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Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret

Those of us who swap SIMs when travelling are also affected. I travel outside my country several times a year and must say that eSIMs sound like a good idea until you actually deal with them. Spending vacation time debugging an eSIM is an annoying distraction.

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AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Can’t your phone store multiple esims? I thought that was actually one of the selling points of the stuff.

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- tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It’s a software implementation though, so if you have a rooted phone or use another Android OS, you have limited options in apps that implement eSim for you.
  
  OpenEUICC is a good one, but sometimes requires magisk modules to work.
  
  I remember it took me half a day of fiddling to get my eSim working under Lineage
  
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  - Anivia@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s not a problem with eSims, that’s just a problem with your custom ROM not shipping with absolutely basic functionality
    
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    mjr@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Much more likely to be the phone vendor not releasing this “absolutely basic functionality” to customisers. Some vendors hate their customers having freedoms.
    
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    tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I don’t think it was a basic problem, but something to do with vendor’s implementation of it not being in the device tree and so it could not just be copied over as a binary blob
    
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- frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It can, but both my Fairphone and old pixel could have a physical sim and an eSIM. I daily drive both with my old US number and my current EU number. Can’t have two active eSIM cards at once though
  
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iopq@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I buy eSIMs every two months when I travel. I only had issues when I fucked it up by deleting one myself. I’m on eSIM like 20

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jellygoose@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This never happens

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- kalleboo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  My parents came to visit my over xmas and installed Airalo to get a local SIM. Activation failed, the support AI bot re-issued the eSIM, activation failed again, it got escalated to human support, they asked for a refund, and 12 hours later randomly the phone popped up an “eSIM activated!” message. That would have sucked if you actually relied on needing the SIM on landing.
  
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