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really annoying simcard fail

Heya,
I bought a 2th hand MDA pro in working order. I used it for a day or 2 when a problem appeared in the form of a Missing simcard message, out of nothing. I took the simcard out cleaned it and put it back in and it worked again, a few hours later the same error showed I cleaned the sim again booted up the phone and error was still there this went on for 4 times before I got it working again.
I started to search forums about this problem en stumbled upon a few suggesting that the sim holder was flacky and a piece of paper between the battery and card would work.
I did this and on first it looked like it was fixed because it ran for a day before it got back.
By now I changed the simcard -no success- I flashed the phone with 4 different roms including the original one - no success-
I'm running out of ideas with this does anyone had the same problem or are there any suggestions of what it might be?
Please help!

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tjikko said:
Heya,
I bought a 2th hand MDA pro in working order. I used it for a day or 2 when a problem appeared in the form of a Missing simcard message, out of nothing. I took the simcard out cleaned it and put it back in and it worked again, a few hours later the same error showed I cleaned the sim again booted up the phone and error was still there this went on for 4 times before I got it working again.
I started to search forums about this problem en stumbled upon a few suggesting that the sim holder was flacky and a piece of paper between the battery and card would work.
I did this and on first it looked like it was fixed because it ran for a day before it got back.
By now I changed the simcard -no success- I flashed the phone with 4 different roms including the original one - no success-
I'm running out of ideas with this does anyone had the same problem or are there any suggestions of what it might be?
Please help!
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I have had this error before, but usually as a result of a build incompatability. I would suggest you try 2 things. re flash the radio to a different version 1.15 or 1.18 & try using Tomal's 8.2 ROM. Also try a SIM card (borrow one from a friend)from another service provider.

SIM CARD Missing
Gewin you wirte that " I have had this error before, but usually as a result of a build incompatability. I would suggest you try 2 things. re flash the radio to a different version 1.15 or 1.18 & try using Tomal's 8.2 ROM. Also try a SIM card (borrow one from a friend)from another service provider."
You suggest that but will it hepl?
I have the radio 1.18 and TOmala's rom 8,7 and 8.5 and 8.2.
Sim card is still missing.?
Have You another good proposition.?
THank for reply.
Utoll

I know this is a really annoying problem, I had it with my Nokia E61 before (and still). After a week of sim registration failures, I decided to switch to another phone, (universal). I didn't got any solutions really, one is force the phone into gsm only, and uncheck confirm smscheck if possible.
Pieter

[Q] HTC HD2 can't send SMS or call a number

Hello,
I live in The Netherlands, and my mobile operator is Tele2. I installed Android 2.3.7 on my HTC HD2, with Radio Leo_RADIO_2.15.50.14.
But I can't send an SMS, or call a number, becasuse the network is not available. The network is also not available on Windows Mobile 6.5.
Which Radio ROM does work the best with Tele2 (The Netherlands). Or is there another solution for this problem?

Is HD2 network locked or have hardware issue ?
I would do clean install of generic WM6.5 from links in the HD2 Wiki .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/HTC_HD2#Official_ROMs_.26_Radios
If get it working on that then move to another platform.

I flashed some Radio ROMS, but they all don't solve the problem. I already flashed the stock Windows Mobile 6.5 OS, and also that doesn't work.

Borrow a sim from someone and see if it works

I tried it with my own Tele2 SIM card, and with a Vodafone SIM card, both don't work.

Did you recently buy the phone?
Or is it your old phone which worked and when you tried android it stopped working?

I recently purchased the phone from someone. He said it was working. When I got the phone, I flashed a new Radio ROM and Windows Phone 7, and did not check if my SIM card was working with Windows Mobile and the original Radio ROM. Now, I flashed Windows Mobile 6.5, but it is not working. Also Android doesn't work. I tried most of the Radio ROMS.

@Mister B will know more than I about this, but I think it is locked to a specific carrier, eg O2
Just to be sure, is it EU model (white call & end call buttons) or tmous model (green and red)?

The phone has white call & end call buttons, so it is the EU model. The previous owner did not know if it was locked to a specific carrier, because his SIM card just worked with the phone. How can I get to know if it is locked to a specific carrier?

I would have thought flashing hspl would have done it, and you have already done that to get wp7 on it previously.
Not sure

I flashed 2.08.HSPL on the phone with HSPL4, to get Windows Phone 7 and Android running.

I found this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28342560&highlight=carrier+locked#post28342560
in which Mister B mentions that the phone might be blocked due to an unpaid bill or stolen. Worth a read for you possibly.
Where did you get it from?

