Have you tried the new SIM in any other 2G-only phone? SIMs from 3(UK network) seem to work only in 3G-capable devices. I never looked into how or why, but it's possible Rogers are doing this with new SIMs either by accident or design.
On Wednesday 26 September 2012 21:53:14 Pascal Gosselin wrote: > In 2010, we were able to take circa mid-2008 Roger Wireless SIMs > (Canada) borrowed from an iPhone 3G and get it to work in Android Froyo > on the GTA02 850Mhz. > > Two years later, we decided to add some GPRS reporting capability to our > Wi-Flight product which is currently using Wi-Fi only, we are unable to > get a carrier registration at the AT command level using two Rogers SIMs > (both from 2012, one used in an iPhone 4 and the other in a Samsung > Galaxy S II Skyrocket (LTE)). The GSM baseband code was at Moko8 so we > had the fix for bug 666. We tried Moko11 but it didn't make a difference. > > We repeated the same Android Froyo setup and indeed it doesn't work when > we try the circa 2012 SIMs. > > Our product doesn't run on Android, the Froyo stuff was just tried to > attempt to replicate something that worked before. > > I found a working older Rogers full-sized SIM from my GSM-enabled alarm > system, which I think it at least 3-4 years old. It worked just fine in > a Nexus S and I was able to send an SMS and Edge data from the phone > (it's a T-mobile AWS phone so no 3G on Rogers). > > The conclusion so far is that something has changed in the Rogers SIMs > that makes it incompatible with the GTA02. I am wondering if anyone > else has encountered this problem. I'd be happy to be able to get a > Fido-branded card to work (haven't tried that yet). > > We've repeated the same issue with a half-dozen GTA02s so we're pretty > sure it's not a one-off phone problem. > > -Pascal > +---------------------------+ > Pascal Gosselin > President > Wi-Flight > pas...@wi-flight.net > cell (514) 298-3343 > office (450) 676-6299 > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community