Micro sim adapter bent sim card pin - Motorola Atrix 2

I have had my Atrix 2 for a little over a year and I love it. Last week I got an LG Optimus G and like it but I also love my Atrix 2. I like the web top and the hdmi out. So the first few times I used the adapter it was fine now when I try it says no sim card. I removed 9 screws from the back and took the back cover off but still can't address the pins. Can anyone help me here? I tried to Google it but the only thing I found was a replacement part to put the sim card in the Atrix 2 but no instructions. I believe I can fix this but just need access to the pins.
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TheChemist187 said:
I have had my Atrix 2 for a little over a year and I love it. Last week I got an LG Optimus G and like it but I also love my Atrix 2. I like the web top and the hdmi out. So the first few times I used the adapter it was fine now when I try it says no sim card. I removed 9 screws from the back and took the back cover off but still can't address the pins. Can anyone help me here? I tried to Google it but the only thing I found was a replacement part to put the sim card in the Atrix 2 but no instructions. I believe I can fix this but just need access to the pins.
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Are you sure it is the pins in the phone? I would first try a new adapter and sim card in case one of those is the problem so you don't have to dig around i the phone.
If it is the pins, I doubt I can be of much help, I've never taken this phone apart, but from past experience, it is a pain, as everything is really packed together!
also, the pins are probably SMD soldered, so make sure you know what you are doing with that. It is pretty tough in small spaces especially if you haven't done it much before.

Sorry I didn't specify before but I'm sure they are messes up partially because even when I took the adapter out and put a original att sim card from my sisters phone it says no sim card. However I liked the sim card once and then it recognised it. So I think they are just a little bent but not broken off
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My Touch 4g not reading sim card at all!!!!!!!

My MyTouch 4g does not read any sim card. I have sim unlocked the phone and s=off. Ive flash all the radios non work! Tried 4 different sims (T-mobile, AT&T,Straight Talk (NOKIA E71), Simple Mobile) all failed. Flashed 5 different roms including the orginal.
Can any one help me????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe the sims card sensor readers on the phone by the battery are damaged have u had anything get into yo phone like dust or water
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Are you inserting the sim card the right way?
i havent got any water in it. I have to check for dust and yes im intersting it just like the picture on the phone
The first thing I'd go with on something like this is a physical problem.
Is the SIM card seating properly in the little slot? There's that metal bar that goes over it to give the springy connectors something to push against to form a good contact. It's possible that the connectors aren't being pushed into the card enough.
It's worth a shot to push it in with a finger with the battery cover off just to see if you can make a connection. If you get anywhere with that maybe try cutting a playing card up and sliding it in over the SIM to basically make the SIM card a little big and tighter in the slot.
Since different cards aren't working and different ROM's don't fix it it's a fair bet that you're looking at a hardware problem. If it's an electronic problem you're screwed. If it's a "the slot doesn't hold the card tight problem" you have options.
May be too simple, but did you put your SIM card in the wrong way? Haha, don't be offended, because I am not trolling in any way. But this happened to a friend of mine the other day.
I actually joined this site for the same problem but my WiFi and Bluetooth don't work either. Mine is obviously a radio problem but I can't seem to get my phone to flash new radios...

GS3 destroying SD cards?

