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dabigm

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App registration fails.
Useless chip now.
 
@dabigm

so was about to buy a 5ber sim and then i saw this :)

so do you recommend it and which one did you get the $12 or $25?

also have you tried it in a router?
 
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wow. I got mine. And I've got esim.me as well. The 5ber app is much, much better. The esim.me is hit and miss as to if it even detects the SIM and hit and miss as to if it will download the eSIM and then even more hit and miss to enable it.

No joke, took me 2 hours of rebooting phones, and restarting apps to get a vodafone QR code on to the esim.me one. Converesely every single QR code i've tried on 5ber worked first time.

And yes I've currently got it in a 5G router, just fine with an EE QR code on it. Not sure which one i got as i can't find a single email from them, which is odd.
 
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Mine took almost 2 weeks but the Royal Mail around here is slow.
and here was I thinking 6 days was already too long, Royal Mail here is a bit slow too but anyway mine is coming via Evri they say and not Royal Mail, so we will see.
 
As I've never heard of this company before, the esim adaptor ought to work in any smartphone right?

Even those brought within the EU?

Anyone tried different esims from different retailers to see what 5ber is like?
 
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As I've never heard of this company before, the esim adaptor ought to work in any smartphone right?

Even those brought within the EU?

Anyone tried different esims from different retailers to see what 5ber is like?

Yes it works in any phone but you must use an Android to manage, install, and delete eSims. I have a variety of eSims in mine. I bought the basic one for $12 and a $5 add-on for 10 more downloads.
 
Yes it works in any phone but you must use an Android to manage, install, and delete eSims. I have a variety of eSims in mine. I bought the basic one for $12 and a $5 add-on for 10 more downloads.
Thank you, I've used the esim.me one before which worked to a point, for some reason the texts wouldn't work so hoping it was just the esim.me adaptor at fault.

We see though
 
Website seems to have gone.
App registration fails.
Useless chip now.
There are other ways to program it, but you either need a rooted phone or a pc.

I did think about ordering a card reader off AliExpress to try the pc approach, but I haven't done thus far, reasonably happy with the BNE esims I have loaded on both of mine.

For one of them I can't see myself programming a new eSIM onto it unless the existing one stops working, or I find a much better deal as it's in a device that's a bit of a pig to get to.
 
There are other ways to program it, but you either need a rooted phone or a pc.

I did think about ordering a card reader off AliExpress to try the pc approach, but I haven't done thus far, reasonably happy with the BNE esims I have loaded on both of mine.

For one of them I can't see myself programming a new eSIM onto it unless the existing one stops working, or I find a much better deal as it's in a device that's a bit of a pig to get to.
oh interesting. i have a smart card reader/writer too. what software can you use ? its working ok at the moment, but it certainly went down or something and was down for more than a day which sort of highlights that you need their servers in order to do anything with it at least with their app. It's good to know you can program them independently though.
 
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This is a nice reminder not to rely on Chinese products that rely on Chinese apps/servers that can (and will eventually) be pulled offline at some point with no warning
this is true, but i wouldn't say it was restricted to just China. I've got several fitbit things that google has sunsetted and don't work any more. An Aria scale, and a fitbit charge. Neither of which work any more. And Samsung dropped all support for their older tizen based smart watches. Nature of the beast unfortunately. But as @dragon2611 mentions it looks like we can find a way around it if/when it finally drops off a cliff. Looking into programming options at the moment, and might give it a try when i can.
 
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