Had a look through the forums already looking for pointers, as well as a good few hours of Google-fu, so now I'm posting.
My Nexus decided, last night, my SIM wasn't inserted. This was while I was playing with my settings (I ticked allow national-roaming, went into Airplane and out, and then it happened). I undid my changes, but no, SIM not inserted.
I've soft-rebooted countless times, reseated the SIM, cleaned the contacts, checked other SIM cards, checked the SIM in other phones, restored a known-to-be-working backup of my OS, and as I type this out, I'm flashing a clean copy of a ROM with all my settings wiped. I expect it to be finished by the time I complete this sentence.
Yes, finished. And still no luck. Where do I go from here?
The only thing I can think of is to try passimg just because it's a stock ROM, if that doesn't work then I think I we can assume it's hardware.
Old topic, but this turned out to be hardware in the end, and was fixed by HTC under my provider warranty.
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i have torch v1.5 on my phone. when i took my sim out, put a friends in so she could use it, then put mine back in, it didnt recognize my sim. i cant access the APN settings to change those back to rogers, because it says "insert sim card to access network services". can someone please help me with this as i NEED my phone for this weekend.
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Get a new sim card?
Does your sim card work in a different phone?
That happened to me once. I had to return the phone. I was unable to get it to recognize the sim card.
Different rom didn't help either. Even when I flashed back to stock... no sim. It was a refurb so a new one was easy to get.
Hope you get it worked out.
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This happened to me earlier this week. Flash to stock and then back to the rom worked for me
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Clean contacts on sim card. Factory reset. If that doesn't work call Rogers for replacement.
No warranty you can replace the simcard slot its a daughter card I think you can order from globalpartsdirect
I have the exact same problem. Again it happened with a warranty phone I just received today. It occurred while trying to root the phone. The SIM card from my wife's iPhone does not work in my phone either. However, my SIM works in her phone. I've tried just about everything I can think of at this point other than running Kies (my next try).
BTW,
Unlike my original Captivate, this one came to me with Froyo already installed.
Under Menu /Settings / About phone /Status /Network what does it say ??
If it says "Unknown" you could try just flashing ur modem again.
I am having the exact same issue with a refurbished phone from AT&T and insurance gone im out of luck unless there is a easy solution.
Hello Everyone, So this is my situation so far:
I have a Samsung Captivate with unbrickable mod added. I flashed with Heindall to 2.2 froyo on linux. The SIM card is not recognized. I have triend 2.1 and 2.2 and 2.3 one clicks in windwons with no luck. I tried to mess with IMEI and elfs file. Results were that the lines i was suppose to change on nv.bin did not exist (no lines in file i was attempting to correct). So at this point and time can i conclude this is absolutely not a software issue? Problem two is if this is a hardware issue and not a software issue. Where do i begin? how much is the price for replacement? How hard is it to do? I have tried flashing with everything off the phone (sim and sd) Im a bit lost at this point. Any help would be great.
Update: Spoke with Adam and he says its not a software issue. I also spoke with the guys who did the soldering and said the issue is not coming from the soldering. I am thinking maybe when the phone was taken apart something got loose? Any thoughts anyone?
I have an LG Revolution, 12 days old, rooted.
LAst night i plugged in my phone and it would not charge, after trying several chargers, i decided to do a hard reset. I do the hard reset and now the Sim card is not being recognized. When i turn the phone on, it is waiting for activation, I can't get any further than that. I took my phone to the verizon store and they tested out my sim card in another phone and it worked fine. I can't unroot my phone because superoneclick can't recognize my phone, I think I need to turn on usb debugging and change it to "internet connection" but I can't access those options because the sim card activation screen is the only thing it lets me do.
Any thoughts?
Thanks for any help
had this issue once before and just had verizon replace the sim card. According to them its a known issue with teh 4g phones after doing a factory restore. Just don't let them mess around with your phone after they do the swap and they won't notice/care if its rooted.
The guy at the store i went to put my sim card into his phone and it worked fine, would it still be the sim card?
I got a brand new sim card and it still is not being recognized, any suggestions?
keep trying to activate it and make sure your in a 4g area.
The closest 4g area is like 40 minutes away from me, I wasn't near a 4g area when I first had it activated either?
I had the same problem with my wifes, I has to call and they did some sort if data reset from their end, and it worked.
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This worked for me. Take out SIM, power up and let it try to activate, put SIM back in and try it again.
I'm on my second Revo because of this issue. I did a factory restore and it wouldn't recognize the SIM. The Verizon store tried another card and ended up giving me a new phone. I've been very leery of doing another reset...
