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[Q] Doesn't recognize the SIM card after upgrading to ICS

Hello guys, i'm new in this forum.
I've recently bought a used Samsung Galaxy Note, factory unlocked. It came with the 2.3.6 version of android and it worked perfectly. But today, i've upgraded it to ICS by KIES (i'm a mac user) and it doesn't recognize my sim card (It says emergency calls only). The phone isn't blocked and it works perfectly, except from that.
I've tried factory resets and everything, and it doesn't work.
Then, i've downgraded it to 2.3.6 again and guest what: IT WORKS!
But then, i upgrade it again to ICS and it doesn't work again. It's not a sim card problem, i've tried another ones and they don't work neither.
Please help me asap, i'm in 2.3.6 now because that's the only way to call in my phone...
Regards from Sevilla, Spain.

pepedroid said:
Hello guys, i'm new in this forum.
I've recently bought a used Samsung Galaxy Note, factory unlocked. It came with the 2.3.6 version of android and it worked perfectly. But today, i've upgraded it to ICS by KIES (i'm a mac user) and it doesn't recognize my sim card (It says emergency calls only). The phone isn't blocked and it works perfectly, except from that.
I've tried factory resets and everything, and it doesn't work.
Then, i've downgraded it to 2.3.6 again and guest what: IT WORKS!
But then, i upgrade it again to ICS and it doesn't work again. It's not a sim card problem, i've tried another ones and they don't work neither.
Please help me asap, i'm in 2.3.6 now because that's the only way to call in my phone...
Regards from Sevilla, Spain.
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There are some threads abt sim unlock in "general" section if I am not wrong..just go through it & u should be able to make your sim work on ICS..

Lol for galaxy s unlock in the play store
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium

lol, when you boot in ICS do you get the sim pin unlock screen?
cause if you dont there is a fix for that which has nothing to with being locked.

[Q] HEEELP!!! SIM not recognized Galaxy mini S5570i

Can someone please help?
Few days ago my phone stopped recognizing sim cards. No mather what I've tried, it still won't work.
It's acting like there's no sim card inserted.
IMEI is still there
I would appreciate any help.
I posted a picture of the problem.

janjevac said:
Can someone please help?
Few days ago my phone stopped recognizing sim cards. No mather what I've tried, it still won't work.
It's acting like there's no sim card inserted.
IMEI is still there
I would appreciate any help.
I posted a picture of the problem.
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Well, I'm not sure about the problem; if you are on a custom rom, it might be because of that, or incorrect flashing. Try using another ROM, and if problems persists try Stock ROM meant for your region. (it might be possible that you flashed a ROM for a different region and because of that you might have a problem..)
AND NEVER POST YOUR IMEI NUMBER ONLINE.
http://forums.meteor.ie/t5/Unlocking-Codes/Never-post-your-IMEI-number-on-the-web/td-p/36899

DeathMetal King said:
Well, I'm not sure about the problem; if you are on a custom rom, it might be because of that, or incorrect flashing. Try using another ROM, and if problems persists try Stock ROM meant for your region. (it might be possible that you flashed a ROM for a different region and because of that you might have a problem..)
AND NEVER POST YOUR IMEI NUMBER ONLINE.
http://forums.meteor.ie/t5/Unlocking-Codes/Never-post-your-IMEI-number-on-the-web/td-p/36899
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Thanks for the advice about IMEI number, i didn't think of that because i went crazy because my phone doesnt work.
I'll try with stock rom.

I flashed original stock rom on the device, but the problem remains. Does anyone know the solution, I am going crazy
Sent from my ST26i using xda premium

pop your sim card out for 15 min. then put it
back in your phone.

In the second pic it is clearly showing 1 bar of signal
So how can you say sim is not being detected

No way out here

dheeraj (dhlalit11) said:
In the second pic it is clearly showing 1 bar of signal
So how can you say sim is not being detected
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Did you notice the the SIM symbol with question mark inside it?
The phone acts like there is no SIM card inserted when it is inside all the time.

pryerlee said:
pop your sim card out for 15 min. then put it
back in your phone.
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Thanks for the advice, but that didn't work. I tried several SIM cards. Same thing every time.

have a read tho these answers, maybe you'll find a solution http://bit.ly/17Ku2cc

[Q] Really Strange Problem

ok so this before this evening my phone was working just fine so then my friend wanted to use my sim card so I normally open the battery gave him the sim card and after a while when he gave it back I put it back in my phone and started it but it got stuck in samsung logo. I thought it was just one of those hang then I opened the batter put it back but same again stuck at samsung logo then without seeing any other solution I reflash the rom but its got stuck on samsung again. Finally I tried flashing firmware using odin everything went successfully but couldn't get in the phone stuck on samsung. Any idea guys? the phone was completely fine a moment and its gone on the other. its i9305 by the way

Hi mate, sorry to hear that..
Anyways have you made a full wipe before flashing the stock firmware ? this is usually the solution.

