I have Verizon so I don't have a sim card but I want to get past the "No SIM card. Emergency calls only" screen so I can play with the phone before I sell it.
I tried touching the four corners, I tried typing stuff on the emergency dialer..any ideas how to get into the operating system?
smoothjeff said:
I have Verizon so I don't have a sim card but I want to get past the "No SIM card. Emergency calls only" screen so I can play with the phone before I sell it.
I tried touching the four corners, I tried typing stuff on the emergency dialer..any ideas how to get into the operating system?
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Actually if anyone has a clue how to do this it would be much appreciated! I just got one but my AT&T dealer line isn't active yet so I don't have a sim card that is provisioned yet, and Motoblur keeps giving me a "Motoblur is Busy" error message so I can't even access my old motoblur account or make a new one >.< Please if anyone has any idea whats wrong help us out!
Supposedly, you can't make this phone get past emergency dialing without a SIM card, and then all it will do is require MotoBlur signup before it goes any further.
Supposedly.
But there are boot options, if you boot the power while holding the VOL- key. Explore at your own risk, one of those might hose the phone. Supposedly, at least one can do a complete factory reset.
Just sign into your motoblur account and it'll let you use the phone. Connect to wifi if you have it to get pass the motoblur screen. Press menu and some options will pop up including wifi settings.
Hope that helps.
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You can't even get to the MotoBlur sign in part, you're stuck at the screen saying no sim card.
I got my atrix on release day but am waiting for my employee line to become active so I currently have bi connection. What you need to do is take any sim card from a friend or an old one. Put it in the phone. Connect to wifi and do the blur log in/sign up. Then you are good. It'll only work on wifi till you get it on whatever carrier you're planning on using. But it's better than nothing.
My suggestion would be to get a friend who is on att to go into a store and say his sim was lost and they'll give him a new one and deactivate the old one. Use that old one till you have service of your own.
Good luck
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Figured out a solution
I figured out how to get past the SIM card requirement by playing with the boot options. The phone still requires you to register for a MotoBlur account, but I can live with that.
1. Load Boot menu by holding the Volume Down button while starting the phone.
2. Press the Volume Down button until the option "Boot Android (NO BP)" appears at the top of the screen.
3. Press the Volume Up button to select this option.
4. On load, the phone will bypass the No SIM card screen, but will ask you to register a MotoBlur account. You will have to connect to Wifi and either create a new account or sign in to one that already exists.
Luckily, this process only needs to be performed once. It looks like the phone remembers this boot option for next time
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morning,
Ive just put my new simcard in my old phone (spvm700) to copy the contacts over, when i put the simcard back into the touch HD, i get the no sim screen. Now the only thing i can think of is that when putting the sim in i bent it slightly to get it in, to clear the battery. I didnt realise till after, that if you take the battery out then it just slides in without bending. I put no more pressure or bent the sim anymore than is necessary to insert the sim in the m700. When i put the new sim in my old phone it works. when i put the old sim in the new phone, i dont get the no sim screen, it boots but as the card is cancelled there is no orange logo etc. I borroed a new orange sim off a friend to try in the touch Hd and it also says no sim.
New phone on its way tomorrow.
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morning,
Ive just put my new simcard in my old phone (spvm700) to copy the contacts over, when i put the simcard back into the touch HD, i get the no sim screen. Now the only thing i can think of is that when putting the sim in i bent it slightly to get it in, to clear the battery. I didnt realise till after, that if you take the battery out then it just slides in without bending. I put no more pressure or bent the sim anymore than is necessary to insert the sim in the m700. When i put the new sim in my old phone it works. when i put the old sim in the new phone, i dont get the no sim screen, it boots but as the card is cancelled there is no orange logo etc. I borroed a new orange sim off a friend to try in the touch Hd and it also says no sim.
New phone on its way tomorrow.
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I can buy it from you for $100
unfortunately orange want the old one back
now if only i could get the active synch to work last night, i wouldnt have this problem!! I use thunderbird and not outlook. but could i hell as like get it to synch with the copy of outlook on my machine that i dont use.
