Formatting A SIM Card

Why would you want to format your SIM card?  Are you sure it's not stolen?

I hope you ain't saying your sim has a virus. I know of a friend whose sim got corrupt after trying to download something into his phone. And currently as am speaking, if he inserts his sim into your phone and make an atempt to browse through you phone, your phone just ceases. It would not off/on and would require you flash your phone before it starts working normal.

Bimbor, am going out of this room so if you care for that help you can holla me on 08085411112/08077316036. It is a complete help and you can be assured of your browsing in less than two minutes.

Aint possible bro. Check your info well

You CANNOT format a sim card (me thinks), check your wap/gprs configuration settings and also make sure the phone has gprs capability.

Hi Bimbor,
If your line is post-paid/business line (like from MTN), its will not browse (by default), just as u can't call International by default until you call the customer care and request to have it enabled.

Is your line post-paid ?

All this formatting SIM stuff sounds stupid. Once you format a SIM, you can't use it anymore. That is your line, messages (d ones stored in the SIM) and contacts in the fone will be gone,

A SIM (Subscriber Identification Module) is simply a small storage device meant to hold a limited number of messages, contacts, value added menu (e.g. Magic Plus, MTN Business Services) and all the encriptions with which you can be identified by your network to allow access to the Network (e.g. MSSDN or your fone line number and so on). Once you format a SIM, (I'm not sure dat's possible), you lose the encriptions of the network and u can't use the SIM again, unless you go to the network to REVIVE THE SIM which I doubt they'll do, they rather give you a SWAP SIM.

Concerning the GPRS prob, it's likely one of these conditions

1. your fone is not WAP/MMS enabled
2. your fone is WAP/MMS enabled but it is CSD/GSM based connection, instead of GPRS
3. your fone is GPRS based, but the Network has not activated GPRS for your line
4. GPRS has been activated by your network but settings have not been sent automatically
5. Settings have been sent but your fone can't save them automatically
6. The settings have been set manually but have been set wrongly
7. The settings are correctly set in, but it has not been activated as your default connection profile
8. The profile is correctly set buy your area doesn't have GPRS (depending on your Network)
9. The network is currently having problems relating to browsing
10. your fone has a factory error


Foot notes
SIM - Subscriber Identification Module
GPRS - General Packet Radio Service
WAP - Wireless Application Protocol
MMS - Multimedia Messaging Service
CSD/GSM - Circuit Switched Data/Global System for Mobile Communication (More like dial up connection, it's expensive compared to GPRS and only Celtel has it)
                 

Chao!

What type of phone are you using? I guess somebody need to help you out before you cause yourself a big problem

Your number needs to be registered on the gprs network of your service provider.
If you go to celtel's office, d attendants could check it out.
I set d wap settings on my relation's phone but she can't  browse unless I insert my sim