me and my girl friend have T-mobile phones (actually, all my friends do, my friend sells them)... anyways
i took her sim card, put it into my pocket pc phone, and it keeps telling me to insert a valid sim card..
took it out, put it back in, soft reset, hard reset, nothing
sub consiusly, i got into the boot loader... get out of it and my cooked rom was gone. all my programs were there still, but things i had lost when i put a new rom in like the battery meter on the bottom bar of the today screen came back, and other specific T-Mobile features came back
like i sayed, program wise, everything is there, but the old stuff came back
any reason why ? i did a hard reset after to see, and the rom kitchen screen came up, the one that comes up before u go into the today screen, so the rom is still in there
just wondering. everyhting works fine, online and phone
-Mario
If you remove items from the startup folder they are replaced when you do a hard reset.
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Brand new Ameo, when I put the SIM in it wont work. The phone doesnt recognise it.
Now is a T-Mobile SIM and a T-Mobile Phone, apart from the Network lock is there any kind of SIM lock that would stop other T-Mobile sims working in the phone?
Has anybody else had this problem?
Sounds to me like a SIM lock, is it t-mobile sim?
When I first got it, I did put the sim card in the wrong way up! Check the manual to make sure u've put it in correctly. The door closes and everything even if u've put it in wrong, and I initially got the same problem.
one of my tmob sims wouldnt work in my ameo but my other one does.
same message missing or invalid. call customer support (08454125000) and describe the issue to get a replacement sim sent out. If u bought it in a store you should be able to get it done in the store.
cheers
Its definately a T-Mobile Sim and Phone, Wouldnt a SIM lock give some kind of locked message?
It was in the way it showed on the instructions. The little sticker on the plastic showed where the notch in the corner goes, and I made sure it fitted with no pressure or forcing. Due to the notch, and the plastic on the cover im sure it wouldnt fit any other way.
I went into a T-Mob store and the guy there tried his SIM, which he assured me had actualy been used in a Demo AMEO in that store, and that SIM wouldnt work either.
When I called they said it wouldnt be the SIM as that worked in other phones (inlcuding a m600i also bought on w&w tarif).
I have T-Mob supposedly replacing the phone this morning (Courier didnt turn up yesterday) so Ill update if there are problems with the new Phone.
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New phone works fine, just worked with no trouble. Was definately a faulty sim reader in the other phone.
Glad u've eventually sorted it!
I guess it has to do something with the nistallation of extended ROM..mine also didn't read, when I soft reset to avoid Ext ROM..when allowed installation..it detected
It seems like invalid SIM issue is quite common among Athena. My was plaqing with the same issue as well and just got my replacement unit from Dopod. By the way my is U1000.
Hi folks.
I just got myself a brand new Lumia 800 (from o2, but sim unlocked)
At the beginning everything went well and the phone was running great.
Then yesterday evening the problems started. First there was a synching problem with my office365 account. I figured out it was a problem with one of the contacts (apparently the same bug that already existed for GMAIL accoutns in WP7).
After that the phone started rebooting itself on several occassions. Sometimes even without me doing anything, even doing another reboot right after it already rebooted once.
It's pretty hard to track down what is responsible for it. It happens a lot of time when I read emails, although not only (for example it just rebooted during Nokia Navigation, I was not even touching the phone, just driving with the navigation on...)
Has anybody had similiar problems? It's seriously annoying.
I even did a hard reset - made no difference. Set up everything new etc.
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Update: It might be an issue with my sim card, phone seems to run fine without it. Luckily I'll get a new one activated on Tuesday, so I'll wait and retry then again
Curious, did you get a new microSIM when you got the phone or hand cut to fit?
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Curious, did you get a new microSIM when you got the phone or hand cut to fit?
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Hand cut. Interestingly it worked for 3 days straight without any problems and then suddenly it started, that's why I didn't think the problem might be the SIM card.
Interesting to know that dodgy contacts (which I think might be the issue) cause immediate reboots
Interesting conclusion, I hand cut mine and so far, so good. Will bear this in mind though, you never know.
BUT
Just removing the SIM doesn't discount it, as it disables the cell radio, it could be related to that rather than the SIM itself.
I'll see on Tuesday when my new SIM gets activated. I'll report back how it works out
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Update: The problem really was the loose SIM card. Zero problems with the new Micro-SIM. Phone runs perfectly. I love it.
