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Galaxy SL shows "Insert sim card"

Hi, I am using Samsung Galaxy SL I9003 for couple of weeks. 2 days ago I found a problem that showed me "Insert sim card". I gave my set a master reset and then the set was ok. But I got the same problem today. I tried the same way. This time master reset is not working.
My IMEI is 354949040415515. PDA:I9003DXKB1, CSC:I9003OLBKB1. Firmware version:2.2.1, .
If someone knows about it. Please help me. I will be grate full to you.

I think you have problem with contacts of your sim card. Try to clean them. Also you can try to show your phone to the service. I don't think this is problem with your firmware.

shoeb180 said:
Hi, I am using Samsung Galaxy SL I9003 for couple of weeks. 2 days ago I found a problem that showed me "Insert sim card". I gave my set a master reset and then the set was ok. But I got the same problem today. I tried the same way. This time master reset is not working.
My IMEI is ************. PDA:I9003DXKB1, CSC:I9003OLBKB1. Firmware version:2.2.1, .
If someone knows about it. Please help me. I will be grate full to you.
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First advice is never post your IMEI no. in public thread.
As IMEI is intact there should not be any network related issue due to non registration of your device at centre of your network service provider. I feel it could be hardware issue with the SIM card slot. But not necessarily hardware, it could be even problem with your SIM itself. If its used for longtime. first test with another SIM card, may be from a friend or a family member and make sure its not a sim problem. Then if you some how you think it could be related to Firmware you have DXKB2 FW available for flashing as single PDA file. You can upgrade by flashing it from the I9003 firmware thread of Krrazyy or from Samfirmware.com. If that does not solve your problem, take it to service centre for hardware repair. All the best.

falex007 said:
I think you have problem with contacts of your sim card. Try to clean them. Also you can try to show your phone to the service. I don't think this is problem with your firmware.
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I didn't get your point bro...how it can be related to contacts?? Thanx for the help anyway.

trip007in said:
First advice is never post your IMEI no. in public thread.
As IMEI is intact there should not be any network related issue due to non registration of your device at centre of your network service provider. I feel it could be hardware issue with the SIM card slot. But not necessarily hardware, it could be even problem with your SIM itself. If its used for longtime. first test with another SIM card, may be from a friend or a family member and make sure its not a sim problem. Then if you some how you think it could be related to Firmware you have DXKB2 FW available for flashing as single PDA file. You can upgrade by flashing it from the I9003 firmware thread of Krrazyy or from Samfirmware.com. If that does not solve your problem, take it to service centre for hardware repair. All the best.
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Hey, I flashed with DXKB2 last night and my phone acted ok for couple of hours. Then the problem has started again. Another thing is, now it doesn't show my IMEI in setting option or after pressing *#06#......even after pressing *#1234#, it shows me the PDA and CSC, but it shows "Phone : Unknown". Is it a network related issue? If yes, wht to do now. Thanx for the previous comment.

shoeb180 said:
Hey, I flashed with DXKB2 last night and my phone acted ok for couple of hours. Then the problem has started again. Another thing is, now it doesn't show my IMEI in setting option or after pressing *#06#......even after pressing *#1234#, it shows me the PDA and CSC, but it shows "Phone : Unknown". Is it a network related issue? If yes, wht to do now. Thanx for the previous comment.
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Not network you wiped your phones IMEI with the flash .
You backed up your EFS folder then just restore it .
NO apart from why not you need to find the EFS restore thread that may help .
jje

shoeb180 said:
I didn't get your point bro...how it can be related to contacts?? Thanx for the help anyway.
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I mean electric contacts of your sim card. Try to clean them by alcohol. I'm not talking about sim records of phone numbers

JJEgan said:
Not network you wiped your phones IMEI with the flash .
You backed up your EFS folder then just restore it .
NO apart from why not you need to find the EFS restore thread that may help .
jje
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Thanx buddy.......Another thing I want to inform you my phone shows "Baseband Version : Unknown". I showed it to the customer care and they said that the problem is with Baseband version. They also said that it's a software related issue. But my problem is it showed the IMEI and Baseband Version for 2 hours after my flashing. Then it started again. What type of flashing is going to help me?
Another thing, Can u please tell me or give me a link about restoring the EFS folder? I searched it in google.. but no result!
In addition I am using it from Bangladesh. As far as I know it is not officially launched here. Do I need any unlocking process? If yes, how can I do that??
N.B: Even kies is unable to connect my phone right now!!!!

