Why does straight talk say home

You could make your iPhone display whatever you wanted it to say. Sometime in , Apple stopped letting users install carrier settings files manually for security reasons. If for some reason, you really want to change the Carrier Name you may be able to if you jailbreak your iPhone, but that is beyond the scope of this article. What about you? Which network are your using? What Carrier Name does your iPhone show?

Leave a reply below and share. My mom had gotten a phone from a friend and at the top left side it says HOME. So how would I be able to tell? Connect the phone to Wi-Fi. Try 1. Your carrier is TFW.

The LTE part is the type of cellular signal you have. No one can reach me by calling my phone. How do I undo this? I have an iPhone X. Easy to accidently do if when it control center swipe down from right top. I want a free straight-talk phone to continue services but none available.

Therefore cancel my automatic payments as of Dec 28, ! I will go to another service plan. IN the past, this required support from Apple to do this. Now they have it. It can not be changed back and it makes so difference in how your phone works.

I have a trac phone flip phone and have great reception. It shows the bars and 3G. My wife has straight talk and a 5s apple. She only has 2 bars and tfw not 3G like my phone. Before I call them do you have any idea why she has poor reception, 2 bars and my flip has 5 Bars? The bars on the iPhone are likely showing the LTE signal strength. Did she buy her phone from Straight Talk? Do you know? Identifying the best network in your area and using that is the best way to go.

Good Evening Bob. I called my carrier , and I spoke with a cs rep yesterday. When I asked her about all the plans including hot-spot, she told me only the truly unlimited and two truly unlimited lines plans have the feature. Yet, other websites have said all of the plans now have hot-spot.

So, have you heard of anything as of late thanks. Hi Jay, I do not have any direct experience, but according to their own plans page, all the plans include hotspot.

If I were to guess, I think the CS rep is not informed. Family Mobile uses the T-Mobile network, and prepaid services using the TMobile network often include hotspot. Hello, we are working with a company which helps us send text messages to our parents school program if we have an announcement, need to cancel classes due to weather, etc.

Hello Sr. If you simply need to send the phone company name to the service, tell them Simple Mobile uses T-Mobile network. Make sure your service is active. With Tracfone you could have minutes but not service days.

Make sure you can make a call. If not, turn your phone off and on again. Those phones allowed me to do my mobil hotspot but not my iPhone see, a friend of mine has an iPhone 6 that says TFW LTE- straight talk and hers works but my hotspot is in grey color! Hopefully soon I can get it to work! Everyone that has an iPhone kinda close to my version all say mine should be working as well. You think you left a similar comment 4 days ago. I doubt you will get it to work without changing phones.

Ask ST and they will tell you hotspot is not included with your plan. I am using verison on my Apple 7 plus. It says TFW.

Is straight talk trying to rip me off? My husband has regular Verizon through work. We were at a restaurant and he had full bars, I barely had one. Please take a moment to re-read my article. I explained how this works in detail. Your comment is a little hard to follow. If you want to know which towers your phone is using, ask Straight Talk via their online chat.

You can find the link to online chat here? If you bought your iPhone from Straight Talk it likely is using their Verizon towers.

Finally, your husband having full bars at a particular time and location where you have one bar may not be an indicative that coverage between the two carriers is different.

My wife and I use the both use identical carriers and plans and we often have different coverage on our phones. What is wrong??? Help me please!!!. My phone carrier is Walmart Family mobile which is part of t-mobile. It used to say Family Mobile. Your phone will continue to operate the same, the only thing that changed is the network name in the top left corner.

After the first couple of years, T-Mobile sold or transferred Family Mobile to tracfone. I might be able to offer some suggestions, you did not share what phone you have, and which of the three different networks your phone is using.

My new iPhone XR and straight talk also new numbers. Removed old iPhone under Verizon. I checked often and removed. I thought about WiFi as old numbers is a password. Should I tell Spectrum to change the password on WiFi cable modem? Guy was here and knew how to help me with iPhone. It is back on. Kathleen, I find your comment a little hard to follow. I am not sure what you are asking me. Is Safelink a part of Tracfone as well?

Most iPhones will show TFW. Sometime you need to agree to install the bundle. I recently got the iPhone x and my carrier is Straight Talk. Straight Talk does not support hotspot. It violates their terms of service. Using Personal Hotspot with Straight Talk.

I recommend choosing a prepaid carrier that offers hotspot if you need it. Question: I was told I bought an unlocked phone.

How do I find which is the carrier if there are several possibilities? Straight talk, Trac, Net10 etc…? I need this phone to work on Verizon network. As part of transferring your service, you may be required to get a new SIM. Some are compatible with all networks. Others are not.

I explained in the article that they just changed the carrier name its the same service. I bought my iPhone at a Walmart website. For example if I choose to walk in a T-mobile store they would accept that I pay for a monthly service? After using it for 12 months, Straight Talk will unlock it for free.

If you already opened the phone, you could try an ATT sim in the phone. T-Mobile eventually sold it to Tracfone. Straight Talk only operates in the USA does not support international roaming. If you choose a prepaid wireless carrier that offers wi-fi calling, you may be able to use your phone with a Wi-Fi connection.

These changes will prevent your current phone from working. In order to avoid a loss of service, you will need to upgrade your phone. We negotiated with our network partner to extend the deadline until the Summer of You now have more time to purchase a phone compatible with the improved network.

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