Hi all,
I have an Iconia A501 which was sent me from the customer service in exchange of another one with bad pixels. Yesterday, for the first time, I put my simcard in the slot, then I got the usual message "Simcard inserted or removed, the tablet will restart". Then it restarts itself, but I still get "Insert a SIM Card", just like it wasn't there. So, basically, the tablet can recognize when I insert or remove the sim card but then it's not used. I'm in Italy and, AFAIK, it shouldn't be SIM locked since the old tablet was working fine. I also tried with other sim cards, of various carriers, but nothing works. So, the question is: is the internal 3G modem dead? What can I do to investigate the issue? I tried with two roms, Taboonay 2.2 and Harkon 1.0, which both should support the internal modem.
Thanks for any clue.
cm0901 said:
Hi all,
I have an Iconia A501 which was sent me from the customer service in exchange of another one with bad pixels. Yesterday, for the first time, I put my simcard in the slot, then I got the usual message "Simcard inserted or removed, the tablet will restart". Then it restarts itself, but I still get "Insert a SIM Card", just like it wasn't there. So, basically, the tablet can recognize when I insert or remove the sim card but then it's not used. I'm in Italy and, AFAIK, it shouldn't be SIM locked since the old tablet was working fine. I also tried with other sim cards, of various carriers, but nothing works. So, the question is: is the internal 3G modem dead? What can I do to investigate the issue? I tried with two roms, Taboonay 2.2 and Harkon 1.0, which both should support the internal modem.
Thanks for any clue.
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Check your build.prop file,and make sure it has a # in front of ro.carrier=wifi-only.Should be at the end of the file.
Or, you can just check to see that you have the wireless 3g menus in the settings.
Make sure the sim is oriented correctly in the slot. there is a very tiny image to show how (unfortunatly it took me 10 minutes to figgure this out)
Don't insert it with the tab on. Might explain the reboot. Never tried it, just a guess. Might even cook the sim, one never knows.
Go back to recovery, do your 3 mandatory wipes, and try Harkon rom. It's a 501 specific.
I get the message every once in awhile but usually a reboot fixes it.
You may just need to reverse your steps, remove with tab on. Shut down. Reboot. Shut down and insert sim, then boot it up.
Moscow Desire said:
Check your build.prop file,and make sure it has a # in front of ro.carrier=wifi-only.Should be at the end of the file.
Or, you can just check to see that you have the wireless 3g menus in the settings.
Make sure the sim is oriented correctly in the slot. there is a very tiny image to show how (unfortunatly it took me 10 minutes to figgure this out)
Don't insert it with the tab on. Might explain the reboot. Never tried it, just a guess. Might even cook the sim, one never knows.
Go back to recovery, do your 3 mandatory wipes, and try Harkon rom. It's a 501 specific.
I get the message every once in awhile but usually a reboot fixes it.
You may just need to reverse your steps, remove with tab on. Shut down. Reboot. Shut down and insert sim, then boot it up.
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With the old tablet I didn't need to shut it down before inserting the sim... so i can't se why it should be needed now everything rom related doesn't help too, I even de-rooted, even list CWM, and yet it doesn't work.
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If you read the instruction manual it actually says to insert the sim/ sd card while the Tab is OFF - DON'T INSERT WHILE POWER IS ON...
Now I know its fun to try things out, however, when it comes to things of this nature I tend to follow the instructions...
Why not give it a try and see if it works. Look at it this way, it couldn't hurt...
Ok... I turned off the Tablet then inserted the sim and turned it on again. Guess what? Nothing changes The sim is still not recognized. I called the tech support and the tablet is going away for repair/substitution tomorrow
I pulled the SIM card out last night on my Note 3 and then put it back in. After booting up , the phone showed a "No SIM Card" error. I have tried to re-seat the card and have rebooted many times and it still does not work. My old Note 2 is being used by my son so I put his SIM card in my phone and it works just fine so obviously its a bad SIM card at this point which I confirmed by putting it in the Note 2 and it said the "No SIM Card" error. At this point I just need to go to Version and get a new SIM card. The question I have is, do I need to wipe my phone and put it back to a stock Rom or will Verizon just give me a new SIM and ignore the fact that it rooted? This issue really isn't a warranty situation so I was hoping to not have to go through all of that.
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I pulled the SIM card out last night on my Note 3 and then put it back in. After booting up , the phone showed a "No SIM Card" error. I have tried to re-seat the card and have rebooted many times and it still does not work. My old Note 2 is being used by my son so I put his SIM card in my phone and it works just fine so obviously its a bad SIM card at this point which I confirmed by putting it in the Note 2 and it said the "No SIM Card" error. At this point I just need to go to Version and get a new SIM card. The question I have is, do I need to wipe my phone and put it back to a stock Rom or will Verizon just give me a new SIM and ignore the fact that it rooted? This issue really isn't a warranty situation so I was hoping to not have to go through all of that.
