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fcsim1-mkprov: revert OTA key addition It appears that GrcardSIM2 cards (which is what we got for FCSIM1) do not support OTA after all, contrary to what we were previously led to believe by some tech support emails from Grcard - apparently those support emails and OTA descriptions referred to some other card model(s).
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1 fc-simtool can operate on SIM cards that sit inside a Calypso phone or FC
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2 development board, as opposed to the more classic case of operating on a SIM
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3 inserted into a dedicated card reading/programming station. However, this
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4 special Calypso mode of operation works in an unusual way: instead of invoking
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5 fc-simtool (or fc-uicc-tool) directly, you have to run a front end program
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6 called fc-simint. fc-simint loads and runs simagent on the Calypso device the
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7 same way how fc-loadtool loads and runs loadagent, then it passes the open file
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8 descriptor to fc-simtool via the special internal-use-only -C option.
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10 fc-simint and its simagent back end reside in the FreeCalypso host tools
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11 package (along with fc-loadtool and other Calypso tools), not in FC SIM tools.
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12 fc-simint and simagent have been added to FC host tools as of fc-host-tools-r15
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13 release. The latest official release of FC host tools can always be found here:
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15 ftp://ftp.freecalypso.org/pub/GSM/FreeCalypso/fc-host-tools-latest.tar.bz2
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17 Please refer to doc/SIM-manipulation article in the FC host tools package
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18 (r15 or later) for further usage instructions.