Hi there,
Figure there are lots of people like me who bought the SGS2 from O2 but are using it on a different network. As I wasn't an existing PAYG customer on O2 I've ended up with a SIM and £10 credit which I don't need.
Does anyone know if it's possible to give the credit to someone who is on O2 PAYG? Or has it already been added to the number associated with the SIM? I've done nothing at my end, not even opened the package the SIM is in.
Thanks!
You cannot transfer credit, just use it up on calls or enter the gadget show competition 6 times. lol
The only way is to give the person the SIM as far as I know. It's associated with the number.
If the sim has not been activated then sell it .
If the sim has been activated then it can be used in any unlocked phone .
SGS 1 i used PAYG sim in phone one week passed on to my brother different phone he used most of the credit on internet data . I used the remaining credit to set up New SGS2 .
The number remains with the sim .
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This is my last hope.
I had a contract SIM card. i got rid of the phone. put it in a old Nokia u had. bare in mind this is a micro SIM card, i just needed to work my way round putting it into a normal SIM card slot. and it worked fine for few days, then all of a sudden I could not make calls or text. Then I got my S3. Unlocked it fine. put my SIM card into it, internet worked, data connection. But i could not send or receive calls or texts. every time i call someone it says "not registered on network". I have tried hard reset and I have tried restarting and turning on and off settings but it will not make no difference.
PLEASE HELP. I need this, any input to this would be great.
I had that one day after i bought my s3. Went to claim warranty and they gave me a brand new s3. Acording to them it was a faulty device.anyways just sharing my experience with that case .good luck some one else might have other solution so. Keep ur fingers. Crossed ')
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Try change a new micro sim card.
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zeynl said:
I had that one day after i bought my s3. Went to claim warranty and they gave me a brand new s3. Acording to them it was a faulty device.anyways just sharing my experience with that case .good luck some one else might have other solution so. Keep ur fingers. Crossed ')
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Thanks for the reply guys. however I can't understand why it would be the phone. as it was having issues with my other one. is it possible to copy my contract over to another SIM card if I go into the o2 store?
I had this exact message during the time my new SIM has not yet been registred/active. Since youve also mentioned it not working in another phone, i'd assume its the SIM, not the S3.
About copying your contract from one SIM to another, no, this is NOT possible. Go to your carrier and ask for a new SIM. Test it on site. If still a no-go, ask them to show you it works in another device, to define find out if your S3 is the culprit.
I already asked this in another forum but don't seem to be getting replies so I thought I'd ask in my 'home' forum as I have a S3!
Admins, if i've inadvertently broken any rules, please delete the other post.
There is a long-standing discussion amongst me and my friends that never seems to get anywhere!
Is it safe in the UK, to give someone your IMEI number when you're trying to sell a phone. Personally, I always thought that it would be really useful because you could check to see if it's been stolen / lost etc but others say that it could be cloned and land you in a lot of trouble with huge network charges etc.
Surely the sim card is the thing that you need to protect as you can use it in any phone with any IMEI..
Can someone offer any expert advice?
I know in Australia any time you make a phone call the carrier registers the phone number, sim number and your IMEI. This is how a phone can be blacklisted as any time this IMEI is sent it is blocked from completing the call. Most theives tend to discard your simcard and use another prepaid one or sell the phone onto an unsuspecting buyer who would be suspicious if a sim card was provided....
Yes, providing an IMEI is good to check but can also be stolen if you list it. I cringe when I see this on ebay...
You shouldn't, never ever, give your phone's IMEI number to anyone. Listen to your friends which said that it can be cloned to another (stolen) device. In this case Samsung (or carrier) will block regionally or globally this number. It's device dependent number and it's more important for proper working than your SIM card. You can change or replace your SIM (different carrier, same carrier but different card) but you can't change your phone's IMEI.
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Homey said:
Is it safe in the UK, to give someone your IMEI number when you're trying to sell a phone. Personally, I always thought that it would be really useful because you could check to see if it's been stolen / lost etc but others say that it could be cloned and land you in a lot of trouble with huge network charges etc.
Well yes it could be cloned but if you sell a product you can offer to let them check the IMEI after the sale . But it would be unwise to advertise phone and IMEI .
Surely the sim card is the thing that you need to protect as you can use it in any phone with any IMEI..
