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Removable eUICCs... 2024
By: Admin Date: October 15, 2024, 2:53 am
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Removable eUICCs...
eSIM, aka embedded SIM cards, a new form of SIM cards. The
traditional SIM cards are essentially a Java Card with
customized applet on it. You need to use this card in order to
connect to the cellular network. But as time goes by, these
little plastic SIM cards seem to be out-of-fashion. That’s when
eSIM comes into play. You can straight download your carrier’s
profile onto your phone and enable it. Puff! It works just like
the traditional SIM card.
This is quite a new technology and although many phone
manufacturers are gradually installing the eUICC chips (which is
the chip needed to emulate the traditional SIM card) into your
phones, it’s still not in the majority.
Natually, a lot of companies saw this situation and decided to
make the alternatives. The concept are simple, they make the
eUICC chips themselves and cut it into the size and shape of a
regular nano-SIM card so you can just plug it in your phone.
They just need to program it to make your phone actually
recognize it. Thankfully, it’s possible and a lot of people are
using it, including me.
There are really a lot of choices on the market, but the
solutions are basically the following two.
Manufactured by Eastcompeace
HTML https://eastcompeace.com/,
they engineered and manufactured the
eUICC chips and then made it into the eSIM alternative cards
(which is the name that I will call these cards).
Disassembled iPhone. Yes you hear me right. You might know that
currently the iPhones that are being sold in the United States
are eSIM-only. So there won’t be any sort of physical SIM slots.
Which basically makes it impossible to use in other countries.
But the price of iPhones in the US is way cheaper in some
regions like China. So the smugglers will smuggle these cheap
iPhones to China. But currently, the ISPs in China’s mainland
don’t support eSIM. So they have to figure out a way to make
these phones usable. Thanks to the smugglers, they have
successfully figured out a way to tear down the phone and jam a
traditional SIM slot in it. The eUICC chips are then taken out
and being made into the product I’m going to talk about.
Benefits
The benefits are obviously simple, you can make your currently
eSIM-uncapable phone into a phone that can use eSIM (sort of).
And it’s even easier to change your devices since all the
profiles are stored on the card itself, rather than in the eUICC
chip on your phone.
Downsides
Currently, basically no ISPs had said no to these solutions, cuz
it’s rather none of their business. But keep in mind that this
solution is far from perfect.
Some profiles may crash the entire card. For example profiles
from Redbull Mobile in Austria. The reasons are unknown.
So always do in caution.
Need-to-know
Every eSIM profile takes up space. And the eUICC chip has a
limit. Different cards and, of course, profiles have different
capacities and sizes.
You can check out the amazing post written by my friend at here
HTML https://sim.obdo.cc/esim-size,
to learn more about the sizes of
some major ISPs’ profiles.
As for cards, it differs.
Which one should you buy?
I’ll compare some popular solutions, but it’s not a fixed
answer. Different people may prefer different solutions. Do it
at your own risk and experience.
None of the merchants have ever paid me, nor do I have affiliate
relationships with them.
eSIM.me
eSIM.me
HTML https://esim.me/
is the first one to make these cards. Here’s a
table of their pricing.
Tax and shipping are excluded from this price.
Marketing name Capacity Downloads Additional fees Price
Single 5 profiles* Unlimited 10 EUR when changing devices 24.95
EUR
Multi 10 profiles* Unlimited 10 EUR when changing devices 39.95
EUR
Omni 15 profiles* Unlimited N/A 69.95 EUR
*: The amount of profiles is only the limit applicable in their
software.
Yeah it’s very expensive and VERY OVERPRICED. Their cards are
made by a Chinese company named Eastcompeace, which we have
mentioned earlier.
All 3 versions are the same physically, and they didn’t even
bother to limit it in the cards’ firmware. If you happen to have
rooted your phone or you have a CCID card reader. Then you can
bypass that easily by using OpenEUICC (for Android, ROOT
required, need to be installed using Magisk) or EasyLPAC (for
Windows/macOS/Linux, you need to compile the LPAC binary
yourself on Linux).
Suggestion: Don’t buy it. They are recently laying stress on
their competitors and threatening competitors’ customers. It’s a
terrible brand and they charge for an unacceptable price for
shipping, leading to nearly 150 EUR for a card like that. Heck,
I can buy a brand-new iPhone SE 3 at that price.
Caution: If you are using iPhones, you can’t use it.
You can, but you can’t modify the profiles on it. You still need
an Android phone or a CCID card reader to download or delete
profiles on it. It’s still fine to use the currently-enabled
profile, it’s just like a normal SIM card.
I didn’t buy it, cuz it’s way too expensive.
5ber.eSIM
5ber.eSIM is the one that actually opened the market. They are
using the same solution as the eSIM.me one. Both using the
Eastcompeace ones, and the EID are both started in 890860. But
5ber ones are much, much cheaper.
Marketing name Capacity Downloads Additional fees Price
Standard ~ 500 KB 2 pay to get more downloads 12 USD
Premium ~ 500 KB Unlimited N/A 25 USD
Similarly, the two cards are identical in terms of physical card
and firmware. The download limit only applies to their own
software.
