Hi
To all I am completely new to the M1000 after upgrading from a SPV c500 and throwing my old PDA away.
I have been reading through the forums about the Dual Sim
At the mo I have 2 Orange Sim Cards 1 on contact and 1 Pay as you go I would like to put both sims in the phone so that I can use my free minutes on contract and my free texts on Pay as you go.
I was thinking of buying the King of Double card Dual Sim Card form e-bay.
I have read that you can swap sims by turning on/off flight mode ???
I have regestered my interest in WiVit for there Today screen sim switcher. But this not yet ready.
3 Questions
1. Has anyone done this
2. How do you switch sims using flight mode
3. How can you tell if both are on orange which one you are cureently using??
If anyone can answer this for me please please include idiot instructions as i dont want to break this terriffic phone
Many many thanks
To swap sim using flight mode, click on the top of screen where the signal/antenna is, choose flight mode............click same place again, click turn off flight mode, your sim is now swapped. To find out which sim you are using you could choose programs/sim manager/tools/list own number, that should give you the phone number of current sim in use, there is probably an easier way but I cant think of it right now.
I used dual-sim on my nokia for ages until they stopped it working.
To get around the problem with knowing which sim is active, I stored all my numbers in the phone, then had 1 number in each sim, with a dummy number so I didn't dial by mistake.
e.g. 'Private', '000' for my own sim.
and 'Work', '000' for my worktime sim.
(on the nokia, I had to put 'a' in front so this number was always at the top of my phonelist, but this is not needed on the XDA.)
can anyone still receive calls if they disable the sim slot, using i9192.
The problem.
I have 2 sim card
A = NWmobile
B = China Unicom
whether i put sim A in slot 1 or 2, and having sim B in the other slot, if I disable sim A, somehow calls just comes through, if I do the same with sim B and disable it, the calls does not come through, is it possible this is related to the network, since this only happens with sim A, it does not seem to be the problem with the phone but the sim A.
Has anyone tried this and have the same problem.
kms108 said:
can anyone still receive calls if they disable the sim slot, using i9192.
The problem.
I have 2 sim card
A = NWmobile
B = China Unicom
whether i put sim A in slot 1 or 2, and having sim B in the other slot, if I disable sim A, somehow calls just comes through, if I do the same with sim B and disable it, the calls does not come through, is it possible this is related to the network, since this only happens with sim A, it does not seem to be the problem with the phone but the sim A.
Has anyone tried this and have the same problem.
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U have call forwarding activated and maybe only on 1 sim
go to SIM card manager and disable dual-sim always on feature
kms108 said:
can anyone still receive calls if they disable the sim slot, using i9192.
The problem.
I have 2 sim card
A = NWmobile
B = China Unicom
whether i put sim A in slot 1 or 2, and having sim B in the other slot, if I disable sim A, somehow calls just comes through, if I do the same with sim B and disable it, the calls does not come through, is it possible this is related to the network, since this only happens with sim A, it does not seem to be the problem with the phone but the sim A.
Has anyone tried this and have the same problem.
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Are you also from HK? I got similar SIM cards as yours: NWmobile and China Mobile. If I disable the SIM card, the call cannot go through and it is forwarded to the voicemail.
SilviuMik said:
U have call forwarding activated and maybe only on 1 sim
go to SIM card manager and disable dual-sim always on feature
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I have disabled the dualsim always on, and call forwarding is off.
hobbya said:
Are you also from HK? I got similar SIM cards as yours: NWmobile and China Mobile. If I disable the SIM card, the call cannot go through and it is forwarded to the voicemail.
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what is the code for call forwarding to voice mail for nwmobile, haven't used it for a long time.
kms108 said:
what is the code for call forwarding to voice mail for nwmobile, haven't used it for a long time.
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can you dial ##21# for your nwmobile sim, then disable the sim card.
then try to call it and see what happens.
kms108 said:
can you dial ##21# for your nwmobile sim, then disable the sim card.
then try to call it and see what happens.
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Disable call forwarding + SIM card switched off = no call can go through
I am using the limited data rate plan by the way
hobbya said:
Disable call forwarding + SIM card switched off = no call can go through
I am using the limited data rate plan by the way
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i'm using the HKD 60 + HKD 12 3G with unlimited data.
also does your dual sim always on turn on, mine does not turn on
settings/my device/sim card manager/dual sim always on
kms108 said:
i'm using the HKD 60 + HKD 12 3G with unlimited data.
also does your dual sim always on turn on, mine does not turn on
settings/my device/sim card manager/dual sim always on
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Same plan as yours.
My China Mobile card has no roaming and so I switch it off when I am in HK. When I travel in China I do the vice versa.
I never enable "Dual SIM ALWAYS ON"
hobbya said:
Same plan as yours.
My China Mobile card has no roaming and so I switch it off when I am in HK. When I travel in China I do the vice versa.
I never enable "Dual SIM ALWAYS ON"
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have you tried to turn SIM ALWAYS ON to on, my card china unicom is 2 number in one card.
kms108 said:
have you tried to turn SIM ALWAYS ON to on, my card china unicom is 2 number in one card.