I have the same problem
Hi, I have exactly the same problem on my Galaxy SL i9003. Did you finally manage to solve it?

to restore imei you need to have backup of your working imei efs folder.i see you have your imei number written here not sure if it is possible to mode efs folder to fit you phone.

xGiox said:
to restore imei you need to have backup of your working imei efs folder.i see you have your imei number written here not sure if it is possible to mode efs folder to fit you phone.
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It's been a long time. I was frustrated and stopped trying of repairing my phone. Now I see some light. Some people are talking about efs restore. I samsung captivate, a developer showed the way to repair imei and product code without even using pc.
Is it possible in I9003?
And hey, can u please tell me now whether I can mode my efs with that IMEI.
Please help.

this could be a hardware related issue also !
may be the pin where the sim card is inserted went inside or was bent..
or else insert any other sim card and see if ur phone works or not..
3rd this could be a corrupted sim card problem.. my sim card got corrupted and no matter in which handset i put my card in the phon won't boot ! btw it was a BSNL sim card..
-SiMmER

simmer14 said:
this could be a hardware related issue also !
may be the pin where the sim card is inserted went inside or was bent..
or else insert any other sim card and see if ur phone works or not..
3rd this could be a corrupted sim card problem.. my sim card got corrupted and no matter in which handset i put my card in the phon won't boot ! btw it was a BSNL sim card..
-SiMmER
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Thanx for ur post SiMmER. But I don't think it's about any hardware related issue because I have tried all the way possible to make my phone working.

shoeb180 said:
It's been a long time. I was frustrated and stopped trying of repairing my phone. Now I see some light. Some people are talking about efs restore. I samsung captivate, a developer showed the way to repair imei and product code without even using pc.
Is it possible in I9003?
And hey, can u please tell me now whether I can mode my efs with that IMEI.
Please help.
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If you made a backup of your efs folder, then via CWM it is possible to restore it. If such a backup does not exists, then things are really complicated. maybe you can use the backup of some other EFS from a different i9003, and try to modify the IMEI with yours that can be taken from outside the box. I don't know if you can do the last procedure but some expert maybe can!
Good luck.

I had a similar issue with another phone and sim card, similar to the contact issue. why not take out your sim and put it on a flat surface to see if it's still flat as it should be? if it got hot and became slightly warped, you'll have to bend it back (CAREFULLY!!!) so that the contacts are in contact again
if this is the case, you have to get a new one at your service provider so it doesn't keep happening...

Moved to General section since it has nothing to do with development.
Unless it does and I somehow missed it, if so just pm me and I'll move it back.

And see if u inserted sim card d wrong way.. It happened to me..
Sent from my GT-I9003

I got this problem too.
It suddenly happened to me when using stock room (xxkb1, if i'm not wrong), and in that time i never flashed anything in the phone, so probably not a software issue.
I tried rebooting billion times, put another sim card, cleaning the contacts, factory resets, prayers and nothing worked. But the weird fact is that sometimes it starts working out of nowhere for 2 or 3 hours and then it stops. It confuses me, because it means it's not hardware too. So then i tried updating to xxkpe and xxkph and the problem still remains.
My sim card is not bent, its not inserted in wrong way, the sim cards work in others phones, shows "Insert sim card" when i try going into network settings, doesn't show my IMEI in setting option or after pressing *#06#......even after pressing *#1234#, it shows me the PDA and CSC, but it shows "Phone : Unknown" (like OP), and i didn't backup the EFS. Everything else in the phone works great..
Could you guys help me out? I live in small city in Brazil and bought the i9003 in Paraguay, there are no samsung customer care or similar nearby.

[Q] IMEI corrrupted

Bought a new S6 from Ebay that had been opened up to all networks. Discovered it was rooted which I didn't want so I flashed it with a stock Vodafone ROM. The phone worked fine for about 10 days then all of a sudden I got the message 'not registered on network' when I try to make call. It turns out that the IMEI number has changed. Does anyone know whether this type of problem can be sorted out?