You can throw a sim card away get a replacement sim card different network etc . Its independent of the phone .
jje
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I have been trying for several days to unlock my phone with no luck. While trying to hex edit nv_data.bin (to no avail yet again) I browsed the file as text and found one group of digits that vaguely resembles what I think may be my pin followed by my puk code. I don't know for sure simply because I only ever saw it scribbled down somewhere by my ex who never let me set stuff up myself...
I am down to one single pin attempt so I was hoping if someone out there knows their pin and/or puk code and can easily view their nv_data file, if you could maybe just open it in wordpad and do a search for them to see if either are in there. I know I'm probably wrong and it's a long shot since I found no such information in the forums, but this is bugging me >_>
I'm guessing you are referring to carrier unlocking your phone? I have no clue how to unlock a phone the way your describing. Our phone is very simple to unlock though, go to the playstore and download galaxy s unlock. Follow the directions and you should be fine, worked like a charm for me. Ill post a link to the app in the playstore/market https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.helroz.galaxysunlock
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I'm guessing you are referring to carrier unlocking your phone? I have no clue how to unlock a phone the way your describing. Our phone is very simple to unlock though, go to the playstore and download galaxy s unlocker. Follow the directions and you should be fine, worked like a charm for me. Ill post a link to the app in the playstore/market.
Edit - after re reading your post I'm thinking I misunderstood what you were asking, are you saying you cant use your phone because you don't know the pin to unlock the screen? I'm confused sorry
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My phone works with the original sim or without sim. When I put in a different sim it asks for a pin code... I honestly am not quite sure what it's asking for since both *#7465625# and SGS unlock pro claim everything is unlocked, yet galaxsim says it's locked and the phone still wants a pin code for the new sim
Also while it is called a vibrant it seems it isn't a vibrant *sigh* it's the "galaxy s vibrant" from bell canada and I am wanting to use it in Belgium.
So long story short: I am utterly lost.
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Oh wow I so need to get some sleep this was so dumb: I was looking for the wrong thing!!
It wasn't my phone that was locked, it was the new sim card that was locked!! I never realized this because in Canada the sales rep unlocks it and that's it. In Belgium you have to input the sim's pin code every single time you boot up the phone.
Several reps at the store tested the phone for me to see if it would even accept a Belgian sim card and they all looked at me asking me for a pin to unlock my phone after it booted up with a local sim card. How the heck did these people who sell phones for a living not know that it just plain wanted the pin that goes with the sim card? I can't believe I just spent all weekend trying to unlock an already-unlocked phone...
Anyway I dug through the paperwork that came with my new sim and Lo and Behold!!
A pin code!!
AND a puk cude!!
I feel really dumb now but....
Wooooooooohoooooooooooooooooooooooooo IT WORKS!!!
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Oh wow I so need to get some sleep this was so dumb: I was looking for the wrong thing!!
It wasn't my phone that was locked, it was the new sim card that was locked!! I never realized this because in Canada the sales rep unlocks it and that's it. In Belgium you have to input the sim's pin code every single time you boot up the phone.
Several reps at the store tested the phone for me to see if it would even accept a Belgian sim card and they all looked at me asking me for a pin to unlock my phone after it booted up with a local sim card. How the heck did these people who sell phones for a living not know that it just plain wanted the pin that goes with the sim card? I can't believe I just spent all weekend trying to unlock an already-unlocked phone...
Anyway I dug through the paperwork that came with my new sim and Lo and Behold!!
A pin code!!
AND a puk cude!!
I feel really dumb now but....
Wooooooooohoooooooooooooooooooooooooo IT WORKS!!!
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Haha, well I'm glad you figured it out, good deal.
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Hello guys,
I live in the Netherlands now and my folks came to visit.
While they were here, they bought an S9+ (SM-965F) for themselves on Belsimpel (on the store) and took it to Brazil.
We asked the guy if the phone was completely unlocked and he said yes, but...
When we were unboxing the phone, it said: "European SIM Only."
We then tried inserting two SIM Cards at the same time, one from Italy (TIM Italia) and another one from Brazil (VIVO Brazil).
In Brazil, we never get asked for PIN/PUK, so when it booted up, we entered the default Italian PIN (0000).
