SIM Card Not Recognized - SIM Tray Won't Open - AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL

So, as you can probably guess from the thread title, my SIM Card is not being recognized by my phone and I cannot seem to get the tray open. Will AT&T fix this even if I've rooted my phone and unlocked my bootloader? Any suggestions on how to get my tray open? I've tried using the tool that came with my phone and a paperclip and neither of them will open the tray.
Edit: I finally managed to pry it open. After taking the SIM Card out and putting it back in again, everything is working fine for now. Hopefully it stays that way.

everix said:
So, as you can probably guess from the thread title, my SIM Card is not being recognized by my phone and I cannot seem to get the tray open. Will AT&T fix this even if I've rooted my phone and unlocked my bootloader? Any suggestions on how to get my tray open? I've tried using the tool that came with my phone and a paperclip and neither of them will open the tray.
Edit: I finally managed to pry it open. After taking the SIM Card out and putting it back in again, everything is working fine for now. Hopefully it stays that way.
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the easiest way to get the door open is to use a pin or toothpick or something of the sort and push it into the small hole on the sim door gently until it pops right open

So it sounds like it was working fine, then you had the SIM not recognized error, and tried to open the tray? Does it seem that the tray is damaged or anything like that? Did you previously open the tray, drop the phone or anything that may have caused the tray to get damaged? Seems odd that something like that would just happen spontaneously. Or does the tray seem okay, just a lot harder to open than you thought it would be?

redpoint73 said:
So it sounds like it was working fine, then you had the SIM not recognized error, and tried to open the tray? Does it seem that the tray is damaged or anything like that? Did you previously open the tray, drop the phone or anything that may have caused the tray to get damaged? Seems odd that something like that would just happen spontaneously. Or does the tray seem okay, just a lot harder to open than you thought it would be?
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Well I guess I lightly dropped it onto the carpet the night before it stopped working. Also, the main problem was that I couldn't get the tray to open using the little hole next to it. Maybe it just seemed hard because I remember it popping open a lot easier when I first put in a SIM card.

Have you fixed it yet bro?
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theking_13 said:
Have you fixed it yet bro?
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Yeah, everything is working fine now.

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This is stupid - I can't get the back on

Hi,
this is really stupid - I took the back of the phone to put a sim card in, and I can't get the bloody thing back on - anyone else had this sort of problem.
Looked at all the 'bits' on the case, and nothing appears to be broken
Argghhhh
petevick said:
Hi,
this is really stupid - I took the back of the phone to put a sim card in, and I can't get the bloody thing back on - anyone else had this sort of problem.
Looked at all the 'bits' on the case, and nothing appears to be broken
Argghhhh
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Do not try to fit it at once. You must first place the back cover half an inch away from where it is supposed to be at the end, then slightly move it towards its place.
Hi,
I do, and it gets almost to the top,but there is a small gap, and it doesn't go any further.
It has gone on before, loads of times, without problems.
Tried it with battery, without batter, other people have tried
Wow I totally read that wrong....get a paper clip or something and scrap the crevice of holder. Did the backcover warp at all?

[Q] Suddenly SIM card is no longer detected

Up until this afternoon I have been using my One X without issue running CleanROM 4.5. I took my phone out of my pocket and suddenly I got an error saying the SIM card is no longer detected. I immediately turned on airplane mode and then turned it off again, advice I remember reading from other people with similar issues, however it didn't fix the problem. Thinking it was possibly a contact error, I took the SIM out and put a piece of tape on the back and reinserted it, to no avail. I tried adding another piece of tape to make sure; again, nothing. I backed up everything and wiped the phone, and installed RebelMOD to see if it was potentially an OS issue; unfortunately, the different ROM makes no difference.
Am I SOL here on a software-related fix? Is it possible the SIM slot just went bad all of a sudden? I tried another SIM card from my work phone but it was not detected either, while the SIM from my phone was detected in my work phone. All of this points to a hardware issue, but I'm wondering where it came from and why it happened so suddenly, as well as what my options are.
Thanks in advance!
same problem
samlingx said:
Up until this afternoon I have been using my One X without issue running CleanROM 4.5. I took my phone out of my pocket and suddenly I got an error saying the SIM card is no longer detected. I immediately turned on airplane mode and then turned it off again, advice I remember reading from other people with similar issues, however it didn't fix the problem. Thinking it was possibly a contact error, I took the SIM out and put a piece of tape on the back and reinserted it, to no avail. I tried adding another piece of tape to make sure; again, nothing. I backed up everything and wiped the phone, and installed RebelMOD to see if it was potentially an OS issue; unfortunately, the different ROM makes no difference.
Am I SOL here on a software-related fix? Is it possible the SIM slot just went bad all of a sudden? I tried another SIM card from my work phone but it was not detected either, while the SIM from my phone was detected in my work phone. All of this points to a hardware issue, but I'm wondering where it came from and why it happened so suddenly, as well as what my options are.
Thanks in advance!
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I'm having the same problem here, I had the phone for like 2 month and last week all in a sudden
no more reception as the phone doesn't detect the sim card anymore. The worst came after, I tried to open my sim tray with that HTC pin provided with the phone,and instead of opening it damaged the metal slot and couldn't get my sim card out. So now I m without phone as I had so bring back to JB Hifi and they had to send it over east for repair as the warranty goes through Fone biz and told me I have to wait 2 weeks for it to get repaired and sent back. Has anyone been throught that?
Thanks
Sudden SIM Destruction!!
I had that same thing happen, i was playing a game and all the sudden i heard a pop and no sim message appeared! My warranty wont cover because i have a tiny hairline crack on my screen! can anyone please help!
A pop is bad. Probably not easily repaired. For the others you could try a piece of tape on the sim give it a tighter fit up against the contact in the phone or purchase a new sim tray
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[Q] Stuck SD card??

