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Cell Phone not activating

The phone I bought said "any carrier" but will not acknowledge my sim card and of course there is no manual that i received. Can you help?

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Dear ,
first you have to unlock this phone,If you have successfully unlocked your iPhone, you may have discovered already that the voicemail button doesn't do anything at all. It won't give you visual voicemail, but you can easily get the voicemail button to work using any carrier following these steps: 1. First, take note of what your voicemail number is with your current provider (for example, in Spain the Vodafone voicemail number is 177).
2. Click on the phone button in your iPhone.
3. Click on the keypad tab.
4. Tap the following code:
*5005*86*xxx# The xxx is the voicemail number, in our example it will read: *5005*86*177#
5. Tap call.
6. After a second, the code will have been set.
7. Tap now on the voicemail button and it will automatically call your usual voicemail service.


Cheerup and be Happy Always

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Hi Horse

Does the simm card work in anopther phone? If it doesnt, then the simm is to blame

regards
Graeme

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My forst impulse would to be to take it to the place in whic you purchased it from. See what they know. If your phone isnt recognizing your sim card, then there is obviously a big problem. That is pretty much the whole phone. In many cases, the sim card is just faulty and can be simply exchanged for a new one.

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