I have an att tilt and the other day it started not recognizing my sim card. I've hard and soft reset, put stock rom & radio back on it, wedged a piece of paper in the back, pressed on the metal and replaced it without paper. Basically i've done everything i've found in the threads, but I was hoping someone seeing this might have some suggestions.
thank you
Is your device fully CID unlocked? Or has it become re-locked somehow.
stuntdouble said:
Is your device fully CID unlocked? Or has it become re-locked somehow.
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I bought the phone unlocked and what not, is it possible for them to become re-locked? It is still showing the hard spl 3.56 at boot screen, still behaving normally in every other light.
try another sim card to verify that it's not your old sim card which is incompatible some older cards are
rather then the problem being that your sim slot is defect
it coudl be your ribbon cable too.. that is the first symptom my sons Tilt got when the ribbon cable wentbad was it didn;t reliabley reconize sim cards... then it woudlwork if the keyboard was slid out... but not in.. it was wierd...
well i've come to the conclusion it's def hardware. i'm going to do some research on getting it repaired but i'll probably just look into getting a cheap fuze i guess it's time to move on. thanks guys.
The problem happens due to damaged SIM card flex cable which connect SIMCARD module to the motherboard of the TILT. I too had the same issue. Replacing it with a new Flex cable solved the problem completely.
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i have had no problems before, i flashed a couple roms in it before, but in the end, i kept very lightly modded rom very close to OEM rom for the tilt that i got from here. all was well for months and months.. until now.
i noticed that the phone will lose signal. and not detect a sim card anymore. at first i thought it was sim. so i tried it on my other tilt (i have 2) and i determined that its the phone.
if i restart it, it works for about 1 min or less if im lucky.. then i have to to go comm. manager, turn off phone signal, and turn it back on, usually, that does the trick. but now, that wont even work anymore.
the only way to get the sim recognized again is if i slide the phone out, go to comm. manager, turn off phone and turn back on, and LEAVE the phone slided out. once i slide the phone back in, it will not detect the sim. ive tried diff. spl, different roms, and searched before i came back here.
ive had it for over a year, have broken the screen and messed up keyboard by closing hood of my car on it,
but ive fixed it. and that was long ago. maybe this new problem is because of this. if someone had similar problems, let me know what you did. or if anyone can point me into the next direction. i guess ill have to crack it open again.
I had a similiar issue where my phone would turn on ok, then lose signal and then get the no sim card error (dialer screen). What I ended up doing was taking a piece of tape and put it on the back of the sim card then slid it into the holder and locked it. (It was a thick metal tape, if you use scotch tape I recommend using a few pieces). Once I did that I havent had another problem with it. Its a pain to get the sim out of the phone because it ruins the tape but I would rather deal with that than not have my phone work correctly.
Let me know if that works for ya.
Jim
i see. so it seems that your problem was that the sim shifted out of place sometimes... i will try that. hope it works. its so odd that my sim card dissapears when i close my tilt
I just recently had a similar problem and I finally figured out it was a bad contact with the SIM card. you can either use the tape trick, or if you have a steady hand, take a thin object (such as a paper clip or glasses screwdriver) and very gently lift the contacts up underneath of where the sim card goes. they may have been pushed down due to abnormal pressure exerted on the back of your phone, I think that's what happened to mine.
thanks for your help. the sim contact issue was the first thing i suspected, AND tried. i used a needle. i raised the level of each of the 8 contacts making sure the sim will make contact with each pin. but the problem remains.
i will try this again. to double check. i will respond with the results
i tried pushing the pins up a little bit again, i still have the same problem
*but now i have an update, it seems that the sim card stops being detected right before i actually fully slide the phone back in. for examplle, before the slide-in tone is played, and before the screen tilts back.
i already took it apart for a look inside, everything seems fine. and i dnt really know wht to look for.
Hi,
was reading about ur issue, just tought on jumping into the wagon, I suspect it might be the flex cable that connects the sim to the motherboard, if there is such cable, i haven't opened my kaiser yet but my Pioneer car radio has this flex cable issue when the drive is closed the screen turns on and the whole radio but as soon as you press eject (the face will scroll and unveil the cd slot) the radio actually turns off and i have to move the face back to its original position in order to work. At the end I took the flex cable out and 1/4 of it was teared, in the end I had to order a new part
thanks so much for your help. i guess there is nothing left to do but to take it all apart. somewhat blindly. at least i know what to look for. bad cables, contacts... im clueless as to whether it can be a bad grounding issue? or a short. i dnt know. i guess i may be the first one to experience a problem like this on a tilt.
so i will do my best to get this problem resolved. and maybe include some pictures if it is intereting enough
my tilt totally stopped recognizing the sim.. it first happened when i dropped it and had to keep it open to keep contact.. then i was sitting with it open and tilted up, it fell and closed somehow and now the sim isnt there at all... i guess something is disconnected or whatever, im afraid to take it apart, but its either that or a paper weight.
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I had a similar problem. My sim card would disappear on occasion then one day I woke up and no phone. Just an annoying sim card not installed message. Checked the phone by putting in a known working sim card and it was fine. Called ATT for a new sim card and now my phone is working. Try a new SIM CARD.
