tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post5582942378811412875..comments2024-03-28T17:25:52.769-05:00Comments on TracfoneReviewer: Samsung Galaxy Centura Review - Tracfone SmartphoneUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-63949815546396809872016-05-05T19:26:22.423-05:002016-05-05T19:26:22.423-05:00It is actually auto restore in the backup reset se...It is actually auto restore in the backup reset setting it worked for me too. Tracfone no helpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-9660142330275281532016-03-02T18:50:22.205-06:002016-03-02T18:50:22.205-06:00I've got TWO of these Samsung Galaxy Centura p...I've got TWO of these Samsung Galaxy Centura phones here - stone cold dead - and TracFone wouldn't do anything to make it right.<br /><br />And they now sell this $80 phone for $10. Is there something they know that I didn't know?<br /><br />Robert Rowen<br />Robert Rowenhttp://bobrowen.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-90419380300920457792016-02-05T11:14:26.617-06:002016-02-05T11:14:26.617-06:00we have 2 of these crappy phones. clock switches t...we have 2 of these crappy phones. clock switches time zones so that the alarm will not work properly. wifi switches itself on constantly. the tracfone "help desk" makes me want to shoot myself in the head.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-44677417816690543852016-01-13T23:23:49.134-06:002016-01-13T23:23:49.134-06:00I just ordered one of these phones and I would lov...I just ordered one of these phones and I would love to hear if you have experienced many of the problems that others have had. I am a little nervous about that, but for $10 I figured I'd chance it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-89543434915662477142016-01-01T22:21:40.108-06:002016-01-01T22:21:40.108-06:00Turn the phone sideways, so it is in landscape mod...Turn the phone sideways, so it is in landscape mode, and the keyboard's keys are bigger! Helps a lot! Once done typing whatever, just turn phone back to upright, and all is well!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-59190684005578293972016-01-01T22:02:54.869-06:002016-01-01T22:02:54.869-06:00Phones and other devices don't automatically c...Phones and other devices don't automatically connect to each other's bluetooth! You have to pair them together. When you go to settings, click on the word Bluetooth, and NOT the slider button. This lets you see if your phone is visible to other devices. If not, just click it to change its visibility. I make it say visible to all, until I have paired with whatever, and then I switch it to only be visible to paired devices. Sometimes you need a code to pair devices together. I have an automotive OBDII scanner that works through bluetooth and my phone. I had to enter the code 1234 to get them to pair! Once done, I don't have to do it again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-48927806872848242472016-01-01T21:50:37.696-06:002016-01-01T21:50:37.696-06:00The only bummer about this app is that is uses up ...The only bummer about this app is that is uses up system resources (ram), so it makes the crappy Centura run slower than it already does. Now that I have received text receipts showing my balances, I just reply to those texts with the letters: BAL and send, and it sends me another text with my balance! Works well, and I was able to shut off the app.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-20422778364218132152016-01-01T21:48:10.136-06:002016-01-01T21:48:10.136-06:00I just got one of these Centura's for $10 with...I just got one of these Centura's for $10 with free shipping and 60 minute card. I transferred my old tracfone feature phone, for this android! I only had 6 days of service left, and now I have 20! I had 23 minutes left, and now I have 23 minutes of phone, 23 texts and 23 mb of data! That is a good deal!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-32687372803644400462015-12-24T21:24:10.073-06:002015-12-24T21:24:10.073-06:00how do you add minutes, with a tracfone card?how do you add minutes, with a tracfone card?Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13218819908285141820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-33841739471675294112015-09-11T16:48:19.724-05:002015-09-11T16:48:19.724-05:00Doesnt connect with bluetooth to keep the phoneboo...Doesnt connect with bluetooth to keep the phonebook, wont connect to text or gps in my new 2016 ford. The only reasons i bought the "smart"phone was for the hands free. Took 4 weeks to receive, multiple wasted hours on the phone. 32 hours to activate and transfer my remaining minutes and days remaining in contract. Refused to return 180 minutes when returnig to previous flip phoneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-84974429857933693562015-09-03T14:03:02.741-05:002015-09-03T14:03:02.741-05:00Same condition here!! Obviously, there is a patter...Same condition here!! Obviously, there is a pattern. