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No SIM card installed keeps popping up

I have been using my wifi/cellular iPad mini without a SIM card for the last eight months without a problem. I 'upgraged' to os8 a couple of days ago and now I get a pop up telling me there's no SIM card installed every few minutes. It popped up twice whilst trying to type this message. I have looked everywhere in settings for a way to disable it, thinking that perhaps certain apps were prompting it. Will I have to put a sim card to avoid this? I was told when I bought it, that without a SIM card it would be just like a wifi only ipad. or will I have to reset it to factory settings and load everything again? Thanks in advance.

iPad mini Wi-Fi, iOS 8, IPad mini wifi/cellular

Posted on Sep 20, 2014 11:47 PM

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Johnathan Burger

Level 9

68,383 points

Posted on Sep 20, 2014 11:52 PM

Turn off cellular data.

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nsmeta

Level 1

4 points

Sep 29, 2014 2:25 PM in response to alphabc

You're right @alphabc. It stopped popping up for several hours, and now one popped when I was messing with siri.

My apologies.

Algnon

Level 1

4 points

Sep 30, 2014 7:56 AM in response to Johnathan Burger

Same issue here - iPad mini original, crashed during ios8 update, came up with red plug into itunes logo - downloaded and tried to install update via iTunes on Mac mini 12 times, contacted Apple support - setup a new admin account on Mac mini, used the new iTunes to re-install ios8, then updated to 8.0.2 - facebook now crashes out 50% of the time, touchscreen has become very unresponsive, apps & games are slow and laggy, and the 'no sim' installed pops up every 5 minutes interrupting password entries, game playing, facebook chat etc...... it was working fine before the update to iOS 8

Nirendra

Level 1

8 points

Oct 1, 2014 8:18 PM in response to sunnyinlondon

Thanks for raising this thread and also suggesting a solution. Hope it works.

bdasquid

Level 1

0 points

Oct 5, 2014 5:47 PM in response to sunnyinlondon

i own the iPad Mini with cellular, first generation. Since the ios 8 upgrade, my wi-fi slowed down considerably and the "SIM card not installed" plagued my Safari usage. it appeared that Safari wanted to access "something" via cellular. After doing the following, I have no more SIM errors and the wi-fi improved:

A deactivated micro SIM was placed into the iPad. Once the device recognized the SIM, cellular data was turned OFF.

Hope this helps!

Nanou66

Level 1

4 points

Oct 11, 2014 7:53 AM in response to sunnyinlondon

Me too...what a pain in the flipping ***. iOS 8 will be the end of Apple unless they fix this quick. So **** mad.

Oct 11, 2014 9:28 AM in response to Nanou66

Hi guys, thanks for all the responses. I went into the apple store a couple of days ago to buy some cables and whilst there, asked an employee to help me with the problem. He pretty much tried to get away before a more sympathetic one offered to help. He provided me with a free sim card and that has solved the problem for me. Prior to this I was even having problems connecting to the wifi at work which now it does automatically. I know this does not offer an actual solution, but at least I haven't had any annoying pop-ups. I was so happy to finally find a helpful person there that felt compelled to buy an expensive case for my new macbook. I would suggest if you have a chance and live near an apple store, go and do the same.

Regards,

sunnyinlondon

Oct 12, 2014 3:30 AM in response to sunnyinlondon

I have an iPad air and have this same problem. Is Apple going to answer any of these comments and provide a solution? So frustrating and I don't live near an Apple Store so can't get a free sim to insert. Respond please Apple!

Bero79

Level 1

1 points

Oct 12, 2014 6:16 AM in response to sunnyinlondon

HI all

I Had the same problem on ipad 3 cellular ios 8.0.2 and i inserted a sim card to activated cellular option in settings menu and then i turned off cellular and removed the sim card and worked fine so far, and an ipad word will be shown on top left screen next to wifi signal.

alphabc

Level 1

4 points

Oct 12, 2014 1:10 PM in response to Bero79

Bero79 wrote:

I Had the same problem on ipad 3 cellular ios 8.0.2 and i inserted a sim card to activated cellular option in settings menu and then i turned off cellular and removed the sim card and worked fine so far, and an ipad word will be shown on top left screen next to wifi signal.

I tried the above workaround, i.e. inserted an old SIM card, turned OFF cellular data in Settings (actually, it was already off, so I toggled it ON then OFF again), then removed the SIM card -- the messages still continue to pop up at random times.

BTW, I was in the Apple Store the other day, taking a look at the new iPhones and also playing around with the iPad mini - while I was there I noticed the No SIM card error popped up several times on several of the units I was playing with!

ourcore

Level 1

5 points

Oct 17, 2014 1:10 PM in response to sunnyinlondon

I solved the issue on my 1st-gen mini (on iOS 8.0.2) by telling Siri to "turn off mobile data" and now it just says "iPad" in the status bar, instead of "No Sim". Hope this helps.

nmacleod

Level 1

10 points

Oct 17, 2014 2:06 PM in response to ourcore

Same iPad, iOS 8.0.2. Tried your solution. Same result... "iPad" instead of "No Sim"

BUT... "No SIM card installed" message still appears.... Aaarrgh!

Oct 18, 2014 12:32 PM in response to sunnyinlondon

iPad Mini 2nd gen, iOS 8.0.2, churns out the "No SIM Card Installed" pop-up every couple of minutes.

Note to the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia: I don't have a SIM installed. I've never had a SIM installed. And I don't need to be reminded of this. All. The. Time.

8.0.2 generally seems flakier than a three-day-old croissant. Does anyone from the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia actually read these fora? Come to that, has the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia ever heard of "testing", or do they expect non-critical fanboiz to do it for them?

This on top of the discontinuation of the iPod Classic is adding insult to injury

Oct 18, 2014 1:13 PM in response to Mr Larrington

Note to the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia: I don't have a SIM installed. I've never had a SIM installed. And I don't need to be reminded of this. All. The. Time.

Note to user: turn off Cellular Data in Settings > Cellular Data. :-)

Oct 18, 2014 1:20 PM in response to Alfred DeRose

Note to Alfred DeRose: the Cellular Data settings are disabled without a SIM being present.

Only reliable solution so far seems to be finding a SIM (doesn't have to be active), inserting it to enable settings access and then turning off Cellular Data before removing it.

alphabc

Level 1

4 points

Oct 18, 2014 3:04 PM in response to EvilCat66

EvilCat66 wrote:

Note to Alfred DeRose: the Cellular Data settings are disabled without a SIM being present.

Only reliable solution so far seems to be finding a SIM (doesn't have to be active), inserting it to enable settings access and then turning off Cellular Data before removing it.

This doesn't work either - true that you can't access the cellular data setting without a SIM, but even if you do put one in first, then disable the setting, once you remove the SIM you continuously get the error message popping up.

It never did this before iOS 8.0 - hopefully when 8.1 comes out on Monday we'll see this fixed

No SIM card installed keeps popping up