Did you know your sim card could go bad? - Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Just posting hoping I can help someone out.
I have a Nexus 6P on Verizon. Starting last night I had a flood of text messages come in at 3AM, when I woke up and investigated, I found these text messages were sent earlier in the evening and they were coming in late. I was getting text messages hours later. A little later my LTE stopped working completely, I could only connect to 3G no matter what I did (restart, airplane mode, reset network connections). I was about to do a complete restore but decided to try my wife's sim card (AT&T) and what do you know, LTE connected just fine.
I go to the Verizon store and get a new sim, LTE connected right up. Very odd, I never knew sim cards could work partially I though they either work or don't work at all.

This happened to me on my old m8 way back. It can happen with sim cards from time to time.

toknitup420 said:
This happened to me on my old m8 way back. It can happen with sim cards from time to time.
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Oddly enough, my phone before the N6P was the M8, in fact it's the same SIM card I was using from my M8.

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G1 Connection Issues

Recently I have been having this problem where my phone will have connection to the network for about 3 hours max then it will loose service completly. Then if i try and switch to 2g only it doesnt do anything but stay without connection then i will restart the phone and it will give me the no SIM card notification and even if i try and select the network manually it will say SIM card not registered on network anyone having these same issues.
I am running JF1.5ADP with lucids apps to sd
PS I have switched sim cards 5 times and a number change and even a ban number change any suggestions before i junk this thing and get an iphone.
c_low29 said:
Recently I have been having this problem where my phone will have connection to the network for about 3 hours max then it will loose service completly. Then if i try and switch to 2g only it doesnt do anything but stay without connection then i will restart the phone and it will give me the no SIM card notification and even if i try and select the network manually it will say SIM card not registered on network anyone having these same issues.
I am running JF1.5ADP with lucids apps to sd
PS I have switched sim cards 5 times and a number change and even a ban number change any suggestions before i junk this thing and get an iphone.
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After that, nope. Go.
I had this happen to me once. I rebooted a few times, and Reseated the SIM card and that seemed to fix it( Although, i don't think that is what actually remedied the problem). That happened about a week ago, and i haven't had any problems since.
Running JF1.5ADP Also.
Oh, And c_low: Don't come into an Android Forum and start talking about getting an *phone. I don't think it'll get you any non flame replies.
PurpleCowMan said:
I had this happen to me once. I rebooted a few times, and Reseated the SIM card and that seemed to fix it( Although, i don't think that is what actually remedied the problem). That happened about a week ago, and i haven't had any problems since.
Running JF1.5ADP Also.
Oh, And c_low: Don't come into an Android Forum and start talking about getting an *phone. I don't think it'll get you any non flame replies.
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its nothing against the phone i love the phone 6 replacement phones and 5 sim cards im sure that shows that i love this fun enough but it gets to a point that i cant handle it anymore.
I just flashed JF1.51US it seems to get better reception for some reason and no droped calls yet i guess we will see
breaultm said:
After that, nope. Go.
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thats real helpful im sure your a valued member of this forum lmao(tool)

[Q] Mobile data not working

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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kingsley404 said:
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?
NotDavid said:
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.

Weirdest Issue regarding SIM card i've ever experienced, help please!

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!

