I've just got a new EE/Orange PAYG sim card for an existing phone where I'd transferred the previous number to a newer model.

However nowhere on the documentation supplied does it show the new phone number.

I can't top it up unless I know the number, but until I can actually use the phone I can't find out what it is

Any suggestions?

On my HTC using Android 4.3 it's Settings > About > Phone Identity
On my work iPhone running iOS 7 its Settings > Phone

The number is shown there. Certainly don't remember entering the number myself into either phone.

Ring a mates mobile? Ring your home phone and do 1471?

Orange sims would need to just make a call and check.

They used to need registering before a number was allocated, don't know if that's changed.

You can top up by calling 450 or 453 to top up.

Same here on my Nexus 5

I ported my number from o2 to a Three sim and the number shown there is the old Three number, it doesn't show my ported number.

Turn off. Remove the SIM. Switch on without a SIM. Turn off. Replace SIM. Number should now display. If this doesn't work I can only assume it's some sort of network restriction on that SIM.

Cheers, i'll try that later

Not possible with zero credit.


Just says "you have dialled an incorrect number".

Does 150 do anything? You might be on the EE/ex T-Mobile platform.

3 do not always update SIMs when the number has been ported. Some phones can change this field on the SIM, like the iPhone.

On my Nexus 5 I can do it in the phone settings > other settings > "my phone number"

No, just the same. Looks like I'll have to go down to the EE shop even though that was what I was trying to avoid in the first place

Nope, didn't work Not to worry as i remember my number anyway.

There isn't an option to change it manually on the Nexus 4.

FWIW I received a text message saying:


But I have never received anything, and it's now more than 24 hours later.

I know that on EE if you send thé message with number to 150. They send you back a text with your number on it .Not sûre about Orange/T mobile.

Let's hope the signal isn't so poor where you are that it took 24 hours to log onto a mast!

Instead then, ring the phone itself. Now you know it starts with 07, so you are just left with 10^9 numbers to try.

This is such a ludicrous comment that it beggars belief. Obviously, the OP will be able to rule out numbers that belong to his friends and family, thus leaving him with just 999,999,900 or so to try. You do exaggerate

My Nexus 5 also shows the Three number and not the one i ported across to them.

Me too. No way to change it either acc to google support. My phone is a nexus 4

Have you tried looking in the options in the phone app? I can change it on a Nexus 5, but I am running CyanogenMod so I don't know if that's a CM feature or not.

I've just looked, no option, must be a CM feature.

Ah, but I had allowed for that - he doesn't have any friends as noone can ring him

There is a way to edit the phone number on a SIM, short of borrowing an iPhone or flashing CM. There is an Xposed module called 'SIM Number Changer', but obviously you have to be rooted and using Xposed (and running Dalvik).

A series of texts came through overnight to give me all the activation details - over 36 hours after I first put in the simcard