Tracfone LG840G Review (video review)

Go to the notepad from the menue. Select new note. Hit the menue in the upper right little box and then select input method and select then select keyboard. Then hit the other selections just to see what they offer. Lots. Elizabeth

i have one & yes it does work on wifi without using minutes, but if you leave the wifi on when not using it it will run your battery down in 1 day.

Im a bit confused on how to download apps. Is there some cable with a USB plug i need to buy, or do just download them from the browser?

I also got mine on HSN. Does anyone know how to take pictures of yourself? They did it on HSN, but I cannot figure it out. Everything they did looked so easy.........of course!

um, ah, as you can see, um, ah, as you can see, um, ah, good on yer mate! OZ

I'd like to know the answer to this question also!

Try 0000 or 1111 if one of these work you can change the code to what you want go to settings/security/change codes enter 0000 or 1111 then enter your own code hope this helps.

LG840 is not a smart phone. Instead, I call it stupid phone. If you try to get on line surf the web, the phone do not offer key board input. One have to use the phone dial to enter words. I cannot believe that a modern phone do not keyboard or keypad to input data. I do not recommend this phone to anybody.

I found the review very imformative and it was very instrumental in my decision to upgrade my old Samsung Tracfone to the LG 840. Upon receipt I read the user's manual on the website and that answered most of my questions except for Goggle Maps and Tracking and how to load it. I soon discovered that once my WiFi was activated that I could simply load it from the Goggle page, however that is when I ran into my problem. Upon attemping to download I was greeted with the statement that Goggle Maps was an 'Untrusted Midlet' (!!!), This made me very nervous and I did not complete the download. I did not know what an untrusted midlet was but it sounded ominous. If downloaded is it leaving me vulnerable to bringing in a virus or something else malicious? Can a cell phone be crashed when using WiFi and an untrusted midlet has free rein? Worrying since to the best of my knowledge there is no virus protection or firewall apps that can be downloaded to this phone. However I want these apps so I did some research to determine just what did 'Untrusted Midlet' mean and what was the risk of ignoring and downloading anyway. I did not have much success. I am assuming others have run into this and wondering how did you handle it - did you ignore and download? Is an untrusted midlet harmless or potentially harmful? Should I just give up the wish to utilize Goggle Maps and Tracking? What is the best advice? Aside from this glitch I am quite pleased with the phone and will keep it - it has been nice upgrade from my old Tracfone. Perhaps I will upgrade to a real Smartphone in a couple of years! (I am hoping that the monthly charge will become more reasonable)

Picked up 2 at Black Friday Kmart $29.99 . They both work fine on WiFi both WEP & WPA passwords and also on open Wi-Fi like the coffee shop. Tested them on Wi-Fi before transferring my old number and time over to them. One is on AT&T sim card (TF64SIMC4 V2) and I ordered a T-mobile sim card (TF64SIMT5 V2) to install in the other phone. A few months back I picked up a sim card reader on ebay there like $5 it's well worth it you copy your phone book to the sim card then read into your PC next take the new sim card out of the new phone and write the phone book to it. Makes switching Tracfones easy. The LG-840g runs on 3G GSM networks AT&T or T-mobile only no Sprint or Verizon as there are CDMA type networks. The GSM is "world type" like you find in other counties. I do not know if this phone is a "world phone" working on 850 mhz & 1900 mhz (USA) and 900 mhz & 1800 mhz in other counties. But for the person who needs a phone and does not make a lot of calls this is it. Otherwise use their sister company Straight Talk $45 a month rare.