How to crop sim card at home. SIM Card Trimming under Micro SIM

For the first time, scientists thought about creating a miniature sim card about 20 years ago. But only in 2003 the final format was adopted new card. The innovation was not only size, the creators achieved the expansion of the phone book and improving the safety of the card authentication. Initially, such a tiny SIM card was considered for use in small gadgets, but after the release of the fourth generation, all manufacturers of SIM cards have become massively producing a microsite version.

If you do not want to change the usual and all familiar phone number, buying a new starting package, you can trim the SIM card at home. Of course, you can go to any salon mobile communications or the repair center of mobile phones, and in a couple of seconds your old conventional SIM card Custom for new standards. But it always needs time and money. Do not hurry to spend, if you can cut a sim card independently without the use of special equipment and experience.

In order to properly trim the SIM card at home you will need:

Accurate line;
Well sharpened pencil;
Sharp scissors or stationery knife;
Sandpaper.

What is the Six Card

The usual sim card consists of two parts:

Sim Chip.. This is a metallic core symart. This little plot is responsible for storing information (call log, phone bookincoming and outgoing messages). Therefore, when circumcised the map at home, in no case cannot damage the chip.
Plastic plate. It does not perform any function, except for the framing of the chip. She simply filled out a slot under the symart of an old sample. It is this unnecessary plastic today and you will need to trim.

The process of transfiguration is old symart

Clearly define trimming lines

Using the exact line, we mark the cutting line. If the size of the old sim card is 25x15x0.76 mm, then the reduced version (microsim) will be of size 15x12x0.76 mm. Around the chip itself, you need to measure and draw a rectangle with a size of 15 mm by 12 mm. The chip should remain intact, there will be some plastic around it. There are cards with a non-standard chip, enlarged size. In such cases, it will be necessary to cut on almost the edges of the metal plate. If you do everything extremely carefully, then sim card you do not damage.

Pruning plastic casing

For such fine and jewelry work, the manicure scissors are perfectly suitable, as they have more sharp and thin blades. It should be carefully cut off all the extra plastic around the chip. Do not hurry, do not allow sharp movements. If at least something goes wrong, microscartu can be thrown out. She or at all stop working, or all the time will "depart", and the connection will appear, then disappear. The stationery knife is more acute, with its help, cropped edges can get out more smooth, but it is more dangerous to work with it. It is also necessary to cut down a small corner from the other side as on the same sim card so that it lay down in a slot without difficulty.

Fitting

After the operation is successfully completed, you need to try to "try" a new card. To do this, place it in a symcards slot in your mobile phone. If she is good and tightly, then try to turn on the phone and wait for the moment until the phone finds your network mobile operator. If everything works, you can congratulate you.

Necessary correction

If Simka was very high, then it is not scary. Here you come in handy sandpaper. Remove the extra plastic with its help, because trying to remove half a million meter with the help of scissors, you will definitely eliminate. And in this case, the simka will be rehabilitally impossible.

As you can see, make micarka at home realially. No need to spend money on this service in the cabin. And even more so all the necessary materials for this are available at your home. Remember about safety measures when working with scissors or a stationery knife, and also do not forget the old Russian Proverb: Seven times will die, one - a detachment.

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The topic of today's article is not entirely common, but, nevertheless, quite relevant for many. Most modern cell phones have the formats of the SIM card "Micro". But the huge number of users sims are standard size, and modern phones are available only for new sizes. And buying a smartphone, we are faced with the problem of the overall incompatibility of our old sIM card and a new gadget. It's a shame!

Today I will talk about my experience and other options for solving the problem " how to trim the sim card under micro Sim. " Be sure to read the article to the end - I will tell about the most civilized and simple way to find Micro Simim.

There are several ways to solve the problem - paid and free. First I will tell about paid.

Crop the map under micro sim in the store

Everything is simple here! Come to any store trading cell phones, or in the communication salon, say that you need trim sim card. The price for this service fluctuates. In our city it is from 150 to 200 rubles. If you cut into the communication salon, your operator's cards will be cheaper, others are more expensive.

A cute girl asks, under what size to trim - nano or micro. It takes out a device, strongly resembling a stapler (by the way, this is a special stapler), chik-chik - and cut. 🙂

If you have a lot of SIM cards that need to trim, or you want, it makes sense to buy such a stapler. It costs from 100 to 500 rubles. Wheel on Yandex.Market, "Stapler to trimming SIM cards", and select the soul.

