On Friday, October 2, 2015 at 8:27:13 AM UTC-4, Jon Danniken wrote:
On 10/01/2015 09:29 PM, wrote:
I have a LG flip phone using prepaid Tracfone. It's NOT a smartphone,
just a basic phone for calls, texts, and has a basic browser built in. I
dont really want or need a smartphone. But I used to use the browser to
get weather reports and a few other basic online things.

Several months ago, the browser just began rejecting most websites, even
weather.com. All I get are error messages. Bu I know it still works for
some stuff, for example I can still access Google. I believe the phone
needs a browser upgrade. I called Tracfone but their customer service it
terrible. I got some foreign person who could barely speak english, and
did not understand my problem. After wasting close to an hour, nothing
was solved. But Tracfone is affordable, so I stick with it. I have a
landline anyhow, but when I'm away from home, I need a cell.

I cant find anything about upgrading it using google. Maybe one of you
knows a place to get upgrades. If not, I either have to live with it
as-is, or buy a newer phone. These phones are only $25 to $40, but
retyping my whole addressbook is something I prefer to avoid, when I
have around 200 names in it.


You might be able to save you contacts to your sim card, then put that
sim card in the new phone. Alternately, if you phone has bluetooth, you
might be able to transfer your contacts to your computer (assuming your
computer has a bluetooth card/dongle), then from there put them on the
new phone.

Jon

I would agree, it's probably more likely googling for how to move
contacts on a Tracphone is going to be successful than how to
upgrade the browser. On android smartphone upgrading is easy because
it's an open system and designed to be used that way. Tracphone, IDK.
I guess it's also a crap shoot if a newer Tracphone solves the
browser problem he's having or not too.

Ting may be worth looking at as an alternative. You can bring
your own phone, so you can buy a compatible phone, including
used ones, on Ebay.