Dialer Issues

[michael at michaelshiloh.com]

On Sat, 26 May 2007, Alan Cox wrote:

>> Not sure if this helps, but IIRC early sockets had physical connection
>> problems.
>> You might want to try and bend the pins a little upward so they press
>> onto the SIM card.
>
> Doesn't change behaviour that I can tell. No SIM seems different to SIM
> present but both are not working. Heard the same from others when I asked
> on irc too

As I mentioned, I seem to be having this problem as well. I need to understand
whether I am doing something wrong or whether my Neo is damaged.

What symptoms cause you to believe that your SIM card is not detected? And
what differences are observed between no SIM present vs. SIM present and not
detected?

Here is my situation:

According to

 	http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gsmd#Usage_of_shell_mode

there should be an interraction like this, when powering up GSM and
registering with the network:

 	> src/util/libgsmd-tool -m shell
 	libgsm-tool - (C) 2006 by Harald Welte
 	This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY

 	O
 	# EVENT: PIN request (type=1) Please enter PIN: 6582
 	R
 	# EVENT: Netreg searching for network
 	EVENT: Netreg registered (home network)

However this is what I observe. I've tried this with two Neo handsets (both
GTA01B_V4) with the same SIM card. SIM card works fine in my non-Neo phones:

 	> src/util/libgsmd-tool -m shell
 	libgsm-tool - (C) 2006 by Harald Welte
 	This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY

 	O
 	R

In other words, I get no EVENT messages. To me this sounds like no SIM card.
(I suppose I could try this with no SIM card to confirm that I get the same
results, but I'm reluctant to following the thread that powering up the
handset with no SIM card risks short circuits between the SIM pins and the
metal card frame.)

Both of

Any advice?

Michael