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I hope you all can help. I have a Nokia 6230, worked fine yesterday, this morning, I get a "Insert SIM card" message. Check the card, it's in there. So, I put in my daughter's SIM card, works fine. Stick mine back in, same error message, so I figure SIM has gone bad. So I call Cingular, ask them to activate my new SIM card we got when we purchased a phone a few months ago, but didn't need a new SIM at the time. She took the number down, said give it a few minutes, should be fine. Well, once I stuck it in, I now get "Phone Restricted". I've read many messages on forums on how to get unlock codes. Problem is - why doesn't it ask me that with my daughter's SIM card in there? This new SIM looks a tad different than the ones we had before - all are Cingular, same store.
We've entered several numbers, mainly thinking "security code", not restriction code, so I've probably already screwed it up. But even then, as soon as I stick in the SIM from my daughter's phone, my phone works just fine again. All our phones are different models & makes, if that makes a difference, though probably not. I switch my SIM card from my Nokia back to my Motorola flip phone every once in a while with no problems.
Any help as to whether my phone is truly locked or what???
I also had a weird call the other day from some guy asking me where I got this phone, as he was the owner of this phone, it had his "call back" number on it. I've had the phone since Christmas, bought on ebay, but my phone number is fairly new, but I've never had any wrong numbers, so I'm not sure what he was talking about, or if he had a wrong number. I did read on one board about phones being reported stolen, and being banned, but if this was my problem, no SIM card would work on the phone at all, would it?
I also read somewhere but can't find it again that Nokia 6230 were a little picky about the newer SIM cards? Is this my problem, having a newer version of Cingular's SIM card in the phone? The other one is well over a year or so old...maybe two.
Thanks for any help!
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