does anyone also experienced this to his s4? i dunno why but it happens several times in me
anyone??
I also get this problem but I usually find it settles down after several restarts. It will then be fine until I next need to restart it and will get the error again saying SIM card removed several minutes after restarting.
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my t-mobile Vario II crashed the other day as I was replying to a text message, nothing unusual there, wm5 has been known to crash once in a while.
so I soft reset it, and it reboots.
But now, after it's all finished loading, it would run for a few seconds, only to crash again.
I reset again, but the freezing up follows shortly.
Nothing I do stops this happening.
So in desperation I go for the Hard Reset.
Everything gets wiped and it reinstalls all the T-Mobile stuff.
But now I have no signal,
I take the SIM card out and put it in an old nokia, and that works fine, i receive two text messages which I think were due around the time of the first crash.
The texts are normal texts from friends, saying hello and stuff.
So it's not the SIM card, it must be something to do with the phone.
I've just tried the SIM card in the phone again, and i notice on the T-Mobile boot screen it says the usual stuff.
M 05 S 04 B 06 D1.21, but just before it blinks it says No GSM.
I searched the forums and, this seems to be a problem people can get when tryting to unlock or upgrade their phones rom.
Problem is, I've not tried to do either.
Any help would be greatfully appreciated.
Am I going to have to mess around with ROM upgrades, all of which scares me greatly.
Or should I just send the phone back to T-Mobile for repair.
quang.
I've just checked to see if i can read the contacts of the SIM card.
Tapping on SIM Manager doesn't work,
nothing happens.
Which leads me to believe that maybe the SIM reader on the phone is damaged in some way.
Hi there,
I have this strange problem with my HTC Elf. The problem existed with the original ROM (5.0) and after my upgrade to 6.5 as well.
It started once a Month, but now it's twice a day.
If i receive or make a call, receive or send a SMS the device just shuts down immediately. (like a hard reset).
The device then automatically starts up, i get the "Smart mobility" screen and then it starts over again. The boot cycle runs endless, until i remove the battery and start again. Sometimes i need to remove/replace the battery 3 or 4 times to get it booting up again. (Doing this booting drains a lot of battery power)
If i remove the SIM Card, everything works fine for hours and booting isn't a problem at all. So I believe accessing the SIM Card somehow craps the device out. The boot-cycle seems to happen in the last stage of booting, when the device first tries to access the SIM card. (That's something i have to suspect, cause there is no way to log the booting).
I don't believe that it's connected to the ROM Upgrade to 6.5 i did, as the problem happened in 5.0 as well... (btw. everything is much faster and more light-weight since the 6.5 upgrade. It's just great.)
Here are my questions:
- Is there something, I could log the boot process, to see what's the last action when it starts over again?
- Is there something like an event log in windows, where I see the last action or even failure / exception, before the device restarts while doing a call / writing an SMS?
- Did anyone see this happen before?
Thanks for any input!
Hi
Have you tried to change the Sim card or use another one just in case the sim is the problem?
Hi Tito,
I plan to swap SIM's next weekend. But i don't get how a SIM can crash the whole thing. I would understand getting errors like "Can't read SIM" but auto-resetting the whole device?
Anyhow, I'll post an update after trying another SIM. The whole thing is, that it's not reproducible by a specific action one could take. So if the device keeps up even for 2 days with a spare SIM - that doesn't mean the SIM's chip is the problem. Just an indication...
Thanks,
mc
Hi
Please do post the result
I had the same problem (endless reboot) on my Elf. I solved it by replacing the battery.
Hi,
well it's like always. If you need the problem, you cannot reproduce it.
The device wasn't crashing even once on the weekend.. Either with my own SIM or with another one.
The battery thing is interesting. As soon, as the problems start reoccurring, I've got now a spare SIM card to test. If this fails, I'm able to test with another battery in march.
I'll post any results.
thanks,
mc
I have the same problem...and also struggles to find a signal. Did you solve the problem yet?
same problem
I have the same problem and !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well, the thing is i upgraded to the HD2 and didn't use my elf pretty much lately.
I changed my provider and got a new SIM but that didn't solve the issue. So I can exclude the fault being in the ROM or the SIM card.
When the elf was crashing I couldn't start it up. It was booting, and as soon as it tried to register itself in the Network, it crashed again. However, when connecting it to a power source (charger or pc) and booting it up, it went fine through and was able to register in the network.
That brings me to the idea, the even if the battery is full at 100% it might have a flaw and doesn't bring enough energy, when the device is scanning for the available networks.
So next time, I'm in china, I'll get a new battery pack for my elf - however, it's no more that important as my HD2 is running pretty fine.
Hope it's something which can help you.
cheers,
mc
first of all: my reboot problem is kind of unique so the search didn't help.
problem: like the title of this thread says, my hd2 rebbots itself. i could not find out a specific pattern, it does this things (to me) completely at random: sometimes it goes 5-7 hours straight without rebooting but then three times in only one hour.
it first happend when i got a new sim card and therefore a new provider. i thought the sim card didn't work properly so i asked for a new one, but the problem still existed.
i changed ROMs and Radios, formatted the sd card, changed backed to stock rom, but without success.
BUT here are things that might help you help me:
1.) i DID NOT have the issue with the WP7 build (with android i DO have the issue)
2.) it only reboots itself when in standby, i have never seen it happening while i was using it
3.) the new provider uses the network from another provider, so it is always in roaming.
i really do appreciate all the help i can get!
please excuse me for my english
Same here
I've got the same problem, it does happen aswel in wp7 rom but it takes more time for some reason, I think it's a hardware problem, I seem to recall flasing back to the standard rom so the telehpone would be like out of the box but i got a restart after 40 minutes .. aswell in standby.
Sir Schwanzelot said:
first of all: my reboot problem is kind of unique so the search didn't help.
problem: like the title of this thread says, my hd2 rebbots itself. i could not find out a specific pattern, it does this things (to me) completely at random: sometimes it goes 5-7 hours straight without rebooting but then three times in only one hour.
it first happend when i got a new sim card and therefore a new provider. i thought the sim card didn't work properly so i asked for a new one, but the problem still existed.
i changed ROMs and Radios, formatted the sd card, changed backed to stock rom, but without success.
BUT here are things that might help you help me:
1.) i DID NOT have the issue with the WP7 build (with android i DO have the issue)
2.) it only reboots itself when in standby, i have never seen it happening while i was using it
3.) the new provider uses the network from another provider, so it is always in roaming.
i really do appreciate all the help i can get!
please excuse me for my english
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Was just trying to change the phone's card (was going to sell it) and suddenly it says it can't detect the SIM, although it did literally 20 minutes before. Anyone have any idea how to fix it? Already tried 2 different cards to no avail.
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Was just trying to change the phone's card (was going to sell it) and suddenly it says it can't detect the SIM, although it did literally 20 minutes before. Anyone have any idea how to fix it? Already tried 2 different cards to no avail.
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Flash ROM again. It worked on my phone
so my simcard on my phone suddenly doesn't work (it says invalid sim) after a while. it always work when I restarted the device. but it's kinda annoying to restart every period of time. I've tried suggestions from the net but nothing seems working. I've also tried switching sim on the same provider but the issue persist. do you guys have any suggestions?