New sim card .
Sim reader damaged .
jje

[Q] Invalid SIM card error/SIM network unlock PIN request on boot I9305

Okay, I posted this question in the I9300 Q&A section by accident (was a bit distraught, didn't read the section title properly), but for some reason a mod appears to have deleted the thread instead of moving it, so here it is again in the correct section.
So after using my I9305 for about 8-9 months now, I woke up this morning to find my phone nonoperational. The phone requests on boot a "SIM network unlock PIN". If this window is dismissed, the pulldown notifications drawer states "Invalid SIM card" with subtitle "Network locked SIM card inserted". Quick Googling reveals that these notifications and errors typically show that a phone is locked to a specific carrier. Now that's understandable, but this phone is unlocked, and I hadn't even taken the SIM card out until this error occurred. The SIM card works just fine in another phone.
I've tried rebooting the phone (first port of call), and using the code *#197328640# in the dialer to SIM unlock as per this post (but I didn't have "[4] NW LOCK NV Data INNITIALLIZ" as an option). I tried using "busybox chown 1001:1001 /efs/nv_data.bin" in terminal emulator as root, after seeing this post, but it came with an error of "chown: /efs/nv_data.bin: NO such file or directory". So... how bad do things look? And no... I don't have a backup of my efs. =[
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Since then, I also tried *#06# in the dialer, and my IMEI is intact.

Try another sim first

JJEgan said:
Try another sim first
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Nope, no dice.

Are you totally stock rom or custom?

Stock standard 4.1.2, with CF-Auto-Root.

KayDat said:
Stock standard 4.1.2, with CF-Auto-Root.
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Maybe try flash a stock pre-rooted rom by lriquidperfection with odin and try the *# again?

Tried various different stock ROMs and factory resets, nothing.

You need to flash a 4.1.1 ROM, or at least a modem from such a ROM.
Sent from my GT-I9305 using xda app-developers app

Tried flashing several 4.1.1 stock ROMs, no luck either.

try to clean pin battery (on the battery not connector battery on the phone) and clean your sim card (used pencil eraser)
look your sim card have missing gold pin/gold line or not?

hrcell said:
try to clean pin battery (on the battery not connector battery on the phone) and clean your sim card (used pencil eraser)
look your sim card have missing gold pin/gold line or not?
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Not sure why doing anything with the battery would be in any way related with the SIM. I also forgot to mention that I had already tried cleaning the SIM card at the start with alcohol. In any case, the SIM card works fine in another phone, so it appears that there isn't problem with the SIM card. In any case, I managed to RMA the phone, now the long wait to get it back...

KayDat said:
Not sure why doing anything with the battery would be in any way related with the SIM. I also forgot to mention that I had already tried cleaning the SIM card at the start with alcohol. In any case, the SIM card works fine in another phone, so it appears that there isn't problem with the SIM card. In any case, I managed to RMA the phone, now the long wait to get it back...
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sim connector need voltage and get from battery

You're kidding me, right?

KayDat said:
You're kidding me, right?
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i not joke with you
i have same problem with you 5 month ago with copy battery

Got my phone back from the shop today. Kept an eye on the shipping tracking when I sent it out, and they sent it back out half a day after they took delivery, so I'm guessing they used a SIM unlock code since it's definitely my phone that I got back. Didn't have to pay anything, so I'm happy. Still not sure why/how the phone decided to lock itself though...

want to change network band in sm j110h
Hello sir...
I want change my phone network band.i had used code *#0011# it was showing only sevice mode.im not getting main menu option after tried further process. Plz help me to change my WCDM network to LTE network mode.
Thanks in advance
Prashant

KayDat said:
The phone requests on boot a "SIM network unlock PIN". If this window is dismissed, the pulldown notifications drawer states "Invalid SIM card" with subtitle "Network locked SIM card inserted".
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I had the same problem. In my case the phone had been fine for almost 3 years.

I suddenly have this problem too.

whatsupskip said:
I had the same problem. In my case the phone had been fine for almost 3 years.
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Which ROM are you using? I was using rodman's AICP

Deanodirector said:
Which ROM are you using? I was using rodman's AICP
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I was using the stock Samsung ROM.

[Q] Lost network & relocked BL?

Hello,
I've a weird problem with my Xperia SP. Today i wanted to get back to rom based on stock rom to get miracast feature.
I downloaded newest existenz rom and williams kernel for stock based roms. Installation went fine system booted ok and everything worked fine. After some time phone turned off and didn't wanted to start. Only flashmode worked. I've decided to download stock .205 CE1 rom and flash it.
It booted up, sim card was recognized(had to write PIN). After that network was not found. Signal with red "X". I've tried to manually register to network but i could not.
Next thing is that after flashing stock rom fastboot mode stopped working. Service menu shows that Bootloader can not be unlocked even that it was unlocked before and flashtool(BLU option) shows that it is still unlocked. Flashtool also shows Bootloader: NOT_ROOTABLE.
I have actually no idea what have happend. Now i'm installing stock rom using Sony PC Companion but i think this wont help for network problem.
My main network is PLUS GSM(Poland network).
Could sim card die? It is old type card (almost 10 years) and i had to cut it manually to fit micro sim for the phone.
prntscr,com/45wtip (swap ','(comma) with '.'(dot))

