Text keyboard

[Anonymous]

Non-Qwerty: I tried to text. Doing normal text design when, for no reason the key pad went haywire mistyping my letters. Threw the phone away and put SIM card in another phone. Same again, so thought 2nd phone duff! Hang on! So put SIM card in wife's phone and same again. Q? SIM Card or phone. So returned wife's SIM Card and hey presto keypad working perfectly. So conclusion is that my SIM Card is malfunctioning on texting. How do I restore normal text function for my O2 PAYG account?

[jonsie]

Any feedbackwelcomed. ...

[Anonymous]

Just noticed this thread now @Anonymous....... I have seen this before!

It's the chip on the sim card that is damaged/scratched. Depending what part of it is damaged it will affect different features/ability's. It will be easily fixed by a sim swap.

Hope this helps ( better late than never)

[jonsie]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Just noticed this thread now @Anonymous....... I have seen this before!

It's the chip on the sim card that is damaged/scratched. Depending what part of it is damaged it will affect different features/ability's. It will be easily fixed by a sim swap.

Hope this helps ( better late than never)

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And there we have the voice of experience.  Thanks @Anonymous 

[Anonymous]

For some reason didn't notice this before...oh well... But we get them now and again, usually with people that are always changing mobiles .It's not that difficult to get the chip scratched.

[jonsie]

I'm at a loss as to anyone scratching a sim card unless they are constantly swapping the sim? Every day's a school day. ...

[Anonymous]

Problem solved by O2 shop team. I had gone into ‘Predicted Text‘ mode by (long?) pressing (probably accidentally) the * key (Nokia 5yrs old). So the kind chap just pressed the * key and restored ‘normal’ service. Simple (if you know how!). But really great to have such a helpful O2 shop.

[Anonymous]

???? And did they explained the 3 phones you tried?

predicted text is a handset feature not a sim card feature...

[perksie]

Sometimes it's just that simple, glad you got it sorted out. 

[jonsie]

Happy days 

[Anonymous]

Could be that 2nd phone (Samsung) was already wrongly in 'Predicted Text'. I knew 3rd phone was probably OK as wife does not Text. Pity I threw Nokia away but pics no longer valid with demise of Nokia pic system and Samsung surplus after death of wife's cousin; so no cost apart from inconvenience. Lesson is probably to talk  to experts (O2 shop) sooner, as this has been a 6 week annoyance.

Thanks to all for comment, help and concern.