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Location of SIM card in Motorola Razr

RAZR Phone stopped working. Messages say "Insert SIM card" and "Check SIM" . Cannot find SIM card to check contacts. Please help.

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  • deanna76 Feb 13, 2008

    I have already taken off the back & removed the battery, yet I still don't see the SIM card.
    Help! Thank you in advance.

  • no1hoosier Feb 22, 2008

    samsung sim card location

  • Anonymous May 14, 2008

    do i need to take apart the battery pack or what? I can't find the sim card.

  • whpromo May 27, 2008

    No SIM card to be found in the Alltel version of this phone. And yes I looked under the battery.

  • JEHH Jul 21, 2008

    Same problem. No sign of the card when you twke the battery out.

  • Anonymous Sep 30, 2008

    No sign of it either.

  • wkaip Mar 15, 2009

    I just bought a motorola cell phone on ebay and the seller said there was not a sim card slot. I have AT&T plan and they use sim cards. Will I ge able to use this phone with this plan?

  • wkaip Mar 15, 2009

    I just bought a motorola cell phone on ebay and the seller said there was not a sim card slot. I have AT&T plan and they use sim cards. Will I ge able to use this phone with this plan?

  • Anonymous Apr 19, 2009

    I see the outline of a sim card too! Maybe it's hidden under there!

  • Anonymous May 04, 2009

    No, I've removed the stickers and there is nothing accessable underneath them. :(

  • Anonymous Jun 18, 2019

    With the display facing downward, open the access cover (located on the right side of the device). Utilizing the notch, carefully lift then rotate the cover away from the SIM card slot. Press in to unlock the card (figure 1) then slide it out of the SIM card slot. If applicable, refer to Insert the SIM Card.

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Are you guys serious....

Verizon & Alltel (which happened to recently finalize the merge) use CDMA. CDMA does not use SIM cards.

AT&T, T-Mobile, etc. use SIM cards - wheter they are 3G networks, TDMA, etc.

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I have a RAZR V3m also, that I bought at eBay. The slot everyone here appears to be referring to is for a micro SD card. The picture shows how the SD card is inserted. The original owners did not have an SD card installed. And the phone worked fine. Which seems to indicate the phone has an internal memory, probably a SIM card. Which is not user accessable. I'm guessing the phone has to be taken apart to get to the SIM. I'm going to be doing this in the next week or so. I'll check out the suspicious outline that problem 17 refers to first. I'll report back to this page my results.

  • Anonymous May 24, 2009

    Hi folks - I took apart and totally destroyed my Verizon branded RAZR V3m. There is NO SIM card. Instead, there is a memory chip hard wired to the circuit board. From what I saw, this memory chip is preprogrammed with the phone number and carrier features. The card picture referred to above is for the micro SD card. This card is just for additional memory - for pics, video, and music, dependent on the carrier. I also went to the Motorola web site. They're unlocked RAZR V3's have a SIM slot underneath the battery. Bottom Line? If your RAZR V3 doesn't have a SIM card slot under the battery, forget it. You can not change carriers.

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If your phone use sim card the card is locate in the battery comparment remove the back cover and there is the card if you want to remove the card remove the baterry first then push the card out with your fingers thats all ...good luck and rate me

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Same problem with a RAZR V3m. Picture shows card next to battery but none is there nor is slot big enough to accept one. There is a suspicious outline of a card UNDER a sticker that was under the battery. Anyone think that its hidden there?

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The Motorola Razr V3M does not have a sim card so that is an error message. What I had to do was turn the phone off and let it rest for a few minutes then turn it back on and now it's working fine. I had dropped my phone when the error message appeared so it might have dislodged the chip causing it to be discombobulated.

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HOW CAN I KNOW SIM CARD LOCATION

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How do you get the sim card out they just push i can;t get it out

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I contacted Alltel and they told me their version does not have a SIM card.

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No sim, i would imagine after reading all of this there is none

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I have a razor and I am in the same boat, remove the battery and ahhhh I see a sticker no card! Please help

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Yeah my sim card isnt next to the battery either. where would it be?

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Same thing with me, no SIM, is it possible that it doesn't use one? My sister has a newer Razr and hers is very easy to see.

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