[Closed] ot sim card registration failed !

anyone ?

My brother's area this, so I could be talking rubbish, but search for the phone model and "unlock" on EBay. Should find something on there.

dezb , i think the handset is locked to all networks

all networks sims tried

From VF

SIM card registration failed means that the SIM card in your phone is either not activated on our network or has a lost or stolen bar in place on it.

[i]Mate[/i] given you a stolen handset?

Slightly rude question, but is the mobile nicked, or has it ever been reported as stolen (ie.did your mate lose it then find it again or something?) When you say 'off a mate', is it someone you know well and trust, or someone off ebay or something?

Just that this is exactly what a phone that is blocked by a network due to being reported stolen looks like - sim card registration failed with any network sims.

One quick thing worth checking is in the menus somewhere to find 'operator selection' or 'network selection', and make sure that is set to automatic not manual.

Assuming that isn't the case, the first thing I'd do is try your mate's sim card who you got the phone off just to check it actually works at all. If that works, then it is probably just a network lock, depending on the phone, you may be able to unlock it for free, or it is a local phone shop job. If that doesn't work, it's hard to know what it could be other than a network block or a broken phone.

Oh, if it is network blocked, you can't remove it except by doing quite illegal things which are possible for networks to detect and could get you into trouble (changing the handset imei number).

If it's legit, your mate needs to ring the mobile provider it started on to get them to unlock it.

If it's not legit, you're on the wrong forum.

The phones nicked, you naughty boy.

turns out ,mate not paid the bill on the mobile and network blocked the handset..bollox