Saturday, 19 December 2015

Nexus 5 No Sim Card - Pins Damaged?



Micro sim adaptor got stuck in the sim tray of my 2 year old nexus 5 (yes stupid mistake) but I very carefully followed instructions by droid life and recovered the sim tray. But now phone doesn't recognize the sim anymore...

I am sure either the pins are damaged or have loosened leading to no contact with sim... I think my options are:

1. Try to add a piece of shim to the sim tray to create better contact - should this go above the sim or below?

2. Dissemble the phone following ifixit videos and try to solder the broken pins - i don't have any soldering equipment and its been ages I did something requiring such precision

3. Buy a new motherboard sim tray and replace - does this also need soldering?

4. Buy a broken nexus 5 and do the same as above

5. Or use the phone as an android pod.

Any suggestions appreciated!

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