So if you ever encounter reboot loops you might wanna check your SIM
Great stuff, lets hope my home brew microSIM holds out then.
Obvious fault of the old SIM card. With me on the forum were also such cases.
rebooting system
i have lumia 800 and i have the same problem.i have send my phone back to nokia 3 times to fix it but nothing. i have pay 30,00 euros for ram-changes but still nothing.now i ll buy new sim card and see if the problem stays
Just like the title says. Im on att and used the twrp recovery The all in one kit. Everything on my phone is working fine . I'm posting on it right now(through WiFi) but after I did everything yesterday my phone keeps giving me the no SIM card error. It's happened about 5 times now and I have to restart the phone 2-3 times for it to work fine again . Any idea?
Silly request, but have you popped out the sim card from the top of the phone and checked for dust/bad connection?
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Silly request, but have you popped out the sim card from the top of the phone and checked for dust/bad connection?
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Yes I have..not as silly as it sounds because it's usually those easy things that fix it..but it didn't..still does it every day at least twice since it's been rooted. I just restart the phone when it does it till I figure put what it is .
I think I would try a triple wipe with a clean install
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Just like the title says. Im on att and used the twrp recovery The all in one kit. Everything on my phone is working fine . I'm posting on it right now(through WiFi) but after I did everything yesterday my phone keeps giving me the no SIM card error. It's happened about 5 times now and I have to restart the phone 2-3 times for it to work fine again . Any idea?
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Yeah I've had the same issue a couple times. Popping it in and out seemed to get rid of the error for me, but this morning I woke up and it looked like my phone had lost signal at some point in the middle of the night and not regained it (so basically the same thing as a no sim error) but I never got a no-sim error.
On one occasion, before I popped it in/out, I got the error 3 times w/in a ten minute span while I was on the phone with someone.
Strange juju.
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Yeah I've had the same issue a couple times. Popping it in and out seemed to get rid of the error for me, but this morning I woke up and it looked like my phone had lost signal at some point in the middle of the night and not regained it (so basically the same thing as a no sim error) but I never got a no-sim error.
On one occasion, before I popped it in/out, I got the error 3 times w/in a ten minute span while I was on the phone with someone.
Strange juju.
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Ya sounds like the same issue..just flashed the custom Rom that hansoon posted in the development page and I haven't had it happen yet. So we shall see.
So this still keeps happening about 5-10 times a day...cleaned out the SIM card tray and nothing works. Tried stock Rom and the 2 roms available for att and nothing..
I'll take it in Saturday when I'm off work and just ask for a new phone . Anyone else having this issue or did I just get Bad one. Seems like everyone is having issues with the Bluetooth and WiFi while I'm having this and not those issues.
It just happened again as soon as I did my last post. Check out the screen shot
I have also had this happen to me a few times. The first couple times I would just reboot. This last time I popped the sim out and re seated it and I haven't had the issue since.
Seeing that this looks to be only an AT&T issue, could it be due to poor quality SIM cards?
Any correlation with LTE vs. non LTE SIMs?
I'm on AT&T and rooted on thanksgiving. Last Tuesday it happened and reboot worked then Friday night it happened again. Reboot didn't work at first and I wasn't at home so I didn't have the tool and couldn't find anything to do it. After 3 reboots and some serious shaking of the phone (which probably didn't do anything) it finally worked.
It just happened again to me. Phone was lying on the table for a while was fine when I set it down and about 30-45 minutes later when I checked the time it said no SIM. When I get home I'm going to take it out and clean it and see if I can figure it out.
Never Die!
I've had this issue a few times myself. I took my SIM card out and cleaned everything and have yet to have it happen again
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Seeing that this looks to be only an AT&T issue, could it be due to poor quality SIM cards?
Any correlation with LTE vs. non LTE SIMs?
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i'm not rooted yet but it seems I've had it for a while now even got a new sim card. it got worse popped it out. turns out it wasnt on the sim tray securely. it's easy to do as the sim card doesn't sit flush. you just got to cram it on the trey without breaking it. and carfully slide it in your phone. havent had it since it happened about 6 times yesterday. oh and you dont have to restart the phone. you can simply put it in airplane mode and it wil come back
Hapens to me on my telus device running maximus. Gonna try a reseat first turn rom change if reseat is useless.
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I took my SIM put this morning and blew it out and repositioned it and put it back in. The issue hasn't happened again since Saturday morning so we shall see what happens
Never Die!