I just got a new sandisk 64gb card for my infinity - and the bugger got stuck when I stuck it in the port. I've tried repeated pushing on it with a micro screw driver and tried a pair of watchmaker tweezers to pull it out, but nothing I've tried is getting the release to work. Of course, I've just unlocked the bootloader so I'm sure Asus will 'fart in my general direction' so I'm sure I'll have to dig it out myself. Anyone have any ideas??
Ozark_8125 said:
I just got a new sandisk 64gb card for my infinity - and the bugger got stuck when I stuck it in the port. I've tried repeated pushing on it with a micro screw driver and tried a pair of watchmaker tweezers to pull it out, but nothing I've tried is getting the release to work. Of course, I've just unlocked the bootloader so I'm sure Asus will 'fart in my general direction' so I'm sure I'll have to dig it out myself. Anyone have any ideas??
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Happened to me once, got it out with a very thin tweezers
I tried that but it's stuck in the locked position - it won't disengage from the lock. I have some thin tweezers, but even if I pull, it seems like it's locked in there. Before I yank on it (they're too thin to put much force on it) I wanted to make sure I didn't wreck something.
What you need to do is blow some hot air into the slot with a hair dryer on medium. Heat up the SD card and the slot for 30 seconds and you can easily eject that out.
I got it out! Once I got it out I looked in there. The card slot is not lined up properly with the hole on the case - when you look straight in, the bar on the SD cage is off by half a cage width. I had sent it off for service and obviously it didn't get put back together right. I'll have to call and see if they will do good on fixing mistakes of their reconstruction or not...