If you do not want to pay anyone, and we are sure that your hands are sharpened in you correctly, sIM card can be trimmed. The main thing is not to be mistaken in size.

But what are the size of the micro sim card? It's good if there is a sample at hand, and if not? Cut at random? You can permanently spoil the card.

Even if you know dimensions (By the way, the sizes of the SIM card micro 15x12 mm), it is necessary to cut it so much more so that the chip remains in the right place. This is also very important.

The figure below shows how much you need to cut on each side so that the sim card enters the niche of the phone and remained working.

We make markup

Marking on the map itself is inconvenient. In addition, the likelihood is that dimensions will be carried out inaccurate. And here even tenths of the millimeter are important. That is why this stage needs to be taken seriously. So,

If you have a micro SIM card:

impose it to your standard map;
make sure the chips of both maps were aligned strictly one over the other;
press the sim cards to each other and carefully circle the contour of the top (micro) sim cards so that this circuit is well drawn on the clipped card.

You can make it an acutely sharpened pencil. And better scratch needle. Then spend on the scratched lines with your fingers, and the contour will be clearly visible.

If there is no sample from which you can move the size

Take a sheet of paper and mark the markup, as shown in the figure above. First attach and circle the sim card of normal size, then spend direct, continuing the contour.
Next, lose line, according to Micro SIM sizes.
Attach the SIM card into the center of the picture and press it, but better fasten (for example, bilateral scotch).
Apply a ruler to each line and spend them through the SIM card.

And some of some print the template on the printer, glue it to the map and cut out on it.

How to cut a sim card under Micro SIM

Here are some options, choose the appropriate:

Scalpel or acutely sharpened knife;
Scissors are more powerful and not stupid;
Redhead thread, but this option does not cause confidence.

I want to still give a couple of tips on cutting technology.

If you cut a knife or scalpel, do not try to cut off extra plastic at a time. It is better to spend with a small pressure several times in the same place. So it turns out more accurate and more accurate.

If you cut off with scissors (and a knife too), retreat from the planted line one or two tenths of a millimeter. At large sizes, the Simkart can be sharpened, and with smaller plastic it will not work out.

After the SIM card is cut into the size of Micro, you need to process its edges with sandpaper or nail file.

You know, there are no metallic, and plastic wide saws? In the store a girl such after the stapler, I sharpened SIM card.

Be sure to try on your place. micro Sim Marta. If it does not get into the right niche, or too tight goes, bring it to the size of the same pink or sandpaper.

Free SIM card replacement for new in the communication salon

Above I talked about two ways trimming SIM card under micro sim. There is another way - also free, but more civic.

Go to the salon of your cellular operator (I have Beeline, so I went to Beeline) and say: "I need to replace the SIM card." No additional questions, old SIM cards do not need to take or even show. One "But" - the card must be registered with you, well, and, accordingly, grab a passport with you.

The operator fills out some papers, you paint there and get a new SIM card with your old number. New SIM cards are now made with such "selling-selling" so that you can use both standard size and squeeze micro sim and even nano. Very comfortably!

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. The new SIM will be completely empty, without all your contacts. Therefore, in order not to stay without old connections, before going to the operator, perk all contacts with SIM cards.

I wish you good luck in all your good deeds and see you!

Experienced communication salon consultants will still remember the time when buyers have caused bewilderment that there are SIM non-standard sizes. Now the presence of several types of SIM cards is the usual thing. Manufacturers prefer all smaller cards, because it saves space inside the device case. Sims of standard size, cumbersome according to modern standards, that and look "awesome in oblivion."

In this article we will tell about all types of SIM and teach how to make a small card from a big card.

Nano-Sim.

Nano-Sim. - The newest and most miniature card for the phone. Its dimensions are only 12 × 5 millimeters. Visually a card is a chip with a minimum of plastic edging.

Novator spoke again apple company. Exactly Nano-Sim. The users had to insert 5th modifications to the iPhone. Later, the devices with Nano-SIM slots began to produce other well-known manufacturers - for example, Samsung and.

Understand the differences of three types of SIM cards from each other will help you with the following illustration:

How to change the SIM card size for the phone?

The most obvious way to resize SIM cards is make it a replacement in the operator salon. Such a procedure is completely free, it takes just a couple of minutes, the phone number subsequently does not change. However, this method still has a number of shortcomings:

The new SIM card will not be the numbers stored in the old memory. Of course, a similar problem easy to decide: In the article "" We tell immediately about several ways to export phone numbers. But, alas, many users consider their time too valuable to spend it on the development of third-party software and backup creation methods.
Replace the SIM card in the office has the right only its designer and only on the passport. If the card user gave, for example, parents, he himself will not be able to replace it. Sometimes it becomes a real problem.