It said it was wrong, so I tried again a couple of times and it did not work at all.
I thought it was weird, but I could call him on the Italian number and that was all I cared for the moment.
Fast forward a few days, they went back to Brazil and..... VIVO does not work.
My father went to a VIVO store and they could not solve it.
He went to a Samsung store, nothing...
He even went to ANATEL (Brazilian Agency of Telecommunications) to see if the IMEI was blocked somehow, it wasn't.
Please help us to get it working with VIVO!
well... solved!
I got him an european SIM card and made a call over 10 minutes to him, that region-unlocked the phone, according to Samsung.
So Sammie are still doing the 5 minutes of calls with a particular SIM before itll work overseas... Well that sucks..
Yea I've heard this regards the Indian version, you've got to use an Indian sim before any other works
It's designed to keep companies from importing large numbers of gray market phones to resell, while still making it possible for individuals to buy a phone in one market and use in another.
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well... solved!
I got him an european SIM card and made a call over 10 minutes to him, that region-unlocked the phone, according to Samsung.
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Quick question... Did you buy a Dutch sim card (prepaid), send it to him in Brazil and then made a 10 minute phone call to this Dutch sim card in Brazil? And that solved the problem? I bought the same phone also from Belsimpel and have the same problem now in Colombia, even though I made two 5 min calls using a KPN sim card before leaving the Netherlands. But so basically I can borrow a European sim card from someone here , put it in my phone and have someone call me from Europe? Thanks for confirming. Best.
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Quick question... Did you buy a Dutch sim card (prepaid), send it to him in Brazil and then made a 10 minute phone call to this Dutch sim card in Brazil? And that solved the problem? I bought the same phone also from Belsimpel and have the same problem now in Colombia, even though I made two 5 min calls using a KPN sim card before leaving the Netherlands. But so basically I can borrow a European sim card from someone here , put it in my phone and have someone call me from Europe? Thanks for confirming. Best.
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Hi!
I landed him my old italian sim card.
We spoke for about 30 minutes in that call, so I am not sure for how long you should be on the call, but it worked!
Good luck!
Thanks for the reply. As it turned out my phone was not region locked as I had made 12 minutes worth of calls while in the Netherlands, using a local sim card. There might have been an easier solution for you though: I was told by Samsung that they have region unlock codes for such cases. You would simply have to request such code from Samsung in the country where you bought the phone.
My problem was different and had to do with the message "SIM network PIN blocked. Enter SIM network PUK". Unfortunately, neither Samsung nor my Colombian provider could help me. I kept being referred from one to the other. My Colombian sim card would work on other phones so that was not the issue. My phone would not accept any Colombian sim card and it seems it had to do with the registration of phone itself in Colombia. In the end the only solution to unblock my phone was to use an online unblocking service. This worked perfectly. My phone was unblocked and I was then able to register my phone in Colombia without any problems. Shame this has to be so complicated but I am glad to be able to use my phone now.
My phone was bought in the UAE and Samsung Pay app etc doesnt work now that I am based in the UK. Samsung next to useless. Can i resolve this by getting a UAE sim (god knows how i'll do that) and then get someone from within the UAE to call me for say 20 minutes?
Does anyone know that if we do a factory reset then do we need to do this 5 minutes call again?
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Hi!
I landed him my old italian sim card.
We spoke for about 30 minutes in that call, so I am not sure for how long you should be on the call, but it worked!
Good luck!
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You solved this way? Can you lend me a hand?
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Thanks for the reply. As it turned out my phone was not region locked as I had made 12 minutes worth of calls while in the Netherlands, using a local sim card. There might have been an easier solution for you though: I was told by Samsung that they have region unlock codes for such cases. You would simply have to request such code from Samsung in the country where you bought the phone.
My problem was different and had to do with the message "SIM network PIN blocked. Enter SIM network PUK". Unfortunately, neither Samsung nor my Colombian provider could help me. I kept being referred from one to the other. My Colombian sim card would work on other phones so that was not the issue. My phone would not accept any Colombian sim card and it seems it had to do with the registration of phone itself in Colombia. In the end the only solution to unblock my phone was to use an online unblocking service. This worked perfectly. My phone was unblocked and I was then able to register my phone in Colombia without any problems. Shame this has to be so complicated but I am glad to be able to use my phone now.