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Suggestion: Buy it if you are lazy enough. A lot of people have
this because they also entered the market fairly early. Their
company is based in Hong Kong SAR China and they ship from
Guangzhou, China. They didn’t charge me for domestic shipping
but they used the best shipping courier here in China. I’m not
sure for international shipping but I doubt it’s not expensive
either. If you have the penny to afford a Premium one then I’m
sure you will like it. Their customer support is 24/7 and, guess
what, amazing. Their app is also very intuitive and easy-to-use.
But if you are savvy enough, you may not want it.
Caution: It seems that 5ber’s firmware has some problems. All
the profiles that are written to it are slightly larger (like 10
to 15 kilobytes larger).
Caution 2: If you are using iPhones, you can’t use it.
You can, but you can’t modify the profiles on it. You still need
an Android phone or a CCID card reader to download or delete
profiles on it. It’s still fine to use the currently-enabled
profile, it’s just like a normal SIM card.
I bought it, so it’s based on my experience.
eSTK.me
eSTK.me is currently the BEST solution on market. They literally
pushed the market. Let’s just bring the prices up.
Marketing Name Capacity Downloads Additional fees Price
ESTKme-ECO Lite 420 KB Unlimited N/A 89 HKD
ESTKme-ECO 420 KB Unlimited N/A 189 HKD
Similarly, the two cards are the same thing physically but it’s
not the same when it comes to firmware.
Lite Version: ATR Mode fixed to Generic ARA-M fixed to
EasyEUICC, No vEID support, No customize MOTD support, No STK
Bypass, Only 3 profiles can be switched in STK menu(No limit by
using PC/SC or OMAPI APP), No Cloud Enhance support,
All limited function can be purchased separately, get license
code to unlock more!
In simple words, no fancy features. Management only possible
through their EasyEUICC app or via a CCID card reader.
The EasyEUICC app doesn’t need ROOT, but it’s only available in
Android. If you are using an Android phone, you can perfectly
live with an ECO Lite.
FANCY FEATURES
The most amazing part is their management menu. Their management
menu is the SIM Toolkit. Yes, the SIM toolkit that may take the
space of an icon on your home screen. Their Cloud Enhance is
truly amazing. You can open the SIM toolkit and give it your LPA
activation string and it will automatically download the profile
onto the card.
There’s a risk, because, as the name goes, Cloud Enhance. It
utilized the cloud server, commonly hosted at rlpa.estk.me. They
will download the profile to your card. You can think it like an
OTA upgrade. I’m not sure about the details, but trust me, it’s
amazing.
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Above is the SIM toolkit menu. And that’s why you CAN use it on
any device, because basically every device will display this
menu.
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Funnily enough, the EasyLPAC software itself is written by eSTK
team.
Their solution is not the commonly-used Eastcompeace solution.
Instead, they used disassembled Apple chips. As you can see in
the EasyLPAC screenshot. They used these recycled chips and
re-engineered them.
Suggestion: BUY IT!!! They don’t pay me and won’t pay me, but
it’s just goooooooooood. Especially if you have an iPhone but
happen to haven’t supported eSIM. It’s relatively more expensive
compared with 5ber.eSIM, but trust me, you will love it.
I bought it because it’s good.
ST33j eUICC
This is not exactly a card. ST33j is just an eUICC chip, but
being soldered to an empty plastic board and cut it into the
shape and size of a SIM card so you can use. It contains
basically nothing. But as you can tell, it’s not expensive.
There are two versions, one is 420 kilobytes one, and the other
is ST33j1m, which has a whopping 1 MEGABYTE of space. The Taobao
merchant that I found (currently the only one selling these
things, and I heard they have close relationship with eSTK.me)
costs 45 CNY for the 420 KB one and 58 CNY for the 1 MB one,
shipping not included. It’s crazy cheap.
Caution: You can’t even get it detected on iPhones. Because
these chips are also just disassembled iPhone chips. Probably
due to the geo-lock problem, iPhone will refuse to detect it.
eSTK.me did some magic to let iPhones detect it and being able
to use it, but plain ST33j won’t. So only buy it if you have an
Android phone.
I also have an LTE modem, which is a Quectel EC20CEFAG, a modem
that uses Qualcomm baseband. It refused to detect this card, so
do it at your own risk.
HTML https://static.frank-ruan.com/picgo/2024/08/b051fd7b98eb2759c88fa97db24c3d2ac8851d7959213337dee28469271db516.png
Suggestion: You need to be very savvy in order to use this. But
if you really need to store a lot of profiles (basically all
existing solutions are using 420 KB cards), you can consider it.
eSTK.me boss said (in his own group chat) that they are also
developing the firmware for 1 MB model but there are a lot of
bugs. But they are also adopting from the iPhone chips, aka
these st33j chips, so similarly these half-done cards should
also have some bugs. DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK
READ THIS IF YOU ARE LAZY
Don’t buy eSIM.me cards. If you want great UI, great customer
support and are using Android phones, buy 5ber.eSIM. If you can
accept a little bit of tinkering and are using iPhones, buy
eSTK.me. If you are really an enthusiast, buy these half-done
st33j cards (I won’t provide a link for these half-done cards,
contact me over email or Telegram if you want one).
Last but not least
9Esim is currently the BEST solution on market. They literally
pushed the market. Let’s just bring the prices up.
Buy 9esim
HTML https://www.9esim.com/?coupon=hayat2024,
thanks. It’s the
greatest.faster and cheaper and no Limits
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