If the consultant changes a sim card to a person who is not her designer, this is a fraud! For such an operation of the consultant at least deprived award, and as a maximum - with disgrace will be fired. Therefore, to demand "make an exception" meaningless; No one wants to be unemployed with an impartial formulation in the employment record.

There are several ways to change the sim card dimensions without resorting to replacement. For example, the user can purchase adapter(he is - adapter). The adapters look like this:

Order Adapters for SIM is better on Chinese sites - there they cost the essence of a trifle. For example, a set of adapters from Noosy Together with a needle for the iPhone will cost only 17 rubles. When buying in the cabin from the user may require up to 250 rubles - the difference is more than noticeable!

The set, as a rule, includes adapters of 3 species: Nano-Sim to Sim, Micro-SIM to SIM and Nano-SIM to Micro-Sim. Since SIM cards of reduced sizes still continue to be associated with Apple, manufacturers do not forget to put in the kits and needles to seize the slot under SIM. Use adapters simply: Little SIM card is inserted into the appropriate adapter, then the adapter itself with the card inside is placed in the slot of the mobile device.

Adapters help when you need to increase the SIM card size, but how to be the user if the card, on the contrary, needs to be reduced? The fact that such a need may occur, the owner of the gadget should be thought out at the stage of buying a SIM card - and insisted on the issuance of it so-called COMBI-SIM.. COMBI-SIM. - This is a standard size card from which a micro-sim card can be made in the fraction of a second.

Inside SIM card, standard in size, Micro-Sim. Already carved along the contour, so the user is easy enough to press up with a finger and break a piece of plastic.

Frame to hurry to throw away - She is still able to serve a good service. If there is a need to insert a card into the slot under MINI-SIM, The frame can be applied as an adapter.

Using COMBI-SIM. - One way to change the size of the SIM card up to the reduction. Cards COMBI Mobile users are provided is free - Of course, in the presence of them in the operator's office.

If the user is already the owner of a standard SIM card and wants to turn it into Micro.without losing contacts, it does not have another exit, except to go on trimming the SIM card. Pruning, as a rule, is carried out using a special device called stapler for SIM. (it is - cutter for SIM., it is - SIM CATTER).

Make a standard Micro-Sim. If there is such a stapler - a second procedure. However, we will expect in the sales office or in the workshop this procedure will be produced is free, not worth it. Employees of the cabin will require a pruning of 149 rubles and even choose a check for the provision of a paid service. In repair shops, they will also ask for money - either at all will send a user to deal with the operator.

The trimming of the SIM card is associated with some risk - if a person producing the procedure hurries or will show inattention, it will damage the chip, and, as a result, the SIM card will not function. Hence the high cost of the services of trimming - no one wants to risk "for just so."

How to trim a sim card with your own hands?

Not in all salons cellular communication There are staplers for SIM - some consultants continue to trim cards with their own hands and ordinary scissors. Perhaps the reader will surprise the fact that no one trains consultants. They independently exhaust such a skill, and many successfully trim the SIM card is obtained the first time.

Nothing amazing - in reality the procedure is extremely primitive! Typically, the main complexity is to find a template. Consultants have a whole table, as a rule, are collapsed by sims of various sizes working and served their period - they are used as samples. An ordinary user about such abundance is only to dream - however, if he still managed to borrow a sim card of the desired size on the role of a template, he can safely try to trust with his own hands. If not, it should be resorted to the help of the printer and the template print (here is a suitable link).

To trim the SIM card, markers, rules and pencils are not needed - if you act according to such instructions:

Take a big SIM in your hand chip up.
On top, attach a sample card so that it completely covered the chip, press it tightly with a thumb and do not let go. If desired, the template to a large SIM can be attached with the help of bilateral scotch, however, experts do not recommend doing this - you can damage the chip.
Gently cut plastic on the sides. Try not to be enough unnecessary, otherwise Simka in the slot will "hang out", and the signal is rubbed.
Card the map on the template across. Here you can act less scrupulously; The main thing is not to touch the chip.
Remove the corner and round the edges - otherwise SIM card does not fit into the slot.

