I bought a developer edition (32 GB, white back, GSM, unlocked) back in November last year as a backup phone. Last week I needed to use it to port another number out for a couple months, but at the AT&T store it refused to read the sim card.
We tried 3 different sim cards, including a currently active one, with no luck.
Any ideas?
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I got my Bionic in the mail from an online reseller yesterday and, so far, have been unable to get past the Welcome to Droid Bionic screen. When I originally took my Bionic out of the UPS box, I didn't see that there was a small SD card burried under the packaging, so I went to VZW store to get a fresh one. They were able to deactivate the old SIM card and activate another one and popped it in. Unfortunately, the new card is not recognized by the phone. They tried a second card and it does the same. The phone says "SIM card is from an unknown source." They VZW techs told me it was the phone and I needed to return it.
When I got home after spending hours at the VZW store, I found the original SIM card in the UPS box and popped it in. The phone recognizes this original card and tries to go through activation but, naturally, fails since its number was disabled at the VZW store. I'm wondering if it's worth it to try to go back to VZW again to try another card now that the phone has shown that it is capable of recognizing SIM cards or just scrap it and send the phone back for a replacement. Maybe there is a trick I can do to get things working again with the original card?
Any suggestions or past experiences with this would be helpful.
Thanks.
Tywin225 said:
I got my Bionic in the mail from an online reseller yesterday and, so far, have been unable to get past the Welcome to Droid Bionic screen. When I originally took my Bionic out of the UPS box, I didn't see that there was a small SD card burried under the packaging, so I went to VZW store to get a fresh one. They were able to deactivate the old SIM card and activate another one and popped it in. Unfortunately, the new card is not recognized by the phone. They tried a second card and it does the same. The phone says "SIM card is from an unknown source." They VZW techs told me it was the phone and I needed to return it.
When I got home after spending hours at the VZW store, I found the original SIM card in the UPS box and popped it in. The phone recognizes this original card and tries to go through activation but, naturally, fails since its number was disabled at the VZW store. I'm wondering if it's worth it to try to go back to VZW again to try another card now that the phone has shown that it is capable of recognizing SIM cards or just scrap it and send the phone back for a replacement. Maybe there is a trick I can do to get things working again with the original card?
Any suggestions or past experiences with this would be helpful.
Thanks.
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Bumping because I've had a similar issue. Must suck not being able to use the phone
perhaps you could name the online resaler as to avoid headaches for other consumers
i had similar problem. had to go get new sim card. then it wouldnt activate. the verizon store people told me it was the phone and to send it back. i told them i wanted a second opinion and made them call tech support. while i was waiting for them to ansewer the phone. i did a factory reset. it booted and activated no problem then.
mine was from letstalk.com. but i think it was my fault i needed a new sim
The reseller was LetsTalk.com but I don't think that it is their fault. I'd like to say that there is just something going on with the card registrations. The phone has proven that it's able to recognize SIM cards. I just need it to recognize an active one now.
I will try a factory reset once I get back to the VZW store and get an active SIM card to pop in.
UPDATE
I was able to get the phone to recognize another SIM card after having registered the original one with the device. VZW activated a new card and got it up and working.
If anyone else is having this problem, I would suggest going through the motions of activation with the original card (assuming its not recognized as being from an unknown source) and then having VZW activate a fresh SIM.
Thanks for the input.
I have just bought an LG P880 and to my horror found that it does not work with my sim card.
Here are the details:
Three Sim card (GA6047) monthly contract
LG P880 unlocked
I have tried the following sim cards and they do work
O2
Orange
I have tried a factory reset and a hard reset with the Three sim card in and out, each time it fails to detect it.
I have tried the Three sim card in the following phones and it does work
HTC 7Pro
Nokia N900
Samsung Galaxy Europa (The phone it came with)
While waiting for Three customer services I tried the Three sim card out of my mobile broadband GA6029 and was shocked to find that it did work.
So here i am with two three sims, one works with the phone, the other doesnt not.
All three said was to go to a shop so they can see it for themselves.
Do any of you have any ideas?
3G is activated? :silly:
Get a new SIM-card ... But it's best if you go to a three store and try one of their sim cards first. Pretty sure it will work. Maybe the sim card batch you got is faulty somehow and just not recognized by the phone. Exchanging the simcard shouldn't cost you anything if there's a technical problem.
Strange. My three sim works. It's a micro sim in an adapter. Maybe there is an alignment problem?
lt100ka said:
I have just bought an LG P880 and to my horror found that it does not work with my sim card.
Here are the details:
Three Sim card (GA6047) monthly contract
LG P880 unlocked
I have tried the following sim cards and they do work
O2
Orange
I have tried a factory reset and a hard reset with the Three sim card in and out, each time it fails to detect it.
I have tried the Three sim card in the following phones and it does work
HTC 7Pro
Nokia N900
Samsung Galaxy Europa (The phone it came with)
While waiting for Three customer services I tried the Three sim card out of my mobile broadband GA6029 and was shocked to find that it did work.
So here i am with two three sims, one works with the phone, the other doesnt not.
All three said was to go to a shop so they can see it for themselves.
Do any of you have any ideas?
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With android I don't know...
With the old K990 I just had to flash with an open firmware.
I have full size three sim works fine, but make sure data is enabled or you won't get a signal...
Sent from my LG-P880 using xda app-developers app
Ok, so an update.
I went to the three store yesterday. They let me try one of their demo sims and that worked. So they gave me a new sim. But once the sim activated, it yet again didnt work. Same as before though. The sim works in several other phones.
Does anyone know about different sim types?
The sim is a normal mini sim. But i am guessing that their are diferent sims for different phones?
Try microSIM from three. Maybe it helps.
