My "old" sim card simply does not fit in the sim card slot on my new Note 3 N9000 factory unlock. It is too wide. I mean, its that simple. I might add that I have had the card for many, many years. It's a T-mobile card from Hungary.
Thanks for your help
humphster said:
My "old" sim card simply does not fit in the sim card slot on my new Note 3 N9000 factory unlock. It is too wide. I mean, its that simple. I might add that I have had the card for many, many years. It's a T-mobile card from Hungary.
Thanks for your help
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Hi, I had the same thing. I upgraded from my Original Note 1 to the Note 3. The sim card was way too big. The shop I bought the phone from (a big media chain) used a funky gadget to cut my card to fit the Note 3. It works great. I even got the sim card cut out so I can recreate the original larger card and use it in the original Note 1. It works there too.
Can you ask your shop to cut your card to size?
humphster said:
My "old" sim card simply does not fit in the sim card slot on my new Note 3 N9000 factory unlock. It is too wide. I mean, its that simple. I might add that I have had the card for many, many years. It's a T-mobile card from Hungary.
Thanks for your help
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Why don't you just order new sim card from your carrier??
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Shoober said:
Hi, I had the same thing. I upgraded from my Original Note 1 to the Note 3. The sim card was way too big. The shop I bought the phone from (a big media chain) used a funky gadget to cut my card to fit the Note 3. It works great. I even got the sim card cut out so I can recreate the original larger card and use it in the original Note 1. It works there too.
Can you ask your shop to cut your card to size?
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I bought the phone from Amazon in the U.S and the card is a T-Mobile so I guess I'll ask T-Mobile for help.
This baffles me. I don't understand how Samsung would produce a device that can't accept a standard SIM card.
I anticipate that T-Mobile will not help me and that I will just have to return the phone and buy another.
thanks for you prompt reply and I'm glad that you got your problem solved.
Richard Carter
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mikkelrev69 said:
Why don't you just order new sim card from your carrier??
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The answer to your question is that I didn't know that sim cards came in different sizes. I'll surely ask them about it tomorrow.
Thanks.
You can either ask service or just search online for sim card template. The PDF I found a year ago had the outline of a regular SIM card. I taped my card to the print out and cut along the outlines of the small card. If you look for it on the internet, you can also find information that even cutting a bit through the connectors doesn't harm the card as long as you don't cut into the chip of the card. Just make sure you use an appropriate sized pair of scissors as it's getting hard to see the outlines if the one you use is too big. But with most everything in life: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK :fingers-crossed:
Thanks, Mikegrmn.
It was news to me but there is a sim card called a micro sim which I am hoping will do the trick for me.
Apparently this is not an uncommon problem because you can buy a gizmo that will trim Sim cards
Live and learn
humphster said:
Thanks, Mikegrmn.
It was news to me but there is a sim card called a micro sim which I am hoping will do the trick for me.
Apparently this is not an uncommon problem because you can buy a gizmo that will trim Sim cards
Live and learn
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Yes, like I said. That there are tools available was known to me. But when I bought my razr HD last year, it was some time close to the end of the week and a colleague told me that he had such a tool and that he would bring it the day after. Well, he forgot, and by Satarday night, I was so impatient that I just used my scissors and the template. Stores are closed here from Saturday afternoon to Monday and my colleague was out somewhere with his GF. And as I always use prepaid SIMs, I thought I'd give it a try. Hadn't itworked out, I'd just gotten a new SIM and a new phone number. I only hand out my number to a couple of people for my private phone, so changing numbers isn't a biggy
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This baffles me. I don't understand how Samsung would produce a device that can't accept a standard SIM card.
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Trying really hard to accept that this isn't a wind up!
Micro-SIMs have been around for years, but didn't really hit consumer products until the iPhone was released 3 years ago.
Pretty much every flagship phone uses them now, except the iPhone 5 which uses an even smaller NANO-SIM. My Galaxy Note 1 was the last phone I owned that used a regular mini-SIM, and that was 2 years ago.