Flash back to stock via odin.
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IMEI Corrupted
I'm going to use a Vodafone ROM as this phone was originally on Vodafone before the seller had it opened up to all networks. THE ROM is G920FXXU1AOCZ_G920FVFG1AOC4_G920FXXU1AOCW_HOME.tar.md5. Does this sound like the right one? Sorry for all the questions - I'm new to this. The other thing worth mentioning is the IMEI at the moment is 350000000000006. Where could this have come from? Any ideas? It's weird because the original IMEI was in tact for about 10 days before it changed to the one above. Any help at all would be appreciated

pageldog said:
I'm going to use a Vodafone ROM as this phone was originally on Vodafone before the seller had it opened up to all networks. THE ROM is G920FXXU1AOCZ_G920FVFG1AOC4_G920FXXU1AOCW_HOME.tar.md5. Does this sound like the right one? Sorry for all the questions - I'm new to this. The other thing worth mentioning is the IMEI at the moment is 350000000000006. Where could this have come from? Any ideas? It's weird because the original IMEI was in tact for about 10 days before it changed to the one above. Any help at all would be appreciated
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Corrupt imei is known issue when flashing and rooted. That's why firdt thing you do when rooting, is you backup your stock rom together with efs folder. Idk which is your stock rom, you have to do some research, download that rom and use odin to go back to stock. You will lose everything you got on the phone btw so save any pictures or music.
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IMEI Corrupted
ambervals6 said:
Corrupt imei is known issue when flashing and rooted. That's why firdt thing you do when rooting, is you backup your stock rom together with efs folder. Idk which is your stock rom, you have to do some research, download that rom and use odin to go back to stock. You will lose everything you got on the phone btw so save any pictures or music.
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Thanks for that. The problem I have is that there's no backup of the EFS folder or the stock ROM. Without these, is there any way of sorting this out or is the phone dead? Cheers

hi
i have same problem did you fix that if yes please help me

Bring S6 back to Samsung for repair

My guess is the phone you bought was stolen and after 10 days it got blacklisted.
Or the seller claimed he lost his phone to insurance company, sold it you, got a new one on insurance, and then after the 10 days the "lost" phone (your phone) got blacklisted.
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Obagleyfreer said:
My guess is the phone you bought was stolen and after 10 days it got blacklisted.
Or the seller claimed he lost his phone to insurance company, sold it you, got a new one on insurance, and then after the 10 days the "lost" phone (your phone) got blacklisted.
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but i checked IMEI is clean

Oh right, that's weird then! I guess efs partition could have just randomly corrupted.
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I have the exact same problem, bro. All of the sudden my IMEI changed to 350000000000006 and I'm not able to register on my network. Did you manage to fix this? Please, let me know.

The same story, any help?

How I can fix this? Please help

Get Chimera tool and you should be able to fix it no problem

Did you manage to fix?
My baseband shows as attached after installing vador rom so I'm confused

If you didn't formatted/wipe the efs/nvbackup, there's a chance you can retrieve your imei.
But if it doesn't, the only way is to bring it up to Samsung or a good phone technicians to repair or get you a new branded IMEI for your phone. Mine was fixed by a technician using Octopus box tool.
You may try my method, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63693480&postcount=28

Guy's can u try other firmware for ur country for example if u are from France then try the fw for France ok
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have you tried entering *#0011# ?
and then reboot

MrWolfman said:
have you tried entering *#0011# ?
and then reboot
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did this work for anyone? any feedback?

Ok. I have the same problem, my IMEI is 3500000000006 and said: "someone try to flashed you phone, and is lock..... blablabla" everything is good, baseband show me the number, I did not flashed or root the phone before I got this message, its show by it self, I rooted now, was on 5.0.2, and flashed 5.1.1 thinkig to its going to help me, but Nothing, still the same, now I cant downgrade to 5.0.2. Already look diferent videos and post on internet but nothing is making work.... Any sugestions????

No GSM/Edge Connectivity .

