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No SIM Card

So last 5 minutos I have been freaking out over here, my Captivate just stoped recognizing my SIM card, everything was okay and my phone right here at my side until Astrid come bother me to do my homework, when I closed Astrid this notification pops upo saying that I have no SIM card on the phone and asking me to reboot it, so I rebooted and over and over again removed my card and still no results, anyone have ever had a similar problem? (it's not just for messages, its for everything)
If there is no solution how can I make my phone back to default options? so that I can return it to AT&T( right now I have Cognition 2.3b4), sorry for all the stupid questions

henriquef said:
So last 5 minutos I have been freaking out over here, my Captivate just stoped recognizing my SIM card, everything was okay and my phone right here at my side until Astrid come bother me to do my homework, when I closed Astrid this notification pops upo saying that I have no SIM card on the phone and asking me to reboot it, so I rebooted and over and over again removed my card and still no results, anyone have ever had a similar problem? (it's not just for messages, its for everything)
If there is no solution how can I make my phone back to default options? so that I can return it to AT&T( right now I have Cognition 2.3b4), sorry for all the stupid questions
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Did u try using a different SIM to see if that works?

diablo009 said:
Did u try using a different SIM to see if that works?
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I don't really have another one just my brazilian one that have no signal so makes no difference

henriquef said:
I don't really have another one just my brazilian one that have no signal so makes no difference
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Trying to see if ur SIM card is toast.

Take your sim to a store and get a new one. I did it twice with my phone. The second time I showed the sales guy I had 2.2 with a custom rom after he *****ed about no 2.2 update for his captivate. They don't care. They are sales, not returns. And to answer your question, odin. You shouldn't be flashing if you don't know how to fix it.
From a phone

boborone said:
Take your sim to a store and get a new one. I did it twice with my phone. The second time I showed the sales guy I had 2.2 with a custom rom after he *****ed about no 2.2 update for his captivate. They don't care. They are sales, not returns. And to answer your question, odin. You shouldn't be flashing if you don't know how to fix it.
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I got a new SIM card it's working now Thanks

Use the g1 as a pda?

I recently upgraded to the G2, but I still have a G1. This G1 is stock because the first one was sent in for repair (rooted but then unrooted and returned to stock) right before the upgrade. Since I have the G1 still, I don't want it to go to waste, but I want it to be more than just a backup. Is there a rom that will allow me to use the G1 like a pda and not require a cell signal or will pretty much all the roms complain?

My G1 is used by my son. I had the sim card out the other day and it ran fine on CyanogenMod 6.1.0 without it. Sure, it said the sim card was missing, but it updated on the Market without it.

Thanks. I think I hit a snag while flashing but, I think it's prudent to start a new tab.

I have never had an issue with using my phone sim-free (G1 and Magic).

Remove SIM missing notification?
AdrianK said:
I have never had an issue with using my phone sim-free (G1 and Magic).
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Ever figure out how to remove the SIM missing notification on the status bar?
Best Regards,
Kevin

kpetrie77 said:
Ever figure out how to remove the SIM missing notification on the status bar?
Best Regards,
Kevin
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Use EZterry's asop, was designed around not needing a sim card as well as with, works a treat too

Uses for my old g1?

I finally upgraded to a g2 and my g1 has just been lying around all lonely. I flashed the COS ROM but it's a little too laggy. So it's back to cm6 and I'm struggling to find a use for it. I am going to be using it without a sim so a rom that wouldn't show the "no sim card" text on the lock screen would be nice.
Sent from my stock G2

Finding a ROM that will not tell you that you are missing the SIM probably not going to happens. But you never know someone might decide to write a code for it. Suggestion on that is to find an old SIM (maybe from a friend) from any vendor (AT&T, T-Mobile, etc...) and put it in. That is what I did to one of my old phone so it does not tell me that there is no SIM card.
BTW, I was using CM6 (slow and sluggish) on my G1 and after it crashed on me last weekend. I finally found a good ROM that is fast with G1.
It's SuperAosp DM 2.8.2 with 15MB boot. My total interal memory after initial flash is about 90MB of memory, after loading up a hand full apps (IE: facebook, gmail, etc...) I still have about 82.80MB left. My G1 still running very fast.
If it would have been CM6, my phone would be crawling by now, and if lucky about 20MB of memory.

