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This is also a requirement for mobile banking services, i.e. m-Banxafe (Belgium), where the application in the STK forms a major part of the security layer.

i need to buy data plan on my provider. (Brazil)

Same issue... its needed for banking in Czech Republic (raiffaisen bank). I have to take my sim card out of Nexus S and put it in old Nokia in order to access my bank account.... I hope back cover will not get loose....

I also need the SIM toolkit to be able to buy credit for my phone. It is becoming annoying not to have it.
Greetings and thanks in advance for a quick response.

Yeah, the missing simtool kit is blocking inssue for banking application here in Czech Rep. I like my new Nexus S, but I need to control my money to pay for it :-)

Without Sim Toolkit one can not properly make/receive long distance calls in Brazil. Help!

Why is google taking so long to fix this on their OWN phone??? I'm working on selling off my Nexus S to get another phone which CAN use the SIM Toolkit! Ridiculous!

And change the darn PRIORITY to URGENT!

Please make SIM Toolkit work ASAP! We cannot sell this product otherwise in this region, where both call-back and mobile electronic signature/ID are implemented through this technology.

Some comment from Google employees, related to this ticket, would be highly appreciated... What can we expect and when?

Well, thats now really bad situation. I have upgraded my old Android 1.6 to a Nexus S and for a unpleasant surprise did not find any SIM Toolkits installed. I use it to log into bank and give digital signatures. So basically required functionality of a phone. Besides old Android 1.6 phone had it so it did not pop into my mind to check before buying.

Now i see the issue is a year old and no progress on it! Big disappointment.

I also miss the access to the "SIM Toolkit" funcionality. Where is it ?

SIM Toolkit is badly needed

indonesian's voice: please mr. google.. give us your sim toolkit. thanks

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Why its listed as enhancement? Missing SIM toolkit and broken underlying message system (RIL) are not enhanchements, those are bugs that needs to be fixed. Its missing from all Google phones released so far-G1, Nexus One, Nexus S. Please correct. Also it should be high piority not medium as it restricts lots of people using someting thata any dumbphone does.

SIM Toolkit worked well with Google G1 phone. It does not work with Nexus S. It is huge problem for me (I use mobile-id identification system daily). It is high priority!

Confirm the problem, too, when trying to use a Vectone UK SIM.

Vectone is a European mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). In non-android phones, a "Vectone Services" menu readily show, but there is no such menu on the Nexus S. However without this menu, the SIM remains in the roaming mode, even in the middle of the UK. Vectone UK support cannot help. Setting the roaming mode in another phone did not help.

In total, this is an urgent showstopper for the Nexus S!

Dear Google. Let your phones be what they primarily are. Phones. Get the SIM toolkit running on your Nexus phones.

Uff.... missing basic function on Nexus S ?!?! Why it havent Simtoolkit?! Please fix it ASAP !!!

Seriosly missing the STK.

This issue and http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15070
should be merged into one.

Hello, a need a sim toolkit too..... i don't want to buy another cellphone....

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Google should react to this problem or many have to buy another phone. Doesn' t give a good image of the company, especially because it' s a basic and standard gsm function.

SIM toolkit is critical for me to access the mobile banking services for which I pay a monthly subscription fee, by the way

I'm not even sure if they have someone reviewing this. This ticket was open at February 2010 for Nexus One, and still no comment from Google, I think that's just a little bit too long... wouldn't you agree?

Indeed. It gives me a feeling that they just don't care.

Come on google, this is basic functionality.

This is so frustrating... I thought I could find a solution to STK on my new nexsus s but only to find dissapointed customers. Google, are we going to sort this out?

I think the ginger bread is still baking in the oven....

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My Nexus S, Gingerbeard 2.3.3, kernel 2.6.35.7-g1d030a7 android-build@apa28 #1

Does not have the sim card toolkit menu, which is essential. Is that difficult acessing the Simcard menu?

Nexus S, Czech republic, no SIM toolkit. It´s neccesary for bank account. Please, fix it.

Nexus S, Romania, no SIM toolkit. It's needed for dual SIM support... Please, Google :))

This is so sad,

I just ordered a Nexus S online. Paid full price to google/samsung. I haven't even received it yet, after reading this SIMtoolkit issue, I am regretting my purchase.

Google, thanks for stealing my $500.

Heeter

I am not able to activate International roaming (Vodafone - India SIM) in Nexus S. Spent hours looking for the SIM tool kit. Vodafone guys could not tell me that it is the issue of missing STK!

Google, fix it fast!

bobji

Both the Nexus S and the Nexus One have the same problem.

Come on Google, please fix it asap. Many of us need this function.

