Just saw one of my customers xperia plays. Hers was a R800x.. but it had a sim card slot. Now I didnt get around to playing with it, since she had locked her phone out.. but really got me curious now. Since my personal R800x for verizon doesnt have the sim slot like the Ntelos one seems to have. (Ntelos is a regional carrier for VA)
So was wondering.. is this hardware slot just disabled.. or can it actually work with the right rom?
All of the R800x do have a SIM slot, just around where the SD card slot is under the cover. However it is filled/glued with a little filler plastic chip/card. The R800x still has the slot for the SIM card, but it does not make use of it, it is physically disconnected and does not function under the firmware.
So, short answer is, all R800x have the slot, and No it doesn't work.
Reminds me of the old CDMA nokias.. 3570s heh. Darn, Well yea, seems Verizon covers the slot, Ntelos however doesnt. =) Sucks that there is no way to enable it.
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Can someone tell me for certain (someone who has the phone or has opened one up), tell me if the Galaxy Nexus has a micro sim slot or not? I can't seem to find a straight answer anywhere...
No, normal SIM.
Just look at the instructional videos straight from google. It does not have a micro SIM. It has a standard (what we think of as standard is actually "Mini") SIM.
Remember though, you can put a micro SIM in a mini SIM slot. You just need a small plastic adapter to make it seat properly.
dvice19 said:
Can someone tell me for certain (someone who has the phone or has opened one up), tell me if the Galaxy Nexus has a micro sim slot or not? I can't seem to find a straight answer anywhere...
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The Galaxy Nexus definitely takes a normal sim card. The confusion may have arisen over phones4u sending out micro sim cards with new orders but this was a mistake and a standard sim card is the only one that will work in there.
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The Galaxy Nexus definitely takes a normal sim card. The confusion may have arisen over phones4u sending out micro sim cards with new orders but this was a mistake and a standard sim card is the only one that will work in there.
Mark.
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Well like I said above, a micro SIM will work if you use an adapter. The adapters allow you to slot a micro SIM into them and provide extra plastic around them to be the size of a mini SIM.
The slot in the phone is most definitely a standard SIM slot though.
martonikaj said:
Just look at the instructional videos straight from google. It does not have a micro SIM. It has a standard (what we think of as standard is actually "Mini") SIM.
Remember though, you can put a micro SIM in a mini SIM slot. You just need a small plastic adapter to make it seat properly.
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Not entirely true, it is possible to balance/wedge the microsim on the contacts and have a working phone
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martonikaj said:
Well like I said above, a micro SIM will work if you use an adapter. The adapters allow you to slot a micro SIM into them and provide extra plastic around them to be the size of a mini SIM.
The slot in the phone is most definitely a standard SIM slot though.
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Well that would have been ok then IF an adapter had been supplied with the micro sim but as it wasnt then its totally useless lol.
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el3ctrik said:
Not entirely true, it is possible to balance/wedge the microsim on the contacts and have a working phone
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DONT wedge things in your phone lol
Mark.
Thanks to u all
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Yes I agree that wedging random things in sim slot is bad idea, however....
If you happened to be like me and have tons of random mobile crap or sim leftover items like the cards that are credit card sized which house the original micro-sim often, then some of them have an actual cutout of a larger sim original size sim to be more clear which is popped out then the micro-sim is popped out of that piece. It's a backup/cheap way I figured for companies at one time to make sims and ship them out in one pack/card then when the user gets their phone and they match up what sim size they need they have both options....or I could be very wrong who knows.
Any ways, my point is simply that one of those leftover housings of a original size sim that you might have popped out a micro-sim from for another phone can come in handy as all you do is simply place your current micro-sim in the gap where another one used to be and it kind of even snaps into place then you have a bootleg like adapter for micro to original size sim. I don't know it worked me on my i9250 gsm world nexus and verizon.
