Sent in my Nexus 6 phone to get the battery replaced, so, while being out with no phone... I figured I would pop in the nano sim card into the AIwatch C5 slot. Didn't work. It's liked it didn't even acknowledge the SIM card, no phone, no email, no texting etc...
My carrier is a GSM based network, with 3G, LTE capability Nationwide (Canada). All my phones have been unlocked, so I have never had a problem using this SIM before. When I did get my phone back, popped back in the sim card and phone worked immediately. Oh, and my sim card is not sim locked nor encrypted.
Anybody else try out there C5 sport watch with a sim?
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Ok, so i was explaining to my lil sister about sim cards, and as i was saying how only Verizon worldphones had sims, i realized that you could, in theory, put a Verizon 4g sim into a 3g worldphone, and.... what would it do? I'm a little hazy on how exactly Sim cards work, but would it be possible to artificially "create" a 4g phone using a 4g Verizon sim?
EDIT: ok, since there are no answers, i realize this is a noobish question, but does the sim card contain the actual 3g/4g/whatever radios, or does it just "enable" them?
The sim card contains the customer account information, so once you lock the signal verizon knows how to properly bill you for your usage.
4G sim cards are different than 3G sim cards although they are in the same format. You can't just swap your Droid 2 Global Sim card and expect to work in your Droid 3 or vice versa becuase the ESN is what is tied to your number, the sim card is just there for roaming purposes (i may be wrong on that one), but i know that even on the global phones, you must have the sim card inserted in the phone to be able to get service with verizon.
The 4G sim card works more like a REAL (GSM) simcard you can swap your sim card into another 4G device and your number will transfer.
Here is another difference, the same sim card on global devices can be reused like you can go to your account and transfer your phone to another account without the need for another sim card. The 4G sim cards become invalid once they are deactivated and you will require a new blank sim card in case you want to activate your phone number again (this usually happens when you switch from a 4G device to a 3G, then move back up to a 4G device), they work much like most GSM sim cards work.
So in sumary, the 4G sim cards works more like a real sim card.
have a 2 Optimus quantum phones, one never gets 3g, or H, data doesn't seem to work at all (i changed APN settings to fido)
could this be do to old sim card? its really old before 3g network existed, when edge was early
other phone works ok, setup in identical way but sim card is newer from an iPhone 3g i had
so as question above says could it just be due to an old sim card?
Swap the working SIM card between phones and you will have your answer
I think you guessed it. My network (Rogers) required new SIM cards to work on their 3G network. Your carrier may have the same situation.
In my case, Rogers was happy to swap the old SIM for a new one.
Hi all,
Does anybody have a problem with data on the second SIM?
You can choose on which SIM you want to use data.
It works on SIM 1 but doesn't on SIM 2.
APN settings are 100% correct.
I have tested the SIM in another phone and data works there.
I've now ordered a nano-SIM to micro-SIM adapter from ebay to test it in the SIM 1 slot.
Quite annoying.
Maybe bcause sim 2 slot works only in 2g
HI EVERYONE,
Hope you can help me or give an advice...
I got Xperia Z5 Dual Sim Card phone. I'm on UK network. If I use both sim slots with the same provider, one of the slots stops working immediately. Shows no signal bars whatsoever. As soon as I use two different sim cards from different providers, both work fine. I called my network provider, but they state it's a phones fault.
Has anyone experienced anything like that?
Can you buy new sim card? And try with the new one
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Could it be your carrier doesn't have GSM coverage in your area?
I think 3 in the UK does not have GSM. When you are in 'dual standby' mode one of the SIM cards MUST be on GSM only mode, therefore if your carrier doesn't have GSM it will never connect. This is a funny limitation, but it's what allows for dual standby phones to be made relatively simple without having to have two radios for two carriers, which would make the phone a lot bigger and complicated.
I went to the actual store and swapped the sim cards, but nothing helped
bartolo5 said:
Could it be your carrier doesn't have GSM coverage in your area?
I never thought of that... It's strange as I went to Vodafone store and they said they don't support dual sim card phones at all.
I am actually with network 3, so thought there shouldn't be issues like this. Another funny thing is, that if I swap the slots with the same network 3 sim cards, sometimes slot No1 and sometimes slot No2 isn't working. As soon as I put one Vodafone and the other network 3 sim cards, both slots work just fine
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NewToWeb said:
HI EVERYONE,
Hope you can help me or give an advice...
I got Xperia Z5 Dual Sim Card phone. I'm on UK network. If I use both sim slots with the same provider, one of the slots stops working immediately. Shows no signal bars whatsoever. As soon as I use two different sim cards from different providers, both work fine. I called my network provider, but they state it's a phones fault.
Has anyone experienced anything like that?
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I used my Z5 Dual when I was in the UK and was having real problems getting the EE sim card to work on the data side, it seems that when I put in the EE card my phone restarts (annoying but standard) and it resets the data preference to 3G which meant that I had no coverage. As soon as I switched the data preference to LTE it was up and running full guns again.
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I used my Z5 Dual when I was in the UK and was having real problems getting the EE sim card to work on the data side, it seems that when I put in the EE card my phone restarts (annoying but standard) and it resets the data preference to 3G which meant that I had no coverage. As soon as I switched the data preference to LTE it was up and running full guns again.
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Thanks for you answer. Seems that it's more to do with the provider then the actual phone.
Sad that phone like this couldn't be used to it's full potential
Hi guys; I did get 2 S5 phones, both unlocked, but they came from different carriers. One is from ATT, the other from Verizon. One is a G900A while the other is a G900V; so the model is matching the carrier.
Now, with the ATT one, I just pop the sim card in, and it works (I have a nano, but it fits in the micro slot), the phone works fine, nothing wrong with it.
The verizon one is not liking it...I get a message that say that the SIM card is not present. I did think it was broken, so I did pop in an old sim card that is not working anymore, which is also the micro size, so the correct size, and the phone say that the sim inserted is not a Verizon sim.
I have no idea why this phone, is doing this. I was told that the phone is unlocked, but the strange thing is that it won't accept any nano sim (while the same S5 from ATT does take it without problems), and that it won't allow me to use anything that is not a Verizon sim. Did I buy a phone that is locked? Should I get another one of the ATT model? Reading on the forum, I did see that you need a verizon sim card for the first activation and then you can swap the T-mobile in, and change the network settings, but I do not have a Verizon sim card available, and before waste 10 dollars at the local store, I would like to know if there is anything else that I can do to make the phone to work. Or if I should just return it; this came from Amazon, so that's easy to fix. Thanks!