Help App to edit the SIM card phone number

[Hawker]

I can edit the actual sim card phone number on a rooted phone via Xposed, or I can put the sim card in an old blackberry/sony ericson and do it this way.

It just seems strange to me that age-old phones can do this, but it can't be done on any of the Sammy smartphones.

Is there an app that can do this that does not require root?

 

[Rukbat]

The reason age-old phones can do it and modern phones can't is that keeping phone numbers on the SIM card is age-old technology. Come into the 21st century and keep your contacts on Google Contacts.

 

[Hawker]

The reason age-old phones can do it and modern phones can't is that keeping phone numbers on the SIM card is age-old technology. Come into the 21st century and keep your contacts on Google Contacts.

Of course i keep my contacts on Google.

I'm not talking about contacts phone numbers here. I'm taking about the phone number of the actual sim card. Ie your phone number that appears in about phone>status

 

[sparksuk71]

I looked extensively before to do this but couldn't find anything

I had to swallow my pride and use a iPhone to do it for me

 

[Hawker]

I looked extensively before to do this but couldn't find anything

I had to swallow my pride and use a iPhone to do it for me

 

[lotus49]

Out of interest, why would you want to?

When I look up the phone number in Settings -> About phone -> Status it shows the original number associated with my SIM but AFAICT this doesn't actually affect anything and my phone works perfectly with the real number.

 

[Hawker]

Out of interest, why would you want to?

When I look up the phone number in Settings -> About phone -> Status it shows the original number associated with my SIM but AFAICT this doesn't actually affect anything and my phone works perfectly with the real number.

When you get your old number transferred via PAC code.
Once the transfer is complete, your phone number changes (as in the new phone now rings for the original phone number), but on the SIM, the temporary phone number that you were given will remain on there.
This can possibly have an adverse affect on any apps that might read this number for any reason

 

[lotus49]

Sorry, I may not have made myself clear. I know why this happens, what I meant was why should you care.

My SIM has had the wrong number for the last year and I have never had any problems. No app I have ever used appears to use the number on the SIM.

Do you use apps that are confused by the SIM number being different to the actual number? I'd be interested to know which ones.

 

[Hawker]

Sorry, I may not have made myself clear. I know why this happens, what I meant was why should you care.

My SIM has had the wrong number for the last year and I have never had any problems. No app I have ever used appears to use the number on the SIM.

Do you use apps that are confused by the SIM number being different to the actual number? I'd be interested to know which ones.

Nothing specific that I know of, but you just never know if something might need to read that information.
It's more a case of OCD I guess...I dont like seeing the incorrect phone number in about phone>status



Really speaking, this should be automatically updated within the process of the network operator updating the number.

 

[dynomot]

In about device on all different Androids (ie for me Samsung) I've ever owned the phone number has always been "unknown". It did bother me when I first got my SGSII, so much so that I actually asked Vodafone about it. They had no answer why this should happen and were ignorant of the fact. They actually tried various Vodafone SIM cards in various phones and the result was always "Unknown", they didn't know why, and I got the impression they thought me slightly odd that I thought it could be an issue.

 

[dynomot]

Incidentally Hawker what Xposed module allows me to actually have my number rather than "Unknown", which absurdly and slightly worryingly bugs the hell out of me.

 

[Hawker]

This one butty

 

[dynomot]

This one butty

Excellent stuff, Thanks Hawker. It works on a Note 3 (SM-N9005) with a Vodafone contract SIM. Interestingly even the module reported my number as "unknown".

 

[Hawker]

Excellent stuff, Thanks Hawker. It works on a Note 3 (SM-N9005) with a Vodafone contract SIM. Interestingly even the module reported my number as "unknown".

That's because it was probably blank.
All ok now?

 

[dynomot]

Yes indeed. I have had the same SIM card since, if memory serves my SGSII when a new one of the micro size variety was programmed by a Vodafone bod in store with my number. Even when I got a 4G price plan last year the SIM never changed.

 

[Mechageo]

I registered just to say thank you, Hawker, for this thread.

Having the correct number on the SIM is required to use group MMS functionality in Google Hangouts. Otherwise each reply comes to your phone as an individual text.

I've struggled with this for a year before I found this thread.

Thank you!