The world has moved on, and you've been left behind!
Regards,
Dave
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humphster said:
My "old" sim card simply does not fit in the sim card slot on my new Note 3 N9000 factory unlock. It is too wide. I mean, its that simple. I might add that I have had the card for many, many years. It's a T-mobile card from Hungary.
Thanks for your help
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Yup the Note 1 uses a regular sized sim
The Note 3 uses a Micro-Sim
You can pick one up from your carrier as replacement to swap your plan into
OR
Just cut your old sim..
All the posts above me got you covered :good:
The micro sim is the next generation sim cards. Every carrier supply new micro cards on demand. If not they are closing down pretty fast couse this is the new standard.
Why would you bother bying tools when a new micro sim is only one call to support away??...!
Smaller cards = more space awailable when designing phones.
Do you not remember when sim cards was the size of a credit card?
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I feel like Charlie Brown. Sigh. As George Gooble once said, Sometimes I feel like the world is a tuxedo and I am a pair of brown shoes.
Thanks for your response
Related
Does anyone know the biggest sized memory card you can put in the XDA Mini S?
I currently have a 2gb mini sd card in it - I saw you can buy 4 and 8gb cards - anyone know?
Much appreciated and thanx in advance
Some 4gb cards will work, but you have to make sure they are not the ones that are high compacity cause they are formated differently. The 8gb ones will probably not work at all. There should be a thread around here somewhere that has a list of 4gb cards that will work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=297324
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=289848
oh thanx so much
I read on the first link that there is a hack for the Treo 680 which works for the Treo 750 that allows one to use SDHC. How does a product which is supposed to be incompatible with a newer technology, become compatible? Can the same basic principle found in this driver be applied to WM5 devices such as the Wizard? Is it something in the hardware for the Treo only?
memory card query.
i bought a 2gb kingston card for my mini s 5 weeks ago and had no probs at all until today, i checked my mini this morning and it says there is no card installed, i checked the card in a friends mini and in a nokia and none recognized it used my mates card and my mini picked it up instantly. did my xda kill the card? i did take the card out last night twice while i was putting some data on to my friends mini, and i never checked it after id put it back in mine last night.
i guess what im asking is do you think if was user error or a bad card? as i want to order a new one asap, and dont wish to order the same make of card if it is due to the cards incompatabilaty with the mini. however if it is due to me being a ham fisted fool, il order the same, thanks in advance for your help on this
More than likely your cards not bad, it just lost it's format. The easiest way to fix it is to put it in a card reader and reformat it again. I have a 4 Gb card and I pretty much have to do that on a regular basis and when it decides to lose it's format my wizard doesn't see it at all either.
elathan said:
i guess what im asking is do you think if was user error or a bad card? as i want to order a new one asap, and dont wish to order the same make of card if it is due to the cards incompatabilaty with the mini. however if it is due to me being a ham fisted fool, il order the same, thanks in advance for your help on this
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if it is broken, don't kingston do a lifetime guarantee? and if they do you don't have to buy a new one, just get it replaced
According to LG quick start guide pdf: ( http://stadium.weblogsinc.com/engadget/files/Nexus4_QSG_US_Print_V1.0_121005.pdf ). The nexus 4 takes a micro sim. Is this somehow different that regular sim card? Is this different that the one used in the Samsung Galaxy SII ?
a bit confused. Just wondering if I have to give t-mobile a call to get a "micro sim card"
The s3 also uses a micro sim card.
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Telia_micro_SIM_with_brackets.jpg/450px-Telia_micro_SIM_with_brackets.jpg
The one in the middle is a "regular" sim card and the one on the bottom a micro sim card (which has been broken out of the "regular" one). If your "regular" sim card doesn't have these "breaking points" you could also cut it into the right size with scissors, you would need to be careful though...
thephantom said:
The s3 also uses a micro sim card.
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I have the s2.
