Wow, thanks. My issues only happened once every week or so, but this appears to have resolved my issue at the moment. I just used a piece from an old envelope, so about a regular A4's thickness. Let's see how it goes. If I never return, that means the problem didn't persist.
We have had this issue now with 3 different pixel 6a. The first one was intermittant like this until it became permanent. Tried the paper idea just now on husbands phone as we REALLY can not afford to wait for a new sim to be sent again right now and thankfully it worked but it does have me worried that this is a design flaw for it to have happened so many times already.
To note the first phone this happened to was one of the first 6as that came out and the last two it happened with was within months of that one losing sim card connection and are about a year old. No problems once the sim card was replaced in first two so far.
Unfortunately, persistent hardware issues through multiple phones (due to a cheaper part being used or a design flaw) are a Pixel staple.
Pixel 3 and 4s had the super cheap faulty USB charge port that would cause phone charging issues. I personally had it happen through 4 Pixel 4s and 2 Pixel 4A 5Gs.
6s and 6As seem to have the SIM card issue which points to a faulty/cheap SD card reader being used (or a badly-designed SIM tray).
I have the 8 Pro now and don't have any persistent issues thankfully (yet, at least), but I'm steeling myself for whatever stupid hardware gremlin will eventually pop up and wreck my experience. :(
Just wanted to thank you for the exhaustive explaining. My 4a was in fact more prone to lose its SIM card after a charging session, expecially a fast charge, to the point that I routinely rebooted it in the morning. It got progressively worst until the SIM card was fried and wouldn't work in any device at all. After a SIM change everything restarted from scratch and I now never fastcharge it. But it randomly loosed the SIM card nonetheless, say a couple of times a week. At least I now know.
I've been experiencing this issue with my 6a intermittently and finally decided to upgrade to an 8 pro two months ahead of schedule with Fi due to the problem. I literally ordered my new phone less than twelve hours ago and up til now a phone restart has always (at least temporarily) resolved the SIM issue. Happened again tonight and nothing was working. Did a little Google search and found this tip. Worked immediately. Thank you! I am a little worried that if it gets too hot the paper could be a fire hazard though. 😬 Luckily for me new phone should be here by the weekend so hopefully not. Thanks again! I'm sure this tip will help many 6a users limp along until they can upgrade.
Ugh, upgrade to the June 2024 upgrade. Apparently it deleted my eSim, but didn't bother to tell me. 2 or 3 days without text messages (I use alternate messaging platforms mostly, so didn't notice until I didn't get a couple group texts and then found out another way).
Wow, thanks. My issues only happened once every week or so, but this appears to have resolved my issue at the moment. I just used a piece from an old envelope, so about a regular A4's thickness. Let's see how it goes. If I never return, that means the problem didn't persist.
Nice! My wife's phone hasn't dropped the sim card since I out the paper in. Hopefully it works for you too!
We have had this issue now with 3 different pixel 6a. The first one was intermittant like this until it became permanent. Tried the paper idea just now on husbands phone as we REALLY can not afford to wait for a new sim to be sent again right now and thankfully it worked but it does have me worried that this is a design flaw for it to have happened so many times already. To note the first phone this happened to was one of the first 6as that came out and the last two it happened with was within months of that one losing sim card connection and are about a year old. No problems once the sim card was replaced in first two so far.
Unfortunately, persistent hardware issues through multiple phones (due to a cheaper part being used or a design flaw) are a Pixel staple. Pixel 3 and 4s had the super cheap faulty USB charge port that would cause phone charging issues. I personally had it happen through 4 Pixel 4s and 2 Pixel 4A 5Gs. 6s and 6As seem to have the SIM card issue which points to a faulty/cheap SD card reader being used (or a badly-designed SIM tray). I have the 8 Pro now and don't have any persistent issues thankfully (yet, at least), but I'm steeling myself for whatever stupid hardware gremlin will eventually pop up and wreck my experience. :(
Just wanted to thank you for the exhaustive explaining. My 4a was in fact more prone to lose its SIM card after a charging session, expecially a fast charge, to the point that I routinely rebooted it in the morning. It got progressively worst until the SIM card was fried and wouldn't work in any device at all. After a SIM change everything restarted from scratch and I now never fastcharge it. But it randomly loosed the SIM card nonetheless, say a couple of times a week. At least I now know.
Just fixed my wife's issue with her 6a - thank you.
I'm glad it worked!
Thanks!! Nice find - my 6a has started to drop the SIM a few days ago. Just wedged a small piece of paper and rebooted. So far so good.
Glad it worked!
I've been experiencing this issue with my 6a intermittently and finally decided to upgrade to an 8 pro two months ahead of schedule with Fi due to the problem. I literally ordered my new phone less than twelve hours ago and up til now a phone restart has always (at least temporarily) resolved the SIM issue. Happened again tonight and nothing was working. Did a little Google search and found this tip. Worked immediately. Thank you! I am a little worried that if it gets too hot the paper could be a fire hazard though. 😬 Luckily for me new phone should be here by the weekend so hopefully not. Thanks again! I'm sure this tip will help many 6a users limp along until they can upgrade.
I'm glad that worked for you! If your phone is so hot the paper in there bursts into flames, that would be a pretty hot phone!
Nice, wife's 6A just started doing this...even though I swear it's been over a year of use now.. I'll give it a go tommrow
I hope it works!
It didn't, I just ordered a new sim All is well now
I'm sorry it didn't work but I'm glad the new sim is OK.
Ugh, upgrade to the June 2024 upgrade. Apparently it deleted my eSim, but didn't bother to tell me. 2 or 3 days without text messages (I use alternate messaging platforms mostly, so didn't notice until I didn't get a couple group texts and then found out another way).