Hello people,
I just bought a LG G3 855 phone, from a person who bought it sim free from carphone warehouse. It works with all other sim cards including virgin, tesco, and lyca but will not work with my 3 sim.
What can I do?
This is a UK phone LG G3 855 model, works with other sim cards but will not recognise 3 sim card, it says insert sim the signal has a cross and a sim card symbol is displayed with a cross signifying no sim car in the phone although it is definitely in there and the sim works in other phones perfectly. even tried a new 3 sim card only to experience the same.
fazc76 said:
Hello people,
I just bought a LG G3 855 phone, from a person who bought it sim free from carphone warehouse. It works with all other sim cards including virgin, tesco, and lyca but will not work with my 3 sim.
What can I do?
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I have a D855 which I bought at Carphone Warehouse and the SIM works fine with Three (though the f'ing voicemail notification never goes away). I do remember they sent a bunch of SMS's when I first joined to automatically configure my phone to work on their network, though I suspect this was for the data rather than voice.
In any event, I'd change the apn settings manually and maybe you'll have some luck. Google the settings for 3, I wasn't allowed to include a link in my post as I'm a new member.
brokentelephone said:
I have a D855 which I bought at Carphone Warehouse and the SIM works fine with Three (though the f'ing voicemail notification never goes away). I do remember they sent a bunch of SMS's when I first joined to automatically configure my phone to work on their network, though I suspect this was for the data rather than voice.
In any event, I'd change the apn settings manually and maybe you'll have some luck. Google the settings for 3, I wasn't allowed to include a link in my post as I'm a new member.
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Thank you very much
I will try to get three APN settings
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I got a t mobile contract and bought a XDAIIs or blue angle and unlocked the phone using the software. it excepts my sim card but wont allow calls in or out of the phone. and when i tried to call it the operator said calls to this number are tempory out of services. any ideas would be very much welcome.
Delo said:
I got a t mobile contract and bought a XDAIIs or blue angle and unlocked the phone using the software. it excepts my sim card but wont allow calls in or out of the phone. and when i tried to call it the operator said calls to this number are tempory out of services. any ideas would be very much welcome.
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I also had XDAIIs and used T-Moblie , no problem at all , if you cant call or the number aew tempory , than you need to call T-mobile and ask them change your sim card ,
I also use a prepaid tmobile sim card as well. I had them try it at the store before I even gave them my money.
Sounds like a dud sim, In switzerland sim cards that are pre-paid and not used for a long time get taken of the network, could this be your case?
Try the sim in another phone
I bought a One X locked to the Orange network and purchased an unlock code for it. I put my T-Mobile SIM in and entered the code and it worked fine. A signal appeared. I tried to dial and the call failed, tried to send an SMS and it failed. Internet worked fine once the APN settings were entered.
My initial response was that the phone MUST be blocked; however I paid for a CheckMend report and the phone is NOT blocked.
I tried my girlfriend's SIM on the Three network and it worked fine - no problem making calls or sending texts.
The only difference is that hers is on a different network and is a micro SIM, whereas mine is a genuine T-Mobile nano SIM in an adaptor that I got from an O2 SIM pack. Truth be told, it isn't the best fit in the world but it has worked in every single other phone I've used over the past few months.
I also tried my T-Mobile data SIM (which is also NANO) and that also wouldn't let me make any calls or send a text.
Another strange thing is that it won't let me switch to T-Mobile-Orange in network settings. It says the SIM won't allow it, yet I'm able to do it with any other phone.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
Thanks in advance.
leoni1980 said:
I bought a One X locked to the Orange network and purchased an unlock code for it. I put my T-Mobile SIM in and entered the code and it worked fine. A signal appeared. I tried to dial and the call failed, tried to send an SMS and it failed. Internet worked fine once the APN settings were entered.
My initial response was that the phone MUST be blocked; however I paid for a CheckMend report and the phone is NOT blocked.
I tried my girlfriend's SIM on the Three network and it worked fine - no problem making calls or sending texts.
