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Hmm, yeah, I feel like a complete asshole.

Hooked it up to the Panorama. Connected immediately. Without even touching the antenna or bands it was pulling 25 down / 3.5 up. If that is as good as it ever gets I could live with that but I'll play with tower aiming and band locking when I have some ...

Panorama WMM8G-7-38-5SP
2x2 Cellular/LTE (698-960/1710-3800MHz)

It does a fantastic job of roping in Verizon signal. It is barely there on my phone (avg -113 dBm) but averages about -68dBm w/SINR ~13 at the Cradlepoint.

Phone is connected on Band 5 (850MHz) so I will get it hooked up to the ...

I am pretty sure my Verizon plan is tied directly to my device by its IMEI. You may need to register/activate the IMEI of the EM7565 through your account settings.

Forced the phone to 4G LTE only mode and it does connect. The signal is poor (RSSI -109, RSRQ -11, won't give me SINR), but performs decent (19/2, 70ms).

So, if a 3 year old economy phone with Cat6 radio can pull a usable signal then I'd think a brand new Cat12 with external antennas should do a ...

Okay so I think I found something meaningful.

Put the SIM back in the unlocked phone and and actually paid attention this time and found that the phone is connecting on HSPA+ .

So, I guess the next step is to hook the NEXR5GO up to the Panorama MIMO antenna I have on the Cradlepoint and see if ...

You might start with this thread:
https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=32 ... lit#p11658

Different model modem but a lot of the Quectel commands are common across their devices.

Anyone know if this will do it:
https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/pcie-m-2/m-2-ng ... card-slot/

I am working with Quectel support on the issues described here https://wirelessjoint.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2161

Their instruction is to connect the modem to a Windows computer via USB to capture a log. They have given me a pinout for a 4 pin USB cable, or if I have an "EVK just connect USB to ...

Sent an email to Quectel support. Will post if anything comes of it.

Got an unlocked phone, put the SIM in and it connects fine. I receive SMS messages and LTE data works.

Put the SIM back in the NEXR5GO / EM12 and it will not connect. Same behavior and same log messages.

I have tried:
- Automatic and manual APN.
- Default and custom TTL values
- Custom PDP ...

Any/all of the AT+QMBNCFG commands return an error.

Ran:
AT+CGDCONT=2,"IP","ndo"

It was successful.
AT+CGACT?
+CGACT: 1,0
+CGACT: 2,0

OK

I see the new profile listed in the modem Debug log when it is attempting to connect.

However, same behavior and see the identical messages in the system ...

Thanks for all the advice Didneywhorl, its is much appreciated. I will give this stuff a try as soon as I have an opportunity. I ordered an unlocked phone and some SIM adapters so that I have some more flexibility working through these activation type issues.

I will update this thread with what I ...

Didneywhorl wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:04 pm AT+QMBNCFG="Deactivate"
AT+QMBNCFG="AutoSel",0
AT+CFUN=1,1

Tried to look these up in the Quectel EM12 AT Commands Manual and they are not documented. For a different modem, or...?

Run AT command AT+CGDCONT?


AT+CGDCONT?
+CGDCONT: 1,"IPV4V6","ndo","0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0",0,0,0,0

OK



... then run AT+CGATT? to see which is trying to be active.


AT+CGATT?
+CGATT: 0

OK




Also did you register the EM12s IMEI on that plan? It may be checking IMEI ...

I am attempting to use a Cricket "data device plan" with one of their data SIM cards. I am experienced network guy but am relatively new to the LTE world so pardon my ignorance.

I first installed the SIM in a Cradlepoint 850 w/MC400 1200M modem. That device showed good signal strength but ...