6P stopped receiving network service with AT&T

I've tried everything to get my phone to get network working again. I've re-flashed old and newer images, got a new sim, messed with the APN settings and I just can't get it to work since yesterday.
When it started, my phone was sitting on charge. It was working just fine before I had put it down for 30 minutes. Upon checking for any messages I saw it wasn't getting any service so I restarted the device and was greeted with the 7.1.2 july update installer. Waited for it to finish and once fully back onto the home screen for a few minutes service still never came back. Turned it off and on a few times and turned airplane mode on and off few times still never came back. Turned it off for the night till today when I started playing with it more, factory reset, flashed 6.0, 7.1.2 june, 7.1.2 july, O beta 3 and none of it was getting the network to work.
Went and got a new sim, guy at the store also tried a floor sim and none of them were working but both my old and new sim do work just fine in a backup phone. The 6P reads there is a sim in and it knows its AT&T, but it won't pick up signal at all.
Any help with this? There really isn't much on this topic, but I do see a sim card no installed issue which my phone knows there is a sim card in it.
that happened to a nexus 6p i bought from a guy off craigslist. at first it worked with tmobile and metro pcs then after a few weeks it stopped working but i had switched to cricket anyway and it worked on cricket but not on tmobile or metro, so then i checked imei and it was black listed,.... being that it was a BYOD it wasnt bound to any network so i was like why would it be blacklisted... didnt make sense but i stayed with cricket and to this day it works..
i42o said:
that happened to a nexus 6p i bought from a guy off craigslist. at first it worked with tmobile and metro pcs then after a few weeks it stopped working but i had switched to cricket anyway and it worked on cricket but not on tmobile or metro, so then i checked imei and it was black listed,.... being that it was a BYOD it wasnt bound to any network so i was like why would it be blacklisted... didnt make sense but i stayed with cricket and to this day it works..
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I just checked to see if it was blacklisted and its good. Google & Huawei won't service it due to it being out of warranty so rn its pretty much a dead phone for me. Is there is any tests I can run to see if the network radios are working or even turned on?
I had this exact same problem a few months ago with my other 6P. Thankfully it was right before my warranty ran out so i was able to get a replacement, but as far as I know, there isn't much you can do with it network wise.
@MadBullBunny could it maybe be the antenna inside? If you've tried other carrier Sims and flashed different radios what else I wonder. Since it's not working maybe worth a peak if your comfortable opening her up.
Exodusche said:
@MadBullBunny could it maybe be the antenna inside? If you've tried other carrier Sims and flashed different radios what else I wonder. Since it's not working maybe worth a peak if your comfortable opening her up.
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I really didn't want to go that far and I rather just dump it on craigslist for $250 if its just an issue with at&t. is there some sort of test to see if the antennas are working?
have you try resetting your network settings? this has happen to me right after a update and resetting the network settings fixed it for me. i'm on project fi.
boxcar8028 said:
have you try resetting your network settings? this has happen to me right after a update and resetting the network settings fixed it for me. i'm on project fi.
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Dude... Not trying to be rude, but really?
Anyway I've been waiting for a response back from google. Huawei pretty much told me tough luck since I didn't have warranty left on it. Told google that I was pretty much shoved out by them and argued that a phone not even 2 years old can't get serviced by a multi billion dollar company is pretty embarrassing. Supposedly its being routed up but I was told that a couple days ago when it was going to take 24-48 hours to get back. Right now I'm trying last ditch effort to drain the battery completely and stick it in some rice to possibly suck any possible moisture out that maybe my butt sweat caused. If this doesn't work I'm going to go to other service's stores and ask to try their sims in the phone out.
Fun tip: My phone is been running in boot mode for almost an hour after it turning off from android os for battery being dead. I've been doing random stuff in boot mode trying to make it die completely and it doesn't want too.
So being back and fourth with google for almost a week I was pretty much told tough luck buddy. It fathoms me that a company who created the android OS doesn't even have a service center or require its manufacturers to provide a service center for phones that aren't even more than 2 years old.
My nexus 6p is posted on craigslist and I've bought myself a s8+. so word of warning to you all who buy any google product or from them, just don't. If you have any issues you'll just get a run around. I've had to tell my issue to google at least 20 times and they still didn't care and kept trying to push me to hauwei when neither of them wanted to help.

SIM card not detected.

I activated my wife's phone this past Saturday morning. She didn't really use it over the weekend. She called me during the day on Monday fine. But came home Monday night saying she had no signal. The phone was showing "no SIM" in the notification bar. So I removed and reinserted the SIM and it fixed it.
Has anyone else experienced this? If so, does it keep reoccurring?
Mine has been working fine since I activated it last Thursday.
Euclid's Brother said:
I activated my wife's phone this past Saturday morning. She didn't really use it over the weekend. She called me during the day on Monday fine. But came home Monday night saying she had no signal. The phone was showing "no SIM" in the notification bar. So I removed and reinserted the SIM and it fixed it.
Has anyone else experienced this? If so, does it keep reoccurring?
Mine has been working fine since I activated it last Thursday.
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I've seen this on mine and different phones before. I wouldn't be too worried unless it happens again.
I had the same issue, and popping out the SIM and reinserting it fixed it. I had been been swapping SIM cards trying to get system updates prior to this being an issue.
Euclid's Brother said:
I activated my wife's phone this past Saturday morning. She didn't really use it over the weekend. She called me during the day on Monday fine. But came home Monday night saying she had no signal. The phone was showing "no SIM" in the notification bar. So I removed and reinserted the SIM and it fixed it.
Has anyone else experienced this? If so, does it keep reoccurring?
Mine has been working fine since I activated it last Thursday.
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Who's your carrier? Sprint? Then you need to update your profile settings while it's still working.
Caltinpla said:
Who's your carrier? Sprint? Then you need to update your profile settings while it's still working.
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Yes, Sprint. I had to do the Update Profile to get it activated on Saturday.
I have the unlocked Black version (on Att) of this phone. Last week 3 times I got the Sim card not detected and twice a reboot fixed it the 3rd time I had to remove the Sim card and reinstall for it to be recognized. So far the only real issuem I have had with it. Hopefully it doesn't continue.

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