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havin' sim issues...

i just got my dash and it is actin strangely. it keeps goin between phone & flight mode and it sometimes turns off the phone function or says...''sim failure, sim card may be invalid or missing''. please help as i am getting irritable without my fone.

Maybe the SIM card has somehow become wet or unseated. Remove it, wipe it down with a soft cloth, and reinsert it. The problems may go away.

Take a pencil eraser and rub the SIM card contacts on the phone and SIM card itself.

thanks alot guys...
big thanks for the eraser tip. it still does it occasionally but i can use my phone again... thanks

ohhh booooyyyy....
it's at it again but the eraser thing wont even work so i'm back to square one.... and i tried to use the eraser on the sim contacts on the phone but i can't reach them to do it as they are behind this metal strip which i guess holds the card to the contacts. i did notice that the same metal strip is also soldered to the board, could there be another use? i was wondering if it was able to tell that the card was there via this bracket as well as by the pins on the sim port, if so maybe it was loose or something?(just stabbing at ideas)

Wolfdragon said:
says...''sim failure, sim card may be invalid or missing''. please help as i am getting irritable without my fone.
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I once had this, I did a hard reset and that solved the problem. Make sure to backup your data first.

why dont you try another sim card form a friend or something.
like that you can determine where the problem is coming form.

Questions on Sim Card slot area

my sim card adaptor used for micro sim broke inside my desire hd , and 2 small chips from it , happen to stuck inside, using penknife , i managed to get rid of 1, the other 1 still stuck inside... unable to get off , i push in using normal sim card , into my desire hd , and i managed to get it in , but however the 1 small chip is still inside the slot ...
now rarely i'm able to get network from my simcard , but most of the time , it wont ... was wondering during the time when i used penknife to slot in , did i damage my phone in the process ? is there any parts in the sim card slot that is link to signal , which i might have cut with my penknife thus spoiling my phone ?

The 2 copper things on your SIM cover is basically the antenna.
i'm no expert but I don't think you can damage the SIM card so that you can still use it but would get bad reception.
I'd check if the cover is on correctly and if the antenna making contact with the phone pins.

Foladko said:
The 2 copper things on your SIM cover is basically the antenna.
i'm no expert but I don't think you can damage the SIM card so that you can still use it but would get bad reception.
I'd check if the cover is on correctly and if the antenna making contact with the phone pins.
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thanks a lot for your comment , but i wont be able to see the inner part of it , due to the fact that the entire brown aluminum cover is blocking me from seeing it ... which is unless firstly i loose the screw to open up the cover , but it will make me void the warrenty as there is a sticker on 1 of these screws... lastly the tools to open the screw is not common ones , so i will have difficulty opening it...

there are 6 contacts inside the sim card slot, you may have damaged those

Broken SIM slot?

Well, I have a micro SIM from T-Mobile which I was using in my lumia. I wanted to see if I could find a way to make it fit in a regular SIM slot. I decided to try making an extender out of a gift card. When I put it in, it didn't fit. I pulled, and pulled with tweezers, my hands, etc. All failed, and eventually the little piece I was pulling, broke off. I then had a piece of the gift card stuck deep in the slot. So stupidly, I decided to dig around in the SIM slot with the edge of the tweezers to pull it out. Now I can't put a SIM in the SIM slot, and there's still gift card in there. I may have damaged the SIM reader prongs as well... Any ideas on how to fix it? Can I pull off the actual back part to get to it? I really hope I'm not ultimately screwed...
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take apart your phone and have a look see, at the very least you should be able to get out the giftcard piece. if you didnt cause too much damage it probably will be fine once out

Sim card tray damaged. Best way to fix?

I have a tendency to hop back and forth between phones. Today I went to put my sim card in my Note 2. I use a nano sim card adaptor (I decided to experiment with the iPhone 5 for about a month...) to put my sim card in my Note 2 and my Nexus 4. Unfortunately, the sim card fell out while I was putting it in my Note 2 today and the adaptor got stuck in the tray. After a few moments of agonizing struggle, I got the adapter out. Now my Note 2 won't recognize my sim card. I think the prongs at the entrance of the slot were damaged, since that's where the adaptor kept getting hung up.
Is there a way to find out if it's completely broken or if the prongs are just out of place? And if it's broken, does anyone know how much a repair would cost? I don't know that I have the confidence to try to repair it myself.
Thanks.
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The SIM card reader module I'm fairly certain is soldered onto the logic board, so unless your good with soldering, a replacement SIM reader isnt very practical. However, the Sprint Epic Touch (GS2) sd card reader module is attached only by a simple flex cable, so its possible the same may apply here. If this were the case, the replacement part shouldnt cost more than 10-20$ (assuming their available) and replacement would be as hard as taking the back housing off.
Try comparing the SIM slot with another similar model and see if you can see if something is out of place. See see see see see see.:good:

I think I may have done the same to mine with one of those SIM adapters. I've ordered this and it should be here in a few days. I'll give it a go...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-Samsung...271792?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item1c313e9ef0

u did the same exact thing i did lol but what i thought was a damaged sim tray was somehow just corruted firmware when i restored back to stock everything worked just fine i even called samsung and they were going to replace it but since i live in Hawaii i didnt want to wait so i just did a restore in odin and everything works fine
if u are really damaged ur stim tray and dont wanna wait on samsung u can try this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT-2zrZ_aNo
but good luck try restoring with odin first

