So I wake up 1 morning and find my htc desire is all messed up, after 5 months of use. Rebooting on its own constantly, and weirdly, not being able to find any network (im on orange UK). The phone couldnt even detect there was a simcard in it.
Did the usual - panic - forum search - lots of stories about htc desires rebooting on their own. Lots of stories about desires not being able to detect the simcard due to a lose simcard holder.
Turns out it was none of those things for me - as i put in a vodafone simcard from my work phone - and it was absolutely fine. No rebooting, no problems connecting to a network.
conclusion - the orange simcard had somehow corrupted itself during my sleep, and was attacking my phone.
can anyone explain this?
The Sim gods hate you ? You may have to go to sim city and give offerings........
Seriously,
A Likely candidate for the sim problem would be a mechanical problem. In other words, the cards' gold micro coating is worn causing some resistance and then after enough time either heat or some other data transfer problem manifests and you get a reboot. Try replacing the Sim card. Other options is Vodaphone had a bad batch of cards and you got one..... lucky you. And, of course the company would never willingly disclose they had a bad batch of cards.
There is some guesses you can start with.......... I would just replace the card they are 8.00usd here so it is a cheap fix.
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this phone is working without any problems and with every sim cards but yesterday phone shut down and now when i start the phone in display show sim failure only emergency calls but sim is inside and when i remove sim phone not start how can i solve this problem????
Hi there.... There are 2 possibilites here... The first is that your sim "went"... This is the least likely of the features, but it can happen (happened to me).. The more likely senerio is that your sim is just loose underneath. I used to have (Actually I still have it) a mpx200 as well.. It was a GREAT phone, except the sim housign was poorly designed and the sim cards dont; always hold a good contact. I suggest that you take out the sim card and reinster it.. The also fol a small piace of peper in 1/2 and place it over the sim card under the battery... that seemed to help a lot with my phone... Sometimes my card would do that in the middle of a call.. very irritating. Let me know if this helps!
i have had my e650 for about 4 months, 2 months waiting for a screen.
I come to my phone the other day. BTW: i havent had credit for about 12 months. So opens internet explorer and types in news and it searches bing. Hold on? i havent got any credit. so i tryed google, loaded ok. facebook same.
With no credit!
No i wasnt using wifi because i was in school.
So i have been using the free internet for 1 1/2 days.
Why the free internet?
flyboy
Now they have disconnected my number.
This is related yo tour SIM card and has nothing to do with your device. Simply the different systems that check if your SIM is still alive and control your balance seem not well aligned, you were just lucky - that's all.
Iam not lucky that they disconnected my number!
Do you expect to have free surfing forever? The operator needs to make money to have the technology maintained - so pay your share or use WIFI. WIFI in the device is a main reason for the S710.
Im not thick
I discovered it wont read sim cards now for some strange reason.
So i might take it apart and fix it if i can.
Accessing the SIM requires to completely disassemble the device. There is nothing which could break either in that area, so I doubt that it will help.
Cross check if the same SIM runs in other devices - and if so then try to clean the SIM slot with medical alcohol and some cardboard that fits the thickness. If you are careful you will not break or bend any contact.
What is the message that device tells you when you try to use the SIM card?
Well brief history:
I got given 3 voxes
man said fix 1, you can keep the other two.
Made a good one out the two
Kept it and it works.
So i know how to take it apart. And i have had probs with muck getting in the top part of phone before so its probly muck. As you say i will clean it will alcohol wipes and get back to you!
thanks
flyboy
btw: i just get the message when you dont have the sim card in.
and have tried in 02 XDA II and works fine.
I tryed cleaning the contacts but it still wont read sim cards.
Could it be something in the rom?
flyboy
If you have some spare parts from other devices, just swap the upper PBA to see if it is a HW fault. I doubt it is a ROM problem, but you can swap ROMs as well to check.
What is the error message?
Can it just not find a network?
Is the SIM tollkit available (an additional menu item that links to the SIM card)?
Did you mess around with SIM unlocking tools (they may ruin your encrypted area on the device that holds IMEI, CID, Serial SIMLock end so on)? The encrypted area is not touched by any ROM update.
