SIM Pin Dialog
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I use my karro2 with a sim card. I always have to enter the PIN if i turn on the headunit. I understand from a security point of view that i have to enter the pin every time i start the unit because it similar to a smartphone after a restart.
The pin from the sim is different to my main sim card and i use it only with the headunit (phone i use eSIM). The headunit doesn't offer me the possibility to change the sim pin like on a usual phone i have to use the default password.
Could you please implement the following features
1. The PIN dialog offers only entering the pin but not to cancel the dialog and using the head unit without a sim. If i forget the password this leads to the situation i enter it wrong and after 3 trials the sim is disabled. I tried to active the "task manager" in this dialog (pressing the bottom right button very long) but this leads to a reboot of the unit which usually is the left button.
2. (optional) Change the SIM Pin on the headunit.
Regards,
Frank
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Thx for the help.
So far ride around my area for short trips it's ok to enter the pin and if i forget it i a can go back home(in case i don't have a phone with me).... But for longer trips with some stops and maybe the hh is staying alone (or whatever can be happen) and especially travelling around i would like to enable the pin if the unit gets stolen/lost ......
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If the unit gets stolen/lost, I would be definitely more pissed about the unit itself than a freaking SIM card which costs a fraction of what Karoo costs :) In such cases you can have the card blocked at your provider if it's post-paid. If it's pre-paid, who cares, no huge loss at all.
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I agree at home, but i talk about traveling in other countries. I usually use roaming (depends on the cost, sometimes prepaid) . I only have a separate card because the concept from hh is to have separate sim card on there unit to use online functionalities (address navigation...) and the offline functionalities are limited. If they would offer internet over bluetooth via phone like other competitors maybe i would use that and be happy. But this not the case and if they offer phone capabilities then the unit should be able to be like a phone. No Sim Pin -> No Mobil Data -> HU in offline Mode. I can't be the solution to disable the PIN at least from a security point of view.
To show you how the options look like i've put some pictures below. I can do an emergency call. Don't know what happened if i choose it. But looks more like an "old fashioned" nokia handy where the smartphone pin and the SIM PIN are not separated. But Android should be able to handle that.
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What i miss is being able to just disable the sim.
I mean i don't always need the sim and of course i don't want to remove it when i don't need it.
So, once i enter the pin (by the way, i had to set the pin in my own phone because the k2 lacks the option), once i enter the pin i may not want to use the sim. I can easily disable data but phone network is still using battery.
On a regular android i can put my phone in airplane mode and then activate ble and gps so that the sim is there but it is not working/using battery. I would do that in remote places where i know for sure there's no phone signal and no need to have the k2 struggling to find it.
In short, apart from activating/deactivating data i would like to simply being able to turn sim off.
Pin security in my case is no problem but i still have a pin, it's a cheap prepaid sim, if i lose it i would be more worried for lost karoo than about the sim.
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