My shiny new Galaxy S III has now destroyed two 32gig micro SD cards on me. About two weeks after I installed the first card, my phone started giving messages about the SD card being improperly removed, then it would immediately try to re-mount it, then would say it was removed again, then finally started just repeating the "unable to mount SD card" error until I physically removed the card. I argued with best buy to give me another one, and now today (about two weeks after installing the new one), the same thing happened. I put the card into a USB reader to try it on my computer, and now even my PC does not recognize the card.
Has this happened to anyone else? What can I do to fix this?! I pre-ordered the phone from verizon, so I'm now well out of warranty replacement time.
codeman0624 said:
My shiny new Galaxy S III has now destroyed two 32gig micro SD cards on me. About two weeks after I installed the first card, my phone started giving messages about the SD card being improperly removed, then it would immediately try to re-mount it, then would say it was removed again, then finally started just repeating the "unable to mount SD card" error until I physically removed the card. I argued with best buy to give me another one, and now today (about two weeks after installing the new one), the same thing happened. I put the card into a USB reader to try it on my computer, and now even my PC does not recognize the card.
Has this happened to anyone else? What can I do to fix this?! I pre-ordered the phone from verizon, so I'm now well out of warranty replacement time.
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I have a 32gb MicroSD card and haven't had a problem. I do wish I could use it more as internal memory rather than hardly usable external storage...but that's a different issue.
Sorry I couldn't help, but just wanted to say that Galaxy S III does support that much external storage. Maybe a hardware issue? Try troubleshooting it with another MicroSD card.
codeman0624 said:
My shiny new Galaxy S III has now destroyed two 32gig micro SD cards on me. About two weeks after I installed the first card, my phone started giving messages about the SD card being improperly removed, then it would immediately try to re-mount it, then would say it was removed again, then finally started just repeating the "unable to mount SD card" error until I physically removed the card. I argued with best buy to give me another one, and now today (about two weeks after installing the new one), the same thing happened. I put the card into a USB reader to try it on my computer, and now even my PC does not recognize the card.
Has this happened to anyone else? What can I do to fix this?! I pre-ordered the phone from verizon, so I'm now well out of warranty replacement time.
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Gotta be the cards you're getting I would think. I had a 16gb card that came with my Droid x almost 3 years ago in it for almost 2 months before the card finally crashed.(I'd abused that card tho, carried it in my jeans pocket, left it sitting on my table etc) Then I put my 64gb in it. It's been a little over two weeks now and no probs with it. I've written too it and erased and so on so I've actually used it. It's almost full now actually lol.
I have that same 16 GB from the droid x. Do I still need to format it if I flash a ROM? And how do I check what format its in
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My 32gb card was doing that on stock until I finally installed a custom rom. No problem since.
Synergized GS3
SD card gs3 issue
I also had trouble with my external 16gb card after flashing 2 ROMs (synergy & beans v9). I was not even able to get a computer to recognize the sd card after the flashing.
I thought it had to do with using a stock, then rooted stock, then custom kernel. i thought the combination and repeated TBU access over a 4 day period just trashed it. maybe there is more to the story?
1) What is your ROM flashing history (what roms, how long were each installed)?
2) Which rom did you notice the problem on?
3) Were the original and replacement cards the same make/model?
4) What format were the cards in (FAT32, exFAT, or other)?
5) are/have you overclocked your cpu?
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bby144 said:
I have that same 16 GB from the droid x. Do I still need to format it if I flash a ROM? And how do I check what format its in
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nope. all i did was take my 16 gig from my droid x (that OEM card is tough) and slap it in my s3.. and it works.
mybook4 said:
1) What is your ROM flashing history (what roms, how long were each installed)?
2) Which rom did you notice the problem on?
3) Were the original and replacement cards the same make/model?
4) What format were the cards in (FAT32, exFAT, or other)?
5) are/have you overclocked your cpu?
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Thanks for the responses guys. I'm still fully stock, I haven't done anything to the phone (yet). I don't know what the format was, I just put them straight into my phone and let it do whatever it wanted to do. The original and replacement are the same make and model, from the same store. So before i panicked too much, I was considering buying a new/different card from amazon and seeing if it does the same thing still.
Just didn't know if anyone else was experiencing this, or had any thoughts on why that would randomly happen on a completely stock phone?
codeman0624 said:
I was considering buying a new/different card from amazon and seeing if it does the same thing still.
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That sounds like your best bet. There are plenty of crappy cards out there. My ADATA 8GB class 10 has been great so far. I have noticed that the GS3 gets really hot right near the cards (micro sd and sim). Can't be great for the cards long term.
I've had my VZW GS3 since 7/5 and have been fine with my card. I've seen plenty of people who've had trouble with FAT32 vs exFAT, but none who have lost their card.
I have seen a ROM break cards before (an early AOSP gingerbread build for the Fascinate claimed one of mine), so I've actually been looking. This is the first thread I've seen.
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mybook4 said:
That sounds like your best bet. There are plenty of crappy cards out there. My ADATA 8GB class 10 has been great so far. I have noticed that the GS3 gets really hot right near the cards (micro sd and sim). Can't be great for the cards long term.
I've had my VZW GS3 since 7/5 and have been fine with my card. I've seen plenty of people who've had trouble with FAT32 vs exFAT, but none who have lost their card.
I have seen a ROM break cards before (an early AOSP gingerbread build for the Fascinate claimed one of mine), so I've actually been looking. This is the first thread I've seen.
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I've also noticed it gets really hot toward the bottom of the phone. Now that I think of it, both times I noticed the SD card issue right after taking the phone out of my pocket. Maybe it's just getting too hot? I wonder if my case is also holding in a lot of the heat and making it worse? I wish there was a way I could test things without breaking an SD card every time!
My GS3 fried a new 32gb card that I put in it after about 3 weeks. Randomly got an "unreadable SD card error", can't correlate with any specific activity. I reformatted the SD card & it works again in the phone. I was rooted, running stock at the time. Maybe it's the heat, but I don't recall it being hot at the time (I also don't recall it not being hot...)
Try sandisk.I was having problems with lesser brand
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I have been using the 32 GB San Disk brand card that came with my thunderbolt and it's been working great.
I really don't know what could cause that to happen to a card and I haven't noticed any other reports of it happening with this phone.
If it comes down to it VZW SHOULD give you a replacement because it could be something to do with the card slot in the phone. I would try talking to them if you can't get it worked out.
So going on the theory that maybe it's just getting too hot, I just ordered a 16gig sandisk ultra micro SD card. It claims to be "temperature proof", whatever that means. Hopefully that clears things up, otherwise I'll have to deal with Verizon, and I'll be super mad if they give me a refurbished phone when this issue actually started two weeks after I got the phone.
If I don't post back here then you can assume all has gone well!
16gb card from droid x
same as others, used the same 16gb card from my droid x, transferred to the bionic when it was released, and now have been using it in the GIII since release. no issues.
I don't believe the phones are getting too hot to do the damage. The hottest temp my battery has gotten had been 106 and they say that heat damage isn't even a concern until around 140 or so. I would think the cards could take the same if not more than the batteries.
I had a similar problem, my sd card wasn't destroyed, but it would randomly become unmounted. It started happening after I hooked my phone up to my corporate email and it forced me to encrypt my device. After I removed the corporate account it stopped happening. This was all on stock TouchWiz from the factory.
codeman0624 said:
My shiny new Galaxy S III has now destroyed two 32gig micro SD cards on me. About two weeks after I installed the first card, my phone started giving messages about the SD card being improperly removed, then it would immediately try to re-mount it, then would say it was removed again, then finally started just repeating the "unable to mount SD card" error until I physically removed the card. I argued with best buy to give me another one, and now today (about two weeks after installing the new one), the same thing happened. I put the card into a USB reader to try it on my computer, and now even my PC does not recognize the card.
Has this happened to anyone else? What can I do to fix this?! I pre-ordered the phone from verizon, so I'm now well out of warranty replacement time.
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I have had my 64gb SD card for a month and so far nothing went wrong. did you buy your SD cards from a reputable source? I have always used sandisk SD cards try buying one from Sandisk or even Samsung. if you bought your card from ebay make sure the card works, I have heard that some times people sell damaged cards for very cheap. But other than that good luck.
16 GB class 10 sandisk 30 mb/s version died on me with this phone after 2 weeks, stock ROM, formatted with phone. It was brand new.
The error I had was it became read only. And no it was not fixable, I tried everything. Low level format, checking permissions, different OS's, putting it in SD adapter and messing with lock switch on there.
I read class 10s are more prone to die quicker and aren't necessarily better, but just different from a lower class. Ie a lower class will last longer because it read and writes differently and doesn't skip certain safeties like a class 10 does.
Running a class 4 16gb sandisk now and it is annoyingly slow.
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SIM Card tray/holder/connector

