A device for and method of determining if a SIM card was removed and reinserted into a device by initially inserting the SIM card into the device, checking for the presence of the SIM card, if the SIM card is present then returning to the second step, if the SIM card is not present then reporting that the SIM card has been removed from the user-definable electronic device, checking for the presence of the SIM card, if the SIM card is not present then returning to the fifth step, and if the SIM card is present then reporting that the SIM card has been reinserted into the device, and returning to the second step.