For the original poster -- that fact that it works when the keyboard is in one position but not the other indicates that it is likely a bad flex cable.
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Its most likely the cable. I used a new SIM, the extra pressure trick, cleaned contact, etc on mine yesterday, but the problem remained.
I got a used Tilt from Craigsliist , reusing the SIM and case, and it works great.
i wonder if anyone has bought this item before and if it works? upon research, i think our problem comes from the sim card flex and ribbon:
http://cgi.ebay.com/HTC-TyTN-II-P45...AU_MobilePhoneAccessories?hash=item2a05bd88c4
It definitely comes form that ...but the repair cost is more than the replacement cost..so why bother with repairing it?
Hey, I'm having the same problem, my phone just out of the blue after a year of use says no sim card. My card is fine in other phones, and no cards work in my phone. I tried the pressure thing and cleaning the pins, but no good. My next option will be a hard reset/ wipe the phone and see if that clears the problem. I'm not optimistic after reading the thread. Did any one have luck with one of those Kaiser Flex Sim Card Slot Repair Parts that loller90278 mentioned? If so, I would rather spend $16 to fix a phone that has worked well up till now, rather than spend $100 on an unknown used phone. Still I don't want to bother if it's not going to work.
Thanks
well well...i'm going to have to join this "club" of affected kaiser users
my kaiser just started misbehaving last night. i bought it brand new exactly 1 year and 11 months ago
i took good care of it, barely ever tilted the screen during my almost 2 years of use. the current behavior is that when the keyboard is closed, the sim is hardly ever detected (1 out of 10 times perhaps). when the keyboard is opened, the sim is fairly regularly detected (9 out of 10 times perhaps).
i am not going to bother with investigating the possibility of a software problem because of my observations. given all the threads i've read about this issue, i am convinced my sim flex cable is either loose and/or broken.
anyway, it seems the kaiser's flex cable is just not built to last much longer than 2 years. if i can have it repaired for up to around $50, i'll go for it...if not, HD2 here i come!
ASCIIker said:
well well...i'm going to have to join this "club" of affected kaiser users
my kaiser just started misbehaving last night. i bought it brand new exactly 1 year and 11 months ago
i took good care of it, barely ever tilted the screen during my almost 2 years of use. the current behavior is that when the keyboard is closed, the sim is hardly ever detected (1 out of 10 times perhaps). when the keyboard is opened, the sim is fairly regularly detected (9 out of 10 times perhaps).
i am not going to bother with investigating the possibility of a software problem because of my observations. given all the threads i've read about this issue, i am convinced my sim flex cable is either loose and/or broken.
anyway, it seems the kaiser's flex cable is just not built to last much longer than 2 years. if i can have it repaired for up to around $50, i'll go for it...if not, HD2 here i come!
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just wanted to follow up on my own post above.
i just got my kaiser back. its been repaired
the dude cannibalized the main flex cable and sim assembly from a tilt and transplanted it into my tytn2. BUT! there has been an interesting side effect...because the tilt does not have a front cam, my guess is that its flex cable is unable to carry the signal of the front cam in the tytn2. so now my front cam is no longer detected. the camera app shows no icon to switch to another camera. the icon is blank!
i figured i could either have a kaiser with sim problems or a working kaiser with no front cam. i chose to keep the flex cable from the tilt because there is no 3G in my region and i hardly ever used the front camera otherwise.
long story short, my kaiser is back in business!
Similar problem !!!
Hello mate, .,. the problem in you case is the connecting ribbon between the keyboard that holds the sim card beneath it and the screen. I recommend u to replace the ribbon that connects. Its around 40 USD and that should do the trick.
Cheers !!!!!
It all started slowly... it would drop my phone signal (and say no sim card) when i would slide it out, and now it doesnt read sim card at all (regardless of if I reboot and its closed or slid out). Anyone know what part might have went bad specifically? (the sim reader or a cable?)
what have you done to fix the problem? This is a very old and covered topic.
it happened to me too, i resolved the situation by inserting a piece of paper on the top of simcard, to make pressure because with time kaiser loses pressure needed to read the card...
Exact same problem i got right now. Signal got weaker and weaker, then it use to just be the signal gets lost when i slid out keyboard, so i was stuck with onscreen keyboard for a while. And now, just yesterday, my tilt wont read the sim at all. I get the "Missing Sim" message. I rebooted, hard reset, tried the spacer of top of the sim card, lifted contacts in sim holder... no help.
I think ive only dropped the phone once semi-hard in the 1 and a half years ive owned it, and that was a while back.
Not sure if i should replace some parts (sim card holder, ribbon cables, etc. not sure what the problem is yet) or just use the money to get a tilt2. haha.
Good luck with yours. I suspect its the sim card holder on mine.
heres a disassemble guide if youd like to check out your phone yourself:
http://mikechannon.net/PDF Manuals/Replacing the LCD on a Kaiser.pdf
Hey guys i have had a HTC TILT for a while. I stopped using it a while ago, but i tried recently and i did the HARD SPL installed a 6.5 rom did the radio as well, but i'm getting a "sim is missing" error, with any sim that i try. Are there any fixes to this? I'm confused, thank you
No offence, but, are you sure you're inserting the SIM correctly? I spent half an hour trying to figure that one out on a late night... .
