- Aug 14, 2014
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Hi everybody,
I want to ask you if it's possible to add EAP-SIM support on CM11 (or in any ROM, I tried pretty much all of them, and any one is supporting it).
What is EAP-SIM ?
Basically, this is just a protocol that allows you to connect to a special Wifi network (in my case with the netowrk "FreeWifi_secure") without having to type in any password. You're automatically authenticated using you SIM card, which, obviously, is a SIM card of the company which provides the Wifi network.
What's the problem with CM11 ?
First of all, the phone doesn't give the possibility to connect through the SIM card. That's how CM11 looks like when we try to cnnect such a network :
That's how the menu should look like to allow the connection to the network :
After searching a lot on the web, I understood that Android AOSP dosen't includes libraries to connect to such a network. As CM is based on Android AOSP, this is normal that it doesn't support it. Is there a way to add it in CM11 ? Or at least, to give a patch for users who need this option ?
Useful links for developpers :
https://code.google.com/p/seek-for-android/wiki/EapSimAka
https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/q/message:eap-sim,n,z
This is also important to underline that this feature has been requested to Google since 2010, and nothing has changed, despite the fact that near 10 000 persons starred the issue and more than 1200 persons wrote a comment : https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9329
I want to ask you if it's possible to add EAP-SIM support on CM11 (or in any ROM, I tried pretty much all of them, and any one is supporting it).
What is EAP-SIM ?
Basically, this is just a protocol that allows you to connect to a special Wifi network (in my case with the netowrk "FreeWifi_secure") without having to type in any password. You're automatically authenticated using you SIM card, which, obviously, is a SIM card of the company which provides the Wifi network.
What's the problem with CM11 ?
First of all, the phone doesn't give the possibility to connect through the SIM card. That's how CM11 looks like when we try to cnnect such a network :
That's how the menu should look like to allow the connection to the network :
After searching a lot on the web, I understood that Android AOSP dosen't includes libraries to connect to such a network. As CM is based on Android AOSP, this is normal that it doesn't support it. Is there a way to add it in CM11 ? Or at least, to give a patch for users who need this option ?
Useful links for developpers :
https://code.google.com/p/seek-for-android/wiki/EapSimAka
https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/q/message:eap-sim,n,z
This is also important to underline that this feature has been requested to Google since 2010, and nothing has changed, despite the fact that near 10 000 persons starred the issue and more than 1200 persons wrote a comment : https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9329
