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Cellular Phone Forum / Manufacturers / Ericsson / January 2004UK T610 functions differently when italian PAYG card inserted
I have a Sony Ericsson T610 on O2 here in the UK but frequently travel to Italy where I switch the SIM card with one from Italy's TIM network. With the TIM SIM card, the phone defaults to using SIM memory instead of phone memory. For instance if you click down on the joystick to bring up your contacts, it reads them only from the SIM card phone-book (which is empty in my case!), and if you receive a text message it goes directly to the SIM card. This is different functionality from when the phone contains the O2 SIM. It's also quite annoying. If you want to call somebody you have to go deep into the contacts sub-menu to find them. Alternatively you need to copy the whole phone book to the SIM card, of course losing the enhancements you have with contacts in phone memory - multiple numbers, photos etc. Text messages will first fill up the SIM then go to phone memory, but then you constantly have a flashing envelope on the screen telling you the sim is full! Does anyone know how or why this is happening? I have witnessed other people's TIM SIMs behaving this way in T610s also. Why have TIM done this? I don't see the benefit at all. > I have a Sony Ericsson T610 on O2 here in the UK but frequently travel to > Italy where I switch the SIM card with one from Italy's TIM network. With [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > people's TIM SIMs behaving this way in T610s also. Why have TIM done this? I > don't see the benefit at all. This happens often when you swap SIM cards on an unlocked phone. It confused me at first too! After you install the SIM the phone tends to default to SIM memory unless you tell it otherwise. I have a Nokia 6210 and within the messages section there is a menu option to tell the phone which memory to use as a default (SIM or phone). I don't know your phone but I'm sure there must be a similar menu option somewhere, therefore the first thing you would do after you have swapped your SIM is to check that the phone is set to 'phone memory' as a default, so that you can access all your contacts again and save your texts to the phone and not the SIM. > This happens often when you swap SIM cards on an unlocked phone. It confused > me at first too! After you install the SIM the phone tends to default to SIM > memory unless you tell it otherwise. Not in this case! Every TIM subscriber (using a Sonyericsson phone) has the same problem: it is caused by the "64kb simcards" distibuted by the italian carrier! They force the phone to use the sim memory because some services need to get information from the sim. If you are a TIM subscriber, when you are not reachable and someone try to call you, the network store the caller Id and send you an sms when you are reachable again telling who called you and when. In that sms you'll find the name of the caller (instead of the number) if his name has been stored to the sim memory before. MB > Not in this case! > Every TIM subscriber (using a Sonyericsson phone) has the same problem: it [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > MB So there's nothing I can do.. But if the problem/feature only exists for TIM customers using Sony Ericsson phones is not a problem with Sony Ericsson phones then? Do TIM customers with other makes of phone have the same problem? > So there's nothing I can do.. But if the problem/feature only exists for > TIM customers using Sony Ericsson phones is not a problem with Sony Ericsson > phones then? Do TIM customers with other makes of phone have the same > problem? As far as I know only latest SonyEricsson phones using latest TIM simcard (64Kb) have this problem: I've got a T610 but I'm a Vodafone Italy subscriber so everything is ok. A friend of mine has a T610 too, but he's an old TIM subscriber so his simcard is pretty old (16Kb) and everything is ok! There are two solutions: change provider or change phone! ;-) MB > As far as I know only latest SonyEricsson phones using latest TIM simcard > (64Kb) have this problem: I've got a T610 but I'm a Vodafone Italy > subscriber so everything is ok. A friend of mine has a T610 too, but he's an > old TIM subscriber so his simcard is pretty old (16Kb) and everything is ok! > > There are two solutions: change provider or change phone! ;-) Hhmmm.. Unfortunately TIM offers the best coverage in the relatively rural area I'm concerned with in Italy. It's ridiculous that a new SIM card on a pretty much state-of-the-art phone (as of last summer) can combine to create these problems! I think changing phone is the more likely scenario but I don't know what phone offers the same level of features as the T610 (including bluetooth)... Cheers anyway :-) |
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