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[Q] Sim card randomly removed?

Now this has happened a few times and it's kinda annoying. I could be talking on the phone, browsing the net, buying an app or whatever, and all of a sudden a message pops up saying that my sim card was removed and the phone needs to be rebooted and i lose signal, then when i reboot it still acts as if i have no sim card inside(eventhough i never touched it)
I'm rooted(CDMA) and running codename's latest, i never understood why it does that, i don't think it's the rom(but i may be wrong)

Mine just started doing this today. Same exact error.
It can't be the rom because I'm on a completely different rom. I'm running on AOKP build 24.
It happened to me at work... I restarted the phone 3 times and nothing worked. It even displayed the wrong time. By like 4 hours off.
Finally when I got off work I restarted and it was working. Then I got home, started doing a little bit of web surfing and BAM..... lost signal, got the message sim card removed you must restart.
I did a little research and it appears that it could be the sim card going bad. Or somehow got loose. I took my sim card out. Pushed it in and out a few times. Put it back in, and so far so good (knock on wood). Its only been a few hours though. So time will tell.
If you rule out that its a bad card. Return your phone to stock before you take it to the store. Someone over at rootzwiki told me that they were checking to see if phones were rooted, even for a sim replacement.

hxdrummerxc said:
Mine just started doing this today. Same exact error.
It can't be the rom because I'm on a completely different rom. I'm running on AOKP build 24.
It happened to me at work... I restarted the phone 3 times and nothing worked. It even displayed the wrong time. By like 4 hours off.
Finally when I got off work I restarted and it was working. Then I got home, started doing a little bit of web surfing and BAM..... lost signal, got the message sim card removed you must restart.
I did a little research and it appears that it could be the sim card going bad. Or somehow got loose. I took my sim card out. Pushed it in and out a few times. Put it back in, and so far so good (knock on wood). Its only been a few hours though. So time will tell.
If you rule out that its a bad card. Return your phone to stock before you take it to the store. Someone over at rootzwiki told me that they were checking to see if phones were rooted, even for a sim replacement.
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I wonder if this may be Network related? Perhaps the network is messed up since its happening to more than one of you.

yiannisthegreek said:
I wonder if this may be Network related? Perhaps the network is messed up since its happening to more than one of you.
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I don't think so.... because when I looked it up, people were having this issue in December and January.
Also.... its been 24 hours since I pulled my sim card out and back in. And its still working fine now. Maybe I'm crazy, but it even feels like my signal strength is better now. But I don't want to jynx myself.

don't have a nexus. have sgs2 and this has been happening to me for the last month on and off although upon reboot, phone works fine. finally had the time to make it to the att store to get a new sim card. hoping there'll be no troubles though. any success here? :X

just started getting this error as well a few days ago. It's been pretty random as to when it happens, I have rebooted the phone numerous times and even re-seated the phone but still receiving the error from time to time.
I've probably seen the error 8 or 9 times in the past 3 days.
Wondering if anyone had their SIM replaced and if that solved the issue.
unlocked, rooted, stock Android.

I have an unlocked Tmobile S3 using it on WIND mobile in Canada with Frosty ROM and get this randomly, when I installed other ROM i didn't have this, but I love the ROM its great so I don't want to change

same problem!!
i've been gettin the same problem ever since i rooted too.. i dont think it specific to any ROM cz i first tried cyanogen but i had it.. then i tried omega, had it.. and now im runnin on Resurrection remix but i still get the msg from time to time whenever my data is on or sometimes even when im on wifi.. so i completely unrooted the phone and i didnt have the problem anymore.. but my need to try out different ROMs over took me again so i decided to root it and im having the same problem again!! thank god im not alone on this! lol

Mine did that a month out so ago about 3 times. I finally shut the phone down, removed the Sim card and reinstalled it. Haven't had a problem since.

sporkette said:
Mine did that a month out so ago about 3 times. I finally shut the phone down, removed the Sim card and reinstalled it. Haven't had a problem since.
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i get this error when data is enabled but phone works perfect when data is disabled.
im running 4.1.2
are you all runing jelllybean?

