Re: This device + AT&T SIM card from iPhone = potential trac
So here's a follow-up to this post.
I ended up buying
this tracker from Amazon. It came yesterday.
I charged it last night with no SIM card in it. (NOTE: if you put one of the two supplied batteries in, they will have some charge. A green light will come on and it WON'T go off, no matter how many times you hit the ON/OFF button. It seems the ON/OFF only works after a SIM is installed.)
Today I went to my local AT&T store. I do all of my phone business there. It's a small shop, in our relatively small town.
I brought the tracker, and a "spare" iPhone we have in our home. It's a 4S that my two middle-school boys share when they go to events. It gets used perhaps 3 times a month.
I was really hoping to be able to utilize its SIM card for the GPS tracker, since I'm already paying for it.
The guy at AT&T looked at my tracker with interest. He was really into what I wanted to do.
The iPhone SIM card is too small to fit in the tracker; some sort of adapter would be needed.
He goes and grabs a larger SIM card and a tool for making an adapter out of it. It looked like a paper hole punch. It punched out a micro SIM-sized hole from the larger SIM.
We put the iPhone SIM in this fancy new adapter, and put it in the tracker. I sent the initialization command to it. Nothing.
I then realized I was sending MMS. I re-sent the message as an SMS, and BANG! heard back from the tracker. YAHOO!
So I send a few commands, I'm communicating with the tracker, and it's reporting its position, even inside the store. This is GREAT.
I ask what I owe them for their help. NOTHING. He made that SIM card adapter thing for nothing. I was pretty sure they were going to sell me a Pay-as-you-go SIM card with an $8/month fee. NOPE. I can now swap the iPhone SIM card in and out as needed, and it's something I'm ALREADY PAYING FOR.
I am pleased beyond belief with their service to me. Hope someone else out there is able to use one of these trackers.
In addition, my NEW v1.1.1 Phantom arrived today. The 50% discount offered by B&H Photo took a wee bit of the sting off of my fly-away. I'm hoping this tracker will NEVER been needed.