Just received an HTC p3300 with O2 contract. Within one day the network disappeared and I got the "Invlaid or missing sim card" message. It's all brand new. Obviously I can return it if neccessary but is there anything I can do about this?
If I plug the USB cable back in, sometimes the sim card starts working again.
I have read that this problem has occured on other HTC models in the forums.
I have tried putting another sim in which worked for a little and then stopped.
Any clues?
I had a similar thing with my Orbit from O2...
...it turned out that I had not secured the Sim Card correctly by clicking the little cage home!!
I have been using Co Pilot and my speed camera warnings stopped working so ended up deleting and putting on TomTom
Hmmm
I have made sure, several times that it is secure with no avail. But it is true that there are times I can give the sim a polish and reinsert it and the sim will be detected again. But if this is a matter of bad contacts or a warped sim cage or something am I better off sending this back or is this inherent in the design?
Thoughts?
Solved but not satisfactorily
Ok, solved the problem by putting a little bit of toilet paper between the battery and the sim card, wich exerts pressure on the sim against the contacts. At first this led to the corrupted file names on the SD card malarky. But checking the contacts and reinserting the SD card solved this problem.
But this is hardly good for a brand new unit. Should I send it back?
It doesn't bode well.
Have any Glide owners seen this? My wife's Glide was replaced at an AT&T warranty center recently (home,back,menu, and search buttons stopped working) and every once in a while I see the no network icon on the phone. I go to Mobile Networks and the no SIM card message popup appears. After several power off, take out/put back in SIM card, power up phone attempts the phone eventually sees the SIM card and all is well. I do notice that the SIM card does slide in/out very easily. I put in a small piece of paper to keep the SIM card snug, hopefully that will fix the problem. Anyone else experience this problem?
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Have any Glide owners seen this? My wife's Glide was replaced at an AT&T warranty center recently (home,back,menu, and search buttons stopped working) and every once in a while I see the no network icon on the phone. I go to Mobile Networks and the no SIM card message popup appears. After several power off, take out/put back in SIM card, power up phone attempts the phone eventually sees the SIM card and all is well. I do notice that the SIM card does slide in/out very easily. I put in a small piece of paper to keep the SIM card snug, hopefully that will fix the problem. Anyone else experience this problem?
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I had an issue with this before try to tape the sim card in place see if that helps
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Tried the tape and still got the sim card error message after a day or so. I went to the AT&T warranty center and they put in a new SIM card. The phone works fine now and hopefully will stay that way. The tech put a note in our acct of the SIM card issue in case it pops up again.
Also, FYI.... Samsung Kies does NOT work when you have the SIM card error message (for backup/restore). Kies just spins the "Connecting..." status forever. I spent a few hours selecting the troubleshoot button that reinstalls the drivers, uninstall/reinstall Kies, installed Kies on another laptop, etc...nothing. The moment the SIM card issue was resolved, Kies connected just fine. The Glide also seems to like to enable USB debugging mode on its own, which disables the MTP connection that is required by Kies. fun.
It would be nice if Kies threw a "Cannot connect, no SIM card detected" message...
I have the same issue. My glide came refurbished and about once every two or three days I will notice that the phone is no longer recognizing the sim card. I have to take the battery out and take the sim card out. Then i have to put the sim card back in and then the battery and turn it on and its fine for another few days. I have had 3 different sim cards and it still does the same thing. AT&T just refuses to acknowledge that its not the sim card.
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I have the same issue. My glide came refurbished and about once every two or three days I will notice that the phone is no longer recognizing the sim card. I have to take the battery out and take the sim card out. Then i have to put the sim card back in and then the battery and turn it on and its fine for another few days. I have had 3 different sim cards and it still does the same thing. AT&T just refuses to acknowledge that its not the sim card.
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I have the same problem where ICS will just not read a sim card. I have tried multiple carriers SiM's and none of them work. Does anyone know how we can force Android to read and then request a SIM. It is not a problem of the SIM not being seated properly since it was working directly before the ICS upgrade and when I downgraded the first time it read my SIM without a problem.
I have not yet had any problem like that, I have had issues with data and wifi, but later found that it was the software I used before for battery management had an update that shut off those services and have fixed.
SIM card errors though, I only got 1 once but that is because the simcard holder in my phone seems loose and it wiggled out once and after that was nothing a gentle squeeze couldn't fix.
Samsung SGH-i927:
ICS Leak I927UCKL1 4.0.4 Stock
CWMR Touch v4.0.0.1
Keyboard fix
Superuser 3.2r3 ARM Optimized
LiteKernel v5.2
quick update, so far so good with the new SIM card. no sim card errors
spoke too soon! got the sim card error this evening. went to the AT&T warranty center again and got a replacement phone. this one better work.