I would of thought that the CD with the phone contained a version of outlook - every outher PDA Phone I have purchased - even the diamind) did?
I cant check either as my box is a work - and I use exchange push to sync so no need.
Did you get replacement via orange care?
its does come with a trial version of outlook. I already have outlook on my machine but i dont have it setup.i put a pretend email adress in just to set it up and when trying to synch with my phone, i got an error, cant remember what it was as im at work.
i'm not sure if it was orange care or not, she didnt say, i only put orange care on the day before!
update time....
new one turned up. all working fine plus now i have an extra sd card, plus box etc - charger
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new one turned up. all working fine plus now i have an extra sd card, plus box etc - charger
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so the bloke only wanted the phone?
k3v said:
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new one turned up. all working fine plus now i have an extra sd card, plus box etc - charger
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Now you got twice the kit?? Sounds like a good way to get an additional charger and give an SD card to my gf for her phone
i cant seem to get the volume buttons to work properly. they are doing odd things, now they dont do anything.
Hi!
My first HD also had a defective "Volume Down" button (sometimes stuck pressed, sometimes not working at all).
Try removing the battery cover and clean the buttons. If the problem persists, exchange the phone! I did and the new one now works much better. The power button of this one even sticks out a bit so I can press it without using the fingernails - which was necessary with my first HD!
Regards!
Most of the time when I reboot my Vibrant, it is unable to find the network. Going into the settings and selecting Mobile networks results in an error message telling me to insert a SIM card.
Fixing the problem involves one of two methods, which I fear one day will fail indefinitely.
1) Rebooting multiple times until the phone sees the SIM card and registers on the network. This method failed more than ten times today until I gave up and tried method 2.
2) Turning on airplane mode. Then in an attempt to turn off airplane mode and get the phone to register on the network, it cannot be done. Airplane mode is greyed out in the popup menu that comes with a LP of the power button. Additionally, airplane mode is not indicated in the status area at the top of the screen. Next, reboot the phone. Upon reboot, airplane mode is indicated in the status area at the top of the screen with a small airplane. Switching off airplane mode is now possible from the popup menu that comes with a LP of the power button. The phone now immediately registers on the network. This method does not always work.
I've tried more than one SIM card to ensure that the problem isn't SIM specific. I have yet to try a SIM card from a different carrier to troubleshoot a carrier specific SIM problem.
Any knowledge on this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Many Thanks,
In an attempt to see if I could find a reliable way to get my phone back on network after a reboot, I made the dumb move of turning off my phone. I've now been rebooting my phone repeatedly for about 20 minutes trying to get it back to network.
In messing around with flight mode, I've now got the stupid airplane in the status area, and yet the damned phone says in the popup menu that flight mode is off.
I might be looking at a factory reset next.
Even a factory reset fails to get the phone to see a SIM.
Any ideas?
Unfortunately, it may be a hardware issue...You tried another tmo sim card?
Seems like a hardware issue to me too. No, I have only tried two different True Mobile SIMs here in Phuket.
The phone is pretty much cooked at this point unless somebody has some ideas. It won't register on network even after a factory reset. I've stuck it in a soft pouch and resumed the use of my 3yr old Nokia dumb-phone.
The next thing I face is trying to get a phone that isn't even sold in Thailand serviced at a local shop. Not fun.
Second alternative is to mail it back home for about $50, have it repaired, and then pay about $50 to have it shipped back. Then, when it arrives at the Thai post office, they will hold it for ransom until I pay taxes, duties, and tarriffs totaling another $50.
I'll probably end up just having a nice paper weight until I go back home in about a year.
Any other ideas would be great. Thanks a lot.
Unlock it and try a different carrier, the problem sounds like a hardware problem but it seems like you are out of luck and if you go back home in a year then the warranty probably won't be valid since warranty only lasts one year.