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Wich unlocking services you used? I have the same problem, I live in Argentina
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I wrote to about 10 of them, some did not reply, some did not come over as trustworthy and some said they could not unlock dual sim phones. In the end I used UnlockBoot. You can chat with them via their site or write to them via. I cannot post links but you will find them after a quick Google search. It cost a bit more than some others (USD 49) but they did it via TeamViewer and it was well worth it. Just a tip: once you get the code I had a long delay when entering each digit: enter a digit, wait, listen for the click, then enter the next. Best of luck!
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I wrote to about 10 of them, some did not reply, some did not come over as trustworthy and some said they could not unlock dual sim phones. In the end I used UnlockBoot. You can chat with them via their site or write to them via. I cannot post links but you will find them after a quick Google search. It cost a bit more than some others (USD 49) but they did it via TeamViewer and it was well worth it. Just a tip: once you get the code I had a long delay when entering each digit: enter a digit, wait, listen for the click, then enter the next. Best of luck!
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I will send a quick DM to you! thanks in advice
It did solve it for me, yes.
All I needed to do is call my father while he had an European SIM on his phone for 30m.
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It did solve it for me, yes.
All I needed to do is call my father while he had an European SIM on his phone for 30m.
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Sorry for being a pain in the ass. But, He put the sim and.. connected to Roaming for receiving your call? Or not? And so, I can pay you for you to call me? I can give you paypal or anyway you want. I just want this phone to work </3
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Sorry for being a pain in the ass. But, He put the sim and.. connected to Roaming for receiving your call? Or not? And so, I can pay you for you to call me? I can give you paypal or anyway you want. I just want this phone to work </3
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You are not being a pain in the ass, mate.
You do not need roaming for this as roaming is just for data.
You just need to have enough credits to receive a 30-minute phone call.
I imagine you can get away with a lot less than 30, but we did 30 to make sure we would not have to start over.
Good luck!
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You are not being a pain in the ass, mate.
You do not need roaming for this as roaming is just for data.
You just need to have enough credits to receive a 30-minute phone call.
I imagine you can get away with a lot less than 30, but we did 30 to make sure we would not have to start over.
Good luck!
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I dunno how European sim cards work but, here in LatAm we dont need credit to receive calls. I hope this Simcard doesnt requiere credit haha. Thanks!
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You are not being a pain in the ass, mate.
You do not need roaming for this as roaming is just for data.
You just need to have enough credits to receive a 30-minute phone call.
I imagine you can get away with a lot less than 30, but we did 30 to make sure we would not have to start over.
Good luck!
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I've just received a Sim Card from Europe! A friend of mine give me one that its working from his last travel to UK. if you could lend me a hand I would pay it!
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I've just received a Sim Card from Europe! A friend of mine give me one that its working from his last travel to UK. if you could lend me a hand I would pay it!
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There is no need for payments.
All you have to do is receive a call in that number for a number of minutes.
My guess is that 20 minutes would work, but I have done it with 30.
I would talk for 30 minutes with someone on the phone just to make sure it works.
Now... for the call to work, you need to have credits in the UK SIM Card because, even if you are RECEIVING a phone call, you will spend credits because you are receiving a call outside of the country of origin of the SIM card.
If you use your Argentinian SIM card in Europe, you will pay per minute to receive calls too... its just how it works.
So make sure you got around 25-30 pounds (i know, kinda expensive but it is worth it) on the SIM's account and then someone have to call that number.
I would use VoIP to make the call, since it the number is in the UK.
After that, you can shut down the phone and put the Argentinian SIM in.
My father could not believe we cracked this problem after the call.. it is an amazing feeling to finally being able to use your phone like a normal phone.
Good luck, man!
Let me know how it goes!
I'm not sure if it would help somebody. I was also facing this problem with region lock.
I bought a Samsung M30s 128GB (SM-M307F/DS) in India and used just the Wifi while in India. Then I went to Dubai and put in a local SIM card from du.ae and it clearly said region locked. I was not able to call.
After I went back home to Germany, I was leaving the phone switched on without a SIM card inside for a few days and then inserted my local T-Mobile contract SIM and it just works. Was doing several calls yesterday and today without issues. I found it weird because I never removed the region lock.
Maybe it can help someone try something.