The only difference is that hers is on a different network and is a micro SIM, whereas mine is a genuine T-Mobile nano SIM in an adaptor that I got from an O2 SIM pack. Truth be told, it isn't the best fit in the world but it has worked in every single other phone I've used over the past few months.
I also tried my T-Mobile data SIM (which is also NANO) and that also wouldn't let me make any calls or send a text.
Another strange thing is that it won't let me switch to T-Mobile-Orange in network settings. It says the SIM won't allow it, yet I'm able to do it with any other phone.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
Thanks in advance.
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I'm currently using a Three nano sim (From iphone 5) in my one x. Been working fine for me for the last couple of months. Mine was also locked to Orange before purchasing an unlock code.
Also using a nano sim from iphone5 in my HOX now, working perfectly
Hmm I wonder what it could be then. Are either of you on T-Mobile? I wonder if perhaps the pins are a lot smaller onT-Mobile SIMs and something just doesn't quite line up right. As I said, it works fine with my girlfriend's micro SIM on Three.
Odp: Does the One X dislike Nano SIMs?
I'm on t-mobile, but using micro SIM, so just to make you sure, it's not a carrier issue.
Sent from my HTC One X.
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Got my SIM swapped by T-Mobile for a micro SIM and it still didn't work so it must have been a faulty SIM slot. I've received a refund. Weird how it worked with a Three SIM though. Must be a broken or misaligned pin in the SIM slot that somehow wasn't affected with certain SIM cards.
hi guys
I have recently got back from australia where i bought an unlocked note 2 7105t. I have used the phone in oz with no dramas and with different sims. As it was unlocked i thought it would be ok to use in the uk. I have put an orange sim card in and its not blocking it but i cannot make any calls even to the customer service number. Check balance or find out what my phone number is
I have also tried with a friends sim card and i couldn't make any calls with that either. No errors are given and it reads the sim.
Does anyone know what is wrong
Its driving me mad!!
Thanks in advance
Change the modem and baseband....and try again.....:good:
hi i dont think that works
Hello,
I was wondering if I would be able to use a data-only sim card from T-Mobile in my 2nd SIM slot on my OP3. I have not received the phone yet but I was curious as to whether or not T-Mobile will recognize the device as a phone and not tablet. If anyone's done this before, please let me know.
The SIM card is coming from my Galaxy Tab A LTE and is activated.
Of course you can, it's like a super known use of dual-sim.. At least where I am from, Germany, data-sims are relatively cheap, compared to "full" sims (and if you go for like 6gb+ a month, you will only find like 50-60€ flats with sms+phone flat which I don't need).
I myself have got a 6GB Vodafone Data Card (says for tablet as well, xd) for 10€/month and a prepaid sim with 9ct/sms or 9ct/minute (I almost never call people, but when something important is up, I still am fully available with that card) on the t-mobile network.
edit: but I think there was something with 4g only being available on SIM1 ?? Well I use my data-sim in simslot1 and my phone-sim in simslot 2 and that way, it definitely works fine.
Should work.
One caveat from experience. Some time ago I bought a prepaid data SIM from Vodafone in Portugal. On the box it said only for tablet/mifi/pc or something like that. The vendor warned me also. I thought, bullsht, why would it make a difference, just going to pop it into my phone.
Long story short: it didn't work in my phone, until I manually changed the apn.
It would automatically set the apn reserved for data-only devices, and then it would apparently figure out I was using a phone and not allow me to log on. Once I changed the apn to the one reserved for phones, all was ok. Had to look up the apn online.
I'm on vacation in Amsterdam and bought a local sim from Vodafone.
It looked like it worked and I got 4g fine, but after a moment I got a notification that I need to activate the phone and lost mobile data. Activation fails each time and tells me I need to contact support.
Exact same thing happened to my wife on her Google Pixel (not XL).
The vodafone guy was clueless.
I've switched several sim cards and operators in my home country (not Europe) without any trouble and never encountered the phont activation stuff.
Help!