Re: A way of polling SIM status

[Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>]

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Hi Marcel,

On 10/20/2010 04:43 PM, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
>>>> Unfortunately some modems report CPIN: READY even though they're not
>>>> ready.  The only reliable way to poll for this is to poll the IMSI, then
>>>> the phonebook and the sms store and report ready only once all of them
>>>> can be manipulated.
>>>
>>> I seems to me that Caiwen is proposing SIM presence polling. Each and
>>> every modem does it now separately. Unfortunately this seems to be
>>> even trickier than PIN lock polling, at least MBM returns different
>>> error codes depending on how far its own initialization has got.
>>
>> My MBM seems to only detect the SIM if it is inserted during the modem
>> enumeration (on USB or PCI).  If you there's no SIM during modem
>> initialisation, or you extract the SIM, then inserting a new SIM is
>> never detected, the modem will always return "SIM not inserted" until
>> reset.
> 
> there is a MBM specific event for SIM insertion. Not sure if it works on
> the F35xx, but it should be working on the F36xx and later.

Doesn't work on any F36xx I tried.

Regards,
-Denis