I’m not sure what changed, before I wasn’t able to forward my voicemail from my Tracfone to my Google Voice account, but now it just works. I had previously done some research on the web and found that Tracfone doesn’t allow call forwarding which precludes using another voicemail service
So I was playing around in my Google Voice account and for the heck of it decided to see what would happen if I clicked on the “Activate Google voicemail on this phone.” At one point I know Tracfone was using T-Mobile in my area, so I had tried using the T-Mobile settings to forward voicemail, but Tracfone must have changed to AT&T, because I tried using the AT&T instructions and it just worked.
Initially I tried calling my cell from my land line to test the voicemail switch, but for some reason instead of getting a greeting I went straight into the voicemail backend, you know the “you have X new messages” part. It turns out that I have direct access to Google Voice enabled on my land line, so it was going through some sort of causality loop. I temporarily un-enabled GV on my land line and called my cell again — this time I was greeted by my on cheery voice telling me to leave a message. Unfortunately (or fortunately) this means if my wife calls my cell phone from our land line she can’t leave a message, but I’ll still get a missed call notification
Posted by benjamen as Google Voice, Tracfone at 2:50 PM UTC
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I’ve posted about finding tracfone promo codes on Fone-Review.com, but I found an even better site PrePaid.com.
I just added minutes to my Tracfone today and the Fone-review site failed me — now of the codes worked. So I did a Google search for “tracfone promo codes” and the PrePaid.com site came up.
They have a gigantic table of codes and listed next to the code is the last date it was tried.
UPDATE: Unfortunately this site seems to be gone now. Back to my friend Google I guess.
Posted by benjamen as Tracfone at 1:15 PM UTC
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Why should I have trouble purchasing minutes for my tracfone on their website running Firefox on Linux? Admittedly I didn’t try Firefox on Windows or another Linux browser, but if your server software is so broken that when people try to purchase things from you it spouts messages like this:
Error 500–Internal Server Error
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From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1:
10.5.1 500 Internal Server Error
The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request
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You need to fire your web developer and start using a real platform like LAMP.
The thing that really makes me mad was that I was able to fire up Windows 7 in VirtualBox and finish the transaction with no problem. In this day and age where we pretty much live in the browser, why do we still have to put up with this?
Posted by benjamen as Apache, Firefox, MySQL, PHP, Tracfone, linux at 1:44 PM UTC
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Fone-Review.com The Blog consolidates known Tracfone promo codes. I use this site whenever I’m adding minutes to my or my wife’s Tracfone
Posted by benjamen as Tracfone, deal at 7:28 PM UTC
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