I hear ya, it was quite frustrating for me as well…but happy to share that I am now up and running! I decided to try a firmware reset on the device. When it came back up, i just chose the auto-connect and it connected right up. The first time I tried a Google FI data sim from another hotspot, and that didn’t work, which led me to playing around with the manual settings. I then came across other forum posts about changing the IMEI…so that is when I purchased a cheap moto x 5g phone and ordered a new data only sim from Google FI. Once activated on the the phone, I plugged it into the spitz, and was able to get it to somewhat connect…at least show me that it recognized the provider and showed good signal strength. It even appeared to be connected, but never was. So when I reset the firmware, and it came up, it immediately connected and now shows the option to disconnect. I am able to ping out, and connect to the internet from a WLAN connected device!
So yeah, it’s been super frustrating these past few days/week…but super pumped I have it working now! Let’s just hope it remains that way!!!