Hi everyone,
I am experiencing a problem with my Samsung Vibrant. It keeps saying "Sim Card removed" and asks for restarting. It happen every 5 minutes or so. Any one has an idea in how to solve? Running CyanogenMod 9 Nightly Vibrantmtd.
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Maybe try cleaning the contacts on the card. Or you may have fired your SIM card with that crazy Haitian heat down there. Might want to look in to getting a new SIM card and see if that works out.
Thank you for response Woodrube. I didnt come back to the post because i have solved the problem. It was about the sim card reader on the board of the phone. I changed it and it worked like a charm. I sold it right after. I'm now on Galaxy S2. The haitian heat is something a man should try before he dies man. I hope you'll have that chance... lol.
Well, i really appreciate your help man.
Peace.
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Hi, just wanted to add my own experience to this subject. My phone got a little bit wet, not submerged but just dripped on a little bit. Some of this water made its way into the back of the phone through the speaker hole and side slits. I compounded the problem by pushing the power button to turn it off instead of just pulling the battery; this caused the physical switch to suck some water in and short out, causing symptoms similar to a boot loop - put the battery in, phone immediately turns on, starts to boot, turns itself off just as boot animation comes up, repeat, until battery pulled. Long story short, I had to tear apart the phone, dissect the power switch, blot out water, and reassemble.
All good until I started right away getting 'SIM card removed, reboot phone' messages. Power down sometimes made it see the SIM again for a litle while, sometimes I had to pull the battery and jostle the SIM card and then it would work a while, etc.
I re-opened the phone after a week of this and discovered that while I was poking around inside, the ribbon connector for the SIM card / SD card reader daughterboard had become disconnected, on the hidden side of the motherboard (i.e. the screen side). I had to disconnect two similar ribbons on the battery side to be able to lift the whole assembly out of the case, push the SIM reader ribbon connector back into its receiver, and then all was well. I think it was only working at all because the being pushed up against the case was kind of holding the connector in place, if only in a janky way.
So, check for disconnected SIM card reader ribbon before ordering a new part. In fact, looking at the part online is what gave me the idea to check. I would post a link to the part, but as a new XDA user I'm disallowed until I make more posts. Google.
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My household has multiple phones including those with and without microSIM so we've had the cards for quite some time.
When I got my i9300, my microSIM slipped in nicely, but I had a feeling that it wasn't quite as sturdy as the push-ports on e.g. my Nokia N8. Second time I took the sim out and put it back in, it looked like it sat a little crooked, but the phone still recognized it so I was happy.
Now, when I try and push the microSIM in, it just continues to bounce back out. I tried with another microSIM card and again, first time, the card clicks in place no problem. Second time, the card keeps bouncing back out.
Have any of you run into the same problem? Do you have a solution? Is there some special trick to getting the thing to click into place that I'm missing here?
I'm reaching out to my fellow Xda forum members here because I need your help. 2 days ago I was taking the sheets of the bed and washing them. I noticed my 32gb i9300 was missing but not until the washing machine was done. I looked everywhere until I found my phone in the wash. I took it out, pulled the Sim,the SD card' and the battery. I immediately put the phone in a large bag of rice. I had noticed the water mark indicator behind the battery hadn't changed color at all. Still remains white. Even now. Pulled the phone out last night. Pulled the back cover off and pulled the motherboard after disconnecting everything properly. Cleaned with alcohol and q-tips making sure that no cotton was left anywhere. After letting dry for a few hours more to make sure, I put everything back together and reinstalled the Sim and SD card and battery. The phone kept turning on and off while on the charger. Pulled everything back out and put back into the rice. Put everything back together today and now the touch screen responds sometimes and other times it lags badly. It still turns off though and the keyboard doesn't show touch indication and it takes around 30 seconds after I type it in. Any help would be appreciated.
