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[Q] Issue with sim card after using GTG's_Ultimate_Unbrick

I went back to original stock rom because one of my co workers wanted to buy my Infuse to give to his wife. He did not want it to be rooted or have anything on it. I followed the directions in GTG's_Ultimate_Unbrick thread and it worked perfectly. Everything was completely stock like I just opened the box except for one thing...the sim card is not recognized. It says " NO SIM CARD IN PHONE AFTER YOU INSERT THE CARD, PLEASE REBOOT. EMERGENCY CALLS CAN BE USED."
I work for ATT so I know its not because the sim card is bad (I think I tried five new ones today trying to get it to work) plus I used working sim cards from working devices but it still says the same thing.
I tried running through GTG's_Ultimate_Unbrick again but to no prevail. Has any one encountered this or can any one please point me in the right direction on how to fix this issue?
Thank you in advance!!!

seanj1982 said:
I went back to original stock rom because one of my co workers wanted to buy my Infuse to give to his wife. He did not want it to be rooted or have anything on it. I followed the directions in GTG's_Ultimate_Unbrick thread and it worked perfectly. Everything was completely stock like I just opened the box except for one thing...the sim card is not recognized. It says " NO SIM CARD IN PHONE AFTER YOU INSERT THE CARD, PLEASE REBOOT. EMERGENCY CALLS CAN BE USED."
I work for ATT so I know its not because the sim card is bad (I think I tried five new ones today trying to get it to work) plus I used working sim cards from working devices but it still says the same thing.
I tried running through GTG's_Ultimate_Unbrick again but to no prevail. Has any one encountered this or can any one please point me in the right direction on how to fix this issue?
Thank you in advance!!!
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Did you wipe data/factory reset after unbricking?
If not, try that.

Today around 4:00pm I just had the same problem; however, the problem didn't arise when I used GTG's Ultimate Unbrick... The problem arose when I tried sending an MMS, I sent the first one, it worked, then I had to resend the same MMS to another person, it never sent it, so I tried restarting my phone, and that's when it popped up as "Sim Card Not Found" Ugh!!.. I just tried Flashing it back to stock using Odin GTG's Ultimate Unbrick. I was hoping it was just an ICS random bug, or maybe a just a ROM specific bug. So any help at all would be awesome.

Anyone have any ideas?

sledgeharvy said:
Anyone have any ideas?
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bump?
did you fix it?

No service after firmware update

So I updated my firmware (I was already superCID'd) and then when I loaded a new ROM I had no service. I have tried many different ROMs, radios and the such but have had no luck. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

natehoch96 said:
So I updated my firmware (I was already superCID'd) and then when I loaded a new ROM I had no service. I have tried many different ROMs, radios and the such but have had no luck. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
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I had issues on mine as well, after reflashing it seemed to behave much better. I had a good download verified by md5, the first flash was successful by every indication, but my signal was non-existent or crap at best. After the reflash it just started working better. Give it a try!
Edit: To clarify, I mean to reflash the firmware, not the ROM. I had deleted the P58IMG file from my SD so I had recopy it over to reboot into bootloader to flash it.

mf2112 said:
I had issues on mine as well, after reflashing it seemed to behave much better. I had a good download verified by md5, the first flash was successful by every indication, but my signal was non-existent or crap at best. After the reflash it just started working better. Give it a try!
Edit: To clarify, I mean to reflash the firmware, not the ROM. I had deleted the P58IMG file from my SD so I had recopy it over to reboot into bootloader to flash it.
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I tried that but it did not work, I dont think it even recognizes that I am on T-Mo because in the settings it says that there are no network operators and all of the network settings are blank.