Constant "sd card was unexpectedly removed" errors

Ok so this started happening when I switched to unofficial CM9 from this forum. Constant "your sd card was unexpectedly removed" errors. Usually right when I open the camera app, or try to play music. Go figure. Once I reset the phone (doesn't always work) the problem goes away until I leave the phone long enough for it to go idle I guess. First thing I figured was the OS change. So I restored a backup. Same problem. Backed up the sd card and wiped the phone and sd card. Reinstalled CM7.2. Nope. Same problem. Forgot to mention, I had already tried both of my spare 16 gig cards, two of which were from a different manufacturer. One I formatted with my computer, then other I left alone and just deleted the files from it with the phone to rule out my computers card reader going bad. Both had the same exact issues. I even switched to a sense based rom called UKB. Same. Problem. Although this time it seems to be a little better. Worked all day yesterday at least, problem only coming back after the phone was on charge all night. I could live with that but I doubt it'll keep that up all night. I've read just about every forum post on every forum. Loads of people suggesting reformatting without using quick format, formatting with different settings, using various apps that change the cache size. Regardless, none of this was necessary before, and definitely shouldn't be necessary now. I'm a couple months past my warranty or I would get a replacement like I did before when I had headphone jack issues. Really sick of my phones all going bad before upgrade. Maybe if I called they would see that I have not been a happy customer, but a customer nonetheless since like 1998. Who knows. But anyway, does ANYONE have any suggestions? And please don't suggest going to settings and hitting mount. That suggestion is in just about every forum post about the problem and it oddly drives me crazy. Probably because of how obvious it is. That option is always greyed out of course. Thanks in advance to anyone who's willing to help. I always want to smash this phone every time I need to take a picture of something really cool and my phone decides to act up.

Come on guys, nothing?

I'm having the exact same problem, and I'm 100% stock, always have been. I have no idea what's going on, but it's really frustrating, especially because of all my apps I keep on the SD.
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lfrench0 said:
I'm having the exact same problem, and I'm 100% stock, always have been. I have no idea what's going on, but it's really frustrating, especially because of all my apps I keep on the SD.
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Well the best part? Now the phone doesn't recognize the card at all. This phone has been in a case since purchase. Never been dropped. Has been tested with multiple cards in multiple formats. But looks like HTC is yet another company that designs phones to intentionally break over the course of a year or two. Go figure. Phone is only a little over a year old. Then again the board is older since it was a refurb. First phone had issues with the headphone plug.

alexmawdsley said:
Well the best part? Now the phone doesn't recognize the card at all. This phone has been in a case since purchase. Never been dropped. Has been tested with multiple cards in multiple formats. But looks like HTC is yet another company that designs phones to intentionally break over the course of a year or two. Go figure. Phone is only a little over a year old. Then again the board is older since it was a refurb. First phone had issues with the headphone plug.
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Maybe try unexpectedly inserting the sd card? /s
But in reality, that stinks.

gtdtm said:
Maybe try unexpectedly inserting the sd card? /s
But in reality, that stinks.
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Haha that one made me smile. I can just see myself in the dark with one of those long armed desk/work lamps shoving an sd card into my phone and yelling "SURPRISE!" while laughing like an evil villain. This truly has driven me nuts though. I've been stuck on my sad old OG Droid. You know, the one that made android popular but is painfully slow when you're used to a phone overclocked to 1.5 ghz. Even with this one at 900 mhz (all it can handle with a standard voltage kernel without crashing) it often freezes up multitasking. Navigation takes a good couple minutes to fully load a small route, and it simply isn't gonna happen if music is playing.
HOWEVER, I decided to try again. Dinc2 recognized a card again. Not sure why. Whatever. So because the card works even temporarily, I flashed a new radio and am now downloading unofficial cm10 and all that good stuff. Gonna flash everything after triple wiping, then I'll wipe cache again after flashing everything. Just maybe that new radio and lots of murdering the wipe button, it shall survive. It just doesn't make any sense to be a hardware problem since it's only intermittent when the sd card is suddenly active after not being accessed for some time. I can sit there taking pictures and video for hours while playing music. But once the screen is off for 10 minutes and I go look at those pictures, the sd card is suddenly removed. I'll keep you updated. Downloads are complete. Muahahahahaha

So I did end up flashing CM9 instead, because CM10 was just too buggy for my liking. However I used the newest kernel available. It was in the unofficial CM10 forum post.
Radio seems to have fixed the problem though. SD card hasn't unmounted once. We'll see how it works out over the course of the day but it copied all my music over wifi last night, finished at about 2AM, then sat there until I woke up at 6 completely idle. Picked it up and went straight to gallery, and it loaded pictures. Took a snapshot with the camera, then played a song. Everything looks to be in order. I flashed the radio that was apparently in the leaked ICS developer update.