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-24134725231572732322015-09-03T09:07:31.693-05:002015-09-03T09:07:31.693-05:00This phone is a piece of junk!!! Both myself and m...This phone is a piece of junk!!! Both myself and my wife have the same phone and it constantly freezes up. Save your money and buy something better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-59293018502252188262015-08-23T22:19:34.811-05:002015-08-23T22:19:34.811-05:00Yep, Mine tooYep, Mine tooty_byers@ymail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08144104753387803400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-50616465816930727252015-08-03T22:14:42.677-05:002015-08-03T22:14:42.677-05:00This phone is plaqued with issues; however for 19....This phone is plaqued with issues; however for 19.95 it is only moderately overpriced. TracFone and Centura was chosen for cheap on steroids. Only use the phone about 30 minutes a week and for GPS.<br /><br />Time does not work - nor is their any documented fix. GPS is a bit tardy but I think because the memory is off the shelf without upgrade. A couple other problems that I can live with. <br /><br />I would recommend for someone that needs GPS on demand, has very moderate talk usage and does not want a 200 or 300 phone.<br /><br />When I spent 400 on a Samsung III 2 years ago with Cricket I thought the phone would be good for several years. Cricket forces the hardward upgrade. So buyer beware.<br /><br /><br /><br />Michael Frenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01885034836873527529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-65423588152281074232015-07-16T11:52:36.667-05:002015-07-16T11:52:36.667-05:00First, it seems many items here are definitely tru...First, it seems many items here are definitely true, freeze on screen, and I keep get calls dropped. Also, the article notes that load up minutes are getting parceled into three separate areas of text,talk,internet, but it's the opposite! Before you could load minutes and it would apply to everything, but there's more money in parceling the minutes you buy, so now if you use a data card, it only goes to data/text, talk only goes to talk!! I've not been exuberant with any Samsung phone I've used, & hopefully this one will be the very last; LG is a much better phone, even if it's the cheapest one they make, their cameras a great!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-73123821121801749042015-06-05T18:16:49.221-05:002015-06-05T18:16:49.221-05:00Had the same problems 1-5.. The autocorrect is ter...Had the same problems 1-5.. The autocorrect is terrible, whenever I want to put Austin ie Austin, Texas it changes it to anus... I don't use that word...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-5410446931282231172015-06-05T18:13:03.242-05:002015-06-05T18:13:03.242-05:00Bad phone. After 6 months or so it can't keep ...Bad phone. After 6 months or so it can't keep time, will randomly go back 6 hours... Now it will randomly go from full battery (in seconds, did it on both new & old battery) to 0% remaining, no warning and turn off even while charging..My flip phone worked better than this. Don't waste your money. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-11972021189761771882015-05-12T02:08:03.947-05:002015-05-12T02:08:03.947-05:00JUNK JUNK JUNK
1) Constantly freezing. Every day I...JUNK JUNK JUNK<br />1) Constantly freezing. Every day I have to reset this thing numerous times.<br />2) Won't keep correct time. Don't know how many times I've woke it from sleep to find it several hours behind. Have to manually set the correct time. Good thing I don't rely on this as my sole alarm clock.<br />3) Calls people on its own after refusing to let me make a call. Hubby had to turn HIS phone off one afternoon because mine wouldn't stop calling his. This was after I tried to call him and the phone wouldn't let me make the call so I gave up put it to sleep and put it away. <br />4) Sometimes it won't let me access certain messaging conversations. I'll tap the contact I intend to message but it just flashes back to home screen. Only when I start a new conversation and enter the contact will it let me finally access and message that contact. <br />5) Enters words I DID NOT TYPE into messages. I've lost count how many times I've used the back space button to remove words the phone enters. Supposed to be suggestions but it just puts them in and you have to take them out before proceeding. My husband used my phone to text someone one day and became completely enraged at this feature.<br />And while on the topic of suggested words. While it clearly enters words it thinks you will use it will not correct misspelled words. So it will suggest completely random words but use a word with ONE letter out of place and it will not even suggest the correct spelling of that word. Don't know how many times I've tried to use the word I'll, but enters ill EVERY time and won't even suggest I'll. I have to manually enter the '. But it will suggest I've without it.<br />6) I keep my data turned off 99% of the time since I use wifi as much as possible. But if/when I do turn my data on I ALWAYS have a 2 gig warning. Why am I receiving a warning that my gigs are almost used up when a) its supposed to be unlimited & b) I've barely used it!<br />If I've never had buyers remorse about anything I've ever purchased in my life, I definitely have it with this piece of garbage. