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Use this when the eSIM is going on a different phone than the one you’re signed in on — a family member’s phone, or a phone you’re setting up from your computer — or when one-touch setup didn’t work on your phone. If you’re installing on the phone in your hand, the app or Add to Android on the website is quicker.
Whichever phone scans the code is the phone the eSIM lives on, permanently. Make sure it’s the right one before you scan.

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Show the QR code

The code has to be on a different screen from the phone you’re installing on: a computer, a tablet, or another phone.
  • Website: sign in at onroamly.com/my-esims, open the eSIM and tap Scan QR code.
  • Roamly app: open the plan and tap Install on another device.

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Scan it

Menus differ a little by brand. The two most common paths:
1

Open the SIM settings

Go to Settings → Network & internet → SIMs and tap Add eSIM (on some phones it’s + or Add SIM, then Download a SIM instead?).
2

Scan the code

Point the camera at the code on the other screen, then tap Download.
3

Name it and leave it off

Name the SIM something like Roamly. Then, on the SIMs screen, tap the Roamly SIM and make sure Use this SIM is off until you land.

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Manual setup (no camera, or the code won’t scan)

You’ll need the activation code from the same place as the QR code. It’s one line that starts with LPA:1$.
  • Website: open the eSIM, tap Manual setup and copy the LPA string.
  • Roamly app: open the plan, go to More → Technical → Manual activation and copy the code.
1

Open the manual entry option

Start the Add eSIM steps above, and on the scan screen look for Enter it manually, Enter activation code or Need help? — the wording varies by phone, and on some it only appears after you skip the scan.
2

Paste the code

Most phones have a single field: paste the whole LPA:1$… line. If your phone asks for an SM-DP+ address and an activation code separately, the address is the part between the first and second $ and the code is everything after the second $.
3

Download, name it, leave it off

Tap Download, name the SIM, and keep it switched off until you land.

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Before you fly

Turn off Roaming on your normal SIM while you’re still at home: Settings → Network & internet → SIMs, tap your normal SIM, Roaming off (Samsung: Settings → Connections → Mobile networks → Data roaming). That’s what stops your home carrier charging you overseas. When you land, follow Just landed? How to activate your eSIM.

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