The phone acts like there is no sim in. I have tryed cleaning the contacts but no luck. I might try and flash a new rom to it. But as spare parts go i will have to wait till my Uncle gets back from work because i give them to him for his e650.
flyboy
So ive swapped sim slot and mainboard and the phone still says "no sim or sim invalid. But it works on my xdaII. I just dont get it!
can anyone help?
flyboy
Well i have changed almost everything and the sim still wont work on a vox.
new sim should come soon.
flyboy
What's up guys, don't post much, so excuse if this is in wrong section or whatever. Just thought I'd post my solution for constant data dropping problem I was having. Where for one, I would only have a data connection for no more than 30 minutes before it would stop downloading/receiving any data. And then I'd have to turn mobile network off and then back on again. It also affected phones calls. Where once the data dropped and I tried to make a call it wouldn't connect at all. Nor could I receive calls without first turning off and back on mobile network, or airplane mode. In rare occasions it wouldn't even send texts. The worst part was that even when I had a data connection for whatever amount of time, I got 4g lte absolutely nowhere.
After extreme amounts of frustration, and 100's of reflashes, (not really) I came across a few forum post where users were experiencing the same issue. Some with root and some without. After further reading, some users posted that after contacting HTC, they recommended it be a sim card issue, as early micro Sims have shown to have some defects. And then that's what made me think. Sim card, maybe it's more simple than we think.
Thinking about how many times I dropped the fu*k out of my phone, I thought to grab my sim card removal tool and pop it out.
I noticed that with the sim card holder, the sim doesn't sit very snug in the slot, so given the thousands of times I've dropped this thing, it's likely that the sim card wasn't sitting in that "perfect spot". So I went ahead and blew in the card slot like a 90's game console, (cause that fixes everything) reseated the sim in the holder, and put it back in. And wala. 4g let speeds EVERYWHERE I go now, and not a single data drop for two days. Even when it's switching towers.
Now I no longer want to blow up AT&T
Because our phones don't have expandable memory, and an internal battery , we don't find ourselves having to open it, or constantly remove anything from it. Unless you have multiple carriers in which you switch between Sims with. But most of us contracted HOX users aren't even going to touch that sim slot.
To sum it up, I just hope that anyone that comes across this issue in the same details, and hasnt opened their sim card slot since the day it was activated and put in the phone, will come across this post. Just to give it a try before getting a new sim (as HTC suggests) or getting a different phone manufacturer (as AT&T suggest. -___- )
Thanks to all the devs for the hard work, and for keeping us interested in this ever-changing field.
Later
Sent from my HOX
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What's up guys, don't post much, so excuse if this is in wrong section or whatever. Just thought I'd post my solution for constant data dropping problem I was having. Where for one, I would only have a data connection for no more than 30 minutes before it would stop downloading/receiving any data. And then I'd have to turn mobile network off and then back on again. It also affected phones calls. Where once the data dropped and I tried to make a call it wouldn't connect at all. Nor could I receive calls without first turning off and back on mobile network, or airplane mode. In rare occasions it wouldn't even send texts. The worst part was that even when I had a data connection for whatever amount of time, I got 4g lte absolutely nowhere.
After extreme amounts of frustration, and 100's of reflashes, (not really) I came across a few forum post where users were experiencing the same issue. Some with root and some without. After further reading, some users posted that after contacting HTC, they recommended it be a sim card issue, as early micro Sims have shown to have some defects. And then that's what made me think. Sim card, maybe it's more simple than we think.
Thinking about how many times I dropped the fu*k out of my phone, I thought to grab my sim card removal tool and pop it out.
I noticed that with the sim card holder, the sim doesn't sit very snug in the slot, so given the thousands of times I've dropped this thing, it's likely that the sim card wasn't sitting in that "perfect spot". So I went ahead and blew in the card slot like a 90's game console, (cause that fixes everything) reseated the sim in the holder, and put it back in. And wala. 4g let speeds EVERYWHERE I go now, and not a single data drop for two days. Even when it's switching towers.
Now I no longer want to blow up AT&T
Because our phones don't have expandable memory, and an internal battery , we don't find ourselves having to open it, or constantly remove anything from it. Unless you have multiple carriers in which you switch between Sims with. But most of us contracted HOX users aren't even going to touch that sim slot.
To sum it up, I just hope that anyone that comes across this issue in the same details, and hasnt opened their sim card slot since the day it was activated and put in the phone, will come across this post. Just to give it a try before getting a new sim (as HTC suggests) or getting a different phone manufacturer (as AT&T suggest. -___- )
Thanks to all the devs for the hard work, and for keeping us interested in this ever-changing field.
Later
Sent from my HOX
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I haven't dropped my phone, but if I shake it, I hear rattling. Is that the SIM card not sitting in there as tight as it should? I notice if I shake it enough, I'll lose some signal. Another weird thing, I'll get 4G LTE in school, but I walked into the parking lot today and only got 3G, but right now I am getting LTE again
It could be the sim, but it could also be the g sensor. I wouldn't imagine the sim be loose enough to cause a rattling. But who knows. They are micro šims, so the possibility of displacement on the contacts could be a bit more prone, as they have less surface area.
