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[Q] Help PLEASE!!!! Sim Card issues.

Hello all. I need some help. I recently traveled down to the US, and decided to place my blackberry (rogers) sim card into my fido nexus s, to avoid getting charged on the fido account. everything worked great. Until I came back to Canada, and tried to use the fido sim card. It will not recognize my fido sim anymore, it says emergency calls only and sos over the signal. If I try to edit the apn's they won't save. Thought it was a bad sim, so I went to fido, and asked for another, so they gave me one, and it doesn't work still, and they tried it in a different phone and it worked at the store. so I am lost. If I re insert the rogers sim, I am on the network right away. I called rogers, I called fido, I went down to the fido store in person. I searched the net. I've done a factory reset, I've done restores. I've tried to use unlocking apps from the market. The phone just thinks there is no sim card. I am running miui, and while in the bootloader, the carrier info says that it is at&t... I did flash the rom while in the US to an updated version, with the rogers sim. I have tried to reinstall the rom after that, updated the rom, flashed the kernel and the radio, but with no success. Can anyone please help?

Will an update affect my sim card if I use the sim in note 2

I reflashed a stock image on my s3 now I want to reflash stock with root. When I put my sim card in it the s3 wants to update the system..right now I have the note 2 if I take my sim card out of the note 2 and put it in my s3 just to update it then root it, will the update in my s3 mess my sim card up to where I cant use it correctly in my note 2? Its for a family memeber so theyre goin to put their sim in and I dont want them to erase the root by updating .
Sorry if this is a little confusing..
Thanks..

P2o8wer said:
I reflashed a stock image on my s3 now I want to reflash stock with root. When I put my sim card in it the s3 wants to update the system..right now I have the note 2 if I take my sim card out of the note 2 and put it in my s3 just to update it then root it, will the update in my s3 mess my sim card up to where I cant use it correctly in my note 2? Its for a family memeber so theyre goin to put their sim in and I dont want them to erase the root by updating .
Sorry if this is a little confusing..
Thanks..
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I'm not QUITE sure what you're trying to say, but I'll try my best to respond.
SIM cards shouldn't affect ANYTHING beyond telling the phone what carrier to operate on. If you update the phone itself, that's the phone's software. Nothing on the SIM should be touched. If you want to update a phone using the service from a SIM card (The GS3 in your case), the GS3 will recognize your service and download/install the update.
While the update may include new radios, etc. the update shouldn't mess up your SIM to the point of it not working on any phone.
I hope I helped. If you need anything else just ask.

P2o8wer said:
I reflashed a stock image on my s3 now I want to reflash stock with root. When I put my sim card in it the s3 wants to update the system..right now I have the note 2 if I take my sim card out of the note 2 and put it in my s3 just to update it then root it, will the update in my s3 mess my sim card up to where I cant use it correctly in my note 2? Its for a family memeber so theyre goin to put their sim in and I dont want them to erase the root by updating .
Sorry if this is a little confusing..
Thanks..
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You'll be fine. I picked up a lg spectrum locally and use the sin from my s3 to activate it just to take the ics ota. Put it back into my s3 without a problem. I actually for a week I would swap to the lg When at work and back when I left and never had a problem.
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[Q] 4.0.4 Verizon S3 to Straight talk

Hello all! I believe what I am trying to do is possible, but I am having trouble figuring out exactly where I should start.
I just bought a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 model SCH-I535 with a clear ESN on Ebay and am hoping to get it working with my Straight Talk service. It is running 4.0.4. Will I need to update? Is rooting required? I have tried updating manually but it failed. Is there a universal android 4.1.2 (or other) firmware file I need or do I need a file specifically for my phone?
The phone came with a Verizon sim card, and the phone I am currently using on ST does not have a sim card, so I am assuming that I will need to buy an AT&T sim card, right? Then I can activate that sim onto my ST account? Then the rest is a matter of the proper settings?
Thank you all for your expertise.

[Q] Who can success Software update(OTA) from oversea(not in US)?

Last time When I went to USA for business trip, I Bought ATT G2 (D800) model.
Now i'm living on South korea.
Currently my ATT G2 have v20c version and I want to upgrade for v20y without rooting.
Because all of korean Banking and credit card app run threaten scan and if rooting related files found on phone, it won't run by security problem.
But, When I tried software update every time, it just loop "Not yet registered" popup occur and I won't 20y update from ATT FOTA server.
And I also doesn't have ATT or ATT Go phone sim. If I get or borrow ATT SIM and connect on Wifi, Can I get a 20y OTA from oeversea?
Exactly, Am i need a ATT SIM or Go Phone SIM for successfully get a OTA file ? also that ATT sim must be activated on ATT account ?
I think some of my colleagues have a deactivated ATT go phone sim. But i'm worry that this deactivated sim also can get a OTA from ATT FOTA server.
I need a brothers opinion or success story who can success got a OTA from oversea and not ATT(like T-mobile or H2o or Straghit talk... ) environment.

I also got the same problem with you. Hope someone will help us

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Try the steps listed in this URL and you will get the update. It worked for me.

vinu_h said:
Try the steps listed in this URL and you will get the update. It worked for me.
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I did. Worked fine. I needed the files which i couldnt find on the internet but managed to dig in deep and after a month or so , found them.

how to update verizon note 5 outside u.s without verizon sim card?

So my cousin bought me a note 5 Verizon model from U.S , the thing is I think I get "software update is temporary unavailable"issue. a quick google concluded that I need a Verizon sim to get OTA updates . I was wondering is there any way I could update it without a Verizon sim , since I could no way get a Verizon sim in the U.K
Thanks

rkoforever90 said:
So my cousin bought me a note 5 Verizon model from U.S , the thing is I think I get "software update is temporary unavailable"issue. a quick google concluded that I need a Verizon sim to get OTA updates . I was wondering is there any way I could update it without a Verizon sim , since I could no way get a Verizon sim in the U.K
Thanks
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Take your current sim out and try Samsung Smartswitch. Download the one for the PC or Mac and give it a try. If that doesn't work manually update with Odin using these files. You might be out of luck for the monthly security patches but it's not a huge deal as far as I'm concerned.

rkoforever90 said:
So my cousin bought me a note 5 Verizon model from U.S , the thing is I think I get "software update is temporary unavailable"issue. a quick google concluded that I need a Verizon sim to get OTA updates . I was wondering is there any way I could update it without a Verizon sim , since I could no way get a Verizon sim in the U.K
Thanks
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I have VZW note5 and i'm out of USA, using other carrier.
Connect the Note5 to pc
from MyComputer install Verizon Wireless Software Assistance.
After install successful, you can upgrade it from there