Help (VZW/LTE) Signal and SIM card issue

[firegold21]

My wife has the Verizon Galaxy Nexus and, in addition to having the one-way audio issue (I think; haven't read the threads to double check that the symptoms match), she had something rather strange happen today. She was driving and listening to Pandora over our car's Bluetooth speakers when the phone lost all signal. No 4G, no 3G. She tried to make a call and a couple texts and nothing happened.

I was meeting her at Famous Dave's and took a look at the phone. I tried fiddling with preferred network settings, turning Airplane mode on and off, etc., then noticed there was a message at the lockscreen about "No SIM card present."

I opened the back and pulled the battery and the SIM card, then replaced them and rebooted the phone. Problem solved; everything was hunky dory again.

My question is this: does anyone have any idea of what happened and how to prevent it from happening again? Also, given that it also has audio issues during calls, should we take it in to the Verizon store and request a warranty replacement?

 

[Tim K]

My wifes razr did this a couple of times. I think the sim card just got jiggled loose. Putting it back in fixed it both times.

 

[yeroc1982]

Mine did this a few days ago for quite awhile. I ended up shutting it off for about 30 mins, turned it on and and worked.

 

[firegold21]

Good to know others have had the issue, too. And after looking at what the one-way audio issue is, she's had that once, but had a whole slew of other audio problems. Popping, hissing, static and clicking all together and so loud other people can't hear her, and she has a hard time hearing them over it. Oh, and her voice audio is distorted during that. That's not terribly frequent, but it has happened more than once.

A couple days ago, she had a reverse one-way audio issue, then rebooted her phone. After that, three calls in a row to three different people (including me) resulted in her being heard as having duct tape on her mouth while the audio was slowed down and pitch-shifted to a lower pitch.

I'm thinking we're going to stop at Verizon on our way to the Father's Day dinner (or on the way back if we leave in time) and see what they say.