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Mad Poster
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#1 Old 10th Nov 2014 at 2:31 PM
Default Sim can't call a sim who only has cellphone - normal?
I tried to get my sim to call her boyfriend, but as he only has a cellphone, it came up with the message "You can't call a sim without a phone!" :/

I thought it might be because I had a custom cellphone replacement but I took it out and she still can't. Might it be because I have the cellphone as buyable from the catalog? So it doesn't set the "sim has phone" thing properly?

I don't really want to get them a phone because they live in a tiny apartment and it would be inaccessible or on a door or something. I just wondered if this was normal?

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Mad Poster
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#3 Old 10th Nov 2014 at 2:47 PM
He doesn't have a closet, he uses the shower to get dressed

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#4 Old 10th Nov 2014 at 3:15 PM
No its not normal, if a sim has a cellphone and they are even in the bin you should be able to call them.

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#5 Old 10th Nov 2014 at 4:38 PM
If you look in SimPE, I believe if you look into the household info (or is the lot-in-question info?), there will be several tick boxes, one of them has 'Has phone' (or something similar) next to it. If it ticked, it means that the game recognizes that sim as having a telephone.

I'm not sure why EA even bothered with the cellphones if you can't even make use of them properly (as the OP has stated with their issue). So, is there a fix for this (if this a problem everyone has)?
Mad Poster
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#6 Old 10th Nov 2014 at 5:12 PM
I am sure I've been able to call sims with cellphones before so perhaps he got glitched.

I was looking for that SimPE option, I remember seeing "has phone" and "has computer" but I couldn't find them when I looked.

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Mad Poster
#7 Old 10th Nov 2014 at 5:27 PM
Take out all phone mods including cellphones mods and then send him/her to a lot to buy in-game cell phone and see if it works.

(After taking out all phone mods make sure to delete the cache files.)

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Mad Poster
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#8 Old 10th Nov 2014 at 5:32 PM
I will try that in a test hood. I don't want to play him yet or fiddle with his money or spend too much time.

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#9 Old 10th Nov 2014 at 5:32 PM
"Have phone" and "have computer" are in the FAMI data, on the far right, in SimPE.

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#10 Old 10th Nov 2014 at 6:09 PM
Yeah, and as such, don't refer to individual phones but to phones on the family lot. Cellphones do sometimes cause problems like this but I always thought it was an out of date hack?

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