Have you done a factory reset? I had the APN settings grayed out after flashing a rom. I had to simply go and perform a factory reset and start from scratch. DO NOT ERASE YOUR SD CARD. And make sure you have a rom to flash after you reset your phone.

kpjimmy said:
Have you done a factory reset? I had the APN settings grayed out after flashing a rom. I had to simply go and perform a factory reset and start from scratch. DO NOT ERASE YOUR SD CARD. And make sure you have a rom to flash after you reset your phone.
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I tried that but it didnt change anything. I am starting to think it might be something with the SIM card or the phone reading the SIM card because in the settings it says "Please insert SIM" and Wi-Fi calling says "Reading SIM" the whole time.

natehoch96 said:
I tried that but it didnt change anything. I am starting to think it might be something with the SIM card or the phone reading the SIM card because in the settings it says "Please insert SIM" and Wi-Fi calling says "Reading SIM" the whole time.
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Do you have another SIM to try? The TMo stores usually are helpful with stuff like that.
Still though, this sounds awfully familiar. I do remember reading something similar about the SIM not being recognized a couple weeks ago when the ICS ROMS first came out but can't remember what threads. Do some forum searches on missing SIM, SIM not recognized, stuff like that and see if anything looks helpful.
Edit: Can't seem to find it now. The only other things I can think of to try is to power off, remove the SIM, power up, let it boot completely, then power off, replace the SIM, and power back up. If that doesn't work, I would try flashing an appropriate RUU from here. Be careful to pick the right RUU for your area and carrier. To flash the RUU, just connect the USB plug from your PC to the phone and doubleclick the RUU exe file to start. It should find the phone and do everything necessary, firmware, radio, partitions, etc. and put you back on a stock ROM. You can flash CWM or 4EXT recovery and then whatever ROM you want.

The one I remember reading about, the guy replaced the Sim card and it fixed his no service issue.

galaxys said:
The one I remember reading about, the guy replaced the Sim card and it fixed his no service issue.
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Yes I remember replying to that thread as well. That guy bought that phone on craigslist or something and used his old sim, not the sim that comes with the phone itself.
Go to a tmo store/kiosk at the mall and ask to test out a different sim for the phone and see if that works.

[Q] Sim won't recognized :(

Hi Guys,
I just bought an infuse last night off from craigslist. I checked the phone thoroughly before I bought it and everything is working fine. When I get back home, the phone signal keeps dropping on and off so I thought the sim card might be loose. So I took it out and reinsert the sim card. Boot back up and the phone won't recognized the sim anymore. Keep seeing please insert sim even though the sim card is in there and worked fine earlier. I reset it to factory default but no luck. I put the sim in different phone and it's working fine. I tried with different sim card from my friend's phone who has galaxy s 2. The phone detected the sim but no signal at all. I reboot, factory reset but no luck at all.
The phone has CM7 rom and when it was working, it was great. Is there any way I can fix it? I checked the phone on samsung warranty info and it's only 3 months old, so still under warranty. I don't know they will honor warranty though since I bought it off from craigslist. Is there anyway I can fix it? Please help me. Thanks a lot.

Reset to stock and see if that helps. Try using some other working sim and check if the problem persists.

I have already factory reset it. Tried with 2 different sims. One sim recognize but no signal. Should I flash back to stock rom and try?

mutantblack said:
I have already factory reset it. Tried with 2 different sims. One sim recognize but no signal. Should I flash back to stock rom and try?
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I would flash back to stock via Odin or heimdall and see if the problem is resolved....
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA App

I just flashed back to stock with heimdall. I will test out and report back. Thanks.
edit. Doesn't work even after flashing back to stock rom. Sending it out to Samsung for warranty repair. Thanks.

No 4G at all

I have an s3 that I flashed to CM10, AOKP 6 and I also tried synergy. I cannot seem to get LTE on the first 2 adn with synergy, I can only get it by using the phone info thing and switching to an LTE ONLY mode. I noticed when I was stock I didnt see it going to LTE either. is this a problem with it switching over or what? When I try to switch to the LTE ONLY mode on the other 2 roms, I get no connection at all.
Any ideas? Is the phone toast? I am an experienced flasher, as I am coming from a galaxy nexus lte and am a crack flasher. Before each rom, I wiped data, cache, dalvik and system.
anyone have ideas? I am at a loss.
thanks
edit: I also noticed that on CM10 and AOKP the activation fails, and I can skip it. My phone number shows up as unknown but I have an IMEI number