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440hsp said:
I'm reaching out to my fellow Xda forum members here because I need your help. 2 days ago I was taking the sheets of the bed and washing them. I noticed my 32gb i9300 was missing but not until the washing machine was done. I looked everywhere until I found my phone in the wash. I took it out, pulled the Sim,the SD card' and the battery. I immediately put the phone in a large bag of rice. I had noticed the water mark indicator behind the battery hadn't changed color at all. Still remains white. Even now. Pulled the phone out last night. Pulled the back cover off and pulled the motherboard after disconnecting everything properly. Cleaned with alcohol and q-tips making sure that no cotton was left anywhere. After letting dry for a few hours more to make sure, I put everything back together and reinstalled the Sim and SD card and battery. The phone kept turning on and off while on the charger. Pulled everything back out and put back into the rice. Put everything back together today and now the touch screen responds sometimes and other times it lags badly. It still turns off though and the keyboard doesn't show touch indication and it takes around 30 seconds after I type it in. Any help would be appreciated.
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Ouch water damage maybe some internals have got bad damage and need replacement mate.take it to a repairer
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I'm not sure it can survive a wash cycle! Definitely take it in to a repairers
I thought getting super glue on my screen was bad!! Came of though, took a pair of scissors to the screen. You'd never know, looks absolutely mint
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the indicator has red X's on it when its has not been in contact with water, when it has been in contact with water they disappear
Thanks guys for the replies. @ louie875 thanks for the input but CRAP!!!!! i thought i was in the clear with the mark being white. i have looked at replacement motherboards but for a 32gb internal board it's pretty much non existent!!! The screen is easier to replace and i can replace the motherboard is easy too but i don't want to take the chance of spending the cash to replace the lcd and the motherboard and something else not work. plus i need a phone quickly. I guess i'll sell my phone for parts and get the new Sapphire black 16gb internal I9300. Any body know where i can get a 32gb internal sapphire black i9300??? I've been looking like crazy and can't find one.
440hsp said:
Thanks guys for the replies. @ louie875 thanks for the input but CRAP!!!!! i thought i was in the clear with the mark being white. i have looked at replacement motherboards but for a 32gb internal board it's pretty much non existent!!! The screen is easier to replace and i can replace the motherboard is easy too but i don't want to take the chance of spending the cash to replace the lcd and the motherboard and something else not work. plus i need a phone quickly. I guess i'll sell my phone for parts and get the new Sapphire black 16gb internal I9300. Any body know where i can get a 32gb internal sapphire black i9300??? I've been looking like crazy and can't find one.
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http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon-htc-rezound/201963-water-damage-indicators.html
Read this........
Or just watch this video from 2:21 onwards. It won't help your problem but... our S3 can resist a lot!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dc9c5YFyovU
440hsp said:
I'm reaching out to my fellow Xda forum members here because I need your help. 2 days ago I was taking the sheets of the bed and washing them. I noticed my 32gb i9300 was missing but not until the washing machine was done. I looked everywhere until I found my phone in the wash. I took it out, pulled the Sim,the SD card' and the battery. I immediately put the phone in a large bag of rice. I had noticed the water mark indicator behind the battery hadn't changed color at all. Still remains white. Even now. Pulled the phone out last night. Pulled the back cover off and pulled the motherboard after disconnecting everything properly. Cleaned with alcohol and q-tips making sure that no cotton was left anywhere. After letting dry for a few hours more to make sure, I put everything back together and reinstalled the Sim and SD card and battery. The phone kept turning on and off while on the charger. Pulled everything back out and put back into the rice. Put everything back together today and now the touch screen responds sometimes and other times it lags badly. It still turns off though and the keyboard doesn't show touch indication and it takes around 30 seconds after I type it in. Any help would be appreciated.
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it happend to my cusins phone once, and he knows alot about phones an dcomouters. he washed it in cold water, then took aout the battery and sd card. sprayed the phone with electrical spray. this takes the wather right out of the phone, and gives the contacts power again. this works wery well. but the phone should lay a day or too ad a warm floor or something before reebooting. u allways wanna be shour that it is completly dry
Do we have the latest on a solution for this. At least once a day I find myself rebooting my phone or reinserting the sim because of this issue. What gives?
