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[musosian]

Are sim cards supposed to be compatible between phones? I just took one out of my 5-6 year old nokia to put in someone else's old nokia (age unknown) and it has shiny bits in different places and just won't go in... haven't tried force yet. seems to be different pin locations tho. >Edit : Oh look, that's the _battery_. And the sim card is a teeny

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[sols_light]

Check where you pull the SIM out from, my newer NOKIA has a little cage for the SIM you have to open first, then put the SIM in to get the contacts in the right place. Also, check which way the cut off corner needs to go in, it should go in with the copper contacts facing the phone.

Other than that, they may have bought there phone overseas and I don't know what other countries use for SIM cards, but I do know much of our stuff is incompatible with the Japanese phones for a variety of reasons. My guess is that you just haven't found something that opens.

[musosian]

Thank you, that's good advice - I did have a little cage to slide the sim into, once I located what was actually the sim card, and not the battery.

[lukeii]

Sim cards are of uniform design in terms of shape and contact location - other than some very old phones where the sim was the size of a credit card.

Voltages, however have changed.

So not being able to get the sim in, probably means you've missed something like a mini-cage that holds the sim or such-like.

Once it's in, if it doesn't register, then you may have phones that require sims at different voltages

[musosian]

Thanks for that - I had missed something super-obvious, namely not knowing what a sim card looked like, nor that it was hiding under the thing that I was assuming was a sim card, which was a battery.

Hopefully now that I've overcome that difficulty the sim will register, but if it doesn't I'll know why. :D