ekit dual number [US & UK] SIMs

[JDekit]

Originally Posted by makavel

I just purchased a new Passport US SIM and would also love to see and email to SMS gateway for this service!

As for the new SIM, things have been fairly smooth! As was mentioned, the pre-programmed shortcodes don't work on the US side, so one must dial them manually. Also, GPRS only works on the UK side, but this isn't really a big deal! I do love the whole dual IMSI idea though. Keep up the good work!

I'm glad you're happy with the service. An early batch of SIMs had the pre-programmed shortcodes incorrectly stored in the US profile. This has since been rectified, and will work as expected with newer SIMs. Apologies for the inconvenience. Thanks for the feedback.

John

[kupe]

Originally Posted by JDekit

I'm glad you're happy with the service. An early batch of SIMs had the pre-programmed shortcodes incorrectly stored in the US profile. This has since been rectified, and will work as expected with newer SIMs. Apologies for the inconvenience. Thanks for the feedback.

John

John-

It sounds like the eKit I just got from Telestial is one of the older ones- i.e. the pre-programmed shortcodes don't work in US mode. Is this something we can manually reprogram, or will we need to workaround by manually dialing?

Thanks!

Kupe

[FBlack_111]

Kupe:

Set your phone to U.S. mode and just dial 187. You will get a text message soon with the balance. If that works you really don't need the prefix dialing *126* .

On my EKIT SIM, the Easy Dial number contacts on the SIM work in Global mode. I have a contact that says: Account Baance *126*187# .This is how to check your account balance in global mode when you are in Europe. For the U.S. just use, 187, 191, 154, etc.

[makavel]

Does anyone else get strange text messages if they leave their phone on global mode while in the US? The texts consist of some random characters ($, », and @) interspersed between a bunch of big black boxes. It's obviously not a big deal because it doesn't affect the function in any way, but I'm just curious if I'm the only one getting this.

[rfranzq]

Originally Posted by makavel

if they leave their phone on global mode while in the US?

Uh, why would you leave it on global mode if you are in the USA?

[makavel]

Originally Posted by rfranzq

Uh, why would you leave it on global mode if you are in the USA?

Haha no real reason. I just had turned it on like that to test some things, forgot about it, and left it on overnight.

[FBlack_111]

Makaval:

I also have had my phone on Ekit's "global" mode in the U.S. while I checked some features. I never had odd text messages. Did you try checking your account balance by dialing 187 or *126*187# . You generate a text message. In my test the messages were fine with no odd characters.

[makavel]

Originally Posted by FBlack_111

Makaval:

I also have had my phone on Ekit's "global" mode in the U.S. while I checked some features. I never had odd text messages. Did you try checking your account balance by dialing 187 or *126*187# . You generate a text message. In my test the messages were fine with no odd characters.

I have checked my balance with *126*187# while in "global" mode in the US and this works fine! My phone actually shows the balance in a pop-up thing immediately and then receives a text a few minutes later saying the same thing. I'm not sure what the random text messages were, but they were from "eKit", so it seems like they have something to do with the service. I left it on again over last night to see and didn't get any of those messages so maybe it was just a weird day hehe. Either way, I don't mind because it doesn't impact the service at all.