Phone smashed to smithereens in France - what now?

purplepatch

I very stupidly pulled onto the french motorway having left my mobile on the car roof (distracted by my pesky kids!!) after a service station stop. I saw it fly off and smash all over the motorway, didn't immediate suss that it was my phone and couldn't have stopped anyway, too busy traffic wise etc.

I'd topped up with £20 the day before :mad: so now wondering if there's anything I can do to get that money back or is it lost for good? The phone wasn't insured and it was a payg phone on the O2 network.

I've got a spare cheapo phone, just wondering if there's anything I can do to get the number of my old phone transferred to the cheapy one to tide me over for a while until I can get a new one.

Any advice much appreciated.

JAYMARSH2005

If you contact O2 and tell them what has happened they will send you out a new sim card with the same phone number and when I did this last it had the credit that was on my sim transferred onto the new sim. They are usually quite fast at sending the new sim out (a couple of days)

purplepatch

Thanks, have done as you suggested.

However, as my cheapo phone is locked to orange, I'm guessing putting the replacement sim inside isn't going to be a viable option.

Is my only option to buy another payg phone on the o2 network?

Cavey

purplepatch wrote: »

Thanks, have done as you suggested.

However, as my cheapo phone is locked to orange, I'm guessing putting the replacement sim inside isn't going to be a viable option.

Is my only option to buy another payg phone on the o2 network?

What phone is it? You can get quite a few unlocked for free/cheap.

purplepatch

It's a nokia 2610, anything doing with that?

purplepatch

Having had a google, I gather that the 2610 is not possible to unlock. I do however have a really old nokia 1110 on virgin and found an unlock code which seemed to work, I got a message saying something about the restriction being removed. However when I tried to put the O2 sim card into the phone, I still got a message saying sim not valid. I tried the unlock code again with the O2 sim inside the phone, but got a message saying the phone was unrestricted.



So not having a lot of luck. Annoying as I don't really want to buy a new PAYG phone on O2 as they seem more expensive than other networks. Seems it's either do that or lose my £20 credit though.

Any other suggestions anyone?? Please...

mrbadexample

Have a look at this thread. It suggests that the 2610 can be unlocked by a bloke on a market stall with service equipment. Can you think of anywhere near you like that?

purplepatch

mrbadexample wrote: »

Have a look at this thread. It suggests that the 2610 can be unlocked by a bloke on a market stall with service equipment. Can you think of anywhere near you like that?

Interesting, but no, not really anywhere like that round here as far as I'm aware.
:rolleyes: