Password help??

dearg_doom

I just found an old sim and MMC I thought I lost over a year ago!

BUT...

I don't remember the SIM's PIN and the MMC is locked.

Is there any way of 'opening' a SIM?? (It's a meteor from the free-txts era, so it is well worth my while using it again)

And if the MMC was locked on a N6600(now gone) is there any way of accessing it?? I'd even format it, because now it's just a useless piece of plastic, and XP wont even format it let alone access it for me:(


Any help/ideas appreciated:)

Barrie

So your looking for your mmc's password and your Sim's pin?
Ill have a look about for the mmc's password problem.

Pythia

If the SIM hasn't been used in over a year I'd say the SIM is now dead. You'd have to be reconnected so it's probably not worth it tbh. The memory card on the other would be...!

paulm17781

Unless you cahnged it Meteor probably have your PIN. They use it for mymeteor.com and ask you to notify them if you changed it.

fjon

Yuo're talking about the MMC password, and not the SIM password. They're two different things. The MMC password is probably not numeric. If you have a password you use regularly for email etc, give it a try.
If you don't remember it I'm afraid you're pretty much screwed. There is no way of recovering it, or of reformatting the card. If you still had the original phone that that card was installed on there might have been a small possibility of re-formatting it. Without it there is no chance.
So unless you remember your password, you can throw that piece of plastic away. This is a *major* design flaw by Nokia, and I am really not impressed with it at all.

dearg_doom

Thanks for all the replies, lads!!!

@Pythia: fiddlesticks! If I had to get it reconnected that'd prob invalidate the freetxt's anway. Doh.

@paulm17781: that's a good idea, but I never registered with them, think that might hinder my chances?? I'll call them and post back what they say.

@fjon: seriously, man do ye think I'm that much of a fool?? I'm talking about both. Do you really think I'd post on the interweb before trying ANY combo of letters and numbers that I've ever used in my whole life??




@ALL: What happened with the MMC is that the 6600 has an option to 'protect' your MMc with a password. So when I first got it I set one, not expecting that I would NEVER ever be asked for it again! It gets worse, I'm fairly sure I know what it is, but can't be 100% as I was never asked for it since I set it up, so the memory of it can only be described as vague. It gets worse, my 6600 developed a fault which meant it had to be RMA'd, and thus flashed. Normally if you set a password on an MMC, it is stored in the fones memory(it can be accesed using Seleq or FE; and is how those apps that say they tell you your MMC's password work); but mine was flashed so it was erased. So when I found I couldn't use the MMC I left it down somewhere and just used the one that came with the fone, and so it got lost:(.

Basically my theory is that the MMC doesn't actually know the password, it just knows it's locked, the fone is where the password is needed. But my fone didn't know it held a password as it was wiped from the memory. So I have a MMC which knows it's locked, but doesn't recognise the right key.

This was a major head**** at the time, as lots of workfiles, contacts, personal stuff etc.. was on it. But while I'd like to recover that stuff, I accept it's gone for good now. So I tried to reformat it, but no dice.

So I'm trying to find a way to reset it or whatever.



I've tried to reformat it using a windows app called MMCMedic, but it just hangs the computer. I left it on over night to test this, and the computer was still hung:(

I hate to think such an innocent mistake and bad luck has left me with a piece of plastic I paid 82quid for...



Any help/condolence appreciated!!

Barrie

Ok i just tried this now and yes it does work 100%
I put a lock code on my mmc-The code was 12345
This is what you have to do.

1---Install a file explorer on your phone(Seleq,Fx explorer etc)
2---Open it and choose c:\
3---Now choose System
4---When you opened System there should be a file called Mmcstore
5---Send that file to your Pc anyway(Ir,Bluetooth,Cable,Email etc.)
6---When its on your pc open it with Notepad
7---There Should be two codes(Well the first one was 00000 on mine)And the second one was 1 2 3 4 5

There you go.That easy

dearg_doom

Did you read my previous post:)

The phone was flashed... that file, and everything else on the phone, was wiped. Never to be seen again.

That's why I think the MMC just knows it's locked, as opposed to knowing the actual password itself. I have a feeling it's dead in the water:(

Barrie

Opps sorry didnt read that bit