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Issues with magician after unlocking

Hi, just got an MDA compact that was sim-locked to T-Mobile
After reading thru this forum i unlocked it on http://www.imei-check.co.uk
Only now i can use EVERY other UK SIM card inside it apart from virgin mobile. Every time i stick a virgin SIM inside it, i get the message "call ended" when i try to dial any number from the MDA and the message "calls are currently not being connected to this number" when i dial the MDA from another phone
Now i know it's not an issue with the SIM card because the virgin SIM works fine in my XDA 2 and in any other phone, so i'm guessing it's an issue with the MDA itself.
Has anyone else had problems like this with the MDA compact and if so, how did you resolve them?
Also this unit won't let me flash it with a new OS, every time i extract the original ROM, NTRW.exe gives me the message "OriginalROM.nb1 cannot be read - the file exists". Any help on this would be greatly appreciated too
OS ROM: 1.01.00 WWE
Radio ROM: 1.00.10
D (no idea what this is): 1337.36

okay, starting to think the MDA i found has been reported lost or stolen.
I'm guessing the reason that i keep getting the message "call ended" is due to the fact that virgin mobile piggybacks the T-Mobile network and so virgin was blocked off as well since T-Mobile blocked the IMEI. (I don't want to try to risk putting in a T-Mobile SIM in the phone so i'm not sure)
I can't return the phone to it's owner either since the MDA was wiped clean when i got it (owner musta forgot to charge it).
Ah well it still makes a good PDA
Well that's solved the problem of the "call ended" message. Anyone else who has that message after buying a phone off the net, you probably bought one that was nicked and resold.

It will be blocked on all networks unfortunately, only good as a phone outside UK so at least you can use it on holiday abroad.

"Unknown SIM Error" on MDA Pro on T-Mobile

Hi,
I just bought an MDA Pro direct from T-Mobile's website and it was delivered today. Unfortunately, while the PDA side of things works perfectly, it won't connect to T-Mobile at all.
On the 'T-Mobile' start up screen it displays the text 'No GSM' above what I think must be version information.
It reports 'no service' in the phone status bubble, and SIM Manager says: "Only emergency service calls can be made without a PIN" When I enter the PIN I was given, nothing happens. I think it goes into 'change PIN mode' because then I can put two more 4-digit numbers in (it doesn't matter which!) and then it says "Unknown PIN Status. Unknown PIN Error"
Unfortunately it isn't just a SIM problem as the SIM works in my O2 P800.
I've spoken with T-Mobile and they want to swap the handset, which would be fine if they had any in stock! I'm wondering if anyone here had any advice on ways I could try fixing this short of waiting for them to get in touch and tell me they have another handset I can try.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Hi,
what is your local provider ? Is it T-Mobile, Vodafone, E-plus or O2 ?
The mda pro only works with a t-mobile sim !
- Superbowl

Try to clean the sim before putting it back in the MDA Pro,
Generally works for me!

i had the same problem with my jasjar here is Australia......my sim works on any other pda and phones but not the jasjar.....apparently the sim that i have or some of the new sims have a little higher voltage than normal.......and the jasjar dont like it.....so what i did was replace the sim with another one and that worked......al they had to do was port my number to the new sim......but before it did that tried to put the sim in first and it started to look for a network so i knew this was gonna work......becoz before when i put my old sim in it just says invalid sim or no sim........so try replacing ur sim with another one......perhaps try and get an old sim maybe the sim has some in stock.....i bet ya that will wrok....good luck

Thanks guys ... I'm trying to find an older T-Mobile SIM to try. It's just frustrating! I've tried giving the SIM a wipe, to no avail. If it is that the SIM is slightly incompatible, T-Mobile sending out another unit won't really help, right?
How annoying!
If anyone else has any great ideas I'd love to hear them!

try using someone elses sim and put it in the device and give it a try to check if its definitely the unit and not the sim......when i rang the tech support for optus thats what i was advised.....and they were right....sim voltage was the problem......anyways try getting another sim.

