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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021 5:15 PM

New SIM came with Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G 512 GB no mobile network (stuck on "connecting")

I received my new S21 Ultra 5G 512 GB on Aug 25th. I attempted to activate the new SIM card that came with it online at att.com/activate, and it failed. I tried this several times over the course of the next few days, and finally gave up. I took the old SIM from my old phone (S9+) and put it into my new S21 Ultra. This worked. After my business trip was finished, I tried to activate my new SIM again - same error as before. I finally decided to get assistance via chat on Sep 14th. I worked with Mike first, who activated my SIM so that it would at least make and receive phone calls. After I lost contact with Mike, I got Evelyn who worked diligently to try and address my issue of not having any mobile network (data) connectivity. After repeating one of the earlier steps of resetting my phone's network settings, Evelyn got disconnected from the chat (on my PC). Her supervisor (Aaron) called me to apologize and to continue working the issue. He asked me to reboot my phone, which I was talking to him on. He said he would wait 5 minutes and then call be back. When my phone rebooted , it seemed to reset its network settings a couple of times on its own. This must have prevented Aaron from being able to call me back. We have spent close to, if not over 3 hours attempting to get the mobile network connected. This is an almost $1400 phone, and it will not work unless I am on my wifi. There is no email address listed for support on the at&t wireless website, and I have sat in the chat queue for over 30 minutes total since yesterday. Please help me get this issue resolved quickly so that I can enjoy my new Samsung flagship phone and all its features.


Thank you,

Joe Root

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Community Support

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225.6K Messages

2 years ago

Hello @DragonRand77,

 

Thank you for reaching out to us.

 

We recommend that you visit an AT&T store near you to get a replacement SIM card and see if that resolves this issue.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Sean, AT&T Community Specialist

ACE - Expert

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2 years ago

ATT does not do customer support via email, there is no customer support email address. This is a customer populated forum, not customer support. Unless you get a response from ATTHelp, which is unlikely, no one here can help. You would probably get this solved faster by going to an ATT store, preferably a corporate store.

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2 years ago

I was hoping to get AT&T's attention with this post. I saw other posts where an AT&T employee commented, so I figured I'd give it a try.

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2 years ago

Thank you, I guess this will be my next course of action.

Thank you sandblaster for providing basically the same advice, lol.

ACE - Sage

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2 years ago

BTW, no reason you needed to activate the new sim. If the old one worked. 

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2 years ago

At&t recommends that you use the latest SIM with the new phone. It's also a 5G phone with what I assume is a 5G SIM. It would be nice to be able to experience 5G if I traveled into an area where it was live. I think it is too late to switch back to the old SIM now that the new one has been activated. I plan on going to an At&t store today to get it checked out/new SIM. Thank you for your reply.

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