New Freerunner, factory image - "Registering..."

[arne anka]

> I'll work on it and report back.  Are we compiling a database of which
> SIMs work, which don't and which need to be fooled with a little?


what we came up with until now was:
3g (umts) sim with 1.8V are known to fail. om is working to fix that.

your description rather indicates an individual failure, nothing general  
(though you could add how you detected pins not contacting the phone -- a  
mirror? carbon paper?)