SIM Card Travails

wolf · 03-11-2010, 11:19 AM

I am posting this on behalf of someone else, a FOAF, or actually a FOAFOAF.

Seems this fellow somehow trashed his phone's SIM card. I do not know how, although I have requested this information.

Is it possible to recover the data from the card? I know this is done with regularity on CSI-like shows, and is probably a matter of finding out how much money the guy is willing to throw away towards recovering a dozen or so phone numbers that he could probably regenerate through other sources.

I back my phone up, and keep a physical list of the phone numbers I consider important to critical. If I rummage around in some boxes I could probably find an honest-to-goodness address book of mine.

But FOAFOAF is clearly not that kind of guy.

classicman · 03-11-2010, 12:51 PM

Sorry, no clue - I don't even have a SIM card in my phone

Pie · 03-11-2010, 12:56 PM

mbpark · 03-11-2010, 02:15 PM

I just bought a SIM Card reader from Newegg. $9.99 and it came with a utility on CD to retrieve my address book. I used it to back up mine.

This one is $13.99, since mine is no longer made:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-026-_-Product

03-11-2010, 11:19 AM	#1
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	SIM Card Travails I am posting this on behalf of someone else, a FOAF, or actually a FOAFOAF. Seems this fellow somehow trashed his phone's SIM card. I do not know how, although I have requested this information. Is it possible to recover the data from the card? I know this is done with regularity on CSI-like shows, and is probably a matter of finding out how much money the guy is willing to throw away towards recovering a dozen or so phone numbers that he could probably regenerate through other sources. I back my phone up, and keep a physical list of the phone numbers I consider important to critical. If I rummage around in some boxes I could probably find an honest-to-goodness address book of mine. But FOAFOAF is clearly not that kind of guy. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-11-2010, 12:51 PM	#2
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Sorry, no clue - I don't even have a SIM card in my phone __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

03-11-2010, 12:56 PM	#3
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	<goes to back up phone> __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

03-11-2010, 02:15 PM	#4
mbpark Lecturer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Carmel, Indiana Posts: 761	I just bought a SIM Card reader from Newegg. $9.99 and it came with a utility on CD to retrieve my address book. I used it to back up mine. This one is $13.99, since mine is no longer made: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-026-_-Product

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