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-60700852090612800482015-05-01T16:57:42.503-05:002015-05-01T16:57:42.503-05:00Bought the Samsung Galaxy Centura as a result of H...Bought the Samsung Galaxy Centura as a result of HSN promos. The phone is a piece of crap. It freezes constantly and in order to get it functional I have to open it and take out the battery and then insert it again. As others have pointed out, it loses time as well. Many features just do not work and the texting is a joke as the above person has just pointed out. HSN does not stand by this product as I found out, after several frustrating calls. Shame on them is right. Tracfone could care less. As others have pointed out, once you finally get this lousy company to take back the phone and reset it, you are without a phone for the duration so that taught me a lesson as well. I gave up my land line for this piece of crap. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-36293620344475601552015-04-22T20:53:09.805-05:002015-04-22T20:53:09.805-05:00My wife bought two Samsung Galaxy Centura tracfone...My wife bought two Samsung Galaxy Centura tracfones. We only registered mine so I could attempt to learn how to work it!!!! What a headache. I am somewhat savy with electronics but to say the least I had so much trouble trying to read all the manual which I downloaded from the internet that I became very discouraged. The directions for the most part did not make sense. My sister and brother-law have a smart phone and they tried to help me with various parts of the directions and they finally stated "Throw the dam phone away!" NOTE: THE WORST THING ABOUT THIS PHONE IS THAT THE SPACE FOR TYPING IN LETTERS & NUMBERS ETC. IS TOO DARN SMALL. YOUR FINGERS ARE TOO LARGE FOR THE SMALL SQUARES THAT HAVE 3 LETTERS.. IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO GET ANYTHING DONE. SMARTPONES HAVE 3X THE SPACE SO SOMEONE CAN EASILY TYPE IN THE CORRECT LETTERS ETC. ALSO, WHEN WE TRIED TO ENTER MY EMAIL FROM MY COMPUTER, THE PHONE WOULD NOT ACCEPT THE EMAIL ADDRESS NOR MY PASSWORD. I EVEN CALLED VERIZON FOR THE CODES AND IT STILL DIDN'T WORK. PLUS THE PHONE FREEZES UP AT TIMES. IT IS A VERY FRUSTRATING PHONE. DO NOT BUY THIS PIECE OF JUNK. BUY SOMETHING WITH BETTER QUALITY CONTROL. WE WASTED OVER $252.00 FOR NOTHING AND MANY DAYS OF FRUSTRATION ENSUED TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS PHONE. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-26180615108339986742015-03-29T07:12:02.242-05:002015-03-29T07:12:02.242-05:00Mine is doing that also, it goes back 6 hrs almost...Mine is doing that also, it goes back 6 hrs almost daily. I use this phone for alarm so that worries me. Want to get a new phone but just not sure what is a good one now. Any suggestions on new phone?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-84667238309191871862015-03-24T08:20:27.811-05:002015-03-24T08:20:27.811-05:00I agree. This phone is CRAP! The first one lasted ...I agree. This phone is CRAP! The first one lasted two weeks before lost all sound. I had to wait 3 weeks before it was replaced because they must receive the defective one first. After a week and a half I called to ask if my replacement was sent out yet and they said no. No reason why. I finally got it another week later and it does nothing but freeze. Every day. I had to factory reset it once and it still keeps locking up. RUN from this thing.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-55898762399360392032015-02-16T19:36:58.906-06:002015-02-16T19:36:58.906-06:00most horrible phone my husband and I have hadmost horrible phone my husband and I have hadAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-38510742684840933112015-02-05T21:10:27.171-06:002015-02-05T21:10:27.171-06:00Centura after so long can not keep time, apps don&...Centura after so long can not keep time, apps don't help it. So randomly it'll go back 6hrs you have to manually change to correct time. Sometime it will do it multiply times a day, it can go weeks w/o or it can change every day.. Kind of annoying but reliable phone, that's the worst problem I have.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677003350229363498.post-16142041879599150902015-01-23T03:01:13.738-06:002015-01-23T03:01:13.738-06:00Galaxy Centura is lousy. Tracfone replaces a new, ...Galaxy Centura is lousy. Tracfone replaces a new, but defective android phone with a refurbished one. New phone had to be replaced after only 6weeks because it wouodn't recognize my sd card & then damaged brand new sd card. The first refurbished replacement had a bad battery that I had to replace. The secind refurbished phone kept freezing & the only way to unfreeze it is to open the back & remove & re-insert the battery. Then, it wouldn't allow me to send picture messages. The 3rd refurbished replacement wouldn't do anything but allow me to make & receive calls, wouldnt connect to internet, wouldn't receive msgs. Tracfone finally sent me a NEW replacement phone, but after only a few weeks, the constant freezing started. The Samsung Galaxy Centura is just not a good phone. Add to that, Tracfone's policy for androud phobes is that u have to wait for them to sebd a prepaid airbill, send the defective phone back, and wait for a replacement. In the meantime u r without a phone. Switched to the LG 34C. A million times better! So far, so good.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04955421846835009356noreply@blogger.com