First off I just wanna say how awesome this site is and wanted to thank all the people who put their time and effort into helping us out with our phones. Big ups to you guys!
Now on to my question....
I just purchased an HTC Fuze off of AT&T's website (which should be arriving tomorrow -- omg i'm so excited!!!) and I noticed that on the shipping info it shows 3 items which are:
1. Various SIM
2. FREIGHT
3. HITECH P4600 BLK PHONE
My question is... what is a various SIM? Does it mean that they are just sending me a new SIM card with the phone? I searched the net for "various SIM" and found nothing relevant. I'm mostly wondering why because I purchased the phone using an extra line in my family's plan since my phone line still isn't due for an upgrade for another 3 months... so therefor I wanted to put the SIM card from my line into the fuze... is this possible or will I encounter a problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here's a screen shot of what my account shows...
ladyycakez said:
First off I just wanna say how awesome this site is and wanted to thank all the people who put their time and effort into helping us out with our phones. Big ups to you guys!
Now on to my question....
I just purchased an HTC Fuze off of AT&T's website (which should be arriving tomorrow -- omg i'm so excited!!!) and I noticed that on the shipping info it shows 3 items which are:
1. Various SIM
2. FREIGHT
3. HITECH P4600 BLK PHONE
My question is... what is a various SIM? Does it mean that they are just sending me a new SIM card with the phone? I searched the net for "various SIM" and found nothing relevant. I'm mostly wondering why because I purchased the phone using an extra line in my family's plan since my phone line still isn't due for an upgrade for another 3 months... so therefor I wanted to put the SIM card from my line into the fuze... is this possible or will I encounter a problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here's a screen shot of what my account shows...
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If you added an extra line they would also have to send an additional sim card with the device. Your current sim will work fine in your newly purchased device.
Thanks for the quick reply. The line I purchased the phone from (the extra line) has been on my account for a few years, it's not a newly added line. Honestly I don't even know where the phone or sim card for that account is anyways. So is it possible that they are sending a new one with the phone since I bought it online without talking with a sale rep first?
so I got my phone today and what they did was send me a new sim card with the phone. I just took it out and put in the sim card from my current phone and then called to have it activated -- no problems.. question solved! Now it's time to do some modding =)
hello. has anyone ever been able to get the sim from a SAFE-LINK OBAMA PHONE to work in an unlocked android phone?
my phone is unlocked and i think i should be able to use any gsm sim card in it. but when i put the safelink sim in, it says please put in a valid sim card or something like that.
any help, or answers for this..
gameplayerdo2 said:
hello. has anyone ever been able to get the sim from a SAFE-LINK OBAMA PHONE to work in an unlocked android phone?
my phone is unlocked and i think i should be able to use any gsm sim card in it. but when i put the safelink sim in, it says please put in a valid sim card or something like that.
any help, or answers for this..
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Hello, your simcard is bad...
You need to call safelink and have them seend you a new simcard...
When you get your new simcard in the mail you will install it and call safelink/tracfone and have them activate your phones simcard over the phone..
Not sure if anyone's following this thread anymore, but I did some research on this subject and actually spoke to Tracfone and SafeLink reps. This remains untested as of yet but I'm about to commit and buy a device to switch my friends phone from the cheesy old school one they provide. Though grateful as she may be, it is a technologically inferior phone and it's at least worth a try, because devices with the following specs are very cheap.
1. The replacement device MUST BE A TRACFONE.
2. It must have the same size Sim card slot as the one they provided initially, hers is a MINI SIM, so I assume they ALL are.
3. It must be a GSM device as they only provide service specific to their SIM card.
4. It MUST BE A NON-ANDROID device.
So, when I find a gsm Tracfone that's non-android, has a Mini-Sim card slotand doesn't have a touch screen, I'll buy it, call SafeLink to have her service transferred to that device and let you know what happens. According to the reps touch screen devices may or may not work as transferring service doesn't happen everyday. Wish me luck.
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thanks for that. im just now seeing this response from you some how. but i am going to try it once i get another android phone.
THANKS AGAIN.
any reason why it must be a non android device? that almost defeats the purpose..
I think they mean Android operating systems. So an older Windows or Samsung phone should work. I'm still looking through the ton of phones that are available and non-android before I commit to buying one. And am still searching databases on the subject just to make sure, but am about to move on it soon. Will post when I do and let you know if it works okay.
Tapatapped it.
