I have an old GL-Mifi that was originally meant as an AT&T device. (As I recall.)
I am using it now with Telnyx (one of the IoT SIM providers), or would like to.
When I first plugged it in, it was running very old firmware (v2 series) and worked fine.
When I updated it to v3, it’s stopped working. Instead now I get this
" SIM card cannot be registered. Please check: 1. You are using the compatible modem for your carrier; 2. Whether a specific APN or data plan is required."
What seems to happen is it registers, then doesn’t, then reregisters.
The carrier does see the registration and provisions it. (Telnyx offers a debug dashboard.)
This appears to be a problem with the device, not with the carrier.
I have tried forcing the APN. This does not help.
Is there a way to flash the firmware on the modem? or what would have changed with upgrading to v3? I can’t go back sadly.
it doesn’t work. I don’t know what is going on. I am going to guess something about the latest update changed something in the modem firmware and now it doesn’t want to work. It didn’t even want to work with an AT&T SIM. I tried going back to the 2020 firmware for v3 and that still does not work.
I decided I cannot afford to spend more time on this, and wanted an external antenna anyway since it is going in a rack in a datacenter, so I bought a spitz and am moving on. The Spitz worked first try with the SIM.