One X+ vodafone romania - untouched
after ~ 6 days, it started yesterday. several times in like 3 hours, and again this morning and this afternoon
really love the phone, and i don`t wanna send it back yet. still have few days till i can return if the problem persists
I think this probably has to do with the sim card being properly seated in the tray securely and then carefully placed into the phone as noted above.
The reason I say this is because I ordered my HOX+ from Walmart Wireless and when I received it the 'paper' around the phone was ripped at the top by the sim card tray and they had already removed the tray and inserted the new sim card for me.
At the time I thought it was kind of odd that they bothered to do that. Mainly because most people are more than capable of putting a sim card into a little tray and placing it in their phone. Also, there is a little key inside the box meant specifically for opening the sim tray.
However, reading about the various issues some of you have had, I feel I have a pretty good understanding of why they do that with HTC phones. At least the HOX+ anyway.
The thoery is that they've probably had a number of them returned for this exact issue, so they found that by carefully placing the Sim in themselves they can avoid unnecessary returns.
Of course this is just my theory, but, it makes a lot of 'sense' to me, lol. One thing to note is that you might want to try and file off the little bumps that form on the edges of the sim card. They are left over from the area where it is attached to the bigger 'business card' thing that surround a new sim card. No idea if that will help, but, it is very unlikely to cause any problems if you try.
Anyways, kinda long, but, hopefully helps some of your to get yours seated just right. Had my phone about two weeks and I've not yet seen the issue.
well no matter what i did it kept happening. I called att and they transfered me over to warranty. They sent me a new phone and i received it this last tuesday. I rooted it That night and im on the Blackout rom for att. No issues as of yet. we will see.....
I have a Samsung S II and no matter what I do I can't get it to read the sdcard. I've tried several sdcards but still the same result, it won't recognize it.
The only thing I can think of (apart from a faulty sdcard slot) is that I don't have a sim card in the phone.
Does the S II need a sim card inserted in order for the sdcard to work?
If not, does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get the sdcard to work?
BTW the phone is totally stock and it's Australian, unlocked but originally with Optus.
One strange thing is that everything in the back of the phone seems upside down. The battery contacts are on the left not the right, the sdcard goes in upside down and on the right not the right way up and on the left. The sdcard slot is directly underneath the sim card.
I hope so someone can help.
cheers
I no longer use my S2 so it has no sim in it, popped a sdcard in just now & can read/access it just fine.
Sticker on the phone chassis under the battery, what does it say ? (Where did you get the phone ?).
Card not reading is non of the sim card business.
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I no longer use my S2 so it has no sim in it, popped a sdcard in just now & can read/access it just fine.
Sticker on the phone chassis under the battery, what does it say ? (Where did you get the phone ?).
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Thanks.
Sticker says as follows:
MODEL: GT-I9100
SSN: -19100GSMH
RATED: 3.7V
FDD ID: A9LGT9100
and a big CE0168
Remove your IMEI. They can be nicked/re-used.
Where did you get the phone - reason I ask is your comment about battery contacts/position of sim slot/etc.
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Remove your IMEI. They can be nicked/re-used.
Where did you get the phone - reason I ask is your comment about battery contacts/position of sim slot/etc.
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Thanks I removed the IMEI.
I bought it from a samsung reseller. I was told the reason the contacts and sim card are like they are is because it was originally made for use with the Optus network
Really ? Interesting. Reason I ask is we've seen our share of knock-offs on here over the past 2+ yrs, and they tend to have differences like the ones you've mentioned. Or they can sometimes be other SGS2 variants even though they're branded as I9100's.
Re: the SD problem, if it were me, try the obvious first - try it with a sim. After that, I'd probably do a clean install of stock, even though your phone already is running stock/hasn't been 'messed with', or even try a factory reset first.
Obviously with something like this you're rather limited with what you can do (you're stuck with things you can try on the firmware side), if that doesn't fix things, send it back to the seller/Samsung for warranty service if your warranty is still good, otherwise take it to a local mobile repair shop for diagnosis.
I've already tried the factory reset but made no difference. I think the problem is a hardware fault because I got my son to take a look at it and he couldn't get the sdcard to stay in the slot, it just kept springing out. Putting the sim cards in does keep the sdcard in the slot but it still doesn't get recognized by the phone.
I contacted the reseller and it looks like I'll be sending it back to be replaced under warranty.
