"Looks like you lost your sim tray ejector"
Raz keeps track of mine
My kit:
I generally prefer the clear toothpick - easier to hold, came with a designer cupcake once (and I keep the flag on it because it's otherwise easy to lose a clear toothpick), generally better if the button is deeply recessed.
The paperclip phone tool is kept on the keychain between the USB micro card reader and the wallet sized SD card holder
I just put it back in the box when I'm done
I have a stack of boxes in the closet, because I might need them someday
I have the whole box. Because you know, it might be needed sometime :P
I have like four or five of these.
not whether you have it – it’s whether you know where it is
I usually flip it to justify excessive organization: “if you can’t find it when you need it, you don’t actually own it.”
Yes, in my drawer of miscellaneous tiny things, next to pens, tiny screwdrivers, and a few old microsd cards.
I keep one in my wallet along with a safety pin, hairpin, hair tie, and a twist key from an old fashioned roll top anchovy tin.
Any one of these things have come in handy a surprising number of times.
I need them for work so I got a fancy keychain one
Question: Is using paperclips a worse alternative? I've found them useful for those sim pinholes but im not entirely sure if its good practice
Paperclips are just fine, they're just not as ergonomic / easy to hold while pushing
I have one in my wallet - just in case someone wants to steal my phone and I somehow have time to remove my SIM and SD before they take it.. optimistic I know
tied it around my keychain because SIMs are still much more handy than esim. Phone service where I live charge a fuck ton of money everytime you re register with the QR.
Wrong topic bud. We are talking sim card release pins here. NOT the official cisco reset tool.
Just keep it in the box the phone came in with all the warranty documentation. I've never lost one of these
I have one in my wallet and one on my keychain.
I bought a bag of 20, stash them all over the place.
I am the distributor of cell phones where I work. I have a box of these. They’re also useful to reset UniFi and other networking equipment.
Or, you know, a hoarding problem…
Excuse me, what do you mean, 'problem'?
it's within my phone's protection case, so i do have it right now. Also, anecdote, a random stranger on a bus was switching sim cards, and asked me if I have the tool, which I indeed I had!
or a hoarder
I still have the box for my phone with the SIM remover still in it lol
I have the ifixit screwdriver kit and one of the bits is a Sim card ejector. Does it count ?
Multiple ones.
It's good to finally get some recognition!
A paperclip works fine.
I keep one on my key ring, never know when you need to pop in a burner sim.
If you’re using a burner SIM in your regular phone then it’s not really a burner SIM.
Fine if you’re just using it to hide your phone number companies, but if you’re hiding from the authorities then it’s the devices IMEI which is going to sell you out I’m afraid.
The ones I have seen most recently are so thin and flimsy that they are worse at the job than a paperclip.
I usually find my thinnest allen wrench and use that.
Yes, I keep them in the box.
I have two, and I know exactly where they are. If GPS were more accurate, I could give you the GPS coordinates for each of them.
I have more than one. The key is the word somewhere.
I found a pencil holder I had in the 1990s. It has these little drawers for erasers and stuff. I was like "oh cool, I can fill the rest of these with my SD cards and USB sticks."
So, while cleaning my desk looking for those, I found one of these. I was like "I'm pretty sure I had at least 2 of these." ...I found three.
I still have like eight of those. I bought some smart devices a while ago that all had them for the reset hole, so I’m stocked up for life.
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