I just deleted the phone.apk.
I got a bunch of FC's when I first did it but after a reboot it was fine.
Doesn't say anything about no sim now
Didn't want my 2 year old to accidentally dial 911.

Sleeepy2 said:
I just deleted the phone.apk.
I got a bunch of FC's when I first did it but after a reboot it was fine.
Doesn't say anything about no sim now
Didn't want my 2 year old to accidentally dial 911.
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ROFLOL! Sorry I just have to laugh on the 2 year old with the 911. Beleived me, I know that feeling. Wait until your 2 year old call you at the office (by himself/herself).
BTW! What is your 2 year old doing with the phone anyway? That's a bad sign to have them start early.
Anyway, I never have thought of that. If that what you are recommeding to raydar670.
@ raydar670 - If that is so, backup the phone.apk first before you delete it. Just in case you need to use it as a spare.

Thanks guys. I think I'll try the ROM that BeenAndrodized mentioned.

raydar670 said:
Thanks guys. I think I'll try the ROM that BeenAndrodized mentioned.
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Make sure you back up everything, just in case.

[Q] Found a captivate w/screen lock

A coworker of mine found a Captivate on her road the other day. Trying to be a good neighbor, she put up found signs, posted on her community's facebook page, and has tried to answer the phone when people call. However, there is a screen lock (pattern), so she cannot access the address book or anything to try to find the owner.
Being that I'm a Captivate owner, she was asking me to help get info from the phone to help find the owner. If we still can't find the owner, she offered it to me for use for whatever.
Is there a way to read any info off the phone with the screen lock? Could I hook it up to USB and read stuff off the phone? My plan is to see if there's an external SD card that may have something on it. Other than that, if we can't find the owner, I'm supposing that I can just flash with Odin and have a blank Captivate.

belyle said:
A coworker of mine found a Captivate on her road the other day. Trying to be a good neighbor, she put up found signs, posted on her community's facebook page, and has tried to answer the phone when people call. However, there is a screen lock (pattern), so she cannot access the address book or anything to try to find the owner.
Being that I'm a Captivate owner, she was asking me to help get info from the phone to help find the owner. If we still can't find the owner, she offered it to me for use for whatever.
Is there a way to read any info off the phone with the screen lock? Could I hook it up to USB and read stuff off the phone? My plan is to see if there's an external SD card that may have something on it. Other than that, if we can't find the owner, I'm supposing that I can just flash with Odin and have a blank Captivate.
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The best way to do this will be to turn off the phone, pull out the external sd card, put CWM on it, put the card back in, load up CWM, connect the phone using USB, then mount the internal sd card. You just have to hope they didn't enable encryption at which point you are pretty much stuck wiping it.

I would think that AT&T would be able to find the owner by the IMEI number?
Sent from my Cappy

take it to att like DaveyBB said, and they should be able to read the sim card's number. which then they can find the number's owner and contact them

Put the external sd or sim card in your phone? Heh
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Good to see there are still decent people out there.
Hope you find the owner who is desperately waiting for his/her captivate
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA Premium App

My friend brought the Captivate in today. I pulled the SIM and put it into my phone. From there, I was able to see the contacts saved to SIM card and do a couple of reverse phonebook look ups.
The self phone number came up as a restaurant, which I thought was weird, but they also had listed two home phones. One house is right down the street from where my friend lives, so she's going over to return the phone this afternoon.

belyle said:
My friend brought the Captivate in today. I pulled the SIM and put it into my phone. From there, I was able to see the contacts saved to SIM card and do a couple of reverse phonebook look ups.
The self phone number came up as a restaurant, which I thought was weird, but they also had listed two home phones. One house is right down the street from where my friend lives, so she's going over to return the phone this afternoon.
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This is VERY NOBLE of you guys. Glad to hear a good story out of it. Good job for doing the RIGHT THING. Now if everyone would do the same kind of thing think about how nice the world would be And no I am not a peacenick just THANKING you for your best thoughts and plans.
Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.5Ghz/Undervolted

Hard Bricked by Google?