No not really
starfox5194 said:
Do we have the latest on a solution for this. At least once a day I find myself rebooting my phone or reinserting the sim because of this issue. What gives?
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i stuck a piece of clear packing tape on it to hold it down to the lil tray, then trimmed the edges. worked like a charm.
Like SeaCaptain said, it's possible that it is too loose in the slot. You can try different techniques like taping a small square of paper to the plastic side of the card to make it thicker and push it more against the components, but just be careful that it is attached well. If it falls off while you're moving the SIM tray around it may end up being jammed and difficult to remove.
I cut my SIM down to micro size and I had the same problem. Ordered a new micro SIM (pre cut) and all is good. Might be a problem with the SIM
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starfox5194 said:
Do we have the latest on a solution for this. At least once a day I find myself rebooting my phone or reinserting the sim because of this issue. What gives?
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You realize you could of Google search this. Its been covered 10 times atlease
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Just in case anyone cares, I took a piece of duckt tape and sized it to the metal part of the sim card tray. I had to press it down to make it shrink a little and fit in the slot. Seems to do the trick rather well. I haven't had any issues so far, and I don't constantly swap out my sim. I'll post again in a few days to let you guys know if this is a decent permanent solution. I think it's a lot easier than sticking a piece of paper in there.
I took mine back for warranty service for this, all they did was re-flash. Seems a little better, but still happens a couple of times a week.
Are we sure it's a hardware issue? Why would HTC reflash if it's the card not seated properly? Also, I find just going into airplane mode and back out again fixes it ... if it was a matter of the card not seated properly, I wouldn't think that would fix it.
I'm sorta hoping we eventually get 4.2, and that it fixes it for good.
Hey everyone,
I'm experiencing random shut off, power off on my vibrant. The problems are as follows:
Phone may shut off while booting up
Phone inconsistently shuts off moved around
sometimes even shuts off while just sitting idle in sleep
Pressing the volume down button will cause the phone to shut down (similar to a battery pull)
With the said some things to note. The phone has a broken GPS antenna, the power button flex cable ribbon is slightly torn.
There are no other internal components with physical damage. The phone has been dropped.
THE PHONE HAS BEEN TESTED ON STOCK ECLAIR WITH EMPTY INTERNAL SD CARD, NO SIM IS IN USE
Are there any apps I can use to test hardware? What are you guys recommendations? Thank in advance!!
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I tore the power ribbon in the phone when trying to fix the phone GPS. gonna buy repair parts and fix it soon anyone find guides for soldering small parts send that my way!
drago10029 said:
Hey everyone,
I'm experiencing random shut off, power off on my vibrant. The problems are as follows:
Phone may shut off while booting up
Phone inconsistently shuts off moved around
sometimes even shuts off while just sitting idle in sleep
Pressing the volume down button will cause the phone to shut down (similar to a battery pull)
With the said some things to note. The phone has a broken GPS antenna, the power button flex cable ribbon is slightly torn.
There are no other internal components with physical damage. The phone has been dropped.
THE PHONE HAS BEEN TESTED ON STOCK ECLAIR WITH EMPTY INTERNAL SD CARD, NO SIM IS IN USE
Are there any apps I can use to test hardware? What are you guys recommendations? Thank in advance!!
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Just to be sure, are you positive you have the T959 and not the T959v? Assuming you have the T959, have you tried wedging a small piece of paper or something between the bottom of the battery and the phone? I have seen a few people have a problem with the battery wedging loose and causing it to cut off, it was fixed by this. If this doesn't work it could be the battery itself, it may be time to buy a new one. I have no idea why pressing the volume button cuts the phone off, that is rather strange......
100% sure which model i have. and none of the things you mentioned are the problem unfortunately. I tried a new battery & getting the battery in tighter. and it is strange, I have theories but nothing I can prove.
I noticed you said the power button cable was slightly torn. Maybe it is shorting out and causing the phone to shut off? That would be the only logical thing I could think of other than the battery, which you said isn't the problem.
