So just recently my phone has been acting goofy. At random intervals my phone will pop up with no Sim card inserted. A quick roboot and I'm back up and running like nothing happened. Sometimes it does it every 10 mins and other times 6-7 hours before it happens...I live out in the boondocks and the closes att store is about an hour away. Do you think its my sim card or the Sim card holder.
I know the s4 is a repair friendly phone but I haven't the slightest idea on how to fix it. I'm rooted and running alpha ROM. I reverted to stock recently to see if that would help and no dice. One pic is Sim card missing the next is right after a reboot. It also happens when the phone is just sitting still. On the charger and off so I know its not bumping into anything.
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Have you removed the back panel and checked if it's mounted properly into the slot?
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Yea. It seems fine. The eject spring seems to work just fine aswell
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Don't mean to double post but I just noticed.....I haven't had any issues all day with it till I got to work on there WiFi...I work in a metal machine shop in a building made of tin. Would that cause problems. From about 9am to 9pm my Sim card was fine...I start work at 10pm and it just popped up with Sim card not inserted
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Im having this same issue but I live in the city and my signal is pretty descent most of the time except when im getting lte service I only get 2bars and no more. I have taken both my batt and sim out for a few mins b4 i put them back in to c if that helps and it doesnt. My phone still wont reconize my sim just like the op at crazy intervals. Plz any help would b appreciated. Do I need to get a new sim or is it my phone
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I think I'm having the same issue. It forces me to reboot and then it works for a while. Ive gotten a new sim and switched ROMs and still get it. I think it happens when the phone switches towers or loses signal, its usually fine when I stay put. No idea how to fix this, I've googled like crazy
Edit- now I'm getting it during the day constantly even while not moving. This issue is driving me insane
Yea. Its deff a major pain. I'm thinking its maybe the Sim card holder now that I'm not the only one with the issue. But I haven't the slightest idea on how to replace it
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My sim card holder has finally stopped recognizing my sim card altogether now. In the notification bar it says no sim and shows a sim card now on every boot
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Mine is still random....no matter what I do I can't get it to happen on demand to figure out the root cause.
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Mine was random then it completely stopped for whatever reason...I took it to metro and they couldn't figure it out after they put a different sim in so I took it to best buy to the samsung peps and they reflashed mf3 to my phone to c if that would fix it but all it did was remove root and my launcher and home screen and added all the crap ware back to the phone but luckily my lock screen let me use my apps to re root and re safestrap and rom this thing...im pretty sure its the sim card reader/holder thats messed up...the guy at samsung said to return the phone to samsung with the manufacturer warranty cause its something to do with the phone not what I did to it
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same problem on stock rom... sim card unmounts completely randomly
Ok so my problem got solved...i went to a authorized metro dealer and asked if they had a tester sim card just to check for myself if it was the card or card holder, and it was the card that was bad cause when she put the new one in all my data came right back like it never had a problem witch is crazy cause the corp. store did the same thing they said, but i never accually saw them swap it out but whatever, my phone is fully operational now and im glad that i didnt try to update to 4.3 yet to c if that woulda fixed the issue (dodged a bullet on that one) so yea, maybe yall might could try this fix if u havent yet and i hope it works for yall...it only costed $15 for the new sim card
Edit: ok so it only helped a little cause it started unrecognizing my sim at random again...but hey at least is finding it after I reboot again instead of not finding it at all
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Welp, another thread I have to bump. Any updates on a fix? Mine has been doing the exact same thing and usually only when I am connected to a wifi signal.
This only started recently and only after I started using wifi to chat through Watsapp.
Goliath27 said:
Welp, another thread I have to bump. Any updates on a fix? Mine has been doing the exact same thing and usually only when I am connected to a wifi signal.
This only started recently and only after I started using wifi to chat through Watsapp.
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I'm going to need to bump as well. I'm having the same issue and Iccan't find a fix. Tried 3 different att Sim card replacements and I even changed my tray too. To no avail not sure if its hardware or software and still happened after an Odin. I'm thinking I messed up an antenna or something.