We had a few hours network outage due to security reasons. But my G3 didnt recover when the outage was over and is still stuck at "no Service" even after several reboots, clean flash of cloudy and restoration to stock using nandroid. It was working just fine a night before. I have tried restoring Stock from nandroid but still no luck. I have tried different SIM cards too but still no connectivity.
*#06# shows proper IMEI number.
Baseband was shown as Unknown, So I flashed one from xda threads for D850 V10D. Now my Baseband is known. But no luck.
Wifi works fine.
Bluetooth works fine.
Sim Toolkit works fine
SIM contacts are visible
AAT tests USIM1 Passes
I am back to Stock using TOT method.
I even had a bit of luck and caught some signals last night but they came and Whooosh gone again never to return.
It is to be known that I am in Pakistan and D850 is ATT US. Do I need to take care of any unlocking to make it work here that the shopkeeper may already have done before selling it to me ? Because it worked fine before.
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I checked for unlock code. my phone says "Phone is not personalized". So i guess I am not operator locked.
Previously I had posted this in "G3 troubleshooting" forum assuming it to be cloudy ROM related but I think its much more serious than that. So posting it here in D850 Forum.

salimbaba said:
We had a few hours network outage due to security reasons. But my G3 didnt recover when the outage was over and is still stuck at "no Service" even after several reboots, clean flash of cloudy and restoration to stock using nandroid. It was working just fine a night before. I have tried restoring Stock from nandroid but still no luck. I have tried different SIM cards too but still no connectivity.
*#06# shows proper IMEI number.
Baseband was shown as Unknown, So I flashed one from xda threads for D850 V10D. Now my Baseband is known. But no luck.
Wifi works fine.
Bluetooth works fine.
Sim Toolkit works fine
SIM contacts are visible
AAT tests USIM1 Passes
I am back to Stock using TOT method.
I even had a bit of luck and caught some signals last night but they came and Whooosh gone again never to return.
It is to be known that I am in Pakistan and D850 is ATT US. Do I need to take care of any unlocking to make it work here that the shopkeeper may already have done before selling it to me ? Because it worked fine before.
Edit::
I checked for unlock code. my phone says "Phone is not personalized". So i guess I am not operator locked.
Previously I had posted this in "G3 troubleshooting" forum assuming it to be cloudy ROM related but I think its much more serious than that. So posting it here in D850 Forum.
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Make sure your network settings are set correctly. Gsm/wcdma/LTE.
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hyelton said:
Make sure your network settings are set correctly. Gsm/wcdma/LTE.
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Yes. they are correct.

Almost sounds like a carrier network issue. Did they change frequencies?
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hyelton said:
Make sure your network settings are set correctly. Gsm/wcdma/LTE.
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So i had my phone fixed. The guy said he replaced antenna multiplexer ic which did the trick.
My phone is back to att stock v10d. Here are baseband and build number Baseband
Baseband
Mpss.di.2.0.1.c1.13-00009-m8974aaaaaanpzm-1
Build; kvt49l.d85010d
Can you verify these numbers please.
Secondly my setting for preferred network mode arw missing now. How to re enable that.

salimbaba said:
So i had my phone fixed. The guy said he replaced antenna multiplexer ic which did the trick.
My phone is back to att stock v10d. Here are baseband and build number Baseband
Baseband
Mpss.di.2.0.1.c1.13-00009-m8974aaaaaanpzm-1
Build; kvt49l.d85010d
Can you verify these numbers please.
Secondly my setting for preferred network mode arw missing now. How to re enable that.
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If your running stock firmware you don't have access to network modes on AT&T
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Problems with mobile data s6 duos

Hi there,
Recently, I've been having mobile data problems with my s6 duos
I've got an s6 duos from globe, so 1 sim slot is locked to globe and the other sim slot is open line. Recently I've been having problems connecting to mobile data using my smart sim card. In the data service network, the option to choose smart for mobile data is locked/unavailable, so I can only use my globe simcard for mobile data. I've tried using a different sim but no luck.
I was able to use my smart sim for mobile data in the past. Though I have no problem receiving texts or calls with my smart sim
Advice is much appreciated
Thanks
Also, in APN under my smart sim, I get this message
"Unable to view the access point name settings. Access is restricted for the current user profile."
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My guess... flash BTU ... latest UK g920F firmware. Its kind of imposible to lock 1 sim and the 2nd sim to be unlocked.
Edit: you may lost warranty after this... and this is only my guess.
Edit2: flash a costom recovery... do a full backup so if something goes wrong you restore everything

lummujaj said:
My guess... flash BTU ... latest UK g920F firmware. Its kind of imposible to lock 1 sim and the 2nd sim to be unlocked.
Edit: you may lost warranty after this... and this is only my guess.
Edit2: flash a costom recovery... do a full backup so if something goes wrong you restore everything
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Thanks for replying! I've never really done something like that before.. so if you could give me links and let me know what are the risks of flashing?
also my unit was purchased locally in the philippines, will a uk firmware work with it?

