Good morning dear list, I agree that SIM Tookit support is crucial for many countries. As far as I know, ofono has a D-Bus API for it and the functionality is very simple, so we might "just" have to build a simple, unconfined core app that talks to ofono?
cheers, Simon On 09/29/2015 10:29 PM, Thibaut Dedreuil_monet wrote: > > Dear all, > > I just wanted to share with you my experience with the lack of Sim toolkit on > UT. > I have reported Bug #1323837 in May 2014 concerning the lack of sim toolkit > on UT. Few people have already acknowledge that this is a problem on the bug > report but from my recent conversation with a UT developper, full SIM toolkit > support is not even on the roadmap of UT. I am hoping by this email to > convince the product team to reconsider the inclusion of sim toolkit support > on UT and accelerate the development of the simtoolkit support. > > My network provider is a cheap MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) on the > name of vectone mobile. http://www.vectonemobile.co.uk/ > When i am abroad, i cannot use my phone network ( no call, no data, and no > location) if i do not have a basic sim toolkit support as i need to change my > sim parameters via it to enable me a network connection. > For a short while I used my girlfriend's phone in order to set my sim card > correctly and was able to use it after on my UT phone. > Not having the sim toolkit on my UT had the effect on me missing some very > important phone calls when i was abroad and i personally feel i should not > have to carry a second phone to use my UT abroad. I was able to do this on > all the previous phone i owned as all supported SIM toolkit while UT do not. > > While i understand that this is a very ancient technology and its not used > in all country, Sim toolkit support should be considered as a priority as > some network providers are still using this old technology. > > Following the bug report this also used in Norway for banking and some users > considers this has a must have in order to be able to use a UT. I quote > "Sim-toolkit is also used by BankID in Norway. There is no way I can use the > phone as a daily driver without this since it is used to access my bank and > many other services. > I want to add that this is supported by all other smartphone OSs, Firefox OS > even. This should be a requirement." > > I am hopping that this email might be able to speed up on a decision on > enabling a proper basic sim toolkit support on UT. While i wish i could help > develop a solution for this, i do lack the skills to do so. > > Kind Regards. > > Thibaut > > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