Contact customer services.
The problem sounds like you SIM is too old.
They should ask for your SIM serial number, if its too old they'll offer to send you a new SIM or something else to make it work straight away??? :wink:

The MDA PRO as its a 3G type phone with WCDMA it needs a diffrent sim card that is usaly known as a 3V USIM.
Its the same on Three in the UK, the sims from their phones will only work in 3G phones not standard GSM ones and vica-versa.

Old SIMs (from about 5 years ago) are rated at 5 volts. Newer ones are 3 volts (not just for 3G). Trust me, I work for a certain mobile phone company who sponser West Brom. ;-)
The problem will be fixed in a future software upgrade. But for now you need a new SIM or your phone unlocked.

Trouble is, this *is* a new SIM... I'm moving back to the 'hardware fault' diagnosis I think.
I went to a friendly carphone warehouse shop in Oxford and tried a new (and definately working) T-Mobile PAYG SIM and that gave exactly the same error.
Maybe T-Mobile need to send me a 3G SIM. I guess I'm probably just going to have to wait until they can send me a new handset to see what happens.
Ho hum!

There's no such thing as a 3G SIM. The 3G gigery pokery happens on the phone. There is no need for a different SIM. The MDA Pro has a problem with SIMs with certain serial numbers (Don't know which coz I'm not at work). You need either a SIM that the phone likes or your phone unlocked. Call customer services if you still have your phone.

Had the same problem allready twice in 2 weeks.
One time a soft reset made the device working again - another time I had to take out the sim card and put it in again, then it worked. But all email accounts were gone and had to be installed again.
Chris

Slave1 said:
There's no such thing as a 3G SIM. The 3G gigery pokery happens on the phone. There is no need for a different SIM. The MDA Pro has a problem with SIMs with certain serial numbers (Don't know which coz I'm not at work). You need either a SIM that the phone likes or your phone unlocked. Call customer services if you still have your phone.
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Hi, thanks for that reply... it seems very useful! If you could post/pm me the numbers of those SIMs that the MDA Pro is unlikely to like I'd really appreciate it... customer services aren't striking me as very helpful (and certainly not knowledgable) and I can tell that if I call them they're still going to say: Wait until we have another handset in stock and we'll see what happens then. Which doesn't help me much as who knows when that will be?
Thanks!

Any SIM serial not starting with 06 or 07 will be affected by the issue.
eg 90043575, the serial starts with 04.
This will be fixed with a software upgrade in the future, in the mean time you either need new SIM or you handset unlocked. For either call customer services.

I got my MDA Pro a few days ago also, had the same problem as you, basically the handset is network locked, not sure how they managed to lock all UK network, basically give Tmob a call and make sure your stay on the line until they provide with an unlock code, i got mine, now my old sim works and my handset is unlocked

I got my MDA Pro a few days ago also, had the same problem as you, basically the handset is network locked, not sure how they managed to lock all UK network, basically give Tmob a call and make sure your stay on the line until they provide with an unlock code, i got mine, now my old sim works and my handset is unlocked

i had the same problem with my ASUS P535 (here is France) with new SIM card.
seen from :http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20070818011855796&board_id=6&model=P535&page=1&SLanguage=en-us
Thanks.

I had the same problem BUT-
I had the same problem but i had been using the sim card successfully with the exec for a year, after a hard reset it doesnt recognise the sim. will a ROM upgrade fix it or is it a hardware failiure?

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lauriewsmith said:
I had the same problem but i had been using the sim card successfully with the exec for a year, after a hard reset it doesnt recognise the sim. will a ROM upgrade fix it or is it a hardware failiure?
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I had this happening to me just last week with a card that works all the time. Then followed that I had no sound coming off speakers or bluetooth. In my case it was a third party software problem. Don't ask me which as I install and uninstall too many applications and my Uni gets in a tangle sometimes. A soft reset instantly (in terms!) restored phone activities and sound, so I recommend a reset if you haven't tried it already. Maybe you will need more than one.