Patrick, thanks for the suggestion. Pulling the sim out and starting it and letting it try to activate, then shutting it off and putting the sim in. work for me, it got me to the "please wait while sim card is activate"
but my phone would just stay there forever and eventually tell me the sim was not supported on this device.
I called customer support, they told me they had to register that sim card number to my account. 2 minutes later i'm up and running!!!!
Thanks for everyones input.
Yes there's something really wrong with these phones. I'm on my third revo still having the boot up and sim issues. I might keep exchanging untill they give me a bionic.
I experienced this issue as will on my 1st Revo. They replaced the phone and declared it a 'bad' sim slot...no card would work.
My first factory reset ended up in several Sim cards being toast up at the VZW store. Turns out I had my phone on 3G only (to conserve battery). For this reason, I leave my phone on 4G Auto all the time, just in case.
rpatrick said:
This worked for me. Take out SIM, power up and let it try to activate, put SIM back in and try it again.
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Just had this happen to me. Followed these instructions and it worked like a charm! This is a great phone but there are so many little bugs that need correcting...
ufkal said:
My first factory reset ended up in several Sim cards being toast up at the VZW store. Turns out I had my phone on 3G only (to conserve battery). For this reason, I leave my phone on 4G Auto all the time, just in case.
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I have read about 5 threads where others had the same issues! I wanted to post a warning in the Dev threads but I'm afraid of being band.
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Just want to confirm that pulling the battery and SIM; placing the battery back in with out the SIM; trying to activate; pulling battery; putting both back in fixed my activation issue as well. Thank you very much.
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I have read about 5 threads where others had the same issues! I wanted to post a warning in the Dev threads but I'm afraid of being band.
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The main thing is that if you have clockwork mod installed DO NOT wipe in the about phone area! Only wipe data IN clockwork. Also just for safety I keep the exitrecovery.zip in my sdcard if it does get stuck looping into cwm.
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The main thing is that if you have clockwork mod installed DO NOT wipe in the about phone area! Only wipe data IN clockwork. Also just for safety I keep the exitrecovery.zip in my sdcard if it does get stuck looping into cwm.
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Yeah I learned the exitrecovery.zip trick today too.
Alright guys, I've had my Nexus One for about a week. It's running stock 2.3.4, but had same problem on 2.1 stock. If I try to do anything on my phone it does the damn reboot. But only on cell service. If I'm on wifi, I can't make it crash, reboot, or anything. It only does it when not on wifi. It's never been rooted or anything. Sometimes I even have to pull battery to get phone back. I've searched everywhere......
does a full data wipe solve your problem? //but whatever backup first before ever trying this.
Have you tried a new SIM card?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1203937
I have done several full wipes, cleared cache and data. Still same problem. My sim card is only a couple weeks old, and worked fine in my previous phone.
Stopped by AT&T and got a new sim card. Didn't change problem at all.
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Have you been able to pull a log cat?
Been doing all kinds of trial and error. If sim card isn't in phone, no reboots at all. WTF??
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Help!!!
So I had the power button failure and no electronic cleaner would fix it. I bought a broken captivate off ebay and replaced the motherboard. I had to take the daughter board off my old motherboard and place it on the new motherboard cause the old daughter board had a bend sd card holder. Turned on the phone and it had a lock on it so I did a hard reset. Now the phone turns on and seems to work great except for the fact that I have no network connection and my contacts from my sim card dont show up under my contacts. Sim card worked fine before the switch and works in my blackberry right now so I dont think its the sim card. I have re-checked all the connections and they are fine. Hopefully someone can help me with this.
Thanks!
Edit: Wifi works but still no network.
I was flashing modems on the move and got a sim lock msg on boot. Had no connection to the network. I don't know if this is the same problem but I resolved it by downloading "Galaxy S Unlock" app from the market. It's the purple computer tower/wrench icon. Hope this helps!
have no IMEI number, phone not rooted.
I put the other motherboard back in my phone until I "hopefully" figure this out. Is there a way I can copy my IMEI number from the original motherboard to the new one so it will work?
/efs folder on root has my imei backup. There might be a more specific app to deal with this. A search of the forums " EW] IMEI generator and ROM zip update" might be what you a step in the right direction. Like I mentioned I just used galaxy s unlock and it fixed everything.
(Can't post links being a noob sorry)
Guess I will have to root the phone and try this method then. Thanks
I have the same problems. The power button stopped working, then before I could get to repairing it, my wife left the phone in the sprinklers and the nothing would work. I disassembled the phone, cleaned with CRC cleaner- got it working, but with green tint to everything. Disassembled, cleaned all contacts with CRC & q-tips- got display back to normal but now it does not recognize the sim card. Card works fine on old phone though. When I get home I will check the imei #.
