I have recently bought the neo 2 and I am very happy with it. However, sim tray 1 keeps failing. I'm unable to "let it fail" on purpose, but every few hours I have to input my sim pincode again. Shaking, dropping or otherwise manipulating the device physically doesn't give me an error.
I do not have this issue in tray 2. I have already tried a new sim card, but that doesn't matter. I don't want to disable the sim pin, and tbh I just want to use sim tray 1 and not 2.
Anyone else have this issue? Any workaround?
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A couple of weeks ago my phone started generating an SIM error message at startup.
I then changed ROM from the Orange WM6 to the latest HTC version, and since then i get the same error message.... Missing or invalid SIM please contact you service provider....
The weird thing about this is that I still get the error message, I clear it twice, and it asks me for my PIN and continues to work just fine... I thought that changing the ROM would sort this as I just put the error down to some sort of OS problem initially.
Anyone else experienced the same of similar issues?
I replaced my SIM to see if that made any difference but that hasn't changed a thing either...
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the same here. don't know why..
hi! ive had alot of experience with phones giving similar errors. found its one of two reasons..
1) the phone is blacklisted. its weird but blacklisted phones works sometimes and other times it gives some sort of invalid sim error.
2) the sim is just simply not making proper contact with the metal pins. in nokia phones i usually just put a small piece of cartboard or thick paper in between the battery and the sim and the pressure forces the sim closer to the pins.
dunno about vox tho. put its worth a try
I get the same problem, with an O2 SIM card in a HTC-branded S710. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn't.
If it happens while turning the phone on, then I find that all of the sounds are playing faster than usual also (things like message and call tones are high pitched). If I go into Comm Manager, put it into flight mode and back out again, it not only finds the SIM card properly but also fixes the sound issue.
I wonder whether it's something to do with my SIM card possibly being a USIM card instead, since it says "O2 3G" on the card, but of course, the handset is not 3G-capable.
Skyld said:
I get the same problem, with an O2 SIM card in a HTC-branded S710. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn't.
If it happens while turning the phone on, then I find that all of the sounds are playing faster than usual also (things like message and call tones are high pitched). If I go into Comm Manager, put it into flight mode and back out again, it not only finds the SIM card properly but also fixes the sound issue.
I wonder whether it's something to do with my SIM card possibly being a USIM card instead, since it says "O2 3G" on the card, but of course, the handset is not 3G-capable.
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My excalibur (HTC 620) phone has exactly the same symptoms with a USIM (3G). It has no problem with other 2G SIM.
I am not sure whether it is something with the ROM. I flashed my phone with wm6.1 rom cooked by Kavana.
I had the same issue with one of my 3G SIM's. Eventually I didnt know what else to try so I got a SIM swap and thats solved the issue. Not a single problem since then
After updating (successfully aparently) my Touch Pro with the official HTC Rom update, I was asked to set my four digit pin. So I did, I typed in my pin twice. But now the phone does not accept this pin. It is locked, and I am not able to log on. I tried the PUK-code from my operator, but that does not work either.
Also, there is a very long delay (many hours, maybe days?) between every time I am allowed to type in any code, since I tried so many times.
Any suggestions what I can do?
Funny enough something similar happened to a friend of mine. Sunday I told him to Hard-reset his phone (over the phone). Min you, he isn't that quick . After configuring the phone kept asking for a PIN. He entered the wrong PIN ofcourse and was blaming me for giving the wrong instructions. I told him his SIM card was inserted the wrong way. I just gave up and told him to insert his SIM in another phone, which he did. He then unlocked his SIM by using the PUK code. In the mean time I asked him to do another hard-reset without his memorycard inserted. After this final hard-reset I told him to re-insert his SIM card, connections faced down with the corner on the right bottom. Reboot, and his phone was working again.
I'm not saying you inserted youw SIM the wrong way, but he did. And his phone asked him for a pin while apparantely his SIM wasn't inserted... Anyway, give it a try and see if it works.
A few key details:
I purchased my device via Google Play.
I'm using a SIM card provided by Sprint.
I'm not rooted. This device is completely stock.
I've tried reseating the SIM card as well as Factory Data Resets.
That said, here's my issue.
Every time I boot my device, even after a Factory Reset, a while after it's been connected to 3G (it also won't connect to LTE unless auto-activation is in progress, that's a whole separate issue), it displays an empty alert box with a SIM card icon at the top. After closing that box, it displays another one that reads some error about my SIM card being locked and that I need to power cycle the device.
I've tried everything and this error is still popping up. I'll be contacting Sprint later today about the issue but I figured I'd come here first to see if anybody knows about this issue.
Pretty frustrating, Sprint sucks, yada yada... the basics. Can anybody help?
Have you tried unlocking it yourself online under your account's page?
There should be a link next to where your device is listed.
"Get my PIN1/PUK1 unlock code" should give you the required codes to unlock it.
Might also be a bad sim card.
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Does that Sim card was already activated on another device? Or did they gave you a new one?
There is a similar problem when people try to use a sim card from a current device, that will trigger that same message like yours.
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Hey!
I have a strange problem with my Mi4i (MIUI 7.5.2.0). The phone shows "no signal" or "emergency calls only" with a specific sim card, which works in other phones and used to work in the phone in the past.