[Q] Phone won't recognize ANY SIM card

I went to sleep Thursday night and the phone was working fine and had about 75% charge. Next day the battery was dead (and cold, so if it did that "burn up the battery thing" then it finished up many hours ago). When I managed to charge it up enough so that it would boot, it said that there was no SIM card installed. I was using a 5 month old Straight Talk Mobile SIM. I am NOT rooted and running the V21y release as pushed by LG.
I pulled the SIM and put my old T-Mobile SIM in. Still says "no SIM card", the exact same message as when I boot it up with no card at all. I have checked the IMEI and it looks correct (it's not all zeroes).
I've put my Straight Talk Mobile SIM into an old phone (Motozine ZN5) and it works; it even delivered a text message sent during the dead time. After doing that, I put the Straight Talk SIM back into my G2X and it still says No SIM card.
I have ordered a new battery (a $5 cheap one from Amazone) in the hopes that it will magically fix some problems, as folks have vaguely reported. I doubt it will fix my problem but, hey, $5 and we'll make sure.
I have done a factory reset (just the internal memory) and it did not fix the problem. I'm doing a restore right now but I don't hold out much hope. Does anyone have any other ideas? At this point I'm perfectly happy to root the thing or do anything to it, since it's not very useful if it won't connect to a network.
The only out of the ordinary thing that happened was that on Wednesday, I used the phone for turn-by-turn walking directions via Google Maps, with the GPS turned on. The GPS wasn't all that accurate but it managed to help me find the bus stop I was looking for. I had GPS on for maybe 20 minutes. At that time I had WiFi off (I think) and 4G on.
Thanks in advance for any advice. I'm also prepared for it to be "time to get a new phone"; my IMEI starts with 0125 so it's been a rocky ride.
No idea. Bump for curiosity. Hope u get it worked out.
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Unfortunately jackyl has no idea.
Only other idea jackyl would have after a reset is plugging into PC, see if APX mode works to see if it didn't die.
You can have a dead battery and the phone should power up off the charger still.
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Check the pins in the SIM card slot to see if one or more have broken off.
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Haha jackyl in 3rd person.
Edit (in an attempt to be helpful rather than not): maybe give the sim a good wiggle to make sure it's seated properly? And yeah, checking the pins is also good. You know the sim works, but I'm wondering if the connection went bad on the board somehow. On a stock rom, I can't imagine the battery getting burnt up. I guess it's possible, and maybe that fried a component of the sim reader?
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mansa_noob said:
Check the pins in the SIM card slot to see if one or more have broken off.
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jackyl thought, dam...good idea
adamiscool said:
Haha jackyl in 3rd person.
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jackyl laughed
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The phone appears to be fine, other than that it won't see any SIM cards. I've had each of my 3 cards in and out of it many times. All the pins look fresh and undamaged. (The take it out, blow on it, put it back in trick was the first thing I tried.)
I haven't done APX mode but my backup software (MobileGo) uses USB debugging mode to backup and restore. It was able to see the device and do a restore... hopefully that's similar?
It's possible that there was an overheat and it melted something I can't see inside the device. This is FAR from the first time I've had an overheat, though I would not think this one could be exceptionally bad since it wasn't plugged into anything at the time. It was just sitting on the desk.
Should I try opening the case and taking a look inside? I've never done that.
A symptom I forgot in my first post: it is now losing its date and time whenever I remove the battery, even just for a few seconds. (It believes it is December 31, 2006 at 7pm.) I do not remember it doing that before, even when I've booted it up without a SIM, though the last time I pulled the SIM was 5 months ago when I started with Straight Talk.
MerrylG said:
The phone appears to be fine, other than that it won't see any SIM cards. I've had each of my 3 cards in and out of it many times. All the pins look fresh and undamaged. (The take it out, blow on it, put it back in trick was the first thing I tried.)
I haven't done APX mode but my backup software (MobileGo) uses USB debugging mode to backup and restore. It was able to see the device and do a restore... hopefully that's similar?
It's possible that there was an overheat and it melted something I can't see inside the device. This is FAR from the first time I've had an overheat, though I would not think this one could be exceptionally bad since it wasn't plugged into anything at the time. It was just sitting on the desk.
Should I try opening the case and taking a look inside? I've never done that.
A symptom I forgot in my first post: it is now losing its date and time whenever I remove the battery, even just for a few seconds. (It believes it is December 31, 2006 at 7pm.) I do not remember it doing that before, even when I've booted it up without a SIM, though the last time I pulled the SIM was 5 months ago when I started with Straight Talk.
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If you have had multiple overheats on a stock rom I would tend to think you have bad hardware. Can you get replacement phones on straight talk?.
As far as the date and time thing,with the battery pull that will happen. Its a symptom of pulling the battery while the phone is on. That's just a hypothesis though. I have no liknks to prove it.
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lg g2 sim card problem
Bought my new lg g2 3 weeks ago, but only inserted my sim card today, but it wont read, on the status bar it starts loading, but then
the loading circle just freezes!! And i´ve tried the sim card on other phones and it works! What do I do?!
Wrong forum
dani19921989 said:
Bought my new lg g2 3 weeks ago, but only inserted my sim card today, but it wont read, on the status bar it starts loading, but then
the loading circle just freezes!! And i´ve tried the sim card on other phones and it works! What do I do?!
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This forum is for G2x which is entirely different from G2.
Same here! Sony Xperia C4 E5333
I tried everything! Factory reset; Xperia Companion that didn't work and kept crashing; I managed to fix that by accident once,
but I can't reproduce the fix
MerrylG said:
I went to sleep Thursday night and the phone was working fine and had about 75% charge. Next day the battery was dead (and cold, so if it did that "burn up the battery thing" then it finished up many hours ago). When I managed to charge it up enough so that it would boot, it said that there was no SIM card installed. I was using a 5 month old Straight Talk Mobile SIM. I am NOT rooted and running the V21y release as pushed by LG.
I pulled the SIM and put my old T-Mobile SIM in. Still says "no SIM card", the exact same message as when I boot it up with no card at all. I have checked the IMEI and it looks correct (it's not all zeroes).
I've put my Straight Talk Mobile SIM into an old phone (Motozine ZN5) and it works; it even delivered a text message sent during the dead time. After doing that, I put the Straight Talk SIM back into my G2X and it still says No SIM card.
I have ordered a new battery (a $5 cheap one from Amazone) in the hopes that it will magically fix some problems, as folks have vaguely reported. I doubt it will fix my problem but, hey, $5 and we'll make sure.
I have done a factory reset (just the internal memory) and it did not fix the problem. I'm doing a restore right now but I don't hold out much hope. Does anyone have any other ideas? At this point I'm perfectly happy to root the thing or do anything to it, since it's not very useful if it won't connect to a network.
The only out of the ordinary thing that happened was that on Wednesday, I used the phone for turn-by-turn walking directions via Google Maps, with the GPS turned on. The GPS wasn't all that accurate but it managed to help me find the bus stop I was looking for. I had GPS on for maybe 20 minutes. At that time I had WiFi off (I think) and 4G on.
Thanks in advance for any advice. I'm also prepared for it to be "time to get a new phone"; my IMEI starts with 0125 so it's been a rocky ride.
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[Q] Can't open Sim card tray