Disregard the suggested fix I posted prior. I mean if you have the problem you can try it... since it seemed to fix it for a day. But it's right back to it again. Downloaded and installed ukb evolution 2.1, and it did the same on that as well. So I guess I live with it for the time being, never buy an HTC device again, hope like crazy a moto device lasts longer, and fork over the scam of an extra year of warranty when I upgrade. Really, what kind of world do we live in where we have to spend money for a company to stand by their product for longer than a lousy year? When standard contracts are for two years, it leaves an entire year where the device can just stop functioning properly, like this one, and then you're stuck paying 600 bucks for a device that cost HTC maybe 100 bucks to make. And even at that ridiculous cost, it still takes two iterations of android before they even suggest that they might update the device to the older version, over three years after launch. Awesome little fact, if the one year warranty restarted when I got the phone replaced in the first place for an issue with the headphone jack, I would still be under warranty. But nope, it wasn't replaced with a new device, but someone elses phone that was then fixed and then sent to me. I still hate that I can buy a brand new phone, and get a used one in return because these companies refuse to build a phone without trying to design it to die at the end of it's "useful" life. People will pay to upgrade if they want to. If the phone barely lasts the full two years if that, someone in their right mind simply wouldn't buy from them again. My original droid was out of warranty by 8 months when I had it replaced TWICE. Why? Because I had it replaced 5 times before that for headphone jack problems. Only reason I didn't buy another moto phone was because they decided to lock down bootloaders for good, while HTC was announcing that they were becoming dev friendly and unlocking their devices. Customers always get screwed. Alright end rant. Sorry guys, extremely frustrated.

I had the same problem on the Samsung Galaxy Y Pro, FWIW. Probably unrelated.

Same here with a 2 year old dinc2. SD card works fine as far as the phone is awake. Works fine in other phones and computers either...

Every 6-12 months, I have this problem and it's blindingly frustrating. As it turned out, my MicroSD card was starting to get tired, and swapping it out with a brand new flash card from Staples resolved it completely. Just like the OP, I had two used 32GB MicroSD cards -- one of them an expensive high-speed Sandisk -- that reported no errors under Windows or CWM. Installing it in my DInc2 (CM10), it would run for a while, but then just decide to unmount.
It may sound illogical, but try purchasing a new, inexpensive MicroSD card (I bought another Sandisk) and see if the problem goes away permanently.
- Dave

I tried two different sd cards on two different roms - cm7 and evervolv and the cards kept dismounting about twice a day. I then turned on "protect sd card" under developer options on evervolv rom. I don't know what it does but haven't had the problem for about a week. It might be a coicidence though. Will see...

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I tried two different sd cards on two different roms - cm7 and evervolv and the cards kept dismounting about twice a day. I then turned on "protect sd card" under developer options on evervolv rom. I don't know what it does but haven't had the problem for about a week. It might be a coicidence though. Will see...
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I had the same problem for monthes. I had gone through all the efforts to fix it. finally I found a clue.
On the back cover, there are two pairs of pins which supposed to connected to the terminals on the phone, which are not connected well. so I bent the springs up a little bit and made connection well. (be very careful not break the springs). then SD card show up right away. It's being working for days and no more problem.
hope it helps everyone.

sd card issue
Same issue with my HTC incredible s.....phone not in warranty....plz help guys.....
Some says its software ...some hardware....all assumptions.....
tc truly sucks.....camera sucks...music sucks.....overpriced.....etc etc.....but wen u pay
Such a lot of money u expect something good....such an awesome name HTC INCREDIBLE ...incredible ma a$*..
Somebody plz help....

This is incredible 2 forum...but just busting your balls....try a new SD card
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My dinc2 started with this problem about 3 months ago. I was running the psychochilly cm10.1. Then I decided to try the miui v5 ('alpha'?) rom which had a known bug that the SD card won't Mount. After about two minutes, it crashed, so I just decided to restore my psychichilly backup. Thenextday i noticed that the sd card was unmounted several times when I wanted to take or look at a pic. I found that if I took my otterbox off, along with the back plastic and tapped the back of the phone near the bottom on the edge of the table gently it would magically recognize my SD card. Not too long after it would pop up that 'SD card unexpectedly removed' message. So. Whether it's hardware or software related, I'm not sure. But I'm thinking hardware. On the other hand, I had to use the tacoroot method to s-off. Maybe an effect that took a whole year to happen. Either way I think the only way to fix this issue, besides reflowing the motherboard around the SD card slot, is to replace the motherboard, which I just might do. Kinda itching to flash the new PAC.

