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Well, this is interesting, my phone has spontaniously decided my SIM card isn't a SIM card.
J F
Sep 15, 2006, 6:57 AM
It was working fine last night, I did drop it, but it was fine immediately after... I wake up this morning and it's demanding that I "Insert SIM".
It's a Samsung D407.
Any ideas what the problem could be?
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TiLo
Sep 15, 2006, 8:24 AM
Same thing happened to me and my razor last week, I just took it to a cingular store and got the card replaced.
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Sometimes they fail to read. Pull it out, wipe it off, blow out the contacts, then stick it back in. If it still doesn't work, then you'll probably just need a new one. Try the other stuff first to save gas if you can.
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J F
Sep 15, 2006, 11:35 AM
Yeah, after I made this topic, I took the card out, put it back in, still didn't work. So I grabbed my old x427, put the old card from there into the D407, and the phone at least recognized that as a SIM card, although it obviously wouldn't let me make calls. Then I tried the current SIM in the x427, and it told me I had a "SIM ERROR".
I'd say it was narrowed down pretty definitively at that point.
Got a new card now, no problem.
In other news, I love almost everybody at that one mall kiosk. You guys realize how rare it is for mall kiosk salespeople to be awesome? One in a million, I tell ya.
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I usually just blow on the sim card, you'd be surprize how many times it works for other problems.
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