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So last week my beloved Samsung Note 4 phone died, well not died as in completely unusable but it was no longer taking my SIM card. So I contacted my carrier (tmobile) and asked for a new one since I don't have a store location in my town and they said it take over a week to come in -_-

As a reminder at this time, without a SIM card you can't text, call or use G internet at all. The fact they couldn't over night ship something like that was baffling.

Anyways, I did some shopping last weekend and got something more local and a better deal, but I still had to order that though. Though my new SIM did come in and got it activated, it still wasn't registering with my phone.

Meaning the SIM slot card itself died, which I find hard to believe that it happened out of the blue.

Makes me wonder if Samsung is pulling an Apple with auto kill features after such a long time of use?
 
First your speakers, now your phone, dang 2 hits combo. My sympathies lol.

On the bright side, you have a shiny new phone now.
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I wonder could oxidation and rust on the SIM connectors maybe causing problems with your SIM tray and card.

Things don't seem to last for many years unlike old flip phones which seem to last a long time.
 
froggyboy604 said:
I wonder could oxidation and rust on the SIM connectors maybe causing problems with your SIM tray and card.

Things don't seem to last for many years unlike old flip phones which seem to last a long time.
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Now that is a very good point, some of the newer phones, you now have a tray that you pull out, they could last longer but I don't know.
 
Sorry to hear that. Try to clean the tray and restart it.
Also, I am not so sure how it works but may be you could reset your phone and unlock the carrier setting again....
 
Danielx64 said:
Now that is a very good point, some of the newer phones, you now have a tray that you pull out, they could last longer but I don't know.
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A lot of cell phone like flip cell phones and feature phones without a sim tray may last longer because the parts are sometimes physically attached to the circuit board with lead/solder, a wire connector, and screws.

I think the sim tray may get bent, cracked and loose if you are not careful when taking the tray out, or bent your phone near the sim tray. Old iPhone 6 Plus sometimes bent because of a design defect, and using a aluminum case which was bendable.

A tray becoming bent or loose which can cause problems with the SIM not making a tight connection with the SIM connectors on the phone's SIM reader.

The plastics sim tray may also shrink and get damage if users use their phone in places where there is acid, cleaning chemicals, and other chemicals in the air. If the temperature is very hot like in a very hot car during the summer, the plastic may crack, or get damage from heat damage.
 
cm2 said:
First your speakers, now your phone, dang 2 hits combo. My sympathies lol.

On the bright side, you have a shiny new phone now.
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Yeah, not a good month for my tech. But I am reaching that period where things need to upgrade.... *knocks on wood while looking at precious tv.*

froggyboy604 said:
I wonder could oxidation and rust on the SIM connectors maybe causing problems with your SIM tray and card.

Things don't seem to last for many years unlike old flip phones which seem to last a long time.
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There is nothing on the connector, in fact I never took off the back cover since the first week of owning it in the three years plus there was a rubber cover always over the back cover.

Claraviolet said:
Sorry to hear that. Try to clean the tray and restart it.
Also, I am not so sure how it works but may be you could reset your phone and unlock the carrier setting again....
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Nothing to clean really, but if anything heat may have damaged it.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
Yeah, not a good month for my tech. But I am reaching that period where things need to upgrade.... *knocks on wood while looking at precious tv.*



There is nothing on the connector, in fact I never took off the back cover since the first week of owning it in the three years plus there was a rubber cover always over the back cover.



Nothing to clean really, but if anything heat may have damaged it.
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I think it maybe caused by heat. There maybe a chance that a power surge from the USB charger fried a microchip which controls your SIM card.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
wasn't plugged in at the time but the boards could have simply burnt out.
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Maybe static electricity cause your SIM parts to burn out. Damage from static electricity sometimes take a long time for the static to break your device, and it may take more than one static zap to fry your device.

I also saw on TV where a tech reporter says many small power surges may make your device break sooner, and they don't always break your device after a power surge.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
I only plug my devices into surge protected power sources.
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I think a power surge can also be caused by the charger which can sometimes send too much electricity to a phone, and the phones built-in USB power protection may break after many years of use.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
everything I'm using is fairly new though.
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I read news stories and reviews of new chargers sometimes breaking smartphone's and your home power outlet if the charger overheats or start a fire. Sometimes users are unlucky and bought a low quality charger or a poorly assembled charger which maybe defective because the worker was not properly trained, or lazy.
 
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