COME ON APPLE! iphone 4s SIM ISSUE!!
please, has anyone rec'd any advice from the horses mouth regarding the sim issue?? im unable to make calls / send sms. im on ios5.01, have restored, restarted, popped the sim, unlocked the sim, whispered sweet nothings..........
have replaced the sim.... i bought my 32gig unit in Singapore and am now in Cambodia which equates to ZERO iphone support from Apple. Whats a guy to do with a nice shiny phone it its box? Sim works fine in 3GS and various other non Apple handsets. BIG ISSUE here. Ive tried the sticky tape, cleaning the SIM, re cutting a new SIM.
If the contacts of the SIM are touching the sim holder could this be the cause of the problem........?
Any feedback would be greatly rec'd..
I have similar problem. Bought the phone in Singapore and is using a China mobile SIM card. I get invalid SIM card almost everyday, as soon as I restart, the signal is back again. I tried changing to a new SIM card but it still have that problem.
On another issue, my battery life didn't last as long as my previous 4G.
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i have apple iphone 4 32gb orange,currently i m india,and unable to use indian sim,and i have updated it to new ios6,can u plz help me out
Select the country in which the iPhone was originally sold:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1937
You'll find a link to the carrier on whose pages you can probably find contact information.
As RG said, only the carrier to which the iPhone is locked can authorize unlocking. That is the only "way out". To have an iPhone that was "factory unlocked", you would have had to purchase it that way.
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