Re: [Any distro?] Funny, very old SIM card not detected
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:40:17 +0100 Filip Onkelinx fi...@linux4.be wrote: Hi, could it be that this is an old 5V SIM card? If I'm not mistaken, those do not work with FR; only 3V and 1.8V (like in most recent phones). As I said in my first mail, I use the freerunner as a daily phone with Om2008.9-testing20081216, so this is not an hardware problem given it works. signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Any distro?] Funny, very old SIM card not detected
ah... forgot the list... On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:35:26 +0100 Abelenda diego.abele...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:03:35 -0800 Dima Kogan dko...@cds.caltech.edu wrote: What's the model of the SIM card? I've had an issue where an old SIM card would only register after a few minutes, and some distros had a bug where they'd get confused if the registration didn't happen early enough. Qtopia would register fine, but Android and anything using FSO would not. See http://trac.freesmartphone.org/ticket/255 Any info on how I do get the model of SIM? The only thing written on it is the serial number (this is an orange (CH)). Anyway I don't understand what you mean by register time, is it the time the SIM takes to associate to an antenna ? the time the SIM take to verify the PIN ? This is not in question here, my PIN isn't even asked by most distros... And it takes less than a minute between the moment the pin is asked and the moment the signal strength is displayed (by Om2008.9) (no mesurements here ^^). Ah I forgot to say I didn't update the firmware of the calypso, because #1024 has no reason to affect me and I don't think that a command that is more recent than the SIM will change anything here... signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Any distro?] Funny, very old SIM card not detected
What's the model of the SIM card? I've had an issue where an old SIM card would only register after a few minutes, and some distros had a bug where they'd get confused if the registration didn't happen early enough. Qtopia would register fine, but Android and anything using FSO would not. See http://trac.freesmartphone.org/ticket/255 On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:57:26 +0100 Abelenda diego.abele...@gmail.com wrote: I came across a really funny thing when trying to get rid of the WSOD. First a little explaining about what I know about my problem: android rootfs doesn't detect my sim card (a card that is more than 3 years old), the thing is that the official releases of Om (including the testing ones) detect the sim... but any other distro fails... well in the case of Android, this is more than simply not detecting it, there are 3 cases with equal probability. 1. doesn't tell anything about a sim card 2. doesn't ask me for my pin and says there is no service 3. asks my pin but doesn't try to unlock the sim and asks me my pin immediately after saying failed (I can do it any number of times and it will not lock my sim) others distro doesn't do anything. Well Om200.9-testing 20081216 works for me, I can use my freerunner as a daily phone with it, so I let this matter for later, but just now I flashed andy-tracking kernel (the binary on his storage, to get rid of the WSOD) and Om2008.9-testing doesn't asks me for my pin anymore so where is my question(s) is it normal due to the /sys changes? is it a kernel bug ? (shouldn't as the calypso is connected via serial port there shouldn't be any kernel related problem, except a serial related bug, that should not have been overlooked for so long...). ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
[Any distro?] Funny, very old SIM card not detected
I came across a really funny thing when trying to get rid of the WSOD. First a little explaining about what I know about my problem: android rootfs doesn't detect my sim card (a card that is more than 3 years old), the thing is that the official releases of Om (including the testing ones) detect the sim... but any other distro fails... well in the case of Android, this is more than simply not detecting it, there are 3 cases with equal probability. 1. doesn't tell anything about a sim card 2. doesn't ask me for my pin and says there is no service 3. asks my pin but doesn't try to unlock the sim and asks me my pin immediately after saying failed (I can do it any number of times and it will not lock my sim) others distro doesn't do anything. Well Om200.9-testing 20081216 works for me, I can use my freerunner as a daily phone with it, so I let this matter for later, but just now I flashed andy-tracking kernel (the binary on his storage, to get rid of the WSOD) and Om2008.9-testing doesn't asks me for my pin anymore so where is my question(s) is it normal due to the /sys changes? is it a kernel bug ? (shouldn't as the calypso is connected via serial port there shouldn't be any kernel related problem, except a serial related bug, that should not have been overlooked for so long...). signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Any distro?] Funny, very old SIM card not detected
Hi, could it be that this is an old 5V SIM card? If I'm not mistaken, those do not work with FR; only 3V and 1.8V (like in most recent phones). F. On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:04:36 +0100, Abelenda diego.abele...@gmail.com wrote: ah... forgot the list... On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:35:26 +0100 Abelenda diego.abele...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:03:35 -0800 Dima Kogan dko...@cds.caltech.edu wrote: What's the model of the SIM card? I've had an issue where an old SIM card would only register after a few minutes, and some distros had a bug where they'd get confused if the registration didn't happen early enough. Qtopia would register fine, but Android and anything using FSO would not. See http://trac.freesmartphone.org/ticket/255 Any info on how I do get the model of SIM? The only thing written on it is the serial number (this is an orange (CH)). Anyway I don't understand what you mean by register time, is it the time the SIM takes to associate to an antenna ? the time the SIM take to verify the PIN ? This is not in question here, my PIN isn't even asked by most distros... And it takes less than a minute between the moment the pin is asked and the moment the signal strength is displayed (by Om2008.9) (no mesurements here ^^). Ah I forgot to say I didn't update the firmware of the calypso, because #1024 has no reason to affect me and I don't think that a command that is more recent than the SIM will change anything here... -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