Weird, I haven't had an error in 5 days now. And I didn't do anything differently
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I'm new to this whole world of GSM. I've been CDMA for 10 years+. So forgive me if this is common knowledge.
I have a N4 using a Straight Talk Tmobile Sim Card that was cut. This is the 3rd time this has happened in about 3 months. When suddenly my phone says no sim card.
Ths 1st time I flashed the louder add on app. Then to get it back working a restore didn't do it. I needed to flash a new kernel.
The 2nd time My phone was install tons of apps and then it rebooted, came up with no sim card. I flashed the update for my rom PA3 since I downloaded it anyways, and that fixed it.
This 3rd time my phone did not reboot, but I was in church had phone i silent, pulled it out pocket no sim installed. Before I do anything else just wondering is this something to expect? or do I have a bad phone, rom, sim or whatever else? And what's the best way of fixing it? Feels like im throwing jello and something is sticking.
Thanks!
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I've used a non activated sim card, and it does not even see that I just installed it.
Knether said:
I'm new to this whole world of GSM. I've been CDMA for 10 years+. So forgive me if this is common knowledge.
I have a N4 using a Straight Talk Tmobile Sim Card that was cut. This is the 3rd time this has happened in about 3 months. When suddenly my phone says no sim card.
Ths 1st time I flashed the louder add on app. Then to get it back working a restore didn't do it. I needed to flash a new kernel.
The 2nd time My phone was install tons of apps and then it rebooted, came up with no sim card. I flashed the update for my rom PA3 since I downloaded it anyways, and that fixed it.
This 3rd time my phone did not reboot, but I was in church had phone i silent, pulled it out pocket no sim installed. Before I do anything else just wondering is this something to expect? or do I have a bad phone, rom, sim or whatever else? And what's the best way of fixing it? Feels like im throwing jello and something is sticking.
Thanks!
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I've used a non activated sim card, and it does not even see that I just installed it.
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Use a real micro sim, not a cut sim.
There is no option for Tmobile and straight talk.
I dont think its the SIM anyways.
Because I installed a micro sim (not cut) into the phone and the phone does not see it neither.
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This seems to be a fairly common problem. I was wondering if anyone has a solution. My phone keeps dropping signal randomly and makes me restart to get it back. Usually it comes back in 1-2 restarts without anything changes to hardware (ie battery pull, sim pull, etc). Also, i have replaced both the sim card and the sim slot. And i have a piece of tape on my sim car to make it a little thicker.
I just upgraded my modem to mk2 and this seemed to help slow the drops but not stop them completely (have had 1 in 24 hrs). I already odined back to stock to no avail. Right now im on kitkat (gummy rom) with ktoonsez kernel and im about to change to kangakat.
Any help would be appreciated.
skullassfreak said:
Hello
This seems to be a fairly common problem. I was wondering if anyone has a solution. My phone keeps dropping signal randomly and makes me restart to get it back. Usually it comes back in 1-2 restarts without anything changes to hardware (ie battery pull, sim pull, etc). Also, i have replaced both the sim card and the sim slot. And i have a piece of tape on my sim car to make it a little thicker.
I just upgraded my modem to mk2 and this seemed to help slow the drops but not stop them completely (have had 1 in 24 hrs). I already odined back to stock to no avail. Right now im on kitkat (gummy rom) with ktoonsez kernel and im about to change to kangakat.
Any help would be appreciated.
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I had this happen with my SkyRocket, went to the AT&T Store and they replaced the SIM. Never happened again.
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I had this happen with my SkyRocket, went to the AT&T Store and they replaced the SIM. Never happened again.
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I had them replace my sim 2 times already. Watched them punch the card out in front of me.
