SIM Card not detected out of a sudden

PengYu

Hi, something weird happened to my Nothing Phone (1) out of nowhere. Was using the phone fine, when suddenly it could not detect any SIM card.

Tried it on both SIM1 and SIM2
Restarted phone with/without SIM card
Tested SIM card on other phones, it works perfectly (Definitely not SIM Card issue)

the OS is the latest, 2.5.5
Android 14

I looked around reddit and other forums, seems like Nothing Phone has issues with detecting SIM… And this is for both Phone (1) and Phone (2). There seems to be even more issues with the latest nothing OS updates. Could this be one of the bugs of the latest update or a hardware issue?

jaijain

Happening the same with me.

Joe King

What country are you having this problem?

mathid

Joe King in india

VibzA

Same issue I am facing on nothing 2a….there is a network issue…I cannot use internet

KalaivaniB_VcKy2kfl4N

Facing the same issue after completion of software updates (just a few minutes ago). Tried both sim slots but still not working. Please provide a solution ASAP. Thanks in advance

DheerajAbhishek

KalaivaniB_VcKy2kfl4N bro did you get any solution I’m trying from last 1 week can’t find any the sim is getting detected for quite a while and then same problem. The people in the multi-brand service centre told me the main board need to be replaced and it’ll cost 20k rupees I ain’t doing that

AbhinavSrivastava

I am facing the same. My Airtel sim on slot 1 stopped getting picked up. Did anyone figure out the reason? How can I fix this?

UPDATE: Getting a new Airtel sim card fixed it for me.

ManishKumar_kVYjsA0zJW

I am facing the same

naren_s

I faced the same issue after recent update but restarting it for 4 times fixed it. Again phone restarted by itself after 2 weeks and I do not have the mobile signals again. Sim option itself is disabled under settings menu. Nothing should do something about it urgently.

Using Airtel, with Nothing Phone (2), Is version: 2.6 and Android 14.

vovan-v

naren_s Are you tryed to take out and return the sim card?

naren_s

vovan-v Fixed after getting a new SIM from airtel store. Costed INR50 and travel to airtel store with Aadhaar Card. Remember SMS will not work for 24 hours with a new SIM in India as per govt. rules which is still better than nothing working at all.

Changing sim slots, reboots etc. were not fixing it this time after trying for 3hours. It worked earlier this way on the version 2.6 upgrade day before a week or two.

It appears issue is with old airtel SIM cards. Mine was 4G one where airtel users need not change sim to use 5G and I was using 5G for an year now with that 4G-sim on nothing phone (2).
Nothing Tech should fix the issue before more users are effected and other thing is users mostly are not reporting on forum.

ishansrivastava_A2SHLIsyRd

naren_s Not sure if this is really a Nothing issue. Sim stopped working all of a sudden, tried in a Samsung phone. Same issue. Didn’t want to do R&D, went straight to Airtel store after reading your comment. Saw many people there facing same issue.

The catch here is that they demand an online payment of INR 50. Now since the sim isn’t working, even if you connect to hotspot, UPI apps won’t process the request due to lack of sim. So either you go with someone who will pay on your behalf, or you click a picture of the QR code and send it to someone who will pay on your behalf.

NaamsukhJobanputra

I faced the same issue with my phone 2 and it was resolved after getting a new Airtel sim but now after a month, I am facing the same problem with the new sim.

RezaKhojaste

Hello, I also faced this problem. First of all, you have to reset the phone several times until the antenna returns, and the reason for this is that in some places the phone does not fully receive the 5g antenna, it gets confused and it switches between 4g and 5g until the SIM card is completely out of reach. can The problem seems to be due to the last update My advice is to remove the 5g option temporarily so that this bug can be fixed with the next update.

SVasanth_AnnrlQxDgS

Had a same issue , even after restarting , remove the sim n clean it with a eresar and insert back into device ,sim card will be detected