Next, set aside the template aside and try to install the cropped card into the phone to check its performance. If the SIM card does not fit into the slot, carefully cut the plastic and try again. If the map of the slot is just in size and the phone is read, triumph - you just cut the SIM card with your own hands!

note that not any map You can "cut down" to the desired size. The easiest way to remake Mini-sim in Micro-SIM -such a trimming should not cause a user of difficulties. Crop under Nano-Sim. always harder; Plastic around the chip on the card Nano. There is almost no, so the risk to hook the scissors chip sharpets are quite high.

In everyday life, there are still sim cards of an old sample - with large chips:

Cut such SIM - a real nightmare! With some proportion of luck from a similar card can be made Micro-Sim.but turn it into Nano. definitely will not succeed.

Conclusion

At the fact that the manufacturers of smartphones began to produce gadgets that support SIM cards of different types, salon sellers have decently enriched. Of course, not all paid services pass through the cashier - in many cases money for trimming is sent to consultants in pockets. Pruning sims for sellers - "bread case", and therefore free Consultants' assistance has nothing to count.

Therefore, the user who does not want to "feed" employees of salons is better to master the trimming skills. This procedure is sufficiently simple and "surgical accuracy" does not require.

Desire to accommodate a rich functionality in modern smartphones Forced designers in a new way to take a look at the form of SIM cards. Gadgets require more internal memory for memory, powerful processors and batteries, while it is important to keep the low weight and compact device. One solution was the use of a new card format - Nano. Do you need to trim the SIM card under apply? We will tell you how to do this at home.

Crop the microsise under a nano-sim card

Nano-SIM is the smallest map size, only 12.3 per 8.8 mm. Apple has become the legislator of the new format by releasing the next novelty - iPhone 5. At first cellular operators There were no cards of a new sample, and it was necessary to reduce SIM.

The easiest way to trim a micro-sim card under apply is to remove all the plastic on the circuit of the chip. Just leave a narrow strip on one side to form a bevelled corner. This is also applicable for mini-sims with a small chip.

Consider one Nano-SIM feature - it is thinner than mini and micro format cards. In the first thickness of 0.67 mm, and in the second and third 0.76 mm. This problem is solved using a conventional nail or sandpaper. After trimming, slightly pumped sims along the contour and on the plane so that it is freely placed in the device slot.

Old Sample Card under a nano-sim card

Old sims have big size Chip exceeding the size of the Nano standard. But also old sim card You can cut to apply. Removing the edge of such a chip does not violate the work of contacts.

From a mini-sim card cut Nano-shape easier, since there is a place that allows you to hold a map during manipulations with scissors. The use of a stationery knife to make an order to simplify the task.

Step-by-step actions:

apply a handle or a thin marker marking of new dimensions from the side of the chip so as to see if the lines do not enter the contacts;
cut extra plastic, the map itself clam the forceps for more accurate manipulations;
cut the card with a sawdow on the contour to remove the jar, and skill the surface of the plastic from the operator logo side to make the map thinner;
insert the SIM into the card holder if it does not fit, repeat the previous operation until a complete fit under the slot.

If you have unnecessary SIM cards, practice them. The chance of the correct result of the pruning procedure will increase at times.

Alternative to independent alteration of the card to nanostandart:

appeal to the cellular salon, where using a special cutter will acquit SIM under the desired size;

appeal to the official operator's office for the replacement of SIM cards on the necessary form.

Nano-SIM card template

A more accurate way to trim the card correctly - use the template. It can be downloaded here. When printing the template, set the scale of 100% for the A4 sheet.

Print stencil. Color print not required.
Cut Nano format template.
With the help of glue, and better double-sided adhesion, secure the template on the SIM card from the operator's logo.
Carefully cut the plastic with scissors or sharp tweeters.

If there is no printer at hand, then spread future size You can right on the card using a ruler and pencil.

How to do it:

place the SIM in such a way that the cut corner is in the lower right corner;
on the left border of the chip, swipe the vertical line;
from the left edge of the chip, measure 13 mm and forth another vertical line;
at the top edge of the chip, swipe a horizontal line;
from the top edge of the chip, set aside 9.5 mm and apply a line.

The resulting rectangle will be the new SIM size. It will remain only cutting a small corner.

Popular devices with Nano Sims

The table assembled a list of the most popular smartphones operating with Nano-SIM. Check out the list, you may have decided to acquire one of these models. Then the service on trimming a map or its replacement from the operator on new standard For you will be relevant.

