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straight talk ridiculous!!!!

i have been on the phone on and off with them for well over 8 hours today!!! here's the deal... i tried to use the tmobile sim. cut the card perfectly and the phone didnt recognize the card. obvious, i damaged the card. i already activated that tmobile sim card and i ported my old at&t phone number. so... i pop in the mini sim at&t card for straight talk in the phone... i sit on the phone forever trying to talk to technical support(im actually on the phone now with these idiots)... i finally speak to someone and they activate the sim card. tell me to wait 10 minutes then cut the phone off and then on. this occurred about 2 hours ago. the phone recognizes the sim but it says no service. what do i do? im sick to death of waiting online. this phone i have is the international one x. i had no problems with at&t pay as you go. anybody have these kinds of problems? please help before i chop all my fingers and feed them to my oscar

So...... what even happened ?
You originally wanted to activate with T-Mobile, yes ? But then you broke the SIM card and are trying to activate on Straight Talk ?
How did you activate the T-Mobile SIM and port the number when it wasn't even in the phone ?
You should consider using Google Voice and porting your number there so you don't have to worry about changing numbers on the actual phone again.
Otherwise, this sounds like an issue that only their customer service is going to be able to resolve. Porting a number can take a while, and it's possible there are complications if you just did it two times in a row. I don't know if the phone's supposed to use an assigned number before that or if you just have to wait.
Did you check your account on-line to see if it shows you as activated or whatever ?

[Q] Vzw Sch-i535 won't activate on vzw network...

Hey Guys!!!
I wish there was a quicker way to get all this out so let's get started:
A few weeks ago, I bought a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 from a coworker. When she gave me the phone, she left the sim card in the phone. So I made a test call. Forgetting that sim cards store info about the plan and such other important info, I trashed her sim card and went to a corporate Verizon store for my own sim card. I couldn't use my sim card because my other phone is an iPhone 5 that has a nano sim card and I didn't have a sim card adapter. As soon as the Verizon representative put the sim card in and started up the phone the activation screen popped up and started to activate, finally realizing the activation was taking extremely longer than normal the vzw rep told me to let it continue to activate while you go home, if it doesn't work try again. So I did what I was told, needless to say the phone would never activate. So I called customer service to get my iPhone 5 activated since the Galaxy s3 wasn't working. I was then told that it couldn't happen because my service was stuck in a switch that wouldn't end until midnight and then I could call the next day to reactivate. The next day after customer service sent me another sim card the same thing happened. After going through 4 sim cards the same thing happened. I then called Samsung Support and sent my phone to them, they claimed it was fix but the only thing that was done was they upgraded my firmware to 4.1.2 and fixed my charging port which wasn't messed up since the phone charged before I sent it off. At my wits end I got desperate, I cut up on of the "damaged" sim cards and put it in my iphone 5, immediately it activated itself without me even having to log on the vzw website. I then took the sim card out and put it back into the galaxy s3 with the sim adapter I purchased and the activation box never came up. Instead I called customer service and they tell me that the iphone 5 is still active on my account even though the iphone 5 has no sim card in it and is turned off. The online vzw tech informed me that the system wouldn't let them switch the imei numbers on the phone. Long story short I have what I think is an unrooted phone that won't activate.
P.S. The phone isn't lost or stolen. I asked them and he said no them system would've flagged the phone.
My questions are what do you guys think is wrong with the phone? Is this normal? Can it be fixed? If so, how? What would you do? What should I do?

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me2cute2c said:
Hey Guys!!!
I wish there was a quicker way to get all this out so let's get started:
A few weeks ago, I bought a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 from a coworker. When she gave me the phone, she left the sim card in the phone. So I made a test call. Forgetting that sim cards store info about the plan and such other important info, I trashed her sim card and went to a corporate Verizon store for my own sim card. I couldn't use my sim card because my other phone is an iPhone 5 that has a nano sim card and I didn't have a sim card adapter. As soon as the Verizon representative put the sim card in and started up the phone the activation screen popped up and started to activate, finally realizing the activation was taking extremely longer than normal the vzw rep told me to let it continue to activate while you go home, if it doesn't work try again. So I did what I was told, needless to say the phone would never activate. So I called customer service to get my iPhone 5 activated since the Galaxy s3 wasn't working. I was then told that it couldn't happen because my service was stuck in a switch that wouldn't end until midnight and then I could call the next day to reactivate. The next day after customer service sent me another sim card the same thing happened. After going through 4 sim cards the same thing happened. I then called Samsung Support and sent my phone to them, they claimed it was fix but the only thing that was done was they upgraded my firmware to 4.1.2 and fixed my charging port which wasn't messed up since the phone charged before I sent it off. At my wits end I got desperate, I cut up on of the "damaged" sim cards and put it in my iphone 5, immediately it activated itself without me even having to log on the vzw website. I then took the sim card out and put it back into the galaxy s3 with the sim adapter I purchased and the activation box never came up. Instead I called customer service and they tell me that the iphone 5 is still active on my account even though the iphone 5 has no sim card in it and is turned off. The online vzw tech informed me that the system wouldn't let them switch the imei numbers on the phone. Long story short I have what I think is an unrooted phone that won't activate.
P.S. The phone isn't lost or stolen. I asked them and he said no them system would've flagged the phone.
My questions are what do you guys think is wrong with the phone? Is this normal? Can it be fixed? If so, how? What would you do? What should I do?
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Feel free to delete this post. It doesn't seem as if anyone cares to answer my question. Thanks anyway.