Emergency calls only - no sim card

After a month's use, my HTC didn't read the sim. I noticed that when the phone was face up it would detect the sim. When face down, the sim wasn't being detected. So i did the tape trick and it worked. Then i installed the GPE RUU and DIDN'T BACKUP. Then it suddenly wouldn't detect the sim. Sometimes it would and it would last for an hour or two. Then it wouldn't. I have the middle east version HTC__J15 but changed the CID to 11111111. I tried flashing radios to no avail. I don't think it's a hardware issue because it works for a while then the moment i unlock the screen it suddenly disconnects. What seems to be the problem? Please help.
Also, does anyone know what radio is should use for HTC__J15? Can't seem to find it anywhere.

tbc34 said:
After a month's use, my HTC didn't read the sim. I noticed that when the phone was face up it would detect the sim. When face down, the sim wasn't being detected. So i did the tape trick and it worked. Then i installed the GPE RUU and DIDN'T BACKUP. Then it suddenly wouldn't detect the sim. Sometimes it would and it would last for an hour or two. Then it wouldn't. I have the middle east version HTC__J15 but changed the CID to 11111111. I tried flashing radios to no avail. I don't think it's a hardware issue because it works for a while then the moment i unlock the screen it suddenly disconnects. What seems to be the problem? Please help.
Also, does anyone know what radio is should use for HTC__J15? Can't seem to find it anywhere.
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Had a similar problem 2 hours ago! I trimmed the edges of the nano-sim. No problem since then

After i go into recovery and wipe cache/dalvik and reboot, i get phone service but it goes off after ten minutes. Tried safe mode, same thing. Deleted all apps, same thing. Uninstalled updates, same thing. Don't think it's a hardware issue. HELP!

mashk said:
Had a similar problem 2 hours ago! I trimmed the edges of the nano-sim. No problem since then
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I'm having a similar issue as the op. when you say trimmed down how far did you go? Did you file it or cut it. All sides or just one?

pokedroid said:
I'm having a similar issue as the op. when you say trimmed down how far did you go? Did you file it or cut it. All sides or just one?
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All sides yes. HTC also sent me a new tray. Have u flashed a custom ROM?
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mashk said:
All sides yes. HTC also sent me a new tray. Have u flashed a custom ROM?
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I guess i'll have to try cutting it down a bit. Sadly i don't think a new tray would work for me. I work at an AT&T store and tried one from our demo phone and another from a coworker's phone. My tray and sim work in their phones but neither of theirs will work in mine, so I think it's an internal problem. Yes I have flashed a custom ROM I had been on a GPe rom for several weeks when it started happening. Since then I have flashed an AT&T RUU to put it back to stock and it's still not registering. I know how to remove the "tampered" notice and lock the bootloader, but I'm worried that HTC will not repair my phone because it's S-OFF. I don't know what to do at this point.

pokedroid said:
I guess i'll have to try cutting it down a bit. Sadly i don't think a new tray would work for me. I work at an AT&T store and tried one from our demo phone and another from a coworker's phone. My tray and sim work in their phones but neither of theirs will work in mine, so I think it's an internal problem. Yes I have flashed a custom ROM I had been on a GPe rom for several weeks when it started happening. Since then I have flashed an AT&T RUU to put it back to stock and it's still not registering. I know how to remove the "tampered" notice and lock the bootloader, but I'm worried that HTC will not repair my phone because it's S-OFF. I don't know what to do at this point.
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I think there's a way to return to S-ON. I think it's more of a ROM issue I guess. Try flash a different ROM like ViperOne. Should work.
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I'll give it a shot but I'm not hopeful that a new ROM will help. I was on a custom gpe ROM when it started and now I'm on stock and it's still doing it. I really hope it works though I would love to get my m8 back. Now that I think about it the gpe ROM I was on was heavily modified. Who knows maybe I'll get lucky. Thanks for your help BTW.