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absolutelygrim said:
I haven't dropped my phone, but if I shake it, I hear rattling. Is that the SIM card not sitting in there as tight as it should? I notice if I shake it enough, I'll lose some signal. Another weird thing, I'll get 4G LTE in school, but I walked into the parking lot today and only got 3G, but right now I am getting LTE again
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It's the camera. Normal.
I have quirky cell coverage areas on at&t too. Same spots with different phones for past 8 years.
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cfn87 said:
It's the camera. Normal.
I have quirky cell coverage areas on at&t too. Same spots with different phones for past 8 years.
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Ah, makes sense.
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My network losses were seriously unbearable. Sometimes I could only be browsing for less than 5 minutes before it dropped. Then it would continue ever five minutes after turning off and back on.
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Two months ago my Nexus 5 would start randomly losing signal or say that there was no sim card inserted. After a few reboots it would recognize the sim and let me use it normally, but when the device gets turned off and turned back on again there would be no signal.
More recently my Nexus 5 just says no sim card inserted but when reinserted it gets detected with no signal. Is there anyway i can fix this issue as i got signal yesterday but sadly restarted my phone because of a graphical issue and i lost the signal again. I have also done a factor reset and re-flashed android. Any help would be useful!
(Yes i have tried other sims and same problems)
Current Network: iD
Other Networks Tried: O2,Orange,T-Mobile.
Since the phone behaves the same way with different SIM cards, it could be a hardware failure with the SIM card reader.
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Since the phone behaves the same way with different SIM cards, it could be a hardware failure with the SIM card reader.
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But sometimes it will detect the sim and give me a signal and if i restart the phone it will not detect it again. If it was something wrong with the sim reader wouldn't it just not work at all?
Not necessarily because it should always detect the presence of a SIM card, active or not.
Most likely, there's a bad solder joint somewhere, it would work after a few restarts because the metal would expand as the phone heated up and make contact again. You could try to bake the logic board, might fix it. But, realistically, it's a long shot.
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Hello! I've had the ONO (A0001) for about 3 years and it has been more than adequate for my needs. It has had a few drops along the way, but nothing terrible. Was always kept in a Diztronic case with screen protector. Been running the Resurrection
Remix ROM (Android 7.1.1) very stable since the start of the year.
However, after its latest fall (it actually landed screen first!), I've noticed that my ONO has stopped recognizing the SIM altogether. I've tried reinserting the SIM card, network reset, rebooting, cleared the 'Phone' and 'SIM Toolkit' app caches, wiped cache in TWRP, but to no success. Interestingly, WiFi still works. Attempting to access 'Cellular Networks' from 'Wireless & Networks' to change 2G-3G-LTE returns "com.android.phone has stopped" at every attempt.
Has anyone every experienced this before and knows how to fix it? I have a sick feeling that this may be a hardware problem.
xFalcon1986 said:
Hello! I've had the ONO (A0001) for about 3 years and it has been more than adequate for my needs. It has had a few drops along the way, but nothing terrible. Was always kept in a Diztronic case with screen protector. Been running the Resurrection
Remix ROM (Android 7.1.1) very stable since the start of the year.
However, after its latest fall (it actually landed screen first!), I've noticed that my ONO has stopped recognizing the SIM altogether. I've tried reinserting the SIM card, network reset, rebooting, cleared the 'Phone' and 'SIM Toolkit' app caches, wiped cache in TWRP, but to no success. Interestingly, WiFi still works. Attempting to access 'Cellular Networks' from 'Wireless & Networks' to change 2G-3G-LTE returns "com.android.phone has stopped" at every attempt.
Has anyone every experienced this before and knows how to fix it? I have a sick feeling that this may be a hardware problem.
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Disassemble the device and reattach network antenna.Follow tutorials on Youtube for DIYs'.
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Disassemble the device and reattach network antenna.Follow tutorials on Youtube for DIYs'.
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Thanks. Will try that.
check ur network antenna
Hi @xFalcon1986 I had a similar issue for about one year. This may or may not help but for what it's worth, here is my experience:
Only my home network sim card would reliably work. Recently, I was traveling and once again my roaming worked for a few minutes before the phone gave me the notification: sim not found. I decided that enough was enough - I needed to figure this out or get a new phone. When I removed the problematic sim and compared i to my old home network sim, I noticed that there was tiny bit of curvature on the card. Excited about the potential, I bent the sim that would go unrecognized within a few minutes. Turns out, the first time I bent it, the side I made concave was the wrong one. After the first failed attempt, I pulled the card out again and then bent it the other way. It didn't work either and hope was fading. Just to be sure, I bent the sim one more time - this time further than I thought healthy for the sim. Turns out those cards are quite flexible! Once I inserted the sim, the network connection returned and remained for at least 20 minutes. It then went unrecognized and so I bent it once again and everything continued working.
