When repairing something, there are in effect two schools of thought: you can craft a repair that seamlessly blends into the original hardware and doesn’t look like a repair, or you can slap that thing together and keep it moving. Posted in Phone Hacks Tagged dual sim, micro sd, microsd, nano SIM, sim, sim card We saw a similar hack a few years ago, too.
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Overall though, it’s a tidy hack that should prove useful to anyone with a dual SIM phone and limited storage. Your mileage may vary, depending on the construction of your SD card. Thanks to the springiness of the contacts in the phone, it’s just barely possible to squeeze both in, along with some Kapton tape to hold everything in place. The SD card is then filed down to make just enough space for the SIM to fit in underneath. The SIM is slimmed down with the application of a heat gun helping to remove its plastic backing, saving precious fractions of a millimeter. It’s a simple case of very carefully shaving both the microSD card and the nano-SIM down until both can fit in the card tray.
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Sadly the make and model of phone aren’t clear. Of course, hackers don’t accept such nonsense, and went about crafting a solution. Despite their dual SIM capability, this usually comes at the expense of the microSD card slot.
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There are plenty of dual SIM phones on the market these days, but most of them are a hamstrung by packaging issues.