SIM card error mesage again with phone #2. so far:
1) new phone, same SIM card, same battery
2) same phone, new SIM card, same battery
3) new phone, same SIM card, same battery
I'm starting to think this might be a cell tower issue since the other problem with this phone is that the phone would sometimes not ring or show any missed calls. maybe now it throws the SIM card error instead??
the mrs is going to go to the warranty center again to try to get a new battery and charger. we'll see.
final summary, new battery and still get the sim card error. AT&T is sending a Galaxy S2 skyrocket as a warranty replacement. My wife tried out swiftkey 3 and is willing to make the jump to a touchscreen keyboard.
Sorry to bump an old thread, BUT, a factory reset fixes the issue. My wife had this problem. It occurs if the SIM card is ejected by accident for any reason while the phone is on. The simcard does not lock in at all so I can only assume she bumped it just right. I got a full replacement phone from ATT, and while messing with it while on, the simcard fell out. After turning it off and putting the sim back in, the same problem occurred on a brand new replacement. A factory reset solved the issue.
I was googling about this and saw this thread. Figured I'd add my 2 cents, and what solved it, but I am still replacing the sim just in case.
Hi guys I have a problem with my S4, my Sim card is not detected, my problem start 1 month ago, when I come back from vacations fron Mexico, I have a message 2 times a day, " SIM CARD NOT INSERTED".
Unfortunaly my waranty is over last year, so T-mobile send me a new Sim card, and still have the problem.
The strange is that my phone can read a Sim card from Mexican carrier (Telcel), but my T-mobile no, I also tried a diferent Sim
from other carrier and is not detected.
Any ideas to fix this problem? Thank you for you help. I will apreciate.
This is a very common hardware problem. Should be a recall but apparently Samsung can get away with it.
2 weeks ago my SIM card slot 1 stopped working so I switched my SIM into sim card slot 2, which worked. Yesterday my battery ran out so I recharged (battery went to 3% , then it jumped to 0% and turned off). I charged it for some time to turn it back in (it was 7%) and then I found that it didn't ask my pin for my SIM card. Then I checked the sim card slot 1 again, then the slot 2, repeated like 5 times. Both not working after my battery ran out. I was watching movie when my battery ran out (if that might help with my problem). Now I tried the .12345+= calculator test, it says basicly "fail" for both slots and safe mode didn't help also
sim1 pin error
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2 weeks ago my SIM card slot 1 stopped working so I switched my SIM into sim card slot 2, which worked. Yesterday my battery ran out so I recharged (battery went to 3% , then it jumped to 0% and turned off). I charged it for some time to turn it back in (it was 7%) and then I found that it didn't ask my pin for my SIM card. Then I checked the sim card slot 1 again, then the slot 2, repeated like 5 times. Both not working after my battery ran out. I was watching movie when my battery ran out (if that might help with my problem). Now I tried the .12345+= calculator test, it says basicly "fail" for both slots and safe mode didn't help also
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I've got this problem
something wrong with SIMcard test!
I tested SIM in another phone, it worked, so its hardware or software (firmware) problem. I doubt its hardware cuz it worked before charging my phone. Charging the phone can't break the SIM slot? Otherwise this phone might be considered piece of sh*t...
I had this problem early on when I tried restoring a back-up with twrp the only way I could get SIM function back was a factory reset and reflashing the Rom, i.e. would try that first.
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For a little comtext: My wife. And purchased an LG Nexus 5, each, via Google ProjectFi about 9 months ago. We have been happy with the service and aside from little issues (like no audio hardware buttons after recent upgrade in December 2016 on the Android Beta Program; we have been happy.
My wife, today at work, messages me (via WiFi) that her phone said "No SIM cars detected". When she got he we took out her SIM card and re-inserted. Then restarted to no avail. So then I opened the phone app and ended "*#*$4636*#" to enter Testing. Her settings where the same as mine (my Mobile network was working).
So, I took out my SIM card and inserted her's into mine.. And it worked! So it wasn't a bad SIM card.
My next step was to use my SIM card holder and use it with her SIM card in her phone (and use her holder with my SIM on my phone). Well then! It works both of us and now I have no one that works. All I can think of is that the slot where you insert the SIM card on her phone us warped and nine is in perfect condition condition.
If anyone has any theories, please let me know. Aside from that, I hope that helps someone.
(I'm sure there are duplicate threads- this thread is a tad different as I explained briefly the problem with my quick resolution/solution).-bj