I'm am so frustrated. Lol, I called verizon today and sat on the line waiting for what seemed like forever and after talking to someone I finally got transferred to "technical support." Well, lucky for me my home phone decided to die (about an hour after I pulled it off the charger to call them) and am now waiting to speak to another representative where I can once again be transferred to verizon's technical support. The reason I called them is because I get no mobile data. When I first got the phone it worked some of the time, but now I get nothing. Calls and texts come through fine, but after toggling mobile data, airplane mode, pulling the sim, restarting the phone, and numerous other things like clearing cache I still get nothing. The phone is stock and not rooted. The 4g lte logo shows at the top of the phone and everything, it even shows a little down arrow as if it's trying to get data, but nothing is coming through. Is there a good chance it's a bad sim or should I just go ahead and factory restore the device? I'll try putting the sim in my galaxy s3 and see if it works, but this sure has been a frustrating night.
Edit:I'm thinking it's the sim as mobile data does not work on my s3 either. I still have the sim from my galaxy s3, anyway I can set that up to work with my galaxy s5, or will some functionality be missing?
Just go into a vzw store and they will give you a new Sim card
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Just go into a vzw store and they will give you a new Sim card
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Hey, it might be a problem with the sim / a problem on Verizon's end. But did you Odin a stock rom recently?
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Hey, it might be a problem with the sim / a problem on Verizon's end. But did you Odin a stock rom recently?
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yeah, looks like a problem on verizon's in. I got a new sim card and it still quits working at random times.
Well I think I have tried just about everything, but I thought I'd check first to see if anyone else has ran into this and fixed it.
Yesterday my S5 just decided it didn't want to connect to the VZW network anymore. I was running Alliance ROM at the time, but I Odin'ed back to complete stock and it is still not connecting. Wifi, bluetooth, etc. all works fine though.
I took my SIM card out and put it in my wife's S4 and it connects fine so it's not my SIM. I tried reseating my SIM about 20 times and still no love.
Any thoughts?
I'm having a similar issue. Had my s5 for a week now and it keeps dropping data whenever it feels like. Then comes back on randomly I'm going to swap it out for another one. If the new one still bad I'm going back to my trusty s4 (need to replace digitizer)
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Hey xda techies and guru's, i need some major desperate help here...
This is going to be a long read, but its for the sake of understanding and what exactly is happening, I hope you read on and hopefully have an idea as to what's going on.
So i've been a Rogers customer for the past 7 years, i've been using the Galaxy S3 for 4 of those years using the same SIM card. Just recently, I decided to upgrade and purchased a Galaxy S5. I put my new sim card in the S5 and everything was working flawlessly for about 2 months and then one morning I was sending some texts out, and didn't receive any all day so i checked my texts and realized they did not send. I then tried to make a call and got a message stating "not registered on network". So being the troubleshooting/techy guy i think i am, i go to google and start trying every solution out there. I got so desperate at wanting to fix this issue i had eventually factory reset, and even stock rom flashed the phone...but nothing i tried or did seemed to fix this issue. I put my sim card back in my S3 and it seemed to work just fine, so I figured nothing was wrong with the sim card, it had to be the S5...so here i am out of solutions to try, i randomly grab my brothers sim card from his phone and put it in my S5, and to my surprise it worked! so i thought that maybe the sim card was actually at fault. so i go to my nearest rogers store and get a new sim card, low and behold it's fixed!!!
...a week later, my phone decides to repeat the same ordeal. "not registered on network", so i go back to rogers and get a new sim card again, seems like it fixed the issue once again. and then a week later, same thing happens yet again. at this point...my phone has a temporary fix, but is way to unreliable as i have no idea when this starts happening and can miss very important phone calls or texts. So now this happens again the other night, and i put the sim into my S3 for a couple hours, make some calls and then for the heck of it decide to try it in my S5 again, and it worked! but it worked for maybe 16 hours until repeating the same thing. so i pop it back into my S3 make some test calls, and put it back into my S5 and now it's working again...for how long, i have no idea...fact is it's unreliable and i hate always having to check my phone in paranoia that this may happen again.
what do you guys think is the problem here? Rogers is willing to help me get it serviced for free. but i feel like they won't find the issue with the time they are given with it...
desperate need of help/advice. thanks!