I have a Tracfone flip phone that was used for over sixty days, does that automatically mean it can be unlocked? and if so is that a difficult process or is it relatively simple?
I just had an experience where I tried to unlock several LG Classic "reconditioned" phones that were purchased directly from tracfone.com and had been activated a bit over 60 days ago. Some were eligible and some gave me a "not eligible" message. According to the Tracfone unlocking department customer service, the issue is that the phones had once been activated before the rules changed to 60 days, so it stays with the old rule of 12 months of actual service and still needs 10 months of active service to be eligible ("reconditioned" phones are likely all the customer returns).
I'm not sure if they're correct, because I noticed 2 things. One, that of all the phones that I activated, a consistent 1 per email address was eligible for unlocking, while the other 1 or 2 on the same email were not, so maybe it's "1 per email" (it is officially 1 per person per 12 months according to the FCC (
https://tinyurl.com/According-to-the-FCC). Secondly, some phones that were supposedly ineligible for the given reason showed a lifetime count of 0:00, making it unlikely that it was ever activated, while some of those that were eligible to unlock actually had been activated used (though no way of knowing exactly when).
I just thought I'll share this as a data point.
As to your question: You can simply check your IMEI number on
www.tfwunlockpolicy.com, if it's eligible, they'll give you a set of codes with instructions. It's very simple from there.
