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afe66

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#1277770 6-Apr-2015 12:30

MrsDarthKermit:

I appreciate you all trying to help me, but after trying everything you have suggested I feel that trying the store may be my last resort. My only guess is that all the hospital equipment has interfered with my phone.

Unlikely as the hospital equipment is insulated to protect itself from external interference, which means its also doesn’t affect external equipment either.

If you have notice this problem intermittently, by your comment that rebooting didn’t solve the issue like it usually does.

So either a dodgy SIM or phone given up the ghost.

I had a similar issue with my SIM, went to vodafone shop, chap placed his sim card in my phone and rebooted fine so copied my only SIM data to a new card inserted the new card and problem solved.

Took less than 5 minutes and free.

If you cant wait until tuesday or you will be at work then, wander round the shops and buy a cheap SIM card from dick smith, warehouse, fb hifi etc.

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#1277776 6-Apr-2015 12:53

What make and model of phone? My old iPhone used to get dust in the sim slot for some reason and this issue would occur now and then. I blew gently to get the dust out and that was all it needed.

Aredwood

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#1277794 6-Apr-2015 12:58

I have also had a Vodafone Sim die on me. It was also an old sim, so guess it was to be partially expected.

Surely you have a friend / family member / neighbour / work colleague who you could swap SIM's with for 5 min just to test.

MrsDarthKermit

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#1277796 6-Apr-2015 12:59

I took it into the Spark store here and outlined the problem to one of their staff there and they checked the SIM (which was fine) and I was still listed as a customer there. He managed to source the problem as the phone being stuck on 2G instead of 3G.

I appreciate you all trying to help, and I thank you for all your suggestions.

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#1277843 6-Apr-2015 13:48

MrsDarthKermit: I took it into the Spark store here and outlined the problem to one of their staff there and they checked the SIM (which was fine) and I was still listed as a customer there. He managed to source the problem as the phone being stuck on 2G instead of 3G.

I appreciate you all trying to help, and I thank you for all your suggestions.

Ah ha. Yes this caught me out once too. Came back into the country, popped sim in, can't call out. Was the 2G/3G switch. It's only an issue on the spark/skinny network as there is no 2G service.