I don't think that's the case. I thought the problem was the Radio ROM, maybe I need to get a Radio ROM which works with Tele2 (Carrier)? If yes, I don't know which ROM.
I got the phone from a Dutch site where you can buy and sell things. And the previous owner used the phone with Vodafone.

Does the device actually know a sim is inserted or does it always show as no sim present ?
Showing as no sim present would be good indication of hardware problem.
If sim locked or blocked IMEI it will show sim present.
As such any of the main HD2 radios will be fine with your network & would allow full radio function if all else good.
I always fault find on original HD2 WM6.5 or a trusted WM6.5.x custom rom.
Dead sim reading is not that uncommon & can be mainboard issue or even the sim holder so worth looking at sim holder a little.
Most of the used HD2's sold online are faulty mainly due to amateur repairs so good chance that the case here.

There is a SIM inserted, because I need to enter a PIN code for the SIM. But I when I try to send an SMS, it says the network is not available. I get that message with Windows Mobile and with Android.

Does your sim work on another phone?

Yes, the SIM works on another phone.

I would say then it either network sim locked or IMEI blocked or radio hardware issue on mainboard.
Worth gong into phone settings & checking radio bands & try manual connection to varying networks.
Ideally want try all this on generic WM6.5 & reflash radio after rom flash (try radio n my signature)
You could also try an unlock by cable at local shop !
After that you stuck really ...

Sim card not recognized on any aosp rom

After a long while I'm back on the G2 and things have changed MUCH since I owned it (and KitKat was new) so I've done a LOT of reading a figured out how it all works now with the diff bootloaders, etc. Anyways... maybe I missed sometihng somewhere but. on ANY ROM other than STOCK (LP) I can't get a data signal. On CM it was flashing a signal with the (non-conneced) exclamation point) and NO SIM inserted and on everything else (PA, Ressurection Remix, crDroid, etc) my SIM is not recognized. It works FINE on stock. What am I missing? If I'm supposed to flash a certain radio or what? I can't even manually set an APN because it thinks my SIM isn't inserted. My last resort is to try a new SIM - (I'm using a nano with an adapter) - I just don't see how it's the SIM since it WORKS on stock.
Hopefully somoene sees this (even though this device is 2 years old and no one in our community here probably has it anymore...) and can render some much needed advice.

Did you try MIUI ROM?

[N9005] RessurectionRemix doesn't detect SIM card

Hi,
when I got my Note 3, I immediately installed Cyanogenmod and from then I only swapped between custom ROMs.
I never actually made a backup of the stock system. (Yes, I was reckless.)
I also never made a backup of any custom ROM before that (Yes, I was really reckless.)
I recently switched from the unofficial Ressurection Remix (from now just called RR) 5.8.2 to the official RR 5.8.4 and since then my SIM card is not detected anymore.
For the setup, I first followed the guide on the thread itself.
Then I paniced and looked up stock firmware for my device, but since they all had more specific names like N9005XXUBMH1 (my phone only says N9005 under the battery), I couldn't identify which one was the correct one and just downloaded a whole bunch and flashed them until one of them worked.
The stock firmware I flashed actually had a working SIM, but was also using power like crazy. I went from 1.5 days to half a day. The stock OS is also horribly bloated in my opinion.
So I looked through the forum and found the Rock Stable Setup, I followed it and got the same result.
I made plenty of nandroid backups with TWRP and restored that every time I started the phone and saw that the SIM wasn't found.
I am currently running RR 5.8.4 and a seperate phone for being reachable, but I would really like reduce that to one phone again.
When I dial *#06# in RR, I just see a windows with IMEI as title but no content. (It shows one in the stock ROM)
Things I have already tried:
Solution Lineage OS No Sim
UpdatePackage by -ION-
If you need any more information, I'd be happy to provide them!
I just really want to use my phone to it's fullest capability again.
Thanks to all replies in advance
Simon

Just search the forum
Sim card not detected

JJEgan said:
Just search the forum
Sim card not detected
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I know that there are a lot of threads regarding this issue, but most of them are different phones (not N9005) or different conditions.
The ones that I did find that match my conditions roughly are already listed in the first post.
Therefore I belive that my case is different from those threads.
If you find one that I messed, please refer me.