OK so this girl I know has been begging me for help with her Nexus 6 and I hoping you guys can make me her hero =D
Details:
A girl who has a problem the girl I'm trying to help took the girl I'm trying to help's phone and removed the sim card from it. I told her to go get a new one from Sprint thinking that was the only problem but after she got the new sim card she can't activate the phone and it is showing that it has been reset so it can only be unlocked with the google account that was on it initially. She does not remember the account details as she made the account new when she first got the phone and didn't really use it. Either that, or this other girl somehow associated a different account with the phone prior to resetting it and taking out the sim.The phone can receive calls just fine but she cannot dial out or do anything other than answer the phone when someone calls her.
Attempted fixes:
First I tried going to factory recovery to reset it but when you select recovery from the bootloader you get the little andy icon but underneath it says "Command not found" and there doesn't seem to be any combination of buttons I can press to get past that point and I end up having to 3-button reboot.
Next I booted the phone up in bootloader with key combos and connected it to a computer with adb & fastboot installed.Fastboot reads the device information and I was successfully able to /fastboot erase userdata to format the phone. I thought I had it fixed at that point but as soon as it gets a connection again it goes back to the "This phone has been reset and must be recovered with blah blah blah" message so I don't think I can get around that without installing a whole new operating system.....unfortunately usb debugging nor developer options are enabled on the phone so cannot unlock the bootloader via fastboot commands or any other way I can think of. Is this phone just totally hosed? I've walked her through attempting a gmail recovery on what she THINKS is the right e-mail address but can't seem to get the info correct or the address is off by a letter or two.
If anyone has experience with this or can point me towards a solution I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.

can't do anything about it. its a new security feature that google started. imagine if someone steals your phone and wipes it, now they'll still need your password to get in.

Can she say "forgot my password" on a computer? If she can get into the account then it will work. If she has to reset her password then she will have to wait 72 hours and then she will be able to login the email and password. Alternatively I have no idea how you could do this, but if you could root and flash 5.0.1 (or I think 5.1 should work just not 5.1.1 with its new security feature).

Alright yeah I was afraid of that though it is kinda cool for someone, like myself, who would never forget my associated email.....not so cool for her I guess. Seems like they are taking a page out of Apple's playbook with this though, haha.
@bob
Yeah I tried helping her recover the account but she apparently forgot everything she set the phone up with (including the account details and supplementary recovery emails) and apparently has way too many email accounts for one person. I agree flashing a different ROM other than the stock 5.1 would like fix the problem but I don't think I can get debugging enabled to unlock bootloader etc in the state the phone is in.....was hoping someone here might know a way to make that happen..
So if she takes the phone in to sprint and says to them you guys made me set up a gmail account and I can't remember it now which has resulted in this new phone I bought being completely unusable --- what do you think their procedure is going to be? Send it in for repair?

Hahahahahaha.
This sounds like a job for.... WARRANTY.
However, it is actually user error, which is actually on YOUR back (being the one who suggested simcard swapping without prepping the phone for it first). So if they deny warranty for "user error", then I think that YOU OWE HER A NEW NEXUS 6.
Suggestion for next time: when she has a working nexus 6 in her hands, fastboot oem unlock it. IMMEDIATELY.
Also tell her to use a gmail address SHE KNOWS, and not make up a new one for the thing.

