Phone stolen - can info be recovered from other SIM?

[espanola22]

Hi everyone,

Im currently living in Spain and becuse I spend a lot of time between the two countries I own both a Spanish Vodafone SIM and an English one. Unfortunately, the other night my phone (a simple Samsung Galaxy mini) was stolen with the Spanish SIM in it. While I have got a new phone and replaced the SIM with the same number, I'm gutted as I had a lot of memory photos on there from the past couple of months which I hadn't had a chance to save to a computer yet. I put my English SIM into my new phone but there were no contacts or photos to transfer - it was then that I realised that I'd saved my contacts and photos etc to the phone rather than the SIMs because of the nature of me switching them over so much.

My question is, is there a chance that the data I had on my phone could be encrypted somewhere on my English SIM? A friend suggested this to me and it could seem logical given that I'd recently had my English SIM in the phone for two weeks and used it to take photos etc. Could the data be there somewhere or is this a crazy suggestion?

If so, how would I go about extracting this data?

Desperately hoping, thanks! 

[shinwar]

Hi espanola22

unfortunatly your out of luck here

anything that was stored on the phone will be lost.... 

anything that was on your english sim will still be there - normally fotos are stored on either the memory card or fone memeory and not the sim card

sorry about that

[hrym]

shinwar is right.  Contacts will only be on the SIM if you explicitly put them there.   Smatrphones don't normally do that, not least because SIM storage is limited to 14 characters + number - there's no option for other numbers, email addresses etc as we normally store in contacts now.   Contacts are quite often syncd with an online account, though  - did yous do that?  If that's the case, you should get everything back if you add the account back on the new device.

Personally, I periodically export my contacts to a file and then store that somewhere else as a belt and braces backup.  That's too late for you, but worthwhile for the future.