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I'll give it a shot but I'm not hopeful that a new ROM will help. I was on a custom gpe ROM when it started and now I'm on stock and it's still doing it. I really hope it works though I would love to get my m8 back. Now that I think about it the gpe ROM I was on was heavily modified. Who knows maybe I'll get lucky. Thanks for your help BTW.
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Hey @pokedroid, did you had any luck with this?
I am running into the same issue as you folks. I have a developer edition from HTC.com website which I was using with an existing T-Mobile microsim that I myself trimmed into a nano-sim. It worked really well since April 1st week until last 3-4 days, where the phone would lose network and even when it gets on the network, it does not actually do any data access. Sometimes the 3G/LTE icon shows up, but no real data transfer happens.
I visited T-Mobile store, where they gave me a new nano-sim. They also did a "network-refresh", whatever that means and I even did a factory reset at home later, however the problem persists. I was finally convinced it was a phone issue, especially since the network works fine on my Nexus 4 (with a sim adapter). I was pretty much on the verge of getting it replaced by HTC (hope it is not too painful) thinking it has something to do with the RADIO chip hardware. I I have only used a custom recovery and rooted the phone, and have been running stock rom after briefly trying an HTC-base ROM for a few days.
However this thread gives me hope that there could be something else going on maybe with the sim tray and surrounding parts. Maybe the metal unibody design does not lend itself well to these kind of defects.
I did accidentally drop my phone a few times in last few days, and whilte it has a TPU case it probably only does scratch protection and not much shock protection and might have caused issues with the sim tray. I am hoping I get it resolved on my own, doing a replacement will be a pain. Let me know how it worked out for you.
EDIT: So I tried adding a few layers of transparent tape just on the SIM card, to increase it thickness. No change. Then I tried trimming the edge of the sim slightly. This made the SIM move around even when trying to get the tray back in, but I was able to get it in right after holding it a bit while sliding it in. However still do not see any change, though the data did turn on briefly while I held the phone upside down, but it stopped after 3-4 MB. Is there a way of knowing if the SIM is being read correctly or something else is going on. I tried installing a SIM Info App which does seem to be able to read SIM info even when network is not connecting, is this a definitive sign that RADIO chip has issues? I have not changed anything in terms of ROM or radio in past several months, and just did a factory reset, so that rules out a software issue (I think).

Does anyone know personally of someone who's had their phone returned by HTC because of it being rooted or s-off? I sent my M8 for repair, the camera lens was scratched up. They replaced them and sent it back. (Free) but here is the kicker, I had s-off, and running ViperOne rom with the custom boot-up and log-off screens. It came back, lens fixed, been returned to stock. This is not the first time I have done this. Samsung did the same too. Here is what I think they do:
1) Unpack phone
2) plug phone into a terminal that returns it to the latest stock rom
3) Look for and fix problem
4) Reset the phone
5) Pack it up and send it back.
That has been my experience 100% of all the phones I had exchanged, whether with Verizon, AT&T or US Cellular.

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Does anyone know personally of someone who's had their phone returned by HTC because of it being rooted or s-off? I sent my M8 for repair, the camera lens was scratched up. They replaced them and sent it back. (Free) but here is the kicker, I had s-off, and running ViperOne rom with the custom boot-up and log-off screens. It came back, lens fixed, been returned to stock. This is not the first time I have done this. Samsung did the same too. Here is what I think they do:
1) Unpack phone
2) plug phone into a terminal that returns it to the latest stock rom
3) Look for and fix problem
4) Reset the phone
5) Pack it up and send it back.
That has been my experience 100% of all the phones I had exchanged, whether with Verizon, AT&T or US Cellular.
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Interesting experience there, and sounds like you have done it multiple times and with them returning the device without any hitch.
I personally never had to go for replacement so far, however this definitely makes me feel better about going about it. My HTC M8 is still showing the same problems as earlier and I have not quite been able to decide whether it is a bad sim tray or something else. I also wonder if my issue is different from @pokedroid and @tbc34 in that my SIM card is read for short periods, and LTE/3G icon shows up as well, but the data does not work and it goes back into out of network mode.
For replacement I will probably still see if going back to stock recovery/red warning text fix etc is easy enough, just in case I catch an HTC technician in a bad mood. EDIT In fact this other thread makes me want to be double sure I get phone back in full stock mode: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2723409 . Fort. I have a dev edition, so HTC can't really say that I unlocked bootloader (though I wonder if such data travels back to them from the device via internet)

I have that problem since two days. Sometimes the phone is okay and sometimes he says only emergency. I wiped all, flashed a new rom, I've also opened the device but it seems all okay. Do you have any idea?

CapraNorvegese said:
I have that problem since two days. Sometimes the phone is okay and sometimes he says only emergency. I wiped all, flashed a new rom, I've also opened the device but it seems all okay. Do you have any idea?
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Try some Scotch tape on the SIM, on the side that doesn't have the gold contacts. Sometimes this will "thicken" the SIM so it makes better contact inside the tray (which is sometimes the reason phone will intermittently say 'no SIM').
Be careful you don't gum up the SIM tray with loose tape.
You can also try to get a new SIM for your carrier, and see if that works better (varying tolerances in the SIMs physical dimensions may help).

LG G3 D850 "SIM Card Removed" Problem After Marshmallow Update.