If not that, then check the contacts are in the correct position and free from any dirt/grime.
Dave
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No offence, but, are you sure you're inserting the SIM correctly? I spent half an hour trying to figure that one out on a late night... .
If not that, then check the contacts are in the correct position and free from any dirt/grime.
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I inserted the right way. This issue was happning even before i did the hard spl. But the phone didn't have this issue until like a year of not using it. I tried googling stuff i see many people had this issue too but i cant find the answer.
I had the same problem and had to replace the main flex cable which ran me about $30 on ebay. Everytime you slide open your phone the flex cable gets worn down and this can cause other problems such as it not reading your memory card and white screen of death.
But before you do anything see if applying more pressure on the sim card by putting a thin piece of paepr between the sim card and locking dor. I heard that this can fix it if it's a minor problem. Good luck man.
Being the phone unused for one year, maybe the sim bay's contacts gets oxidated?
Buy a dry contact cleaner in an electronics-store (sometimes you can get it at hardware too) but be sure it's the DRY type
Turn off the phone, pull off the battery and spray contact cleaner in the sim bay
Leave it evaporate (the greasy one doesn't evaporate... :-( )
Restart phone and check if solved....
So, it's stupid situation, and as i searched i'm not the first who have the same problem. So nano sim adapter got stuck in my phone aand when i was trying to get it out (alredy did) i broke something inside, when i shake phone i can hear it. I tried to look into the slot, i saw all 3 pins on their places (idk what i broke down) but still, when i insert sim it says no sim. On miui rom when I inserted sim it said no service (so is it alive?)
but after turning airpalne on/off it said no sim again.
I think when i tried to remove stucked adapter it lowered pins and they don't reach sim.. So the worst part now is teardown. Found video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hORFjKVr18 looks easy, but this phone was never disassembled, so the glue is strong. Also, new sim flex costs 4$, but i afraid to make it even worse.
I have a warranty, but it's from another country, but it should be accepted here. But will they repair, since it's my fault?
And any ideas how much replacement will cost?
No one responded. ookay.
So i installed viperx rom, when i insert sim nothing happens, when i remove it - "Sim card not detected" - "make sure that your sim is prorerly inserted"
So it's definately alive. I need to make better contact or somehow pull up pins.
Today tried to remove back cover with no success. Goes really hard and i left scuffs around housing.
So still i didn't get answer about warranty. Is this case under warranty?
Should i send it to official htc service?
okay. I disassembled my htc one. ^^
One thing left to do: remove screen to get that f*cking sim reader.
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okay. I disassembled my htc one. ^^
One thing left to do: remove screen to get that f*cking sim reader.
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You shouldn't have done that. That completely voids the warranty. HTC might have covered the SIM tray replacement under warranty. Make sure u re-assemble the phone properly
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You shouldn't have done that. That completely voids the warranty. HTC might have covered the SIM tray replacement under warranty. Make sure u re-assemble the phone properly
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i have unlocked bootloader, also it's my fault a bit. I have sent them email, but they haven't answered. Also nearest HTC center is in another country
I saw an almost complete housing (black or silver) on e&ay. Front (digitizer), back and simtray for a reasonable price (~38 usd incl. shipment).
It's a lot of work, but would restore your device in new condition.
it's possible to change sim slot only which costs 4$.
But there is no lcd and sim slot? I don't need it then.
Maybe someone knows , is sim slot soldered to phone? because i can see a flex and wondering how to remove it.
It was just glued. Now i'm going to order new adapter.
hey everyone
the last time I fixed the "active cmdline overflow" problem the phone started perfectly without the need to reinstall another RUU
The problem is that it doesn't read any SIM card which gives me always an error " No sim card detected", I'm not sure if this can be a software issue or just hardware one... but I'm sure there is a way to solve it!
Help please ?
Remove them sim and gently insert it applying a little pressure towards the bottom so its angled downward until it goes in. Once in dont apply any more pressure. Try different angles until it works. Might have a faulty slot.
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hey everyone
the last time I fixed the "active cmdline overflow" problem the phone started perfectly without the need to reinstall another RUU
The problem is that it doesn't read any SIM card which gives me always an error " No sim card detected", I'm not sure if this can be a software issue or just hardware one... but I'm sure there is a way to solve it!
Help please ?
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Thanks but it doesn't fix it :/
I used to have this error pop-up every once in a while. The permanent solution, I glued some paper on the back of the sim card such as the sim appears a bit thicker.
Sent from my HTC One
The problem still permanent :/
It will be one of:
Hardware - Sim socket, ribbon connector top board, connector plug top board, ribbon connector motherboard.
Software/firmware - Have you still got an IMEI?
Have you had the back off the phone for some reason?
It is a big job to replace the SIM socket, it is in between the screen and the phone chassis with a ribbon cable to the top board and another cable from the top board to the motherboard. (Screen needs removal for this job)