Iphone 5 keeps searching network problem....

my apple 6s indicate no service/ network searching issue since yesterday.now it shows signal in the 2G mode and working calls and sms , cellular data too.but when i m switch to 3G/ 4G mode its indicate no service/ network searching.therefore not working cellular data also.pls someone help me to solve this.

(i have changed my sim but it doesn't work)

tnx

I Tried many other option. But this one work. Thanks

God Apple can be so unhelpful!!!!

my daughters iPhone stopped working properly after she did the update, it just said searching ( for network) it was as useful as a iPod.

I attached it to the Mac to update it that way and it said restore it. While restoring it it displayed a error 50 code

The phone had the iTunes logo on it and would not change.

I contacted Apple over and over I when to 2 Apple stores and they said because it's more than a year old (just) I had to pay £200 for a replacement phone.

I told them that I was not paying £200 for a iPhone with 3 months warranty.

Also the phone is in perfect condition so why do I have to pay for a international problem brought on by there software!

I got offered £13 to recycle it lol.

I went home and tried a brand new iPhone lead and tried to system restore it without the SIM card in it perfect working order xxxx

well i tried restoring it through and now my phone doesnt start up at all. When i power it on i get a hello screen and then it asks for language country, choose wi-fi and then says it will take few seconds to activate my phone. Till now I am waiting for my phone to start...any solution?

Was so ready to buy a new phone but I tried what you did and it worked for me!

DId take a while for my phone to connect to iTunes but it worked!!!! 😀 so happy! Thanks heaps!

I had the same problem as described above after my phone battery drained OR the latest update (not sure of the catalyst). I tried most everything before bringing the phone to ATT, hoping they might know. Guy there put it flat on the table and described how it was bent and the bend kept the sim card from connecting. He told me I should try to bend it back or bring it in to iPhone repair. Basically he believed it couldn't be the software. I couldn't see the bend he was describing so I continued to research until I found this forum. Having had a **** poor experience with iPhone repair in the past, my last hail mary before getting a new phone was to try to restore through iTunes on the computer. IT WORKED! I know I'm one of the last hold-outs on an iphone 5, but I'm definitely glad I could find a FREE and unobtrusive solution to this problem. Good luck!

Had this problem 2 years ago after returning from long stay trip abroad (where I was going from one carrier to another). When I called my carrier at home, they said this happen from time to time... They replaced the SIM card and everything went back to normal...

By any chance, have you travelled recently ? (If this can help 🙂 ...)

Cheers,

Rob

Similar to someone above.

iPhone 5s showed "searching". Reset settings and it worked for a day or two then issue returned.

Apple Store told us it was likely a bad SIM reader.

Tried a reset/restore from iTunes as a last resort and the issue was fixed (at least for now).

I had an expanding battery problem with my nearly 3 year old iphone 5 so I sent it to apple and they completely replaced the device. It is a few weeks later and I am experiencing this exact problem. signal randomly drops and won't come back without a full restore of the phone.

it has happened twice now in the past 2 days and I'm thinking I have to go back to them to get it replaced again because I'm not finding any definite answers here in discussions... anybody?

I had this same issue, and previously tried:

On/Off

Restart/Reset

iTunes Restore

All to no avail. Had a great chat with Apple Senior Advisor who recommended the following (pretty much a last resort, and you need a Macbook). Its a full phone wipe and software upload, so hopefully you'll have used iCloud to back everything up.

Unplug and power down iPhone (i.e. Hold power button and slide off)

Connect lightening cable to Mac

Open iTunes on Mac (dont connect the phone yet)

Press and hold the home button on the iPhone until the 'Connect phone to iTunes' appears on the screen.

Connect the iphone

Release the home button

The Mac will download the latest iPhone software, and proceed to upload the software onto your iPhone i.e.

The screen should go white with the apple symbol, and the upload bar will fill twice over.

Once complete the phone will restart

Start the phone as it were a 'new iPhone', and enter your icloud username/password.

Hopefully this works for you - it did for me, most helpful.

Hello. If you've tried to reset network settings, eject sim in and out, you will have to do this (after backing up data in iTunes):

1) Power off your iPhone.

2) Hold down home button **While off** and plug into your computer with iTunes running.

3) You should see your phone saying connect to iTunes.

4) On iTunes, you will have a window asking you what to do. Click "Restore iPhone."

5) Hopefully that solved the apple server connect issue or carrier "Searching..." issue.

Thank you so much!! Mine stopped working recently and I thought because i dropped it and broke the antenna inside, litrally replaced the antenna this morning and still didnt work... Looked on google found this forum, saw your comment and im not gonna lie i doubted it.... tried it nevertheless and yo boom its working!!! I felt obliged to leave a comment dude thank you!! same thing happened to me it worked on the 2nd try

Hi there,

I had the same problem , and was tempted to open my iphone 5s to replace motherboard.

Yet, i managed to solve the problem with very few easy steps, I restored the iphone with my Macbook , please do not forget to backup your files and pictures , then connect it to Itunes-

You need to make sure that itunes is the last version , then click restore and wait , it might take sometime, i left on my table at midnight and in the morning the iphone was ready to go...

good luck

I had this problem today - and I noticed the time settings were weird on my phone. I unchecked set time automatically (settings>general>date and time) and changed the time zone to my current one and backed the time up a few minutes. After the time set for a bit it finally recognized my SIM. Then I changed the time back to auto set time and it worked again.

Hope this helps!

Can you help me?