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use adaptor
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I think not, but some sellers on ebay are putting so in the description of the announcement.
linkpatriots said:
I think not, but some sellers on ebay are putting so in the description of the announcement.
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Absolutely not. Different radios.
nope, it wont work! the bands are completely different... there is no place to put a sim card too, it only has an lte card slot but no sim.. sorry bud
Mitchmoney said:
nope, it wont work! the bands are completely different... there is no place to put a sim card too, it only has an lte card slot but no sim.. sorry bud
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Well the LTE SIM is of a standardized SIM size. That's not the problem.
yeah, you can't do this OP.
I thought the lte sim is a micro sim card which wont fit the normal sim card...
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I thought the lte sim is a micro sim card which wont fit the normal sim card...
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Micro SIM is a standardized SIM size. You can cut "normal" SIMs (which is actually a Mini SIM) to go into Micro slots, and you can use adapters to put Micros into Mini slots. This is how people run iPhones on T-Mobile (cut a T-Mo SIM), and use iPhone-provisioned Micro SIMs in normal GSM devices (put in an adapter).
But like I said, this isn't part of the issue. The problem is incompatible radio hardware that can't be changed. I was just stating that the physical sizes of the card and slot aren't the issues.
thanks for clearing that up.. I had to click the "thanks" button also b/c i was number 300.. lol
OK, so I've searched these forums, and various other forums, quite extensively to solve my problem here. My buddy purchased an ATT Samsung Galaxy S3 off of a friend. He unlocked the phone, using the free method mentioned within these forums multiple times (entering digits in to the dialpad, going through menus, etc..). With that, he was able to use his T Mobile Straight Talk SIM card to use Straight Talk's services. On a suggestion from me, I told him to save some money, and switch over to T-mobile directly.. get the $30 a month plan. He did.
When he set up his sim card from straight talk, he had to cut it to fix the S3. It worked fine, but when he removed the sim card, he thought he could have damaged the sim card holder. Lo and behold, inserting the T-mobile sim card is netting a "No Sim Card.. Emergency Calls Only" message. I believed possibly he unlocked his phone improperly, based upon the fact that, apparently, per these forums, Straight Talk doesn't require your phone to be unlocked? Regardless, we re-unlocked the phone, using the free method mentioned within these forums, but still the sim card doesn't recognize. We tried my t-mobile sim card, which works fine in my nexus 4, and that didn't recognize.. but his sim card DOES recognize in my phone. We tried a verizon sim card, and that doesn't recognize. We have NOT tried an ATT sim card, but he's going to do so shortly, to see if that recognizes.
Thinking this could be a software issue, I wiped his phone's cache, data, etc.. and reset the phone to factory defaults. Still the no sim card error. So he bought a new sim card holder off e-bay, removed the back, removed the old sim card holder, put the new sim card holder in.. still no sim card error. Still doesn't work with any of the sim cards we've tried.
I then wiped the phone yet again, rooted it, and installed cyanogenmod, thinking possibly that it was software related still. Still, no sim card error. I took the phone apart, cleaned the contacts with a q-tip and denatured alcohol, cleaned the motherboard, cleaned the plugs for the sim card holder... still no sim card error.
So as far as we can tell, the phone is unlocked, rooted, has been tried with a custom rom, stock rom, and the stock rom that worked perfectly fine one week ago. We have replaced any potentially bad hardware (although, potentially, the new hardware could ALSO be bad I suppose). As far as I can see, this is not a software issue, nor is this a hardware issue.. yet, it still doesn't work. I'm really out of possible solutions at this point, and I implore the help of these forums to give me a lead or something for what can be done. This is a nice phone, and my buddy's not that well off; he can't really afford anything other than a flip phone, and he spent a good chunk of cash on a glorified tablet at this point. Please help! Thank you!!!
