BlackBerry Curve 8300
sim card error
In the past 12 hours my phone has given me a sim card error three different times. It locks the phone up, and since its in my pocket, I don't notice till I pull it out to use it. I have already missed a couple of important calls and emails. Any ideas?
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I got sim card errors often on my Pearl and discovered that the problem was that the metal 'latch' that holds the sim card against the contacts wasn't pushing it against the contacts hard enough. I was able to completely fix the problem by using a needle (or other pointed object) to push the tab that is in the middle of the metal sim card latch more towards the sim card thereby pushing the sim more snugly against the contacts when I closed the latch. Just be sure that the sim is out of the phone and the latch is open when you do this. No guarantees that this will work for you, but it definitely did the trick for me.
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put a small piece of paper, folded up, between the sim and the latch - it should push the sim down on the contacts - if that doesnt work, try a sim swap.
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