > choose "XAA" as CSC > download the latest firmware available (about 10gb) or just click link below and download latest version
https://samfw.com/firmware/SM-S921U1/XAA
3. Extract above file using 7zip or similar tool
4. Run the patcheD Odin you downloaded in step 1 and it will show you the instructions on how to flash (you basically choose the downloaded files within patcheD Odin). Everything is explained within patcheD Odin (Tip: choose CSC instead of home CSC)
5. Let it process and reboot.
That's it. Enjoy!
0. Phone will be factory reset so take a backup of your files before starting! Install required android drivers (google it)
MAKE SURE YOUR PHONE IS UNLOCKED & LOGGED OUT OF SAMSUNG / GOOGLE ACCOUNT just in case.
1. Go to this link and download the latest "patcheD" version of ODIN
https://xdaforums.com/t/patched-o...1.3762572/ [xdaforums.com]
2. Go to link below (samfw.com >choose device but add 1 after the U (U becomes U1) > choose "XAA" as CSC > download the latest firmware available (about 10gb) or just click link below and download latest version
https://samfw.com/firmware/SM-S921U1/XAA
3. Extract above file using 7zip or similar tool
4. Run the patcheD Odin you downloaded in step 1 and it will show you the instructions on how to flash (you basically choose the downloaded files within patcheD Odin). Everything is explained within patcheD Odin (Tip: choose CSC instead of home CSC)
5. Let it process and reboot.
That's it. Enjoy!
Also, does doing so void the warranty or authenticity of the device if you change their firmware from U to U1 using third-party tools?
Unlocked Spectrum phoen outside US. I am travelling out of US and won't be back for a month. My phone can be unlocked only after Mar 30.
Phoen will be connected to Wi-Fi. I can chat and request unlock?
Unlocked Spectrum phoen outside US. I am travelling out of US and won't be back for a month. My phone can be unlocked only after Mar 30.
Phoen will be connected to Wi-Fi. I can chat and request unlock?
Also, does doing so void the warranty or authenticity of the device if you change their firmware from U to U1 using third-party tools?
Converting U to U1 has been a known thing for several generations (just google for S22 or S23 and you can find more info)
Here's an alternate open source tool to download the firmware directly from Samsung:
https://github.com/SlackingVetera.
I'm not sure about the warranty though.
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Converting U to U1 has been a known thing for several generations (just google for S22 or S23 and you can find more info)
Here's an alternate open source tool to download the firmware directly from Samsung:
https://github.com/SlackingVetera...a/releases [github.com]
I'm not sure about the warranty though.
Also, Samsung has pretty much made it impossible to flash any non official / modded firmwares. All we're doing here is flashing the firmware of a different variant of the same phone. Odin is an official Samsung engineering tool which got leaked and patched to help flash firmwares of different variant. It won't let you flash wrong or modified firmwares since the phone rejects it. I see no harm with the conversion especially knowing several of us have been doing it for a couple of years without issues. Only concern is where you download patcheD Odin from since there are fakes going around hence I linked to the XDA thread which is trustworthy
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