Hey all, so looking at the sim trays for the p20 lite and the pro they seem almost identical, with the p20 like sd one looking a bit longer than the dual sim version (which matches the p20 pro one from the images I can find).
It makes sense in my mind that they would have a similar board and internal layout to save on production cost of the different models, so I'm wondering if anyone has tried the p20 lite tray in the p20 pro. I do see more contacts than just a single sim would need, however there is a dual sim model of the phone, I can't get a good enough view to see if there are any that mach up with an sd card.
I've been googling and can't seem to find any evidence of anyone else suggesting or trying this. I would greatly love to be able to put my sizeable music collection on an sd card for this phone, I knew when upgrading that it was pretty much a given that it wouldn't have a micro sd card slot but I wonder if this has potential to work, especially after discovering my music collection is larger than I thought, and with the difficulty I'm having copying it to this device, where if it had an sd card tray, I could just pop it in.
Simply, no. There is no micro SD card tray for P20 and P20 pro...
Danchibald said:
Simply, no. There is no micro SD card tray for P20 and P20 pro...
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Has it actually been tried? There is also the mate 20, which looks similar, but there aren't nearly as many pictures to compare the two types.
The ifixit teardown pictures are relatively unhelpful in trying to see if there are also sd card contacts physically present.
I sell these phones at work. No it doesn't work (I did try just on the of chance you were correct) they are completely different internally.
marcushesketh1991 said:
I sell these phones at work. No it doesn't work (I did try just on the of chance you were correct) they are completely different internally.
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Well, that's a shame.
You cant put micro usb to type C port. Its the same with this, the port is for a sim, not for a microSD card. )
ZeusftW97 said:
You cant put micro usb to type C port. Its the same with this, the port is for a sim, not for a microSD card. )
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That's a horrible example, that situation is a ridiculous one, whereas manufacturers will often share parts between the same line of phones, it's cheaper to do that because you need less board revisions, you don't change the assembly line nearly as much, and you don't need to buy different parts, in this case it would be the physical pin assembly that would have the contacts for the sd card. This is already obvious since they ship the single sim units with a different tray, but you can root the phone and there's some sort of paid service to enable the second sim.
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I was trying to find a good rate for a flatrate AND telephone costs - but somehow either on or the other sucks for me. I heard of phones which have dual sim, but the Galaxy has only one slot, so an idea came up:
Would it be somehow possible to backup a sim card and simulate it much like cdrom drives etc can be simulated on a pc? Possibly not I guess since it is read by hardware and all that stuff is hardwired, but I don't really know about this much so I wanted to ask you guys who know alot about the internals of the phones.
Its just a crazy idea ... it would probably not be "allowed" either but I'm just interested =)
the galaxy s has a setting that i noticed before it says ''dual sim - no'' was in txt document somewhere in system. what you propose would be a major security issue i certainly wouldnt want anyone else to get my cloned sim so such apps should never be made. you can buy a dual sim adapter they even support 3g and are pretty cheap you can take look at few here browse to second item.
http://www.fonefunshop.co.uk/dualsim/dualsimcovers.htm
Even if it could be done, it would certainly be illegal. The developer who made this possible will face lawsuits from all the major (and perhaps the smaller one as well) carriers.
This would be great feature/software and not only for illegal things. For example - I have a phone, which has something broken in SIM card reader - it gives me "No Sim card in Phone" whatever SIM I use... So with such software I could make an image of my valid SIM card on another phone and would be able to use it with "half-broken" phone
Unfortunately, this is not possible at the moment and my phone is almost useless
Hi,
I put a nano sim adapter into my brand new razr I, and when I removed it, it got caught on 2 of the pins, and pulled them out the sim card slot. The phone will no longer read a sim card.
I also imported my phone overseas (South Africa) and bought it off ebay.
1) Is there a way to get this phone fixed? They don't sell the Razr I in my country (hence why I needed to import it). Is there maybe a similar phone that shares a sim card holder?
2) Can just the sim card slot be replaced or does a whole part of the phone need replacing?
Thanks for the help!
same problem
hi1 i have the same problem, you can fix you phone? how you do ?
Hi guys.
It ´s highly possible, that the SIM slot is similar or identic to other phones slots. So If you find some good mobile phone service, They really can look at it and maybe change for new one for lets say from $20 to $50 including work... You just have to try....
Hi.
Yesterday I bought a P7-L10.
For what I read, it's a single sim phone, but since there are several versions, but some say they are all the same, could there be any mod that could turn my L-10 into a dual-sim phone?