*#*#4636#*#*
Change to CDMA/LTE Auto

I did that and I noticed no change. I only have 3g

SAME THNG!!
I have the same problem and can't seem to find a solution!!!!
I have two s3 and they both do the same thing!!!
dougmod said:
i did that and i noticed no change. I only have 3g
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e-zzy1 said:
I have the same problem and can't seem to find a solution!!!!
I have two s3 and they both do the same thing!!!
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i had to get a new sim card. i went to the store and the new sim fixed it all

dougmod said:
i had to get a new sim card. i went to the store and the new sim fixed it all
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I'm having the same problem, I think. When I switch to an LTE option in phone info, it doesn't stay that option. it goes back to CDMA auto.
Can you just go to the verizon store and ask for a new one? Do they need to see your phone or anything like that, that will tell them its rooted?

raisins said:
I'm having the same problem, I think. When I switch to an LTE option in phone info, it doesn't stay that option. it goes back to CDMA auto.
Can you just go to the verizon store and ask for a new one? Do they need to see your phone or anything like that, that will tell them its rooted?
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I was afraid and flashed back to stock before taking it in, but the sim card thing is common. so just say you were told by customer service to come in and get a new sim and they will set you up. if you dont feel like going to the store, customer service will overnight you one, pretty much no questions asked. so its no big deal

This is a common problem... i had it too with synergy 1.2. The phone info app was stuck gets stuck on cdma . I had to flash the stock image through odin and flash synergy again. No new sim cards are required
VERIZON GALAXY S 3

DROID3R said:
This is a common problem... i had it too with synergy 1.2. The phone info app was stuck gets stuck on cdma . I had to flash the stock image through odin and flash synergy again. No new sim cards are required
VERIZON GALAXY S 3
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after flashing back through odin, I still had only 3G

DROID3R said:
This is a common problem... i had it too with synergy 1.2. The phone info app was stuck gets stuck on cdma . I had to flash the stock image through odin and flash synergy again. No new sim cards are required
VERIZON GALAXY S 3
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When you do that, do you wipe all your data?

raisins said:
When you do that, do you wipe all your data?
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Check your baseband then head to
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1788313 then flash a different radio.. meaning if you running LF2 then flash LG1 and vice versa. After i changed the modem i boot up into 3g went into phone info and chose lte only and 4g turned on.
When it happened to me i was running synergy (LG1-radio)...jellybomb theme..so there must be an issue there . i think its the jellybomb theme since it was made for sprint users
VERIZON GALAXY S 3

e-zzy1 said:
I have the same problem and can't seem to find a solution!!!!
I have two s3 and they both do the same thing!!!
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Pop up dialer, type *2767*3855#
and it will reset your 4G by fixing the SIM card - and immediately reboot. I've had the problem twice, and both times this key sequence fixed it. :highfive:

So a friend of mine was having the same issue. No 4G in an area I know he has full 4G signal. I reflashed the unrooted stock image in Odin (he was already stock, rooted, unlocked with cwm 6.xx) and still no dice. I tried flashing both radios, no dice. Also tried the dialing above to reset everything, nothing. Finally I gave up and told him to take it in into a store and they replaced the sim card and it worked! We then rerooted, unlocked, flashed cwm and all was good.
However, I asked him what all he had originally done after getting the phone so that we could try to take it step by step and see what caused it. I installed TiBu and lucky patcher as he had previously done (I don't condone pirating, espeically this great app but I wanted to try and recreate the issue) and it broke it, no 4G! I think the culprit was lucky patcher; I highly doubt TiBu could cause it as I have had no trouble with it. Only other rooted app he installed was adblock but again, I use this all the time with no troubles. I told him to just pay for the app! But I am still interested if anyone else might have had the same issue so we could try to prevent it for others? Any of you above who lost 4G did you by chance use lucky patcher?
Edit: Also, i noticed that I put the phone in 4G LTE only mode using phone info the 4G LTE symbol pops up but there are no signal bars. However, it appears as if there is signal since data speeds work fine and at normal LTE for this area so just the bars are screwed up, and then something with the hand off when switching back to normal off LTE only? Anyone else exeriencing this or have you tried to see if you actually have LTE even though you have no bars?