SafeLink in Android
gameplayerdo2 said:
hello. has anyone ever been able to get the sim from a SAFE-LINK OBAMA PHONE to work in an unlocked android phone?
my phone is unlocked and i think i should be able to use any gsm sim card in it. but when i put the safelink sim in, it says please put in a valid sim card or something like that.
any help, or answers for this..
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Its funny you mention this, I have been using my SafeLink Simcard in an unlocked Android for some time now. Although I am unable to send or recieve MMS messages or access the internet (unless I'm on my wifi) its better than the simple phones they give you. I agree that it is worth checking out though, those phones while simple have excellent battery life.
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Its funny you mention this, I have been using my SafeLink Simcard in an unlocked Android for some time now. Although I am unable to send or recieve MMS messages or access the internet (unless I'm on my wifi) its better than the simple phones they give you. I agree that it is worth checking out though, those phones while simple have excellent battery life.
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Can you tell me how you do this?
l_e_g_s said:
Can you tell me how you do this?
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Did you verify this? If I get one, I'll test and report back.
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l_e_g_s said:
Can you tell me how you do this?
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I just put a sim for an activated Alcatel 205g into a unlocked moto android. It doesn't work
Maybe if you get an unactivated safelink sim into the android it will work.
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thanks for the response and info. i appreciate it. i hadn't been on here in quite some time do to my main computer CRASHING! I WAS DEVASTATED! NO PASSWORDS NO NOTHING FOR A WHILE. i cut my sim last night and tried it but no luck for me on that front.. maybe the cut is off a little or something. but my sim chip part is really tiny. i'm guessing nano and don't know that should be positioned.
my daughter just got a safelink and I was wondering how this project has worked out...or not.....
xHilltopCowboyx said:
Its funny you mention this, I have been using my SafeLink Simcard in an unlocked Android for some time now. Although I am unable to send or recieve MMS messages or access the internet (unless I'm on my wifi) its better than the simple phones they give you. I agree that it is worth checking out though, those phones while simple have excellent battery life.
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Can you please share how you did it?
Thanks,
I'm not a obaMa fone (gov insurance phone) expert but I wouldnt understand how a sim card with service would even know its not in a certain phone. the phone not getting service is a thing by itself due to radios not matching service frequency and all that other stuff. Your sim card size is a different story, nano sim card devices need nano sim cards to get service. So being the obaMa Phone comes with the original sim card size Sim Card, one would have to first have a phone thats unlocked and takes the overgrown sim. If the sim is cut to a micro (via a sim cutter) I would say that should work in a micro sim unlocked device. MMS and Internet are fixed with proper APN configuration. Hope my insight helped. Will return with my own test shortly, hopefully.
EDiT: So I just took the obama phone simcard and put it in my unlocked china android and no go, didn't read the sim. However I put in another sim from net10 and realized it worked so I then took them out and noticed they are different sizes as far as the copper or bronzed color parts of the sim. So I think its about just having the right sim card for it. Not all sims are the same and since the obama phone uses its sim for memory as well, texts + contacts... I'm sure thats the major difference. smart sim vs dumb sim. I will be back as I wish to make this work now, lol. PEACE
I have helped 3 people sign up, all got androids
lagoboss said:
Did you verify this? If I get one, I'll test and report back.
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I am the caregiver to handicapped and disabled people and I have helped 3 people sign up and signed myself up as well and 3 of us signed up with Q-link wireless and all got LG Androids and one wanted to sign up with Safe link and he got the smallest junk phone that he can't he can't even read the buttons because they are so small.