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lol, Im in Bakersfield too. Maybe its something in the air?
I tried to root it last night with super one click but the program kept locking up and stopped responding. What are other alternatives to rooting the phone?
Mine is also missing the imei number when I look for it under phone info. What does the sim card have to do with the imei #?
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I'm running the latest Cyanogen 9 Nightly. While texting I set my phone down and it suddenly lost signal.
So far I've tried re-flashing, wiping data, restoring older backup, other SIM cards and always with the same result. "NO SIM CARD"
I've never used any micro-SIM adapter or anything like that, so I doubt the pins are damaged...
Could there have suddenly been an EFS-related issue?
First time I've encountered this, so...any thoughts...?
I had this issue a few times when changing SIM cards,
I eventually solved it by having to "Wedge" one of my SIM cards in for it to be picked up, the other however works without issue so I suspect I have a faulty card due to the time it's spent in my wallet..
I'll try to re-flash to stock GB.
I have absolutely nothing showing up in my APN menu.
I'll try configuring it manually from someone else using the same provider...
Bad timing....really bad...
eug3n91 said:
I'll try to re-flash to stock GB.
I have absolutely nothing showing up in my APN menu.
I'll try configuring it manually from someone else using the same provider...
Bad timing....really bad...
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You should be able to check your EFS folder, But I think it's unlikely if it just "Happened" a while after the flash..
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You should be able to check your EFS folder, But I think it's unlikely if it just "Happened" a while after the flash..
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It happened right after sending a couple of texts...it just DIED...
With stock GB still doesn't recognise any SIM card...
Try inserting sim other way around.
Or check if lockscreen is working at all. You might have to, in ics do some special stuff.
Go to settings, security and check if you can lock the sim and change pin. Just try that to check if lockscreen functionality is down. If it is, check my threads, in statistics section in profile, I might have experienced something similar.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1649348
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baz77 said:
Try inserting sim other way around.
Or check if lockscreen is working at all. You might have to, in ics do some special stuff.
Go to settings, security and check if you can lock the sim and change pin. Just try that to check if lockscreen functionality is down. If it is, check my threads, in statistics section in profile, I might have experienced something similar.
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SIM security doesn't work. It's as if the SIM card isn't even there...
Well, its easy to dammage connectors, check if they are bent.
If not and simcard inserted right way try the fix in the thread I posted anyway. You do need to be rooted for that.
Also check if efs is still there and emei is correct. Dial *#06#* for that.
If after reboot it still doesnt work, and you have tried other roms. I'd suggest going back to stock condition unrooted and call upon warrentee. Seems to be special hardware issue.
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Well, its easy to dammage connectors, check if they are bent.
If not and simcard inserted right way try the fix in the thread I posted anyway. You do need to be rooted for that.
Also check if efs is still there and emei is correct. Dial *#06#* for that.
If after reboot it still doesnt work, and you have tried other roms. I'd suggest going back to stock condition unrooted and call upon warrentee. Seems to be special hardware issue.
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I'll do just that now, yeah...thanks.
youre welcome,
I think I got all points there. If another user knows anything additionally that I missed please share
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I think its efs related problem
Do you still have the imei number
I wanted to add a me too here, under the same circumstances. I have not yet flashed to a stock ROM yet, but will try. I doubt I have the warranty option. Hope to find a positive solution.
Using CM9 based paranoid Android.
I had the same problem when I got my note thought it was a faulty phone but took it to my local Vodafone store and it was the sim card itself the chip had worn away and was not making a connection...the sim card was only two years old so if its an old sim that good be ur problem and not the phone itself...
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I forgot to add that I can rule out my SIM card as I have several phones to test on. In my mind, this leaves software and hardware.
Out of curiosity, are the radios (basebands?) flashed for each new ROM, or is it just for a major upgrade?
I think I've discovered my issue at least. I am nearly certain that it is related to heat. Web browsing while charging, playing resource heavy games, using gps in a hot car will cause the radio to fail. If I restart, radio is still gone as long as the phone is still hot. Allow it to cool naturally, or put it in the refrigerator for a short while, and radio is back.
I think my goal now must be to find the coolest kernel / ROM combo while I am using this as a phone. Perhaps motivation for the Note 2?
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I forgot to add that I can rule out my SIM card as I have several phones to test on. In my mind, this leaves software and hardware.
Out of curiosity, are the radios (basebands?) flashed for each new ROM, or is it just for a major upgrade?
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I was hasty...the issue WAS my SIM card. My Skyrocket was probably much less sensitive to the corruption than the Note.