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Activating an old expired never used sim card for use on an old phone?
Hi Everyone, I have an older relative with cognitive issues that was using a Motorola flip phone she was trained to use. One day she dropped it and the phone's battery cover opened with the battery ...
Having a stockpile of sim cards used to be useful because then you knew you had a backup when something happened. Unfortunately, now the sim cards do have an expiration date at which time that sim number would no longer be available in our system. If someone from our care teams tries to activate an expired sim card, they get an error, and it does not proceed to activation.
To syaoran's point, the new (LG) sim card should still work in that motorola phone. Are you using the adapter from the credit card sized card that the sim card was popped out of? Those adapters should place the gold contacts in the right place on that Motorola phone.
Thank you for replying. We just got done trying a new unexpired sim on it. T-Mobile activated the card but unfortunately the phone keeps saying check sim. A friend of ours who also has a special needs person in their household has a different T-Mobile flip phone using the older sim card like the expired ones I have. When we placed that card in our unlocked Motorola flip phone it worked smoothly so I know it's a sim card design issue and not network. If compared the design of the golden colored connectors on the new and older sim cards you'll see there are slight differences.