Harry Pothead said:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Telia_micro_SIM_with_brackets.jpg/450px-Telia_micro_SIM_with_brackets.jpg
The one in the middle is a "regular" sim card and the one on the bottom a micro sim card (which has been broken out of the "regular" one). If your "regular" sim card doesn't have these "breaking points" you could also cut it into the right size with scissors, you would need to be careful though...
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thank you. i have a regular sim. Guess I'll be ordering a new one closer to launch day, i don't wanna play arts and crafts with my sim card.
A wise decision, I would not want to do that either...unless my provider would charge me for it
SIM cutters can be had on eBay for like £2
Rusty! said:
SIM cutters can be had on eBay for like £2
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and i can get a sim for free from t-mobile. lol
The tmobile website shows that the Nexus 4 is 16gb internal with expandable memory up to 64gb. Can anyone who purcahased the tmobile version today confirm that an sd card slot is present???
no, there is no sd card slot, nor, will there ever be one.
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no, there is no sd card slot, nor, will there ever be one.
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Thats what i thought!!!! but check out the website http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/Phones/cell-phone-detail.aspx?cell-phone=Google-Nexus-4 PLUS i spoke to someone in customer service who confirmed this as well. do you currently own the tmobile varient?
There is no T-Mobile variant. They just hiked up the price of the device. And the only thing micro used by the Nexus 4 is the Micro SIM Card.
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There is no T-Mobile variant. They just hiked up the price of the device. And the only thing micro used by the Nexus 4 is the Micro SIM Card.
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Thats what i thought. Its just annoying how uneducated the tmobile customer service reps are that they can sit there and tell me on the phone that a micro sd card is present even after i told them thats a must-have for me. even that the website displays incorrect info. blahhhhh w/e lol
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There is no T-Mobile variant. They just hiked up the price of the device. And the only thing micro used by the Nexus 4 is the Micro SIM Card.
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I spent some time on the phone with T-Mobile and they claim there is a variant with the micro SD card. I have not purchased it yet but I talked to customer service at T-Mobile a second time and the guy I talked to said he has one and it has it. Not sure if it's true and he's just blowing smoke but I'm hoping to order one for Christmas and if it doesn't have it, I'll raise hell and return it and get it from Google.
I bought mine at t-mobile and their wrong, it has none they might have confused the sim tray with a micro sd slot. But like the previous poster said there is none and there will never be one.
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I spent some time on the phone with T-Mobile and they claim there is a variant with the micro SD card. I have not purchased it yet but I talked to customer service at T-Mobile a second time and the guy I talked to said he has one and it has it. Not sure if it's true and he's just blowing smoke but I'm hoping to order one for Christmas and if it doesn't have it, I'll raise hell and return it and get it from Google.
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It does NOT. There are no variants, there is only one model of Nexus 4 (in possibly 2 colors). TMobile sells the same exact thing the Play Store does.
The mistake from the Tmobile page came from just blindly copy/pasting generic smartphone info. That's it.
I went into a T-mobile store the other day and the rep told me they have microsim adapters available for $5. I've heard lots of stories of people who tried adapters they bought online that were bad quality and didn't fit well and ended up getting stuck inside the phone.
Does anyone have any experience with the official one t-mobile sells?
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I went into a T-mobile store the other day and the rep told me they have microsim adapters available for $5. I've heard lots of stories of people who tried adapters they bought online that were bad quality and didn't fit well and ended up getting stuck inside the phone.
Does anyone have any experience with the official one t-mobile sells?
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What type of sim are you adapting? Nano to micro?
grubbster said:
What type of sim are you adapting? Nano to micro?
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Micro to regular. I'm currently using my s2 so I'm going to buy a microsim for the N4. Google shipped me the wrong device and I want to make sure I can switch my sim to my s2 when I'm shipping the nexus back.
Also.. do you know if sim cards are one time uses, or I can call tmobile to have them switch between my regular and the micro?
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Micro to regular. I'm currently using my s2 so I'm going to buy a microsim for the N4. Google shipped me the wrong device and I want to make sure I can switch my sim to my s2 when I'm shipping the nexus back.
