SIM card not detected. - Essential Phone Questions & Answers

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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Lost data signal since last night

I woke up this morning and had no phone service....so i restarted my nexus and my phone service came back but with no data connection....anyone else have this problem?
fordstang99 said:
I woke up this morning and had no phone service....so i restarted my nexus and my phone service came back but with no data connection....anyone else have this problem?
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Carrier? Have you checked if they have problems?
Tried your SIM in a different phone?
Tmobile is the carrier..now i lost my signal all together....I dont have another phone to try my sim out on
ok...so both data and service came back for about 30 seconds...i got two white arrows going around in a circle like it was updating something then i lost all connections again and says emergency calls only
any ideas?
ok...i have this weird folder on my sd card named .android_secure...dunno where it came from looks new to me
data signal lost here
Hey, I'm having the same problem here, no weird folder in my sd card though. Went to bed last night everything was fine, woke up and my apn list was wiped.... I reset everything in the apn and still no data connection but I have service. I'm running the latest Cyanogen mod stable for nexus, almost seems like an update was attempted last night and since i"M not stock things went crazy....
Call t mobile and see if there is a data outtage.
I had no signal for like three hours last week.
tmobile uk? mines down too. manchester area.
sim cards do go bad.... i had this happen last year... maybe go to tmobile and see if you can get another if there are no reported outages.. the probably wont even charge you if you go to a corporate store
so i called tmobile and they said they knew what it was...had to turn my phone off for two minutes and still waiting to see if it worked..but i dont know why the sync or update arrows were showing up on my notification bar. sure hope it was Froyo passing me by
fordstang99 said:
so i called tmobile and they said they knew what it was...had to turn my phone off for two minutes and still waiting to see if it worked..but i dont know why the sync or update arrows were showing up on my notification bar. sure hope it was Froyo passing me by
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where are you, uk or usa?
I've had something similar happen to me as well. This was a few weeks ago. I live in Chicago, and use T-Mobile for what it's worth. I ended up pulling the battery for a bit and rebooting. I got the data connection back.
Sometimes though, the data connection will seem to hang a bit and I'll see the flashing arrows and sync icon as well. It seems random, but the last time it happened to me was yesterday.
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It must have been a localized black out here in Washington State (US) because my data connection came back on just now after 3 hours of being shut off. For awhile there I only had edge and no 3g and without me doing anything 3G and H have connected back on.
Well that's good. The optimist in me says that the outages and weird issues are related to the upgrade of HSPA+ for us Let's hope it's true.
I had the same problem in WA. Data has also been restored here.

SIM Unavailable or Damaged?

I just installed WM7 (XBMod) yesterday, so far its awesome.
Yesterday while my phone was sitting idle it decided to stop reading my TMO US Sim card. Was giving error SIM Unavailable or Damaged while sending SMS. A reboot of the device fixed it but I was wondering if anyone else has had this and how often?
I've never faced such a problem nor read about it here on xda.
Probably something minor, don't worry and enjoy WP7
It happened to me a couple of time last weekend. I fixed it by turning flight mode on and off. I have no idea what was causing it.
Happened to me again yesterday, not sure when it broke but buddy of mine sent me a sms at around 5pm and I didn't realize it wasn't working until he asked why I didn't respond at around 7:45...
a reboot fixes it but unless you are looking at your phone there is no way to know it is not reading the sim.

Wont Activate

So I got my phone at 9:00 this morning and I have been patiently doing work until now. Now that I have some time i turned on the Note 3 for the first time and the activation fails. Anyone have any suggestions?
Make sure you have a sim card in it and call verizon or activate it online.
bluen25 said:
So I got my phone at 9:00 this morning and I have been patiently doing work until now. Now that I have some time i turned on the Note 3 for the first time and the activation fails. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Had to take it to the store since I was coming from a 3g phone.
Mine would not activate either.
Pulled out the sim that cam with it and replaced it with the sim from my note 2 and it was fine after that.

Did you know your sim card could go bad?

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.

Won't detect OTA update (ATT)

My S10+ will not detect the day one OTA update. I check every day and it says software up to date even thought its still on G975USQU1ASAT. AT&T says to contact Samsung and Samsung says to contact AT&T. Anyone else had this problem or have any idea how to fix it? I've already tried factory reset, clearing cache and data on the updater apps with no luck.
Do you need to be connected to WiFi or have a certain battery level? Try charging to 100% and connecting to WiFi then manually search for the update.
What I had to do is go into the date and time and shut off auto time update and manually set it 2 days a head then mine found the update.
loffer said:
My S10+ will not detect the day one OTA update. I check every day and it says software up to date even thought its still on G975USQU1ASAT. AT&T says to contact Samsung and Samsung says to contact AT&T. Anyone else had this problem or have any idea how to fix it? I've already tried factory reset, clearing cache and data on the updater apps with no luck.
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Two options:
1) Borrow someone else's sim or ask At&t for another
2) Download the S10+ OTA and update via SD
Did you put the sim that came with it in? I used my old sim and had the same problem till I changed the sim card.
Sorry for the late response and thanks for the suggestions. Just returned from vacation so I will try the suggestions. Also yes I used the sim they sent me. I suspect something got messed up in the sim provisioning as I came in as a new line then ported my number in. I will try putting my wife's sim in and report back. Thanks again!
Mine wouldn't detect an update. I'm only using mine on wifi as this one is just a spare phone for now.
To get the update though I needed to put in my att dim and put the date a week in the future. That's the only way I was able to actually get it to check the server.
I'm having the same exact problem. I purchased my S10+ directly from Samsung, but it was the AT&T model. I've been stuck on the ASAT baseband with the Feb 1 Security patch since day 1. I've been on the phone/chat with AT&T for the last 3 days. Each time they've promised that they have pushed the update to my phone, and every time I check, I get the "Software is up to date" message. I just tried setting the date to next week, restarted, and checked for the update..still nothing.
The same thing happened to me with my Note 8, but I was able to get around it using ODIN. I've told AT&T that I'm not paying my bill until this is resolved (like that's gonna do anything). Anyway, I'm at the breaking point on this, and not getting anywhere fast.

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