Need help with sim card and Blu Win Jr W410A phone
Last edited Fri Mar 27, 2015, 12:25 AM - Edit history (4)
Hi all, I'm a bit of a klutz with phones, so bear with me here.
I got this phone: http://www.bluproducts.com/index.php/win-jr
This is not a critical situation, since it's a second phone.
Anyway, it's unlocked and you have to insert your own mini-sim card from your carrier. I checked on the carrier's website and they say the line is activated. The phone has two slots for sim cards and one slot for an SD card. Here's the problem: With my last phone, it was super easy to insert the card and take it out. You simply put the sim card in with the electrical contacts face down, gently tap it in to make sure it was a good connection and close the case.
With this phone, you have to push the card into the slot, then slide it UNDERNEATH a plastic covering to make contact with the electronics. When I went to turn the phone on, it keeps telling me invalid sim card. I've tried to extract the damn sim card but it's so far up into the housing that it's going to take special surgery to get it out. Talk about poor design!
Anyway, I wanted to get feedback before I contact the phone manufacturer so I know what to say and what to ask.
Thanks!
eta: I figured out where I really messed up. The sim card my carrier sent me had the "Standard Sim" card (also known as a mini-sim card), with the "Micro Sim" card within it. You can push out the Micro-Sim card and use it alone if the Standard Sim card is too large. I should have used the larger Standard Sim card. 
eta2: I think I've found the perfect tool to extract the inaccesible sim card
PELCO Slim Fine (tweezers)
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I called my carrier and this is what happened:
1- Blu has a bad reputation for their phones' internet connectivity. Be warned.
2- I inserted the ****** sim card wrong. The notch on the lower right hand side has to STAY that way, facing you upon insertion.
3- Carrier is sending me a new sim card.
Told ya I was a klutz with phones. 
...shop-vac 
People often can't really hear what they're saying.
I'd be tempted to stick the new card in the second slot and forget about the other SIM as long as the phone actually works.
A guy I used to work with got a new phone a was showing it to to me (maybe 3-4 years ago) and was extolling its virtues and features, email, web, hi-res camera... He finished up by saying, "If only the damn thing was any good for making an actual phone call, I'd be really happy with it."
Best of luck
