Well today my HTC 8s, JUST SITTING ON THE TABLE suddenly rang with the notification tone, turned on the screen and got an error on the screen: "SIM Card is MISSING or INVALID".

Okay, f**k this s*it, I bought this brand new phone with 2 years warranty and 1 year paid insurance, somebody have to fix it for me. I called Orange Care, they told me to call the HTC Support and so I did. I checked every step they told me, and still nothing, same error (switched the phone on/off, remove - reinsert SIM), so they finally they told me to go to the closest Orange Store (opened today) for advanced diagnosis.

Got there, they installed the diagnosis software, checked it, and checked the logs and the only error was a missing SIM card (fhew, the hardware is okay) but the SIM was "DEMAGNETIZED" (that's how they call it) and they showed me that my phone would read other SIM cards but not that one, that one IS DEAD!

Okay, I got home, found an Orange SIM, chopped it down to the size, and guess what, the SIM was found (not active anymore) but found...! Now I will have to go to the central Orange store tomorrow and have a fight with those guise to recover my number and my minutes/options active on that SIM (it was 2 weeks old!)

My question now, why do SIM cards get "DEMAGNETIZED"?