Hi, looking for some assistance (again). I have had issues with getting the correct data network on my phone.
The phone is a HTC One M7, I bought it sim free in the UK.
I have put a virgin mobile sim card in the phone and the only network that comes up is EXT, when I try to connect it states that my SIM is not allowed a connection to this network. This only happens where I stay which is out of town. I had the same issue with a TELUS sim too. The only one that works is a Rogers one but I only get EDGE.
In the city they all work fine giving me LTE or HSPA+.
Please could somebody assist?
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Hi Folks
Does anyone have a soft copy of the handbook for the Universal they could post or mail me? Love to have a read.
Also, for the 3G calling, does it use a sim or usim?
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Brett
mavrik64 said:
Hi Folks
Does anyone have a soft copy of the handbook for the Universal they could post or mail me? Love to have a read.
Also, for the 3G calling, does it use a sim or usim?
cheer
Brett
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3G traffic (be it data or video) always require a USIM. If you don't have any, you cannot get onto the 3G network. I'm actually having this issue, as I travel to the UK a lot, where T-mobile has a live 3G network. As I do not have a USIM (since T-Mobile NL doesn't offer 3G yet), I cannot roam onto their 3G network, only onto GPRS...
Bugger...
My operator (Telenor in Norway) enables the customers to use their OLD SIM cards and still have full 3G access!
My SIM card is from 2004, but customers may use cards that go back to July 2000 on the 3G network..
There has been some Over The Air updates, but these might be for something else..
The user only gets a SMS saying: "You SIM card has been updated, please reboot your phone."
So we can use the same SIM on a new and old phone, 3G or no 3G...
http://www.manuals.t-mobile.co.uk/start.asp?manual=1217
Not 100% what you're after, but hope that helps.
stamppot said:
3G traffic (be it data or video) always require a USIM. If you don't have any, you cannot get onto the 3G network. I'm actually having this issue, as I travel to the UK a lot, where T-mobile has a live 3G network. As I do not have a USIM (since T-Mobile NL doesn't offer 3G yet), I cannot roam onto their 3G network, only onto GPRS...
Bugger...
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Well, I'm using a 4-year-old T-Mobile SIM in my JasJar, and I'm getting 3G access with absolutely no problems...
I didn't think there was such a thing as a USIM exactly? I got the impression that a "USIM" was just a normal 3v SIM card which has been enabled for use on the UMTS network. And that's done by pressing a button at T-Mobile 'Command Centre'...
'3' here in the UK make a big deal about USIM cards, and how you have to have one to use a 3G phone, but that only seems to apply to their handsets, because they put about 800 billion security locks on each of them. In my experience, Vodafone and T-Mobile don't require you to upgrade the actual SIM card at all, and I assume that Orange and O2 are the same.
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Well, I'm using a 4-year-old T-Mobile SIM in my JasJar, and I'm getting 3G access with absolutely no problems...
I didn't think there was such a thing as a USIM exactly? I got the impression that a "USIM" was just a normal 3v SIM card which has been enabled for use on the UMTS network. And that's done by pressing a button at T-Mobile 'Command Centre'...
'3' here in the UK make a big deal about USIM cards, and how you have to have one to use a 3G phone, but that only seems to apply to their handsets, because they put about 800 billion security locks on each of them. In my experience, Vodafone and T-Mobile don't require you to upgrade the actual SIM card at all, and I assume that Orange and O2 are the same.
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Hmmm, you learn something new every day... It could be that one can indeed update the SIM to a USIM with a OTA update, I just hadn't heard about that before. I might put in a phonecall to T-Mobile...
Thanks for the heads-up!
I'd better just point out that my last post was entirely guesswork on my part, based on the fact that my old T-Mobile SIM, and my sister's (3-year?)old Vodafone SIM both work perfectly in 3G devices.
In my case, I never even told T-Mobile that I'd bought a 3G phone, the SIM just worked on 3G from the second I put it in, so no OTA upgrade needed? (Of course, maybe they gave us UK customer's an upgrade one night without telling us?!)
My sister got an official Vodafone upgrade to a 3G phone, so they may have done an OTA thingy at the time, but the actual physical card is the same...
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.
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!!!!
patterns said:
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
I have a MyTouch 3G w/3.5mm headphone jack that I bought from Craigslist. I just use T-Mobile ToGo Prepaid, so I had to get the phone unlocked (got unlock code through T-Mobile for free) and I used my mom's AT&T SIM Card to activate the phone.
After doing that with stock firmware, my T-Mobile SIM card still won't work in the phone. I got zero bars and with a small "X". I thought maybe T-Mobile purposely blocked non data plan SIM cards in their stock ROM, so I rooted and installed Cyanogenmod 6 RC2. Everything went fine with the rooting and upgrade, but I'm still having the same problem with my T-Mobile SIM. It always says "No Service". If I try to dial a number, I get "Mobile network not available." In Settings->Mobile network settings->Network Operators, it shows both AT&T and T-Mobile as available networks. If I touch T-Mobile, I get "Unable to connect to this network at this time. Please try again later". The strange thing, is everything works fine with an AT&T SIM card! I'm at a loss to figure this out. Are these symptoms of a blacklisted IMEI? Or do these symptoms indicate something else?
UPDATE: Talked to T-Mobile chat, IMEI is NOT blocked which is good, but it's still not working.
had the same issue...I used my friend's AT&T sim with data plan to sign-in to google. I had to enter AT&T APN settings and choose AT&T network in the menu.
Everything went well and I put my prepaid togo sim card. Got no service message and no bars. I went then to menu-settings-wireless controls-mobile neworks-network operators. It scanned networks for a minute and found t-mobile which I chose. Right after that it connected to network and I was able to make my first call from prepaid card
Unfortunately, that doesn't work on mine. When I touch T-Mobile, I get "Unable to connect to this network at this time. Please try again later."
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Unfortunately, that doesn't work on mine. When I touch T-Mobile, I get "Unable to connect to this network at this time. Please try again later."
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are you sure your t-mobile sim card still work fine? i did research quite a bit this issue yesterday and many people confirmed that prepaid card works fine for them. check your network settings again and reset them to default
Yeah, it's the SIM card I use in my iPhone daily. My wife's SIM doesn't work in it either. I've reset everything to defaults, wiped everything, and even installed Cynanogenmod with no luck.
GnatGoSplat said:
Yeah, it's the SIM card I use in my iPhone daily. My wife's SIM doesn't work in it either. I've reset everything to defaults, wiped everything, and even installed Cynanogenmod with no luck.
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sorry to hear that...maybe you should try to call t-mobile or visit a store
I did talk to T-Mobile, but they only suggested a full wipe (hard reset) which didn't work. I guess it's probably broken, and since I bought it second-hand, not covered under warranty. It's unlocked so I guess I could try to recoup my losses by selling it to someone w/AT&T.