sim card not recognised?
 

hey guys, i am in a bit of a pickle at the moment, my n900 was working perfect for the last 2 months and all of a sudden on Sunday it just decided to stop making phone calls, the simcard reception bars have dissapeared completely as have the service providers name! I tried searching for a network manually and its as if the phone cannot recognise the sim card. Tried a different sim card from a different network ant it wont recognise that either. I didnt update or install any software at the weekend so im lead to think this may be a hardware issue:(. Ay help would be greatly appreciated as its just a tablet p.c. at the moment.

Re: sim card not recognised?
 

Did you try to flash it already?

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no didnt try and flash it yet, im gonna do it shortly i reckon, dont think it will make much of a difference though but ill give it a shot.

Re: sim card not recognised?
 

Didn't you, by any chance, install the Phone mode / Tablet mode switcher and switch to Tablet mode?

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my root memory was full, i couldnt do anything, no calls no angrybirds....
then i flashed and everything came back good, i feel like a hacker

Re: sim card not recognised?
 

ya i have tried changing that round but it just stays the same! this seems like a new enough issue on maemo talk when i searched for it, which leads me to believe it is a hardware issue, i will try flashing the device once its fully charged and go from there, fingers crossed!

Re: sim card not recognised?
 

flashing to the latest firmware will fix it

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dad having this problem on his n900 a reboot sorts it out but its still a pain in the arse, any ideas? dont really want to flash it as im a noob and dont want to make it worse

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ok just flashed n900 and STILL no sign of any phone signal!:(. Must be a hardware issue i reckon, anyone got any ideas? otherwise im gonna have to call nokia and vodafone and try and get it shipped for repair, bummer

Re: sim card not recognised?
 

what firmware did you flash it with? also after flashing refresh app manager to see if thers a update to make sure you have the latest firmware, i had this prob a while back and flashing to global firmware fixed it.