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Why not use your son's Note 2 (unless it's also rooted) and get a new SIM Card? It doesn't matter which phone the sim card is put in, as long as it is associated with a Verizon phone number. Then you can switch the card back. I don't know if Verizon keeps track of "rooted" phones by customers in case you try to reset your phone to original and then claim a warranty.
Just my $0.02.
Cheers,
B.D.
I went ahead and did a Nandroid backup and then reverted it to stock and will switch back after.
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I usually swap sim cards with my phones when i need to and never have a problem. One time it wouldn't read and i had to use a screen cleaning cloth to wipe it off and it worked again.
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Hi there I was on lollipop then I bought a 32gb SD card moved some apps to sd my phone wasnt rooted I done it from settings. It came up as no sim error and I had to restart it kept coming up every 3hrs. So I decided to Odin flash 4.4.2 still No sim. I get reception but it says emergency calls only.
I went to Safe Mode still dont work.
Used sim on another device works.
Put sim on S4 doesnt work.
PLEASE HELP I dont have warantee too.
Is there a way if I could maybe root it then hide message and still call and use data. I dont know just help me fix it guys
I've searched for 2 months trying to figure this out. Basically my sim card will not be read due to the hardware issue so it is the motherboard, now the problem is i cannot enable WiFi due to not having a sim card inside the phone...when i was on 4.4.4 it says Smart Network Switch and something about not being able to enable due to no sim.....well i tried a custom rom to see if it would remove that feature which it didnt so i went back to 4.4.2 and it doesnt have the smart network switch but it still doesnt allow WiFi to turn on....now the funny thing is before i had the Sim problem i had WiFi on and it stayed working after the sim stuff happened, I factory reset my phone when i was going to install a custom rom before evening knowing WiFi wouldnt work without a Sim so obviously to my surprise when i went to turn on WiFi it wouldnt work, seems like the S4 has a stupid feature imo that if you dont insert a Sim it wont allow WiFi to be turned on. Can anyone tell me if under root or something i can get rid of that feature or some how turn on WiFi in the files or root section of the phone?
nickwmcnamara said:
I've searched for 2 months trying to figure this out. Basically my sim card will not be read due to the hardware issue so it is the motherboard, now the problem is i cannot enable WiFi due to not having a sim card inside the phone...when i was on 4.4.4 it says Smart Network Switch and something about not being able to enable due to no sim.....well i tried a custom rom to see if it would remove that feature which it didnt so i went back to 4.4.2 and it doesnt have the smart network switch but it still doesnt allow WiFi to turn on....now the funny thing is before i had the Sim problem i had WiFi on and it stayed working after the sim stuff happened, I factory reset my phone when i was going to install a custom rom before evening knowing WiFi wouldnt work without a Sim so obviously to my surprise when i went to turn on WiFi it wouldnt work, seems like the S4 has a stupid feature imo that if you dont insert a Sim it wont allow WiFi to be turned on. Can anyone tell me if under root or something i can get rid of that feature or some how turn on WiFi in the files or root section of the phone?
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I have a similar problem. I have an AT&T S4 I337 that was used with Net10 Network and had the intermittent sim disconnecting problem but it was working well when ik worked. After I changed the Net10 sim to an AT&T non subscribed sim the Wifi, GPS and Bluetooth stopped working. I thoug hit was some firmware problem so I decided to Odin flash the NB1 Rootable Firmware but the problem persist ( can turn wifi and bluetooth on, and GPS turns on but cant get a location). I also tried the complete stock version of NB1 and also did not work. I constantly get a security Notice saying "Unauthorized actions have been detected. Restart your phone to undo any unauthorized changes". I restart but the problem persist. It seems to reboot into a Recovery booting and then restarts. The thin is that the Knox counter is still 0x0.
Did you resolve your problem? If not could some one help us PLEASE!!!!!!:crying:
Any one with that could help me identify the problem?
Hey, I've had my Moto X Pure (XT1575) for a bit over a year now, and it's been great up until I updated it to 7.0 a week ago. It has been saying "No SIM card" and I have been unable to do much with it. Rebooting the phone will fix the issue and cell service will work for for about 5 minutes, then it disconnects again. Taking the sim card out and putting it back in will also fix it for about 5 minutes. I have cleaned the sim card and port, but that has not helped. I have also tried factory resetting the phone but the issue is still there, even during setup. The phone is running stock android with a locked bootloader. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Replace the SIM card...
Check if another SIM card is working fine with the phone or not. If yes, then you need to follow what acejavelin has suggested above.