My phone was laying on my desk, not in use or even being touched, suddenly my screen lights up telling me that there's no SIM card - no service.

Call services No SIM found Tap for more information

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My phone is samsung android LG K51 and carrier is verizon.

No system updates recently, only thing that has happened is last night I updated google chrome in the play store and cleared my history and cache and everything. No problems last night. This morning I got a weird text claiming to have been from verizon, just telling me about upgrading to a google pixel or something and had a link which I didn't click on. I read the text then deleted it so I can't remember what it said or the number it was from. A few hours later my phone suddenly does this.

I got my phone in 2020 and have never taken out the SIM card before this. I took it out (turning the phone off first) and cleaned it with alcohol but it didn't help. Still says no SIM card. I've put on airplane mode and cleared cache a few times with no go either. I've not dropped my phone recently, or ever, and it has a case that completely covers where the sim card is so I don't know how it would be damaged or even dirty. I cannot stress how out of the blue this is.

Why did this happen out of no where and is there a way I can fix it without losing everything?

Because of this I have no service and will not be able to receive or send texts until this gets resolved...

That's really weird, I've never seen that happen. I also have a Samsung from Verizon and I'd just take it to the Verizon store and be like "here, fix this" if it was me lol I hope you can get it resolved soon and don't lose anything important!

thanks, I hope so too. I've never had a problem with a sim card in my life. I turned off the phone for a while but still have the same message. Dont know wtf happened...

Oh dang, I wonder what caused it? We use Samsung too, but through AT&T and I've never seen that happen before!

Tech ran a diagnostic on my phone and said it was fine and the SIM card probably just "went bad"? The verizon store had a replacement for free and transferred it today, nothing seems missing and I'm able to use calls/texts now. Still very weird that happened for the first time so suddenly, I hope to never see that again lol.

That's great, glad it's working again! And that they did it for free.

Also commendable that you attempted fixing it yourself first, I always try that too, but it sounded like more of a "replace" sort of situation. Sometimes parts just fail for no apparent reason.

that's still just so weird