Phone repairable?

[Justin Passing]

It can't read a SIM card. It was intermittent, but now permanent. Follows having the battery renewed.
I have dropped it many times, so can't 100% blame the battery people..
Samsung S20. I don't find much about repairing that part of them.

It's some use just on wifi, but obvs not much.

 

[RrogerD]

If it's the phone itself that you like and want to keep then perhaps buy another cheap phone, not on contract, just the unit, put the sim in there and hotspot the other off of it.

 

[jj4091]

Try some contact cleaner/ deoxidizer on the sim card socket. May just be poor contacts

 

[Wayners]

Swap phone to esim. Then you don't need a sim card and you can continue using phone.

I guess you tried another SIM just to prove its the SIM reader is faulty?

 

[Mottie]

He had all his crypto currency on it and now the phone shop has it.

 

[Justin Passing]

Phone now doesn't even start.

I put the SIM in my wife's old phone - it can take 2. Works

Refurbed phones of a couple of years old are cheap.
I may as well get the latest and greatest though, I suppose.

 

[Murdochcat]

Take the sim out and use a pencil rubber across the contacts