Does this verify that my Tracfone was successfully unlocked?

GunsMadeAmericaFree

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Our Tracfones were a few days from running out of our year of service, so I went through the trouble of asking for them to be unlocked. It APPEARED to successfully finish the
process on both phones. (our 2020 Moto G Power phones, which were probably only powered on 2 dozen times during the year)

Not being one to trust that something has happened without testing it, I ordered a cheap sim card from Ebay to try it in the phones.

I stuck it in the old 'unlocked' Moto G Power phone, and was able to see that the network was T-Mobile. (sim card is Ultra Mobile, which I guess must be an MVNO of T-Mobile?) Anyway, full bars for the data connection,
though I didn't actually activate anything.

I then took the same Ultra Mobile sim card and put it in my current new Moto G Pure, which is Tracfone locked. I got the messages "sim card locked", and "network locked".

Is this good enough verification that the unlocking process on our year old phones went through? Thanks!
 

Muadib

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You proved that your phones were unlocked when your latest sim worked in the 2020 Motos. Congrats!
 

GunsMadeAmericaFree

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You proved that your phones were unlocked when your latest sim worked in the 2020 Motos. Congrats!
How's the new year going?

Ok, I was hoping that was the case. Of course, it didn't actually WORK work - I never actually activated the sim card. However, it did show the network as T-mobile, and there was no message about either the sim card or network being locked, like there was in our current Tracfones when I put it in them.
 

Muadib

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How's the new year going?

Ok, I was hoping that was the case. Of course, it didn't actually WORK work - I never actually activated the sim card. However, it did show the network as T-mobile, and there was no message about either the sim card or network being locked, like there was in our current Tracfones when I put it in them.
You can borrow a friend's working sim, if you need more proof.