We get a lot of emails asking us to recommend which phone to purchase, the asker usually wants a good quality phone, verizon serivce, apps4flip support, and the ability to make the phone kosher. Up until now, we had nothing to recommend, the only good phone (The lg exalt) was prohibitively expensive and was hard to find. It also lacked an exterior screen which was a highly requested feature.
We are now happy to report that we now have an answer, we have a way to get all of the above features and 5 months of service using verizon's towers for under $100 phone included.
The short version is to buy a tracfone LG Classic Flip, convert it to total wireless using our method below, and use a special promo code to get 3 months of unlimited service free after you purchase 2 months.
As you may have guessed by now, the phone we are referring to is the LG Classic flip, this phone is the next generation of the exalt and features an exterior screen. You can purchase one from any of the following retailers listed below for under $30. Some retailers may be out of stock, if that is the case just pick another one from the list.
In order to get a cheap unlimited verizon plan on these phones, we are going to use total wireless. Total Wireless is a carrier that uses verizon's towers and offers unlimited everything for $23.50 plus tax per month. However in order to use this phone on total wireless, we have to convert it, since officially the phone is a tracfone branded device. To convert the device, you can either call them and provide them with the IMEI of the phone, or you can chat with them online here. We personally recommend the chat option as we have never had issues with the conversion when we chatted.
Here is the message that you should send to them on that chat to have the phone converted to total wireless.
Hi there, I bought a tracfone phone with an IMEI of XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX, however I would like to use the phone on total wireless, would you be able to rebrand it for me? I plan on using it in the zipcode of 08701.
Note: tWe provided a zipcode, you can use any zipcode that total wireless provides service in and this is information that is requried to perform the conversion. However you are not locked to activating the phone in that zipcode, it is given just to perform the conversion, so don't worry.
In order to get the free 3 months, you have to use our promo code which only works after activating the phone online, not when activating over the phone. You can use this link to sign up to total wireless and start the activation process online. You should select the 25$ unlimited plan which comes out to 23.50 once you enable auto pay.
Join total wireless rewards by going here. After signing up for rewards you will see an option to enter your friends referral code to get extra points, Enter in our special code HSAR-778D. Please note this is a special code for our readers that will get you 8000 points (worth 3 free months of service), all other referral codes will give you way less points.
You usually will have to wait 30 days before the points settle and you are allowed to redeem them. Once 30 days passes and the points are settled, you can go to the redeem section and redeem your points for 3 free months of the $25 plan.
So to summarize you are paying $30 + $23.50 + $23.50 + tax = approx $90 for a great lg flip phone with verizon service for 5 months.
Both Tag and Geder support kashering this phone, we highly recommend going to them to kasher your phone.
If you want to remove stuff yourself here are the following ADB commands:
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.browseradb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.lge.fmradioadb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.lge.emailadb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.mmsIn this guide we showed you how to get the best 4G flip phone around and 5 months of service on verizon for under $90.
We hope you enjoyed this guide and if you have any suggestions to improve this guide, please let us know at support@apps4flip.com
Apps4flip is not responsible for any content written above and cannot guarantee any results, given that there are many factors out of our control which may affect the above process. Please be smart about it and we are not responsible for any money lost when following the above procedure. You are performing it at your own risk and by reading this site you are in agreement not to hold apps4flip liable for any issues that may occur.