Question about SIM cards
By Carmela
@Carmelanirel2 (8084)
United States
October 14, 2018 7:47am CST
I believe my phone has a SIM/SD card slot (where the card goes these words are imprinted on the phone, "microSD SIM) and I'm really confused. I have an android, Samsung Galaxy J7
First I found this site that says the SD "is often used a storage device on a android mobile phone to store precious pictures, music, videos, documents, messages and more files."
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So...I am hoping someone who knows a lot about these cards. Because, supposedly I lost my SIM card when I dropped my phone a few weeks ago. The guy was able to replace my screen, and he had to put in another card. I believe my original card was only 16G (not sure if the G is the size I mean) and my husband had him put in a 32G so I would have more space.
Now, I thought all my pictures, music, videos, documents, messages and apps I downloaded would be gone and I would have lost it all. Yet, when I turned my phone on, everything was there.
Can someone please explain this to me???
http://www.4cardrecovery.com/howto/difference-between-a-sim-card-and-a-sd-card-of-samsung-android-phone.html)
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4 responses
@Carmelanirel2 (8084)
• United States
16 Oct 18
Really? So if I wanted to get a new phone, how would I delete those files?
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@topffer (42156)
• France
16 Oct 18
@Carmelanirel2 With a hard reset to restore factory settings or a file manager (the photos and videos are in a directory called "DCIM" on an Android phone).
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@Carmelanirel2 (8084)
• United States
16 Oct 18
@topffer Hard reset? Because I have another phone I am trying to sell because the service doesn't work where I live, but I don't want ,my photos and stuff to be on it. I deleted everything, but I take it that won't really clear it out?
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@AmbiePam (85180)
• United States
16 Oct 18
@Carmelanirel2 I didn't know that! That's so cool! I bet you're a popular substitute.
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@Carmelanirel2 (8084)
• United States
16 Oct 18
Ambie, I should start creating posts you can answer to. Maybe today since it doesn't look like I am going to be called in...Oh, but maybe that a post, I don't know if you know this, but I got a job subbing at the school. I will make a note to discuss it later, just to be sure I don't get called in..
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@Carmelanirel2 (8084)
• United States
16 Oct 18
@AmbiePam I tihnk it depends on who you talk to.. Hahahaha
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16520)
• China
25 Oct 18
Oh! you dropped your phone that contains a lot of information in it.wouldn't the bad guy who picked up it use some of your imformation to do something bad ?
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@Carmelanirel2 (8084)
• United States
31 Oct 18
I have my phone, as for the card, if it was dropped, I am sure the weather or a car (it was in a parking lot) would have destroyed it. So I am not worried about it.,
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@thislittlepennyearns (58080)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
14 Oct 18
A sim and a SD card are two separate things so there are two separate slots for them.
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@Carmelanirel2 (8084)
• United States
16 Oct 18
It doesn't look like that on mine, the slot the card goes into has these exact words over it just like this
"microSD
SIM"
