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T61 SIM Card location?
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:52 pm
by Shelby Griggs
I know I saw a link here of a service movie that showed removing the SIM card from a Cingular configured WWAN equipped laptop. I thought it was of a T61, but not sure now.
Anyway, I have seen here on the forum reference to the SIM card being in the battery compartment, BUT it is unclear to me if that is the way the T61 is set up. The service movie showed a SIM just somewhere on the bottom of the laptop, BUT maybe that was a different series?
I have looked for that movie for two hours AND I give up, must be searching on the wrong key words.
Can somebody tell me definitively where on the T61 the SIM card slot is located?
If I have to power off the laptop and remove the battery to eject the SIM card, I may need to think a little harder about whether I want to add WWLAN to my new T61 order.
TIA
SHG
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:46 pm
by icantux
Read somewhere it's underneath the ThinkVantage button. Not 100% positively sure though. You may want to look at the hardware maintenance manual for the T61.
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:19 pm
by Rambler76
hi
i recently installed a sim card slot, WWAN/WLAN antenna and the MC8775 into my T61.
the sim card slot is located in the battery compartment.
theres actually a slot thats already there for you to install the sim card into, except that for T61's not fitted with WWAN its blocked up with a piece of foam.
the sim card slot is installed from the inside and fits flush with this vacant slot.
The sim card slot has a little plastic tab that you pull out to eject the sim.
Have a look and you'll see the slot Im talking about.
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:51 pm
by Shelby Griggs
Rambler76, thanks! So I have to pull the battery to eject the SIM card? I don't have my T61 yet, in fact the order has been canceled AND I am reordering, anyway since I don't have the T61 I was asking. Your answer is what I was hoping wasn't true, since I might swap to a handset or a modem on equipment a couple of times a day. The beauty of GSM is that I pay for one data line BUT can use that account with multiple pieces of hardware, of course not all at once, BUT it does add flexibility.
SHG
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:50 pm
by Rambler76
yes you have to remove the battery to get to the sim card.
the sim card slot is located beneath the battery.
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:12 pm
by Dummvogel
Find out if your Provider supports MultiSIM. Mine does. I can have 3 SIM-Cards for the same plan, usable at the same time even. So i have one for my main cell, one for my carcell and I could have one for the Laptop.
They all run on the same number and use the same minute and data contingent.
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:34 pm
by Shelby Griggs
I will ask, BUT I have never heard of such a deal in the USA.
I am with T-Mobile, I have 5 voice lines and have data added onto two of those.
Thanks for the suggestion.
SHG
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:29 pm
by Nickolai
Dummvogel wrote:Find out if your Provider supports MultiSIM. Mine does. I can have 3 SIM-Cards for the same plan, usable at the same time even. So i have one for my main cell, one for my carcell and I could have one for the Laptop.
They all run on the same number and use the same minute and data contingent.
Oh my, how great!
When will the operators in Russia support this, I wonder?
The thought of this possibility came to me a while ago, when I was thinking to buy a data card for my laptop. I thought that maybe I can use one SIM card in my phone and another in my laptop, all tied to the same account. Skylink (the Russian CDMA2000 operator) said no. I'll ask the GSM operators just in case, but I think I'm out of luck.