So yeah you can unlock and see if that works, if not at least you have a nice MP3 player
Thanks for your reply. It's already unlocked. That's the way I bought it on eBay in the US and brought it over here to Phuket and have been using it on the local True Mobile network.
Not getting the phone serviced in warranty is unfortunate, but it isn't really a problem. If I have to pay a couple hundred bucks to get the phone fixed by either sending it home now or getting it fixed when I'm back in town in a year, so be it. I'm used to these kinds of predicaments with the kind of traveling I do.
Any other ideas guys?
Flash an update file via Odin, a factory reset won't fix everything.
I think I've got it figured out. And it sucks.
The solution I have found that will consistently get the phone back on network is to power it off and let it completely cool down by either letting it sit for a long time, or by putting it in the fridge for about ten minutes.
So yes, it appears to be a hardware problem. And I'll likely end up having to spend a few hundred dollars out of warranty to get the mobo replaced. Because as I'm sure many of you have experienced with electronics, the way that manufacturers design these things, anytime something goes wrong that's as minor as a worn out headphone jack or some other prong on some component of the guts, the whole mobo has to be replaced, which in the case of a phone, is basically the whole phone.
Please excuse my irritation. This just sucks.
I'll be carrying a spare dumb-phone in my car for trips around Thailand that could end up getting me into some minor trouble if my car breaks down and I have no way to call for help. Yeesh...
When it happened to me I powered down , pulled the battery , removed and reinserted the sim .
Maybe run an under-voltage ROM, that could help but again that is just another random idea, I mean you don't lose anything.
Thanks for all the replies.
After upgrading to JI6 this evening, I have rebooted the phone at least 6 times without waiting for it to cool down. The phone has registered on network without failure every time.
I'll report back if it fails to register on network ever again.
My problem happened when I got a new sim . It's been working fine for a month now .
Hi,
I installed WP7 on my HD2 a couple of months ago and all has been going well (except for the reboot issue which is a known SD card problem!!). However since yesterday I have been unable to access any of the contacts on my phone.
When on the home screen, if I select the "people" widget I get a blank screen for a second then it returns me to the home screen. If I try to send a message and type in the persons name in my contact list, no matches are displayed in the To bar. I have tried different ways to access my people contacts but it always returns me to the home screen?!?!
The annoying thing is I know my contacts are still on the phone. When I get a phone call/text message it displays my contacts name on the screen?!?!
Has anyone ever come across this error before and if so how do i get around it???
Cheers,
Colin
I am having this same issue as well. This is my second time having this problem. First time I managed to fix it by pulling everything out of my phone and reinserting them (sd, SIM, battery). Now everything I try doesn't seem to work either. I might just have to re-flash.
its probably worth reflashing, try using a different SD card or for a quick test reflash without the SD card, you wont be able to install much and it will be slow but it will give you an idea if its the SD or not
Man! you should not open people. It hurts them.
Brief history. My wife has a G1 and apparently she has not been able to download apps for sometime now. When she took it to Tmobile for them to check out, they said,"you must have downloaded a corrupt app from the market, we're sorry, but we can't fix it. Meanwhile, she was not allowing me to root it, and possibly finding a solution. So now, we got her an HTC sensation, so I can have her phone to play with. My quest is to fix the phone to prove to my wife that I know more than your local Tmobile rep. With that being said,"What do I do?" JK I know where to start, I just wanted to know if there is any relationship between the G1 and this corrupt market issues as I spent most of my time in the Thunderbolt forum. Thanks in advance.
do you want to root it? or just wipe it out? you can do many different things.. not sure what the relation is with your market not working
ldrifta said:
do you want to root it? or just wipe it out? you can do many different things.. not sure what the relation is with your market not working
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Root and wipe, basically just make it right again and to show my wife the benefits of rooting. Before a complete wipe though, I would like to see if there is any validity to this "corrupt app" and "not fixable" statements made by Tmobile reps. My first roadblock seems to be the sim card, I don't have one, and can't find a way to root w/o it yet.
