[Nokia Lumia 900] Sixteacup:
Mobilicity on unlocked 900 - a work in progress

Hello good folks.

I've been reading XDA for awhile but stayed quiet in the background until I have something good to share.

Quick background: I've mod iphone 2G, 3G, Andriod Galaxy Nexus S, and worked on WP7 and WP 7.5 on the Lumia 800, 900 and HTC HD7. I have active Bell, Rogers and Mobilicity lines for testing.

I went through hell and back to try to get the 900 to work on Mobilicity and still with no success, yet. :mad:

Here's the snippet:

I cut my Mobilicity normal SIM chip with razor sharp hair shear to the micro sim chip size. I made sure the SIM chip board marking lined up with another Micro-sim I had;

Popped in the now downsized Mobilicity SIM into the Rogers Lumia 900;

It recognizes it as an active chip and displays the locked phone message;

I went to cellunlocker dot net to purchase the unlock code for $16;

Voila, phone is now unlocked;

Inserted in the mobilicity chip and it doesn't pick up the network automatically;

Tried switching network setting to AUTO\ 4G, reboot then 3G, reboot then Edge... nothing worked. Then tried the same series of testing with Network Selection for each network type;

Punched in dial code to access the field test area ##3282# ;

In 3G WDCMA, it shows "RRCStatus Disconnected" even though it picks up all the other settings in the WCDMA field. Crap! :(

Went to Mobilicity to get an official Micro-SIM designed for their 710, just in case the cutting affected the chip. No success;

Had them activate their micro sim chip. No success;

I called up Nokia support and they couldn'tr troubleshoot it. They also tried the explanation that if I unlocked the phone that they would not TS it but I said I am working for Mr Ballmer and was doing test case studies with this phone and needed it to work in unlock mode. I also indirecty worked for Rogers too on a different technology, so I could easily contacted who I needed to inside Rogers for the unlock code if need be (I would need a name though).

So the conversation continued and they directed me to go to the Nokia service center in Newmarket Ontario; :o

Hopped into the car and drove while I still had the official active micro-sim from mobilicity and checking it during the drive to see if it picks up any signal.

Passing north of Toronto into the Aurora area, I noticed the phone automatically picked up the CDN Roaming labelled network! I tried dialing out, failed.

I arrived at the service center, called Flextronic (213 Harry Walkers Parkway South, Newmarket, Ontario);

Long story short, the engineer did not know how to work on or troubleshoot the Nokia 900 yet. He said usually Nokia would send down their own engineer to train Flextronic on how to TS and code configure the 900. They currently only knew the 710. I asked if anything he knew from the 710 could help configure the 900 RRCStatus from disconnected to connected, says no. :eek:

Drove back south to Toronto and once I entered TO, I lost the CDN Roaming connection and it could no longer pick up any network.

Side Note:

Once the 900 was code unlocked, I was able to plug in my Bell micro-sim and it worked.

I pluged in my Rogers micro-sim and it worked too for obvious reason.

I wished we weren't stuck with the Rogers version of the OSPL. It annoys me to even see the Rogers logo when it boots up. My 800 is direct from Nokia marketing so it's never been locked and doesn't have any carrier mucking with the OS or the OSPL. Unfortunately it doesn't support the Band IV, 1700 wave.

Cheers and hope this saves you time from trying out the steps above.