The device works well with other sim cards too, even from the same provider. Just not with the specific sim card, which happens to be the one i would like to use. I cannot remember if the problem occured after an update (ota only).
I have tried so far, without any effect:
- a factory reset, without deleting the personal content.
- ordered and tried a new sim card from my provider
There seem to be similar threads in this forum, but they do not adress exactly my problem afaik.
Does someone has an idea what else i can try? I will provide further information if needed.
Thanks in advance!
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Hey!
I have a strange problem with my Mi4i (MIUI 7.5.2.0). The phone shows "no signal" or "emergency calls only" with a specific sim card, which works in other phones.
The device works well with other sim cards too, even from the same provider. Just not with the specific sim card, which happens to be the one i would like to use.
I have tried so far, without any effect:
- a factory reset, without deleting the personal content.
- ordered and tried a new sim card from my provider
There seem to be similar threads in this forum, but they do not adress exactly my problem afaik.
Does someone has an idea what else i can try? I will provide further information if needed.
Thanks in advance!
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Might be an unsupported band. What phone have tried the sim with?
Thanks for reading . Oneplus One, iPhone 5C. Sorry i forget to tell the sim card worked in the Mi4i. I didn't use the phone for a while and i might have updated it (ota) when i turned it on again recently. I guess the problem persists since then.
Any chance the update caused it?
did a full wipe and reinstalled miui (7) in fastboot mode. no change. the sim card works fine with other phones. the phone works with other sim cards fine too. just not with my main one
Hi. I received my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra 5G smartphone, which I ordered from Samsung.com (I chose the T-Mobile version when ordering). After turning on the phone for the first time, at the Welcome screen, when I click the Start button, I get the message, "Insert SIM card from your service provider for network service."
I can't find a way to bypass this message. I was initially thinking if I could connect to my WiFi, it'd go away, but there's absolutely no way to connect to WiFi or access any settings.
I upgrade my smartphones every 15 months and have had T-Mobile for nearly a decade, and this is the first time I've seen such a thing during setup. I like to keep my SIM card in my current smartphone until the new one is fully set up, at which point I would transfer the SIM card over. I have a lot of services I use that rely on SIM card (i.e., not fully cloud-based and are tied to the SIM card), and not having that service during setup may be an issue. Also, I have received brand new phones that have had issues in the past (e.g., poor battery life, screen problems), so I'd rather fully test the new phone before transferring my SIM over.
The workaround I thought of: Put in a temporary T-Mobile SIM card, just to complete the setup process. Once setup has completed, I'll put my actual SIM card into the phone, or have T-Mobile transfer my phone number to the new SIM card. Thoughts?
Thank you.
It's because you got the T-Mobile phone so it wants you to connect to the network first before using it or continuing with setup. A way to get around that is to install the u1 firmware.
IIRC you can hold the volume down button for 5 seconds at the sim required screen to bypass the requirement. There's a help article somewhere that documents this.
As far as I know, Samsung requiring a SIM card during initial setup has been around for a long time. Nothing to do with your carrier. Even my unlocked phone from Samsung required a SIM card on first boot before continuing. There are of course ways around that, but beware. I bypassed the SIM card requirement setting up my S21 Ultra and spent a day configuring it to my liking. Then I popped the SIM card in from my old phone and it caused a factory reset erasing all my hard work. Probably because my carrier wanted to install all their software and settings. Not saying the same thing will happen to you, but just something to be aware of.
Here is the link to the eSIM setup (bypass SIM requirement)
Samsung eSIM to eSIM first time use
Visit T-Mobile Support for help with phones & internet devices, plans & services, billing, and more!
www.t-mobile.com
Sticking a SIM from another carrier after eSIM set up should not cause a hard reset under normal circumstances, it does cause a reboot into bootloader to deploy the new carrier specific customizations from cache, but this is supposed to be transparent to user data. It broke if it caused a hard reset ;\
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IIRC you can hold the volume down button for 5 seconds at the sim required screen to bypass the requirement. There's a help article somewhere that documents this.
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Technically, this worked, but this burned me badly. I appreciate the workaround, but I highly recommend against it. See below.
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I bypassed the SIM card requirement setting up my S21 Ultra and spent a day configuring it to my liking. Then I popped the SIM card in from my old phone and it caused a factory reset erasing all my hard work. Probably because my carrier wanted to install all their software and settings. Not saying the same thing will happen to you, but just something to be aware of.
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This is exactly what happened to me on the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. This is literally the most annoyed I have ever been at an electronic consumer device.
I spent over 21 hours over the span of 6 days setting up the phone. I put in the SIM card and was presented with a message stating, "SIM card detected. Restart your phone to start using your new SIM card." I could not use the phone at all, so my only option was to restart. After I hit the Restart button, the phone restarted. For less than 3 seconds, it showed a black screen with a small Android logo, with the small text "Erasing." Then the phone started up and everything is as if it's a brand new phone. Everything I've spent time working on is all gone.
Hello Team, important information, when it is asking for the carrier sim card, you need press volumen up + volumen down + power button at the same time for few seconds, then it will say a message like "Unlocked" then proceed with the first configuration.
This is for people who is going to use with a different provided, please let me know if you heard or read this info in another link (because i did not find that)