Hello,
I have a Vodafone SIM which works happily in several Windows Mobile devices and other basic feature phones.
However, I have a Tatung M1 from China which refuses to recognise the SIM. This WM5 Smartphone works fine in the UK with O2, T-Mobile and Orange SIMs.
I had also seen this problem on an unbranded Chinese Windows Mobile 6 Pocket PC. All SIMs apart from Vodafone work well. The Vodafone SIM worked only intermittently, and once signal was lost was never acquired - to the point that the device then decided the SIM was missing.
Does anyone know if there is something specific about Vodafone SIMs which might cause this?
Conversely, has anyone seen this sort of SIM-selectivity in any other Chinese phones before?
Some working theories I'm trying to dismiss:
1. Vodafone UK SIMs are thinner than average.
2. My Voda UK SIM is bent out of shape
I don't think either of these is likely because in at least 20 other phone models the same SIM has no problem being recognised.
Apologies if this has been asked and dealt with before. A search for vodafone, tatung, SIM, and Chinese didn't come up with anything I could recognise as useful.
Thanks in advance.
MCA
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This has been driving me nuts for two days now, I have looked in most of the forums and have come to the conclusion :?
:idea: can someone point me in the right direction. everthing works except the phone. it has been unlocked to any network. I have also dowloaded the latest rom from o2
rom 1.72.00wwe
radio 1.17
prot 1337.28
exr rom 1.72
model number ph10b
imei 352938004339169
probley as its blocked here in the UK on all 4 networks, at the moment it will work on any network, as long as its not in the UK
Thanks for your reply. I dont think there is a way around this. I have tried and looked, oh well, back to turkey it goes.
Thank you
Thanks for your reply. I dont think there is a way around this. I have tried and looked, oh well, back to turkey it goes.
Thank you
That is really strange. There's no reason why that shouldn't work. Both countries run on the same GSM frequencies and if it's unlocked then all should be peachy. Have you tried using your Turkish sim card with international roaming or anything like that just to see whether the phone can actually pick up signal?
Thank you for your reply It picks up all the signals ok, Jimmy but does not call or recive. I suspect it is locked or bared in the UK
it will not work in the UK with any UK sim, and it will not work in the uk with a sim from another country that is roaing. it will also not work whilst in another countery with a UK sim. But it will work any where other than the uk with a non uk sim in it
Applecom, do you have any information as to why this doesn't work? I sell Vodafone products in Australia and have told many customers who have various phone models that it would work based on my ex girlfriend's phone working fine while she was on holidays up there. She had an Australian Telstra sim with international roaming enabled. Vodaphone Australia also has international roaming rates for when you're in the UK listed on their website.
Is this just an I-mate thing? I need to know so I can inform my customers with reliable knowledge.
In the UK if a phone is reported as lost or stolen on any of the networks here, they will bare the IMIE number on there network, and inform the other 3 providers here that the phone should be bared. So regardless of what country you are in, if you have a UK sim from any network and a phone thats been reported lost in the UK it will not work.
it has nothing to do with what phone you have if the IMIE is bared in the UK it will not here.
Thank you all for your replies. I suspect, well about 95% sure it is barred in this country alone on all the networks. It is illegal to change IMEI here in England so I will have to bring it back to Turkey so they can sort it out. I was told it will work in all countries.
applecom said:
In the UK if a phone is reported as lost or stolen on any of the networks here, they will bare the IMIE number on there network, and inform the other 3 providers here that the phone should be bared. So regardless of what country you are in, if you have a UK sim from any network and a phone thats been reported lost in the UK it will not work.
it has nothing to do with what phone you have if the IMIE is bared in the UK it will not here.
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Fair enough. I didn't realise it was a lost/stolen/barred phone.
jimmy-bish
Hi Jimmy I did not know either.
Thank you all for the information I recived. I could not figure it out myself.
Its still worth checking with the providers, As a typical problem here is someone will change the IMIE in there phone, and they just guess a IMIE number. then they loose there phone, this will oviousley bar there phone But at the same time this will bar your phone,
The networks here dont bother to check if the IMIE matches the model of the phone reported lost, but they do keep a record of the phone model that was lost, So a quick call ( then probley a letter) would get your phone working again if the IMIE had been cloned
Thank you all for your time and effort I have made a small donation towards the site. I also recomend anyone else using this site to make one. You guys are great
Hey guys this might be a weird one or very easy.
I bought my huawei ascend mate 7 in china in december 2014, has been working all good so far but while im in japan on holiday I havent been able to connect to the mobile network here at all.