Hello,
For some reason, I can't get the sim-card tray to open up.
I'm inserting the provided pin into the hole next to the tray, I'm almost completely sure I'm not doing something wrong.
I'd rather not return the device, since the store doesn't have the phone in stock and thus it will have to be sent back to Samsung (with the accompanied waiting time).
Is there an other way to open the sim-card tray?
Kind regards,
kaico
Push 'relatively' hard!
I was being too careful when i opened my sgs6 and remember needing to apply a little extra push with the provided pin.
I agree w previous answer. When I was setting mine up I had the same problem, turns out I wasn't pushing in hard enough. You have to apply an amount of force that, if never done before, feels like way to much, but It's not. When you see the slot pop out you'll know.
Thanks for your answers.
I managed, with a lot of power, to get the sim card tray to pop open.
Unfortunately, it has only opened a millimeter or so.
I'm unable to open it completely' with either pushing the pin even harder,
trying to open it with my fingernails or even trying to open it with a set of tweezers.
Any new advice?
kaico said:
Thanks for your answers.
I managed, with a lot of power, to get the sim card tray to pop open.
Unfortunately, it has only opened a millimeter or so.
I'm unable to open it completely' with either pushing the pin even harder,
trying to open it with my fingernails or even trying to open it with a set of tweezers.
Any new advice?
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lock it back in, and use a paperclip, punch hard so that it releases the lock hard and should pop out more. people are scared of pushing hard and i remember one user here went to the t-mobile store just to get it out. you can use "force" it's fine
I'm pushing as hard as I dare, tried putting the pin between a table and the phone and pushing on the phone, still no luck.
It won't come out any further than the power button is sticking out...
Seems like your device is defective then. Sorry.
kaico said:
I'm pushing as hard as I dare, tried putting the pin between a table and the phone and pushing on the phone, still no luck.
It won't come out any further than the power button is sticking out...
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Sounds like a jam to me. At least you have physical proof of it, so getting a replacement shouldn't be an issue.
Very thankful for your advice
aff219 said:
I agree w previous answer. When I was setting mine up I had the same problem, turns out I wasn't pushing in hard enough. You have to apply an amount of force that, if never done before, feels like way to much, but It's not. When you see the slot pop out you'll know.
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I was just about to go to my T-Mobile store to get them to help me out. pushed hard and voila it opened!! Thanks a bunch and oh by the way, I still need to go to my T-Mobile store because I'm going from a retarded Samsung Galaxy S3 to this S6 and you need a nano sim card. So all you owners of Galaxy ancient phones, you will have to truck on over to your favorite carrier store and replace your sim card.
I just had this issue - no matter how hard I pushed by hand it would open. I wound up getting a something big and rubber (in this case a tape measure) and hitting the sim card removal tool like I was hammering a nail. I didn't need to hammer it hard, just the abrupt bit of extra force popped it out. Again - DON'T ACTUALLY HAMMER IT LIKE A NAIL, but keep tapping the sim card removal tool hard-ish till it pops out.
had the same issue on my s7 - pushed so hard the pin went in but the sim tray didn't pop out. I don't know if I've poked a hole into whatever you push into, or if the pin has ended up being forced next to it but now I can push the pin in relatively easily and the tray doesn't pop out... HELP!
my problem is the wrong carrier was put in ,now will not open ,brand new samsungA13
silly old man i am 82

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