05-30-2020 06:11 AM - edited 01-05-2022 10:57 AM
My screen on my A20 died and the old cell phone I have here uses a large sim. The frame of the sim broke so I need to get a new sim. How do I activate the old phone ?
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06-14-2020 11:02 AM
NO disagreement with you. I do not suggest cutting larger SIM cards to fit into smaller SIM slots.
But since most newer phones now use nano-SIM cards, saving SIM adapter frames would allow me to switch to older phones with larger SIM slots easily if my newer phones run into problems.
06-14-2020 05:23 AM
It's not as simple it's too big of a sim and it's an old one without adapters. I don't like cut sims.
06-14-2020 04:33 AM
I have always saved the punched out frames of tri-SIMs or dual-SIMs. I have also bought from an online store a few years ago adapter kits with various frames (for $1 each when the store had a free-shipping promotion). So any nanoSIM can be used in any of my old phones in a pinch. It's the metal contacts of the SIM that make it work. No need to buy a new SIM or swap SIM numbers.
06-08-2020 04:26 PM
@Kate_mcc If you are still trying to get this sorted, I think there is an easier way. Get a new PM SIM, or find a friend who save the bits from any tri-SIM, and use the frames to enlarge your current SIM. No need to swap the active SIM in your account. That way your old phone will work, and you have a spare SIM.
The other possibility, if your old phone is old enough, is to position your PM SIM "just so" in the phone so that the SIM contacts meet up with the phone contacts. Have done that in a pinch just to test old phones.
05-30-2020 06:54 AM
Once you receive your new SIM card, you can change the SIM card number on your account and reactivate your service via Self-Serve by following these steps:
05-30-2020 06:16 AM - edited 05-30-2020 06:18 AM
Sorry to here that @Kate_mcc you can buy a replacement sim card. And add via the change sim option in your self service account. Note make sure that the clerk doesnt activate it for you. Then put the sim into the phone.
05-30-2020 06:14 AM
You go into your self serve account and do a sim swap. The only thing else it to put the sim in your phone.