SIM CARD INFORMATION FROM MOBILE APPPLICATION

[bidyut84]

Hi All,

Is it possible to develop an application for mobile device (say in j2ME) which can retrieve all or some of the informations about the sim card ???

[Maveric]

Hi there, bidyut84!

J2ME has JSR 177 which allows APIs to access the SIM as a smart card.

The JSR 177 allow extracting the certificate that is on the SIM so you can encrypt/decrypt/sign data.

Not all manufacturers included a full JSR177 implementation in their phone.

There are many security-related specs to read and understand in all.

Commands like changing the SIM PIN code basically require an understanding of the binary protocol itself.
Simply appending the correct sequence of bytes to an APDU GCF url will get it executed if the JSR177 implementation itself is correct.

You could have a look at the APDU MIDlet example in the latest Series60 SDK and added documentation in Nokia's Java Developer's Library.

Also, check these;

Table: Java ME API support on Nokia devices (updated 20th March 2010)

http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.ph..._Nokia_devices

SATSA-APDU API Developer's Guide:

http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.n..._0_en.pdf.html

http://developers.sun.com/mobility/a...ticles/satsa1/


Related links:

http://www.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85154

http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...d.php?t=103804

http://www.forum.nokia.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=158006

http://www.forum.nokia.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=105450

http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.ph..._.28JSR-177.29


NCF phones and secure element programming;

http://www.nfc-forum.org/events/oulu...rogramming.pdf

These subjects have been discussed on this forum, so you can use the main keywords to seek for even more details.


Best Regards,
Marko

[gaurav007]

Using JSR 75 also you can fetch contacts saved on SIM card (along with the contacts saved on phone memory).

[im2amit]

We have seen lot of people having problems reading SIM contacts using JSR-75 on Nokia S60, it allows only phone contacts to be read by this... thou it works on S40 for SIM contacts.

thanks,
~Amitabh

[gaurav007]

Yes it is true that S60 gives problems. on S40 it works fine always.