How To Change Straight Talk Phones And Keep Same Number

Are you lot looking to transfer your current Directly Talk service to a new telephone or SIM bill of fare? In this article, I'll tell you what you need to do.

This article and video below were originally published in August 2016. and are still very pop in 2020. I've updated the article but you can even so find the original below.

Beginning, this article is for current Direct Talk customers looking to modify to a new phone or SIM carte du jour. If y'all looking for information about how to sign upward for Straight Talk, check out How To Sign Up and Utilize Your iPhone 6 or 6s with Direct Talk Wireless or How To Sign Upwardly And Use Your iPhone SE With Straight Talk Wireless. Both of those articles explain what you demand to know to sign upward for Straight Talk.

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Transferring Your Current Straight Talk Service

If you want to transfer your current Direct Talk number and remaining service residuum to a new phone or SIM. You have two options.

Move the SIM menu from your current phone to your new phone
Activate your New Phone or SIM from straighttalk.com

Before explaining these two options you need to understand how Straight Talk works. Directly Talk does not own their own cellular towers. They charter service from AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile or Dart. Your Directly Talk phone uses the towers from one of these iv networks.

If y'all bought an iPhone or Galaxy phone from Straight Talk, chances are it uses the Verizon towers. If you brought your own telephone (BYOP) from some other carrier, you are likely uses the same towers with Straight Talk. And then if you were perviously an AT&T customer and signed up for Directly Talk BYOP, your phone is probable using Directly Talk's AT&T towers. The same for Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint customers.

If you don't know which towers, your telephone uses, inquire Straight Talk. The easiest mode to practice that is visit straighttalk.com and use the online chat feature. Here is what you should inquire…
Hi,
My phone number is (xxx) yyy-zzzz. Can you please tell me if my phone is using your AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint towers?

Moving Your Directly Talk SIM card to your new phone

Sometimes yous can just move your SIM card from your current telephone to your new telephone. Your electric current SIM card will need to fit into your new telephone and your new phone will need to be uniform with the electric current Straight Talk SIM card you are using. This works pretty welll with Straight Talk'southward AT&T and T-Mobile SIM cards. It will also work with Straight Talk Verizon SIM cards but this tin cause issues.

This is a not bad solution if you lot need to temporarily switch to a new telephone. In the long term, you are amend off properly activating your new telephone or SIM card. To read all the annoying details of moving your Straight Talk SIM bill of fare, see Moving Your Directly Talk SIM Menu To Your New Telephone. I'll tell you now that simply moving a SSIM card has caused some people a lot of hurting.

Activating Your Ne Direct Talk phone

I'grand updating this department for 2020 because I think this a lot simpler style to transfer your service to your new phone than the old way I described.

If you bought your phone from Directly Talk or Walmart, the phone should already lnclude a SIM card. If you lot are signing up for Bring Your Own Phone (BYOP) or Keep Your Own Telephone (BYOP, you'll need a SIM card. You can club ane from straighttalk.com for $one. Order the SIM menu for the network you want to employ AND is uniform with your new phone. Note, if you want to apply Direct Talk's Verizon towers, you'll need to check the phone's series number (MEID or IMEI) on staighttalk.com to make sure the telephone is compatible (eligible).

I haven't checked Walmart recently, I do not remember you can buy merely the SIM in the store. They only had kits with both a plan card and a SIM and if y'all did the math y'all were paying about $10 for the SIM card.

If you lot don't already take one, create an account for your current phone on straighttalk.com
Verify y'all can log into your business relationship, and so log out
From straighttalk.com, choose Activate
Choose the Straight Talk Phone or BYOP option
Cull I accept a SIM carte du jour
enter your SIM card number, accept the terms of service, and go along

If you are using a Directly Talk Verizon SIM card, you may demand to enter your phone's MEID or IMEI,
After this, you will eventually be asked if you want a new phone number or to transfer your existing telephone number. Choose the option to transfer your electric current number. After that, Directly talk volition realize y'all are a electric current client looking to transfer your service.

Below is my original article and video….

Transferring Your Service From straighttalk.com

If you are unable to move your SIM card from your current telephone to your new phone so you'll need to transfer your service online from straighttalk.com

Creating Your Straight Talk Business relationship

To transfer your service using straighttalk.com, yous'll need an account. If you don't already have 1, now is the time to set one up. Once you take created your straighttalk.com account, y'all'll come across your current phone listed as an Agile Device. Afterwards you lot'll be able to transfer your phone number and remaining service balance to your new telephone or SIM. You could probably create your business relationship during the transfer process, simply I think its better to practice it beforehand.

Your New Phone or SIM carte du jour

If yous are planning to transfer your Direct Talk service, you'll need a either a new telephone, a new SIM carte, or possibly both. If you bought your new phone from straighttalk.com or from Walmart everything yous need is in the box.

If y'all got your new phone somewhere else, you'll demand to by a SIM menu for your phone. SIM cards come up in three sizes, Standard, Micro, and nano you'll demand the right size SIM carte du jour for your phone. Y'all'll also need to make certain that you order the SIM carte for the Straight Talk network you want to employ. (AT&T, Verizon, or T-Mobile). Make sure your new phone is compatible with the Straight Talk network you want to use.

Your Telephone Number and Service Balance

You can transfer your phone number to your new telephone and your remaining service residue as long as your new telephone is eligible for your current program. If you are using Direct Talk's $30 plan y'all volition not be able to transfer your remaining service balance to a smartphone or BYOP phone. Your phone number volition transfer, merely you'll need to purchase a new service program for your new phone.

The last time I transferred my Straight Talk service to a new SIM card, it took just a minute before the new SIM was active. Straight Talk claims the procedure can take upwardly to 48 hours then make sure you programme your transfer accordingly.

Transferring Your Service

At present, I'm going to prove you lot how to transfer your Straight Talk service. I am currently using Direct Talk's AT&T network with my iPhone 6s with the $45 BYOP plan. I'm going to transfer my service to a new Straight Talk AT&T nano SIM. When I am washed, I'grand going to apply that SIM in the same iPhone 6s. For most people, when you transfer your service you'll be transferring your service to a new Directly Talk telephone or a BYOP SIM card. If your transferring to a new SIM card, information technology would usually be a unlike size SIM or for a different network, otherwise you would just move your SIM.

Go to straighttalk.com
From the carte, Click Activation
Under Bring Your Own Phone or Devices, Click Activate
Under I Accept A SIM CARD, Click Select
Under Enter your SIM menu number hither, type in your SIM card number. Click Continue
Under Continue MY NUMBER, click Select
Under Please enter the phone number yous want to go along here, blazon in your phone number, Click Continue
Under We noticed that you lot are currently an agile Straight Talk client. To keep with this process, please log into your business relationship., Log in with your straighttalk.com account
Under Information About Your New Device, Make sure your SIM number is right. The first 5 digits may exist missing. That's OK
Nether Information Nearly Your New Device, Enter a nickname for your new telephone or SIM if you desire
Nether Data Near Your Current Device, check the button to the left of your current telephone.
When ready, Click Submit