Hi everyone, so you've got your new HTC One M8
and you need to pop your sim card in. Now if you're coming from an
old device, an older device even, that uses the old
micro sims, this big one here, you are going to need to swap over
to the nano sim. Now, depending on your network, if you bought your contract your
handset
contract-free and you're moving from an old device
then you may very well need to speak to your mobile network to get
a new nano sim. Some networks will charge you. I got charged
£10.20 by T-Mobile even though Orange
gets them for free and they're the same company. Although apparently EE
who is the kind of umbrella for these two new companies Orange and T-Mobile
also does like to charge to swap you for a nano sim. Absolutely disgraceful that it will cost
£10.20.
There's not 20p worth of metal and plastic there and it certainly didn't
take
£10 worth of man hours to put everything across onto the sim,
ie. attach my phone number.
It took him all of about three minutes. So there's a
great amount of profiteering there by those networks. Just be aware of it, do complain
to customer service afterwards and you probably will get
a credit applied to your account for the money. Now the main
issue you need to be aware of here and the reason why I say you have to get a new
nano
a new sim card for this device is you can't just chop down the old
micro sim like we used to do. So when we went from the larger size sim to micro sim we
just
chopped down the plastic and it worked. As you can see, the chip design
is very different here. So unfortunately even chopping these down
it's not going to fit and it's not going to work. Be very careful, don't even try it.
You will probably end up breaking your phone. So do go and get your nano sim
if you've bought your phone off contract. If you happen to be a
new customer who's picked up one of these or you're getting an upgrade
that sim should have been included in your box for you. Now,
HTC provides a very handy little tool. We lovingly refer to these as the paperclip
after Apple
famously provided a sim tool with the first generation iPhone that was actually just a
paper clip.
They hadn't had time to actually manufacture a proper tool so
I lovingly refer to these as the paperclip device but
let's have a look at how we actually go through the process of replacing the
sim card.
So first off the sim tray is on this side, denoted by the fact that it is a much
longer tray
than the one on the other side which is for your trans flash or micro sd card.
Now what we need to do, we get our sim paperclip
pop that and then that gives us access to our tray.
Now the first thing you will notice instantly is there is no way in a
million years
that sim card is going to fit into that tray. It is as simple as that so your old sim card
throw it away.
Now, your new sim, your nano sim,
as you can see it has a small nodule down
this one side. If you've ever used any kind of sim card in a mobile phone before you'll be well aware
of this.
All we need to do is we just need to match up that nodule on both sides
there
so on the sim tray and on the nano-sim they are
nice and flush. If it is in any other configuration, if it's not completely flush
into that tray. Let me see if I can just show you this. If there's
any of the nano sim visible then you've put it in the wrong way round.
Simple as that. It's not quite fitting, it has to be flush into that tray.
Let me just see if I can that get a little bit closer for you. You can see there,
nice and flush. It sits in the tray. If I run my finger across it, it's a smooth
edge as it were. So that's important. If you get it in the wrong way round
I'm afraid a) it isn't going to work and it might get jammed in the socket. Now the next thing to do is obviously make sure that that
long arm there goes the right way round. Essentially the nano sim goes face-down
and clip it in. And it's as simple as that to put the sim card
in. Now what will then happen is depending on your particular device
if you went off contract, if your device is sim free
you will then get a prompt to restart the phone and install the network settings.
You may also get that prompt depending on your mobile network anyway
if they haven't already pre-added all of those details on to the device.
That quick process takes around a second or so. Just run through a quick reboot and
that's it. You've got access to the APN settings
that allow you to access the internet your voicemail messages and so on.
Now the next area is the micro sd otherwise known as the TransFlash
drive. Now this is a little bit interesting because
the TransFlash is very, very similar to
the micro sim as you'll see now. And this actually did because when I went to
actually swap my sim card
over I hadn't had the manual with me at the time and I hadn't actually looked in the
manual to see
exactly which tray I needed to be using. Bad me! But,
to begin with I was like this nano sim is not going to be fitting in this
tray properly and,
you know, doing all these various things and I'm thinking hmmm, it's not going to work
but obviously then I realised that actually it was on the other side but just be aware
because your nano sim, if I show you,
is very, very similar size to a TransFlash.
Only a couple of small differences, mostly in the way nodules work but to begin
with you might think
if you looked at it, huh, looks sort of
it's the sort of right kind of size. Especially when you kind of first get your device and
you've got your old sim card. You might think oh, that actually the correct place to pop
this but it's not quite fitting snugly. So
just bear in mind. Definitely,definitely not the tray
to use your old micro sim in. Throw the damn thing away. It is only
for your little TransFlash here. You just drop that onto the
tray and again it sits flush inside there.
It doesn't raise up, there's no edges at all you need to be aware of
it should just sit nice and flush into that tray. If it does
great just drop it straight in, Ooops get that
the right way round.
Is that the right way round and just clip it straight in. Now let's pop in our
nano sim again and that will be job done.
Whoops.
Helps if I just pop that in the right way.
There we go. So again,
pop it into your tray,
clip it into the device. Job done. Easy as
that. So just to be aware, like I say
that tray on this side is your micro sd, your TransFlash. It is not to be used
for
a micro sim. Your nano sim is on this side and it is a much smaller sim card and
you will need to get a replacement if you've got one of the old micro sims. Don't try and cut
it down or anything like that.
Your transflash micro sd on the side can take 128gig of
storage which is just monstrous and should provide more than ample space for
absolutely any road warrior. So, there you go. That's how you pop in your
nano sim and also your micro sd transflash drive as
well.
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