Series of phones of famous manufacturers with slots undernano.— SIM.
Apple.	iPhone X, iPhone 8/8 Plus, iPhone 7/7 Plus, iPhone 6S / 6 / 6S Plus / 6 Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 5S / 5C / 5
Samsung	Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5, Galaxy A7, Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 EDGE, Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 EDGE
HTC	Desire 626G, 820G, One E8, U Ultra, U Play
LG	K3, K7, K8, K10, G5, G6
Xiaomi.	rEDMI 4X, MI5 (S, Pro), MI6, MI Note 2, MI MIX
Meizu.	M5C, M3 Note, U10

Crop the SIM card for the iPhone 5S, as for any other model, can be in any cellular salon, right where you get a smartphone. Such a service is provided on a paid basis. You can also get Nano-Sim at the service point of your operator, the service is free.

When buying a new phone or smartphone, we first look at the moments that are most important for us. For someone, this design, others pay attention to specifications. However, almost no one is interested in which slots have a new gadget for SIM cards. At this stage, you can encounter a problem, how to cut a sim card under micro-sim with the help of girlfriend, because you already want to use the device, and the card is simply not becoming in it. In this article, we will look at several methods, how to cut your card without damaging it.

Using the finished micro-sim as template

The simplest option will find a friend who already has a ready-made card of the size we need. With modern trends to reduce the size of everything and all that concerns the equipment, it will be quite simple. This will simplify the first way to solve the problem, how to cut a sim card under micro-sim.

After that, it will be necessary to combine your card with the cut so that the cutting corners and chips are completely coincided, and to circulate the contour. For cutting plastics, you can use any prickly means, whether it is a knife, scissors, or even heated above the needle lighter. When circumcised, try to match the circuit summed as possible. Do not be afraid to cut, because you can't hook the chip, and accordingly, the card will remain a good card in any case.

It was the first way to cut a sim card under micro-sim with his own hands. But what to do, if anyone does not have a ready-made card of the desired size? The second method will come to the rescue for which the computer and the printer will need.

Printing template

If there was no sample to trim the sim card under the micro-sim, the template can be found on the Internet, download and print. This method requires a computer and printer at hand. In addition, they will need a blank sheet of paper and good glue or double-sided adhesion.

The downloaded pattern should be printed so as to save the sizes and proportions. The template will indicate where all the lines should pass. With the help of glue or bilateral scotch, smoothly glue the cut-on printout to your card and cut it along the lines specified in the template.

After performing this procedure, it is desirable to remove the glued paper from the card so that it does not accidentally stay in the SIM card and did not spoil it. Now you have two ways in the arsenal, how to cut a sim card for micro-sim. However, this is not all, because there is a third and easiest way that, however, will require small financial costs, but has its advantages.

Using a special cutter (holes)

If you know that this card to be trimmed is definitely not the last, and in the near future will have to spend this manipulation with several more cards, then it is worth thinking about buying a cutter. It is a small press in which there are knives that cut the card strictly by the desired size.

It does not have to transfer the sizes for a long time, search for templates and so on. Often, such cutters, or, as they are called, hole punchings, have the ability to crop cards for any modern size. In addition, after trimming, a plastic frame remains, in which, if necessary, the cropped sim card can be pasted back. The cost of this device is quite low, and you can find it almost at any mobile accessory store. His purchase will save not only money on trimming in service centers, but also its own time, because the process itself occupies 5 seconds. This is the third and simplest method, how to cut a sim card under micro-sim. But there is another one who can rightly be called strange, but deserving the right to exist.

Trimming with a heated form

The Chinese, developing devices for trimming, went even further, and made a fiscal version of the cutter. It is a metal shape on the needker, which should be heatled on a gas or a lighter, after which it is gently attached to the card and to pay the necessary part of it.

Pretty sophisticated, but still practical and fast way. He is perfect for those who do not want to overpay for a cutter, but it would not be against accelerating and alleviate the process of trimming. Now I encounter with the question how to cut a sim card under micro-sim, you will know at least four options. And you can choose among them the most suitable for you.

Output

Do not be afraid to produce some manipulations with your technique. In almost any outcome, your card will continue to work if you do not hook the chip itself. Knowing how to cut a simka under micro-sim with your own hands, you will save a small part of the family budget, as well as your time, which can be spent on a hike in the service center.

If you are not lucky, the hand trembled and the card turned out to be damaged, then you should not worry too much too. In the official salon of your operator, you will be given it duplicate. Some operators do it for free. In addition, modern cards are already cut in advance on all the necessary standards, so it will only be left to break out of the attachment suitable for your smartphone.