Same happens to me. I'm under decision to buy a phone and Twin card support is a must for any potential terminal to buy.

For me this story is over. Sold my Nexus S and bought working phone with full SIM Toolkit support. Suggest for everyone.

I do NOT want to sell my nexus s, I have had every iphone as well as many android phones and this is definetley the phone for me, however I am a small business owner and definetly need to do mobile banking.

I am confused as to why there is no real answer to the question? this is one of the best smartphones on the market?

Thanks

There is no answer as Google employees don't read these tickets at all. I believe year and a half is plant of time to answer some questions. Very professional of you guys...

If I knew this phone is in Beta version I would never buy it.

I recall reading on xda-devs that the reason the STK didn't work was due to problems between the RIL library and the remainder of the Android OS. So in addition to Google, we probably need to complain to Samsung as well.

Still, I find it disappointing to buy a high-end phone and find it unable to do something just about every other GSM cellphone in the world does: comply with a twenty-year-old standard.

In Canada, you don't usually need the SIM toolkit, even though all the cards I've seen do contain one. I do however need a working SIM toolkit for an international roaming SIM card I've bought.

Dear Google / Samsung,

For the price we pay for your phones, the lest you can do is install a SIM toolkit. Make no mistake about it, the Nexus S is great, but if issues like these are not addressed and rectified, you will loose customers. Here's hoping that a solution is around the corner.

My Dear google, you made a great unsable product....

The minimum I expect for a 500€ phone is a at least a basic working phone.

I hope you'll quick fix this.

I will sell my nexus s and buy an iphone. This not an enhancement its a serious bug. Google should fix this Now and stop to focus on stupid social networks. I invite everybody to protest about this in sergey brin page at google circles

Okay, I posted on this issue from the day I bought this phone, and still no official comment or even a post? We need some reasurrance here...anything!

I have searched all over the net, forums and such, and it turns out it makes no difference weather you have a custom rom or try to install a sim toolkit. There is just no solution, even if you wanted to DIY!

For me Android is the best thing to happen to the mobile scene, EVER! but I hate using android devices from HTC, Motorolla and the likes because of the ridiculous UI's they put on top of android. This is the main reason I bought the nexus.

I run a business and this is a must have function for me, NFC payments, in theory, are a great idea! but lets start with some mobile banking shall we?

Please give us an official response, I don't want to get rid of this great phone!

Google /Samsung
Hi I have bought the mobile two days back. My data services are notworking. Please give e me an answer. I am shocked by seeing that there is no similar tool kit in Nexus s. Please do the needful.
Is this In vention of good or Samsung. I need an answer.

stupid phone without simtoolkit.

i still dont understand how a so-called smartest phone,made by google, doesnt have a very simple app such SIM toolkit?thanks a lot, now i can walk my *ss of for ATM..

i still dont understand how a so-called smartest phone,made by google, doesnt have a very simple app such SIM toolkit?thanks a lot, now i can walk my *ss of for ATM..

i still dont understand how a so-called smartest phone,made by google, doesnt have a very simple app such SIM toolkit?thanks a lot, now i can walk my *ss of for ATM..

i still dont understand how a so-called smartest phone,made by google, doesnt have a very simple app such SIM toolkit?thanks a lot, now i can walk my *ss of for ATM..

Here is facebook group for that, to make this issue a little bit more public

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Missing-SIM-Toolkit-support-For-Nexus-S-And-Other-Android-Phones/194607867218669

I need the lost SIM toolkit. How the 2.3.3 get it lost.

please enable the SIM toolkit.. if have realize before there was no SIM toolkit application i wouldn't buy it. I need it to make a bank transaction. (Indonesia). I just got this 7 days ago. and i couldn't find SIM Toolkit app. please enable it.

Where is SIM Toolkit support?

What a nasty surprise... my cheap shit Nokia can do it, but Nexus S cannot, WTF!
So much for my smartphone being smart enough to do banking... crap, I'm seriously mad... but given the "great" track record of Google's customer support, I'm sure this will get fixed like... never!

Need similar toolkit to use mobile money service (MPESA) in Kenya. This is like the most important use for phones in Kenya!

Need sim toolkit to check for my unbilled charges from my carrier. PLEASE!

I need SIM toolkit. Don`t understand why there is no Sim Toolkit.

Way to go Google. This is absurd how you could overlook something like this and that you haven't resolved it is inconceivable. Your losing my confidence daily...

I hope this is fixed in a software update, or my phone will be useless abroad!

I do not understand why Google would not provide a sim toolkit option in their phones. It is absolutely ridiculous to continue to ignore this issue. Please fix it as soon as possible.