Also.. do you know if sim cards are one time uses, or I can call tmobile to have them switch between my regular and the micro?
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I would just stick to using one sim card. You don't have to buy a sim card they usually go for $10-20 unless you get lucky and hey one for free. Go YouTube on hour to cut one using the template that's what I did and it works fine. If you failed the cut then you can buy one
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I would not recommend T-Mobile's adapters! I tried inserting the adapter(without a sim card to see how it would work) into my old Galaxy S and it got stuck. I had to rip it out which caused the pins to bend and almost break! I had to smoosh them down several times before a sim card would register. I probably would of ruined my microsim had it been in there.
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TR88 said:
I would not recommend T-Mobile's adapters! I tried inserting the adapter(without a sim card to see how it would work) into my old Galaxy S and it got stuck. I had to rip it out which caused the pins to bend and almost break! I had to smoosh them down several times before a sim card would register. I probably would of ruined my microsim had it been in there.
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Please tell me you are not serious. If you insert ANY SIM adapter into the phone without the SIM card then the hole is left open where the SIM would go and the pins (which read the SIM) will lock the adapter into place. No matter which SIM adapter you use, you should NOT install it without the SIM card. I'm pretty sure it even says this on the SIM adapter's packaging.
Common sense people, try to use it.
...With that said, the T-Mobile SIM adapter has been working perfectly for me when swapping my micro SIM from the N4 to my Galaxy nexus.
Wait, so Google shipped you a Galaxy Nexus? LMAO
FatalityBoyZahy said:
Wait, so Google shipped you a Galaxy Nexus? LMAO
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They probably shipped an N4 with the wrong amount of internal storage (8GB vs 16GB). It's happened to a few others as well.
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They probably shipped an N4 with the wrong amount of internal storage (8GB vs 16GB). It's happened to a few others as well.
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Must be nice for the people who ordered 8GB and got a 16GB instead
I've used a SIM adapter after I changed to micro-SIM waiting for my Nexus 4 to come in. It worked well in my phone, which was an Optimus T at the time. I know I could've purchased it cheaply online, but it worked well for what I needed and it was only $5. I still have mine just in case I decide to switch to a phone for a specific day or anything.
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Wait, so Google shipped you a Galaxy Nexus? LMAO
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They probably shipped an N4 with the wrong amount of internal storage (8GB vs 16GB). It's happened to a few others as well.
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Yea by nexus, I meant the the N4 not the Galaxy Nexus lol. I ordered and was charged for two 16gb, but received two 8gb .
It happened to a few others? Do you know what's the situation for them now?
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Please tell me you are not serious. If you insert ANY SIM adapter into the phone without the SIM card then the hole is left open where the SIM would go and the pins (which read the SIM) will lock the adapter into place. No matter which SIM adapter you use, you should NOT install it without the SIM card. I'm pretty sure it even says this on the SIM adapter's packaging.
Common sense people, try to use it.
...With that said, the T-Mobile SIM adapter has been working perfectly for me when swapping my micro SIM from the N4 to my Galaxy nexus.
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Thanks for the confirmation! I guess I'll go pick up an adapter one of these days.. :silly:
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Please tell me you are not serious. If you insert ANY SIM adapter into the phone without the SIM card then the hole is left open where the SIM would go and the pins (which read the SIM) will lock the adapter into place. No matter which SIM adapter you use, you should NOT install it without the SIM card. I'm pretty sure it even says this on the SIM adapter's packaging.
Common sense people, try to use it.
...With that said, the T-Mobile SIM adapter has been working perfectly for me when swapping my micro SIM from the N4 to my Galaxy nexus.
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It doesn't and I wasn't aware. I apologize.
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Hi I just want to ask a question..
Can I soldered a SIM card slot into a tablet that doesn't already have a SIM slot??
Yes I know there are tablets with SIM slots but I have several spare tablets and spare parts..
Thanks
Mav
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I don't think you can do this because most tablet use different CPU that cut off the modem support like phone for reducing cost.
if you find way to do it, tell me and i like to try it too.