In settings search "profile" if the cell phone finds any ,post a screenshot of if... and you find firmware at samfirmware.com... or a guy have posted them in general section uploaded in google drive for better speed download

lummujaj said:
In settings search "profile" if the cell phone finds any ,post a screenshot of if... and you find firmware at samfirmware.com... or a guy have posted them in general section uploaded in google drive for better speed download
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Thanks!
No results when i searched profile in the settings.
Will trying flashing a new firmware

Am curious, will unlocking my phone also solve the problem?

LanceD. said:
Am curious, will unlocking my phone also solve the problem?
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I had the g920FD... the phone use one EFS for both imeis. I said it cannot be 1 sim lock and 1 seem free. The phone for sure contain something installed from provaider to restrict the sim1. I would flash new version. But as i said 1st ill flash recovery to do full nandroid backup

Vernee Apollo Lite, "Emergency Calls Only"

Hello every one!!
My phone was rooted but i put a official stock rom version back from there own website.
After install i put the sim card in the mobile and get an error "Emergency Calls Only". Before i unroot my mobile, the sim card every thing working fine.
I tried, many things but maybe one of you know what i should do. The sim card works in another mobile but when i put back in my phone it doesn't work.
What can i do? Plz help me
Sorry for my bad English

Mohamed_Android said:
Hello every one!!
My phone was rooted but i put a official stock rom version back from there own website.
After install i put the sim card in the mobile and get an error "Emergency Calls Only". Before i unroot my mobile, the sim card every thing working fine.
I tried, many things but maybe one of you know what i should do. The sim card works in another mobile but when i put back in my phone it doesn't work.
What can i do? Plz help me
Sorry for my bad English
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Do you still see your IMEI in system settings?
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Droidriven said:
Do you still see your IMEI in system settings?
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When i bring the menu down it's not saying any more "Emergency Calls Only" but it give me the name of the provider that's good.
Now when i call it give me "Cellular network not available".
When i go to settings->about phone->status->IMEI information. It give me the next information:
IMEI (Slot1)
Unknown
IMEI SV (Slot1)
78
IMEI (Slot2)
Unkown
IMEI SV (Slot2)
78
I have only one sim card in my mobile. I live in Netherland. What can i do to fix this. Plz help

Mohamed_Android said:
When i bring the menu down it's not saying any more "Emergency Calls Only" but it give me the name of the provider that's good.
Now when i call it give me "Cellular network not available".
When i go to settings->about phone->status->IMEI information. It give me the next information:
IMEI (Slot1)
Unknown
IMEI SV (Slot1)
78
IMEI (Slot2)
Unkown
IMEI SV (Slot2)
78
I have only one sim card in my mobile. I live in Netherland. What can i do to fix this. Plz help
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As I suspected, your IMEI was wiped out somehow during your process.
You need to restore your IMEI, there are several ways but the only method I can discuss with you is restoring IMEI from an IMEI backup, you obviously didn't create an IMEI backup so that method isn't going to help you. Any other method is not allowed to be discussed at XDA.
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Droidriven said:
As I suspected, your IMEI was wiped out somehow during your process.
You need to restore your IMEI, there are several ways but the only method I can discuss with you is restoring IMEI from an IMEI backup, you obviously didn't create an IMEI backup so that method isn't going to help you. Any other method is not allowed to be discussed at XDA.
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YESS Thank you my friend!!!!!
I put my IMEI back with "Maui Meta IMEI" program. Thank you very much!!!. I fixed my mobile.
The biggest mistake what i did is when i used "SP Flash tool" I choose "Format and download" I must do "Download only"
Thank you men!!!!