Please help... Sim card problem

[Marijn]

Could someone please help. I dropped my mobile yesterday and the sim card fell out. I put the sim card back in the phone but the phone keeps asking for a sim card. I put the sim card in my spare phone and that one also doesn't recognise it as a sim card either, and asks me to insert sim. The problem is I have 150 phone numbers on "broken sim", and only put in a dozen numbers on my spare phone sim (which I use when I'm charging battery on the other one). If I can't get broken sim to work, then I've lost all those numbers. Does anyone know how I can get broken sim to work, if only just for long enough to get the numbers written down?

[B Rubble]

Hi

Don't think you'll get it working.

Sorry :'-(

[ACtheTROLL]

you have a spare phone for when you charge the main one??????????????????????? [;-O

sims are extremely low power devices ... all that handling isn't good for them - they are designed to be put in an left

try carefully cleaning the contacts with a clean cotton cloth shirty type material is ideal

DON'T breath on it (like glasses) or "blow the dust off"

also .... don't hold your breath

[Marijn]

Yep, my new phone is rubbish and constantly and without warning runs out of battery ( but it has a camera which my old one doesn't). So I've saved my old, very basic reliable phone for a stand by.
Thank you for your answers, I will try rubbing sim one more time with clean cloth. Cheers

[alan-r]

any luck with it? mine did the same once but i cleaned it to get any greasy finger print of that may have got onto it and it did the trick

[Marijn]

No it's still not working. It's so frustrating. What did you clean yours with? By the way, thanks for asking. I know I should have had back-up, there's some numbers I know I have lost forever.

[lynn555]

have you tried putting your sim into another phone, even just to get your numbers, it might be your phone thats broken and not reading your sim, not your sim.

[lynn555]

sorry just noted you have tried that.

[Marijn]

Thank you Lynn. I even tried rubbing it with a rubber as a friend of mine suggested, but no luck. It's very annoying, but hopefully I'll learn from it. :-)