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Old 18-01-2005, 21:02
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I put a new orange sim card into my Orange phone and get this message

simcard registration failed

what does this mean?

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Old 18-01-2005, 21:06
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Something wrong with SIM card. Phone up orange.
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Old 18-01-2005, 23:03
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Originally Posted by VoyagerWebsites
I put a new orange sim card into my Orange phone and get this message

simcard registration failed

what does this mean?

thanks
You need to call Orange on the number provided in the sim pack to register the sim and then Orange will issue a phone number and then send a sim update to activate it.

Once you receive the update you read and delete it, reboot your phone and it will then work.
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Old 18-01-2005, 23:29
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Originally Posted by Widdy
You need to call Orange on the number provided in the sim pack to register the sim and then Orange will issue a phone number and then send a sim update to activate it.

Once you receive the update you read and delete it, reboot your phone and it will then work.
cool computer talk ;P "reboot" hehehe
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Old 18-01-2005, 23:37
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Originally Posted by Mewes_2004
cool computer talk ;P "reboot" hehehe

It was quicker than writing "switch off and then back on again"
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Old 23-01-2005, 19:49
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It doesnt



All orange SIM cards work at first. The SIM is up the wall. full stop. Sim registration comes up on the startup and wont allow anyhting to go through.



Every other SIM card, if crapped up, says that!!
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Old 24-01-2005, 00:43
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Computer says no. Sorry but all orange sims unless pre registered In store have to be "switched on" to the network with a sim update as the same sim can be used for pay monthly or pay as you go it just depends on what oranges sim update tells it to do.


Originally Posted by dontpannic2003
It doesnt



All orange SIM cards work at first. The SIM is up the wall. full stop. Sim registration comes up on the startup and wont allow anyhting to go through.



Every other SIM card, if crapped up, says that!!
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Old 24-01-2005, 15:25
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Originally Posted by Widdy
It was quicker than writing "switch off and then back on again"

It would have been easyier at the start as you had to write it in the end.
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Old 24-01-2005, 16:07
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lamplite, that is totally wrong! The SIM registration message comes up, meaning the phone has been Blacklisted/barred. when the phone starts up and you cannot access the messages menu to recieve the update! I should know, seeing as my cousin has just bought an orange phone and his worked straight out of the box, no registration required. So, please, look into it first. How is the user supposed to read and view the sim update message, when you can't get into the menus... For example:

http://nokiafree.org/forums/t70707/h/s.html

http://forums.mobileburn.com/showthr...page=162&pp=15

See Jacob Stevensons second post.

Now can you see that the SIM isnt registered???
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Old 24-01-2005, 16:15
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"lamplite, that is totally wrong! The SIM registration message comes up, meaning the phone has been Blacklisted/barred. when the phone starts up and you cannot access the messages menu to recieve the update! I should know, seeing as my cousin has just bought an orange phone and his worked straight out of the box, no registration required. So, please, look into it first. How is the user supposed to read and view the sim update message, when you can't get into the menus..."

Errrm, no, actually, you're wrong. Orange do routinely activate SIMS in store, but if not it does need to be activated by Customer Service (for which you need to contact them). The SIM update then tells the SIM card who/what/where/when and how.

The message will be received by the phone, and in doing should make the phone give access to the menus. If no SIM updates have arrived once its been registered, THEN there is a problem!!!!

P.S. As you can see - not quite got the hang of this quote thing - ah well, eh?

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Old 24-01-2005, 16:16
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Originally Posted by VoyagerWebsites
I put a new orange sim card into my Orange phone and get this message

simcard registration failed

what does this mean?

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I got an Orange network phone at Christmas. The sim card was in the box but I still had to phone to reg.
They said it would take up to 24 hrs for it to activate. It was only a few hours.
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Old 24-01-2005, 16:18
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The last time I used an Orange PAYG phone was the end of 2003, when I bought it from The Link as a christmas present.
After putting the SIM in, I got 'SIM Registration Failed', for a few hours until my registration went through.

If it's a SIM you've just bought, it won't be active. If you've registered at a retail store (they've taken the phone out the box and activated and registered the SIM card), then just give it a few hours.
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Old 24-01-2005, 16:21
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Originally Posted by dontpannic2003
when the phone starts up and you cannot access the messages menu to recieve the update!
The SIM update is sent directly to the SIM's serial number, not the phone number.
Orange's 'SIM Updates' are not real SMS' - the message you receive is just a notication of something happening, so you know to reboot the phone to activate whatever it's changed.
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Old 24-01-2005, 16:47
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OK, I stand corrected. All I can say is that that message does come up with blacklisted phones, but, I have purchased over 10 - 15 orange phones/sim cards, and none have done the SIM registration failed, OR neither have I had to register them. Considering this message ONLY comes up on blacklisted nokias. It is impossible for the shops to register the phones before anyone buys them... they wont know who to register them to!!!
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Old 24-01-2005, 17:29
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Originally Posted by dontpannic2003
OK, I stand corrected. All I can say is that that message does come up with blacklisted phones, but, I have purchased over 10 - 15 orange phones/sim cards, and none have done the SIM registration failed, OR neither have I had to register them. Considering this message ONLY comes up on blacklisted nokias. It is impossible for the shops to register the phones before anyone buys them... they wont know who to register them to!!!
As I said, I haven't done this for a year - so it could have changed.
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Old 24-01-2005, 17:33
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ok, but thats just the way I think... As I said the only trouble I have had with sim registration fialed messages is with blacklisted IMEI's
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