"No Service" problem

along with hundreds of others my M8 has become a victim of the dreaded "No Service" , does anybody know of the problem to this bug ?
is it hardware of software related ? and if so any possible solutions ? as my M8 is useless as a phone at the moment.

Try turning your phone off, remove the sim and battery. Next, with the battery and sim removed press the power button a few times.

Also, while out check you sim connections on back of the phone. If none of the gold connections broken or bent put the sim back in.

Turn phone on go to connections and select your provider and see if you can make a call.


Lewis: how is your no service problem?

still no service . have cleared reg and gone back to old stable firmware . all connections to sim are ok and sim card is new and working in other phones.

i have taken a look on the official meizu forum and loads of people having the same problem . its a major fault with the phone

there is no solution, now, like me you are a lucky owner of a pocket pc, with no phone capability. I also sent the m8 to china , they sent me back another m8 (I spent around 100 euro betwen postal fee and taxes) in 2 mounths... same problem.
Sorry, if someone ever find a solution I always check the forum to have back my phone

this fault is strange as one moment the phone was fine and then the phone switched itself off and came back on with the " no service " problem. i dont think its a hardware issue as i checked the sim lock and could put the lock on and for use with old phone.

i think im going to get a new htc phone , meizu has too many bugs and issues. always somthing going wrong with m8 and it has poor apps. only good phone if your living in restricted china

Android Meizu, Android.........

not worth sending back , had enough of the thing, time to move on

Wow, this thread has gone offtopic ...
I dont think Android would fix the 'No Service' problem, else a registry reset and a fresh installed firmware should fix the problem too.

And i would wellcome android very much because of the open (international) structure and the many apps in different languages.

can the bios be re flashed on the M8 ?

once there was a bios update, so yes, it can be updated.
(it was for a problem that 1st edition M8's had with newer firmware if i remember correct...)

//EDIT: Ah yes, found it in my archives and uploaded it for you
M8_BIOS_090115.rar
Please be aware that i never used this since it is very old and for FE phones...
there are some instructions included in chinese, please translate and read them before you try to use it...

i will try to find the bios update if its still about ton see if that helps with my problem

i updated my post

thanks , will see if its any help as my m8 is first edition from when the phone first came out

Originally Posted by Lewis

along with hundreds of others my M8 has become a victim of the dreaded "No Service" , does anybody know of the problem to this bug ?
is it hardware of software related ? and if so any possible solutions ? as my M8 is useless as a phone at the moment.

Did you have M8SE or M8(old version)?

old version .

re-flashed bios and no joy .

My condolences

I feel your frustration. I too only recently suffered this problem. And know have a useless MP3 player. Not too sure why i decided on going with the Meizu M8. From the begining its only been trouble. Still no stable firmware!

Hey lewis, did you put any passwords on the sim or put a password on the phone itself. I have not used a password on this phone because it's so unpredictable.

I wonder if there is some sort of password lockout. If you start the phone fresh try not to use any passwords.

Also did you change any settings within control panel, registry, etc. It could be that even if the changes are made they may take some time to cause the phone to lockup. So the phone may be fine for a while then lock.

i have never had passwords on the sim or phone. phone was fine until one morning i woke up and the phone had switched itself off. i switched back on and no service.

i have gone into windows ce and had a look for any problems in there but nothing.

the m8 will not read contacts off sim but will let me put a pin lock on the sim that works as i have tried the sim in other phone.

i dont think its a hardware issue but a software issue, typical meizu bug . great hardware but unstable software that lets the phone down