My A2 sim card connector has broken..
i'm gonna open the cellphone and try to fix it.. but i'll probably need a new one..
I googled for a long time but only found it at cellphone-repair-shop..
does anybody know another website with atrix2/motorola parts?
Thanks!
I know this is a very old post, but did u manage to get ur hands on the sim tray??
My reader is also destroyed. From that I see you can solder it very easy. One day I'll try it, because Atrix 2 is not my main device. So if I'll destroy board by soldering new socket - there wont be problem.
I posting my destroyed socket picture.
Some news.
I desoldered SIM reader with success. Phone still powers on.
Now I only need to buy new reader and solder it and see if phone accepts new sims. So stay tuned.
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changing replacing sim card slot i727

So i needed to change the module board of SIM Card, got one on ebay, opened the phone and replaced the little board with 1 flex conector.
but NOW when i turn on the phone theres no message of "sim card not found" and theres circled slash on where suposed to be network.
am i missing something or i might just screwd it up?
Open it up again and make sure everything in connected correctly and that nothing is shorted.
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ok finally made it.
the thing was that its so damn fragile...o replaced many times the boards in many diferent and sensitive ways...and then one way worked out even though i cannot tell whats the different between the correct position and the other ones that did not recognize the SIM CARD module/board.
Error for me too
adbraz said:
So i needed to change the module board of SIM Card, got one on ebay, opened the phone and replaced the little board with 1 flex conector.
but NOW when i turn on the phone theres no message of "sim card not found" and theres circled slash on where suposed to be network.
am i missing something or i might just screwd it up?
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Hi, I am facing the same issue. Whatever the sim I am inserting, I am getting "Insert Sim Card" message only. Will this work if I replace same like what you did? Can you paste the link?
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kovaiguy said:
Hi, I am facing the same issue. Whatever the sim I am inserting, I am getting "Insert Sim Card" message only. Will this work if I replace same like what you did? Can you paste the link?
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I had a similar problem, turned out the replacement tray was bad.
I don't get to say this often but I actually encountered great customer service. I ordered the replacement sim card tray/sdcard holder for a Samsung device on which the sim card reader had been damaged. I received the one piece tray but the sdcard slot was non-functional. I wrote an email pointing out the flaw with no expectations. Got a new part in 2 days. No run around at'all! No 2 hours navigating an automated phone nightmare (Net10/AT&T), just a dang email. I gave em good feedback ratings on their site of course! I don't know if it's allowed but it's so rare to find good folks I feel the need to pimp em.
http://stores.ebay.com/usmobileparts
I just replaced my Sim Card tray. It was working fine.
But for my own safety i re-set the whole phone and re-flashed cm10.1
Phone is working fine. Reading sim, microsd card but sadly i'm stuck on 2g now.
disassembly
I am in having to replace the sim card holder on my skyrocket but I am having trouble finding out how the sim card holder board is attached to the main board,,could someone direct me to some kind of disassembly guide or something
thanks

