How do I know if the Sim Card given by O2 is 3G? The phone has never went into 3G mode?
If you go to SIM manager in Programs, then click Tools and Sim Information, mine says Service Provider UMTS O2 - UK
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Hi
I leave in israel, i have htc-9500 (wallaby) and i installed the unlock
software from this site.
In Israel, we have 2 main companies that use GSM network
the first is "CELLCOM" and the other is "ORANGE".
when i put SIM CARD of Orange, everything was ok !
when i put SIM CARD of Cellcom, the mobile can not find the network.
both companies use GSM network with 900/1800 band.
What is the problem ?
Why is it work with one company and did not work with the other ?
Thank you very much
Well may be its still locked to ORANGE or your other sim is no good.
Hard to tell based on what little info you have given.
i made few phone calls from
the ORANGE sim card...
and with the CELLCOM sim card it did not find the network.
the sim card of cellcom is good it work on nokia 6100
thx
I just unlocked my SPV-M5000 and replaced the orange 3G sim with a regular Vodafone SIM. Much to my surprise the phone after a few minutes of being on the regular 2G network picked up the UTMS network from Vodafone (the provider name changed and the gprs symbol changed from G to U).
The coverage was only 2 bars and I could not make calls on it anyway, so I changed my network settings from auto to GSM and now only the 2G network is found. I was wondering how this could have happen when using a regular non 3G sim in the first place.
I think the best thing is to get a 3G sim anyway from Vodafone. Is this something that vodafone would normally do. I would keep the same number etc of course, I just want a 3G sim instead of a 2G one.
Thnaks
I am running an O2 XDA Exec and a Sony Eric 750i.
Have asked O2 to send me a 3G compatable card for the Exec which presumably will be the same number, not sure if this will automatically invalidate the original Sim or if this can continue to be run in my SE?
Any ideas?
Vodafone does not provide any seperate 3G sims. they just provide SIM cards and depending on the phone they are in they pick up the signal.
The o2 3G sims work in all phones......3G or not so I don't think they are any different. They could be.
But as far as Vodafone is concerned, they donot provide seperate SIMs for 3G/2.5G.
There is no such thing as a 3G SIM.
The clever stuff is done by your phone.
Voda and O2 do it differently.
With Voda, any sim will do.
With O2 you need a 3G sim, which are different to a standard 2G sim. I believe this has something to do with enhanced security. Either type of sim will work in a 2G or 3G phone, but of course you can only get a 3G signal with a 3G sim and 3G phone.
Hi, I upgraded from an xda2 to a xda exec and wish to use umts for data. I phoned o2 up and they sent me out a new sim which they said is 3g/umts enabled. When the sim arrived it looked like my old one. I think I remember reading somewhere on here a while ago that the 3g enabled ones have 3g written on it, this one didnt. I tried it anyway to see if it was just a change in printing etc, and it still just picks up gprs. I dont live in an area covered by o2 3g so I travelled to an area that is (as shown on their coverage map) and still no 3g. What I was wondering is if there is anyway to identify a 3g sim as im wondering if somwhere between tech support and despatch they got mixed up and sent me a normal sim.
Thanks
Just to confirm, I have an O2 3G sim card, and do get the UTMS service when in the right area. The Sim card does say 3G on it in a kind of way... the card number has xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxx 3GS2 as the card number and the copper side has GEMPLUS etched in it.
Hope this helps.
Was playing around last night with bits I had not looked at on my universal before, Sim Manager in programs, actually tells you if its a 3g sim and how many phonebook\text messages etc the sim can hold.
regards
Has anyone managed to get there artemis working with a 3g sim card? ie.e the 3 network in the uk? www.three.co.uk? sometimes known as hutchinson 3g?
i spoke to a mobile phone shop in southall (middlesex) and they said its possble but £50!!!!
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Has anyone managed to get there artemis working with a 3g sim card? ie.e the 3 network in the uk? www.three.co.uk? sometimes known as hutchinson 3g?
i spoke to a mobile phone shop in southall (middlesex) and they said its possble but £50!!!!
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Not tried it, but UK O2 Orbits are not network locked, you can put any SIM in - although with it not being a 3G device, there seems little point in putting a Three SIM in as it will just drop back to whichever GSM network Three piggybacks on (O2 I think). I'v just bought a three sim for £1.25 on ebay, so I'll load it up and see what the coverage is like near me - I only get intermittent t-mobile in my place...
it used to be possible but then 3 started to locking their sims so they only worked in 3g phones
aha!
im not so fussed about the 3g coverage its more being able to use that sim card in the phone, whethe rit roams off of o2 or etc. i got my phoen unlocked (originally t-mobile compact 3) and its the only simcard that doessnt work - thats why im suspicios of this shop[ who says they can doo it for £50
please keep me updated as to how your simcard goes, and if anyone knows a way of doing this im all ears!
my HTC P3600 was purchased in the UK and was locked on the Orange network. I got it unlocked before moving to Canada to study. I purchased a sim card from one of the GSM mobile operators (Fido). But when I insert the sim card into my phone it shows me as roaming and the network also charges me roaming service rates even though I am not in a roaming area.
I upgraded the ROM from WM5 to WM6.1 and still the the problem is not fixed.
I also used the sim and CID unlocker (http://pof.eslack.org/trinity-unlocker/) to "reunlock" it but that also didn't work.
Can anyone help me out here. I love my phone and would like to use it instead of getting another one.
So please whatever suggestions you have would be welcomed.
thanks in advance