I will tell you that all the Q-link androids do not come with sim cards and say SD card unmounted or not present when trying to use certain features like the camera, which I would really like for that to work to take pictures of my patients while I still have them with me, but I cannot get Q-link to send me a sim they do not have them or just don't want to help anyone out. They will not even replace a phone that broke with-in 2 days of arrival for a patient. It had some red triangle on the front and was completely frozen, I had to go on you tube and look to see if anyone else had that problem with that phone and luckily someone had and made a video on how to fix it, So I fixed it for him for free. Always look to you tube or online for free help or videos on how to do it yourself before paying out of pocket, something they were going to charge him shipping and handling back to them and $20-$30 for another phone that probably would have been the same phone, just they new which 3 buttons to push in which order to reset the phone from their bad upgrade..... Seriously saved him $50 and weeks without a phone just by watching it on you tube and following the video, 15 minutes and he had his phone good as new and a smile to boot. They just wanted to squeeze more money put of a man that only had $38 left after paying his bills each month and his $126 a month the state gives him for food stamps. I hate when people take advantage of anyone but to take advantage of someone already very disadvantaged, they are scum, they deserve jail, they deserve to pay back all moneys paid to them for their "FREE PHONES" from the government. One day the safelink executives will be standing trial and I will be cheering, and praying that the jury box is full of people that their greed has touched or touched someone very close to them. I pray they pay for their crimes to the disabled and elderly. Please change from safelink. I am not saying go to Q-link, I am not their rep and they have issues as well, I heard from someone else that Assurance was a better company but I have never personally dealt with them so I cannot say, Please look up these company's and read the customer reviews, better yet, go a couple links down and look where they can't delete them or go to the better business bureau's website and look their. You don't want to be waiting months for your free phone that you may need for an emergency to save your own life or someone you love and you do not want bad service if you do indeed need your phone for an emergency, please do your research. If anyone has any insight without being a rep of one of these or any free phone company, please tell us your likes, dislikes or whatever experiences you have had with whatever company. Please include if you have talked to customer service at anytime, if so did they help? Did they speak English or any other language you needed to communicate? What kind of phone, anything wrong with it? If their was something defective how long did it take the company to fix? If they did fix it did they charge you for this fix to your FREE phone? Please fill in all our blanks because you know we all want to know and need to know. We need a good company with strong values that have a good product that functions correctly with enough minutes to make it through the month to make doctors appointments and social serve appointments. Any information would be great. Thank you all.
If you haven't fixed your camera yet read on :fingers-crossed:
ObamaAndroidNoSim said:
I am the caregiver to handicapped and disabled people and I have helped 3 people sign up and signed myself up as well and 3 of us signed up with Q-link wireless and all got LG Androids and one wanted to sign up with Safe link and he got the smallest junk phone that he can't he can't even read the buttons because they are so small.
I will tell you that all the Q-link androids do not come with sim cards and say SD card unmounted or not present when trying to use certain features like the camera, which I would really like for that to work to take pictures of my patients while I still have them with me, but I cannot get Q-link to send me a sim they do not have them or just don't want to help anyone out. They will not even replace a phone that broke with-in 2 days of arrival for a patient. It had some red triangle on the front and was completely frozen, I had to go on you tube and look to see if anyone else had that problem with that phone and luckily someone had and made a video on how to fix it, So I fixed it for him for free. Always look to you tube or online for free help or videos on how to do it yourself before paying out of pocket, something they were going to charge him shipping and handling back to them and $20-$30 for another phone that probably would have been the same phone, just they new which 3 buttons to push in which order to reset the phone from their bad upgrade..... Seriously saved him $50 and weeks without a phone just by watching it on you tube and following the video, 15 minutes and he had his phone good as new and a smile to boot. They just wanted to squeeze more money put of a man that only had $38 left after paying his bills each month and his $126 a month the state gives him for food stamps. I hate when people take advantage of anyone but to take advantage of someone already very disadvantaged, they are scum, they deserve jail, they deserve to pay back all moneys paid to them for their "FREE PHONES" from the government. One day the safelink executives will be standing trial and I will be cheering, and praying that the jury box is full of people that their greed has touched or touched someone very close to them. I pray they pay for their crimes to the disabled and elderly. Please change from safelink. I am not saying go to Q-link, I am not their rep and they have issues as well, I heard from someone else that Assurance was a better company but I have never personally dealt with them so I cannot say, Please look up these company's and read the customer reviews, better yet, go a couple links down and look where they can't delete them or go to the better business bureau's website and look their. You don't want to be waiting months for your free phone that you may need for an emergency to save your own life or someone you love and you do not want bad service if you do indeed need your phone for an emergency, please do your research. If anyone has any insight without being a rep of one of these or any free phone company, please tell us your likes, dislikes or whatever experiences you have had with whatever company. Please include if you have talked to customer service at anytime, if so did they help? Did they speak English or any other language you needed to communicate? What kind of phone, anything wrong with it? If their was something defective how long did it take the company to fix? If they did fix it did they charge you for this fix to your FREE phone? Please fill in all our blanks because you know we all want to know and need to know. We need a good company with strong values that have a good product that functions correctly with enough minutes to make it through the month to make doctors appointments and social serve appointments. Any information would be great. Thank you all.
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Hope you see this and you and the people you care for are able to start using your cameras!