Been having problems since day one

Man I've been having problems since day one. I've had it for a couple of days now and I'm so frustrated that I'm thinking of going back to my LGV10 and returning it back. At first I was super excited to open up the package but then......
1st problem...
Wasn't able to install the SD card and sim card. I kept on trying to install it but it would jump out of its slot and fall off. With the weight of the phone I had to also not just try to insert the cards but try to not drop the phone while juggling to balance it.
2nd problem.....
SD card doesn't read...
I have a 200gb SD I had on my V10 so I thought I could just pop it in and enjoy me some movies on this big screen and enjoy some music but Nope, it doesn't seem to want to read it and making me reformat it. I don't think so.
I installed a new one. Had to format it and thought I could transfer files to it and..
3rd problem.....
No OTG..... I didn't know that I tried to manually install some files and no luck.
Oh yeah I dropped it already also but good thing it was on the carpet.
I really really like the phone so I there's anything anyone can help me with I would be much appreciated .
Thanks and sorry I had to vent..
This phone could be great, but it really needs some dev love. If it could be unlocked and rooted I really think a custom rom could make this phone really shine. Maybe in the near future. For now I went ahead and ordered the Zenfone 3 Ultra. Going to spend the next week comparing the two. If I can get over the lack of LTE and the Zenfone has better user experience I will probably return the Lenovo.
MR.MEMORYLANE said:
Man I've been having problems since day one. I've had it for a couple of days now and I'm so frustrated that I'm thinking of going back to my LGV10 and returning it back. At first I was super excited to open up the package but then......
1st problem...
Wasn't able to install the SD card and sim card. I kept on trying to install it but it would jump out of its slot and fall off. With the weight of the phone I had to also not just try to insert the cards but try to not drop the phone while juggling to balance it.
2nd problem.....
SD card doesn't read...
I have a 200gb SD I had on my V10 so I thought I could just pop it in and enjoy me some movies on this big screen and enjoy some music but Nope, it doesn't seem to want to read it and making me reformat it. I don't think so.
I installed a new one. Had to format it and thought I could transfer files to it and..
3rd problem.....
No OTG..... I didn't know that I tried to manually install some files and no luck.
Oh yeah I dropped it already also but good thing it was on the carpet.
I really really like the phone so I there's anything anyone can help me with I would be much appreciated .
Thanks and sorry I had to vent..
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I had a 7" display phablet. It had simcard instructions printed on the back shipping plastic. I kept the plastic on because it was a very handy reminder and was hidden by the case anyway. The way I did the simcard in Slot 1 and the sdcard in Slot 2 was to keep the phone flat on its face on a table. Open the slots one at a time... Install the cards... The table made it so easy!!! My simcard had to go into a plastic adapter to make it the right size and it was a real juggling act before I tried this - it also aids in not losing the teenie cards. They land right on the table. Now, it's possible that you have to put the phone on its back on the table... It just depends on the orientation of the card in the tray and the tray in the slot!!! Don't let that be the reason why you return the phone! Try it!!!
Another thing, I am not a techie but a few people here have mentioned that our old sdcard format doesn't work in this phone. They have (usually) purchased a new card (which I'm going to do once I get lucky enough to get this phone in my hands!) and reformatted it to work in this phone and then transferred the data from the old card onto the new one... I am not a techie so I am still going to research this different format... I still have some questions about whether my pc card reader reads that format or do I need to get a reader? Are a lot of newly released phones changing the sdcard format? Why would they request the new format? But I am not letting that stop me... I really want this phone. In my area the Chinese phones don't give good MMS text performance or I would be doing an ASUS Zenphone 3 Ultra!!!
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Yeah I figured out the card inserts & I also installed a brand new SD card. I format it to how it was suppose to be and I installed one song. Took me forever just for that one song. I just hope to figure it out before it's to late to return. Just want to be happy with it if you know what I mean lol.. Thank you

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