Android: Disable mandatory restart when changing SIM-cards

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MisterTonker picture MisterTonker · Sep 19, 2014 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

For an app that I am currently developing we want to read data from the SIM card of the user, which works fine. We want to make it possible that the user can switch the SIM card while the app is running. While doing this the OS request a device restart and we cannot seem to suppress this message.

Is there a way to make it able to insert a SIM card while the app is running without restarting the device. I'm open for all options (rooting, custom rom, etc...)

Answer

mlepicki picture mlepicki · Sep 19, 2014

I don't think it's possible - I never saw any option in phone settings allowing to turn on or off this feature. What might interest you is that for some phones - for example Sony Xperia Z as far as I remember - phone allowed changing SIM card without restart.

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