No one is answering the question because we have no answers for it. Also don't expect us to answer as soon as you post as like you we all have a life and that is more important so we will respond as soon as we possibly can.

Sounds like a issue with your line. Someone who knows what they're doing at vzw probably needs to submit a trouble ticket for you.
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Bizarro porting issues

Trying to port from Sprint to T-Mobile. Nexus 5 was bought from Google and is unlocked. Account in Sprint still active and in good standing.
Sprint sim card in the Nexus 5 now shows "No service" on the lock screen. T-Mobile sim card shows T-Mobile on the lock screen, sends me a welcome txt message, and lets me surf 4G LTE. But calls out are instantly ended. Calls in go direct to voicemail.
If I take that same sim card ... pop it out ... and put it in a LG phone that the T-Mobile store gave me to use for now ... I can call out on T-Mobile on my proper ported phone number. Calls in go to voicemail (it is my understanding that is normal until porting is complete).
So my question is ... why is calling not working at all on the Nexus 5? Should I worry about losing my # in a botched port? The T-Mobile store and their internal support they called said maybe it was an issue with the phone. The Nexus 5 worked just fine on Sprint ... but they did have trouble activating it (the whole EIRP not valid thing).

georgia_tech_swagger said:
Trying to port from Sprint to T-Mobile. Nexus 5 was bought from Google and is unlocked. Account in Sprint still active and in good standing.
Sprint sim card in the Nexus 5 now shows "No service" on the lock screen. T-Mobile sim card shows T-Mobile on the lock screen, sends me a welcome txt message, and lets me surf 4G LTE. But calls out are instantly ended. Calls in go direct to voicemail.
If I take that same sim card ... pop it out ... and put it in a LG phone that the T-Mobile store gave me to use for now ... I can call out on T-Mobile on my proper ported phone number. Calls in go to voicemail (it is my understanding that is normal until porting is complete).
So my question is ... why is calling not working at all on the Nexus 5? Should I worry about losing my # in a botched port? The T-Mobile store and their internal support they called said maybe it was an issue with the phone. The Nexus 5 worked just fine on Sprint ... but they did have trouble activating it (the whole EIRP not valid thing).
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Turns out it is (I think) buggy baseband software. It wasn't dropping from LTE to HSPA to make calls. Hence immediately dropped. I changed preferred networks to 2G ... went into/out of airplane mode ... called on 2G ... went out fine ... switched preferred back to LTE ... into/out of airplane mode ... bam works as expected.
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[Q] Need help with my network name!!!! please help

I recently damaged my old sim card and got my replacement two days back.
after i started using this sim card, in the scrolldown menu / lock screen, where the network name is displayed, i get: '[email protected]@@@@@@@@@'
now EE is my network. but these @s came out of nowhere. they arent there without this sim card
i have already ordered another replacement but meanwhile any quick fixes? maybe a way of changing the exact text thats displayed there?
specs
gt-i9300 non-lte
EE network (which functions normally by the way)
android 4.3 stock (can bee rooted if fix requires so.)
also this sim card has the so called quicktap / contactless payment feature and the previous one didnt
anything at all?
i rebooted, reflashed the firmware and also tried cyanogen. no use.

Ask in the i9300 forum.
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[Completed] Phone can't make or receive calls

Hi, recently I've been having a problem with my phone (Newman K18), it can't make or receive calls. (When I fist got the phone and SIM they worked fine together, it worked for about a month I think.)
When I try to ring someone it will hang up straight away.
When someone calls me they will just hear a beeping sound.
Texts and mobile data still work fine.
Things I've tried:
- Restarting my phone many times
- Re-inserting the SIM
- Looking through all available settings.
- Factory resetting the phone
- Swapping from SIM slot 2 to SIM slot 1 (dual sim phone)
- Ringing customer support - I called my carrier (Three UK) and they weren't any help
- Asking in a Three store - I learned here that a different Three SIM I tried didn't work either - same problem.
In order to diagnose whether my phone was faulty or the SIM, me and my friend swapped SIM cards.
- With his SIM card in my phone everything worked fine (So my phone is not faulty)
- With my SIM in his phone everything worked fine too (So the SIM is fine)
So I am absolutely lost as for what to do, tried a lot of googling and not found any way to fix it.
Any help would be appreciated; Thanks.
Darwin.

I had just about the exact problem on my Nexus 5. Have you tried calling customer care for your network? My phone profile was deleted by ATT by accident during a plan upgrade. I had to call from a friends phone to figure this out and fix it. Good luck
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Hi, thanks for the reply. I did ring them previously and they didn't seem to have ever heard of the problem. What would you suggest I say to them? What exactly is a phone profile?
Thanks.

Have them look into the account and look at your line only. That is your phone profile. Have them trouble shoot your line and check voicemail.
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Ok, that wouldn't explain a different three SIM having the same problem though would it? or would it?
Thanks

I am clueless now. You should now probably contact the phone maker itself to see what they say. Sorry man I could help you.
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