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iTz KeeFy said:
I noticed you said the power button cable was slightly torn. Maybe it is shorting out and causing the phone to shut off? That would be the only logical thing I could think of other than the battery, which you said isn't the problem.
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I agree, that's the same conclusion I came to and will be ordering and soldering a new one. I know there are some very talented people on XDA, fortunately, with more experience than myself and that's saying a lot. I was hoping I could get some nugget of wisdom, kinda like something I overlooked An outside opinion don't hurt.
I had this same issue a couple months ago. What i did was tape the back with the battery cover off with scotch tape. I used 3 strips across the battery to keep it in place and it seemed to resolve my problem. I change the tape out like every 2 weeks though. Hope that helps
Brianzdman said:
I had this same issue a couple months ago. What i did was tape the back with the battery cover off with scotch tape. I used 3 strips across the battery to keep it in place and it seemed to resolve my problem. I change the tape out like every 2 weeks though. Hope that helps
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I already confirmed above I don't have a battery problem My issue is/was with the flex ribbon power cable has torn slightly, it caused random reboots.
bought a new one on ebay and boom!
The tray for the SD card will not release using the supplied tool. This is the first time I've tried to use the slot, so not an issue with the tray being misaligned or wrongly inserted.
Has anyone else had this issue? I'm on live chat with Samsung right now trying to get an exchange. It's so frustrating, I've only had it 2 days and my initial impression of the device has been so positive.
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The tray for the SD card will not release using the supplied tool. This is the first time I've tried to use the slot, so not an issue with the tray being misaligned or wrongly inserted.
Has anyone else had this issue? I'm on live chat with Samsung right now trying to get an exchange. It's so frustrating, I've only had it 2 days and my initial impression of the device has been so positive.
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No problem here with SD Card and SIM Card
bemanet said:
No problem here with SD Card and SIM Card
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Spent a very frustrating 45 minutes on Samsung's Live chat only to be given a telephone number to request a return note.
Couldn't get through on the number, so now waiting for a response to an email. Not very happy as I really want to get stuck in and enjoy my tablet.
My first try with the default pin doesn't confuses me as well....try another pin
UPDATE:
I ended up getting the tablet replaced b y Samsung Online Store.
sketch-UK said:
The tray for the SD card will not release using the supplied tool. This is the first time I've tried to use the slot, so not an issue with the tray being misaligned or wrongly inserted.
Has anyone else had this issue? I'm on live chat with Samsung right now trying to get an exchange. It's so frustrating, I've only had it 2 days and my initial impression of the device has been so positive.
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5 weeks on from your post and my S7+ (black) arrived today, brand new from Samsung. SD card slot completely jammed. I have not been able to open it at all. Support lines now closed, so I'll find out about remedies tomorrow. A bit peeved that I'd finished seeing the tablet up from scratch and the card slot was the last thing to do. Grrr!
EDIT : Figuring that a return was on the cards and I had little to lose I applied a pair of pliers to the task, first to increase pressure A LOT on the ejection pin, and then to grip and pull on the card tray as it protruded about 2mm out from the tablet. It seems that there is rough machining/moulding on the metal edging of the tray. Once out I could feel the roughness. Having removed it once it is now possible to eject and insert with relative ease. Crisis averted.
Unfortunately I now have a little cosmetic damage on the tray where the pliers slipped. I've tried to colour it in, but maybe I'll ask for a replacement tray tomorrow.
Tab S7+ SDCard tray stuck in the tablet
Same issue with my Tab S7+. The SDCard tray stuck in the tablet. Used a set of forceps to clamp down on the tool and pushed down until the tray popped open enough to grab it with my fingers. Take your time, apply steady pressure.
After reading this thread I've try it on my device.
The first time it's goes a little bit strong. I was a little bit afraid, that I can broken something . I release a few times the tool and try it again. Suddenly the chassis released the try. Now it's working strong, but it's work. In this moment no Sim and no SD card is included.