KrychoPL said:
Hello,
I've a weird problem with my Xperia SP. Today i wanted to get back to rom based on stock rom to get miracast feature.
I downloaded newest existenz rom and williams kernel for stock based roms. Installation went fine system booted ok and everything worked fine. After some time phone turned off and didn't wanted to start. Only flashmode worked. I've decided to download stock .205 CE1 rom and flash it.
It booted up, sim card was recognized(had to write PIN). After that network was not found. Signal with red "X". I've tried to manually register to network but i could not.
Next thing is that after flashing stock rom fastboot mode stopped working. Service menu shows that Bootloader can not be unlocked even that it was unlocked before and flashtool(BLU option) shows that it is still unlocked. Flashtool also shows Bootloader: NOT_ROOTABLE.
I have actually no idea what have happend. Now i'm installing stock rom using Sony PC Companion but i think this wont help for network problem.
My main network is PLUS GSM(Poland network).
Could sim card die? It is old type card (almost 10 years) and i had to cut it manually to fit micro sim for the phone.
prntscr,com/45wtip (swap ','(comma) with '.'(dot))
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Use flashtool to flash stock firmware by ftf file. Here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2311964
Use an older one and if that does not work, try one or two more. Hopefully, that will help. Best of luck!

shahrukhqasim said:
Use flashtool to flash stock firmware by ftf file. Here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2311964
Use an older one and if that does not work, try one or two more. Hopefully, that will help. Best of luck!
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Does it matter which country is it for? I can try some of them but i think that won't help. I've checked other sim card and it was recognized but didn't even ask me for pin. Weird Oo.
If nothing helps i will just flash stock firmware with SEUS and let sony service take care of it, hopefully. Phone still has guarantee.

KrychoPL said:
Does it matter which country is it for? I can try some of them but i think that won't help. I've checked other sim card and it was recognized but didn't even ask me for pin. Weird Oo.
If nothing helps i will just flash stock firmware with SEUS and let sony service take care of it, hopefully. Phone still has guarantee.
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Regions perhaps. But the thing that does not make sense it that that why did it work before and not now? It should work. Anyway, my SIM was mini too. I, too, had to cut it. It works. Or possibly contact your service provider maybe something is wrong with the SIM. They might have have locked it or something?

shahrukhqasim said:
Regions perhaps. But the thing that does not make sense it that that why did it work before and not now? It should work. Anyway, my SIM was mini too. I, too, had to cut it. It works. Or possibly contact your service provider maybe something is wrong with the SIM. They might have have locked it or something?
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If none sim card works on phone then it is IMEI problem or phone itself somehow. I'm trying to flash other roms now. Hopefully it will help if not then sending to service.

KrychoPL said:
Hello,
I've a weird problem with my Xperia SP. Today i wanted to get back to rom based on stock rom to get miracast feature.
I downloaded newest existenz rom and williams kernel for stock based roms. Installation went fine system booted ok and everything worked fine. After some time phone turned off and didn't wanted to start. Only flashmode worked. I've decided to download stock .205 CE1 rom and flash it.
It booted up, sim card was recognized(had to write PIN). After that network was not found. Signal with red "X". I've tried to manually register to network but i could not.
Next thing is that after flashing stock rom fastboot mode stopped working. Service menu shows that Bootloader can not be unlocked even that it was unlocked before and flashtool(BLU option) shows that it is still unlocked. Flashtool also shows Bootloader: NOT_ROOTABLE.
I have actually no idea what have happend. Now i'm installing stock rom using Sony PC Companion but i think this wont help for network problem.
My main network is PLUS GSM(Poland network).
Could sim card die? It is old type card (almost 10 years) and i had to cut it manually to fit micro sim for the phone.
prntscr,com/45wtip (swap ','(comma) with '.'(dot))
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i got the exact same problem right now after using william kernel, can you fix it?

Muh_lukman94 said:
i got the exact same problem right now after using william kernel, can you fix it?
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I've reflashed stock rom using SEUS and sended phone to sony service. Hopefully they can help. Be careful with Williams Kernel for stock roms. This may be a common bug.

For anyone who had the same problem. Sony exchanged my whole phone with information that mainboard was broken. They said that phone could not be fixed.
Good luck
PS. Topic can be closed i think.

KrychoPL said:
For anyone who had the same problem. Sony exchanged my whole phone with information that mainboard was broken. They said that phone could not be fixed.
Good luck
PS. Topic can be closed i think.
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Where have you been before? I have the same problem after flashing William kernel for stock rom((( What to do now?

Everything i've done is described in the thread. Phone was exchanged by sony after all.

KrychoPL said:
Everything i've done is described in the thread. Phone was exchanged by sony after all.
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I think i have the same problem, but up till now no one knows the answer, the biggest problem is my warranty is over, i hope someone here can help :crying:
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KrychoPL said:
Everything i've done is described in the thread. Phone was exchanged by sony after all.
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I have the same problem here, and the biggest problem is my warranty expired, hope someone here can help..

Muh_lukman94 said:
i got the exact same problem right now after using william kernel, can you fix it?
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do a restore of Your TA will fix the problem, now my phone can detect SIM card