Thanks for all the help.
cheers
No probs. Best of luck.
Galaxy Note Horror.
Have been getting No SIM CARD error since last 2-3 months now and am losing my head.
Please please somebody suggest a fix.
Here is what all I have tried since start.
My battery Life was getting erratic - replaced the battery. (no sim error went away for a week).
Factory reset randomly helps (no sim error returns within 6-8 hours).
Clear cache, Dalvik, everythiong (no sim error returns within 1-2 days)
Un root and Completely went to Stock (no sim error returns within 1-2 days)
Tried a New Sim - No luck
Used Titanium backup to clean user cache etc etc
Tried paper trick begind sim to make sure sim in in proper contact.
Used ODIN to complete reflash to Stock GB and then update to JB via KIES ((no sim error returns within 1-2 days))
I am out of options now. I love this phone and hate to see what its doing now.
Please please somebody help...
Send it in for repair with Samsung.
It seems like it may be a problem with the SIM card part. You may want to try replacing it yourself, but no guarantees.
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Send it in for repair with Samsung.
It seems like it may be a problem with the SIM card part. You may want to try replacing it yourself, but no guarantees.
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If thats the case, why does it work fora day or 2
I have been thinking abt doing it myself, because samsung says they will chanrge minimum, 70$ for the part change and no guarantees.
I don't know why it would work for day or 2. Just a suggestion, since that is the only thing you have not tried.
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I don't know why it would work for day or 2. Just a suggestion, since that is the only thing you have not tried.
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Thinking of trying one last thing before replacing the SIM Card clot.
Will flashing the Tmobile on ATT make a difference ?
Looking at what you have tried so far, I don't think T-mobile/ATT will make a difference. But, I guess you can try.
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Looking at what you have tried so far, I don't think T-mobile/ATT will make a difference. But, I guess you can try.
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Yes you guessed it right. Tried Skeleton Key ROM based on ICS. and no luck...
The ROM looks fabulous but no SIM card
I thinking replacing the SIM Slot is the only option.
Somehow it works ..
Good News
I ordered a replacement SIM Slot from Amazon.
Took 3 weeks to come from China. It took me some time to replace it correctly and a precautionary step.
I am back on Jelly Bean (Stock and Unrooted)
Popped in SIM Card. and Memory card.
It really worked :0
BAD news :
Some how I think the new SIM Slot didnt like my memroy card..
and it fried it.
So I lost most of my pics from last 1 year
Was your memory card in the slot as you reassembled the back? It breaks every time. It happened to me twice.
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Was your memory card in the slot as you reassembled the back? It breaks every time. It happened to me twice.
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Naah, the card and SIM were both out. There is no physical damage to Card
I think when I reconnected the SIM Slot on Main motherboard something fried the card.
never expected this to happen.
No sim card weird solution in my case
I had this problem for a week and got rid of this problem by un-installing the following
1. Facebook
2. Whats App Messenger
3. AVG antivirus
After un-installing each one of them, shutdown the phone, restart the phone after 30 Sec and check whether your NO SIM problem disappears. not install one more application and go on.
Ive had the same problem with my note i717 and have factory reset, tried a new sim card, and also swapped out the sim card reader with the one from my wifes i717 with no luck. Her phone still works fine (with my sim reader) and mine still has the same issue (with her sim reader installed). It started out only showing the error maybe once every few days then became much more frequent. Now it seems to happen only a few minutes after restarting. Does anyone think this is an issue with the mainboard?
Some people have reported luck with just replacing the SIM card and memory card reader. That didn't work for me.
I ended up buying a used motherboard on eBay for about $80 and replaced the entire thing myself. Thankfully the modular construction of the Note makes it really easy - did it in under 1/2 an hour. Problem solved.
The only thing I stupidly forgot to do is pull is backup the internal hard drive... so I ended up having to put the old board back in and pull everything off of it and then switch the new board back again. *sigh*
thanks!
My phone got wet so i dunked it in rice and it turned on the next day but got the no sim card problem. I followed Your advice and it worked! Thanks a lot!! Saved me from the extra stress and costs.
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I had this problem for a week and got rid of this problem by un-installing the following
1. Facebook
2. Whats App Messenger
3. AVG antivirus
After un-installing each one of them, shutdown the phone, restart the phone after 30 Sec and check whether your NO SIM problem disappears. not install one more application and go on.
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