EDIT: I also tried cramming a piece of paper in to both the old sim card older, and this sim card holder, to ensure the contacts are touching properly
I have a verizon 4g lte phone with a sim card. This sim card works in other lte phones. I just ordered a verizon xperia play. I read that it has a sim card slot. I also read that the sim card slot doesnt work. Will my sim card work in the verizon xperia play r800x model? How can i make it work? There shouldnt be any unlocking needed as everything is verizon here. Ive searched everywhere but havent found an answer.
No The SIM card slot doesn't function on the Verizon variant of the r800. It's got a slot but it should have a fake card in it
Actually it's just empty if you remove the cover, if you try to insert something in it, it will get lost inside the phone and rattle in it.
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Well mine has a piece there. That's why I mentioned it... Not to say that it's not empty.
I'm going to be traveling internationally in a few months, and more than likely going to end up on a local SIM where I'm going for while I'm there.
On the single SIM tray there appears to just be a spacer molded into the tray where a second sim would go in the dual sim version. I'm thinking about ordering a dual SIM tray from China on eBay (10 bucks) so I can use the second sim slot in the tray as storage for my not in use sim.
Anyone know of any reason this shouldn't work? I can't think of any reason it shouldn't...
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I'm going to be traveling internationally in a few months, and more than likely going to end up on a local SIM where I'm going for while I'm there.
On the single SIM tray there appears to just be a spacer molded into the tray where a second sim would go in the dual sim version. I'm thinking about ordering a dual SIM tray from China on eBay (10 bucks) so I can use the second sim slot in the tray as storage for my not in use sim.
Anyone know of any reason this shouldn't work? I can't think of any reason it shouldn't...
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You'll have to flash a dual sim firmware package but there's issues with flashing firmware that's not what originally was installed on your moto z play.
You could ultimately loose your IMEI , Which would render your phone useless.
It's just easier to sim unlock and insert a single sim.
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You'll have to flash a dual sim firmware package but there's issues with flashing firmware that's not what originally was installed on your moto z play.
You could ultimately loose your IMEI , Which would render your phone useless.
It's just easier to sim unlock and insert a single sim.
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I'm already sim unlocked (have the US unlocked version courtesy of republic). My intention is to only use whichever sim is in slot 1. I'll manually pull the tray and switch sim positions when I need to switch. I just want the second slot as dead storage space for the unused sim card. Just wondering if there's something physical in the guts of the single SIM version that could be damaged by or cause damage to the unused sim in slot 2 of the tray. Or if there's something physically different about the dual SIM tray that will not allow it to fit in the single SIM version of the device.
Definitely no flashing of dual SIM firmware happening on this device.
You should be fine. Just make sure that the active sim goes in the same slot as where it would go in the single-sim tray and the inactive sim go in the spare slot. It's a good way to not lose a sim card. I was thinking of doing this for my single-sim, carrier variant Moto x play, but never bothererd.
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You should be fine. Just make sure that the active sim goes in the same slot as where it would go in the single-sim tray and the inactive sim go in the spare slot. It's a good way to not lose a sim card. I was thinking of doing this for my single-sim, carrier variant Moto x play, but never bothererd.
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Thanks. Avoiding losing a sim while on my trip is my primary reason for doing this. Guess I'll give it a shot!
Update:
Received dual Sim tray from China today (13 days order to door, $10 shipped on eBay)
Visually compared both, they seem basically identical, with the exception of some type of serial number sticker on the original single Sim tray.
Fit isn't quite perfect - the angle of the outer piece of the tray isn't quite right, so it's a tiny bit recessed into the edge of the phone on one end, and slightly raised on the other end. Enough to be visually noticed if you're looking for it, and can be felt running a finger nail over the seam between the edge of the phone and the Sim tray. Don't believe it's enough to present any "catch" issues if running naked, and a total non issue if using a case or bumper.
No apparent functional issues - device connects fine using Sim 1 slot in tray. Did not feel any unusual resistance when inserting tray with both Sims aboard. Obviously doesn't see the Sim in slot 2.
Nice to be able to carry both my Sims with me, worry free. Worth the money for my use case.