It turns out that I need to bend the sim card once per week but besides that, my phone once again recognizes the sim.
I have no idea if you went to another phone by now but give this bendy trick a shot. The metal contacts might just have been bent a bit too much one way or the other while the phone impacted the ground. Give it a try and let us know how it worked for you. Cheers!
Nitramwin said:
Hi @xFalcon1986 I had a similar issue for about one year. This may or may not help but for what it's worth, here is my experience:
Only my home network sim card would reliably work. Recently, I was traveling and once again my roaming worked for a few minutes before the phone gave me the notification: sim not found. I decided that enough was enough - I needed to figure this out or get a new phone. When I removed the problematic sim and compared i to my old home network sim, I noticed that there was tiny bit of curvature on the card. Excited about the potential, I bent the sim that would go unrecognized within a few minutes. Turns out, the first time I bent it, the side I made concave was the wrong one. After the first failed attempt, I pulled the card out again and then bent it the other way. It didn't work either and hope was fading. Just to be sure, I bent the sim one more time - this time further than I thought healthy for the sim. Turns out those cards are quite flexible! Once I inserted the sim, the network connection returned and remained for at least 20 minutes. It then went unrecognized and so I bent it once again and everything continued working.
It turns out that I need to bend the sim card once per week but besides that, my phone once again recognizes the sim.
I have no idea if you went to another phone by now but give this bendy trick a shot. The metal contacts might just have been bent a bit too much one way or the other while the phone impacted the ground. Give it a try and let us know how it worked for you. Cheers!
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I have a similar problem. I wanted to activate the SIM. I didn't have access to the SIM card number for activation. So I removed it to read the number. When I put it back in I started getting "not found messages". Turns out something happened to the SIM card tray, and the card slid off the tray and was stuck inside the phone! I finally got it out by bumping the phone against my hand.
I went through e-Bay and located a replacement as the original appears damaged.
Is your Macgivered solution still working? Have you gone to another phone?
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I just tried it & surprisingly it worked for me. Thanx
It worked for me
Nitramwin said:
Hi @xFalcon1986 I had a similar issue for about one year. This may or may not help but for what it's worth, here is my experience:
Only my home network sim card would reliably work. Recently, I was traveling and once again my roaming worked for a few minutes before the phone gave me the notification: sim not found. I decided that enough was enough - I needed to figure this out or get a new phone. When I removed the problematic sim and compared i to my old home network sim, I noticed that there was tiny bit of curvature on the card. Excited about the potential, I bent the sim that would go unrecognized within a few minutes. Turns out, the first time I bent it, the side I made concave was the wrong one. After the first failed attempt, I pulled the card out again and then bent it the other way. It didn't work either and hope was fading. Just to be sure, I bent the sim one more time - this time further than I thought healthy for the sim. Turns out those cards are quite flexible! Once I inserted the sim, the network connection returned and remained for at least 20 minutes. It then went unrecognized and so I bent it once again and everything continued working.
It turns out that I need to bend the sim card once per week but besides that, my phone once again recognizes the sim.
I have no idea if you went to another phone by now but give this bendy trick a shot. The metal contacts might just have been bent a bit too much one way or the other while the phone impacted the ground. Give it a try and let us know how it worked for you. Cheers!
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Pack Leader said:
I have a similar problem. I wanted to activate the SIM. I didn't have access to the SIM card number for activation. So I removed it to read the number. When I put it back in I started getting "not found messages". Turns out something happened to the SIM card tray, and the card slid off the tray and was stuck inside the phone! I finally got it out by bumping the phone against my hand.
I went through e-Bay and located a replacement as the original appears damaged.
Is your Macgivered solution still working? Have you gone to another phone?
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Hi! Sorry for the late reply but yes the solution is working great. Because of it, I'm still making use of my OnePlus One! I found that after the second week of bending, the sim card held the shape for about three months before I needed to bend it again.
Funny thing is that I initially also had my sim stuck inside the phone for some reason and getting it out was a real pain. However, with the bendy trick the sim had been working and I've had no trouble removing it when necessary. Hope you were able to figure something out. ?