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The hole for the headphones is top right. It has a little cover over it. You will need to buy an adapter like this one here because it uses a smaller jack than normal.

If you mean the phones security code then it would be the last 4 digits of the phone # so long as previous owner didn’t change it. If you mean to activate with straight talk, then you will need the previous owner to either deregister or give you their password/code.

Well, you can get a Bluetooth earpiece. You can then enable the Bluetooth on the phone and match with the earpiece. You can also get a 2.5 mm wired earpiece if you rather not deal with the Bluetooth settings.

Hi there,

None of the Straight Talk phones have the ability to tether. About the only one I can think of are maybe the new Cricket Blackberries.

Curious to know what kind of phone your cousin has and how big is her card? There are two possible reasons, either her card’s capacity is too high. I believe this phone only supports 8gb, could be 16gb if her card is higher capacity than that then this phone will not recognize. The other thing could be that the card’s formating is not compatible with your phone. Can you read the data if you hook her phone up to a computer? As for the bluetooth, not sure what’s going on but do you have the card in the phone at the time you try to transfer the files?

Hi there, here is the manual 451 Manual. Sounds like you might be hitting ok again with the number highlighted. Instead, highlight the number and hit send instead. Should automatically dial it.

Yes, the numbers on keys light up.

Would love to help you out. What in particular are you having trouble with? Texting on the 451 is pretty simple.

To initiate a text simply go to Menu, then Messages and click ok.

Select choice #1 Send Message and click ok.

Select choice #1 Text Message and click ok.

You will get 5 boxes, this is where you enter the numbers you want to text. If only texting to 1 person, then just enter their number in box #1 and click ok.

You can now enter your message so slide your keyboard out and type your message.

Once you are done, just click the ‘ok’ key on the qwerty keyboard and it’s sent.

That’s all there is to it. To send to someone in your contact list:

Click the Menu and scroll to Contacts then click ok button.

Scroll to your desired contact and click the ok button again.

This opens your contact, you can now click the button under Options (the right button with the white line).

You will now get a menu of options, select option #3 Send Txt Msg option then click the ok button.

You are now ready to type your message. Slide the keyboard open and type your message.

Click the ‘ok’ button on the keyboard when ready to send.

When in the keyboard mode with keyboard slid out you can toggle between numbers and letters with the fn key. The shift button will toggle between caps and lower case when in letter mode. Symbols like %$* etc, can be typed while on number mode and selecting the key with the symbol on it.

You can see what mode you are on, letters or numbers, by looking at the bottom left hand corner 123 for numbers, abc for lowercase letters, Abc to caps the first letter, ABC for all caps.

That’s all there is to it really. After a few texts and you will quickly get the hang of it.

I suppose you mean from the phone. If so, you could get them directly from the Straight Talk web portal that the phone opens when launching the browser but of course that is not free. Another option is to download the tone to your pc then use this ringtone upload tool to send it to the phone. Yet another option is to get a data cable & sd card and move them from your pc directly to the phone, this does not require any software to be installed. Other than that, there are no ringtone providers that I know of that will work directly with the Straight talk phones. At some point you will need to download the tones then transfer them to the phone with the methods described above.

Fist, there are different BT versions and we would need to find out what version that headset is using. Then I need to get the version the phone uses. In rare cases there are compatibility issues. The other thing is the headset has to be in discover mode and not connected to any other device. If it is connected then it will not work until disconnected. Lastly make sure the phones BT is turned on and visible.

You will not be able to load skype on either the 451 or 355. These phones do not have any sort of app engine or mechanism for loading apps. The Straight Talk Samsung R810C Finesse does have an app engine but not sure if Skype can be loaded on it or not.

Sorry, not a big facebook fan so not really sure how those alerts come in. My guess is that you probably cannot see them because they are triggered by some sort of Javascript code and as you know, these phones have basic browsers that do not support Javascript. You can try the m.facebook.com but more than likely, there will be no in-screen/pop up type alerts. I do know that facbook sends email alerts, you can have those sent to yourcellnumber@vtext.com and you will get them as text messages on your straight talk phone. If you would like a javascript capable phone, then upgrading to the Samsung Finesse would do the trick since it has a full html browser.

Yes, you can text with the R451C.

You will not be able to download Opera mini or games to the 451 as this phone is locked down in that regard. As for ringtones, you can download any mp3 tone you want from whatever source, then transfer the tones to the phone’s sd card, you can read more on that here. . Forget downloading through the Straight Talk portal because it’s limited. The ST plan is more for those who want a solid inexpensive calling plan out there (the $30 plan) . The data services are basic and obviously not as good as Boost.

The only thing you can restrict are the calling capabilities, ie. lock it so that calls can’t be made from it. I don’t think you can restrict the stuff you want to restrict, at least no mention of that in the manual.

The phone should recognize the card on its own. You can easily tell if it’s recognizing it by selecting your MP3 player. If it goes into the player, then it’s recognizing it. What size card do you have? I believe the highest the 451 will support is 4gb. Other possibility is the card being upside down on the phone?

@Deloris
Hi there, Since the 451 is not a full html browser phone, it does not support javascript. That being said, most major sites have mobile versions without javascript. Typically, you are automatically redirected to their mobile versions when accessing through mobile phones. I have been able to successfully access Twitter and Facebook on the 451. As for myspace, try m.myspace.com which i believe is the mobile version. For facebook try m.facebook.com and for twitter, try m.twitter.com. If you find others that you get the javascript error on, google the mobile version of the site to get the mobile address, you can then use that address on the 451

I don’t think this will work because the phone link does not take you to the enter zip page. That page only takes you to the phone manuals and such. I suggest anybody having this issue call that Straight Talk customer service so that they can have this fixed. I called them myself and not surprisingly, the CS was totally oblivious to it.

Hi,

It is not the link, it is the Straight Talk page that is giving this error. Try going to the straight talk website directly and see if you get the error. Also, try using Firefox to see if you still get the error.

Hi Stacey,

Brightpoint is the company that handles the orders for Straight Talk/Tracfone, so that error would indicate they may be having momentary issues. Just wait a bit, click on the free shipping link to go to Straight Talk and try again.