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Do any of you have any ideas?
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I had the same problem with italian sim. I discovered that pulling the sim 1mm over the battery solve the problem. Maybe the contacts of the reader and the ones of the sim are not at the same distance when the sim is full inside the reader.
Hope will help
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I have full size three sim works fine, but make sure data is enabled or you won't get a signal...
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i am not sure its FULL size, since that includes the sim tray which in early 90s and forward was a complete card with simchip you could push out
the regulars or todays sim are mini-sim cards.see more here
Well, here I go again with not only another smartphone but I finally got my hands on the GT-N7000 International model with the physical home button. So I get it home, check it out, everything appears to be working fine:
- battery is brand new, just manufactured in January 2014, not a fake one (I checked that out with Samsung directly based on the battery serial number)
- was originally on Android 2.3.6 and upgraded to 4.1.2 through Kies without issues
- no hardware problems noted, everything works great, no damage to the phone at all
Here's where it gets a bit confusing. This is the International version which means it should be unlocked without me having to do anything to or with it, so - when the phone was on 2.3.6 - I took one of my newer T-Mobile microSIM cards and using the adapter to make it a proper miniSIM I slid it into the SIM slot, put the battery back in the phone and turned it on, and nothing gets detected at all.
I pull the battery, find another microSIM, do it again, still the same result. In fact, every microSIM I have (4 T-Mobile, 1 AT&T, all within a year old but none of them are currently activated - whenever I use the T-Mobile SIMs it will still connect to T-Mobile and allow me to pull up the billing web page; the AT&T SIMs never do that and just complain about the SIM not being provisioned).
Since my intention is to use the $30/monthly plan with T-Mobile that I've had in the recent past, I went looking into my little canister of older full size miniSIM cards and found two of them that I used with T-Mobile over the past few years. As most devices use microSIMs and even nanoSIMs nowadays, I figured I better keep them around just in case.
SO... I put one of them in and voila, I get a connection - or so I thought. When inserted, and again when using 2.3.6 I was able to get into the service menu (*#*#4636#*#*) and it would show the number assigned to that SIM originally, etc but it wouldn't show the network. Tried the second SIM card, it gets recognized, same thing - it just doesn't show T-Mobile.
Now, I've never had an International Galaxy Note so I'm kinda confuzzled here so the primary question is this:
Is the GT-N7000 simply incompatible with some SIM cards, even when they're in an adapter so they fit into the SIM slot proper? I know this isn't an LTE capable phone, that's not a concern at all - I suppose I'm not 100% sure that it's even compatible with T-Mobile given the bands but since T-Mobile works nicely here in Las Vegas (at least for me) and they're using more bands nowadays, I'm very interested in attempting to figure this out.
I went ahead and performed the Kies upgrade to 4.1.2 and it's working great so far, but again the same issue: the phone can't or won't see or access anything but these two older T-Mobile miniSIM cards - not anything else that I happen to have which includes two brand new T-Mobile microSIMs I ordered a few weeks back.
Could it be that perhaps the leaf-spring contacts inside the SIM slot are just not making contact on some of the other SIM cards that I'm trying to get recognized, or could this be something with the phone itself due to it being the International variant, or maybe it just not supporting the bands that T-Mobile happens to be using nowadays...?
Any help or info is greatly appreciated as I'd really love to get this thing up and running. If it means I have to get yet another SIM card from T-Mobile to get it working then that's what I'll have to do I suppose.
Thanks for any input...
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Just for the record I popped the back housing (not the battery cover, I mean the back housing held down by screws) off just now to get a look at the SIM card slot itself, it appears to have a 3-2 configuration (meaning the 3 visible leaf-spring connectors and the other two are not visible unless you remove that back housing). Maybe a lead snapped off, perhaps? Seems like there should be 6 leaf-spring leads...
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And after looking at parts on eBay it does seem like there should be 6, I guess one of them snapped off at some point with the previous owner and probably the reason they were selling it. Odd...
20 days ago more or less I move to marshmallow developer preview (I don't know if this info could be useful).
Some days ago I changed phone operator. Before to change the sim they told me to wait the actual sim stop to receive the signal. I happened today. So I changed the sim, inserting the new sim, but it does not work. I mean it seems like the sim is not inserted.
I tried the new sim into iphone of my colleague and it works.
I thought it was for some instability of marshmallow and I just come back to lollipop 5.1.3 (wiped everything except the internal sd) ....but the sim is not recognized....Do I have to do a more deep wipe?
Or what it could be?
Thanks for you help
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If other SIM cards work, the SIM you are trying to install is broken. You need a new one.
Does anyone know what to do when your cell phone is not registering on the network? I am on an n910t and I tried manually connecting to t-mobile through more networks -> mobile networks -> network operators.
I was on stock before. When I go to recovery, it says, system update, and then after a little bit, it says command not found or no command or something.
I figure it was a bad system update, so I downloaded multiple firmwares from sammobile and updated the phone via odin. I even installed twrp and installed a few roms from here to no avail.
Any ideas or clues of what to try or check next? Any thing you guys could think of would be appreciated as my phone is not usable unless it's on WiFi atm. Thanks in advance!
so i'm just going to give an update in case someone else is having this issue. so originally i had a regular sim card that was cut down to micro sim size to fit in my note 4. since i had the aforementioned problem and i couldn't figure out a way to resolve the issue, i got a new phone. the new phone required nano sim. so i went to the t-mobile store and bought a new sim card that would fit in the new phone and had them transfer my number to that sim. the new nano sim card had a spacer for micro sim as well and i decided to try it in my note 4, and lo and behold it works. so i'm not sure if an update caused an issue with working with old school sim cards (since that sim card worked fine in other phones i've tried), but that's what worked for me at least .