Well when I suggested it the phone did not have a Sim card....it was stolen. What I told her was to take the phone in to sprint and explain the situation and see if they would give her a replacement Sim so if there is something that should have been done to the phone prior to that isn't sprint the one to blame? By the way exactly what is it that you would do to the phone to prepare it for the new Sim?
..side note....when I ran a '/fastboot getvar all' I noticed a warranty void line that said yes at the end of it..is that going to be a problem? Lol...

slimbrady said:
Well when I suggested it the phone did not have a Sim card....it was stolen. What I told her was to take the phone in to sprint and explain the situation and see if they would give her a replacement Sim so if there is something that should have been done to the phone prior to that isn't sprint the one to blame? By the way exactly what is it that you would do to the phone to prepare it for the new Sim?
..side note....when I ran a '/fastboot getvar all' I noticed a warranty void line that said yes at the end of it..is that going to be a problem? Lol...
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Stolen, what? Elaborate.
Sprint has no blame in this. The phone can't be used anymore until you, her, or whomever figures out/remembers the gmail account originally used to turn on Device Protection on the phone. If the bootloader had been unlocked prior to turning on Device Protection we wouldn't be having this discussion. The link below will explain everything in detail.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/03/a-look-at-android-5-1-speed-security-tweaks/

Maverick-DBZ- said:
Stolen, what? Elaborate.
Sprint has no blame in this. The phone can't be used anymore until you, her, or whomever figures out/remembers the gmail account originally used to turn on Device Protection on the phone. If the bootloader had been unlocked prior to turning on Device Protection we wouldn't be having this discussion. The link below will explain everything in detail.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/03/a-look-at-android-5-1-speed-security-tweaks/
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Yeah some girl she has beef with or that has beef with her had access to the phone and took the sim out of it....that's the story I'm told at any rate..... Thanks for the link and yeah not good news for my friend I guess since she's a bit of ditz and can't remember the account info, lol.
So 2 questions remain.... what was the guy above talking about regarding 'prepping the phone' for a new sim card.....? And, has anyone tried taking a phone in this state back to sprint or other carrier corporate store and know what she's in for if she does do that?

slimbrady said:
Yeah some girl she has beef with or that has beef with her had access to the phone and took the sim out of it....that's the story I'm told at any rate..... Thanks for the link and yeah not good news for my friend I guess since she's a bit of ditz and can't remember the account info, lol.
So 2 questions remain.... what was the guy above talking about regarding 'prepping the phone' for a new sim card.....? And, has anyone tried taking a phone in this state back to sprint or other carrier corporate store and know what she's in for if she does do that?
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I'm pretty sure he just meant to turn off Device Protection before removing the sim card and unlock the bootloader so you have a chance to recover the phone. It's obviously too late for that, but something to think about in the future if she ends up replacing the Nexus 6 with another one.
It depends where she bought the phone from. If she bought it from Sprint they should have a record of her purchase once they pull up her account details. She should be able to walk into a corporate store and have it replaced without too much trouble.

slimbrady said:
Yeah some girl she has beef with or that has beef with her had access to the phone and took the sim out of it....that's the story I'm told at any rate..... Thanks for the link and yeah not good news for my friend I guess since she's a bit of ditz and can't remember the account info, lol.
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Oh, I see...
Yeah, stay clear of her AND her phone. The sim card wasn't stolen from her phone. HER PHONE *IS* STOLEN from someone else.
You see what it takes to get the sim card out of these things? Handing it over to a frenemy for 20 seconds *does not* result in the sim card being removed.

doitright said:
Oh, I see...
Yeah, stay clear of her AND her phone. The sim card wasn't stolen from her phone. HER PHONE *IS* STOLEN from someone else.
You see what it takes to get the sim card out of these things? Handing it over to a frenemy for 20 seconds *does not* result in the sim card being removed.
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Was my first thought as well after reading the OP.
It's all just an illusion

Long story short:
"Hard Bricked By Google?"
YES BECAUSE YOU STOLE THE PHONE.
Mods need to lock this thread and ban the user.