I bought an "international sim" which is a sim service working through ecuador for some reason (dont ask lol)
and bought a data sim here in japan, both nano sims which ive entered the APN information for to no avail
My amaysim sim card from australia isnt working in the main sim slot either (although i didnt intend to use it so I havent activated roaming which is $8k per gb rofl)
When I go to the carrier list to try to choose a carrier the only ones that come up are chinese carriers like china mobile etc, im not sure if this has something to do with it since my phone has been working in australia using the auto select setting.
Any help would be much appreciated since ive lost my visa card and all sorts of horrid **** so im really pretty stuck at the moment.
Hello there folks, i have a problem and hopefully someone in this forum could help me. Recently i bought a unlocked (international) Xperia Z3, model D6603 from Amazon. (its suppose to be a new unit, but i have my doubts since the box came unsealed, although the phone looks in perfect shape)
The thing is that the damn phone doesnt have any signal after inserting the nano SIM. The SIM is well insterted, the APN parameters are also well set, so i dont know what could be the problem.
Fyi..I live in Guatemala, my Carrier is Tigo, and the band Tigo uses for LTE is 850 or Band V, and the phone is supposed to work with these bands.
Also, i went to a Cell Phone Retail store, and tried my SIM in an exact same Z3 unlocked model, (D6603), and worked perfectly.
My quiestions are:
- Is there something else i need to configure?
- Could this phone be damaged?
I really appreciate someone´s help, advice, or orientation.
Best Regards and a happy 2016 to all.
Christian Schippers
P.S. My Carrier didnt want to check my phone because i didt buy it there, so i dont have any support from them (obviusly)
1. Does your SIM work in a different phone?
If no, have your carrier replace your SIM card.
If yes, you might have bought a blacklisted (stolen) phone. Maybe it's not stolen, might just be damaged. If it's damaged, go to Amazon and file a support ticket.
Hello all, I have an HTC One M8 that I bought while working in the US for a year. I am back in Canada and want to use it with Rogers or Bell doesn't matter who. I thought it was unlocked so I could use with anything but apparently I was miss-guided.
When I put in a Rogers SIM card it says SIM from Unknown Source or something along those lines. When I go into about in settings I can see that it picks up the signal for rogers and also shows my cell phone number. I'm guessing there is some sort of way I can make this thing work here?
Can I overwrite the ROM and put a Rogers ROM in? I have no clue. This is about as far as I get with phone tech.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi!
Verizon M8 is sold "internationally unlocked", so Verizon customers can use it everywhere in the world: not just the CDMA networks (Verizon's) but also in GSM networks (most widely spread standard). I live in Spain and mine works in a GSM/LTE network perfectly and it does too in France, Germany or Italy.
For your mobile to work in Canada, you have to make sure your phone is sim unlocked. If you purchased it to verizon you can ask them to remotely unlock it, as you've paid for it, and they will. They may take some time, but they will. Once it is sim unlocked, you will be able to use it with any other operator's sim.
Note that, even when it is sim unlocked (and functional), you may be receiving a notification of "unknown sim" when the phone starts and an icon in the tray. It's just a software issue, as it will work, but to make it dissapear you have to do much more complicated things (unlock the bootloader, get root privileges) and i'm not sure it is worth if you're not familiarized with these sort of things.
Hi,
I have bought the device in France while i was on a trip there.
I have returned back home (New Zealand) and my European sim cards connect to the network no problem (I have one french and one Israeli) both working.
however, when i insert my Spark sim, its not recognized at all i got a new sim card (nano-sim) as my old one was micro sim.
Any thoughts?
Cheers.
Vidati said:
Hi,
I have bought the device in France while i was on a trip there.
I have returned back home (New Zealand) and my European sim cards connect to the network no problem (I have one french and one Israeli) both working.
however, when i insert my Spark sim, its not recognized at all i got a new sim card (nano-sim) as my old one was micro sim.
Any thoughts?
Cheers.
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I think, this has to-do with the "Region Lock"; you bought an European S8+, and before you can use SIM-cards from other (read NOT European) regions, you must have called at least 5 minutes with a European SIM-card...
yeah i have purchased the device in France and used it heavily during that time including calls.
can something be done about this?
Vidati said:
yeah i have purchased the device in France and used it heavily during that time including calls.
can something be done about this?
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phone samsung. Sim locking is dumb.
Actually, it was a sim problem, after going back to my provider i got a new sim and it worked.
Thanks for the help.