After downloading marshmallow on my LG G3 D850 everything seemed to be in order for a good week when one day randomly in class my phone gives me a "SIM card removed" notification. I shrugged it off thinking I can fix with a simple restart but the problem priests. I'm positive it can't be a problem with the pins or the SIM reader because at random reboots it would detect my SIM card but either read it as invalid or it ends up working for some time and then the problem comes back up. I tried factory resting it a countless amount of times and I figured out when it does work , I can't download apps or use things like Bluetooth or airplane mode without the problem coming back. This is very annoying and I reached a breaking point, is there a way to fix this? I can't seem find a method to root D850 on marshmallow meaning I can't downgrade. Does this mean I'm screwed?

Same issue
I'm having the same problem, but my phone started showing the "invalid SIM" or "SIM removed" messages while still on Lollipop. I updated to Marshmallow and it persisted, did a factory reset and it's still there, only thing i haven't done is rooting the phone, i've been having this issue for the last 3 weeks, it used to sporadic but today my phone has restarted over 15 times and now it's pretty much a brick.
Only thing that seems to make the phone stable enough to use i to switch off the data network and turn on wifi, i can make calls but as soon as i'm out of wifi range, all i can do is make calls...
I'm pretty new to this but I think this has to be a software issue, i already took my phone in and the repair guy told me, after cleaning the phone and checking the contacts on the SIM card tray that the LG G3 was coming in more and more with the same problem with no repair...
Checking online it seems more and more people are having this problem lately.... coincidence?
Has anybody figured this out????

"Sim Card Removed"
Same issue here on my lg g3, D855

Im also having the same issue have you found the solution

Has anyone found a solution to this?? Its happening to my phone

Same issue D855, but I use the marshmallow version since the first release.
The problem emerged without notice.
What happen?
Notification and message, to screen, "SIM card removed."
The phone automatically reboots.
Snap the signal for a little while, everything works for a little while.
Suddenly loses the signal and does not hook more mobile radio signal and I have to restart.
Sometimes it does 4-5 times a day, other times remains in use 24 hours without giving me any problem.
Already warned assistance, I have to send him assistance in their view, my warranty expires Oct. 6 (no contacts, because they are in plac, cleanest and most sim warheads)
Tested official ROM and also mod (FulmicsROM).
if you look for the "SIM card removed" message there will be other topics also on XDA for G3

I too started having this issue since yesterday. Any solutions?

I have the same problem for about 5 days on my LGG3 D855. My phone is rooted and running fulmics 5.3 ROM for about 5 months. I did a full recovery and I even changed my sim card but the problem is still there. Does anyone knows what's the problem?

Has anyone managed to fix this yet? I have a D852G with Vidéotron. I find it strange that this is happening right when my 2 year contract with them is up. Has downgrading the phone worked for anyone?

It seems to be an ongoing issue related to hardware. Most readings I've done from other forums, reddit, etc all point to the sim card reader beginning to fail. I can't for the life of me tell if that's the issue or if it is really software related.
I've opened up by device and checked the soldering connection points, everything seems fine (to my untrained eye). Putting a small cardboard/paper cut out in the sim card slot seemed to help, but otherwise, jeez.

same here. but on LS990. Tried KK, LP, MM roms. but no help. I don't know whether it's hardware related.

Same here... Tried MM and now nougat, same problem..
Will switch sims today and see what happens

I'm suffering with this issue also. D855, fulmics 6.7.
Mine seems to go into "No SIM Card -Emergency Calls Only" sometimes just randomly when the phone is on, but almost every time I switch my battery it does it (bloody stupid piece of crap). It's so annoying as I'm eating 5-10% of a freshly charged battery by frantically restarting my phone till the sim card becomes active again. I think it may be hardware related but this issue arose after the MM update for me. I can also report that my SDcard port doesn't work (keeps randomly ejecting) and hasn't worked for nearly a year now. But sim card still worked fine.
It's forcing me to feel the need to spend money on a new phone. Money I don't have right now! Money I don't really want to spend as my phone, other than that, is perfectly fine. Anyone had their sim+sd card reader replaced and still having this issue?
Let's bust this bull**** problem!
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singhsinghy said:
I'm suffering with this issue also. D855, fulmics 6.7.
Mine seems to go into "No SIM Card -Emergency Calls Only" sometimes just randomly when the phone is on, but almost every time I switch my battery it does it (bloody stupid piece of crap). It's so annoying as I'm eating 5-10% of a freshly charged battery by frantically restarting my phone till the sim card becomes active again. I think it may be hardware related but this issue arose after the MM update for me. I can also report that my SDcard port doesn't work (keeps randomly ejecting) and hasn't worked for nearly a year now. But sim card still worked fine.
It's forcing me to feel the need to spend money on a new phone. Money I don't have right now! Money I don't really want to spend as my phone, other than that, is perfectly fine. Anyone had their sim+sd card reader replaced and still having this issue?
Let's bust this bull**** problem!
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I gave my phone to a repair center and checked the sim tray. It's all good. They suspect the signal ic must have the issue. Furthermore they said even though i replaced it, chances of getting a roasted ic is still high. I don't know what to do.

