No signal and Network listed as Not Available

[swiftaw]

My wife has an iPhone 5 on the Sprint network. Last night, she couldn't get a cellular signal (it simply said "Searching..." in the top left corner). I tried the usual tricks, toggling airport mode, resetting network settings, soft reset, hard reset, nothing had any impact.

I then also noticed that when you look at the Settings->General->About screen that the Network is listed as Not Available, rather than Sprint.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

 

[MrMacMack]

Was it working prior to this problem?

 

[swiftaw]

Yeah, but I did a restore from backup last night and that seems to have fixed the issue.

 

[MrMacMack]

That's good.

 

[dictoresno]

I was gonna suggest a SIM card or network issue but I guess you got it working again.

 

[MrMacMack]

I was gonna suggest a SIM card or network issue but I guess you got it working again.

It kind of makes me wonder what the problem was in this case.