Sim card detected only on the first boot after factory reset - G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello guys, I'm having a bit of a head-scratcher here. My G3 detects the sim card only after factory reset - any boot after that (whether it's rebooted by me or just the battery dies doesn't matter) and it says no sim card detected. I've tried holding the card down with my finger while booting as some people suggested, i've tried pushing a piece of paper over it to make better contact between the card and the contacts, but to no avail. What makes the least sense to me - It always works after a factory reset, just as long as You don't reboot the phone. The phone is not rooted, has stock rom, never been tampered with in any way. Any ideas how I can fix it?

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Desire totally going crazy...

Hey.
My desire is driving me crazy!
It is (was) rooted and s-offed with a Coolexe-ROM on it.
A few month ago I opened a thread where I described random reboots an freezes. This somehow stopped after 2 weeks or so and I could use my desire as usual. Before that, there was this problem with the SD card, which couldn't be mounted. It wasn't working anymore and I bought a new one.
Since yesterday evening the random freezes, reboots and shutdowns started again. So badly that I could hardly keep it on for a few minutes.
I noticed, that the signal bar was showing the little cross mark, so that I couldn't even place calls or text someone.
So I decided to do a RUU flash, hoping that rooting it again and so on would solve the problem.
Turns out it didn't!
The signal bar is randomly showing me the cross icon (sometimes I have H or G connection though). In this unrooted state it doesn't freeze, reboot or shut down.
I tried to save the data from my SD card 2 times (in harddrive-mode), but after a while the windows explorer wasn't reacting and crashed.
I was able to save some of the data though.
This seems like a hardware problem (doesn't it?)...
Has someone experienced similar problems? (could this be the famous motherboard fault?)
Is it the SD card, or is the desire bricking the sd card?
I have no idea what to do. Is this something I could fix myself or do I have to send it in?
Hope someone can help me...
edit: I just noticed, that when windows explorer crashes and I change back to charging only-mode, I cannot view the SD card state under the settings menu...
Did you try removing the SD card and use the SD card by a card reader?
Also flash a new Rom? Or factory reset?
Hope you have a nand backup
when I tried using a card reader my PC wouldnt even recognize the card...
after the RUU-flash I did a factory reset from the settings menu... or is there another way?
I mean, shouldnt it be like a factory reset anyways after a RUU-flash?
If I am correct ruu deals with the recovery and radio part
I'm not sure though
Try contacting senior members
as it seems my SIM card is at least part of the reason.
I put in another one and the connection problems are gone. but now they appear in the phone in which I put the old SIM ^^
so maybe (hopefully) it is just the SIM which I am going to change tomorrow in a shop.

[SOLVED] SD Card "Damaged" after N7105ZHUENA1 update

I have an N7105 which has been running the N7105ZHUEMK3 software with no problem.
Today, I received the new N7105ZHUENA1 update over the air.
After installing this update, the phone can no longer read my exFAT format SD card.
I get "SD Card Damaged" and "SD Card Blank" messages after every reboot. Manually attempting to mount the card via Settings causes the phone to hang for a period of time, then report the same errors.
The card is not damaged: My other phones, and my PCs (with an adapter) can all read the card with no problem whatsoever.
This feels like something related to today's update.
Redownloading and applying MK3 didn't solve it - it made things worse in fact - I ended up going forward to NA1 again.
After working on this all day, the only thing that appears to have solved this is to pull the battery, insert a DIFFERENT, blank, SD card in the phone, let the phone boot, come all the way up, and settle... then pull the battery again, reinsert the original SD card (which, again, worked everywhere else), and let the phone boot again. Now my original card is back, fully readable, and working again.
I had removed/reinserted/rebooted the same card numerous times today, and it came back damaged (only by my note 2) every time. Only inserting the different card temporarily seems to have "broken the pattern" and made everything okay again.
I have no idea what caused this, or why that step fixed it, but I'm leaving this here in case anyone else has this problem.
(Delete please)