Hopefully you figured this out by now, otherwise hopefully you still subscribe to this thread and maybe I can earn my first thanks. Anyway, your problem isn't the sim, your sim card and sd card are not the same thing. You need to get and install an SD micro memory card and your camera functions will start working as well as likely opening up some additional storage space for apps possibly and media files definitely! Surprised nobody else caught this, feeling pretty good about myself lol
gameplayerdo2 said:
hello. has anyone ever been able to get the sim from a SAFE-LINK OBAMA PHONE to work in an unlocked android phone?
my phone is unlocked and i think i should be able to use any gsm sim card in it. but when i put the safelink sim in, it says please put in a valid sim card or something like that.
any help, or answers for this..
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Yes you can use any smart phone (iphone-Galaxy-Verizon-AT&T) with your safelink services. There are a couple ways to do this.
(1) You can try moving the SIM card to a new phone if it fits and see if it picks up service. Some people have said this worked great for them. Fast & Easy
(2) You can go to TracFone web site and buy a SIM that will allow you to move a smart phone over to your Safelink service. It's called Bring Your Own Smartphone.
(3) Or you can buy the "Bring Your Own Smartphone" kit from your local Walmart for $10. But it only does AT&T - Verizon phones.
The phone needs to be compatible or unlocked GSM LTE or CDMALTE.
justlovejoy said:
I'm not a obaMa fone (gov insurance phone) expert but I wouldnt understand how a sim card with service would even know its not in a certain phone. the phone not getting service is a thing by itself due to radios not matching service frequency and all that other stuff. Your sim card size is a different story, nano sim card devices need nano sim cards to get service. So being the obaMa Phone comes with the original sim card size Sim Card, one would have to first have a phone thats unlocked and takes the overgrown sim. If the sim is cut to a micro (via a sim cutter) I would say that should work in a micro sim unlocked device. MMS and Internet are fixed with proper APN configuration. Hope my insight helped. Will return with my own test shortly, hopefully.
EDiT: So I just took the obama phone simcard and put it in my unlocked china android and no go, didn't read the sim. However I put in another sim from net10 and realized it worked so I then took them out and noticed they are different sizes as far as the copper or bronzed color parts of the sim. So I think its about just having the right sim card for it. Not all sims are the same and since the obama phone uses its sim for memory as well, texts + contacts... I'm sure thats the major difference. smart sim vs dumb sim. I will be back as I wish to make this work now, lol. PEACE
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smart sim vs dumb sim. lol,,,,,,, that is literally hilarious! im crying over here.. lol
but, i think its the truth. the gov sims ive had had to be locked to a phone in some cases. almost like the metro pcs sims. they want you to attach it to a imei on the phone. but im scared to keep trying to mess with it as sometimes i have to end up getting a new sim and theyve messed up my phone number before... argh..
i am currently using a sim card from an alcatel one touch safe link phone in my sght399n samsung galaxy light with jellybean and it works fine it is a standard size sim card it is my under standing that as long as the phone is unlocked the sim card will work with the exception of the mini sim card you would have to find an tracphone that has a mini sim in it to use it in an unlocked phone that uses that type of sim card how ever i can verify that the standard size works in any unlocked phone that takes that size my brother has a trac phone sim in his lg stylus and my sister has one in her Samsung galaxy prime both run android operating systems and work fine my brother has marshmellow and my sister has lollipop 5.1.1
my **** for what ever reason gets stolen about every 9 mos or so i have no idea what the hell is going on but trac fone and my self are getting real damn sick of it so if any body can tell these ****ing pieces of crap to stop that would be great this phone that i just had stolen got taken 2 weeks ago and i am getting really pissed about it now as well its like the ones who are doing it just simply know when and where to strike next i never tell any body where i am moving to when i move and then it happens again and again its like they have a tracking device on me 24/7 and each time it is a new person doing the deal so what gives who other than the cops do i tell each time i am in a different place in a different frame of mind its always one of those cheap safe link phones that mean nothing to any body other than to make a call its truly ridiculous because if they try to sell it they are going to prison for stealing gov property so really it did them no good to take the damn thing to start with this next time i get paid i will be getting a smart phone and i will just keep it in my pocket now take it you piece of **** you worth less piece of **** dog **** so if they get this next one i am going to the FBI because i then will be sure that there is more to this then just simply stealing my phone i already believe that i just need something to prove it so if it comes down to it i might have to invest in a new security cams for my place that would probably be more useful than getting a new phone but somehow you are suppose to keep up with the latest gear but i have never done that why start now for things i dont like no i wont but i do need a better phone than what i have now which is not much at all some ten yr old android that i got at krogers like 5 yrs ago for like 15 bucks now that same phone is 30 and not worth 7.50 it has text but i have been using this damn thing for about a week now and i cant figure out how it works
Found a thread on Lenova.com forums. Went to Target and bought a Boost mobile sim card for $10. Took out my Verizon sim card and put in the Boost sim. Fired up the phone and went to check for updates. There was the update. So I downloaded and installed the update. Turned off the phone re-installed my Verizon sim and I now have Nougat on Verizon. Easy, easy.
