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    How to get your iPhone SIM Card working on the Gobi WWAN (plus how to fix those "No SIM Card" errors)

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by PrimitiveWallflower, Mar 11, 2010.

  1. prasong

    prasong Notebook Enthusiast

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    You are right.

    "Your Data Plan is intended for Web browsing, messaging, and similar activities on your device and not on any other equipment. Unless explicitly permitted by your Data Plan, other uses, including for example, tethering your device to a personal computer or other hardware, are not permitted."

    http://www.t-mobile.com/Templates/Popup.aspx?PAsset=Ftr_Ftr_TermsAndConditions
     
    prasong, Jun 13, 2010
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  2. PrimitiveWallflower

    PrimitiveWallflower Notebook Enthusiast

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    Quick update: I tried this same method using an iPhone 4/iPad microSIM fitted into an adapter I got from MicroSIM Shop. Worked perfectly, and you can store the adapter in the Gobi WWAN when not in use.
     
    PrimitiveWallflower, Jul 17, 2010
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  3. swindmiller

    swindmiller Newbie

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    Is there any way for this to be detected by AT&T? I would think that since you are taking the sim from your iphone and putting it in your laptop that would show the data coming from a different IMEI number (your Gobi) instead of the iphone's IMEI.

    Am I wrong about that? Is the IMEI coming from the device (iPhone,Gobi) or the sim? I am un-educated about this.
     
    swindmiller, Jan 14, 2011
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  4. ejohnson

    ejohnson Is that lemon zest?

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    A little late to the party, but I am trying to get this to work on mine. I have the 5620 card installed, I have the antenna installed, drivers, and the mobile connection thing... but when I go to try to get the profile manager open its greyed out so I cant click on it to do the stuff in the first post.

    Edit, also it says I need to turn on the radio with the switch... thinking about just taping off pin 20 (turns the radio off)
     
    ejohnson, Aug 16, 2011
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  5. ejohnson

    ejohnson Is that lemon zest?

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    ok, nevermind, I taped off pin 20 and it works now to a point... says sim not activated.
     
    ejohnson, Aug 16, 2011
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  6. jenryhl

    jenryhl Notebook Enthusiast

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    ejohnson Im not sure if this is the same but in my case when it say to activate the radio and when I click active and it ask to do it via the switch what it is telling me is to activate using the FN+F3 hotkey that work like a hardswitch to the m11XR3 and no need to tape nothing...
    have you turn it off in the bios or using this FN+F3 ? In Bios you can turn it off too and you can select what to control using the FN+F3 hotkeys...

    Check and tell me is you can activate without any tape...
     
    jenryhl, Aug 17, 2011
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  7. ejohnson

    ejohnson Is that lemon zest?

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    Whats odd is I have no bios option for the card and fn-f3 turns the wifi and the bluetooth on, but not the wwan card.
     
    ejohnson, Aug 17, 2011
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