cpu problem guys

coderer said:
cpu problem guys
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You sure? Maybe you meant the G4? G4 has cpu problems

I've been having the exact same issue guys ??... and again phone surface temperature rises as phone keeps on rebooting to detect sim card... Anyone with a clue or solution to this yet???

My 2.5yr old G3 (D855) always on Kitkat 4.4.2, also suddenly had this problem, at first I thought my 18yr old sim card finally bite the dust, but then when I changed to a brand new sim, it happened again. Then I factory reset the phone, worked for a few days, then it happened once more, so pissed. Maybe it's just me but it seems like it's an international trigger or something to make all G3 users it's time to change a new phone. Going to buy alcohol later to try clean the contact points to see whether it's a hardware problem.

so guys, i totally unscrewed this G3, opened the metal acess doors to both the cpu and Nand Flash memory and wiped with methylated spirit... since then, my phone has not said anything about an invalid card

mee_ducci said:
so guys, i totally unscrewed this G3, opened the metal acess doors to both the cpu and Nand Flash memory and wiped with methylated spirit... since then, my phone has not said anything about an invalid card
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Gonna give this a try, its been happening to me for weeks!

CM 13 SIM Card Issue

Hi, I installed the 8/20 CM 13 release on my S4 using CWM and it will (about 2-3 times a day) not recognize my sim card and tell me to restart. When it does recognize it, everything works well. To get it to recognize it again, I have to power off, pull the sim, power on, then power off again, and restart with the sim in. I searched and read that changing the modem/radio (modem.bin) drivers will usually fix it. Can someone please point me to the correct drivers and install instructions?

Does the phone do the same thing when running the latest stock ROM? If it does, there could be a problem with the sim card reader.

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Does the phone do the same thing when running the latest stock ROM? If it does, there could be a problem with the sim card reader.
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No, it doesn't. I thought it was the reader first and replaced it anyway.

This tells me it's a software perform. The phone is running the latest bootloader and modem?

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This tells me it's a software perform. The phone is running the latest bootloader and modem?
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No. That's what I need to know how to update. I loaded CM 13 and that's it. I didn't change the bootloader or modem. Honestly I don't know what a bootloader is.
I have baseband version M919UVUFOK3

If you flashed the latest stock ROM from sammobile.com, the phone would have the latest bootloader and modem installed.
A bootloader is similar to the BIOS of a desktop or laptop computer.

audit13 said:
If you flashed the latest stock ROM from sammobile.com, the phone would have the latest bootloader and modem installed.
A bootloader is similar to the BIOS of a desktop or laptop computer.
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So was i supposed to flash the latest stock rom before installing a custom ROM?

I suggested flashing the latest stock ROM because that is the easiest way to ensure the phone's modem and bootloader are up to date and should be done just before you start flashing custom ROMs. It doesn't have to be done every time you want to flash a custom ROM.

Same here..
firstorbit84 said:
Hi, I installed the 8/20 CM 13 release on my S4 using CWM and it will (about 2-3 times a day) not recognize my sim card and tell me to restart. When it does recognize it, everything works well. To get it to recognize it again, I have to power off, pull the sim, power on, then power off again, and restart with the sim in. I searched and read that changing the modem/radio (modem.bin) drivers will usually fix it. Can someone please point me to the correct drivers and install instructions?
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Apparently this is a common hardware issue with S4, something to do with the battery fluctuating voltage to the sim card reader, I recently found out from a repair shop, whose only solution was to downgrade to stock. Heck no, I got Nouget and ain't turning back! Mine doesn't ever have an issue while it is charging. I flashed over a dozen different roms, tried using a few different modems (even stock), read somewhere that you can press a thin cardboard against the back of the sim card against the holder, that didn't work, tried to blow air into the holder, didn't work either, used different bootloaders, nope, preyed to god that I would not miss a call while I slept, nada, don't rely on wake up calls! Tried a new battery, that might have worked for abt a week.. but the dreaded "SIm card removed" message returned!! So I had some drinks and it got some too.. and I watched it get thrown at me and skip off a table, felt it burn up in the summers, in my pocket on many occasions, this phone has been through many adventures in the past couple years and still works great, never even cracked the screen! < knock on wood > This phone can take a beating, compared to many other phones I've had. Other than the fact the reception isn't amazing, I really love my S4 model 919, its fast, compact enough, great display, good bat life, but like every phone it has it flaws. I'm sure that they wouldn't purposely f with their phones so once its modded it gives you an annoying random bug that would make you want to buy a newer S.
The question is how long you can endure the pain of rebooting every few hours, so why not upgrade??
Samsung want you to UPGRADE TO NEW IMPROVED S5,S6,S7,S80..!!
UPGRADE OR NEVER LEAVE AC OUTLET!!! hahaha
.. Personally, I probably will buy a S7 soon as it drops price ( I have a really active life) but for now I just deal with it.
>>> I'm more worried about when someone is gonna fix the video camera for Nouget !! Big up to ResurrectionRemix and XDA!! <<<
ps.. I don't ever remove the sim card, just a full reboot is all mine needs. GL

