Activating my SIM

General Discussion
1

Okay. I'm stupid. As long as you understand from the start we will get along just fine.


I have a mobile phone, I have an Orange SIM card. It keeps telling me I haven't got a SIM card. It needs activating. I phone the number given on Orange and put in the code (if I have it right) and it does...nothing.


I'm doing it wrong. I hate the thing. Why can't I just get a card and it works when I put it in the phone? Why do they have to make everything so time consuming and complicated.


I won't be able to find the piece of paper with the number to dial now ... but...what am I doing wrong?


2

If it's anything like the phones we have the camera is also a torch, or vice versa of course. I've only just found that out btw by doing the thing which is completely alien to most blokes...... I read the instructions!

3

I started with that issue. I went into an Orange shop and told them, which they did not believe. They had a fiddle, said it doesn't work then replaced it. I still have the pointless shots I took on the way back to my car and never a problem since.

4

I think you need to call the Helpline unless another member here has experienced the same thing and there's a 'simple' solution. Calling other members!! Coooo-eeeeeey!

5

It's a contract SIM, so it should work.

Technology is a wonderful thing - providing it works!

6

Ha ha ha, you sound like me. I have my nice (cheap) pink phone. It may look cute but when all it says is no signal, no SIM, no network, nada, zilch, I might as well frame it and hang it on the loo wall.

Dopey question, but do you have credit on the phone (if it's a PAYG)? If it's a contract SIM, the card itself may be duff and you'll need to get them to send you another one.

7

It was ages ago. Very long break they are on.

It's me that's not doing it right. I think, it's an automated process - except when I do it.

Actually I'm just proud of myself because I've changed the language all on my own without the need of tranquilisers or antidepressants.

And, I think...it has a camera on it. I stick my number to the back and it was covered up. Then again, it might be a torch...

Scrap the camera bit...it's a torch.

8

When did you put it in Karen? I think activation can range from immediate to a couple of days (why, I don't know, probably depends whether someone in 'support' is on their lunch break, a holiday in Barbados).