Big problems after removing sd card

Hey guys,
I removed my old 16gb micro sd card to make a copy for a new 128gb card on my pc. Once I put the same card back in, I started getting massive errors like the camera won't function, my wallpaper and nova launcher settings reverted to something kinda stock, but my icons were still in the same place. I can't get into my android settings "unfortunately the process com.android.settings has stopped" to attempt clear any caches. I did end up clearing my app caches using apps2sd but I'm stuck on what to do. I had xposed and g4 tweaksbox but disabled everything.
Edit: I just reset my phone using the power button options but I still can't get into settings, now I can't even re-enable developer options. Same problems as before.
I remember my sd card had some silly name of whatever_5888 but now it's not labeled at all, would that have something to do with it?
I'm running an LG G4 H812 rooted on Lollipop 5.1.1 no custom recovery. Damn Canadian version of this phone..
Thanks!
before you removed the micro sd, you did go into settings - storage - sd -card - unmount sd card ?
Did you unmount it or did you just power off and pull it is what i'm asking.
I didn't unmount, i turned off and removed the card.
It's alright though, I factory reset the phone using the power button trick while booting, but after I still couldn't get into the settings and the issues still were happening. So I reflashed back to stock and flashed the rooted system image. Man things were much simpler with the Nexus 5, I wouldn't have this Canadian variant which has a locked bootloader, so no custom recovery here..
It's all good! luckily I have root and titanium so all back to normal. I'll know next time to properly unmount, it just never happened to me before that's all.
Thanks mate
One Twelve said:
before you removed the micro sd, you did go into settings - storage - sd -card - unmount sd card ?
Did you unmount it or did you just power off and pull it is what i'm asking.
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kyleruggles said:
I didn't unmount, i turned off and removed the card. I'll know next time to properly unmount, it just never happened to me before that's all.
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Exactly, as you've learned the hard way that not unmounting causes trouble. Was the micros adoptable storage or portable storage ?
Default wont allow adoptable but there are ways around that.
I factory reset the phone using the power button trick while booting, but after I still couldn't get into the settings and the issues still were happening. So I reflashed back to stock and flashed the rooted system image. Man things were much simpler with the Nexus 5, I wouldn't have this Canadian variant which has a locked bootloader, so no custom recovery here..
It's all good! luckily I have root and titanium so all back to normal.
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This is the part that amazes me, you had to reflash back to stock then the rooted image to fix what ? a removed microsd that the OS remembered was there but isn't any more and is unhappy.
My first thought would be to do operations on the card, not the phone. Since i learnt this lesson some time ago on JB i don't know if the following would work now or not.
- switch off the phone. remove the battery for a few seconds. re-insert sd card. Ensure its properly inserted. Then reseat battery. power up. If that does not work try the next.
- try to delete any items in the lost.dir folder on the sd card from another device.
- still not working, try to see if its viewable on a pc, copy everything possible, then format the card in an adroid device. Copy everything back to the card.
On JB you would get a micro SD card is damaged notification when reinserting a microsd that was removed without unmounting. If you had anything on the card, it showed up as empty but nothing was deleted, just the system forgot where everything was.

Rebooting, No SIM Card

I keep getting this pop up randomly (see picture) saying my SIM card has been removed so the phone will restart, then it just reboots.
Everything works as normal before and after.
Sometimes I even wake up to find my phone has rebooted (and is asking for the SIM PIN code)
Any ideas?
I have the same problem.
Still not find any solution?
They recommend reset to factory defaults(clean cache and wipe system)
But I have read many users suffered same symptom after doing this at lg g3 forums here.
Some of them changed sim cards?
Can you find the reason or solution?
lastvampire said:
I keep getting this pop up randomly (see picture) saying my SIM card has been removed so the phone will restart, then it just reboots.
Everything works as normal before and after.
Sometimes I even wake up to find my phone has rebooted (and is asking for the SIM PIN code)
Any ideas?
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girdap said:
I have the same problem.
Still not find any solution?
They recommend reset to factory defaults(clean cache and wipe system)
But I have read many users suffered same symptom after doing this at lg g3 forums here.
Some of them changed sim cards?
Can you find the reason or solution?
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Sounds like you both have developed a corruption or have been hit with some malware.
First, if you have a custom recovery installed, restore a clean backup, one where you know the issue hasn't occurred.
Best bet, if a clean backup is not available, is to first do a full scan including SD card with a good anti-malware app (scan your phone from your PC/Laptop, not from an app on your phone).
Next, reformat your SD card completely (preferably in a card reader on your PC/Desktop), and copy only one clean thing back over to it, insert it, then re-install your model's stock kdz with LGUP-NEW and see if the problem recurs before adding back one at a time anything you had on your SD card before and testing each one individually before adding any additional items back on your SD card.

No access to micro SD card after factory factory reset

Hi,
my girlfriends HTC One M8 has been kind of mad the last few months
(uncontrollable reboots, lacking power- and volume buttons, announcing reboot and doing nothing)
and since I gave her a micro SD card to use, the device "successfully" performed a factory reset about a day ago.
The problem is that her phone now asks her to format the card but she still wants the saved data on it.
Is there any way to recover or access the data ?
Somehow I could also get the Device ID because she sent a mail with it to a support-team of an app a few weeks ago.
Her phone is not rooted but mine is and the computer can't access the micro SD card if I insert it into a card reader, neither recovery tools I tried do.
Thanks in advance.

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