I'm glad I'm not the only one to have had this problem, heh heh.
Anyway, after watching the video, I think I'm going to send my Note to Samsung and have them fix it. I would probably ruin my phone if I did it myself. Should I do a factory reset to protect my data before doing so? I don't know if they'll be sending the same phone back to me, since it says they may replace it with another if they determine that they aren't going to fix the part that's broken.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one to have had this problem, heh heh.
Anyway, after watching the video, I think I'm going to send my Note to Samsung and have them fix it. I would probably ruin my phone if I did it myself. Should I do a factory reset to protect my data before doing so? I don't know if they'll be sending the same phone back to me, since it says they may replace it with another if they determine that they aren't going to fix the part that's broken.
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they will wipe ur data if ur rooted and have a custom rom on your phone u need to return to stock and set the flash counter to zero.
u would send the phone is no battery no battery cover no sim card so sd card just the phone nothing else
try to restore ur phone via odin first
http://galaxynote2root.com/galaxy-n...ootunbrick-galaxy-note-2-with-stock-firmware/
if u still get no sim card error after doing that then give samsung a call phone number is on the phone itself under battery and they will send u a box and u should have to wait about 2 weeks then u will either get a fixed phones or a replacement not sure how they do it since i fixed my no sim issue with odin

I did the same thing once. Just called att and told them it wasn't reading a simple anymore and they sent me a new one.
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My Fix For Broken SIM Reader Pin
This is an old thread, I know. But the problem is ongoing. These SIM card adapters are just plain evil. Now that this has happened to me, I googled the issue and see that there are tons of folks suffering. I am posting this reply so that others can see the "fix" I managed for my International Samsung Note I. I am sure it can be applied to most other phones.
I should point out that in order to get any usable access to and visibility of the SIM card reader I had to remove the battery cover and the back from the phone's touchscreen. This reveals the motherboard to which the SIM card reader is soldered. I found a good video on this at YouTube. It wasn't that hard although I did not have the plastic pry bar they used - I think I will get one for the future. I managed with a small flat head jewelers screw driver and an ancient, plastic shirt collar stay. (I can hear my mother saying "save it - you'll find a use for it!" I hate it when she is right.) Once complete I could move on.
At first, I tried to replace the SIM card reader pin that was broken off by the SIM card adapter with a tiny piece or rolled-up tin foil. I saw someone else reference this approach and it seemed possible and cheap. Alas, it did not work. After many attempts, the phone simply would not recognize any SIM card. I finally got to sleep at 3am.
I then found a piece of brass shim stock that I have had lying around for years. (I am hearing mom again!) It is item 1412110231, Brass Strip .016x1/2inx12in shown here. I got mine at the local hardware store for some other aborted project. I used some snips to cut off a tiny strip from one end and then cut that strip to maybe 1/3 to 1/2 its overall length. The idea was to place the strip inside the SIM reader slot where the pin had broken off in an effort to create a contact point to replace the pin. Cutting the tiny strip off the stock piece caused the tiny strip to bow a bit. It turns out that was a good thing but I had to reduce the amount of bow quite a bit for it to fit inside the reader. Remove any rough edges from the tiny strip with a file.
With the touchscreen assembly lying flat on the table I managed to get the tiny strip in place. I was then able to slowly and carefully slide the SIM card into the reader and this resulted in a contact good enough to make the phone again recognize the SIM card and for cell service to be restored. Hurray! Yes, I was able to carefully place the battery in its bay and operate the power button to perform testing.
But you must remain aware that the tiny strip is just lying in the slot and is held in place only by friction/pressure from the SIM card inserted into the reader. Therefore, for the rest of the phone's life, it requires great care when removing the SIM and handling the phone when a SIM is not installed . Basically when removing the SIM, the phone MUST remain flat on its display until the SIM is re-installed. Moving the phone around in other orientations without a SIM card installed will definitely cause the tiny strip fall out. And who knows what hell that will cause?
You cannot put the phone's back onto the touchscreen with the SIM card in place. At first I thought about cutting the SIM's length down so the back would install even with the SIM in place. Before doing this I tried to carefully snap the top portion of the back onto the touchscreen while it all remained flat on the table so the tiny strip wouldn't move. With the top 1/3 of the back snapped on, I could just manage to insert the SIM through the phone's cover and have the tiny strip held in place by the SIM while I snapped the rest of the back into position. This worked pretty well but your mileage may vary.
I basically plan to leave the SIM in place forever - even if it is not to be used. I also put a reminder note on the battery so that I am less likely to forget that I made this hack.
I hope the annotated photos help those who follow me - as surely others will do. Good luck. I was very lucky to have destroyed only one pin and for it to be in the most accessible part of the SIM reader.

Galaxy Note II Sim Card not recognised?

Hi,
recently i was in New Orleans (quite hot and sticky, very humid) and was changing the battery on the phone, soon as i did this the Sim Card wouldnt be recognised, which i found abit odd and with numerous attempts at removing the sim card to no avail, soon looked behind the battery to discover the water damage mark was set to red and crosses, assuming it was water damaged somehow i took it to a shop who replaced the sim card tray and checked the phone for water damage... there was none which is alot more striking, had this confirmed with about 5 other phone repair shops that there isnt water damage despite the indicator telling me there is and the sim card tray replaced about 3 times now.
Is this a common problem? what could it be? i'm now left with a overely expensive brick of a tablet.