RR rom
Answer You are using an Old Modem .
https://forum.xda-developers.com/search/thread/3630301?query=sim card not detected
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=x...x-b&gfe_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=gTpXWv6_NYv98wf9h5-ICg

I only now read about 'getting the firmware to stick'.
I had to flash it three times until both the bootloader and modem versions changed.
Now I have a differen problem:
I can't call or send SMS.
Mobile data works and receiving calls and SMS works flawlessly, even though it sometimes loses contact with the tower.
Anything that cam up in search had either everything not working or solved it in a way that didn't work for me.
I tried rebooting, putting it in a different phone (SIM works there just fine) and putting it back...

Same here... my SIM card is not detected.
I can´t find a way to make it connect to my mobile provider...
It shows no EMEI in "Phone info" app, I asked for help in a RR thread...
If you make it work, please, reply here.
EDIT: Nevermind, this worked https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=72986417&postcount=4141

SIM card not detected for i9505

I would like to resurrect my old i9505 with Lineage but ran into an issue. I flashed TWRP (Odin) and then installed Lineage after formatting. The phone seems to be working fine except that it does not detect the sim card when I put one in. Unfortunately, I did not try the sim before flashing nor did I make a backup, so I am not sure if it was working on the original stock build, however, it was working a year or so ago when I last used it with the original stock (Android 5.1) build. Here are the symptoms:
Grey card with line through in OS
No changes at all when SIM is Inserted
Preferred Network just shows "Invalid Network Mode (-1) Ignore
IMEI is showing correctly
Here is what I have tried so far:
Replaced the SIM tray with new hardware
Reverted back to latest Stock (SIM not showing under stock)
Tried both Lineage 14 and 13 versions
Have tried flashing 3-4 different recent versions of the bootloader and modem files:
Have tried messing with the *#*#4636#*#* settings
Have re-installed TWRP, Lineage, Stock several times
Here is the current setup:
OS: Lineage 14.1 (latest version for I9505)
Baseband: I9505XXUHPA1
Anyone have any additional suggestions or any way to determine if this is hardware or software issue? I assume this can't be a carrier (locked) issue since it is not detecting the card at all.

If stock also does this then it heavily suggests a hardware issue.
How many sims have you tried with the same results?

Have you tested if microSD is working?

AWK77 said:
I would like to resurrect my old i9505 with Lineage but ran into an issue. I flashed TWRP (Odin) and then installed Lineage after formatting. The phone seems to be working fine except that it does not detect the sim card when I put one in. Unfortunately, I did not try the sim before flashing nor did I make a backup, so I am not sure if it was working on the original stock build, however, it was working a year or so ago when I last used it with the original stock (Android 5.1) build. Here are the symptoms:
Grey card with line through in OS
No changes at all when SIM is Inserted
Preferred Network just shows "Invalid Network Mode (-1) Ignore
IMEI is showing correctly
Here is what I have tried so far:
Replaced the SIM tray with new hardware
Reverted back to latest Stock (SIM not showing under stock)
Tried both Lineage 14 and 13 versions
Have tried flashing 3-4 different recent versions of the bootloader and modem files:
Have tried messing with the *#*#4636#*#* settings
Have re-installed TWRP, Lineage, Stock several times
Here is the current setup:
OS: Lineage 14.1 (latest version for I9505)
Baseband: I9505XXUHPA1
Anyone have any additional suggestions or any way to determine if this is hardware or software issue? I assume this can't be a carrier (locked) issue since it is not detecting the card at all.
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Your Carte Mére is bad , problème Hardware Like me

AWK77 said:
The phone seems to be working fine except that it does not detect the sim card when I put one in.
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This problem is almost certainly a hardware issue in that the SIM card tray has likely failed. The good news is that replacement trays should be relatively inexpensive on Amazon, and from personal experience easy to replace. Just make sure to re-use the foam pad that sits on top of the connector on the original tray, as the phone's back presses down on that pad, preventing the connector from moving while in use.

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
This problem is almost certainly a hardware issue in that the SIM card tray has likely failed. The good news is that replacement trays should be relatively inexpensive on Amazon, and from personal experience easy to replace. Just make sure to re-use the foam pad that sits on top of the connector on the original tray, as the phone's back presses down on that pad, preventing the connector from moving while in use.
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He stated he had already replaced the sim tray.

Buff99 said:
If stock also does this then it heavily suggests a hardware issue.
How many sims have you tried with the same results?
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AoEKiller said:
Have you tested if microSD is working?
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I have only tried the single SIM which is working in several other phones, but I will try different SIM today. Good suggestion. Maybe the carrier chip is not lining up right or something. I will let you know if it works.
The micro SD slot is working fine.

Buff99 said:
He stated he had already replaced the sim tray.
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I didn't see that in his post.