Broken Sim Card Reader?

[richard5 at email.arizona.edu]

Try powering the gsm antenna on manually.

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Manually_using_GSM

Harrison Metzger wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Thanks for the reply but it dosent work. Clicking that icon also crashes the
bar. I have tried 3 different sim cards that all work in 3 other phones but on
neo keeps tilling me that my sim card is not inserted (CME ERROR 10).
>
> Harry
>
> On 7/26/07, Mark Eichin <eichin-openmoko at thok.org> wrote:
>
>     "Harrison Metzger" <harrisonmetz at gmail.com> writes:
>
>     > Dear community,
>     >
>     > I received my neo today and have been playing around with it a bunch. I
can
>     > get any of the "phone" part of the phone to work. I have been playing
around
>     > with the GSM AT command set and issuing commands to the modem manually
and
>     > from the gsm tool. However I could not register it on the network. I
looked
>     > further into it and I when i do: AT+CNUM it returns CME ERROR 10, and I
>     > looked at what that meant in the the GSM proto manual and it means SIM
card
>     > not inserted. The sim card is inserted. Its an AT&T prepaid simcard. I
have
>     > tried it in other phones and it works, ive also tried other working sim
>     > cards (from ATT) in the neo and its a no go. I know the SIMs work, so I
>     > figure it is the neo. There was talk on IRC about 3.3v sims vs 5v, but I
>     > have no idea what to do with that. I'm stuck. I *dont* think I have a
>     > defective device, but I can't think of what else it would be.
>
>     I just bought a T-Mobile (US) pay-as-you-go SIM (for hacking with
>     until I decide to switch the old 6630 over.)  Like the (ancient
>     *OMNIPOINT*) SIM in the other phone, it didn't work the first time.
>     Then I tapped the antenna icon with the stylus, got 3 choices - "power
>     on gsm antenna", "auto register with network", "power off gsm
>     antenna".
>
>     I picked "power on gsm antenna"... and the whole icon bar crashed :-)
>
>     Then I hard powercycled it (hold down power button until the screen
>     blanks, no menu comes up because that part is crashed) and when it
>     came up, it was talking to the network...
>
>     I know that sounds mystical, but if the pattern works for you, then
>     maybe there's something worth diagnosing...
>
>     Note: I'm using the rootfs posted earlier from
>
>    
http://chooseopen.com/openmoko/build/openmoko-devel-image-fic-gta01-20070726000624.rootfs.jffs2
>
>     I still haven't gotten sound out of it, but it does make and accept
>     calls.
>
>
>
>
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