Thanks in advance for your answers
No-one replied and I doubt they will.
The short answer is no you cant.
The long technical answer is the phone is made with certain hardware I would ask you first how do you think a mod would work try to think that one through logically.
The phone only has one simcard slot and one antenna and the software / drivers is compiled and installed accordingly.
If you think you can just buy a usb simcard adaptor and magically turn the device into dual sim it doesn't work that way.
And if you didn't want a external device connected by your usb plug you would need to modify the internal phones SMD surface mounted hardware and thats not easy when they are built on robotic machines as you can see in this video.
Think about rooting all system level things is behind root and the rom would need to be modified for such functionality if it even existed.
Also the actual hardware and eproms inside the phone isn't designed or coded to work this way even if there is a usb simcard adaptor.
There is a modula phone in concept Project Ara by Google and another phone had a kickstarter that failed to get the concept of the ground and this could be the only way to do it in the future if the concept is realised.
Thats the basics of it simple and technical wise.
drguild said:
No-one replied and I doubt they will.
The short answer is no you cant.
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This is not entirely true.
Huawei suggested there was dual-SIM capability in the Ascend P7 at its launch, with a second SIM supposedly able to sit in the SD card slot if you value connectivity over storage space.
samoborac said:
This is not entirely true.
Huawei suggested there was dual-SIM capability in the Ascend P7 at its launch, with a second SIM supposedly able to sit in the SD card slot if you value connectivity over storage space.
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That is true for the dual Sim models like L00 that I use as I do use 2 sims.
The question was how to mod his single sim phone L10 to dual Sim which I answered correctly as the single Sim models hardware is lacking the physical bits and drivers in the kernel etc for a second Sim card likewise how the L00 lacks the internal hardware components and drivers in the kernel for NFC, this is also why the Roms are incompatible between models as well as different components like the radio freq for different regions which they all use different kernel drivers.
It would be the same if a L00 user asked how to mod NFC into his phone when there is no physical tag reader component on the circuit board.
The question was not if the p7 came in a dual Sim variant.
I was also correct on project Ara concept as no phone currently available in the world let's you change internal components like upgrade or swap your camera from 8mp to 15mp or swap in in a screen with higher DPI, memory or internal storage or even swap the sdcard module for a second Sim or something.
It's a concept Google and some others are looking at our of interest just because they can.
i think drguild is right. may be the same reason why huawei didn't include the L-10 to the list of phones that will recieve OTA firmware upgrade., Only the L-10 phone can't use dual sim., it doesn't even have any features or some sort of settings for it., even if the micro SD slot can adopt the nano sim. it seems that it doesn't have a way to operate it.,
this is not a down for this phone. single sim phone has lot of advantages than dual sim phone. like battery consumption., and phone speed.
some samsung models can enable single sim to dual sim. like s7. some asus phones can changing sim module to dual enabling dual sim but with single imei. i have damaged p7 single sim i tired change sdcard slot to dual sim holder but does not worked.
Hello, I recently bought the S5 mini on Amazon. Apparently the device is from Brazil.
It does work on my NY network only issue I am having is that the micro SIM card (not memory card, actual network provider card) I am using gets lost in the slot, while the regular size one doesnt even fit. Is there anything in the middle?
The micro actually works but to get it out I need tweezers and a lot of patience .... Which makes me wonder if that's the correct size to begin with?
Help please?
Thanks
Isn't your nano sim?
This is how my cards look like:
Hello. Was in a hurry and attempted to pull out the Sim card (nano with an adapter) in my xt1064 and ended up removing it, but the phone no longer recognizes any SIM cards. I contacted a local repair and was told the SIM tray is soldered to main board. I did see this video which shows the dual-sim variant as removable (see at 4;45-5:00 min (http://youtu.be/l29IvoYolh8) SIM cards go inside (but not as before), but do pish in and eject OK. I read online re: trying to align pins in the tray, but didn't see a good tutorial. I did open the phone and the tray is not easily openable (see a spring on the side). So how would I go about trying to get this repaired? Looked at etradesuppky and just saw few major parts (screen, housing, battery), unlike a lot more small components avail for xt1032. Any ideas/suggestions? This had to happen right after I flashed an updated lollipop 5.0.1 with success after few weeks of waiting. Thanks for any input.
Like you said it sounds like the SIM pins might be damaged. If you're pretty confident about tinkering with it yourself then be careful and continue Or else just take it to a service center.
Can someone post a close-up macro picture of the SIM tray? I can't seemed to figure out how the pins should look like? Is there a guide/tutorial on how they should look/work? Thanks A LOT.