SIM Tool Manager is nothing but a tools app. This is available for all the phones. This can be understood as a tiny tool which
helps in reading SIM card for providing a lot of helpful information. This tool
manager helps in many functions like managing all the contacts available on the
SIM card, view the contacts on the SIM, and even create new contacts along with
modifying old ones.
Some of the
features which this tool manager comes with are
- Add contact
- Search for the contact
- Viewing all the contacts in the SIM card
- View the SIM card information such as phone number, SIM card serial, and SIM carrier
- Deleting the contact and allow the multiple contact selection when deleting
- Modification of contact information
- Importing the required contacts from any other file
- Export the listed contacts to a file
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These are
the common functions which can be performed by Tool manager.
Managing SIM card
Majority of
the people do not spend time in managing their SIM card. They give least
priority for this task. Once the SIM card is inserted into the phone, most
probably nobody bothers about it. They look into it when the time comes for up
gradation and to remove the card again.
But
understand that SIM card come surprising and interesting amount of data. So, it
is necessary to look for some SIM management apps which help in managing and
accessing the data on the SIM card. Let’s look into data present on the SIM
card.
- IMSI or international mobile subscriber identity, this is a 15-digit number which helps in identifying the carrier network
- Contacts and SMS, usually normal SIM cards can hold 500 contacts along with messages. So, whenever the same SIM is inserted into a different device, this information will be carried.
- Authentication Key is the other data present on the SIM. This is stored in 128-bit and helps in verifying connection to the network
- PUK and PIN, there will be a PIN code using which access to SIM can be restricted. The PUK code will be given which can be used for PIN unlocking
- Along with all the above data, SIM also hold some temporary information. So, temporary information can be about location or area identity, about phone, it can be about list of the services for which there is access permission
There are
typically two managers one is SIM tool manager and other is SIM Toolkit
manager. Usually SIM tool manager apk carries more information compared to SIM
Toolkit Manager. SIM Tool manager can be used if you need SIM operator
information, country of the origin. SIM card serial number as well as IMSI
number also can be accessed through this Tool manager.
Final thoughts