Jason Maze said:
Apparently this is a common hardware issue with S4, something to do with the battery fluctuating voltage to the sim card reader, I recently found out from a repair shop, whose only solution was to downgrade to stock. Heck no, I got Nouget and ain't turning back! Mine doesn't ever have an issue while it is charging. I flashed over a dozen different roms, tried using a few different modems (even stock), read somewhere that you can press a thin cardboard against the back of the sim card against the holder, that didn't work, tried to blow air into the holder, didn't work either, used different bootloaders, nope, preyed to god that I would not miss a call while I slept, nada, don't rely on wake up calls! Tried a new battery, that might have worked for abt a week.. but the dreaded "SIm card removed" message returned!! So I had some drinks and it got some too.. and I watched it get thrown at me and skip off a table, felt it burn up in the summers, in my pocket on many occasions, this phone has been through many adventures in the past couple years and still works great, never even cracked the screen! < knock on wood > This phone can take a beating, compared to many other phones I've had. Other than the fact the reception isn't amazing, I really love my S4 model 919, its fast, compact enough, great display, good bat life, but like every phone it has it flaws. I'm sure that they wouldn't purposely f with their phones so once its modded it gives you an annoying random bug that would make you want to buy a newer S.
The question is how long you can endure the pain of rebooting every few hours, so why not upgrade??
Samsung want you to UPGRADE TO NEW IMPROVED S5,S6,S7,S80..!!
UPGRADE OR NEVER LEAVE AC OUTLET!!! hahaha
.. Personally, I probably will buy a S7 soon as it drops price ( I have a really active life) but for now I just deal with it.
>>> I'm more worried about when someone is gonna fix the video camera for Nouget !! Big up to ResurrectionRemix and XDA!! <<<
ps.. I don't ever remove the sim card, just a full reboot is all mine needs. GL
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Same issue here..
Just a thing I observe. When my sim card shows is disconnected or sometimes after reboot is even showing that my sim card is not inserted, I cannot turn on my mobile data and the sim card app is missing from app drawer and from application manager.
I really don't know if its a software or hardware issue.
Sometimes I get this error randomly, even when my phone is standing still on a table and I don't use it.

Thanks for the replies. So, I got a new SIM card and it seems to be working much better than before. My old SIM had a huge scratch on it, so I suspect part of the issue might have been that. I've also kept it in balanced power mode, and I noticed it happens more in battery saving mode. I've also been trying to keep it plugged in as much as possible, and I have extra charged batteries I swap in. It will also start working after a reboot and I don't have to pull the battery and card like I described before. I still haven't tried to change the boot loader or modem.
Edit: I'm also having an issue with not being able to download MMS unless I'm on WiFi

Are the apn settings correctly entered?

firstorbit84 said:
Hi, I installed the 8/20 CM 13 release on my S4 using CWM and it will (about 2-3 times a day) not recognize my sim card and tell me to restart. When it does recognize it, everything works well. To get it to recognize it again, I have to power off, pull the sim, power on, then power off again, and restart with the sim in. I searched and read that changing the modem/radio (modem.bin) drivers will usually fix it. Can someone please point me to the correct drivers and install instructions?
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This is a known issue (not CM related); contact your carrier for a replacement.
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Just an update: I'm still having this issue, but have just been living with it and trying to keep the phone charged. It seems to happen less on WiFi and when I'm actively using cellular data. Some apps seem to make it worse. I'm probably going to try a different release.
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