Where is sim toolkit? I hope it will be fixed with the next update.

I also would like to have a SIM Toolkit access. I can't see why there's no one on Nexus S.

I need to access my sim car, as status for my number says "unknown" which affects my ME icon for smstext messeging and service provider had already pushed my number to my sim/phone. I could have fixed this issued if I am able to access the sim card and add my number to my number, if that makes sense.

Well, I am just joining the crowd of disappointed users that thought they had a phone that supports the very basic STK. Can't use my banking apps. Google?

I need the SIM toolkit to quickly check my account's balances and real-time charges. It's so disconcerting to know that an advanced phone like the NEXUS S won't even have something as simple as a SIM ToolKit. Even the iPhone has one. I don't want to have to remove my SIM and install it on another device just to access it. Sad. :-(

Need the SIM ToolKit on my Droid3! This is the final missing link that is preventing my Droid3 from hitting my sweet spot. As it stands right now, the lack the SIM toolkit on Droid3 is a blocking issue for me and I am contemplating dumping Droid3 and Android...

Please solve this problem. Im very need this!!

Not including SIM toolkit is a bug. How come you hace NFC and not SIM toolkit???

come on google!! FIX IT

Please fix this Google we need a sim tool kit for the nexus s.

hi google, i don't need sim tool kit anymore.
sold nexus and bought iphone.

cheers

If this is a policy option, please close as wontfix so we at least know what to expect. I do understand that google may want the telcos out of their system!

Otherwise please do not force us to root our phones just to get basic operator functionality...

just switched to galaxy nexus and it has STK (Samsung provided that)

Android has SIM Toolkit.

It's more complicated than that, though.  The SIM Toolkit interacts
with the phone's RIL (radio interface layer), which may or may not be
completely open source.  Vendor-supplied ROMs generally have a working
SIM Toolkit, Nexus phones do not.  From what I understand Nexus One
and Nexus S don't.  My Galaxy S, on the other hand, has a working SIM
Toolkit when using Samsung stock ROMs, but not when I'm on an
AOSP-based ROM like CyanogenMod (because some parts of the RIL are
proprietary).

Glad to hear that the Galaxy Nexus has STK.  Hopefully someone else
can confirm that it actually works...

Cheers.

basic STK operations (such as operator based messages) works on Galaxy Nexus, I unfortunately changed authorization in my bank when I moved on HD2 from Windows Mobile to Android ... I will have to reconfigure my bank account back to STK on Monday and will let you know ...

#74 finally shed some light into it!

So, lets say I bought a fresh Nexus S whose vendor is none other than _google_ and got an operator SIM. Now... What are the missing parts?

1. I know that there is no Stk.apk supplied by the google build, but there are some supplied by external builds and I could build my own.

2- I (hope) that the nexus S default RIL (my vendor is google, right?) implements the parts required to implement the android STK communication.

The problem regarding 1. is that I can not bypass the  signature verifications, and as the STK is not the only piece of software using the same id, I can not deploy a apk with my personal signature (even if I am the phone owner)

If at least 2 is known to be good, then I can use the stk by flashing a third party rom into my phone (which I would like to avoid for other reasons)

So can anyone confirm that 2 is implemented? has anyone got a nexus S with a working STK and a default RIL?

Regarding 1. is there any way for the phone owner to bypass the apk signature checking process without rooting the phone?

please Google, is it really that hard to add such a basic function?  Sim toolkit please!!!!!

Without sim toolkit many function I can not do on my expensive Smart Phone (Nexus S)
I request you please Add Sim toolkit function, thanks in advance google team.

I've upgraded my nexus S to android 4.0.3 and still no SIM toolkit. If this is the google experience, I'm not impressed.

Ditto.  I was holding out for ICS to fix the toolkit issue but that hasn't
happened. So now my only option is to try and sell the nexus and get
another phone.  So long android.  It was nice knowing you.

No sim toolkit? Is this a joke? Please add sim toolkit into icecream sandvic!

This STK feature is mandatory with many operators!!!
It SHALL be available if it pretend 3GPP compliancy!

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Please include sim toolkit to manage contacts! I had sim toolkit in LG shine+ which I consider a way cheaper phone. Why the Nexus S should not have one?!?

I can confirm that STK works great on Galaxy Nexus :)

Same problem here.  Trying to use m-pesa in Kenya with my google nexus s and can't.  I really don't want to have to own 2 phones just because google doesn't want to fix this...

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I Also need SIM Toolkit on my NEXUS S. For logging on/off my company's support staff search plan.

It worked on the HTC Legend I had before.