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do you think it's the problem with the phone or card, it only happens with the nw card.
kms108 said:
have you tried to turn SIM ALWAYS ON to on, my card china unicom is 2 number in one card.
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Ooops my China Mobile card has only 1 number and enabling SIM ALWAYS ON is meaningless since there is no service.
Perhaps you can call forward your NWM to CHU and vice versa when you cross the border as a quick fix. Just add the **21* and ##21# in the phonebook. Not nice but a temporary solution.
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kms108 said:
do you think it's the problem with the phone or card, it only happens with the nw card.
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I have no idea. To test the NWM card you can put it onto another brand of DUAL SIM phone.
You can also replace the CHU card by another local calling card and see if the same behaviour persists.
hobbya said:
Ooops my China Mobile card has only 1 number and enabling SIM ALWAYS ON is meaningless since there is no service.
Perhaps you can call forward your NWM to CHU and vice versa when you cross the border as a quick fix. Just add the **21* and ##21# in the phonebook. Not nice but a temporary solution.
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I have no idea. To test the NWM card you can put it onto another brand of DUAL SIM phone.
You can also replace the CHU card by another local calling card and see if the same behaviour persists.
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I will try further testing.
thanks
kms108 said:
i will try further testing.
Thanks
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happy cny !!
hobbya said:
happy cny !!
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happy chinese new year
I think i've sorted it out, it turns out that the "dual sim always on" function had a affect on my china unicom card, and keeps getting a read out fail if i tried to enable it, probably because it does not have a call forwarding function.
I put two different cards in the phone and cleared both cards of all call forwarding, then turn on the "dual sim always on", and it comes out normal, previous I always get fail, now I then turn the "dual sim always on" off, then use both nwmobile and china unicom, now it works normal, as long as I dont touch the always on function on with the china unicom.
thanks for all the help
Dears,
Am in the process of researching/buying an HTC M8 dual SIM phone, can someone please advise if it is feasible to STOP Mobile DATA on a certain line (Ex: Line1) and ENABLE Mobile Data on the other line (Ex: Line2).
Thanks for all your help.
Regards,
H
Bad dual sim management
Better late than never, right?
You find "dual sim management" in the phone's settings.
This is where you can activate and deactivate each sim and where you set the preferred sim for mobile data.
So, yes, you can easily switch the sim that's being used for mobile data.. However, the BIG restriction is, that the sim 2 radio only supports 2G (up to EDGE). So, in order to use high speed internet from the provider whose sim is located in slot 2 you actually have to swap the sim cards. Also, there's no way to automatically switch to the other network's mobile data in case you lose mobile data coverage on the preset network . You really have to tell the phone manually which network to use.
Another big issue for me is that I can't preset the network I use for calls. So, my sim 1 is for data only. sim 2 is for voice calls and texts. Remember: it has to be this way because only sim 1 supports 3G/4G. Now, when I initiate a call via voice or via my car's bluetooth unit the phone automatically tries to use sim 1 as the default for calls. I can't set it up to use sim 2 as the default call handler and there's no dialogue asking me which sim to use like when I dial manually. That's really bad, all other companies that offer dual sim phones have better management options in their software's settings.
I tried using alternative phone apps which give you the option of choosing a default sim for calls but this only works for voice-dialing; bluetooth still overrides the alternative dialer and always goes with the stock one.
I hope this helps - so actually I'd advice agaist the M8 dual sim despite it being beautiful and having really good hardware.
digitalhug said:
Dears,
Am in the process of researching/buying an HTC M8 dual SIM phone, can someone please advise if it is feasible to STOP Mobile DATA on a certain line (Ex: Line1) and ENABLE Mobile Data on the other line (Ex: Line2).
Thanks for all your help.
Regards,
H
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Hi. I just bought g4 recently. I have the dual sim h818p. I found out that when I am online with my sim 1, my sim 2 is not reachable. Anyone know how to set if both active so I can get notification even if I am online. Thanks
psxtreem2000 said:
Hi. I just bought g4 recently. I have the dual sim h818p. I found out that when I am online with my sim 1, my sim 2 is not reachable. Anyone know how to set if both active so I can get notification even if I am online. Thanks
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This is not an Active Dual-Sim phone, so you can't because the hardware doesn't exist on the device, but you can always use smart forward which automatically forwards your other sim to your online one
How does smart forward work ?
Was under the impression that forwarding had to be set up with the ISP as the phone does not even know when an incoming call on the other sim arrives or am i wrong.
enable smart forwarding in your phone.. it will atleast show "callwaiting" to your caller when you're already in a call
Hi, I have a BIG problem.
Also if I turn off a sim I received call for that sim.
If I turn off one sim it is because I don't want to be reachable.
Please help
ventolino said:
Hi, I have a BIG problem.
Also if I turn off a sim I received call for that sim.
If I turn off one sim it is because I don't want to be reachable.
Please help
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Basically that's a feature of Samsung devices that u can receive calls from also that device which u have signed in same Samsung account whether it have that sim or not I think u messed up some settings just sign out and in again from your phone and set again permission u want.
Turn 'dual sim always on' to off?