Galaxy S4 SIM card

dwd902 · Jan 12, 2014

Hello everyone. I just got my new phone from best buy. My phone is on the sprint network and it doesn't have a sim card. In the top left corner it says "insert sim card" can I get rid of this notification? Also do I need a sim card? Thanks in advance.

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daniel4653 · Jan 12, 2014

dwd902 said:
Hello everyone. I just got my new phone from best buy. My phone is on the sprint network and it doesn't have a sim card. In the top left corner it says "insert sim card" can I get rid of this notification? Also do I need a sim card? Thanks in advance.

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GO back to Best buy. The phone should have included a Sim card. and you need it to get rid of that notification and in order to use sprints LTE network.

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dwd902 · Jan 13, 2014

Thank you very much. I called best buy and they said sprint doesn't use sim cards and after a few minutes of questions I was transfered to mobile and they said that I should in fact have a sim card. Thank you very much.

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Ali1353 · Jan 14, 2014

dwd902 said:
Thank you very much. I called best buy and they said sprint doesn't use sim cards and after a few minutes of questions I was transfered to mobile and they said that I should in fact have a sim card. Thank you very much.

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If you are able to make phone calls and access your LTE data then you already have the microSIM inside. When I got mine I had the Simcard but I needed to push it in for activation.
Hope it works.

dwd902 · Jan 14, 2014

Nope I have no sim card at all. I can call people and still have 3 service. I just need sim for LTE. I really just want to get rid of notification. LTE isn't available nor will it be for a long time

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cruise350 · Jan 15, 2014

dwd902 said:
Nope I have no sim card at all. I can call people and still have 3 service. I just need sim for LTE. I really just want to get rid of notification. LTE isn't available nor will it be for a long time

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Don't wait to get one, go back to Best Buy right away and tell them to give you one or return the phone. You might not have LTE now but you are out of luck if don't have a sim card. I think I read somewhere a while back that the sim card for sprint must be paired with your phone to work properly so you don't want to mess around. Make Best Buy give you the sim or tell them to replace your phone with a new phone that has a sim in it.

scottohs · Jan 15, 2014

You need a SIM card

I have a Sprint SGS4 and it has a SIM card in the SIM card slot.

daniel4653 · Jan 15, 2014

scottohs said:
I have a Sprint SGS4 and it has a SIM card in the SIM card slot.

They are suppose to come like that

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long_tall_texan · Apr 6, 2015

Sorry about reviving an old thread, but I figured this thread fits, so no need to make a new one.

Anyway, I just bought a Sprint Tab 4 second hand. I have no need or plans to use it on a mobile network. It is going to just be used on wifi. The previous owner did not include the SIM card, so I have the "No SIM - Insert SIM card" message in my notification panel all the time. No way to dismiss it. Does anyone know if there is a way to dismiss it? I am a Sprint customer - maybe they would just give me one free if I stopped by a Sprint store, but I highly doubt that...

Specifically, I have the SM-T237P model running Android 4.4.2 NL1 build. And I am rooted.

bilgerryan · Apr 8, 2015

long_tall_texan said:
Sorry about reviving an old thread, but I figured this thread fits, so no need to make a new one.

Anyway, I just bought a Sprint Tab 4 second hand. I have no need or plans to use it on a mobile network. It is going to just be used on wifi. The previous owner did not include the SIM card, so I have the "No SIM - Insert SIM card" message in my notification panel all the time. No way to dismiss it. Does anyone know if there is a way to dismiss it? I am a Sprint customer - maybe they would just give me one free if I stopped by a Sprint store, but I highly doubt that...

Specifically, I have the SM-T237P model running Android 4.4.2 NL1 build. And I am rooted.

Try to press and hold the notification until App Info shows up. Click that and then uncheck "Show Notifications".

long_tall_texan · Apr 8, 2015

bilgerryan said:
Try to press and hold the notification until App Info shows up. Click that and then uncheck "Show Notifications".

Thank you. Just tried that. The app is System UI. and Show Notifications box is greyed out. Can't force stop the process to un-grey the box.

Any other ideas.

bilgerryan · Apr 8, 2015

long_tall_texan said:
Thank you. Just tried that. The app is System UI. and Show Notifications box is greyed out. Can't force stop the process to un-grey the box.

Any other ideas.

Try adding the line to your build.prop, save, and reboot:

keyguard.no_require_sim=true

Although you'll need to look for the line to see if it says false and change it to true. If the line is present it should be near the beginning of Additional Build Properties.

long_tall_texan · Apr 8, 2015

Thanks. I checked build.prop and it already has the line keyboard.no_require_sim=true

So that won't make it go away either.

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bilgerryan · Apr 8, 2015

You could just buy a micro SIM card, they are cheap on eBay.

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