“No SIM card”. Is your Android
phone saying this?
8th
February 2019, Friday.
Sable,
Douala, Cameroon.
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Greetings
today.
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THE PROBLEM.
Last week I
was downloading a book on my Android phone (MTN-S620) using the app ADM which can resume stopped downloads.
I took my
eyes from the phone to relax and do some self-hypnosis using my mixture of
self-made Alpha 7.5hz binaural beats and
isochronic tones.
After the ten-
or fifteen-minute session I opened my eyes and saw that my phone had apparently
rebooted on its own. The phone took a long time “optimizing apps” before the
main screen showed. I also felt the phone being painfully hot when I held it in
my right hand.
After the
booting I saw that my Internet no longer worked. I checked my SIM cards in the
drag-down panel and saw the message “No
SIM card”.
I stayed
calm. I thanked God that at least the phone still worked. I could still listen
to music on it, and read books on it using WPS
Office, my favourite ebook reader for Android.
I removed
the SIM cards, put them back in, and rebooted phone, and the message remained.
I assumed the SIM card reader was bad, physically (in hardware).
The next
day I went to a cybercafé where you
buy a ticket allowing you to use the Internet for an amount of time, on one of
the computers there.
In Google.com
I typed “android phone cannot detect sim
cards”, and found web pages that offered solutions to the “no sim card”
problem.
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MY SOLUTION.
I will share the pages with you after
telling you how I solved my problem. I tried to solve it by turning on airplane
mode and then turning it off, but that did not work.
I was eager to know if the problem was with
my hardware or software and did not want to waste time, so I decided to do a factory reset of my phone quickly. I
copied my important files to a computer and did factory reset on the phone.
After that I had to re-install apps and copy my files back to the phone, but now the SIM cards were showing. So it
was a software problem.
WARNING: Be careful
when doing factory reset because you will lose this:
- All installed apps
- Everything in the
phone storage, like your phone CONTACTS, downloaded files, music, internet
configuration (for Orange Cameroon in my case), and videos.
ACTION: Remove your
SIM cards, your memory cards, and any external devices from your phone to avoid
them being erased when you do Factory Reset.
You can use an app
like Apk Extractor to convert your
installed apps into APK files (Android installation files), then you copy the
apks elsewhere, and after resetting your phone you can install those apks back
into your phone.
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THE WEBPAGES THAT I FOUND.
I am sorry; I downloaded these webpages and
now I do not know how to get their individual
web addresses , although I can get the addresses of their source websites. I will give you their titles and
you can copy a title and paste it in the search bar of Google.com and search
for the related web page. Thank you.
Here are the web pages that I found
(remember, search for the title in Google):
1. [Solved] How to Fix Error "No SIM Card Detected" on Android
It is from https://www.tunesbro.com/
2. How to Fix No SIM Card Detected Error on Android
It is from https://joyofandroid.com/
3. How to Fix No SIM Card Detected on Android
It is from https://www.maketecheasier.com/
4. How To Fix No SIM Card Error On Android
It is from https://www.technobezz.com/
5. How to Fix No SIM Card Installed Error On Android Phone
It is from https://www.techbout.com/
6. How to Fix 'SIM Card Not Detected' in Any Phone
It is from https://www.android-recovery.net/
7. How to Solve the No SIM Card Error on Your Android Phone
It is from https://techpilipinas.com/
8. How to Fix 'Phone Can't Detect SIM Card' Issue
It is from https://www.androidphonesoft.com/
9. No SIM card Inserted on Android How to Fix
It is from https://www.fonepaw.com/
10. Why SIM Card Cannot Be Detected in my Phone, How to Fix?
It is from https://www.mobiledic.com/
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REMINDER:
You can use Apk Extractor to convert your installed
apps into APK files (Android installation files). This is useful if you do not
have the setup (installation) file APK.
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Written by Tamajong Tamajong Philip (PHL)