Have just had an OTA to ICS and have the same problem, Cannot assign FDN as says theres no contacts on sim but when i go to import to contacts it see's the contacts on sim card. I need to decide where i want to assign my contacts to go and some i don't want assigned to google voice.I even had to contact tmobile for PUK2 code as it had me locked out. This needs a response from google/android and a fix .

please fix this sim toolkit issue...android is a smart os, isn't it ??....

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SIM Toolkit works just fine for me on both Galaxy Nexus (Android 4.0.4) and Nexus One (Android 2.3.6). I'd say it is solved now.

On stock firmware? It's not there for Nexus S, so it's not solved.

What about Nexus S? Is there a good reason to ignore it?

It certainly does not work on my Nexus S, Android 4.0.4 build IMM76D. I'd say it's not solved.

Definitely not present on Nexus S

Is there any custom rom,that contains the sim toolkit for the nexus s?

The problem is not fully solved yet although there is some progress. I tried with NexusBeam 5.0.0 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1380608) and the result is here (I reported it in their forum):
It seems to have SIM Toolkit that was not usable with Nexus S before. But there is still a trouble.

I have one application on my SIM that works with other phones. It is Estonian Mobiil-ID (unified official mobile id) that is used for logging in into many government sites, banks, etc. The application is displayed when I open SIM Toolkit from app menu.

When I launch login process from a website it will send me special SMS, MobiilID app will open it, display a control code supplied by website and ask for PIN code. PIN should be sent back to service provider that will then log me in.

Almost everything works - MobiilID pops up, displays control code and asks for PIN, allows to click OK. When I click OK I am returned to home screen but probably the response message is actually not sent. When I open the list of running applications (long press home) SIM Toolkit opens again with empty input line where I shoud enter my PIN. If I do not click OK button but press Enter on sw kb, nothing happens.

When I open SIM Toolkit from apps menu it displays MobiilID and its two functions (unblock and change PIN codes); clicking either of them hangs the app (small rotating circle in upper right corner).

It works with my SIM card on other phones even 10 yo simplest ones...

In Android's App management SIM Toolkit has all required permissions. I see that it is Version 4.0.4-eng.jenkins.20120506.051242

A colleague in xda forum that it was working on 4.0.3!
The same problem exist in galaxy s2 if you use 4.0.4 based roms, 4.0.3 is working ok.
Even if i restore the app + data from titanium backup. Some say the official samsung 4.0.4 based rom has to come out, that it would be possible to use that on other roms (AOKP, and etc)
it is quite frustrating.

Peeter

I definitively think to sell this terminal, it' fantastic but i can't live without sim toolkit. all my bank features is on it and Google don't seems to update it ....
Google you have lost one of your fan.

Need it for roaming reasons. Google help!!!

if google don't fix this bug in ONE YEAR, I shall buy a iPhone instead my nexus!

if google don't fix this bug in ONE YEAR, I shall buy a iPhone instead my nexus!

I have two Nexus S phones. One is running Gingerbread, the other is rooted with Cynagen 7. Neither support the SIM toolkit, even manually attempting to install stk.apk fails. This sucks for international travelers that need to access the roaming features for SIMs within other countries. This should be fixed!!!

I used to be a big fan of Google phones, but now it seems maybe I have misjudged Google's commitment to the global community.

SIM tool kit is a must for International travellers, I hate to carry a old nokia phone just to activate this service. Hands down google....:(

I can see the sim tool kit on the list of apps through my settings but can't access it . I have been using it on my galaxy nexus before upgrading to android 4.2 . please make sure we get it back soon . Here in Rwanda like other african country you can't use mobike money ( transfer) without it .

Has anybody tried CyanogenMod 10.1 on the Nexus S? Does that have a working SIM Toolkit?

Some here have mentioned that the Nexus One does not have the SIM Toolkit either, but when rooted and equipped with CyanogenMod 7.2, the SIM Toolkit is there and works, if I'm not mistaken.

Slim Rom 4.2.2 Build 2.0 has SIM Toolkit and it is working!

CM10.1 on my Samsung Note has the Sim Toolkit and its working fine. On my HTC Vivid running CM10.0 it is not visible in the app list, but the stk.apk is on the device, not sure if it works, as I don't have an app installed that can create a shortcut to launch it.

Dear Google,

Please fix the missing STK.apk in Samsung Google Nexus S as this is causing too much inconvenience.

Thanks,

Andio Angeles
Samsung Google Nexus S User

Hi Google,

Please don't let us rely on the Custom ROMS made by our beloved developers. You're the OS provider, hence you should provide full support on your customers (us).

Looking forward for your immediate response on this.

Warmest regards,

Andio Angeles
Samsung Google Nexus S User

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