NO SERVICE? - For no reason

Hello..
I last night put my phone onto "flight mode" so that i was not distrubed in the night if a text came through....
this morning i set it back to normal but the network reception reported NO SERVICE
when it had not come back this evening.... i put my sim in a different phone and used a different network's sim card in my pda.... NO SERVICE was reported for this as well but the sim that was placed in the other phone registered on o2 as soon as the phone was switched on
I've only just bought my MDA but off ebay... although it was new i am unable to contact the seller... please can anybody help??
email me to [email protected] or [email protected] if anybody can help
Thanks

MORE info re above
Hi again
In my frustration I have swapped sims again and this time put VODAFONE pay as you go sim in the MDA Magician above.... It found the network and i was able to ring/text from it.....
On putting the O2 Sim Back into the MDA it said NO SERVICE again.....
But using that very same sim in my nokia finds a network.....
The MDA is originally a TMOBILE one that has been unlocked...
ANY help on this would be very appreciated as I'm very annoyed that it's stopped working.
Thank you

Soft reset?
Although, I think taking your batter out and swapping sims may count as a soft reset.

Thanks for the reply - but again that did not solve it... besides to eliminate this i did a HARD RESET as well and re configured it....
I've even RE UNLOCKED it in case this was the problem
(its a T MOBILE PDA) with an O2 SIM IN...... I bought it in November time and unlocked it the same time... My O2 Sim has been working ok in it until the other night when i decided to put it in "flight mode"(so i wasn't disturbed at night)
Im suspecting that it anything to do with IMEI number vs SIM CARD number? Could this have been blocked somehow to that phone?
Its very confusing as it WORKS with VODA sim and DOESNT with O2 yet the SAME O2 sim works in my old nokia 6610.... aaarggghhhh!! LOL

If your MDA works with a Vodafone SIM, it certainly can't be blacklisted for all UK networks since it picks up Vodafone. Secondly, it sounds more like a SIM card issue relating strictly to the MDA. What happens when you try another O2 SIM card in the same MDA?
Make sure the O2 SIM hasn't been damaged in some way, if all fails you might want to take the MDA to T-Mobile to see if they can determine whether its IMEI has been blacklisted for certain networks. Otherwise a ROM upgrade may also help fix the problem.
Good Luck

My guess is that your magician is reported & listed as stolen. Probably not all providers are using the same list with blocked IMEI numbers. Which can explain that one sim works & the other doesn't though works in an other phone.
See if you can find a list for your country on the web. There are some references to such lists in this forum.
Regards, M

check which band your phone is using....
go Phone>Options>band> then select auto

BIG PROBLEM WITH MDA COMPACT 2

hello, I've an mda compact II, simlocked and with english rom, I try to unlock it with lockwiz, but I failed, after I try to upgrade the rom in italian rom, I try with a wizard rom because I read a topic where peope write that it's the same rom and that I can upgrade my mda with that.
So I run the upgrade and at the end the phone swiched off and now I can't swith on it!!!!!!!
HELP HELP HELP
TANKS

wizard roms do not work on this phone, they paperweight it. you need to send the phone back to HTC or T-Mobile to get it fixed.

HELLO, I'M FROM ITALY, CAN TELL ME HOW CAN I SEND IT TO T-MOBILE??
TANKS

By AirMail ex.

try getting contact with these people
http://www.htceurope.com/
t-mobile will just ask you to contact them. I'm on O2 and I've got my charmer off ebay. And, later there is a problem with the speaker that requires me to send it for repair. I purposely get hold of my self a T-mobile PAYG SIM card so that I can call up t-mobile to have my charmer repair/replace. After all the fuss of getting an internet account, numbers and password pin, the give me the htceurope number. Sigh.
Anyway, try their web page case report thing. the last time I tried it, it doesn't work so I have to call them instead. And, calling them seems to be problematic too, as there aren't usually people around getting the calls. try calling them early 10-12 in the morning (not around 900), and leave a message on their answering machine. They will respond to you the next day. The experience with then aren't that bad. So, good luck