Tim
You should get the update with NO SIM card installed, from what I've been reading.
CLETjB said:
You should get the update with NO SIM card installed, from what I've been reading.
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You should, but you won't. At least not right now.
I HARD Bricked 2 Perfectly good (Excellent Shape) MXPEs trying the Flash way, but I'm not going to be fooled a 3rd time, I'm waiting for the OTA the right way, if at all...
I see Sprint sim cards on eBay. I think I'll order one and give it a try
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I HARD Bricked 2 Perfectly good (Excellent Shape) MXPEs trying the Flash way, but I'm not going to be fooled a 3rd time, I'm waiting for the OTA the right way, if at all...
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I followed all instructions and had NO problems.
Made an account just to say it works with an inactive sprint Sim. I paid 10$ at best buy for a boost mobile Sim just to update me and my girls moto x pure. Pulled the update first try and now running on 7.0 android. I'm on cricket wireless and my girl is on Verizon and they work fine. Battery life is better and Bluetooth works Also the phone doesn't heat up as bad as it used to. Honestly why wait we waited a year for this.... For me it was worth it. My phone will now satisfy me one more year until the pixel 3 is out.
I agree. It was worth it to me to buy the sim. My phone and my wife's phone. Nougat makes my phone better.
Zedik said:
I see Sprint sim cards on eBay. I think I'll order one and give it a try
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Be careful as it appears you may need a phone specific one. I bought this one as says specific to Moto X Pure. I noticed the iPhone ones are iPhone specific.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sprint-4G-LTE-SIM-card-SIMGLW446C-/252920233332?_trksid=p2385738.m2548.l4275
Of course I won't know til it arrives and IF I try it. I am bootloader unlocked and it is unclear if my phone is doomed or not.
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You should get the update with NO SIM card installed, from what I've been reading.
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How would the device be recognized without a Sim?
This worked great for me : https://forum.xda-developers.com/mo...ruction-how-flash-7-0-ota-pure-noobs-t3680835
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After reading these posts here about success in updating with the SIM on the phone, I decided to pull my ATT SIM from another cell phone and inserted into the Moto X Pure that would not show the update on WIFI when I checked repeatedly and as soon as the phone started after the SIM was in, I checked for updates and on the first try, it found the update and is currently downloading it on WIFI. The phone was on WIFI before the SIM but would not make the update available for download. So at least in my case with ATT, it appears that the SIM card on the phone triggered the update process. I wonder if that is a software bug or just how SIM users in ATT are given priority to download the update before phones that are not on the ATT network....
I purchased an S8 a few months ago, and haven't checked to see if my Pure on VZW got an official OTA yet.
On the off chance that you guys didn't receive an official OTA yet, I have to say that this whole method seems ridiculous, seeing as it'll cost you $.
You may not recall the pre-Lenovo days, but what made the Moto line unique was that is was... Pure. It ran stock Android, without any bloat, and was great for developers and modders.
If you own a Moto X Pure, you should take full advantage of that now-extinct Motorola mentality.
The Pure is an open book. Flash, modify, make it your own. I flashed the Nougat AICP ROM about a year ago. I haven't really followed up on the Moto X modding community in a while, but I believe that you can now flash LOS 15 (Oreo). These things are really easy.
Watch some videos, read some XDA instructions. Once you do it the first time, it'll be easy after that.
If you have a Moto X Pure, you shouldn't be waiting for carrier updates. You shouldn't be sending money to mod it.
That was the whole point of the Pure!
Enjoy it while you can! I had to move on. I like my S8, but the limitations are stifling. The same is with the new Motorola (Lenovo) phones.
The Pure was the end of an era. Use it to its fullest extent.
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Wifi