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"Sim Card Rejected"...

  • 01-04-2008 9:47am
    #1
    Plek Trum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭


    Hi all, my mobile died on the way to work this morning (Nokia 7630). I charged it at work, turned it on and is reading "Sim Card Rejected'.

    I have turned it off repeatedly, replaced the sim card (no damage of any kind) and still this message persists. Any reasons as to why - and how I can rectify it? Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,693 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Your PIN and PUK codes have been entered in wrong too many times. Either that or the SIM is buggered.


  • #3
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    try your sim in a different phone and try your phone with a different sim.

    if the phone rejects the other sim card, bring the phone back to where you bought it and have it sent of for repair

    if the sim is rejected in another phone, go into a phone shop and ask for a replacement sim. its free and will have your own number on it


  • #4
    Plek Trum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭Plek Trum


    Thanks a mill - no PIN or PUK codes ever entered so I'd say it a problem with the SIM card alright. Will try changing the phone / sim card this evening.. failing that a trip to the nearest Vodafone retailer is in order.. thanks.


  • #5
    Rory B
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭Rory B


    Short Answer, No Offence, but the handset sounds like it is stolen and blocked on the EIR, i could be wrong, I agree with the other posters and a try the Sim and Handset tests, post back ur results!! If no sim will work in it the Handset is blocked.


  • #6
    flywheel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭flywheel


    Rory B wrote: »
    Short Answer, No Offence, but the handset sounds like it is stolen and blocked on the EIR, i could be wrong...

    you are (wrong) a blocked handset will still register with the network (and then the network blocks it from having service, flags it as having registered and then some other *stuff* happens)... this is after the phone has read the SIM... if the SIM is rejected by the handset it hasn't even got as far as reading it...

    it can happen sometimes with SIM cards (little bits of plastic with metal contacts can go wrong like anything else!)... i'd have got it many times as I'd have been swapping my SIMs between many devices (maybe several in one day)... and *none* of them were stolen or blocked!

    sometimes rubbing them, or leaving them out on the desk for a bit, or shouting at them ;) got them back working, sometimes a new SIM was needed sometimes they sorted themselves out... build up of static sometimes caused it or accidentally touching the contacts...


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