Options-
-Use my wife's current sim card (its a 4G sim now for her sensation, will it still work), but she would probably have a hissy and not let me use it
-Use my sim card from my Tbolt (which requires an unlock code)
-Find a way to root w/o a sim all-together
I am sure with a little more investigating, I'll find a way to make it work.
Why not just boot to recover and wipe?
Turn phone off.
Press and hold "HOME" button, press power button, keep holding home.
When it gets to the "!" screen, open keyboard, press ALT-L.
Then press ALT-W (W is for Wipe).
When finished, reboot.
dhkr234 said:
Why not just boot to recover and wipe?
Turn phone off.
Press and hold "HOME" button, press power button, keep holding home.
When it gets to the "!" screen, open keyboard, press ALT-L.
Then press ALT-W (W is for Wipe).
When finished, reboot.
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yes try that first!! see if you can get it to work... you will need her sim just for a second so you can get by the google sign in... than if you connect to wifi you can remove the sim, ad if you still want to root the device follow this guide here...
[Guide] (8-18-11) G1 How-to: Root, Un-Root & Everything in-between
you can do this whole guide pretty quick, and you only need to use your wife's sim card for 1 second... just to sign into google once you get to 1.5.. than you can give it back to her and do everything via wifi, let me know if you need some more help..
Done, finally! This might have been super simple for any of you to do, it took me a total of about 8 hrs to get where I am, which is successfully running cm5.0.8.
This process was made more difficult by not having an activated sim card, and not being connected to wi-fi to even set up google.
Using adb I found a way to bypass the google setup when you have an "expired" Tmobile sim card inserted, but to use adb I needed usb debugging enabled, and I finally figured that out.
Now to hopefully make this long story shorter, I am now flashing whatever rom I wish to run on a phone in which Tmobile said was not fixable.
The phone is, in fact, way better than any stock g1 could be.
The current rom runs great on it, (I aslo run cm7 on my Tbolt), and all market apps download and run correctly, to the contrary of what the Tmobile reps said.
Well, I guess I'm done. If nothing else, I said I could do it, and I did it.
Now maybe a little respect from my wife.
Well, the TMobile rep succeeded where it matters to their manager, they sold your wife a new phone!
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tronmech said:
Well, the TMobile rep succeeded where it matters to their manager, they sold your wife a new phone!
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Good one for them bad for you!!!
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Ok if you are reading this thanks.
Anyway...
I just got the ZTE Z222 AT&T GoPhone and i wanted to put a PIN on it. I didn't know there already was a PIN on the phone so I wanted to put a new one. I tried and tried and it didnt work. Now i need to "unblock" my sim.( It says" SIM CARD BLOCKED" underneath an animation of a SIM card and i if i press any button i go to a screen where i have to" Enter Network Unlock Code(16 digits) Remaining :3"(again all of this is on the screen) what do I do PLEASE I AM BEGGING WITH ALL OF MY STRENGTH TELL ME WHAT TO DO.(AT&T DOESN'T HAVE A PAGE ON THIS)PLEASEPLEASE I dont have a camera so sorry no pictures.
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Ok if you are reading this thanks.
Anyway...
I just got the ZTE Z222 AT&T GoPhone and i wanted to put a PIN on it. I didn't know there already was a PIN on the phone so I wanted to put a new one. I tried and tried and it didnt work. Now i need to "unblock" my sim.( It says" SIM CARD BLOCKED" underneath an animation of a SIM card and i if i press any button i go to a screen where i have to" Enter Network Unlock Code(16 digits) Remaining :3"(again all of this is on the screen) what do I do PLEASE I AM BEGGING WITH ALL OF MY STRENGTH TELL ME WHAT TO DO.(AT&T DOESN'T HAVE A PAGE ON THIS)PLEASEPLEASE I dont have a camera so sorry no pictures.
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Looks like your Rom is messed up. Make a Backup of your contacts and flash the stock rom.
Then your phone should normally run again.