The Phone is not ready Error Message

Hi All, first post here trying desperately to find some information on the following problem.
My handset SPV M600 has the orange customisation and has been hard reset so it's back to factory specs. I can make and receive phone calls ok but I can't access the messaging services, send or receive text messages. Whenever I try I get the following error message
Phone
The phone is not ready. Wait 15 seconds and try again.
Needless to say, I've waited a bit longer than that with no joy. I would really REALLY! appreciate any help or advice you could give. Orange have tried sending SIM updates - (my monitor flashes like it does when there's something receiving on your nearby handset) but they never appear in the inbox.
I'm willing to try anything, even a reflash to another stable ROM if someone can point me in the right direction for a howto and the files.
Sorry for the long post, here's hoping you can help!
Cheers
Dan

Same problem!
Hi Hitby,
Did you get this resolved? If so, what did you do?
I've just upgraded my Orange contract and got a new SIM from them. Everything was fine with my old SIM, this new one is OK for calls, but not texts. Same messae as you.
Orange aren't interested - not Orange phone etc.
Rather frustrated with them, needless to say!
Richard

i did mate, you need to get orange to switch the SIM card for a compatible one, Personally I thought they were all the same but apparently not. Mines a violet one with a small orange logo, can't remember what the other one was like (black?) but it looked different. I spoke to someone in the UK at length who maintained it was nothing to do with them then rang back and got put through to the indian call centre, she took my SIM card number and knew straight away from the digits that it wouldn't be compatible!

Thanks
Thanks for info! This is driving me nuts, to the point where I'm almost spending £200 for new phone.
My SIM is a black one with a dark red pattern.
Orange told me "it shouldn't matter what phone you put your SIM into; it should all work"
I'll try calling and ask for a compatible SIM card. Great job for my holidays.
I will post outcome
Richard

yeah, the guy i spoke to in the UK said that to me as well but there ARE different types. hope you get it sorted
Dan

Fixed....well kind of
No joy with Orange. They almost lost my business, and I had to go to two shops before it was "sorted".
I decided to upgrade to the SPV M3100 (£200 from Orange on my contract) and I'll sell the existing phone to a friend (if his SIM card works, of course)
Big companies versus one consumer....guess who won.
Thanks again,
Richard

Phone not ready error
I had the same problem. Orange are unwilling to acknowledge that they do have different SIM cards in the first instance. However, I called them and told them that I had spoken to HTC and that HTC had confirmed that there is a known issue with some Orange SIM cards and the Prophet (although I actually I hadn't). I also told them that I needed a purple and orange SIM card instead of a black and orange one. Two days later a new SIM was forwarded and my phone is fully functional - be persistent with Orange and you will get a result. I gather from the Technician who called me back that there are a series of numbers on the SIM card number which indicates which type of SIM it is. (From memory I think he said anything over 30 was a 3G SIM which is incompatible) but for sure Orange in Bristol are aware of the fault and know how to put it right. I spoke to several supervisors before I got a resut so be ready to be persistent. Oh and once sorted don't forget to complain about the service you have received - I got some free line rental out of it too.

Congratulations
Well done on getting yourself sorted with Orange. I'm a very patient guy but after getting different stories from Orange every time, the hours wasted got to me......
I like the M3100, pity it cost me about £150 after selling old phone - Orange won't be getting my business if there's any trouble in a year or two when my next upgrade is due!

Just so you know, i spoke to orange last week about this and they referred me to tech support, after a few days they came back with the sim is faulty and are sending me a compatible one!
BUT if you are having this problem with a contract sim, ring up orange customer services and ask for a new sim, just say the old one is faulty, they Should then send you a new one no questions asked! much quicker than waiting for tech to respond.
Or if you are on orange PAYG go into your nearest orange shop and they will give you a new sim there and then!
hope that helps someone

Read this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1619788#post1619788

i fixed mine.
i had the save problem with my imatejamin in wm6 gullum official rom, the error always shows when sending sms,
what i did:
1.hard reset-(if not work),
2.re-install your rom,(no vendor wm5->wm6 rom)
then my prophet is back to normal,i think it has something to do w/ the apps that i install or the system files gets corrupted,etc,
im using the touch VIII wm6 rom right now.
i hope it would help.