Same crap on my white 16gb gs3. Ridiculous data connections.
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I have a replacement coming. They sent it a week ago and I got it yesterday and they sent me a nexus. Maybe its a sign to go back to the good ol gnex. They resent a gs3 so if the new one doesn't fix it I'm going to keep the gnex they sent and cut my loss
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lost imei after reboot with cm10 20120927

Loaded cm10 20120927 last night and all ran good. no data drops or anything. i ram cyanogenmod backup this morning and on reboot no imei or anything. good that i backup it up to my sdcard and to dropbox.
if one of the MODS would like to move this to the development forum thats ok. i know that if wouldn't matter because cm10 probably didnt cause the imei loss.
Edit: I took a chance and rebooted again hoping that it was just something sbout the reboot and imei, phone number etc etc is back. Good for me, but not sure I have read of this happening. Anyway, all is good now.

ef-civic said:
Loaded cm10 20120927 last night and all ran good. no data drops or anything. i ram cyanogenmod backup this morning and on reboot no imei or anything. good that i backup it up to my sdcard and to dropbox.
if one of the MODS would like to move this to the development forum thats ok. i know that if wouldn't matter because cm10 probably didnt cause the imei loss.
Edit: I took a chance and rebooted again hoping that it was just something sbout the reboot and imei, phone number etc etc is back. Good for me, but not sure I have read of this happening. Anyway, all is good now.
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Did you not back up your IMEI via ADB?

stargate125645 said:
Did you not back up your IMEI via ADB?
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yes I did

I'm not sure why you made this thread though if you had your imei backed up and it came back after a reboot. I lost mine 3-4 times and it came back each time after a reboot, I never had to recover from my backup yet though.

Installed JB ROM on S3 Verizon - not connecting to network
Any suggestion on how to fix this this issue.
I install a JB rom last night, but it seemed like it deleted the IMEI number off the phone. Through the forums, I was able to restore ( I didn't not back Up IMEI - i know) the IMEI number back on the cell phone.
However, the phone is unable to register to the Verizon network. I have an inside Verizon guy, who helped associate, on his end, my IMEI number to my account/ sim card. still not connecting. has any one else got this problem, and able to resolve?
I should be getting a new Sim Card tonight, hoping that might resolve the issue, if not, I will call Verizon Warranty to get a new phone.
PS. on verizonwireless, it shows that Samsung S3 is associated with my SIM/ telephone number.
thanks for any suggestion or help in advance.

jaimanny said:
Any suggestion on how to fix this this issue.
I install a JB rom last night, but it seemed like it deleted the IMEI number off the phone. Through the forums, I was able to restore ( I didn't not back Up IMEI - i know) the IMEI number back on the cell phone.
However, the phone is unable to register to the Verizon network. I have an inside Verizon guy, who helped associate, on his end, my IMEI number to my account/ sim card. still not connecting. has any one else got this problem, and able to resolve?
I should be getting a new Sim Card tonight, hoping that might resolve the issue, if not, I will call Verizon Warranty to get a new phone.
PS. on verizonwireless, it shows that Samsung S3 is associated with my SIM/ telephone number.
thanks for any suggestion or help in advance.
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There's a link in my signature for "IMEI Repair" click that and you can fix the problem

jaimanny said:
Any suggestion on how to fix this this issue.
I install a JB rom last night, but it seemed like it deleted the IMEI number off the phone. Through the forums, I was able to restore ( I didn't not back Up IMEI - i know) the IMEI number back on the cell phone.
However, the phone is unable to register to the Verizon network. I have an inside Verizon guy, who helped associate, on his end, my IMEI number to my account/ sim card. still not connecting. has any one else got this problem, and able to resolve?
I should be getting a new Sim Card tonight, hoping that might resolve the issue, if not, I will call Verizon Warranty to get a new phone.
PS. on verizonwireless, it shows that Samsung S3 is associated with my SIM/ telephone number.
thanks for any suggestion or help in advance.
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Reprovision on the stock rom.

con247 said:
Reprovision on the stock rom.
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This! Dialer code *2767*3855#

droidstyle said:
This! Dialer code *2767*3855#
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yup, that worked. I thought I did that earlier with my verizon guy. Maybe it took time to sync up..
anyway thank you for your help.
thanks con247, and droidstyle.