Hello,
Apparently I can't store contacts without a sim card in my D2G... Is there another reason that I need a sim??
How can I use the phone without the sim chip? Because my old provider was a GSM but now I'm using CDMA. I figured that I didn't need the chip but then I tried to store a contact... bummer.
So... is there a "dummy" chip I can get or do I even need one? If I absolutely need a chip then how do I get another one?
Thanks!
You don't need a SIM card to store contacts. Default contact storage can be chosen, and from what I gather you're on Froyo firmware as Gingerbread doesn't offer the SIM as a contact storage option.
Make sure you have a Google account configured on the phone. If you do, consider doing a factory reset.
Yup. I'm running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).
So now what??
Thanks btw!
Have you configured a Google account at all?
I have often wondered why we even have sim cards in our phones(I understand gsm needs them yadda yadda yadda). When I unboxed my phone, a long LONG time ago on froyo, I was playing with all the "features" and could never access the sim card. I thought it would be a great feature for backing up contacts etc.
I think I read somewhere though that sims, at least for the bionic, are tied to ONE device ONLY and could not be swapped between phones. Obviously this would defeat th entire purpose of the card. No?
I am on verizon in the USA only (no overseas travel, no need for gsm) with a D2G. I just kinda seemed odd...
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That's plainly wrong.
A USIM card, or rather, an UICC (USIM is a sub-species of UICC, just like CDMA's RUIM cards) contains a small CPU that runs the USIM (for GSM) or RUIM (for CDMA) program. That program is responsible for encryption, key generation, and such.
Unlike Verizon CDMA phones, GSM phones, and CDMA devices using RUIM cards do not need to be flashed to a carrier. All identification data is stored on the UICC.
UICC can be bound to a phone, but it can only be done on the carrier's side (binding UICC's ID to the device's ID — IMEI for GSM or MEID for CDMA). A phone can be programmed to only accept UICC cards of a certain carrier (that's what carrier-locked phones are).
Verizon's CDMA/LTE devices like the Bionic have to use USIM cards because LTE is basically 4G GSM, and you need USIM for GSM codecs, encryption, security, etc. Verizon's LTE USIM cards will not work in non-VZW phones (well, maybe they can provide data connectivity for GSM/LTE phones that support VZW's band; and once VZW moves voice and text to LTE… you get the idea).
Vice versa, GSM USIM cards will (probably) not work with VZW LTE phones as they're most probably locked to VZW USIMs.
DROID2 GLOBAL (and DROID3 as well), however, has a GSM/CDMA transceiver which, once unlocked, will accept any GSM USIM card (extremely old plain SIM cards — which you probably won't find anywhere anymore — won't work well since 3G-capable phones require USIM explicitly).
As for contacts backup, it's a bad idea. USIM contacts storage is extremely limited. You can only store something like 16 characters for contact names, and one single phone number for each contact. SIM memory is also limited; usually you can fit up to 250 contacts with 150 being the average limit.
Note that SIM contact storage can be disabled on the SIM card itself. I wouldn't be surprised if VZW's Vodafone NL USIM cards come with on-SIM storage disabled.
I hope this answers most of your questions.
No it doesn't really help...
See, I accidentally threw away/misplaced my SIM chip. Now when I simply even click on contacts it just doesn't work... literally nothing happens.
I do have a Google account configured but if I choose to import contacts or save them to Google it seems that EVERY single email address I've replied to, or written to shows up in the contacts list.
How can I configure Google to simply store ONLY phone numbers and not every single email address/phone number that I've emailed or texted?
Seriously it's sick that when I sync contacts my list is filled with like thousands of addresses and numbers.
Perhaps I'm doing it wrong??
Thanks!
Well, you don't really need to import anything.
Open https://google.com/contacts in any browser you like (f.ex. on your desktop PC) and check My Contacts there. That's what Android syncs.
hello everyone,
was curious as to how Verizon's data/voice network works in regard to the handset that is consuming the service. I have a phone that has a sim card for LTE, and without the SIM it cannot make voice calls, however I also have a samsung fascinate with android 4.2 that is 3g so no SIM. I was curious as to if I could activate the fascinate and use it for voice calls, but the data would still work on the other handset.
I'm sure Verizon would notice if i was consuming data on two devices, so i would disable data on the fascinate and just use wifi, however, because the voice and data are on two different bands ( from what i understand, two completely different networks), is it possible that I could separate the phone and data onto two different devices using the touch-tone activation method?
Just curious
My prior GSM phone (used only occasionally for travelling) was an unlocked Tmobile LG L9. With that phone, every time I replaced the SIM I had to log back into Google - a particular pain for me as I use two-factor authentication. I researched and read that was how it was supposed to work.
On the Nexus 5, it seems I can swap SIMs all I want and I never have to log back in.
Anyone know if this is a characteristic of Kit Kat or the Nexus 5, or is there some other reason I am not being required to log back in each time? As someone who travels and swaps SIMs a bunch, this is the best new feature.
Recently, I used a Moto G and a Lenovo phone (both are dual SIM phones) and I found this Menu called Sim Managemnet in Settings. There is this feature by which you can disable the GSM radio of either of the SIMs. The entire communication of the particular SIM is disabled and not just Internet(as in the case of Sparkle V-by disabling Mobile Data).
I want to know whether everyone is devoid of the SIM Management feature or is it just me(as I haven't seen anyone else using Android One and Googling didn't help me). Is this some kind of hardware feature(my logic says not)? I've skimmed through android.developers site to find whether any function can be made use-of to disable GSM radio. But couldn't find one.
If anyone has found any solution for this problem then please respond.
I need to have this feature as I'm using my second SIM only for data and I rarely use data connection as for most of the time I will be connected to Internet over WiFi.
Is there any way to use the data of the 2nd sim without switching primary sim?
I believe Apple automatically switches to secondary sim data if primary sim data is weak signal
Does Google Pixel work like Samsung devices or Apple device?
This is an important feature of dual sim management that I feel the Note 20 Ultra lacks, perhaps on purpose under carrier pressure. My use case is have Visible primary and T-Mobile internet plan as back up data when Visible is weak but the configuration does not allow this